Interview With a Podcaster, Part III: Rich Sigfrit the hilarious.
There is some hilarity, insanity, and absurdity herein.
Interview With a Podcaster, Part III: Rich Sigfrit the Hilarious [28:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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Interview with a Podcaster, Part II: Rich Sigfrit the Interesting. Many things are discussed herein, including: Finally! The truth about Michael and Evo’s breakup is revealed!
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Interview with a Podcaster, Part I: Rich Sigfrit the Useful
This is the first part of three that I told you about, wherein we talk about things that are useful for podcasters in their attempts to promote themselves. Let the navel-gazing commence.
Thank you to all of you who are listening. It means a lot to me.
AIJ - Episode 005 - April 28, 2008 - Interview with Rich Sigfrit Part One [37:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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Now, I know other podcasters have had this happen before, and I guess it’s not really a big deal…
But someone just donated $10 to the show, for “Support for a totally airwolf, snakes-on-a-plane geekologist’s podcast.”
HOLY CRAP!!!!
So this is what “popping the donation cherry” feels like? I won’t divulge the name, but I am exceedingly grateful! Thank you so much, you know who you are.
‘Cause… well.. you’re the only one so far… 
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Intro
Amish Bread
Listner-created content!
Milk
Trucker Cylon (Overdrive-changed it ‘cause of Transformers)
Unburp
Almighty Shmoo - Stephen Gill
Review of the oldest blog on the internet (not a game, as I said in the ep)
Edited Rich Sigfrit interview
1 – Rich Sigfrit the Useful; 2 – Rich Sigfrit the Interesting; 3 – Rich Sigfrit the Hilarious
Lines to record for Chasing the Bard
The Ranting Scotsman is BACK!
Colds suck—or blow, depending on your perspective
Promo
Down the Road from Jack Jaffee
Segment One
Trucker Overdrive (Jack Jaffee) on Podcast Promotion
Nathan Butler’s Always in Motion from Star Wars Fanworks
I am a Master of Podcast Promotion?
Segment Two
Glen Cook – Chronicles of the Black Company, from TOR
Robert Jordan paints a picture, Cook reveals a tiny corner of the tapestry
Segment Three
Almighty Shmoo, Stephen Gill
His Twitter page
Steve Jackson Games
Promo
SOBcon
Segment Four
Rich Sigfrit
Interviewed him before he pissed Earl off.
Good Lord, Indiana Jim descends into LOOPYSVILLE!
Clip upon clip upon clip upon clip
The As-Yet Untitled Podcast revisited
Y.M.C.A?
SCREW YOU, R.I.A.A.! HA HA HA HA HA!
Next week I’ll be on (hopefully) Friday Night Live with Monty
Random Nicole
Soon featuring Star Wars Audio Drama Second Strike
Not the Village People again! AHHH!
Ah, sweet respite… WHITESNAKE!
I’m not really doing anything anyone wants to download… as usual
WinZip crashes briefly
Good Lord, now he’s singing!
Segment Five
Finally! On to Star Wars: Always in Motion
Yet another WinZip crash
Back to our show…
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Hey RPG’ers out there. I want to bring to your attention a blog site called Living Dice, at http://www.livingdice.com.
Trask runs the site, and he’s an avid gamer in the Phoenix area who blogs about different gaming-related topics. There are links to module resources and a fledgling forum that looks as though it would be a good place to talk about gaming, and a chance to get a good community going.
There are also announcements of gatherings in the Phoenix area, so if you’re a gamer in Arizona it looks like you’ve got some folks with something in common!
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Promo: SOB Con
Segment #1
Tribute to Joe Murphy
Uninvited Guest Editorial #1: Root Beer
From Dragon Page Wingin’ It #49, Sugar Coma Buzz
Promo: Chasing the Bard
Segment #2
Jack Mangan on “Podtaint”
Promo: Whispers at the Edge
Geekout
Flight of the Conchords – The Humans are Dead
Email: podcast@indianajim.net
Skype: indiana_jim_
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/indianajim
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I told you that on April 1st you had to be subscribed to the new feed, http://feeds.feedburner.com/aij.
