Your Opinions, Give ‘Em
We didn’t drink the week-old milk when we went back to work on Monday, but we still had a hallucination. We’re considering doing a BigRedKitty Podcast.
1. Are we nuts-o?
2. How long should our show be? 15 mins? 30 mins? 30 seconds?
3. How frequently should it be produced? 1 per week? 1 per month? 1 per lifetime?
4. What USB microphone/headset/4-channel mixer do you recommend, (don’t blow our Christmas Club account, kk?)
5. How do we let people listen while we make our recording?
6. We got the Podcasting plugin for Wordpress to put our podcast on our blog. Is there something better?
7. Content should include… what?
8. Guests? Like who?
9. Should we just buy the Dummies book?
10. Anybody out there want to producing a jingle for The BigRedKitty Podcast? We can use one of the ones in Garageband if we must, but if you’ve got musical talent and want to produce a 15-30 second jingle we can use - and promote you in return, natch - go ahead, blow our minds, and send us a something cool.
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Podcast = Yes!
30 minutes is long enough
1/week or so
That is all.
Yes, do it, it will be made of win.
You should check out http://www.wcradio.com for great wow podcasts… the guys producing them are great and maibe you could ask them for advice or something…
1. Are we nuts-o?
Yes, BRK. You are nuts. But it’s your inate… nutness (???) that has had me craving a BRK Podcast for a long time now. Unfortunately, the WoW Insider show, Legendary thread, The Instance and the Epic Dolls aren’t quite enough for these old ears.
2. How long should our show be? 15 mins? 30 mins? 30 seconds?
1 hour. I need something nice and long to listen to while doing my dailies.
3. How frequently should it be produced? 1 per week? 1 per month? 1 per lifetime?
Once a week. But don’t listen to me, I’m a podcast junkie
7. Content should include… what?
Tips for Hunters of any level/experience. Maybe read out emails, and/or questions sent by readers. But most importantly, end the show with: “Thanks for listening anoother BRK world-wide amalgamated production”.
Erm, a segment where you talk about what you’ve been doing in WoW that week? Always nice to hear what the host’s been up to. A News segment of course about… WoW news?
Epic.
8. Guests? Like who?
I don’t care whether or not she’s into WoW, but gief Mrs. BRK in audio form!
Perhaps guests from WoW Insider and other great wow fan sites? Lassirra from http://www.thehuntersmark.net? She’s awesome, has one of the best hunter blogs out there plus a cool little audio feature.
Ok, I’m shutting up now…
Are my dreams coming true? A Brk Podcast? Hell yes!
30 mins is good and 1 per week is good. Guests could include Duncor turpster … most of the WoW radio Guys
Thanks
-Are we nuts-o?
Yes, but that’s why we keep reading.
-How long should our show be?
It should be as long as you have new content for, in my opinion. I tend to think podcasts that just rehash everything that’s been said in the last week to be a tad redundant, and I won’t be spending my bandwidth, drive space, and time to listen to it. At the same time, I’m sure you have a ton of stuff to talk about that we haven’t heard before.
1. Are we nuts-o?
Yes, but no.
2. How long should our show be? 15 mins? 30 mins? 30 seconds?
30 min -1hr. Whichever is easier for you.
3. How frequently should it be produced? 1 per week? 1 per month? 1 per lifetime?
2 weeks-1 month. Once again, whatever is easier for you.
7. Content should include… what?
Spec and gear comparisons, stuff you normally put into the blog, news..You’ve got tons of material.
8. Guests? Like who?
Mania and any of the hunter blog/site owners who are helping teach hunters the way of the highly trained survivalist. lol
9. Should we just buy the Dummies book?
Thats a start.
10. Anybody out there want to producing a jingle for The BigRedKitty Podcast? We can use one of the ones in Garageband if we must, but if you’ve got musical talent and want to produce a 15-30 second jingle we can use - and promote you in return, natch - go ahead, blow our minds, and send us a something cool.
Think Doctor Who meets Wild Kingdom.
