What A Predicament

Alex ponders the podcast revolution and approaches some podcast pros to learn some podcast pros and cons, but is it too little too late? Plus a big announcement! Thanks to guests Daniel J. Lewis from The Audacity to Podcast and Bill Conway from Edgeland and The Hard Times.

How hard Cannes it be?

From forearms to Pinterest pages — when did tattoos go mainstream? Alex puts tattoo culture under the gun and talks to a couple of tattooists to try to figure out how and when everything changed. Thanks to Capilli Tupou and Benjamin Raddatz.

From grassy knolls to magic bullets, conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of JFK have persisted since the day of the tragedy. But how has the humble pacific nation of New Zealand been implicated? Alex pokes around the half-century old murder mystery and discovers the truth might be closer to home than he had feared.

Faced with the predicament of some stiff podcasting competition, Alex talks to a Foley artist about how to spice things up sonically.

Who really controls the media? Who is the proverbial “Man”? From busy newsrooms to the halls of government Alex leaves no stone unturned in his search.

Alex almost runs out of the creative steam required to write a description for this episode after using it up on such a brilliant title. What a predicament! This week he looks into the curious predicament of why the New Zealand Government has criminalised one particular plant used in the textile and medical industries.

Who were Deja Voodoo and whom did they rock more than? Alex catches up with band members and behind-the-scenes Svengalis to find out what happened to New Zealand’s grunge rock media darlings.

Don’t shoot the messenger - it’s the sound effect you can’t unhear! Alex talks to Brian Nimens, CEO of the largest library of sound effects in the world, in search of the origin of a particularly pervasive sound effect. What a predicament! sound-ideas.com

Advertising – what a predicament! Do ads inherently suck? Why are 99% of commercials boring and unentertaining? Is there a time and a place for a bad ad? And what does the future hold for advertising? Alex talks to award winning admen and media industry veterans to answer these questions and more in the inaugural episode of What A Predicament.