Chat Party/Podcast: What's next?
 

The question came up today at the end of today's chat party, as it usually does, of what we're going to do next and when. It's something I'd like to address with more than just the three other people who made it to the end of the voting marathon with me. :p

First of all, I need a bit of a break! :) We've been doing roughly two chat parties a month for seven months now, but with everything else I've got going on, I've only been able to get one podcast a month out the door. As things stand right now, I've got raw material for five or six episodes to get out, and with every new one we record, I'm falling farther and farther behind. (And, frankly, starting to feel a little burned-out in the process.) So I'd like to hold off on recording anything new until I get caught up a little bit.

To that end, I was also wondering if anybody might be interested in helping out. Editing the podcast is actually pretty straightforward (especially for the commentary episodes) and the software is really easy to learn...but it's time-consuming, and I could use a hand or two. And the sooner we get caught up, the sooner we can start recording again. :p

Once we start up again, I think we'll probably move to doing just one recording a month to prevent another backlog like this (unless I can get some help).

I'd also like to test the waters of switching from Ventrilo to Skype again. I know everyone really likes Vent for the ease-of-use, but by all accounts Skype isn't that much more difficult, and will give us better audio quality, which means less work for me on the back end. I'd like to at least try it once to see the difference.

If anyone else has any other ideas or suggestions, I'm all ears. Thanks!

I think we should definitely hold less heavy-content podcasts with less of an emphasis to package and release them (At least until new single/album). That way it can definitely be a more open-ended chat for everyone, less on the thought processes, and less of a burden for you, because it wasn't that serious in the first place.

Maybe stuff like an introductory podcast, where attending members just introduce themselves, tell their stories, of life, their day, etc., sort of like a discussion blog. It's nothing that everyone wants to hear, but it has a potential for humor and fun, and its less of a focus for you to fix it up and show it to the world!

Perhaps a dedication podcast, a podcast where we honor certain members or a certain member that has contributed heavily to the community, sort of like Comedy Central Roasts, with dedications, speeches, and written experiences from attending members. I'd have to say if this idea is picked, i'm definitely giving the first dedication toast to Brad or Ben (perhaps BOTH!) With this, you could probably combine every dedication podcast into sort of like a compilation or one big awards show podcast, meaning that it will be the least focused upon, the recorded material could be sitting on your computer for months until you gather, say 4 dedication podcasts, to make one whole podcast on it. It's definitely a burden-breaker for you. :)

I'm just shooting ideas, like I always do, you know me. :p

I like the idea ! Cause I'm already on Skype :)

I say we make a pod cast entirely about The AAm Project and what are goals are. Also talk about street teams and our marketing strategy.

^I think that's a must-do, because it will help us with the organization. We should do it in the near future, with a new album coming soon.

Just to be clear, I don't in any way consider the podcast to be a burden. Far from it. I really enjoy doing it, even the donkey-work of editing. We've just been recording at a faster pace than I can reasonably keep up with right now. I've got a couple other projects on the go at the same time, and I'd like to be able to devote some time to them too, without feeling guilty that I'm so behind with the podcast.

Heh, you do have some good ideas. With the fourth album coming out, I don't think we'll be hurting for content for awhile, but these are definitely things we could look at integrating into the show!

Yeah, this is a topic I've had in mind for awhile. It'll probably wind up being the first show we do once we're back from hiatus.

Hey Ruro so when is the next podcast? I think it's time to do one!

:D

You know I think it's time to do one as well, the fact that one actually happens means more activity around here, by like 2%. Your activeness means a lot to me, really. :)

You know, I was going to suggest the next podcast be about me, but you had to go and make it a serious and valid idea.

Hey, I have my hands full designing a logo and overseeing a contest for us right now! :p

Seriously though, ImRawdg and I have slowly been getting caught back up on the editing, and I think we may actually even skip releasing a few. (The infamous "Hair" episode, for one, and the MCE Thunderdome, which drags on too long and kind of fell apart towards the end after most of the panel left. I'm also on the fence about the Aguascalientes commentary, which had some technical difficulties, and in a lot of ways is just a rehash of the same comments made during the Mexico City and Moscow commentaries.)

So the next episode should be released shortly, and we should be ready to record again soon...within a few weeks, I'd say.