1. yes - stipulated
2. as long as you can comfortably maintain - maybe try 30 mins to start and see how that feels
3. as often as you can comfortably fit in with regards to schedule and familial harmony
7. stick to what you know — huntard eradication
Regarding the book — I’d buy it you could do worse
also I suggest:
Tricks of the Podcasting Masters
http://tinyurl.com/6ycjw8
Okay, my answers are:
1) Yes, but that goes without saying.
2) Play it by ear. Try and aim for 15-20 mins on your first podcast, listen to it back and judge whether those mins were all interesting, got boring early or left you feeling that there was a whole lot more that you wanted to say. My feeling from your BRK Productions is that you could fill 20mins pretty easily so long as you planned well.
3) Two a month. Once a week and you continually have one looming whether you like it or not, once a month and you’ll probably start either having too much to talk about or lots not being relevant (having noted something interesting just after your previous podcast). Ramp it up to one a week when you feel comfortable and have streamlined the planning/execution process.
4-6) [Technical stuffz, me haz no clue].
7) Anything you feel like. Hunter specific, game specific or you specific, they’ll be listeners who will take note. Just keep the content varied, interesting and fun so you don’t get stuck in a rut or start repeating yourself.
9) Podcasts for Dummies can’t hurt, but don’t let it be your only reference.
OTHER:
Above all, stay as you are. Your enthusiasm and joy for all things Hunter shines through in your Vids and blog spots, and it’s that which you want to capture effectively in your Podcasts.
I love the idea of hearing your mellifluous voice on a podcast BRK.
Forget about how often to do it or how long it should be.
The podcast should be like your blog. When the inspiration hits, talk away. Some may be 5 minutes, others 30 minutes. Once a day for three days is a row then not another one for a week.
Please include Airman Howell stories, and will we be hearing Mrs. BRK in the background asking, “Another podcast?!?!”
/giggling in anticipation
I would definitely tune into a podcast if you made one. The frequency/duration of your podcasts will probably depend on what you think you can fit in during a week.
As for what to put in it, you could have the usualy podcast stuff such as interviews, emails, etc. For the interview part you could get popular arena hunters, hunters with interesting rl backgrounds, new hunters to give their impressions on the game, etc.
General discussion of class balance (both serious and not) along with talk of what changes are in place, have been in place (maybe have a history of hunter thingy sometime), as well as what class abilities/changes to abilities affect us.
From a content point of view, the hardest part will likely be when there are few changes being made to the game. Luckily, if you start this sometime soon, you will have plenty of wrath discussion to get things going and by the time the game starts to slow down on new stuff, you’ll be more used to producing the podcast and can use built up creativity to fill in the spots.
Keep in mind, you’ll probably want a co-host or two as well and will want to hold a couple pretend podcasts just so you both can get used to talking at a constant pace for the duration of the show as well as get used to talking with eachother in that setting.
Honestly, I think you have the talent and creativity (perhaps read: craziness) to do something like this and pull it off. My main is a mage, but you have no idea how often I want to switch to my hunter for my main, largely because of content from this blog.
Cheers,
Dahk
I really enjoyed you on WoWInsider, and your movie commentaries are always enjoyable. I’d say go ahead and try it to see if you like it.
I would try a 15-30 minute quick topic for your first try. That’d help you get the kinks out. Perhaps rehearse a bit on your own, get the sound quality as you like and coordinate a bit with any possible guests. Personally, I would not spend a whole lotta money up front getting yourself going. Honestly, you can probably mix yourself with software rather than need anything too fancy. You are a Mac guy after all. You might be able to get a good Sennheiser headset/mic combo for around $50-80 if you are looking for something better than a standard $10-20 Logitech. There is also a company called mAudio that does higher ending computer oriented audio stuff. You’re not recording the London Philharmonic, so you might be just fine with the Logitech.
For guests, I would think that Lassira at Hunters Mark might be good. She’s done some audio-ish stuff herself. However, that depends on your topic. Are you thinking of staying Hunter centric or branching out a bit. Any chance you can swing a favor and get Galertubby on your show?
