I’m finally starting a series of commentaries for the Radio Free Caemlyn podcast. This time, Erica (from Marble Operator) joins me to talk all over the top of the American pilot of Twin Peaks. Hopefully we can continue this through the end of season one, at least.
Download the commentary track here, and listen along as you watch. We talk over the American version of the pilot episode.
Episode can be downloaded here.
Rion, Logan, John, Abby, Katie, and Erica join Rand to discuss Marble Hornets Entry #87, which marks the end of the series. The panelists also discuss the conclusion of the series, and their thoughts on Marble Hornets as a whole.
This episode marks the final discussion for Marble Hornets. We have three series to discuss at this point, those being TribeTwelve, Dark Harvest, and Andersen Journals.
This episode also marks the end of the Marble Operator podcast. It’s been fun. Had some fun interviews. Met some cool people.
See you over on Radio Free Caemlyn.
Episode 96 of Marble Operator is available to download.
On this episode, John, Logan, Katie, Erica, and Abby join Rand to catch up on recent Slender-series videos. First, they cover the two most recent Marble Hornets videos, being Entry #85 and Entry #86. Then John, Logan, and Erica give their thoughts on the most recent upload from the Andersen Journals, being “GOODBYE”.
Total run-length of the episode is 1:08:32.
Behind the scenes note, I need to figure out why my Skype call recorder isn’t working correctly, then see if I can upgrade the audio quality.
Here’s a playlist for Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand episode 12: Goodnight and Farewell
Playlist for Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand episode 11: A Town in My Mind
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Here’s a playlist of all the tracks used in my ninth sound collage:
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I’ve just designed and ordered some Radio Free Caemlyn and Marble Operator stickers. The RFC design is a circle, the MO is a square with rounded edges.
They look like this:
I’ve got 10 of each, and can always order more if needed. The circular design is 3 inches in diameter, with the square being 3inch x 3inch.
Basically, I’m offering these to listeners of the podcasts. If you’d like some RFC and/or MO stickers, let me know! Best way of doing that is either as a reply to this post or by sending an @ reply on Twitter to either @RadioFreCaemlyn or @MarbleOperator on the Twitter machines.
I’ve already got a few requests for stickers, and will be mailing them out as soon as they arrive to me.
(psssst! Did you know that if you use flexible magnet strips you can turn these stickers into neat magnets so you can post them on any magnetic surface and move them to another location? Just thought you might want to know!)
Anyway, the stickers should be arriving next week.
Now to design t-shirts!
–Rand
Update: All of the Marble Operator stickers have been requested. I can always order more, though, so if you want some, let me know.
Here’s a playlist for the eighth episode of Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand, in case you’re curious which tracks I sampled.
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For the past month, I’ve been doing a daily podcast for Radio Free Caemlyn, called “On This Day”. It started out when I would check the Wikipedia articles for that specific day and tweet about the major historical notes and birthdays. I finally decided that was too much daily clutter on my twitter feed, so I began reading those out on a podcast recording. I’ve now noticed those are cluttering up the main Radio Free Caemlyn feed, preventing other projects, such as Friday Night Trivia, SCP and creepypasta readings, and sound collage projects from being visible.
I’ve now set up a separate podcast feed specifically for the On This Day episodes. More details on this later, but check on iTunes within the upcoming week for Radio Free Caemlyn’s On This Day, for historical notes and birthday roll call for each day.
Not yet on iTunes, but you can subscribe to the podcast using the RSS feed here, using iTunes or any podcast feed reader.
Earlier today, I was thinking again about my debate between whether to continue Friday Night Trivia on TalkShoe or Skype, when a voice in the back of my mind asked me, “Why can’t you use both?” I thought about this for a bit, and looked back upon the two most recent episodes, recorded on TalkShoe; I was called in to TalkShoe through Skype, as has become my usual routine, and had Katie, a co-host from Marble Operator, conferenced in to the call.
The situation I had is the future of Trivia: as far as Skype was concerned, TalkShoe was just another single participant in a conference call, meaning there were three “people” involved (Katie, TalkShoe, and myself). Katie and I, on Skype, could hear everyone on TalkShoe, and everyone on TalkShoe could hear the two of us on Skype. The only possible problem is that, as there are two different services involved, some see one text chat, and others see the other; those on Skype can only see the TalkShoe chat if they have the pro client loaded, but there’s no way for the TalkShoe participants to see the Skype chat. That minor problem aside, we’re all effectively on the same call.
There are several advantages of combining the services for Trivia recordings. First, no one has to abandon the service they prefer. If you are used to using TalkShoe, and prefer either that chat interface, that audio quality, or the joys of using a SIP client to call in, then there’s no need to change to Skype. Likewise, if you prefer the chat interface of Skype, the ease of joining a Skype conference call, or the audio quality, or don’t like using SIP clients, then there’s no need of putting up with TalkShoe.
Another advantage of combining the services is more for the actual podcast itself. With Skype, I have MP3 Skype Recorder to record episodes; it’s what I use for Marble Operator, it’s what Ian, Dave, and I use for Cultdom Commentaries. By combining the two services, I’ll have two recordings going on, though I’ll be posting the Skype local recording to the podcast feed.
Going forward, nothing much is changing with Trivia. If you want to join on TalkShoe, then join on TalkShoe. If you want to join on Skype, then join on Skype. Either way, you’ll be on the same conference call. My preference will be to Skype, though.