The question is: what do you guys want to talk about? :p

i was not at all podcast and i dont know many of them, because i look not so often here on the great forum. so i am sorry if i say discussion what we already have ;).

an idea to talk about is (we can take more options) how was her reaction about the 3rd album at all from begin to end, and how was her feeling to make an 4th album, since now. we don't know this, but we can discuss in our own word, how would you feel, or what would you do. have you got the power to go to the next step to make another album?

and we can talk, before the new album comes out, the past, what have you seen, what will miss you, we talk about all albums in short time before the 4th one is coming. so my idea

Riffing on this, I think a "hopes for the fourth album" podcast would be very cool and timely! Even though I'm sure it's far too late for it to actually make a difference, it could just be fun to put our desires down on record, and then hold a follow up session after the disc's been released to see how they panned out. As long as both stay reasonably positive! ;)

The hair episode isn't going to be released? I was looking forward to that one... :(

Hahahahahah yeah Pizza that wasa funny/desturbing commentary on our part lol. Dont get me wrong it was fun but a bounch of guys talking about hair idk, off the air i was laughting so much from all the commetns lol. Yeah pizza u had some interesting comments lol but its up to Rorushen if he should release it or not :D

Great news, I was blaming myself for destoying that episode but now I have been blessed with salvation, Thanks a bunch Pizza! :)

I think it's time for a new episode!
Ben's idea sounds like a nice topic. Sit down and try to think of what you want/expect to see/hear in the 4th album.

What do you think Lili should spin further on from the Psych. Album?

Would you rather her taking a complete other road by doing something she hasn't done yet?

Which other artists would you like her to collaborate with?



Could prove interesting, whatcha think?

Technically I can see them all on one podcast.
Why not just a podcast called the "What If" podcasts.
There can be several of them if there is nothing else to speak about, and it'll sort of just be typical forum banter on "What if?" and "What will happen?"

Yeah that was my thought, the topic being "About the 4th album" and them questions being the "home work" for the episode. By this we could cover the rather touchy "What do you think about her new style?" subject aswell. I think people have a thing or two to say about that.

Don't know just speculating here. The topic isn't all that important really. Just something that has to do with Lili and get's people engaged. So far I think these chats have been more or less successful, but more importantly they have all been rather entertaining :P

Re-do!
 

The hair episode sounded really interesting :) but then i found out you guys already did it :(. So then I wanted to listen to it :) but then i found out that it's filled with stuff that shouldn't be there, i guess is the way to put it :(. Then i thought, well maybe its funny :), but then i found out that you guys dont even wanna think about it :(. It's really sad that i missed out on it, but why not do it over? Im guessing there are more members in the podcast group now than there was when you guys first did it, and with the experience of having messed up the first one, we would know to behave. It might sound like I'm asking to talk about the same things all over again, but we dont have to. We could take it into another direction. But again i didnt take part in the first Hair Episode, so i dont know for sure if this could work. Could somebody who did tell me their thoughts on this?

I second the request for doing the hair episode over again. I was really looking forward to it, and you guys not wanting to even think about it only makes those of us that aren't there for the recording want it even more.

And going off topic isn't entirely bad. There's a show called Windows Weekly, and Apple is a topic in nearly every episode.

What was wrong with it the first time

I don't see any problem in the current hair episode, dirty jokes are still awesome anyway. :)

Oh well I ask because i saw pizza begging for you to not put it up

Hair episode was on life support for awhile, but I pulled the plug. Not cause of that stuff at the end to be honest (that would be easy to edit around), but because it kinda went nowhere even before that. If we re-do it, I suggest being little more organized with maybe an outline to follow or something.

YES! New Hair Episode!
 

YES! :D New Hair Episode! Hopefully we can control ourselves this time, and with Ben's idea of having a planned episode outline thingie we'll know where we're going. I'll be joining you this time too so get ready to turn up the volume cause im kinda softspoken sometimes :o but ill try to speak up a little. I'm glad we're doing it over cause everybody's got something to say about her hair lol :wub:

I wasn't there from the beginning but I think the in appropriate part was due to a combination of my failing english and others vivid fantasies :p
I think we could do it if we tried a little harder and as said, keept it structured and organized.

Last time we had a board of pictures right?
Maybe we should make a new one covering all the "eras" in a chronological order for easy reference?

i think i saw that board of pics, that thing was awesome, i forget who made it, but props to them. Anyways, hopefully we can start thinking about picking a good time to do this thing. The whole, making sure everybody knows how to use the software, fitting into everybody's schedule thing too. Lets start posting what time we're probably available.

I'm usually good on weekend afternoons. I think i can finish my homework by about 3 on Saturday. So 3-7ish if i havent already finished it on the Friday before. Weekdays are almost impossible but ill try to do it if it works for everybody else.

I guess the spirit of this thing died with Ruros absence, where is he anyway?