Over the past few weeks I’ve been really enjoying a radio show on the station Secret102.com
Adam Green’s Asylum is Mon-Thu between 9pm-11pm. This is, effectively, a kink-friendly radio station. Presented by Adam and ‘The Other Bloke’ (Bossman, or, Bitchman, depending on who is insulting him).
At first, I was a bit unsure about this idea. But given I tune in most nights, or download the podcast when I miss it, it’s safe to say I’m hooked.
I think a lot has been working on trial and error a bit. But, it’s shaping up to be a good fun show.
The format is pretty much a 2 hour show with music (general mix of all sorts of styles and eras, enough that keeps you tapping along, along with odd guilty pleasures) and talk, stories, funny kink things found on the web. That sort of thing.
Some ideas have brewed themselves over the weeks. So, for example the Mistress chart, where subs can suck up to, I mean, vote for, their favourite Mistress. For some it might be who they regularly serve. For others it can be based on someone who has interested them recently or whatever.
There’s also AnnabelGo – which started from a joke from one of the regular listeners. Each night they “send” her somewhere and people have to guess the location from clues.
So, for example – it’s in this post code area, it’s near these shops, here’s a fact… poor woman has been sent from everywhere from the Port of Dover to the Isle of Muck to Watford Gap to Redditch.
Nobody deserves to go to Redditch.
They also have guests from time to time, Lady Sara Borgia has been in 3 times now. She constantly torments presenter Adam to try the toys in her bag.
I think it’s guess work where Adam lies in interests. He claims to be vanilla, but as much as he seems to hate some of the ideas, he’s still very openminded to try things.
Miss Kitty Bliss has also been a guest, she tormented them less. Mind, they tried to get me in trouble by saying I called her Miss Clitty Piss. I didn’t, you misquoted me..! I would never say that about someone who once strapped me to a board and threatened to castrate me. I’m not *that* mental…
Goddess Asha has also hosted a show, which was pretty interesting. On one hand I’m looking forward to the invasion of Mistresses next week, on another it’s people who I find interesting I’d like to hear more from on a kinda individual guest basis. I’m sure it’ll be fun though.
On a serious note, Goddess Asha has also done roaming interviews for the show. The first time was at the Femdom Ball which returned some great interviews with amazing people. The second time has a lot more serious implications when she turned up at the recent protests to the Digital Economy Bill and interviewed many leading activists. Because, I don’t want to derail things – but the Tories really don’t like our sexual freedoms.
I’m not sure what some of the background motivation was for the show. Whether it was a “We can do this, the Internet allows us to – so – let’s do this” or whatever. But, it’s merged into another facet of the community. They help support many events and Mistresses and people of interest, which is cool.
I’ve done internet radio myself in the past, so I know how hard it can be to keep up motivation to do an online radio show. It can be especially if you feel there are limited numbers and not much you get back out of it.
I think this is one of the reasons I want to help champion it. Knowing first hand how much of your life you end up putting into a show and the rewards are questionable – you get more ‘reward’ out of listener interactions and know you’re doing something good than from a fiscal sense.
I did online radio for 8 years before I went into an ongoing hiatus. When you’re putting so much into something, sacrificing other plans or whatever, not really making any money from your hobby, it gets tiresome when you don’t feel you get much back. So, if posts like this act as encouragement to the guys to keep it up – and encouragement to others to tune in which in turn increases the listernship which in turn gives the lads more good feedback which in turn adds to the fun they have…. then they’ll keep doing it and I can keep tuning in 😉
Through it I’ve started talking with other fans and listeners and we joke about it being a little posse or family (which I’m sure we’d love to grow) and meeting different people with different stories as part of the great things about kink.
So, as well as this being a kind of review about the station – this is also a thank you to the guys, Adam and Bossman (or ‘The Other Bloke’) and I’m sure there are a few unsung behind the scenes helpers. So, thank you.
For everyone else, if you’ve not tuned in – try some time. Alternatively you can stream or download many shows from their website.
Come join the growing army of listeners.
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