Yeah? Well… you don’t have to if you don’t want to. Sheesh. Eighteen people listened to my idle threat. Eighteen! Oh well. My kids don’t listen to me either.
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Intro
Talking about Self-Promotion at a Convention
The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy–Education in Self-Promotion for anything
Going to be attending BaltiCon, in all likelihood
Mentioned: Maryland Transit Authority Lightrail System
It’s a long train ride to the Convention hotel…
Promo
The Adventures of SciFi Publishing
Interview
Segments from my interview of Tee Morris from last year.
Promo
Cue the Film Podcast
Mentioned: Three Heroes Podcast
Things you can do to promote yourself:
Business Cards
Unique Selling Proposition
Put your podcast on a CD and hand it out
The art of the relationship–community atmosphere
T-Shirt for yourself
Flyers
Postcards for feedback
Email: podcast@indianajim.net
Skype: indiana_jim_
The Adventures of Indiana Jim - Episode 002 - March 16, 2008 [44:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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Thanks to my buddy Brad over at PodCulture, my procrastination has been beaten into submission!
I have established a new Feedburner feed. I was amazed that “aij” was actually available! Just three little letters. For new subscribers, the new feed–linked above–is available now for subscriptions.
Now, for those of you subscribed to feeds.feedburner.com/thingsarelookingup, I want you to know that your subscription is not immediately gone. However, I ask you to go ahead and subscribe to the new feed.
The Things Are Looking Up feed will be going away April 1. On April 1 you must be subscribed to the aij feed.
God willing I will be posting a couple new episodes and reminding you in those shows.
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Intro
Shiny! New! Music! Announcer! Sweet!
News
Michael Crichton speech on Environmentalism as Religion from… 2003? Doesn’t that say news up there?
Essay
Why I don’t play Dungeons and Dragons. It may not be the answer you think! Or is it….
Email: podcast@indianajim.net
Skype: indiana_jim_
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Here it is! Feast your ears on the dulcet tones of my new announcer… well… let’s just see if you can guess who it is!
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Hey everyone,
Just wanted to let you know that the new mixer is in and a new episode is forthcoming shortly. I’m still scrambling for a theme, though. I wanted something instrumental and epic. Very brassy and adventurous. Still searching. My first order from Digital Juice is on its way, so there may be something in there that I can use. Of course, I could always ask Diane Arkenstone….
Anyhow, I want you to know that it’s coming very soon. Be ready for it. It will hit you right between the eyes.
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Much is going on in the world. A list:
I received clearance from Summer at FPM to go ahead and change the name, so I’m working on the logos, also once the website project is complete then I can start ensuring the Podango thing works properly. I haven’t uploaded a single file to Podango yet, so when I do I will be uploading the entire show archive (yay I think), making sure the feed points to the proper place, and generally preparing the ground for a full-on podcast assault.
Also wrapped up in that will be updating my personal website to include information on contract web design as well as voiceovers and other various creative pursuits. I’m going to become a creative mercenary, with business cards that I’m not afraid to use. I may have to figure out the whole starting a business thing.
Anyway, here we are at an unavoidable hiatus.
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One Hour and Twenty-Four frickin’ minutes of Indiana Jim goodness!
Season One, Season Finale
New Year starts in the Spring
Saturday Morning, by Anne Farnsworth
Morevi Remastered
Phil Rossi’s Crescent
Christiana Ellis’ Space Casey
Introbabble is quit
Feedback
Thesis a Fantasy sequel?
Perhaps the further adventures of Bane?
Secret Project Underway
Open Call for Voice Auditions
Michael Spence’s blog
Promo: Morevi: Remastered
The Nightwish segment
Promo: Space Casey
Larry Nemecek Interview, Part 2
Promo: Roney Zone Radio
Final Segment
Jeff Roney
New World Army audio drama
Star Wars: High Stakes
Star Wars, Knights of the Old Republic: Outcasts
Murder at Avedon Hill
Metamor City
Shameless Plug
2007 a mild success
Met and networked with great people
Tolkien developed Elvish partly from Finnish
The Kalevala
Song: Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan, by Nightwish
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I’m really getting tired of this stupid WGA Strike. Not because I’m missing out on shows I like. I’m not. It’s the NFL Playoffs, and I don’t need TV shows until February. Really, I won’t need TV at all. I can go spend time with my kids, or write stuff of my own. In fact, a lot of the shows that aren’t running right now because of the strike, I find stupid and pointless. That includes the Sci-Fi junk. I am in such a mood….