The obvious choice of topics is probably all WoLK stuff. In that aspect, I ask “Why did you say on WoWInsider you would never touch the Beta, but then the next week you were posting movies of it?” I suspect I know why, and I really appreciate what you’ve put up so far… all delicious hunter goodness.
One thing that isn’t being talked about much in regards to WoLK is how the new Hunter talents & pet talents will impact PvP? It seems that Hunters SHOULD be getting some PvP love, but is it really there? Maybe I have just missed those posts.
Anyhow, cheers Mr. BRK! and good luck with your new venture.
i’d sub - bring it!
Guests: Megatf…for those that do the whole PVP thing
Content should be comprised of what you are good at: Hunter analysis. Specifically discussing end-game hunter raiding would be very informative and interesting. With such a small percentage of people who are actually going to see the end-game raid instances your commentary and analysis would be usefully for both those who are casual hunters (and will not see this content) and serious hunters (who are working towards seeing this content and could use your knowledge to better prepare themselves.)
Once a week would be good and in your podcast you could discuss the raiding you did for the week.
I guess you could talk about arena but as a PVE raiding hunter it has no interest to me.
I would say 30 mins is plenty and once a week. Try to get it up on itunes, this makes it very convient for download and transport. As far as topics I would cover as much as you can about the hunter changes in the expansion (hunters are practically a new class now). Look at the new pets and what one pet family means to one spec of hunter. I.E. when would a BM hunter want a tank pet, dps, or utility? Would a MM hunter always want a tank pet, etc. I would also try to get Mania from petopia on there.
I’ve read this is a good mic:
http://www.amazon.com/Blue-SNOWBALL-Snowball-USB-Microphone/dp/B000BLRVOQ
Set up a weekly broadcast at http://www.blogtalkradio.com
It’s free, you phone it in. If you want to go with a headset for your phone, I recommend Plantronics, they’re very good.
You can take calls, you can have other guests call in, they plan on adding chat capabilities so you can cover e-mail type questions too.
If you don’t like these guys the closest similar service is http://www.talkshoe.com
I think you should definitely do it. You’ve got a great broadcast voice in the instructional movies I’ve watched and I think everyone would flock to listen.
So I know nothing about making or maintaining a podcast. I do know a little about audio but nothing that would be relevant to you.
I WOULD, however, listen to a podcast if you produced one. I enjoy listening to your commentary in your movies more than I do reading your blog. Not that I don’t enjoy reading, but your brand of humor, that shines through in audio form, sounds flat and pretentious to a new reader that hasn’t gotten to know you yet.
(I’ve since rectified that problem and now enjoy your blogs just as much as I enjoy the commentary in your videos)
So, in short, Yes, make a podcast, 30 minutes would be outstanding, once a week seems the norm, talk about whatever you feel like, hunter-y things, audio guides, or hell, maybe even make the podcast BRK story time with commentary from Hobbes. Would be fun, I would definitely listen.
Well as a podcaster myself (albeit one who hasn’t released a show in a while) I think I can offer you a little advice.
Don’t drop a mint on a Mic or other equipment yet. Wait and see if you are really interested in it. I did all my work on the same plantronics headset I use for vent. It cost me 30$ at Office Depot.
We used Audacity to record the tracks locally (though I’m sure garage band works fine) because recording the output from vent or skype always sounds bad. If you have a guest or a co host just set up an FTP server for them to upload their end to or else have them toss it up on file planet or some other file hosting site and DL it when they toss you a link. I then used Adobe Audition to sync them all up and do some minor editing to mute tracks at different points to remove talk over (when one person briefly speaks over another on accident) or random mess-ups. It also let me equalize the volumes of the different tracks do one person doesn’t sound way louder than another. It’s allot easier than it sounds trust me.
If you want to let the millions (and millions) of the BRK’s fans listen while you are recording then you could set up a vent and server and work in a channel where only you have talk privs. They could use the chat software in vent to talk to you without disturbing your audio. There are more complicated solutions like a streaming live cast but I wouldn’t over complicate things at the start here.
