If you read this blog regularly, you know I entered the world of podcasting about 2.5 years ago.  I started with a local Fishers interview podcast along with a daily tax podcast.  The tax podcast was discontinued after a few weeks due to a basic lack of listener interest.

However, the interview podcast continues and the listenership is growing steadily every month.

I replaced the tax podcast with another series, the Arts&Fishers podcast, which consists of arts reviews.  It’s mostly film criticism, but occasionally I will review some television and live arts events, such as plays and musicals.  It has had a loyal following from the start and it continues to be a popular offering.

in June of 2017, I met a man named Adam Aasen.  He and his family own & run Donatello’s Italian Restaurant in the downtown Carmel’st Arts & Design District.  We met at a Chamber of Commerce event.  We discovered both of us read the other…Adam reads my blog and I read Adam’s reporting and commentary for Current in Carmel.

Adam also told me he enjoyed my Arts&Fishers podcast film reviews and we talked about movies.  Adam is a certified cinephile.

I had been thinking of starting a film podcast, but knew I could not do the weekly production alone, I needed a partner.  I looked around and although I knew several local people, there was no one in a position to handle the podcast idea with me.

So, I called Adam Aasen.  We met at Donatello’s and talked.  I outlined my idea for a podcast.  It consisted of two segments, each roughly 30 minutes.  The first segment would be one or more film reviews and perhaps a discussion of news around the film industry.  The second segment would feature interviews with people involved in film who are local or have a local connection.

Adam liked the idea.  He & I decided to record the podcast each Saturday at Donatello’s.  Our first edition of “Hamilton County Goes To The Movies” was recorded June 24th, 2017, and posted online the same day.  The review was the Tom Cruise summer action/horror film The Mummy (Adam & I agreed it was not a good film).  Our guest was Pastor Joe Freeman, a retired local minister who has a very popular film review Facebook page.

Hamilton County Goes To The Movies is still going ten months later.  Pastor Joe is scheduled to return as our guest on the April 28th podcast.  I’m looking forward to seeing Joe again and talking about the films he has seen since last summer.

When you produce a podcast, you want as many people to have the opportunity to find and sample your product.  If the audience likes the podcast, they will return.  As a locally-produced podcast, I have no illusions I will not get the millions of listeners found on podcasts programming to a national or international audience.  I am just heartened that so many people take the time to listen to the podcasts I produce.

Which brings me to why I am writing this post.  There are two reasons.

First, in recent weeks Google Play has picked up all my podcasts.  You can access my podcasts for free on Google Play.

Second, there is a new search engine available that will help you find podcasts.  It is a Web site, ListenNotes.com

This search engine can zero-in on podcast searches only.  Yes, you can search using Google but you get a lot of other hits you may not want.  This is a great tool for searching just podcasts.

I am proud to say ListenNotes.com  has added my podcasts to those available on the search engine.   That means there is one more way for anyone to find my series of podcasts.

For a long time, you have been able to find my podcasts on iTunes, Soundcloud, TuneIn and a number of other platforms where podcasts are found.

So, thanks to the many readers of LarryInFishers.com who are also listeners to my podcasts.  If you enjoy my podcasts, please share links to my podcasts on social media, tell you friends and let them sample what I have to offer.

So far, this blog and my podcast productions are all a volunteer endeavor, but I do these things because I want to and I want to provide a service no one else is providing.

So, thanks again for reading and listening.  You make this all worthwhile.