Anyway, I ran across this article on Jay Leno’s monologues. Now, let me make it really simple. Jay Leno was told by NBC to start doing the show or else. Or else what? I don’t know, but regardless, Leno doesn’t want to force their hand, ultimately resulting in lost jobs for his crew, and possibly even Kevin Eubanks and the band. So Jay has to do a show. Unfortunately, Jay is also a member of the Writer’s Guild of America. So how do you suppose Jay, a veteran stand-up comedian, is going to open his show? With a monologue.
This is where it gets really stupid. If you’re going to do a monologue with your own jokes, without writers to write your jokes for you, how are you going to do that monologue? Are you going to make up your jokes in your head as you go along, hoping to be funny? Are you going to make them up ahead of time and memorize them? No, you’re going to write it down!
But wait! Jay’s a WGA member. He’s not allowed to WRITE ANYTHING, even for his own performance! Now excuse the heck out of me, but this seems utterly ridiculous, and the WGA risks losing even more credibility than they’ve already lost. Everybody loves the “us versus them” mentality. Everybody goes in for the David in the face of Goliath. More importantly, everyone who hates Republicans has a knee-jerk reaction to support a Union in the face of a Corporation of any kind.
Behold, the opiate of the masses, I call you groupthink! Guys like Robin Williams, and even Jay Leno himself, are out there feeding the writers on the picket lines, and giving them hot chocolate, and oh how it makes a wonderful underdog story. B.S., I say. A friend of mine from SciFi Studios, Dave Andrews, who is an actor and writer in his own right, is very familiar with the situation, and posted this entry on his blog recently…
In creating and maintaining this ill-conceived and long-lasting strike, the WGA has created an environment where literally everyone in the entire Hollywood studio system, from companies down to individuals, has no choice but to seek ways to get around the WGA itself. They’re literally making themselves obsolete.
To make a long story short, the studios are going to clean house, and a lot of striking writers are going to lose the shows for which they were writing. The studios will look elsewhere for revenue streams. The Golden Globes has failed to receive the backing of the WGA, and this also is pathetic. As Andrews mainains…
Since the kudos shows are meant to honor members of our industry, including writers, this marks a new low in the trashy behavior of WGA leadership. Supporting these shows would have shown that the WGA respects the working members of our industry. It would have shown that they are part of a team. Not that they were giving in to producers, but that they supported, respected and honored those who work in the industry.
No such…
I guess given their behavior of late, there should have been no part of me that expected the WGA leadership to act in an honorable way. I should not have expected them to be respectful to the rest of us, including the writers that they supposedly represent.
What I care about is all sorts of gullible people falling for the lie that the poor downtrodden writers are being trampled by the big bad studios, and are not being paid for their work in some manner or fashion. The idea that writers are not being paid for online sales is patently false, and it’s turned into a huge propaganda ploy for no good reason. I have friends, associates, acquaintances, and all you members of The Tribe, you know who you are.
Read Dave’s blog entries on the subject, which go back to the beginning of the strike, and check out Variety Magazine’s archives on the subject. All the meaningful statements are there in black and white, and I’m just sick and tired of everyone buying the lie.
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Nightwish.
Did you kinda sorta liked the image Evanescence evoked, but laugh at the obvious comercialization of Gothic imagery and pseudo-hard rock sound? We Americans suffer greatly from a very poor music scene. Nightwish blows them away.
The natives of Finland have been going since 1997. They began with an operatic Mezzo-Soprano lead singer, lending them a uniqueness uncommon to Metal bands. The founding member and lead songwriter Tuomas Holopainen draws from many influences, chief among them Film Music (man after my own heart), Classic literature, Fantasy literature, Norse mythology (duh), and obvious God-centered themes.
