Hello friends and followers. Since the closure of <REDACTED> 5 years ago, where I produced and hosted a podcast that focused heavily on politics and current events (as well as culture, but for now I'm talking about the current events and politics track), I've toyed with and even done a few different versions of concepts to kind of pick that back up in some fashion. But what I'd always hoped to actually do is find a way to make something that is more thoroughly personal in style and execution while hopefully being more sustainable as an ongoing project. With all that in mind, I decided to try and kind of meld the basic information value of a current events podcast with the aesthetics and approach of ambient music and audio.

The result is something I'm calling an experimental current events show featuring realtime walk + talks paired with original ambient music.

In case that's not self-explanatory enough, I went on a walk and recorded myself talking about what's going on in the world right now among the outdoor ambiance of the day. I then styled up the video along the lines of what I've been doing under the moniker of theJLM that I use to make music and video art, added some other visuals, and scored it with an original piece of ambient(ish) music that I made specifically for the episode. And I sweetened the audio with some effects to match those vibes, too.

The first episode focuses on:

You can watch the full video on YouTube...

Alternatively, you can listen just about anywhere you get podcasts, if you aren't about the video life, which I totally get.