Michael and Evo: Wingin’ It!

It’s amazing what you’ll find buried inside of your iRiver if you clean it out.

Behold, the musical stylings of The Brobdingnagian Bards, as recorded live at their “panel” at Dragon*Con 2005 in Atlanta GA

 

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We piled just about every podcaster we could find at Dragon*Con into our hotel room, fought with equipment, and hit the record button. The cast of characters includes:

• Mur Lafferty (and Jim) from Geek Fu Action Grip
• Derek and Swoopy from Skepticality
• Robynn from the Projekt Podkast
• Michael A. Stackpole from The Secrets
• Jason Adams from the Random Signal
• Steve Eley from Escape Pod
• Les and Kevin from The Signal
• Marc Gunn from the Brogdingnagian Bards

And then later, right after we stopped recording, Patrick McLean from the Seanachai showed up.

He and I stayed out until about 3:00 AM drinking Guinness and swapping war stories, which is why this didn’t get posted yesterday.

 

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Woo Hoo!

We’re so stoked to have been nominated for a People’s Choice Podcast Award! Slice of Scifi, our media- and fan-focused show has been nominated in two categories, so we’re we’re releasing this Special Edition podcast to let all of our tDP subscribers know we need their help!

Be sure and vote for us as well as our fellow TSFPN podcast The Radio Adventures of Doctor Floyd each and every day. You can vote for one podcast in each category every 24 hours.

Spread the word! Tell all your scifi fans about the nominations, and let’s see if we can get a science fiction podcast winning a People’s Choice Podcast Award!

How do you like your brew? Mike, Tee and I take Grant and Mark A. out on the town in Calgary, stopping off at Brewsters to enjoy a pint or two of the local fare. We caught the whole thing on tape (file “DPBC_WC58_070305.mp3″ lost to system crash?), and do in fact manage to talk a little about science fiction in near the end. (More than the occasional S-bomb will be dropped. We were drinking, for christ’s sake…)

Topics covered:

• Before we drink, first we must order food! Brett was the hottest person named “Brett” We’ve ever seen
• Tee and Grant have floaties in their Blueberry Wheat Ale
• Bighorn Bitter was Evo’s choice, which was a lot less bitter than he was hoping for
• Mark drinks a classic wheat ale and Mike had an amber ale. Yes, both forgot the name, so they get combined on one line
• Tee invites you all to drink with him… last night. *sigh*
• Mike and Tee geek on podcasting equipment for GarageBand
• Tee and Evo discuss details on their writing of Podcasting for Dummies
• Tee was wearing his Evil Genius Chronicles t-shirt, and we discuss the “style” of the EGC podcast. Love ya, Dave!
• Tee’s comments on Nicole’s voice have been immortalized by the cool-kids
• Does videocasting belong in the Podcasting for Dummies book?
• Fixing Lucas’ dialog
• We cajole Grant in to making his own cast, or just listening to us
• Steven King’s literary style discussed
• M Knight Shamalamadingdong’s movie styles disgust (not a typo)
• Comparative musical styles of popular music since 1989
• Tee asks for Raspberrys floating in his next pint, where all of the rest of us stick with what we’ve got
• The “shocker” contest is over as soon as this goes up.
• Tee talks about how big of a dweeb he was in college

Podcast Roll Call:

• Dawn and Drew
• Mur Lafferty
• Rev Up Review
• The Bitterest Pill

I take my first helping of crow for giving Canada so much shit for years. More to come…

• Tee’s “Con-a-Month” tour, with love to those who love the smaller press
• Robert J. Sawyer is looking good!
• Tee and his stalker fans
• Batman reviewed by Tee and commented on by all
• A SMART car drives by and Evo start drooling
• DareWear explained
• X-Men covered, too

Mike and I visit the Canadian version of Hooters (file “BeerCast.mp3″ lost to system crash?).

Lots of eye candy, and some odd beer. Light on the scfi, so feel free to skip if this isn’t your cup of tea….