About

Our Podcasters:

Our History:

The AudioShocker goes back to the summer of 2003 when Neal and Nick were sitting around bored. Suddenly, they had a brilliant flash of genius -- an audio magazine made exclusively for the web... like a radio show, but pre-recorded and posted online!!!

It seemed like a great idea. But wait... who would want to download an mp3 of two guys talking? And the file size would be huge! They brainstormed a bunch of stuff, talked about distribution / presentation, and even recorded a demo track.

But nothing ever happened. That's why it's called a podcast and not a nealnickcast.

Four years and several 40s later, it was time for the guys to make good on their brilliance and team up with the sultry vixen, Justique, to bring you the AudioShocker, the most ridiculous place to listen to conversation about movies, comics, and pop culture.

Over time, the AudioShocker has grown from a single weekly podcast into a busy blog featuring awesome webcomics, different podcast series, and more, adding several regular contributors, including Ross, Pete, Conrad, Kaylie, and many more.

Technically speaking, we are hosted at Dreamhost. We run WordPress, (natch), and we use the K2 theme. Our podcast feed is courtesy of the PodPress plugin, and we love it. We record the podcast using some proprietary Skype hackery and then Nick does all the post in Audacity. The header graphic is a little something that Neal cobbled together in Inkscape using Joe Bob's Stampete font. If you can do better -- let us know!