Monday, September 24, 2012

Episode Four - Episode Four: Redudant Titles

This is the fourth episode of the Around the Trunk Podcast.

Chris was late, Tyler left early and I dropped the F-Bomb. A lot.



Download - archive.org/download/EpisodeFour-EpisodeFourRedundantTitles/EpisodeFourRedundantTitles.mp3

 

Links


We now have a Facebook page! Around the Trunk On Facebook

We are also on iTunes. Around The Trunk On iTunes

And Twitter. @AroundTheTrunk


Show Notes

 

No timestamps this week unfortunately, as I ran out of time.

Intro:

 

Tyler talks about short story idea he had.

FTL


Tyler and I discuss the FTL:Faster than light, a new steam game that came out this week. It's only nine bucks. Go buy it.


Stuff about the Podcast while we wait for Chris

 

We talk about the new intros, the cover art, and Max Scoville's Free Ipad Miley Cyrus Nudes.

Chris Sucks

Idle Banter

River World by Phillip Jose Farmer !Spoilers!

 

Chris finally shows up
We talk stories across different mediums and Tyler recommends Rising Stars and then proceeds to spoil it pretty thoroughly, so check it out.

I talk about a comic Idea I was playing with and move into a discussion about writing in comics as a medium.

Then we talk Movies, TV, HBO and boobs. Cause who doesn't like boobs?

Part Two


Tyler leaves, we continues talking game of thrones and move into a discussion of chapter formats.
We then talk about characters, their motivations and backgrounds informing their dialog and
actions without resorting to exposition dumping.

We also talk about Microsoft one note for a bit. We then get back to characters and give some our examples from our own writing.

We talk about stories and arcs and a bunch of writing craft related things. There is a discussion of easter eggs, and the difference between theft and homage. Narration in other mediums, Burn Notice
and actors playing characters. We then finish up with a light discussion of Doctor Who Companions.






Sunday, September 16, 2012

No New Podcast This Week

Unfourtanly there will be no new episode of the Around the Trunk podcast this week. We ran into massive techinacal difficulties. Chris had near constant connection problems, Tyler was having some issues with his mic leading to him sounding a little muddled.

There was a lot of disjointed conversations as Chris dropped in and out and we attempted to get him back. After almost and hour and a half of this we gave up on Chris and thanks to Tyler spurning us on made an attempt at salvaging the epsiode. We talked for another forty minutes and had some great discussions, only to lose them to problems in the recording software.

We tried folks, we really, really did. These things happen unfourtantly. Instead of giving you pieces of what we do have I wanted to keep a high quailty, or at least a quality to the podcast instead of giving you some pieced together slop. We shall be back next week and hopefully have all of this sorted out.

So to our only listener, our apoligies and we'll be back next week.

We did want to have a contest in this one which we'll discuss in more detail in the next podcast. We are also hopeing to start a questions segment. If you have any topics, stories or questions about writing you want shared/answered, let us know.

You can reach us on Twitter:

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Email:

MichaelAguero.mail@gmail.com

And in the comments below.
 

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

2 - Spoilers, Spoilers Everywhere

Episode Two of the Around the Trunk Podcast.



Summary:

This time we talked about the return of Doctor Who in Asylum of the Daleks, reviewed Super God by Warren Ellis and close out with a discussion of our favorite characters from Game of Thrones (the TV show)

Spoilers. This show has them. Lots of them. We talk about these subjects as if you have already viewed them. If you haven't, no worries, this podcast will still be here once you've gotten caught up.
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS. You've been warned.





Download:

archive.org/download/2-SpoilersSpoilersEverywhere090912/2-Spoilers.SpoilersEverywhere090912.mp3

News:

We are on iTunes, but under the wrong name. Something went wonky in the submission process. We hoped to have it fixed soon. We will also be experimenting with different editing techniques next week and I'm going to dig deep under the couch for some pennies to get a mic, hopefully this will lead to better audio for you and less editing for me.

Show Notes:


Intro: 0:1:00

This entire episode deals with spoilers for it's respective topics. You have been warned.

First Topic: 1:00-29:00

Doctor Who Returns!

What did we think of Asylum of the Daleks, Amy, Rory and Oswin (New Companion?)

Second Topic:29:-47:42

We discuss

Super God by Warren Ellis & Garrie Gastonny

And let you know what we like and didn't like about this comic and tips for how to avoid some of the problems the comic
runs into.

Third Topic: 47:42-120:17

We talk the Game of Thrones TV show, specifically who are favorite characters are and what makes them so well written.

Closing: 120:17-121:51


Twitter Handles & Blogs


Mike: @Madness Serenade

http://nightmaresofawriter.blogspot.com/

Chris: @TheArchetipical

http://thearchatype.wordpress.com/


1 - Gods Of Earth 09/02/12

The very first episode of our Around the Trunk Podcast.



First Topic: 3:08- 30:00

Skyrim and Fallout, a comparison of Worlds.

Second Topic: 30:00 - 51:00

Time Travel. We had a more centralized focus for this topic, but it got away from us. As the wibbly wobbly tends to do. During this topic Chris got interrupted and didn't mute his mic, so the audio gets a little garbled. He will mute his mic in the future or we will skin him alive. We also go on a bit of a historical tangent toward the end. We will be better about that in the future.

Third Topic 51:00- 1:37:00

The Super Power Game

This was a special thing we did for the first episode. It goes pretty long and is the last topic. If you have no interest in it you can turn the podcast off here and not miss anything else.

Powers:
Mike: Flight, Immortality (G), Solar Sustenance
Chris: Time Travel (G), Earth Bending, Muscle Memory
Tyler  Brute Telekinesis, Healing Factor (G), Teleportation

Let us know in the comments which super powered God you think would in the game of world domination and which one you would rather be.

Twitter Handles & Blogs

Mike: @Madness Serenade

Chris: @TheArchetipical

CORRECTION:

Tyler texted me after recording this. Killing kids in games isn't illegal in US law, but in the industry would almost guarantee an Adults Only rating, leading to most carries to ban your games.

First episode, already getting things wrong. Off to a great start.