FLASH
Shkruar nga Ben Blushi
Podcasts are a new media, a fad made in a room, and I really hope that a few years later – tired of television where the same thing is said every night, by the same people – we will have a plurality of podcasts that are free, honest, and enjoyable, even when made in a garage.
For almost two hours I was a guest on the podcast of two wonderful singers, two rockers with hoarse voices, Renis Gjoka and Gent Bushpepa, where apart from singing, I did everything else that is done in a garage; that is, chatter of guys telling their stories about alcohol, girls, cigarettes and many other vices that you have to overcome before becoming a man.
I've been through all of this, and fortunately I only have one vice left – literature – which I talked about at length with Renis, who had read me a few books, and with Gent, who hadn't read me anything yet, but was very curious.
I've rarely felt so comfortable on a podcast, because neither Renisi nor Genti asked me who I was voting for, why I was voting, or why I was voting for someone I "shouldn't" vote for.
The only problem I had was finding their garage, in a building somewhere in Astir, in the middle of an unpaved road, to get to which you had to cross five other equally unpaved roads, with potholes filled with water.
"If I lived in this area, I wouldn't vote for anyone," I told Renis Gjoka, who came forward to guide me.
Podcasts are a new media, a fad made in a room, and I really hope that a few years later – tired of television where the same thing is said every night, by the same people – we will have a plurality of podcasts that are free, honest, and enjoyable, even when made in a garage.
Podcasts that talk about everything will be the liberation from the dictates of traditional television, as is happening everywhere in the world, starting with America, where a famous podcast changed the course of the last election, during which television proved to have almost no influence.
On today's television, unfortunately, only the rich appear telling the poor what they should do, how they should dress, how they should speak, and how they should live – by shopping in their stores.
And a podcast can feature a poor person showing how beautiful life is even when you have your hands in your pockets.
Therefore, the times we live in are fantastic; because when I think that 30 years ago, to make a newspaper or a television station, you had to find about ten offices, seven computers, five drivers and three guards, I can't believe how quickly times have changed. It seems like it happened a century ago.
Today, anyone with something to say can make a podcast with a cell phone from the kitchen where the pot of lunch is boiling and the washing machine makes a noise so familiar to most people. While there are podcasts from the garage, there can also be podcasts from the kitchen or the basement.
No generation in the history of the world has enjoyed more technological advances, which in addition to making our lives simpler, have also taken on another function.
Today, technology has become the guarantor of democracy, which it protects better than the army, the police, and the parties.
A cell phone in our hand does more work than ten police officers, and a podcast creates more opinion than a party.
I hope you'll join me today on "Garazh Lock" on the YouTube channel of the same name, with Renis Gjoka and Gent Bushpepa, who - by the way - I forgot to ask what the hell they did to make a podcast.
Perhaps they were prompted by the beloved noise of the washing machine, the need to clean the dark stains of censorship on the sheets of free speech.
Lini një Përgjigje