Robert Crenshaw has been a musician — including playing drums for his older brother, Marshall — and an author.

Now he’s adding podcaster to the resume.

This week (Wednesday, April 16) the Oak Park resident, who was raised in Berkley, will premiere “My Mythological Narrative — The Podcast,” based on his 2019 memoir of the same name. The episodic program combines narration, philosophy and perspective — as well as a dose of humor in both its storytelling as well as faux advertisements that give each episode the flavor of a 1960s TV variety show.

“I was looking for a project,” explains Crenshaw, 66, who by day works as a contract instructor for the automobile industry. “One of my friends suggested taking the book … because I had an audiobook on it, I had a pretty good jumping-off point if I wanted to start a podcast. I could go through and do some editing, and also go in and add things.”

However, he adds: “I wanted it to be better than that and make it more theatrical than the audiobook was. So, naturally, I grabbed people to help me.”

“My Mythological Narrative — The Podcast” is, in fact, an ensemble piece. Crenshaw is assisted by two of his other older brothers — John, a production engineer who’d worked at Showtime, among others, and Mitchell, who’s now retired and living in Connecticut. The cast, which records its parts remotely, also includes his niece, Lia; musical colleagues such as Don Dixon, Jamie Hoover, and Marti Jones; and actress Jill Bartlett, whose credits include “One Mississippi,” “American Dad,” “Scissor Seven” and others.

The episodes also include songs and incidental music pieces, right now all by Crenshaw but he’s hoping to incorporate others into the mix.

“As soon as I started doing this, I thought about how historical context has a whole lot to do with what shapes your life,” Crenshaw explains. “So when I was a kid, the two big events I remember more than anything were the Kennedy assassination and also the racial strife in the country. All of these things, whether or not you’re aware of them at the time, they do affect your life in a big way.

“It’s a lot like going through psychoanalysis in some ways. Some of the things I went back and thought about, either emotionally uplifting or emotionally really disturbing, you may not remember them exactly the way it happened. But I wanted to be really honest and include all of those things to make it more real. You want people to relate to it and say, “hey, that’s what I did’ — which means you have to include the stupid stuff, too.”

Even as it explores serious issues, however, there’s no question Crenshaw’s podcast comes from a place of warm sentiment and affectionate remembrances. The debut episode, “Intro-Origin,” touches on the family’s Flint roots, his father’s work with the cities of Huntington Woods and Berkley and Mount Sinai Hospital, his mother’s teaching career and seeing the Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Mitchell Crenshaw talks about the brothers’ adventures going to movies at the Berkley Theater, while Robert recalls how their parents used window shopping at local music stores as a lure to get the boys to attend church services on Sunday mornings — though that didn’t stop Robert and Mitchell from fighting during Mass.

“If something went south, it was usually my fault,” Crenshaw acknowledges. “It wasn’t, ‘Oh, my parents did this terrible thing.’ I guess I was just a stupid kid — ‘cause all kids are stupid.

“There’s a lot of self-reflection in it, but we got crazy lucky to have the family and the parents that we have. I know a lot of people who didn’t have those kinds of experiences. So it really made me thankful for a lot of things.”

Marshall Crenshaw is not yet part of the podcast, but Robert isn’t ruling that out. “He said, ‘This is your story to tell and I don’t want it to be about me because it’s not my story, and that’s exactly right,” says the younger Crenshaw, who made a guest appearance with his brother’s band during an April 15 concert at the Magic Bag in Ferndale. “He was really helpful with the audiobook and I do have a lot of recorded stuff of him telling stories, so I can use that stuff and I probably will.

“Maybe at some point he’ll want to be in some of the commercials or something. We’ll see. We did a lot of stuff together and he certainly was a very influential part of my story.”

Crenshaw has six episodes of “My Mythological Narrative” finished and is working on another six. He sees it as an open-end project and is open to wherever the narrative leads him and his cohorts.

“At some point, I’m going to run out of (biography), so if I still want to have a podcast I’ll have to think about what form I want it to take,” he says. “For me, I think things that are scripted and with characters and that sort of stuff is best. I can do that a lot better than thinking on my feet or interviewing people. So we’ll see. But we’re really having fun right now.”

Episodes of “My Mythological Narrative — The Podcast” can be found via mymythologicalnarrative.com, as well as regular podcast streaming services.