As for the word press plugin… I’m not sure how well it works but I think you might run into some problems with it. I paid for a dreamhost server that cost barely anything and hosted the shows myself. The best alternative might be Libsyn.com. I had it recommended to me by Brent over at Virinworlds.com (back in the days before his collective was formed).
The content is up to you. I would just make sure that it interests you at least because if you don’t care about what your podcasting it will definitely come across. I think you will do fine here though. Your site never fails to interest me.
As for guests… well… please … for the love of all that is holy… avoid the guys from WCRadio. Mike Schramm plays on my server and I honestly like the guy… but he and the rest of the WCR crew are as fun to listen to as a bowl of rice crispies. Personal views aside try to work with people who you enjoy talking to. Your fellow bloggers from AC might be a good start. I can’t tell ya how many times I wish I had recorded some of the great discussions I’ve had with my guild mates on vent so that I could host them as podcasts. Ultimately… just talk to people you have fun talking to. If you’re having fun people will enjoy listening to it.
I’ve never learned much of anything from a dummies book that I couldn’t have learned from a Google search.
Some other things to consider… don’t make the bit rate too high. Don’t mix it into stereo (this doubles the size of the files pointlessly). Building the feed can be a little tricky but once it’s done there are only minor edits that need to be done to it to add a new show. Get someone who knows what they are doing to help you with the initial setup of that part. I would gladly help any way I can.
Oh and look for shows that you enjoy listening to. Some of my favorites are the VirginWorlds podcast. Its a great show that is a good example of what a clean news oriented show can be like. Very business like and informed (if hes a bit off base in his opinions on wow at times its forgiveable). Also the Massively Online Gamer (or MOG) show is a great example of the opposite end of the spectrum. Wild and random at times but great fun to listen to. Also I personally love the SModcast with Kevin Smith. His show almost always gets me laughing.
Thought I’d say that I use a USB microphone for the odd music recordings, and it’s apparently held in quite high regard for podcasts. Look up the Samson C01U.
Cheers
Yes, definitely do this. One question. Will BRK have fly girls?
1. Are we nuts-o?
Already answered by many, but I concur, yes.
2. How long should our show be? 15 mins? 30 mins? 30 seconds?
15-30 minutes is probably best. I’d love to have an hour or so, but I think keeping it short, especially in the beginning is best.
3. How frequently should it be produced? 1 per week? 1 per month? 1 per lifetime?
If the shows are short, crank ‘em out weekly if you can. I think it would be all awesome to look forward to a BRK podcast each week.
4. What USB microphone/headset/4-channel mixer do you recommend, (don’t blow our Christmas Club account, kk?)
Ya know, you can get by with pretty cheap-o stuff if you need in the beginning and upgrade only if you find you need to. The video commentary quality may not be “professional” but it works just fine.
5. How do we let people listen while we make our recording?
6. We got the Podcasting plugin for Wordpress to put our podcast on our blog. Is there something better?
— Dunno, haven’t had the experience.
7. Content should include… what?
All the same kind of stuff you have in your blog. Have BRK testbed revived and talk about how to become a better hunter on your way up the levels too.
8. Guests? Like who?
Mania, MegaTF, anybody you think can provide insight as well… special guest Mrs. BRK is not a bad idea either occasionally.
9. Should we just buy the Dummies book?
Go for it. It’s not very much money for what I’m sure an inexperienced podcaster would benefit from.
10. Anybody out there want to producing a jingle for The BigRedKitty Podcast? We can use one of the ones in Garageband if we must, but if you’ve got musical talent and want to produce a 15-30 second jingle we can use - and promote you in return, natch - go ahead, blow our minds, and send us a something cool.
I’m sure many others out there are far more talented than I at looping a few tracks in garageband. Give the jingle writer props of recognition and I’m sure you’ll attract a substantial artist. You got clout, use it.
Good luck!
