Greetings, fellow audiophiles! My name is Gavin Gaddis, I’m a queer nonbinary media critic with a penchant for reviewing podcasts. I also have ADHD and am easily distracted by new projects, as evidenced by me mis-spelling “reviewing” in 2018 and only catching it in 2024. Whee.
Let’s dig into the two sides of Gavin:
Media Critic
Since 2011 I’ve been employed to have an opinion on entertainment and industry goings-on, including two collegiate newspapers and a local free magazine. I even managed to win first and third place in the 2016 Indiana Collegiate Press Association yearly awards (ask me about the winners sometime, one’s got a dirty word in the lede).
In 2018 I launched The Pod Report as a place to review podcasts young and old, with a focus on promoting smaller indie shows and calling established industry giants on their bullshit. In the summer of 2021 I made the executive decision to rebrand the website to simply my name. All of The Pod Report’s archive still exists, failed attempts at weekly content and all, but with the majority of my writing time dedicated to freelance work and personal fiction projects it felt like the right move to shift the branding away from having an outlet to owning the fact this is my blog.
The podcasting content shall remain, more might even be published, but it’ll be peppered with for-funsies articles about video essays, vibes in video games, and occasional old-school blogs about life.
Fiction Writer
In 2018 I launched a comedy sci-fi fiction podcast called Standard Docking Procedure. Since then I’ve produced a couple more audio fiction projects for funsies and have circled around ‘proper’ fiction writing as a hobbyist my entire life.
My first foray into formally self-publishing a bit of fiction will hit digital shelves December 2024, Mothman willing.
Creative Writing, Podcasting, and Love of Media 