Ethiopian food and Google Voice are the appetizers. The Quest starring Jean-Claude Van Damme is the main course. The Getaway is for dessert. Next meal: 4thletter! (really, it's happening next time) and superhero-ish stuff.
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Not to be outdone by ourselves, the AudioShocker has organized a massive Pittsburgh Podcast Crossover. We're joining forces with the fantastic Comic Book Pitt and the stupendous Yamagato podcasts, and we're going to be recording this historic event LIVE at Phantom of the Attic (PotA) Comics in Pittsburgh, PA!!!
This 2009 Eisner-nominated comic book shop will house the world's biggest and baddest comic book podcast crossover ever at 12PM on Sunday, June 14, 2009. Headquartered at 411 S Craig St in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, this is going to be a mega podcast event featuring the recording of AudioShocker Podcast #84 as well as your chance to win FREE AudioShocker t-shirts!
Here's a schedule of our upcoming podcast awesomeness:
- Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - AudioShocker Podcast #82*
- Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - A Podcast with Ross and Nick #1
- Sunday, June 14, 2009 - Pittsburgh Podcast Crossover @ PotA
- Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - AudioShocker Podcast #84*
- Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - A Podcast with Ross and Nick #2
* Confused? See, AudioShocker Podcast #83 ran this past Tuesday. Why? Because we decided to skip #82 in honor of our fallen episode (and just in case the lost audio ever found its way to my Google Voice inbox, which it did). That's why the Pittsburgh Podcast Crossover will air in AudioShocker Podcast #84 and not #83.
Here at the AudioShocker, we've got some awesome podcast developments brewing in the very near future.
First up, on this Tuesday, June 9, 2009, we have the shocking return of AudioShocker Podcast #82. This podcast audio was initially lost due to a technical mistake with Google Voice, but we held out hope and ran #83 last Tuesday just in case a miracle happened...
AND happen it did! Tom from Google Voice read my bitchy blog post and saved my conversation with Ross Campbell from permanent deletion. So take a trip back in time and listen to #82 this Tuesday.
Then make sure to get your ass back here the very next day for A Podcast with Ross and Nick #1, a direct continuation of AudioShocker Podcast #82. Airing Wednesday, June 10, 2009, this show is the debut episode of a brand new weekly AudioShocker podcast series. Comic book writer/artist Ross Campbell and I will be talking about whatever the fuck we want, including comics, movies, real-life superheroes, domain renewal scams, and tons more.
So keep it locked on the AudioShocker as we continue to bring you the most ridiculous conversation on music, movies, comics, TV, video games, and tons more... now TWICE a week!!!
On Thursday night, Ross Campbell and I recorded 178 minutes of podcast. That's right, we recorded almost three fucking hours of incoherent babble just for you. In fact, we logged so much talk time that we decided to spin off our conversation into its own recurring podcast feature.
Delighted with our insane rant, we hit "4" on the keypad and heard the "call recording off" voice I've come to love over the years. But then something horrible happened - THE RECORDING NEVER DELIVERED TO MY GOOGLE VOICE INBOX.
I've lost three hours of podcast talk time intended to fill the upcoming AudioShocker Podcast #82 as well as the first three episodes of A Podcast with Ross and Nick. What the hell, Google Voice?
This never would have happened with GrandCentral. For those of you unfamiliar with Google Voice, it used to be a service called GrandCentral, which assigned you a dummy phone number and allowed you to record incoming calls. It was an amazing service. I never had a single technical problem with it.
But Google Voice has not been so smooth. First off, they changed the user interface to something far less friendly. Then they complicated the back end settings. Then they made call recording unreliable. I've had issues getting my recorded calls to deliver to my inbox in Google Voice before, but that was just when I was testing it out.
Everything went fine when I interviewed Paul Tobin a couple months ago. But this is only the second time I've tried to use Google Voice to record a podcast interview for the AudioShocker and the damn service dumped my entire recorded call. WTF!?!?!?!?!
I should have known there was going to be a problem recording that night. Ross and I had technical issues from the start - I tried calling in my usual fashion and the service kept sending me to the voicemail checker instead of to Ross (even though I clearly unchecked my phone number from the list in the settings tab).
So users beware - Google Voice is not the same as GrandCentral. It's got a lot of problems and it's pissing me off right now. I know it's a free service and I shouldn't be this mad, but I could always depend on GrandCentral. Obviously I can't do the same when it comes to Google Voice.
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