The good news continues. In may our pod cast We Got The Geek has been invited to 3 live events. So excited
The first show is one we've been going to for a few years called Fun Expo. It's a great little Star Wars themed show in Welland Ontario and all proceeds go to charity. Bulmer really talked us up to the guys putting the event on. They let us have a table for free and we're right near the door where everyone will need to walk by. I have loved going to this show anyway so its going to be really cool.
Bulmer also got us into a show in Burlington Ontario called Art O con. They have artist and crafts and all sorts of cool things. John had a big table and had room for us to sit and do our show. So stoked.
Thn last week out of the blue Paul from Pulp Comics messages us and asks us if the new pod cast wants to take part in free comic book day again. Of course we said yes. Last year we were there with the old show and had an amazing time.
Things are shaping up folks, I am happy and that is amazing.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Yup you guessed it more podcast goodness
Wow i'm kind of on a roll so I'm gonna talk more about the podcast. All my expectations are being met and then some. Kath has gotten all our segments up on our site and even on itunes. Stuff that should have been done on the old show. Kath even has a section of our website where we can see how many people have viewed our content. Are you ready for this? In a month 1,300 people have visited our site. I am beyond floored. People seem to like us. That makes me happy. We have 22 segments recorded and we are trying to get new stuff up often. We have a movie review section, a comic book segment and of course news and geek surveys. Ryan has some friends that want to come in and record segments on horror movies and steam punk and gaming. I would produce and his friends would be the hosts. That's pretty cool. Its taking off for us. So are you all getting sick about hearing about the pod cast or should i go back into retirement from blogging again?
Monday, March 25, 2013
A new geek pod cast is born.
So February 19th we went public with We Got The Geek. We alerted everyone in our group about the change and we got a ton of positive support. People were extremely happy for us. Our first official podcast was with my good friend Andrea and we reviewed A Good Day To Die Hard. Andrea hadn't appeared on the old show so was really happy to finally record with her. She was great.
I've really been enjoying the comic book segments we've been doing. For a solid hour I get to talk about comics. So far we've done segments with Hunter and Bulmer and Ryan and then on a couple magical nights it was a full table of us laughing and having a great time. There is nothing but good feelings with this show. I don't feel like i have to be constantly looking over my shoulder waiting for the show to drop. These are guys i trust completely. Its been awesome. No racist jokes or blurting out facts that just aren't true. Having a good time is the name of the game here folks.
I've really been enjoying the comic book segments we've been doing. For a solid hour I get to talk about comics. So far we've done segments with Hunter and Bulmer and Ryan and then on a couple magical nights it was a full table of us laughing and having a great time. There is nothing but good feelings with this show. I don't feel like i have to be constantly looking over my shoulder waiting for the show to drop. These are guys i trust completely. Its been awesome. No racist jokes or blurting out facts that just aren't true. Having a good time is the name of the game here folks.
Farewell to Gygo
So February 18th was upon us. I invited Bulmer,Kristen and Hunter on. They all knew what was coming. I was really nervous i was going to quit on the air. It was something i had loved doing. I was tired of the way i was being treated on my show. I was tired that my vision of the show just wasn't happening. I wanted people to actually be able to listen to us. It was time to quit Gygo. One cool thing happened before air time. Kath was supposed to work but then got the night off. This was good i needed all the support i could get.
So the show started at 7 and i was actually having a good time. For a change the show was going great. This was pretty ironic as this was to be our last show. Then i started to panic. Did i really want to quit? I was having second thoughts. There was 5 minutes left in the show and i went for it. As much as i wanted to be out of this and move on to our next venture i wasn't a dick about it and i didn't point fingers. I said my piece and i thought it was a great farewell speech. I thought i was going to puke and cry the whole time. While i was in the middle of quitting my phone started getting a massive amount of texts and my facebook messages started lighting up. My friends were concerned and happy for me at the same time. The speech ended i concluded with a line Billy Joel uses to end his concerts--"don't take any shit from anybody."The final song was a really nice Ray Charles song i had first heard on the final episode of the 80's series Moonlighting called We'll Be Together Again. I was hoping this would be true when our pod cast started--that everyone would join us there. By the way the final speech was recorded by Kath and you can see it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Mbl3JdoUE
So nothing was said when the show ended. I wasn't asked for an explanation as to what brought this decision on or what was going on in my head. I hadn't been happy in a year and the incident in January cemented my desire to move on. Gygo was done and it was now on to my next adventure with our new partners John and Ryan.
