Podcasts Archive

Podcast Episode 27: The Page of Reviews/Limited Release Handsome-cast live at Ad Astra 2013

– April 12, 2013Posted in: Podcasts

Featuring the voices of Adam Shaftoe and Nick Montgomery

There’s a certain safety net to the way I record my podcasts. Even when I have a guest with me, we both know that if somebody says something stupid (usually me) there’s a chance to say it again and leave the gaffe on the floor of the digital cutting room. Last Sunday, Nick Montgomery and I tossed caution to the wind and recorded a podcast in front of a live audience, which actually grew by about 28% from start to finish.

The results were pretty good.

Granted, the fact that I had about 33 seconds to balance the audio levels shows up in the podcast, but I’ll call that a lesson learned for the next time I do something like this.

Upon review I also noticed that I didn’t really tell the important part of the Ben Bova story. Sufficed to say, Ben Bova was not the Asimov doppelganger. Dr. Bova, however, did inform me that the Asimov look was the natural appearance for the gentleman in question.

So on that note, I present you with the first ever live before an audience Page of Reviews / Limited Release cross over podcast.

Topics under discussion include:

- Gamers 3

- Versus Valerie

- Community

- Deadwood

- The history of swearing

- Kickstarter

- Veronica Mars

- The fine art of Directing

- Shameless plugs for current projects

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Huge thanks to Nick Montgomery for coming out to record this experiment. Make sure to head over to the Limited Release Podcast to check out all of Nick and Candice’s fine work.

As well, thanks to everybody who came out on a Sunday to listen to our prattle, and to Ad Astra for letting us put on our show.

Tags: Community, directing, Kickstarter, Limited Release Podcast, Veronica Mars, Versus Valerie, Web Series, XCOM

Podcast Episode 26: Space Marine Space Marine Space Marine

Adam Shaftoe

– February 13, 2013Posted in: Podcasts

Podcast Episode 26: Space Marine Space Marine Space Marine

Featuring the voices of Adam Shaftoe and Nick Montgomery.

Showcasing the fiction of K.W. Ramsey.

I present a slightly different, but no less entertaining, format for this episode of the podcast. We begin with a reading of K.W. Ramsey’s subversive piece of short fiction, The Marines of Space and the Gamma Rabbit. Head over to K.W.’s blog to read the story in all its glory, as well as his many other reviews and musings.

Following that, I’ve got a chat with Nick Montgomery, who is one half of the Limited Release Podcast. Nick and I recorded this conversation a few weeks ago, back when J.J. Abrams was only rumoured to be directing Star Wars Episode 7. Naturally, our conversation focuses on how we think J.J. might do at the helm of Star Wars. We also spend a few minutes speculating on some other directors we would have liked to have seen get the job.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Cold Intro Music: The Lady of Vastness by Dan-O at DanoSongs.com

Theme music: Bionic Commando stage 4 (Dale vs Wray mix) (NecroPolo) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Tags: Games Workshop, JJ Abrams, KW Ramsey, Satire, Space Marine, Star Wars, WH40K

Podcast Episode 25: Q&A with Jonathan Robbins, creator of the web series Clutch

Adam Shaftoe

– January 30, 2013Posted in: Podcasts, Web Media

Two new podcast releases in the same month? Wow, I must really feel guilty for the long months of silence in between episode twenty-three and twenty-four.

Topics under discussion include:

- What is Clutch?

- Clutch’s nature as a Hard-R rated web series.

- A couple degrees of Craig Ferguson.

- The relationship between art and violence.

- Jonathan on directing.

- The challenges of producing Clutch.

- Web series and their awards.

- The state and future of digital mediums.

Once again, congratulations to Jonathan and the entire cast and crew of Clutch on their Streamy nomination.

Head over to clutchtheseries.com to check out the entire first season and the first half of season two.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Feature track: Nerevar Rising as arranged by Blake Robinson from the album Video Game Orchestrations Volume 1.

Cold Intro Music: The Lady of Vastness by Dan-O at DanoSongs.com

Theme music: Bionic Commando stage 4 (Dale vs Wray mix) (NecroPolo) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Tags: Blake Robinson, Clutch, Digital Media, Jonathan Robbins, Streamy Awards, Web Series

Podcast Episode 24: Solo Nerdings

Adam Shaftoe

– January 7, 2013Posted in: Podcasts

Huzzah! The Page of Reviews podcast has returned after a prolonged hiatus due to nerdy severe technical difficulties.

Topics under discussion include:

- Female starfighter pilots.

- The maligned nature of the X-Wing within the Star Wars film canon.

- My review of Fantasy Flight Games’ Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures tabletop game.

- Adam’s terrible voice acting skills.

- Blake Robinson’s synthetic orchestra, which is as awesome as Adam’s voice acting is terrible.

- Kudos for Nick and Candice over at the Limited Release Podcast

Feature track: Hope Runs Deep as arranged by Blake Robinson from the album Video Game Orchestrations Volume 1.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Cold Intro Music: The Lady of Vastness by Dan-O at DanoSongs.com

Theme music: Bionic Commando stage 4 (Dale vs Wray mix) (NecroPolo) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Tags: 2000AD, Dredd 3D, Gears of War, Judge Dredd, Limited Release Podcast, Star Wars, Synthetic Orchestra, X-Wing

Podcast Episode 23: Madeline Ashby talks about vN: The First Machine Dynasty

Adam Shaftoe

– August 10, 2012Posted in: Podcasts

Featuring the voices of Adam Shaftoe and Madeline Ashby.

