The Cast

Jan 2nd, 2008 by admin

The Pod 5

Ed Ovett

Host of Ed’s Mixed Bag

Web Site: www.edsmixedbag.podshow.com

Bio: Ed is 60 years young and the father of 4 grown children and 5 grandchildren. Living in south Florida for more than 30 years, he now qualifies as a Floridian. Ed’s origins stem from Brooklyn, N.Y. At Brooklyn College he studied liberal arts for two years and also 1 year of electronics at a Miami vocational school.

Ed once held a First Class FCC license, but aside from a few mid-west “on-air” auditions, it never was utilized. Life simply took him in another direction. Ed always knew there was something definitely “wrong” with mainstream media. Then he started listening to a few technology podcasts. Ed knew he could do the music and voice mix, but that XML stuff was the stumbling block! Mike Smith of The Mike Smith Show spent 3 hours on the phone with Ed explaining RSS and Feedburner. His efforts were very much appreciated, but then Ed found Libsyn’s sandbox and, as they say, the rest is history! Ed began production of the Ed’s Mixed Bag podcast in October of 2005 and as of this writing has done over 100 episodes in the same amount of weeks, having never missed a beat!!

Ed’s day job? He’s worked for the school district of Palm Beach County in south Florida, in a non-instructional capacity, for 21 years. First as a Graphics technician, and then after the demise of that dept Ed learned about the repair and maintenance of the school’s fire alarm systems, enjoying the electronic aspect. If the school district ever latches on to educational podcasting, He’d like to be directly involved with what would be a new frontier for them! Ed has 3 years left with the school district and then its retirement and podcasting forever!

Zack “The Mothman” Daggy

CEO of Mothpod Productions

Web Site: www.mothpodproductions.com

Bio: By day Zack is your typical mild mannered Web designer. By night he is The Mothman! New media superhero and all around shameless bastard. Zack began his exploits as The Mothman on August 3rd, 2006. It was on that day that Zack staked his claim to the new media pie (which oddly enough tastes like apple crumble ala mode). The indie music, down with mainstream, “RIAA can bite me,” revolution known as The Mothpod had begun.

It was soon after the Mothpod’s premier that Zack discovered that he was a shameless self promoter. His “shameless plugging” eventually became so out of hand that he began to plug everything in sight. This finally erupted into a second podcast know as The Shameless Plugcast. A new media talk show featuring interviews with the movers and shakers of the independent scene.

This project had quenched Zack’s hunger for plugging, but at this point he had a new craving. It wasn’t until he had started his 7th podcast that Zack realized that he had an addiction. An addiction to producing original content. Currently Zack finds himself as the head of an emerging media empire known as Mothpod Productions™

Dan Johnson

Host of Journey Inside My Mind

Web Site: www.danieljohnsonjr.com

Bio: Daniel Johnson, Jr. was born at an early age, fortunate enough to be named by his mother for his father. Early days were spent running around in diapers, but he soon discovered the ability to walk and chew gum at the same time. A life of intrigue awaited, as he grew into delusions of being a superhero like Superman and Batman, yet he later settled down to a life in Cincinnati writing computer programs and in new media. A blogger since 2002, in 2005 he expanded his Journey Inside My Mind into a podcast. He know can be found stalking connecting with other people on various social networks.

Dwight Dunlop

Host of Much To Do About Nothing

Web Site: www.mtdan.ca

Bio: Dwight Dunlop was born and raised north of the 49th parallel, in Ottawa Canada, where he revels in the cold Canadian winters. (Some say his blood is a natural antifreeze, others say his metabolism runs so fast his body needs to cold winters to keep from over heating). For a real job, Dwight works as a lab rat for an optical manufacturing company, but he would rather be roaming around with his Edrioal RO9 getting interviews with people that have much more interesting jobs than he has .

While getting bitten by the pod casting bug back in April of 2006, (That bite has let its scars) and not really having a clue of what to do or how to do it, he still manages to put out shows from time to time where people from around the world can listen and learn about his tastes in podsafe music and what its like to live in the great white north. With the assistance of his four footed feline audio engineers Coco and Charlie, he revels in his part in the new media revolution. Dwight is known to have a bit of an over active imagination, but so far he has not become as bad as his hero Scott Sigler. But his wife still loves him.

Nicholas Young

Founder of ArtistOne

Web Site: www.artistoneanalytics.com

Bio: Evil Genius, Idea Hamster, Artsy Geek, New Media Revolutionary, Audiophile, Extrovert Extraordinaire, ADD. There are a lot of ways to describe Nicholas Young, founder of new media company ArtistOne. This young entrepreneur never runs out of ideas, never meets a stranger, and is never bored with his laptop nearby. When he’s not busy working he can be found listening to podcasts, creating podcasts, listening to and expanding his massive music collection, chilling at the pool, hanging out with his girlfriend, and fragging his friends.

Nicholas currently lives in Nashvegas, Tennessee where he thrives in the vibrant music scene meeting like-minded new media enthusiasts and discovering emerging independent artists.

Brent Bradley

Host of Podshow Radio.

Web Site: www.podshowradio.com

Bio: Brent was born a poor black child on a hot July morning in Dallas Texas. Before he could even walk his grandfather gave him a slightly used Mr. Microphone and from that day on he could not keep his big yapper shut. Exposed to the movie ‘The Exorcist’ at a very early age Brent has had a life filled with Worry, Wellbutrin and Whataburgers.

He packed his family in a 1974 Plymouth Fury and moved them to Tampa. Since then he lives on the house on the hill from the millions of dollars he has made doing his music podcast Podshow Radio. He spends his spare time on a side project Co hosting a show called ‘The Pod 5′ where Brent and four other gentlemen talk more trash then you’ll find behind your neighborhood Safeway.

He now suffers from Eczema, spider veins and a bit of a cold but is still determined in making a name for himself even if it kills him.

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