So the show started at 7 and i was actually having a good time. For a change the show was going great. This was pretty ironic as this was to be our last show. Then i started to panic. Did i really want to quit? I was having second thoughts. There was 5 minutes left in the show and i went for it. As much as i wanted to be out of this and move on to our next venture i wasn't a dick about it and i didn't point fingers. I said my piece and i thought it was a great farewell speech. I thought i was going to puke and cry the whole time. While i was in the middle of quitting my phone started getting a massive amount of texts and my facebook messages started lighting up. My friends were concerned and happy for me at the same time. The speech ended i concluded with a line Billy Joel uses to end his concerts--"don't take any shit from anybody."The final song was a really nice Ray Charles song i had first heard on the final episode of the 80's series Moonlighting called We'll Be Together Again. I was hoping this would be true when our pod cast started--that everyone would join us there. By the way the final speech was recorded by Kath and you can see it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Mbl3JdoUE
So nothing was said when the show ended. I wasn't asked for an explanation as to what brought this decision on or what was going on in my head. I hadn't been happy in a year and the incident in January cemented my desire to move on. Gygo was done and it was now on to my next adventure with our new partners John and Ryan.
Rambling on a Sunday evening
Man i have blogged twice this month. I really have been busy. And i have been feeling crappy this week so the couch has been my friend. Had a great day hanging out with Kath. We got invited to have Easter dinner in London Ontario at my sister Erin;s place. Looking forward to it. Oh yeah next weekend is Easter. Totally unprepared for the kids Easter basket. No plan of attack at all. I'm going to try to blog more often again--including the exciting conclusion to our new show. For now i just wanted to let you all know i am doing alright. I have the best family and friends and it has been a great month so far.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Ryan comes through
Well if we were going to do a podcast we were going to need a mic or 2. Kath and John did some research. They found a really cool omni directional mic. It was fairly inexpensive and we would all chip in for it. Before we could divide up the cost,Ryan pretty much threw the cash at us and said he was paying for the whole thing. He said it was his gift to us for starting this awesome new venture. Ryan if you are reading this i really appreciate it buddy. You are a true friend and i am really happy we have partnered up for this.
Kath placed the order online and two days later it was here. We went down to the basement and hooked it up and then came the important part. We did some tests. The mic is so awesome. It picked up our talking no matter where we were in the room. This made me so happy and i got so excited. I immediately sent texts to John and Ryan and a few other friends. The equipment was great. I was going to quit Gygo and be happy. One last hurdle. I had to quit Gygo and our producer hadn't shown up for 3 episodes. What was going to happen?
Stay tuned....
Kath placed the order online and two days later it was here. We went down to the basement and hooked it up and then came the important part. We did some tests. The mic is so awesome. It picked up our talking no matter where we were in the room. This made me so happy and i got so excited. I immediately sent texts to John and Ryan and a few other friends. The equipment was great. I was going to quit Gygo and be happy. One last hurdle. I had to quit Gygo and our producer hadn't shown up for 3 episodes. What was going to happen?
Stay tuned....
Overcoming hurdles
Wow i left the last post on a cliff hanger and then didn't follow it up for 2 weeks. So in the last post you read what lead Kath and i to decide to quit the radio show that we loved doing. I wasn't happy. Things needed to change for the better. I wanted to feel like i could create a show where i could make suggestions and not get yelled at.We needed to figure out what was involved with setting up a pod cast and we needed some awesome equipment.
It wasn't long before Kath solved the first issue. She set up a website for us. WWW.WEGOTTHEGEEK.COM. It was fairly inexpensive to maintain. So now if the web site ever went down it was all on us. I wouldn't have to worry about someone else paying the bills to keep the site going. We did some test recordings with the old craptastic gygo equipment and put them up on the web site. The recordings went up fairly easy. Bulmer and our friends Hunter and Kristen helped us out with some recordings about comic books. One of the things i wanted to do was have an hour comic book segment on our site. On Gygo we were always running out of time to discuss comics. Instead of one massive three hour show i wanted to break the segments down into one hour bits so people could just throw on an episode at any time. Website for our pod cast? Check. Now what to do about a new state of the art microphone?
To be continued.....
It wasn't long before Kath solved the first issue. She set up a website for us. WWW.WEGOTTHEGEEK.COM. It was fairly inexpensive to maintain. So now if the web site ever went down it was all on us. I wouldn't have to worry about someone else paying the bills to keep the site going. We did some test recordings with the old craptastic gygo equipment and put them up on the web site. The recordings went up fairly easy. Bulmer and our friends Hunter and Kristen helped us out with some recordings about comic books. One of the things i wanted to do was have an hour comic book segment on our site. On Gygo we were always running out of time to discuss comics. Instead of one massive three hour show i wanted to break the segments down into one hour bits so people could just throw on an episode at any time. Website for our pod cast? Check. Now what to do about a new state of the art microphone?
To be continued.....
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