Pod help me, I’m doing all three shows

Thanks for taking the podcast survey! The results are in, and there’s solid interest in all three proposed shows. So starting Jan 1, I’ll be producing episodes for three podcasts every week — How Music Does That, Raising Freethinkers, and The Lucky Ones.

How Music is already 10 episodes in, so you can find that on iTunes, Spotify, etc. The others will need 3 episodes each to propagate to those services. So to goose the process, here’s one more preview of Raising Freethinkers for the holidays.

Thanks for listening!

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Listen to “2 – Santa Claus, The Ultimate Dry Run” on Spreaker.

Where Should I Put My Energy in 2019?

In September, I launched a podcast about music to support a proposed book on the topic. But something unexpected happened: within a few weeks, the podcast overtook the book for me. It’s the perfect way to talk about music. But I also fell hard for the medium in general, especially in a storytelling mode. And creating and publishing continuously is so much more satisfying than the two-year timeline of the average book, proposal to print.

So I want podcasting at the center of my creative work right now. And if I could move continually among my three favorite topics — music, secular parenting, and mortality — that’d be ideal. So I put the music podcast on hiatus to design and record pilots for two more shows: RAISING FREETHINKERS (raising kids without religion) and THE LUCKY ONES (an aging atheist’s complicated relationship with death). Now I need to know if the interest is there for one or both of these new shows, as well as HOW MUSIC DOES THAT, now on its 10th episode.

If you have the time, please sample the three episodes below, then complete the survey. Depending on the results, I’ll re-launch in January with 1, 2, or 3 different shows. Thanks for your help! – Dale

>POLL NOW CLOSED, thanks. Results here!<

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Podcast Ep 10: The Music That Broke My Heart

With nothing but vibrations in the air, Barber’s Adagio reduces people to tears. Ep. 10 of HOW MUSIC DOES THAT.

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Podcast Ep. 9: Every Note is a Chord

It’s a hidden key to music’s emotional power. And it’s not all that hidden.

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Ep 8: The Moment I Surrendered to John Williams

I had never felt so tangibly dropped into another world.

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Ep 7: The Most Hopeful Music in the World

Even starting this piece was an act of pure optimism. Now to finish it.

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Ep. 5: The Masterpiece I Never Heard Of

This was no ordinary professor. She was a brilliant composer with an encyclopedic grasp of All Human Knowledge, or so it constantly seemed, and a mission to ferret out the ignorance of others, often publicly, with unforgettable shock and zeal. For many years afterward, I struggled to shake a really bad habit: the inability to admit that there was something — anything — I didn’t know.

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How Music Does That – The Test Drive

Think you might like the HOW MUSIC DOES THAT podcast but struggle with commitment issues? I feel ya. Here’s a 7-minute sampler of episodes 1-5 to give you a taste.