N.L. in the Central Valley Podcast Revolution - By N.L. Belardes
Since starting the first podcast out of Bakersfield, also one of the first podcasts out of California’s entire Great Central Valley, I have spent some time networking among an interesting group of trendsetters.
I got a mention last year in Corey Costello’s Stockcarzone podcast. But that quickly saw those two podcasts moving in different directions. Should NASCAR have ever tried to marry music? I write a hockey blog, so why not? Moving on… In August of last year my own Buck City Podcast got mentioned on Fresnofamous.com’s Flowing With Famous Podcast. That’s big for me as Fresno Famous was written up in the Los Angeles Times not long after about the Fresno Brain Drain...
Recently was a mention on another Fresno podcast, this by hosts Mike and Bells on their punk-style online show, Dorktown. Their homage to Bakersfield in episode 18 begins with a Korn song and has a few brief discussions about me as well as their usual explicit hilarious bantering. I made a few phone calls about a Fresno-Bakersfield hockey game at the Rabobank Arena that make it onto the episode. I even made some prank calls as ‘Pete the Truck guy’, a disgruntled Conservative who once had dirt clods thrown at his truck from a fig orchard by the hosts of Dorktown. I sound kind of stupid, but it’s all in good fun.
Most recently is an interview with ska-king Matt Munoz on the brand new Bakotunes Radio podcast. Interesting that Munoz calls me an “entertainment writer”. Hmmm. In Episode 3 you can listen to Matt ask:
Is Bakersfield my hometown?
Why do I think it’s so hip to be in Bakersfield?
How I was involved in the music scene in the 1990s?
Was ‘the Strand’ a lame name? (yes)
Just what is it I feel I lend to the Bakersfield music and art scene?
How do I define the voice of a writer?
Why did I get involved in the music scene again?
I got a mention last year in Corey Costello’s Stockcarzone podcast. But that quickly saw those two podcasts moving in different directions. Should NASCAR have ever tried to marry music? I write a hockey blog, so why not? Moving on… In August of last year my own Buck City Podcast got mentioned on Fresnofamous.com’s Flowing With Famous Podcast. That’s big for me as Fresno Famous was written up in the Los Angeles Times not long after about the Fresno Brain Drain...
Recently was a mention on another Fresno podcast, this by hosts Mike and Bells on their punk-style online show, Dorktown. Their homage to Bakersfield in episode 18 begins with a Korn song and has a few brief discussions about me as well as their usual explicit hilarious bantering. I made a few phone calls about a Fresno-Bakersfield hockey game at the Rabobank Arena that make it onto the episode. I even made some prank calls as ‘Pete the Truck guy’, a disgruntled Conservative who once had dirt clods thrown at his truck from a fig orchard by the hosts of Dorktown. I sound kind of stupid, but it’s all in good fun.
Most recently is an interview with ska-king Matt Munoz on the brand new Bakotunes Radio podcast. Interesting that Munoz calls me an “entertainment writer”. Hmmm. In Episode 3 you can listen to Matt ask:
Is Bakersfield my hometown?
Why do I think it’s so hip to be in Bakersfield?
How I was involved in the music scene in the 1990s?
Was ‘the Strand’ a lame name? (yes)
Just what is it I feel I lend to the Bakersfield music and art scene?
How do I define the voice of a writer?
Why did I get involved in the music scene again?
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