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We are not regular viewers of
Rachel Maddow. She is smart but long winded. More importantly, I fall asleep
somewhere during the second half of her program.
But last week we were house guests of MSNBC addicts, and
so we watched Rachel on non-baseball nights and pieces of Rachel between
innings when the game was on.
At the end of one of her
programs, she announced she had done a podcast and was very proud of it. It was
her first, she was excited but apprehensive of its success, and she urged her
viewers to subscribe to it. There are
seven daily segments, the first two will be available on Tuesday, August 30.
She said it was about an important event in our history and the title of the
podcast is Bag Man.
And then she played a 30
second teaser, containing voices of several participants, the first of which
sounded a lot like me. Turns out it was me!
Explanation: Some months back, a nice guy, Mike Yarvitz, called
me, said he worked for NBC, and was going to produce a podcast about the 45th
anniversary of the resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. He said he had read my book, and asked if he could interview me for his podcast. Hey, anything to sell another two books. He
came to my office, set up a microphone and a small recorder on my desk, and we
chatted for about three hours. Easy.
But now it appears that my
voice, and apparently the voices of one or more of the prosecutors he
interviewed, will be the substance of Rachel Maddow's podcast. I assume her
production, of which she was so proud, will consist of her narrating the events
and patching in the voices of the people Mike interviewed.
I would like to meet and talk with Rachel, but never have. I am eager to see how she carries this off on Tuesday.
(The podcast website says something about listening at 9:55 p.m. that night, so I assume she will play a 5-minute teaser segment at that time.)
(The podcast website says something about listening at 9:55 p.m. that night, so I assume she will play a 5-minute teaser segment at that time.)
Now I confess I am such a Luddite
that I have never listened to, no less subscribed to, a podcast. For those of you who are in my league, (and
you know who you are!), here is some info:
A podcast is basically a
recorded audio program that you listen to on your computer, whether it is a
desktop or a smart phone. When you
"subscribe" to a serial podcast, as each new chapter is released it
will show up in the podcast library on your device.
I can offer two means of
doing this: The hard way is to go Google and ask how to subscribe to a podcast.
I took the easier route as Maddow suggested; to download "Maddow's" Bag
Man, click on this: http://msnbc.com/BAGMAN
and download the podcast to the place of your choice. Since I never did this
before, I downloaded it to "Apple podcasts" where it appears in my iTunes podcast
library. Then, I assume, as each new chapter is
released, it will appear in that library.
No, I do not accept
complaints about these instructions. If they do not work, or are too
complicated to follow, take the short route and ask a grandchild to do it for
you.
A bientot.
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