How to Start a Podcast: 5 Must-Have Products, According to Podcaster Ari Cagan
variety.comMike Fazioli If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission.So, you want to reframe “Hey, I have a podcast” from a terrible pickup line to an actual statement of fact.
This would require you to actually start a podcast, but you look in your wallet and you can barely afford the drink you are now wearing as a result of your terrible pickup line.We can’t give you game, but we can give you great advice from a professional podcaster.
And we can give you some encouraging news, too – most podcast studios do not look like Joe Rogan’s swanky set or even Marc Maron’s cluttered (but very expensive) garage.
Better yet, you may already be sitting in yours right now, and at a fraction of the cost you feared.Anyone is seemingly a few good products away from having a show of their own. (Having something interesting to say also helps, of course.) No serious techie knowledge or hermetically soundproofed studio necessary. “That’s kind of the beauty of podcasting,” says Ari Cagan, host of “Things You Don’t Need To Know,” which premiered its second season March 17. “You know how people say anybody can make a movie now with an iPhone?
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