Since I’m a pilot, I use a Bose Aviation noise-cancelling headset for Ventrillo.
http://www.bose.com/controller?event=DTC_LINKS_TARGET_EVENT&DTCLinkID=3124&perfsourceid=k9677&src=k9677
Perhaps it is a bit overkill.
1. Are we nuts-o? Yah, I have mentioned that before…
2. How long should our show be? 15 mins? 30 mins? 30 seconds?
30 min or an hour, depending on how much you have, wait, your rambles can be amusing, an hour.
3. How frequently should it be produced? 1 per week? 1 per month? 1 per lifetime?
Twice a month.
4. What USB microphone/headset/4-channel mixer do you recommend, (don’t blow our Christmas Club account, kk?)
Me, I am not technical…
5. How do we let people listen while we make our recording?
See above.
6. We got the Podcasting plugin for Wordpress to put our podcast on our blog. Is there something better?
Ditto.
7. Content should include… what?
Huntery stuff, raid content stuff (with hunters in mind), anything amusing you have seen in WoW.
8. Guests? Like who?
Hmm, off the top of my head I can think of Mania, but your guildies seem amusing for sure.
9. Should we just buy the Dummies book?
That would be what I would do.
10. Anybody out there want to producing a jingle for The BigRedKitty Podcast? We can use one of the ones in Garageband if we must, but if you’ve got musical talent and want to produce a 15-30 second jingle we can use - and promote you in return, natch - go ahead, blow our minds, and send us a something cool.
I am out. Sounds fun though, someone will write a great one!
I’d say keep it about 15 minutes and make it more helpful and informative more than anything.
once every 2 weeks is fine since podcasts take a lot of work.
Have guests on and debate hunter things
throw in some of that razzle dazzle that you put in your movies and it should work out.
I’d be great if you hosted a BRK podcast. Id say 30mins or greater and once a week. FUll of anything hunter or humorous.
1. Are we nuts-o?
Yes and NO.
2. How long should our show be? 15 mins? 30 mins? 30 seconds?
10-15mins. Depending on the topic/show you are doing. But no longer than 30mins.
3. How frequently should it be produced? 1 per week? 1 per month? 1 per lifetime?
1 per week
7. Content should include… what?
I’d like one of the airman howell “shows”.
9. Should we just buy the Dummies book?
No.
Great idea, I say put them out as often as you feel the need; schedules are nice and all but personally i prefer quality over quantity, and really wish some of the existing wow podcasts would take that hint. bbb co-host would be cool - if it wasn’t for him and turpster the wowinsider show would fall flat.
1. Yes, but that’s why we love you and read your blog, right?
2. As long as you can manage to fill it with quality, humorous content. Saying “every episode will be X time” can be bad, because you might run dry one night and might have a wealth of stuff to share another that’ll make you run over.
3. Once weekly is how all the podcasts I subscribe to run (and yes, I’d subscribe to you <3)
4. Ideally, something by Plantronics for your headset and a good soundcard by Creative - do NOT use an on-board soundcard. Also invest in a piece of software called Virtual Audio Cable if you want to have guests.
5. Skype is the best way if you’re having guests - if not, you can use something like WebCamMax to make a fake webcam and project it on Stickam so people can listen in live.
6. No idea, I never blogged and podcasted at the same time.
7. Anything Hunter-y! Beta opinions, theorycrafting, rants, whatever seems important to us. Just make it funny, too.
8. Anyone you think is worthy. Notable names in our blogosphere like Mania, Pike, me (yeah, right)… Mrs. BRK, if she’s interested?
9. Well, I can sell you a [Engineering - Goblin Podcasting Studio], just 300g…
10. I’m not the best at making… “jingles”… but I can see what I can smash together in the old Engineering lab.
How long?
About 15 minutes max. Or 10 minutes. Radio and tv shows are longer because they’re broken up by commercials.
Or, depends on your content. If you aren’t even sure what to cast yet, go for about 5 minutes and see how it feels. Cramped? Go longer. Excessive? Tighten it up.
Personally I love news I can get in short blurbs, and I’m not alone. It makes it easier to be entertained BETWEEN life’s other events, instead of trying to SCHEDULE time to “listen to that podcast I meant to check out”.