While perhaps not a believer in the purest Christian sense, one can see a Bono-esque quality to his songwriting. While not of the more genteel Irish Christian persuasion, you can find more of a rustic, blunt spirituality tempered by poetic imagery and a deep longing to find something higher. Always poetic and sometimes obscure, they are lyrics that drive your mind to create. Not only with the imagination, but also with research into certain elements.
Take, for instance, the song Amaranth. The chorus reads:
Caress the one, the Never-Fading
Rain in your heart
The tears of snow-white sorrow
Caress the one, the hiding Amranth
In a land of the daybreak
I googled “Amaranth.” My mother-in-law is a member of The Honorable Order of the Amaranth, which as near as I can tell is like the SCA for old folks, or people suckered in by their parents and grandparents. They tout themselves as a charitable and Christian organization, but much like the Masons, they like to pretend at royalty and play at court. They take their little events quite seriously, and I usually have to try not to guffaw at the stupidity of it all. Pardon my aside there.
But the Amaranth is a flower that grows natively in equatorial regions of the Americas and Asia, yielding many seeds for grain, and has many purposes. It is a life-giving plant whose flower never fades. Now how much imagery is conveyed in one little-used but beautiful word, and how much fodder for research (and writing)! Nearly the entire band are avid readers, and especially love The Lord of the Rings, likely for its reliance on the Norse sagas as well as its spiritual imagery. There are also many songs that tell a story, or invoke the sense of a tale that Norse peoples of old would pass down orally.
Musically, Nightwish is a melting pot of many different elements: loud, driving guitars; a female lead that breaks into two-part harmonies; a male lead that adds that occasional guttural element, yet never harsh on the ears like “screamo”; a strong backing choir as you might hear in the scores to Van Helsing, The Mummy, or The Lord of the Rings, and orchestral arrangements that lend that epic quality; Uillean pipes and fiddles for the occasional Celtic foray; the occasional speedmetal solo with PIANO DOUBLING. That part is especially cool!
As I’ve said before in other places, Nightwish is all at once everything that Evanescence, Jim Steinman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Metallica, Led Zeppelin and Queen WISHED they could have been, and all of them pale in comparison. They are artistic waifs and commercial pariahs (except Queen and Zeppelin). Nightwish does it all without commercial pretense. Artistic pretense, maybe, but it’s all very worth it.
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Choir Robes as baffles
The demise of the mixer
Feedback? Oops. Not really.
Promo: Metamor City
Brandon Sanderson tapped to finish Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time
Thesis a Fantasy report
New name for the show
Changes to the format
Radio Yesterday is hosted by Chuck Tomasi
Jim can’t talk
Surveying Fan Audio? Perhaps separately. More to come.
Website changes
Almost lost Larry!
Doug Rapson shows up
Interview with Larry Nemecek, certified Star Trek fan guru, interrupted by…
Promo: Space Casey
Interview continues….
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Last night I completed the interview with Larry Nemecek, Star Trek fan guru, writer, producer, and all-around wonderful guy. This is part of The 12 Trek Days of Christmas, started by my friend Alan Anderton from “a land down undah,” and fellow staffer at SciFi Studios Magazine.
Three “Days” have so far been released, so get over and check it out! TALU #11 should be released by Sunday (Here’s hoping), with at least half of the HOUR AND A HALF LONG INTERVIEW! I don’t mess around. Of course, it helps that my interview guests like Nathan Butler, Tee Morris, and now Larry Nemecek, are all widely known as conversationalists, and get paid for it!
I am not dead. Only mostly dead. And the most important thing is to blathe. If you get that, you are a true geek.
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Sure, Scott Sigler’s Nocturnal is nice, and how convenient Sigler kills again beginning on Halloween. Why am I not surprised? I’m going to have a heart attack and die from NOT SURPRISE!
But I, Indiana Jim, bring you the scariest, most blood-curdling, most gut-wrenchingly bad comedy writing you will ever hear! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
This is Thesis A Fanstasy.
Starring some of your favorite podcasters:
And many other special guests!
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