PODCAST · comedy

Snowprayers Radio

by Derek Plaslaiko

As long as I can remember, Autumn has always been my favorite of the four seasons. The leaves changing colors, the temperature dropping low enough for sweaters, the possibility of seeing one’s breath turning to fog in the brisk air, or my favorite: the anticipation of the first snowfall. For me, it just cannot be beat.There is a specific sound or feeling in the music that I listen to around this time, with a certain type of melancholy that just goes hand in hand with the season. To some it may seem sad or depressing. But for me it’s uplifting, and completely relevant to the changes in our surroundings. This is mostly what this podcast series will put a spotlight on.Way back in autumn of 2000, I started a shoutcast station that broadcast 24/7 out of the basement of my home in Ferndale, MI. I would just run it via a winamp playlist and invite people to tune in, and sometimes I would even DJ for my friends who were working 9-5 jobs. For a couple of years I did this until the first snowfal