created 2025-03-21, & modified, =this.modified
rel: Breaking the Cosmic Wall Podcast Ideas
NOTE
I was listening to this lecture on the drive home. The recording was subpar (or most would describe it this way) and the mic would pick up different ambient sounds. Without a visual, the different sounds made me aware of the room.
Things like a door opening. Someone coughing. A cell phone in the audience going off.
What I thought then was something that made me laugh. I imagined some strange animal sound to be captured, like some kind of savannah animal.
But the dry lecture would continue immediately after as if nothing was out of the ordinary, but for all the listeners they’d be immediately disrupted and with an explosion of questions.
If it was desired it could be taken even further.
But, this started some idea which I write here. Various ideas for this experimental podcast.
People would subscribe, but they’d do so just to witness the oddity of what was going on. Occasionally listening would be a struggle, that neither the presenters or the listeners would necessarily need to enjoy.
I think it would also be best if people are trying to communicate amidst disruptions. It be good if they are fighting to communicate. Even if it’s a situation where laughter is so strong that you cannot speak.
Here is where I will collect them.
The actual content of these podcasts can be real podcast topics and interesting topics.
The conditions for recording the podcasts might or might not have the podcasters in on it.
But, it could also be that you are a guest on a podcast. In order to be included, the podcast you guest on must agree to one of these formats. This could possibly be best because the audience would be more unsuspecting.
You arrive on the podcast like some corruptive disk drive. You have a Midas touch, of glitch and chaos.
Episodes
- All podcasters (ideally 3+) begin in separate spaces and begin a call that is recorded. They must all find one another in physical space by the end of the call. Only at that point can the podcast end.
- All podcasters record a regular podcast where they talk. Each podcaster has their own recording going of their mic, which will be combined at the end. In post production, any time a podcaster was speaking their audio is muted (or lowered and reverbed), so that only the sound of those people not speaking is heard (things like incidental noise, laughter, mumbles, “yes - uh huh”). None of this ruse should be known by the podcasters prior to recording so that as much organic incidental sound is captured.
- Podcasters have an expert on the show. The profess to be experts on whatever the expert is on, but are ideally ignorant on the topic or feign mad ideas. They gradually drift the conversation and see how long it takes for the expert to react against this majority.
- A podcast that is all advertisements.
- This advertisements can be fake.
- In between each advertisement airing the conversation can take place, but it must be 95% advertisement.
- Every ten seconds a loud donkey sound plays, interrupting conversation.
- The podcast is recorded with variable audio volume. It often gets uncomfortably loud, causing wincing from the podcasters.
- The podcasters deliberately induce lag spikes into the conversation. The conversation drifts.
- A podcast that takes a month to record. Every hour for a month a sentence is exchanged between whoever is part of the conversation. There are about 730 hours in a month and this would include breaks for sleep where silence (if whoever’s turn it is) would be captured.
- Everyone records their episode separately and then start 5 minutes out of sync for each podcaster.
- The same podcast but just capturing audio without notifying the podcasters. All sound is concatenated at the end of the month and sent to subscribers.
- A podcast that is played back at 500%+ speed.
- A podcast that is played back at 10% speed.
- The podcasters all speak different languages without comprehension of one another’s languages.
- This podcast episode is five hours long and audio only.
- The podcasters have their top listener on the show for a podcast.
- The top listener is edited out of the final edit.
- The top listener is the only voice on the podcast for that episode.
- The podcast is recorded by dropping a microphone
- down a well for 45 minutes
- in a hole that is covered with dirt for 45 minutes
- The podcast is of the podcasters sleeping.
- The podcasters release a comprehensive editing process video as a podcast.
- The podcasters record the sounds of their hearts while they are recording an episode, and that is the podcast episode.
- The podcasters record an episode for five hours. At the end of the episode they all gather around the computer mouse, placing their hands on it and collectively deleting the file.
- The podcasters have guests on the show. They all begin to eat while recording, except for the guest.
- The podcasters feign technical issues for the first 40 minutes of the podcast recording with a guest. They record for five minutes.
- The podcasters podcast the podcast.
- The podcasters release an episode every five minutes, over the course of the day. Each episode is five minutes long and continues the conversation.
- The podcasters open up a call and podcast while working their jobs.
- The podcasters write the script of the podcast out, and then read it back.
- They can swap parts
- The proceedings of the podcast are excessively ritualized
- This is a regular episode of a podcast you’d listen to but there’s kneeling, and customary dialog.
- The podcasters have their last episode.
- The podcasters have their first episode again.
- A podcast where people who have no clue what a podcast is are part of the podcast. No original podcast members are present.
- A podcast where the conversation is completely done in extravagant gestures.
- A podcast that is silent but the entire podcast is written in the show notes.
- A podcast that is underwater.
- A podcast that is only downloadable at midnight, for one minute.
- A podcast that is a song that is a thousand layers. At the heart of the song, the base layer, being drowned out is the actual podcast.
- At the end of the podcast the guest might attempt to yell to overcome the song.
- A podcast that is recorded in the middle of a concert, secretly at the front row.
- In a busy club.