The Gotham Gal and I invited two special guests over for brunch this morning and we recorded a 25 minute podcast with the "father and son of podcasting".

The father of podcasting being Josh Harris, founder of the pioneering podcasting and videoblogging company Pseudo.com which started recording and broadcasting audio on the Internet in 1995. Here's a post I did about Josh, Pseudo, and podcasting version 1.0.

The son of podcasting being Jason Calacanis, who turned me on to podcasting in 1997 when he invited me to join him on the Silicon Alley Reporter radio show at Pseudo's studios on Houston Street and Broadway in lower Manhattan.

So The Gotham Gal, Jason, Josh, and I spent about 25 minutes talking about the early days of podcasting and how Pseudo got started.  We then got into the crazy days of the late 90s when Josh turned Psuedo into the digital equivalent of Andy Warhol's factory.

That evolved into a discussion of Josh's alter ego, Luvvy the clown, and how Josh and his girlfriend Tanya recorded their soho loft 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The podcast ends with a discussion of the wilson's family upcoming "red state weekend" and Jason Calacanis trash talking the Nascar crowd.

All in all, a very fun show and well worth a listen for anyone who wants to know how podcasting got started, what happened in that crazy days of "silicon alley" in the late 90s, and Josh Harris' views on the "synthetic reweaving of society".

UPDATE: We have taken this show down due to the reciept of a cease and desist letter from Shangri-La records. We are hoping to convince them to let us put it back up. We'll let you know how that goes. In the interim, we've posted a version of our theme song, Positively 4th Street.

Joanne and I did this one together in what might become the regular format for Positively 10th Street.

There is a distinctly political undertone to this one with a war protest song from Neil Young and the spanish language version of the Star Spangled Banner.

Plus we've got a roots music thing going with songs from Bruce Springsteen's Pete Seeger record and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Here's the song list:

Old Dan Tucker - Bruce Springsteen
Living With War - Neil Young
Rock And Roll - Jerry Lee Lewis (Led Zepplin cover)
Going Home - Sophie Zelmani
Nuestro Himno - Ivy Queen, Tito el Bambino and Gloria Trevi