Dead Air Podcast

In radio or live TV, “dead air” is the nightmare — a dead mic, a silent feed, the audience hanging in the void. It’s the absence of signal, the one thing every broadcaster learns to fear.

But step into our current media ecology and the metaphor flips. Silence is rare. What's everywhere is the static: a billion voices talking past each other, the endless churn of recycled takes, the hum of what some call the "dead internet" — technic...

In radio or live TV, “dead air” is the nightmare — a dead mic, a silent feed, the audience hanging in the void. It’s the absence of signal, the one thing every broadcaster learns to fear.

But step into our current media ecology and the metaphor flips. Silence is rare. What's everywhere is the static: a billion voices talking past each other, the endless churn of recycled takes, the hum of what some call the "dead internet" — technic...

Last month, I sold my house, moved into my parents' basement, and decided to start a one-man content studio with AI as my creative partner.

Yup, you read that right. Fifty-five years old. Three decades in television. And now, downstairs at Mom and Dad’s — not because I’ve given up, but because I’m actually doubling down.

It’s not a midlife crisis—that happened 13 years ago. I’m calling this a midpoint pivot (for some very specific re...