Marv’s Midlife Meanderings

  The ‘casts - (Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember (Changed tactic now where starred dialogue denotes quoting from the show’s own notes ) Go With Elmo - January 2025: Elmo chats with the amazing Nathan East, bassist to the stars. This guy has played bass for Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Barry White, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Daft Punk, Randy Newman, George Benson, and so many more. As a member of the instrumental jazz quartet Four Play, he has four platinum selling albums out of their eighteen in total. He’s played on more than 2000 recordings since the age of sixteen, and is now 69 years of age, but has the energy and look    of a man half his age!  Composer’s Datebook - 22 February 2025: Melinda Wagner's Trombone Concerto Merriam Webster’s Word of the Day - 22 February 2025: astute  Comicbook Nation - season 7 episode 8: 21 February 2025: first off, best wishes to Matt, who they announced at the taken to emergency care at the hospital, b...

  The ‘casts - (Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember (Changed tactic now where starred dialogue denotes quoting from the show’s own notes ) In & Around Podcasting - Episode 24: 18 February 2025:    *Has Podcasting 2.0 Failed? - The Podcasting 2.0 initiative has been around since 2020, and is a way for the traditional RSS feed to be more interactive both for podcasters and listeners. This means offering features like transcripts, chapters, credits for talent on podcasters, funding your favourite shows, and more. / It's also meant to keep the RSS system open and "protect" it from the walled garden approach of Spotify, Youtube, and - to a lesser degree - Apple Podcasts. / Bit despite being the brainchild of the podcast OG Adam Curry, and lots of vocal support from certain parts of the industry, it seems that Podcasting 2.0 is still struggling to gain a real foothold. So why hasn't Podcasting 2.0 taken off, and has the boat sailed for this initiative? ...