The other day I found out about Zoe's Radio Show, a really good podcast blog done by a 15 year old kid in ... uh, California, I think.

One of the best things about blogs... audioblogs in specific... and the internet in general, is that it gives the average person a chance to play DJ. Zoe does a good job with her podcast, and listening to it really had me jonesing for my own younger days when I worked in radio.

I had a lot of fun in radio. I miss it. It struck me that putting together my own audio podcast might be an entertaining way to relive my own youth a little bit, just generally have some fun, etc.

Yesterday I was at home by myself... Wendy was at class, the kids were in school, I had nothing but time on my hands... so I grabbed some CDs, ripped a few MP3s, and put together my own "radio show" podcast.

It was fun. It killed the morning, and I entertained myself.

I decided to go ahead and upload it to the blog, but I don't have a very good audio compression program. I found some freeware, and with it I was able to compress the hour-or-so of material into a (fairly) small MP3... but it sounds like crap. It sounds like a transister radio in the next room.

But, hey... like I said, I mostly did this to entertain myself.

Anyway, if you'd like to check out the first (and, probably, only) "podcast" of Southcon Radio, you can stream it by clicking here.

Just so you'll know what to expect... this is just an hour of music with me playing "DJ," like in the old days of radio. No commercials, of course... it sounds like college radio used to sound back in the late 80's. If you listen to it, you'll hear Morningwood, Ryan Adams, the Deftones, Better Than Ezra, John Popper... just various songs I like.

There's no ranting from me about politics here. No ranting at all... just an hour of music that I happen to enjoy, and all you'll hear out of me is the names of the songs and the bands.

I guess this is legal, by the way. I hope it is legal. Like I said, the compression makes the songs sound like crap, so it's not like it would be worth your time to try to download it and isolate the songs and rip them.

If nothing else, I killed a couple of hours and had some fun. If you decide to stream it, I hope you hear a song or two that you like, and that the compression rate doesn't make the sound quality so bad that it's unlistenable.