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The host of a weekly pop culture podcast called The Incomparable, which is the flagship of the Incomparable Radio Network, which features various podcasts. The Incomparable Radio Network has built up a couple hundred episodes! He is also part of Upgrade, which is essentially the official Six Colors podcast. Plus, he is the co-host of TV Talk Machine, with his co-host being the chief TV critic at the Hollywood Reporter. Also a co-host of a podcast called Liftoff, Jason had written for Macworld for many years.

Notable Guest Quotes

“I used to work in magazines, so, we had the same thing.  I was writing stories about the holidays in August.  Summer wasn’t over yet and we were writing stories about Christmas because of the lead times in print magazines back in the day.”

“As a content creator I think you’re always thinking about, or you should ideally be thinking about, who your audience is and how they’re going to consume the thing that you’re making and put yourself in their shoes.”

“The side projects almost invariably are things that I want to try out because they are going to inform what I write about – about the technology side of it – and they let me have a creative outlet that I might not have when I’m writing about a computer or a smartphone.”

“If you’re a creative person, you’re picking your tool and you want to pick your tool of choice, what makes you comfortable and what makes you the most creative and productive.”

“What my co-host on that show and I say is, we’ve done it 150 times now – eventually we’ll get it right, but at least we’re learning as we go, how to do it.”

“When a medium is new and there are no rules, everybody gets to explore it and that is one of the things that drew me to podcasting; it’s the same thing, it’s fresh ground and we don’t really know what it’s going to be and there are lots of things to experiment with and it reminds me very much of the early days of the Web.”

“One of the podcasts that I do is with Tim Goodman from the Hollywood Reporter and since he is the Chief TV Critic there, he’s giving me the lowdown on shows to watch out for and shows to avoid and that helps me a little bit because if he says, ‘Just don’t even bother,’ that’s a good, like, I’m not going to even bother because I don’t have enough time.  And when he says, ‘This is an amazing show – you need to check it out,’ I will do so and have discovered some pretty great shows from that.”

“I like to believe that I’m a finisher – (if) I’m going to start something, I’m going to finish it.  So that makes me sometimes wary to overcommit to things.”