Six months ago I started a podcast at my local public radio station. It’s focused on the local food scene here in Southern Indiana, a fledgling scene, unsteady, earnest and largely aspirational.

There’s probably not much of an audience for the show beyond this little patch of flyover country. Which is fine, given that my podcast skills are also mostly aspirational. There’s a yawning gap between the interviews I aspire to have with my guests, and the ones I’m capable of having now. 

You know the gap I’m talking about. It’s the one Ira Glass spoke of, the one that can only be bridged by doing the work – over and over again and again – knowing that what you’re creating right now is not that great.

Nobody starts out great. So? You’ll either quit or you’ll get better. It’s always one or the other.

The pod is called Food From Here. You can find it here.