New podcast about lasagne, knitting, and 18th Century Belgium probably coming soon, say experts

A new podcast examining lasagne, knitting, and 18th Century Belgium is almost certainly coming soon, say pod experts.

“There are currently 4-5 five new podcasts being launched every minute,” explained Stewart James, Professor of Podcasts at Oxford University.

“The majority of these are someone you vaguely remember from being on TV interviewing someone else you vaguely remember from being on TV. However, a significant minority are themed podcasts where someone talks about a specific subject – politics, or sport for example.

“The problem is that there are, we believe, currently around four and a half million podcasts about politics, three million about history, five million about football alone. There simply isn’t the space for someone to launch a podcast about one specific topic.

“There are even around five hundred podcasts specifically about Hanson’s 1997 hit MMMBop.”

Professor James went on to explain that the sheer weight of numbers of podcasts means that launching a podcast about one specific topic means that you will be in competition with, at the very least, several hundred other podcasts.

“Absolutely, even if you pick a topic as wilfully obtuse as the 1990 Airfix Model catalogue, you will find there are already a number of podcasts out there. Probably hosted by someone like Vernon Kaye.”

The solution, therefore, is to create a podcast that mixes themes.

“Exactly, so if you were to pick, say, Metal Gear Solid and the works of Thomas Hardy as the topic of your podcast, then you probably won’t have any competition. Hence, we’re going to see a lot more of these cross-topic podcasts coming along.

“I would imagine, with the number of podcasts being released, that we can expect one about lasagne, knitting, and 18th Century Belgium coming within the next month.

“Brilliant,” said Kelly Grace, a huge fan of lasagne, knitting, and 18th Century Belgium.