Tiki Bar . . . Or Get It While It's Still Hot

It has happened several times in my life, that I have been around to see the beginning of something, to see it before it became too polished, too slick.

Rock and Roll in the Buddy Holly era, for example. Okay, I didn't listen to Buddy Holly, but technically I could have.

Television in the 1950's is another great example. Later examples might be music video's and MTV in the 80's, or even the World Wide Web of the mid 90's. These were all times when the people that were the true pioneers didn't have a model to follow, they simply tried stuff. Some worked, and some didn't, but the raw, untested nature of it was exciting to watch, and was as interesting as it would ever be.

This brings me to podcasting, where you download little audio programs that you can listen to on your ipod. It's like Tivo only portable.

Yesterday, I was on the iTunes site downloading The Onion podcast, when I noticed this video podcast called Tiki Bar TV, and the comments people made about it. Turns out it's a very popular program that is one of the top downloads. So I checked them out, and so enjoyed this nutty, campy, hilarious bit of video, that I spent all of last evening watching the rest of their twelve episodes.


A bit of warning here, this is not your children's podcast. There is sexual innuendo, salty language, and over indulgence in alcohol. But it is funny stuff. And as I watched this low budget, high talent little adventure, I realized I was seeing yet another media in its infancy. People can still do this stuff in their basements and get national exposure, and compete on an even footing with the largest of media outlets.

I don't think that we can say that for long, so check it out. You don't need a video iPod, you can watch them using iTunes on your computer (a free download) or just go to the Tiki Bar TV website.