8. Guests?
Well, Kaeldar of http://www.neverlosepvp.com! Duh!
(I’m kidding of course. My readership is like 3 of my friends when they’re bored out of their skull.)
But seriously? Recognized community bloggers such as yourself, and eventually if you gain further community recognition, you may get the chance to host guests from Blizzard.
Even just interviewing other players you know their reactions and interactions with hunters, good, bad, AND ugly, is an easy source of material relevant to your site.
BRK Podcast = Win
30 to 45 min
Once a week
1. No your not nutso, you should really try it. Podcasts are great
2. 15 min is way to short for me but you probably could start doing a 30sec - 5min hunter segments for “The Instance” http://www.myextralife.com/wow/, if not I would say 30min-1hr
3. probably once a week or once every two
4. No clue
5. I would ask some of the Wow insider people or Scot from “The Instance” about that
6. duno
7. Well you could do segments like what’s happened to you in the past week, how hunters are doing in beta, reviews of pet families ect.
8. Scot and Randy from “The Instance” Brian from ELR (http://www.myextralife.com/) podcast also done by Scot. People from the hunter and warcraft community ect.
9. Na, ask Scot. He will probably help you out.
40 minutes to an hour (depending on how much you have to talk about) every week or two.
Since you are blogging AND podcasting, I think your best bet would be a 15min-30min podcast every other week. at least to start. maybe reiterate 1 or 2 major points from your blog and then move on to other topics. perhaps stuff you dont cover in your blog on a regular basis, interviews with other hunters, etc.
it is rather difficult to do long podcasts while also running a blog, so at least to start you should keep it short to make sure you have enough content for both the blog and podcast
TJ as a guest
That is all
Gonna be short.. if you want to be a legend, 1show a day, 5mins like MacosKen.. Funny, 5mins of BRK a day!!
enough said
Yes do podcasts! But please, don’t create a schedule! I’ve seen too many good podcasts go to hell because the people doing them decided to have a schedule and had the thing turn from fun into work, and then into drudgery!
Instead of saying you’re going to do, say, a 30min podcast once a week. Just create a podcast when you have something worth podcasting about. You’re hunter guide movies are a perfect example! They’re as long as they need to be, and they come out whenever you have the time to do it and something worth making a movie about.
Use that same format with your podcast and you won’t see it turn into something you hate.
Nephillia makes a good point.
1. No.
2. Well, length depends on a few things. Your personally available time is one, as a 30-minute podcast isn’t done in 30 minutes. I think someone once said that it take 5 times as long as the podcast is to record and process it.
Another thing is your readership/listeners. Some are going to want a show, like an entertainment production (probably most of them), but others are going to have a hard time listening to anything more than 10-15 minutes, due to their available time or attention spans.
3. Quality over quantity. Don’t set a schedule that you’ll feel guilty about missing. When you have enough material for the length of show that you want to run, make it good, then release it.
4. Use your vent headset to start if the audio quality is OK, but whatever you do, podcasting shouldn’t require anything high end. You’re probably only going to want to encode at 96kbps anyways, so mic quality won’t make an enormous difference unless it a REALLY horrid mic.
5. No clue.
6. See above.
7. I’m gonna go out on a limb, and say “just about anything you wrote about in the blog.” Seriously, hunter training, gear spec comparisons, Airman Howell stories. If you can speak it and keep it from sounding dull, it’ll work.
8. Whoever the hell you want, man, it’s your show! It could be 30 minutes of BRK Junior gurgling, people will download it.
9. Probably. I dunno. I’ve never thought about doing a podcast, personally, since nobody in my house will shut up and leave me alone for more than 30 seconds.
10. I’ll give it a shot. *shrugs*
Once a week, and as long as you can make ‘em!
I would LOVE a segment like “WotLK Pet of the Week” where you talk specifically about one pet and its usefulness, (or lack thereof.) It could be about five minutes, with you telling about its ability, and if it would be good in raids/heroics/grinding/pvp/etc.
