Into The Blender

Episode 39 - Holiday Greetings from the Burrow [ 43:59 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Checking in for the Holidays from our Burrow (or, bunker??) and discuss our upcoming (now past) Christmas plans plus looking forward to the New Year. We give a brief update on Viv’s health issues, and talk about the coming Zombie apocalypse.

Promo: P.C. Haring’s Cybrosis

Episode 38 - DragonCon Report [ 1:04:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here is our long overdue recaps of Dragon*Con and BlenderCon.

Rather than do a blow-by-blow account of the cons, we describe our favorite parts of the experiences, and our biggest regrets.

Some things we mention:

• P.G. Holyfield, Author of Murder at Avedon Hill
• Patrick McLean, Author of The Seanachai and How to Suceed in Evil
• Thomas Gideon of The Command Line Podcast
• Brandon “Gutshot” Hill of The Morning Nom Podcast
• Susan Z. of The Kulture Kast 2.0 Podcast
• Podcasting’s Rich Sigfrit of The Requiem of The Outcast Podcast and Mr. Adventure Radio Drama
• Christiana Ellis of Nina Kimberly the Merciless, Shallow Thoughts, Requiem of the Outcast and more
• Mur Lafferty of Playing for Keeps, The Heaven Series, I Should Be Writing and more
• Christof Laputka, Author of Leviathan Chronicles
• Steve Riekeberg of Geek Cred Podcast
• Felicia Day, Actress and Fey Creature
• Dragon*Con Thriller
• The Alien dancing to Thriller (he shows up about 30 seconds in)
• Photo taken by Thomas Gideon of us with our roomies, P.G. Holyfield and Patrick McLean from Viv’s D*C Flickr Stream.
  
• Many thanks to our roomies P.G. and Patrick for all the laughter and great memories!

• Promo: 7th Son Descent in print!

Episode 37 - Feedbacks and Boobies [ 44:29 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In this episode we play some voicemails and read some e-mails which are mostly long overdue.

We also discuss:

• Chooch’s dad’s 80th birthday
• Checkup on his brother’s family
• Breast cancer awareness month
• Charities research
• New stuff we’ve started listening to
• Promo: Purgatory, by Tim Dodge

Episode 36 - Podiobooks and Empty Nests [ 1:08:13 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is a belated pre-DragonCon cast. Unfortunately we weren’t able to get it edited before returning from D*C, but thought that the anticipation would make for a fun contrast to an upcoming D*C review show

In this episode we discuss:

• Our empty nest
• Announcing the Predestination cover print contest winner
• Anticipating DragonCon
• Catching up on what we’re listening to
  • Harvey by Phil Rossi
  • Singularity by Bill DeSmedt’s
  • Doctor Jack’s Soapbox Seminars
  • War by Mur Lafferty
  • Tumbler by Brand Gamblin
  • Guardians by Kimi Alexandre
  • Morevi by Tee Morris
  • Crescent by Phil Rossi
  • Second Shift
  • Pieces
  • Billibub Baddings by Tee Morris
  • The Seanachai
  • How To Succeed In Evil by Patrick McLean
  • Murder At Avedon Hill by P.G. Holyfield
  • The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast
  • Geek Acres
  • Geek Survival Guide
  • The Leviathan Chronicles by Christof Laputka
  • The Immortals by Tracy Hickman
  • Shadowmagic by John Lenahan
  • Weatherchild by Philippa Ballantine
  • Antithesis and Down From Ten by J.D. Sawyer
  • Nina Kimberly the Merciless by Christiana Ellis
  • Geek Radio Daily
• Promo: The Leviathan Chronicles

Episode 35 - Social Butterflies [ 29:54 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We’ve been little social butterflies over the last few weeks. We’ve driven through many states to eat many forms of cake (birthday, cheese, and cup) and had a generally wonderful time catching up with friends and family!

In this episode we discuss:

• COHPodcast is a Parsec Awards finalist (again!)
• After much debate and money shuffling, we will be attending DragonCon!
• An evening talking movies with Tee Morris
• Fourth of July with Command Line and Kamikat
• Pandemic
• Settlers of Catan
• Carcassonne
• Serenity RPG
• Baby mama and Baby J have Birthdays
• Jared’s Birthday Party
• Flying Monkey Cupcakes
• The new Ventriloquist
• Marc & Heather
• MA & Dan
• BlenderCon
• RDs Birthday
• All a Twitter
• We’re having a contest
  
  • A signed print of the cover to J.D. Sawyer’s Predestination!
  • Entering is as easy as 1-2-3:
    • 1) Send a post card to:
      Chooch and Viv
      43 Town and Country Drive
      Suite 182
      Fredericksburg, VA 22405
    • 2) Make sure to include your name and return address (where we’ll ship the print) and a statement that you are at least 18 years old.
    • 3) All entries must be post marked no later than August 26, 2009
      We’ll do a random drawing w/ a single winner receiving the print through the mail.
• Happy Birthday Mur, Greg, and Matt!
• Second Shift
• Promo: Down From Ten

Episode 034 - Jamie Schubert [ 39:24 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This episode is a little bit of a departure. It  is dedicated to Chooch’s brother, and our sudden visit to California.

The Tyler Schubert Fund

Standard Podcast [ 2:32 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I wanted to make everyone aware of additional recordings of Balticon panels that Viv and I participated on.

I didn’t feel right about dropping these directly into either of our podcast feeds since they contain no gaming, parenting, or blending content They are focused on podcasting/recording/audio techie stuff.

You can check them out over at my new site Random Acts of Chooch. The three panels contain different combinations of me, Viv, Scott Sigler, PG Holyfield, MAinPA, Thomas “Command Line” Gideon, Dan the Fan, Nobilis Reed, Marc “Grailwolf” Bailey, Heather Welliver, and Tyler Waldeman.

New ITB specific content is Coming Soon™

Episode 33 - Live from Balticon [ 42:51 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We are proud to bring you our first live show! This was recorded over Memorial day weekend at Balticon 43.

A special thanks to everybody who came out and participated. You truly made this a special event for us!

Standard Podcast [ 34:41 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A continuation of last week’s conversation, we discuss:

• An uneventful Saint Patrick’s Day
• Chooch sees a high school friend
• Viv gets some herb  s …. herbs!
• Biscuit and Kath come for another visit
• BSG Finale
• Castle
• Salon de Blender
• Captial Alehouse
• Viv’s Dad and her standing up for herself
• LT strings concert and a slight wardrobe failure
• Visit from Little Mama and Baby J
• Another niece turns 21
• California travel fail
• Kaylee closes the show
• Promo: Balticon 43 and Mark Van Name
  

ITB Episode 31 - Birthdays, Blizzards and Buyin' Cars [ 49:10 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Still on our catch-up but we’re almost there! Silly time keeps marching on.

In this episode we discuss:

• Kaylee chewing but a good girl
• Blizzard
• Viv starting her new job
• Slight kid grade droop
• Chooch sees the President
• Watchmen in IMAX
• Brief visit with Paulette Jaxton
• Out to dinner for a friend’s bday party
• Chooch’s birthday
• We buy a new car
• A visit from MAinPA, Dan the Fan and the Quicksilver Kid
• The Graveyard Book
• Anansi Boys
• Promo: Antithesis