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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 21, 2013 – “The Moral Argument”

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, October 21, 2013.

I talk about losing a weekend to a swingset; I mention how talking to yourself with a cellphone is socially acceptable but a microphone is not; I talk about how it took me two years to read a single novel and discuss a few things I finished; I finish by talking about the moral argument for paper books and why I’d be happy to get rid of 90% of the paper books in my house and my bafflement at “ad hominem defense.”

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 14 2013 – “Charlatan, Martyr, Hustler”

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, October 14, 2013.

In this episode, I talk about a concept I heard on the In Beta podcast about how to approach self-promotion; I talk about “appeal burnout” and being overwhelmed by calls to action; I talk about famous people using crowdfunding, and how the concern is less that they are subtracting money from the system and more that they are subtracting goodwill; I talk about Ben Franklin and his self-improvement regimens and how I might be trying to change too much stuff all at once in my life;

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 7, 2013 – “Use Your Aspirations”

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, October 7, 2013. I discuss my interest in cord cutting for TV; I talk about the 7 Minute Workout and trying to keep my weight under control; I talk about my experiments with trading my laptop for a Bluetooth keyboard and using Podcast Addict as my sole podcatcher/listener; I close off talking about aspirations vs reality in marketing and life.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for September 30, 2013 – “Don’t Give Me A Story When I Want Information”

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, September 30, 2013.

I talk about my podcast listening workflow and my mostly frustrating search for a satisfactory Android equivalent; I continue to talk about the podcast economy and Flattr’s possible role in that; I use the professional poker world as an analogy for how this might work; I talk about how little I care of most issues that inflame the social media lately; I discuss about how I don’t want my information as “stories” despite being told repeatedly that is the way we need everything.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 22, 2012 – “Groaning Queues of Fun”

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 22, 2012. This episode is again one recorded in my car. I talk about how my entertainment life is now completely dominated by queues in every medium I consume and how that eliminates the urgency to see any piece of content; I discuss how Amazon Prime Streaming of video alters my whole approach to TV; I also talk about the working middle-class midlist writers that make up most of the authors I know personally and how I am totally perplexed by their approach to the changes in publishing.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 6, 2012 – “Write Me, Flattr Me”

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, circa February 6, 2012. This episode was recorded standing on a chilly and windy beach. I have two main topics – suggesting that podcasters and specifically podcasters of my circle should bum rush the Flattr system and talking about The Month of Letters Challenge, aka .

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 17, 2012 – “World Records”

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, circa January 17, 2012. This episode is one of a new format recorded in my car, but sounds better than I would have expected. I talk about having the longest running podcast (once this gets published); I talk about finishing the first draft of my novel and doing small amounts of work consistently over time; how to try to get more podcasts done and how to get through life. It’s a short one, trying to get in a new groove.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 20, 2010 – “Six Years and Counting, Monkey Fighters!”

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 20, 2010. I play a song from the newly reformed Vaselines; I talk about anti-nostalgia, and harken back to the beginning of this podcast; I play a song by the Gentle Readers; I tell the story of how I come to love the music of the Gentle Readers; I talk about my lack of needing to convince anyone much of anything; I play a song by Camper van Beethoven and we begin the seventh year of this thing.

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Clambake Episode for June 9, 2005

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I talk about being low energy; I have a VOIP box in my house, named “the Batphone”; I play a song from Chub Creek about how poor I am at answering email; I talk about passing on the Spoleto festival; I play a clip from Echo Radio; I play an “evil genius” song from Jonathan Coulton; I give Adam from the MacCast static about his trepidation for taking ads; I mention the Rob Glaser streaming deal; and finally I play a hilariously raunchy song by Jonathan Coulton.

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Clambake Episode for May 30, 2005

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Two in two days, unusual frequency for me lately! I talk about money; I play a song by Bullet Called Life; I hail a fallen comrade; I play a song from Camper Van Beethoven; I talk about the good life, keeping up on email, using WordPress and Audio Hijack Pro; I play a song from the Grey Book Lectures radio show and mosey.

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Simpler Podcasting Setup

I ran across a reference to this post in the Rogue Amoeba blog that describes how to use Audio Hijack Pro to podcast in a number of scenarios. It sure does seem a lot simpler than what I’m doing. I downloaded the trial version and will check it out.

It seems like I could use this to do an entirely real-time show that automatically saves to the 96 kbps MP3 when it is done. My no-edit shows still require an hour or two of post-production, so the idea of just doing the music bed and everything live and have the show ready to publish 10 seconds after I stop is downright attractive. If I go this route though, it really has to be zero edits whatsoever because editing out bits of my talking with the music bed already there would lead to weird skips that would sound like ass. Maybe that is a feature, not a bug. Hmmm…..

The tricky part is figuring out what app to play the music bed with. I will want to be using Quicktime to play things I am excerpting, and iTunes to play the songs. I’ll need a third app for the music bed, unless I put the theme on my Shuffle and play it in through the iMic. Actually, that’s crazy enough to work and would give me a physical control I could use to turn it up and down. This is getting more and more interesting as I think about it.

Clambake Episode for May 22, 2005

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This is the celebratory #100 episode! I play a song by Michelle Malone and Band De Soleil; I play the audo clips that people sent in and include one of my own old clips where I’m claiming I introduced cowbell to the podosphere; I talk about my email from Rocket City Riot and spin one of their tunes; I play a clip from Rosanna Arquette and talk about Daniel Conover’s discussion of our interview; I play a song by Camper van Beethoven; I touch upon the reactions to the Paul Melancon interview episodes;

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