Just my two cents. Keep up the good work!
Nothing else i can ad that no one else hasn’t except for… Do It. Do it Now!
There is such a thing as too much BRK… and days off.
I am sure you’ve thought about this but there are so many podcasts that go over the same old news every week, that should only be a part of your show. Obviously hunter news is of major importance to us but there is so much more than WotLK to talk about. Don’t forget many people learned their chain-trapping, kiting, and other skills with your excellent videos and explanations. Also don’t forget Airman Howell… and addon’s…and hunter boss strats…and you get the point.
BRK, you should absolutely have a podcast. I recently started watching nearly all your videos I can find, on my iPod Touch. Your videos are already made for it, especially on the larger touch screen. In fact, I’m post this on my touch now… LOL!
Yes to podcasting. Do whatever feels right to you. I’m sure it will be top notch.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com lets you set up your own call-in radio show which you can then podcast. Anyone can call from any phone (cell, land line, skype, anything) and they don’t need software/headsets/mics.
Yes please! I would love to hear your podcasts.
Length / Frequency : Up to your discretion, just want to reiterate what someone posted above - would like to have fresh content in each podcast. Maybe an Airman Howell story!
Guests: TJ!
I nearly choked on my coffee when I read this. BRK podcast?
OMFG YES PLS!! .P
Seriously, I have been hoping for a BRK podcast to happen for ages. I always thought you would never do it, as you always release videos on a fairly regular basis.
Awesome Sir, just awesome!
have you considered hitting up Fim and Bre over at http://www.twistednether.net ? perhaps you could busy yourself with your own segment at their show or something, thus cutting down the strain on yourself but still giving yourself a pod segment. Just a thought
@ Altoholicmom
Which is what he is already doing on the WoW-Insider podcast…
But a BRK podcast for would be far better, for me at least anyway.
I like listening to BRK, funny, positive voice and just has a unique style that deserves its own podcast to be honest.
Logitech makes a rather excellent USB headset for laptops which is cheap to boot. The “Logitech 980445-0403 USB Supra-aural Premium Notebook Headset” comes with it’s own little box to keep it in, goes around the back of the neck (so it doesn’t mess with your hair), has a mute *switch* instead of the pushbutton some of the others have (which often results in my gf going silent over Ventrilo without realizing it), and is about $45 everywhere one looks.
As an added bonus, since it’s a “normal” headset with a pair of 1/8″ plugs that comes with a USB dongle with two little sockets, you can say, patch a PDA or something into the mic input line and play the “Time for FUN!” sample to scare the beans out of people on Vent when you do Shadow Labyrinth. (For maximum effect, do it when you have *just* cleared to the room where the guy is at.)
Podcast or not, good hair is srius bizness. There’s lots of ways to do a “shrillness filter” on TJ in post-processing, BTW.
Been waiting for your podcast for ages
Really… time doesn’t matter, if you have interesting things to share with us
By the way grats on the wow insider podcast, was good!
I know I’d definitely listen to a BRK podcast. The half-hour to 45 minutes length sounds perfect, so does having one up every week or two.
OMG yes!!!! please!!!
I would LOVE a brk podcast. If you did it weekly that would be incredible. Ideally i’d love it to be an hour or so long. You could talk about wow, and also some of the non wow related antidotes that you post on the site somtimes that are really entertaining. Like some of your military stories!
Really, you have a very entertaining personality and whenever you get it up and running I would quickly subscribe.
You rock on the wow insider show also!!!
keep it up!!!
Sounds like a plan! I hope you will have Hobbes on as a guest speaker - even if its only to grumble about cat nerfs!
One request, please post it on itunes even if it’s posted elsewhere. I think you will get a lot more listeners that way, as it’s so easy for ipodies like me to download.
Hi BRK,
First of all, I’m a big fan. Love your work.
Podcast would be great but as long as it doesn’t eat into too much of your (& Mrs BRK’s) time. Quality over quantity and frequency.
Content - must be up to you. People read your blog for a reason.