Welcome Back to the Why Urology podcast. I am Dr Todd Brandt.  This is a podcast is my personal experiment and adventure into podcasting and is centered around the field of urology and my very, very small place in it.

I started podcasting on a lark in the Fall of 2016 with a simple premise. I was going to tell you why urology is such a great field of medicine and why I chose this as a specialty.

I was able to write, record, edit and publish 120 episodes of the why urology podcast before deciding to take a break at the end of 2021 and I closed the show with no real plans to start podcasting again.

I have spent little time this past year reflecting or asking myself if I was done as a podcaster, or as a content creator, but as I now look toward next year I begin to question if, and what, I may want to put out into the world.

This podcast episode is the obvious answer. Apparently, I have more to say.

The ancient Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu is credited with the following quote, “Muddy water, let stand, will clear.”

Here is what has become clear to me as I let the muddy water settle on podcasting during this past year away. I have missed the process of writing, recording, editing, and putting episodes out into the world and I would like to start recording them again.

OK, but what comes next?

First, I want to let you know that I am going to start recording under a different name. The Why Urology podcast will now become, simply… Urological. If you have been a listener in the past you know that many of the Why Urology episodes were only loosely based on something urologic. Much of the time the only association was that I was a urologist. I feel a name change reflects that I expect this podcast will continue to steer away at times from the middle lane of the urologic highway and on to some tangential side roads. Those roads may be bumpy at times, but I think the scenery may be better.

Secondly, I want to apologize ahead of time that I am a bit rusty in podcasting and in all things related in any sort of content creation. It may take some time after I have turned on the microphone and opened the tap to let the old rusty water run out until the clear water begins to flow. This podcast will continue to be a work in progress. I both apologize and make no apologies for that all at the same time. I just feel the need to get going.

There is a proverb I learned a long time ago that encourages a bias toward action. A word of caution: It was probably something I read from a fortune cookie or was written on the bathroom stall somewhere so take that for what it’s worth. It’s free advice and you get what you pay for.

The proverb is this: The work will show you how to do it.

The work will show you how to do it. I always took that to mean that if you just get started on the task at hand it will tell you what it needs. The clarity of what, where, how, and when comes in the doing, not from the idea, or the intention to do or the thinking about the thing. It comes from the action.

Our task is to do a podcast.

My idea is to just start, and to write, record, edit, publish and repeat, to keep going, until the rust is gone and the water runs clear.

I appreciate your joining me on this journey, in listening to this episode and continuing to listen under its new name, “Urological”

Urological. A podcast by a urologist, and whatever may be on his mind.