Cheers!
It may come as no surprise to you our readers/viewers/listeners that due to to editing, rendering my Ben Grimm-like mug and Spencer just needing a personal life (not to mention taping, editing and posting his own movie podcast) that there is usually about a week lag between when we tape an episode and when its released.
Why just looking at the top of this page episode 50 was released last week but yesterday we taped episode #52; thats right 52 episodes of a podcast that started out with Spencer saying to me, “Hey do you want to do a comic book podcast” and me saying “Spencer, why are you breathily whispering that into my ear, and why are you in my bedroom at 3am?”
But after the restraining order situation was rectified we sat down and started planning what eventually would become this here podcast/blog/budding C.F.Kane-esque empire that you all seem to be enjoying.
Since those early days of planning during games of Super-Bomberman through our most recent taping I have learned a few things-
1.I have an uncanny ability to not remember the simplest word at the appropriate time; “uh…you know Greg….that guy, with the red cape, came from Krypton…jesus, whats his name…”
2.No matter how early we say we’re going to start taping, it will *always* take us at least a half hour to stop talking about comics off camera and start talking about them with the camera on.
3.Greg puts together quite a cogent argument in defense of 90s pop-stars Hanson.
4.Having an actual game plan of what we’re discussing more than 2 minutes before the camera rolls is very nice!
5.Just let Pete talk; eventually what comes out will be gold…well actually green, but still….
6.Interviewing is a skill that is harder than Sally Jesse Raphael made it look.
6a.Everyone else on the show must have taken lessons from Sally Jesse because you all make it look easy too.
7.We are all surprisingly diplomatic about what we really think about some books. Ask Jason what he *really* thinks about Youngblood sometime.
8.I miss having Oracle on the show to tell us when we’re entirely wrong about pretty much all of our facts.
9.Starting to plan our Emerald City Comicon activities 6 months ahead of time is *not* too early.
10.Ahe could smoke you all in comic trivia.
I’m not one for being overly sentimental but let me just say thanks to a few folks-
-First of all thanks to all of the Backroom’s amazing guests. We’ve had some awesome conversations with some amazing people in the industry this past year and for that I am amazingly grateful.
-Greg, Pete, Jason & Ahe, you have turned the show from me ranting about ‘New-look Archie’ into discussions that are interesting, engaging and thought provoking.
-Spencer. Without you there would be no show. Not only do our viewers probably have no idea how much work you’ve put into the show this past year but I’m not sure that even I know because you quietly just get shit done without any expectation of kudos. Well my good friend here are a million kudos anyways (kudos have a cash value of .00000000001 cent).
-And finally to our viewers/listeners/readers. Seeing our numbers steadily rise over the year in addition to the great feedback you give us turns from Grumpy Bear into Cheer Bear.
Here’s to the next year of podcast goodness.
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