Topics under discussion include

- The NASA JPL Curiosity Mars lander

- von Neumanns versus robots

- vN as a story about replication

- Robots as cultural zeitgeist

- Gaming motifs in vN

- Madeline and I editorialize on watching movies on AMC

- The Ashby model of domestic labour

- Destroying Seattle (and Vancouver) for fun and profit

vN: The First Machine Dynasty is available now from Angry Robot Books.

Head over to madelineashby.com to read Madeline’s blog and check out some of her other projects.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Cold Intro Music: The Lady of Vastness by Dan-O at DanoSongs.com

Theme music: Bionic Command Stage 4 by Necropolo

Bionic Commando stage 4 (Dale vs Wray mix) (NecroPolo) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Tags: AI, Curiosity, Gaming, Madeline Ashby, NASA, vN, von Neumann

Podcast Episode 22: Chatting With the Job Hunters

Adam Shaftoe

– July 27, 2012Posted in: Podcasts

Featuring the voices of Adam Shaftoe, Forest Gibson, Kristina Horner, and Tara Theoharis.

Topics under discussion include:

- A primer on Job Hunters.

- Dystopian, roommate, comedy…How? Why?

- Working in web media.

- Unicorns.

- Expert techniques in starship command and Chatroulette

My thanks again to Forest, Kristina, and Tara for taking the time to come and talk to me.

Make sure to check out the first episode Job Hunters below.

Head over to http://www.watchjobhunters.com/ for news and updates about the series.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Cold Intro Music: The Lady of Vastness by Dan-O at DanoSongs.com

Theme music: Bionic Commando stage 4 (Dale vs Wray mix) (NecroPolo) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Tags: Dystopia, Forest Gibson, Job Hunters, Kristina Horner, Maewin, Tara Theoharis

Guest Hosting the Limited Release Podcast

Adam Shaftoe

– June 27, 2012Posted in: Podcasts

Last week something pretty awesome happened. Well, it was awesome for me at least. However, there’s a good lesson to this story, so I promise it won’t be all shameless self-promotion. Anyway, last week I guest hosted on the Limited Release Podcast. For the record, this was my first time appearing on a podcast other than my own. To say that I was excited about the experience would be a considerable understatement.

For those who don’t know, Limited Release is a podcast based in Guelph Ontario. Their bread and butter is web series reviews. And though I only met Candice and Nick, the hosts of Limited Release, at this year’s Ad Astra when the lot of us were on a podcasting panel, I quickly became a fan of their show as I started listening to their back catalogue of episodes. The opportunity to switch from fan to participant was really quite amazing. Recording a ‘cast in a real studio with a sound engineer rather than the closet that I call a “studio” with my cat shooting me judgmental glares all the while, well there are no words for that.

So what did Candice and I talk about while Nick was off consulting on the set of Game of Thrones? (NB: Nick may not have actually been doing this, but that’s the idle speculation I’m going to run with) Being the gracious host that she is, Candice let me pick the programming. Given that it is currently my favourite thing on the internet, we spent half the episode talking about Job Hunters. For the rest of the time we discussed an older web series called On Empty. Here’s a link to the cast. Once you are done with that, make sure to check out the rest of Limited Release’s podcasts – truly fantastic stuff.

As for the lesson I promised at the start of this shameless self-pimping, here it is: there’s no way I would have been asked to host Limited Release if I had not worked up the nerve go to conventions as a panelist. It is as simple as that. If you care about what you do, go somewhere where you can connect with others who do the same. If you really want to impress, spend twenty dollars on a box of business cards. You don’t need to be a pro to act like one.

There you have it: advice on how to make build a profile as a pro geek and a podcast.

Make sure to check out Limited Release on iTunes. My deepest thanks to Candice and Nick for letting me guest host on the Limited Release podcast.

Tags: Guest Hosting, Job Hunters, Limited Release, On Empty

Podcast Episode 21: Mourning Community with Matt Moore

Adam Shaftoe

– June 22, 2012Posted in: Podcasts

Despite hiccups with recording, construction above my closet studio, and problems with the theme music, I’ve finally managed to put together the first official episode of the second season of the Page of Reviews podcast.

Thanks to Matt Moore for coming on to talk Community with me. You can check out his work here.

Also, Kari Maaren’s article on gender and How I Met Your Mother, which Matt and I mention during the podcast, can be found here. No word of a lie, it’s one of the best critical inquires into television character development that I’ve read in quite some time.

As is the case in many of our conversations, Matt and I were all over the place with this chat. As such, I’m not even going to try and offer up a podcast by timeline breakdown.

Generally the topics under discussion included:

- Did Dan Harmon and team know their days were numbered?

- A brief history of turfed show runners.

- Ways season four might be good.

- If season four is the last, could Community continue in other mediums?

- How Community fans could be more like Jericho fans.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Music: Bionic Commando stage 4 (Dale vs Wray mix) (NecroPolo) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Tags: Alison Brie, Chevy Chase, Community, coolcoolcool, Dan Harmon, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs, Joel McHale, Meta, NBC, SixSeasonsAndAMovie, Yvette Nicole Brown

Podcast Episode 20-1: Adam Shaftoe in the Morning!

Adam Shaftoe

– May 11, 2012Posted in: Podcasts

Here’s what happens when I work through the night, and I’m left to my own highly caffeinated devices at five-thirty in the morning.

With my compliments to J.M. Frey, Matt Moore, James Marshall, Adrienne Kress, Bunny, Jason, and Sam (even though he’s on hiatus) at Imperial Trouble Podcast, and Candice and Nick at Limited Release Podcast.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed