First Evil Avatar Podcast available now!

[Kefkataran]

The moment you've been waiting for ever since midnight last Friday has arrived!! The first Evil Avatar radio podcast is now available for your downloading, subscribing, and listening! Get it at the official podcast blog now! (http://bootyandthehofish.jeffool.com/)

Hot on the heels of this spectacular event comes news that the first official contest for the podcast is in the works. Be sure to stay tuned this Friday during the live show when details will be announced!

Big thanks to Evil Avatar and the whole community for making this happen. It should only get better from here.

EDIT: Almost forgot! The RSS for subscribing to the podcast through iTunes or what-have-you is: http://bootyandthehofish.jeffool.com/?feed=rss2

[Rirath]

Nice work, thanks.

[fitbabits]

Excellent job, Kef.

[agentgray]

It's been submitted to the iTunes music store. We just have to wait for approval. I think it should be okay....we meet all their criteria. I'm in the process now of trying to get it in the browse section of the store and not just the search. That may take some time because they want podcasts that have been running a while.

You can still manually add it to your podcast software (iTunes, Juice, etc.). That way you'll get notified of it before we post it here.

Congrats to all the callers who made it on to the show. Take a listen, guys. There's some good LOL moments in there, especially when Tessa gives her .02

And yes, E3 is like a con. :)

[Kefkataran]

Everyone feel free to let me know what you think and if there's suggestions that Tessa and I might use to make the show better.

Also if you want to call in and contribute, be sure to tune in live Friday night from 9 central to midnight at www.kumm.org!

[Fernie417]

So, is this thing three hours long, or have the music bits been cut out? I've been looking for a decent video game related podcast for a while now and most of the rest are either misinformed, biased, or just plain ol' boring. If I don't have to wade through a bunch of songs I may or may not like I'll definitely take a listen.

[Demo_Boy]

For iTunes users go
Advanced---> Subscribe to Podcast
then paste
http://bootyandthehofish.jeffool.com/?feed=rss2
then click OK

[jeffool]

There's some good LOL moments in there, especially when Tessa gives her .02Hah, yeah, especially when she busts Phil's balls. "You sure you're right, probably?"
Kefka "Uh, yeah."
(Just listening to that part now.)And yes, E3 is like a con. :)Y'know, you could've said "Well, con just means 'convention', so, yeah."

[agentgray]

So, is this thing three hours long, or have the music bits been cut out? I've been looking for a decent video game related podcast for a while now and most of the rest are either misinformed, biased, or just plain ol' boring. If I don't have to wade through a bunch of songs I may or may not like I'll definitely take a listen.
There's one song and the podcast is around 40+ minutes. I think the two hosts did a pretty good job for the first time in this format.

EDIT: They also state their loyalties but give a pretty good job ribbing and rubbing all the consoles.

[Fernie417]

There's one song and the podcast is around 40+ minutes. I think the two hosts did a pretty good job for the first time in this format.
Ah, I was afraid it was a rebroadcast of the nine to midnight radio show. Thanks, I'll be checking this out.

[hund_]

i knew he was ghey


j\k ;) good job

[Paranoia]

Everyone feel free to let me know what you think and if there's suggestions that Tessa and I might use to make the show better.


Allow questions to be sent via voice mail for the Q&A. Some of us aren't Americans. :D

[agentgray]

Allow questions to be sent via voice mail for the Q&A. Some of us aren't Americans. :D
Good idea. I'll add some contact info so people can submit questions to be read on air. Kef will have to let you know about voicemail.

Kef, can you take WAV or MP3 files and play them on air? I'm thinking that someone could record their question and you could play it.

The blog website will also post the playlist for that evening as well as whatever Kef and Tessa see fit to post I'm assuming.

[Kefkataran]

So, is this thing three hours long, or have the music bits been cut out? I've been looking for a decent video game related podcast for a while now and most of the rest are either misinformed, biased, or just plain ol' boring. If I don't have to wade through a bunch of songs I may or may not like I'll definitely take a listen.

Music's cut out! Take a listen and elmme know what you think.

Allow questions to be sent via voice mail for the Q&A. Some of us aren't Americans.

If you can record stuff and send it to my e-mail account (kefkataran@gmail.com) at least by Friday afternoon, I can easily burn a quick CD for playing questions on the air.


Kef, can you take WAV or MP3 files and play them on air? I'm thinking that someone could record their question and you could play it.

Like I said up there, if the stuff is to me by Friday afternoon, I can.

[Bumbuliuz]

No offence but it wasnt wery good. Hope it will get better

[agentgray]

No offence but it wasnt wery good. Hope it will get better
What would make it better? Like Kef said, thoughts are welcome. Constructive thoughts.

[Kefkataran]

No offence but it wasnt wery good. Hope it will get better

Ouch. At least let us know *why* you think it wasn't good. Give us some advice if you want it to get better!

[Paranoia]

I thought the show was a bit unbalanced.

Tessa didn't like the X360. Fine, but at least have another person on the board who do love the X360 just to give a fair balance to the discussion. Listening to Tessa's comments feels so one sided especially especially after listening to the people calling in who were very interested in buying the X360 (most of them). It doesn't help with the fact that she doesn't even like playing online, which makes her credibility to comment online games almost useless.

Kef, you might want to get a X360 but you're better being in a neutral position because you are the host of the show.

[Bumbuliuz]

Didnt mean anything bad by it. The idea is good. The problem is that the girl on the show only playes retro games and NOTHING else. So while the guy was talking about variety of subjects she had nothing to say or had no opinion. It didnt have to be about xbox 360. Just something other than downloading bootleg roms or playing old games on the Nes. No point having a non-gamer on the show. It need to be a balance between the 2 people hosting the show.

[Ludoc]

I thought the show was a bit unbalanced.

Tessa didn't like the X360. Fine, but at least have another person on the board who do love the X360 just to give a fair balance to the discussion. Listening to Tessa's comments feels so one sided especially especially after listening to the people calling in who were very interested in buying the X360 (most of them). It doesn't help with the fact that she doesn't even like playing online, which makes her credibility to comment online games almost useless.

Kef, you might want to get a X360 but you're better being in a neutral position because you are the host of the show.

I liked Tessa's comments. She seemed more uninformed than anti 360. I think part of the show's gimmick could be people calling trying to convince her to become a gamer. Like the first caller (By the way he was great, show peaked right about there. ;)) talking up the virtues of live. Or the last one selling her on the revolution.

It's cool to have someone on the show that doesn't carry a lot of baggage from the previous generation.

[jeffool]

I think that she can be a good balancing force in the show, but that she just needs to talk 'more'. Lots of other people liked the X360 (like Bumbuliuz said, near everyone,) and she didn't. She thinks that playing with pals in the same room is better than playing with people you've never met, though lots of us probably think that online multiplayer is the next sliced bread.

[agentgray]

I liked Tessa's comments. She seemed more uninformed than anti 360. I think part of the show's gimmick could be people calling trying to convince her to become a gamer. Like the first caller (By the way he was great, show peaked right about there. ;)) talking up the virtues of live. Or the last one selling her on the revolution.

It's cool to have someone on the show that doesn't carry a lot of baggage from the previous generation.
Which is exactly what I thought. She represents the general public at large (notice I didn't say Animal Crossing type general public).

She is the average cool person that gives a good insight as an outsider looking in to the hardcore gamer world. It's an interesting dynamic.

It should also appeal to more people, but of course it might alienate some hardcore people.

[Kefkataran]

Fine, but at least have another person on the board who do love the X360 just to give a fair balance to the discussion.

Well, most of the people calling in were 360 fans, as you pointed out, and I defneded it to the best of my ability. It's not really feasible to get a third person on board for the show, so I think we'll just have to put up with Tessa's Microsoft-hating. ;) No worries, though, I'll conitnue trying to balance it out as best I can. Anyways, the point with Tessa certainly isn't credibility, as we made it very clear that she's less of a hardcore and more of a causal/retro gamer. It's more to give an 'outside' perspective from someone who's not in the gaming community persay.

Kef, you might want to get a X360 but you're better being in a neutral position because you are the host of the show.

I'd love to own an X360 if I had the cash. :p

The problem is that the girl on the show only playes retro games and NOTHING else. So while the guy was talking about variety of subjects she had nothing to say or had no opinion.

As I said above, the idea is to present two perspectives -- one of a hardcore gamer and one of a less hardcore gamer. But actually, if you listen Tessa fesses up to playing more contemporary games than she originally led on. That said, part of the problem with her not saying much was merely that this was her first time ever live on the radio whereas I've been doing it for a year and a half. Chances are she'll open up and talk more the longer she's been on the air.

She seemed more uninformed than anti 360. I think part of the show's gimmick could be people calling trying to convince her to become a gamer.

I agree with that completely. I think part of Tessa's deal is that she's just kind of generally anti-Microsoft, so she isn't as informed as people here may be on whatever virtues 360 may or may not have. Although she did admit to playing Xbox, right? ;)

but that she just needs to talk 'more'.

What I said above. She'll hopefully be talking more as we continue.

[Rafer]

I liked the show, but I would be nice if you might have a theme for some shows, like after the news you could focus on a theme to discuss and take calls on, like Square or survival horror or flash games. And I like listening to two people casualy discuss a specific game, like on the 1up show. Also, I like how the TWiT (http://thisweekintech.com/40) podcast lists the subjects discussed with links.

[pseudopseudo]

I liked the show, but I would be nice if you might have a theme for some shows, like after the news you could focus on a theme to discuss and take calls on, like Square or survival horror or flash games. And I like listening to two people casualy discuss a specific game, like on the 1up show. Also, I like how the TWiT (http://thisweekintech.com/40) podcast lists the subjects discussed with links.

This is actually a good idea for the site. When you put in the show notes, you could link to the site where Phil pulled the story from. Very good way to interact on the listener level.

[Kefkataran]

I liked the show, but I would be nice if you might have a theme for some shows, like after the news you could focus on a theme to discuss and take calls on, like Square or survival horror or flash games. And I like listening to two people casualy discuss a specific game, like on the 1up show. Also, I like how the TWiT podcast lists the subjects discussed with links.

I like the idea of themed shows. I was just thinking about it earlier today in fact, and that's definitely something we'll probably develop later on once we're more in the swing of things. As for links with show notes, great idea and no clue why that hadn't occurred to me. That will definitely be coming to a podcast near you.

[agentgray]

I liked the show, but I would be nice if you might have a theme for some shows, like after the news you could focus on a theme to discuss and take calls on, like Square or survival horror or flash games. And I like listening to two people casualy discuss a specific game, like on the 1up show. Also, I like how the TWiT (http://thisweekintech.com/40) podcast lists the subjects discussed with links.
We can do that, no problem. We can also put a one or two word subject with it. I sort of based the show notes off of TwiT, but I didn't take it all the way. It's so obvious, we overlooked it. :)

[TrackZero]

Allow questions to be sent via voice mail for the Q&A. Some of us aren't Americans. :D

You could just e-mail him mp3 recordings of your questions.

[Savok]

What tunes got played, just out of interest? *is dling as thing is posted*

EDIT: Initial impressions, move the mic away from your mouth, and you sound like a giant nerd :p

EDIT2: I'd be an awesome 3rd host were one ever needed, for example I've written a FAQ, it's like ramming your head against a rusty nail.

EDIT3: You listed the tunes in the Podcast, clever prick.

EDIT4: I'm pretending my leg is cake right now

EDIT5: That Zelda thing is neat, they could do an 8-Bit game with sword-chucks. Lastly you need me for music, seriously.

[Taco]

Well I thought it was pretty decent when I listened to it live(my expectations were very low though), haveb't listened to this cast. It's probably better with the music to break things up.

[bapenguin]

Good job guys.

[Kefkataran]

What tunes got played, just out of interest? *is dling as thing is posted*

There will be a full playlist posted on the blog in later episodes.

EDIT: Initial impressions, move the mic away from your mouth, and you sound like a giant nerd

There were some strange mic issues going on Friday night. Not sure what that was, but I'll definitely try some different stuff this week.

EDIT2: I'd be an awesome 3rd host were one ever needed, for example I've written a FAQ, it's like ramming your head against a rusty nail.

Savok, baby, you know there's nothing I want more than you here and on the air with me. Come on and give me some of that sugar. (Also: you could call in and let us know all about your experience FAQs-creating!)

Lastly you need me for music, seriously.

How so? We are going to be running a contest for intro music...

It's probably better with the music to break things up.

Potentially, but honestly the podcast and the live show have a very different feel to them that I feel works for each. No music on the podcast sounds surprisingly right.

Good job guys.

Glad to have your approval, bap!

[Savok]

There will be a full playlist posted on the blog in later episodes.
Hooray

Savok, baby, you know there's nothing I want more than you here and on the air with me. Come on and give me some of that sugar. (Also: you could call in and let us know all about your experience FAQs-creating!)
Dude I'm not calling in, it'd cost less calling the moon :p

Best I could do is TS or MSN or something. Besides, when I'm not stuttering I'm swearing, makes for a great 3rd host but not so great caller. Besides, you have the jist of it, rusty nail, head wound.

How so? We are going to be running a contest for intro music...
Not that, the playlists, I mean jesus, that song at the end? I feel asleep and dreamt I was being eaten by badgers, that's how bland it was. But it's the kinda bland I expect from kids today, why I'm here force my influence down your collective throats :p

[Kefkataran]

Best I could do is TS or MSN or something. Besides, when I'm not stuttering I'm swearing, makes for a great 3rd host but not so great caller. Besides, you have the jist of it, rusty nail, head wound.

If you wanna record an MP3 comment and/or question and toss it to my e-mail addy (kefkataran@gmail.com) feel free and we'll almost definitely play it.

Not that, the playlists, I mean jesus, that song at the end? I feel asleep and dreamt I was being eaten by badgers, that's how bland it was. But it's the kinda bland I expect from kids today, why I'm here force my influence down your collective throats

I totally disagree, natually. ;) But most of the playlist was done by request from the forums, as I expect it to be in the coming weeks.