Radio Free Burrito Episode Thirty-Nine: The Unearned Bell

It’s late, but for good reasons. Welcome to Radio Free Burrito!

This week, I talk a little bit about my creative process for the Tabletop RPG Show, my D&D 5E campaign, and I ring an unearned bell.

• The logo was designed by WWdN:iX reader Marc, who asked that I not link to his “in progress” website. Thanks, Marc!
• Radio Free Burrito doesn’t work as hard to earn its [EXPLICIT] tag as Memories of the Futurecast did, but it still manages to upset mom and get Twitter breakup messages from sensitive people. You have been warned.
• This week’s theme music is Skulls, by The Misfits.
• Am I the only one who loves The Misfits, but really doesn’t like Danzig’s solo work?
• You can learn all about D&D 5e, and download a bunch of free PDFs of from Wizards of the Coast.
• I love the Doubleclicks, and so will you.
• You can buy your own copy of The Fantasy World for the low low price of one dollar.
• Hank Green’s column at Medium.

• Hank says: This complete lack of objectivity and representation in cable news has degraded the legitimacy of news media as a whole. Young people have absolutely no faith in people sitting at desks on television anymore. It’s gotten so bad that the most trusted news show among people under 40 is on Comedy Central. The Daily Show, it should be noted, spends as much time mocking the news media as it does talking about the news, further decreasing young people’s trust of the news. The news is losing an entire generation.

  Legacy media isn’t mocking us because we aren’t a legitimate source of information; they’re mocking us because they’re terrified. Their legitimacy came from the fact that they have access to distribution channels and that they get to be in the White House press pool because of some long-ago established procedures that assumed they would use that power in the public interest. In reality, those things are becoming less and less important and less and less true. Distribution is free to anyone with a cell phone and the legitimacy of cable news sounds to me like an oxymoron. The median-aged CNN viewer is 60. For Fox, it’s 68.

• Jenny McCarthy is a dangerous idiot.
• Slightly more consequential than a deflated football, is all I’m saying.
• There’s no new episode next week because I’ll be on a boat
• This week’s show is 194MB and 36 minutes long. 26MB (vbr mp3) and 36 minutes long.

This is the end of the notes.

Here’s your embed:

And here’s your direct mp3 link:

Radio Free Burrito Episode 39

Bye!

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Radio Free Burrito Episode Thirty-Eight: You Really Shouldn’t Listen To This

By Grabthar’s Hammer, it’s a new RFB!

This week, Anne is back to discuss our dog who eats her own shit and then throws up her own shit in our house, the flock of wild parrots we want to set on fire, going to Kings games, playing games on Tabletop, and our Foundation to Increase Awesome.

You should not listen to this episode, though, because the story of Marlowe eating her own shit and then throwing it up in our house is really, really awful. You have been warned.

• The logo was designed by WWdN:iX reader Marc, who asked that I not link to his “in progress” website. Thanks, Marc!
• Radio Free Burrito doesn’t work as hard to earn its [EXPLICIT] tag as Memories of the Futurecast did, but it still manages to upset mom and get Twitter breakup messages from sensitive people. You have been warned.
• This week’s theme music is Rock Box, from RUN DMC’s classic debut album.

• Anne’s blog about calling me while I was in Germany is pretty funny.
• Parrot Vines.
• This week’s music is The Arsonist & The Thief, by Robyn Cage. She’s on tour in Utah at the moment, if you’d like to see her perform live.
• My rehearsals for War of the Worlds.
• Marlowe Wheaton, ladies and gentlemen.
• Auction of Stone Age to benefit the Foundation to Increase Awesome.
• Auction of Council of Verona, and The Hare and The Tortoise, also to benefit the foundation.
• You’re killing me, Kings.
• This episode is 1h20m long, and weighs in at 112.8MBs. That’s a lot of Ms and Bs.
• This is the end of the notes, though I feel (like I always do) like I’m forgetting something important.

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Direct Link: 038-RFB

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Radio Free Burrito Episode Thirty-Seven: In a Row?

It’s later than usual, but it’s not a year later! How about a new Radio Free Burrito!?

This week, I talked a lot about our secret vacation, and Anne joined me to share a story from her blog.

I think I’m finally getting the hang of mixing podcast audio in Audacity, largely thanks to the wiki.

A couple of very  notes:

• The logo was designed by WWdN:iX reader Marc, who asked that I not link to his “in progress” website. Thanks, Marc!
• Radio Free Burrito doesn’t work as hard to earn its [EXPLICIT] tag as Memories of the Futurecast did, but it still manages to upset mom and get Twitter breakup messages from sensitive people. You have been warned.
• This week’s theme music is Where Eagles Dare, which comes from Iron Maiden‘s fucking PERFECT album, Piece of Mind. Up the irons!
• Eight reasons Ted Cruz is incompetent and shouldn’t be chairing a science committee in congress.
• The song I played before Anne joined me, is called Kiss Me Once Like You Did Before, by Luz Y Fuerza, who apparently were a thing in 1971, and totally not a ripoff of Chicago.
• Anne’s story of awkward Canadian travel tips is delightful.
• Here’s the recipe I use to make taco seasoning (I use less salt, YMMV).
• If you wanted to listen to the original Mercury Theater on the Air’s War of the Worlds, it’s at the Internet Archive.
• Here’s a picture I took of Lake Louise.
• This episode is 58:19, and is 82.3MB.
• That’s all the notes. Enjoy!

Here’s a direct link:

037-RFB

Here’s an embed (does anyone use the embed?):

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Radio Free Burrito Episode Thirty-Six: Secret Vacation

Holy crap, it’s two weeks in a row that I’ve made a thing!

I’m on Secret Vacation this week, but I have a few minutes between breakfast and adventure to record a short thing. As I always say, it isn’t much, but it’s a thing where a thing wasn’t before, and that’s okay.

A couple of very brief notes:

• The logo was designed by WWdN:iX reader Marc, who asked that I not link to his “in progress” website. Thanks, Marc!
• Radio Free Burrito doesn’t work as hard to earn its [EXPLICIT] tag as Memories of the Futurecast did, but it still manages to upset mom and get Twitter breakup messages from sensitive people. You have been warned.
• There is no theme music this week, for reasons that will become immediately clear upon listening.
• My dumb audio blog thing that I put on Soundcloud last week is in my Soundcloud account. I can’t link directly to it at the moment, because they’re having issues.
• Patton Oswalt’s new book is called Confessions of a Movie Addict. You can get it pretty much everywhere. You can read our conversation at Playboy.com
• This episode is in Ogg format, because I’m in a hurry and converting to MP3 is taking more time than it’s worth, because of reasons.
  
• I created an MP3 version just now, after I got back from a day of having funtimes. Here it is: Radio Free Burrito Episode 36 – Secret Vacation
• This episode is 4.3MB and just around 10 minutes long.
• Direct link to 036-RFB in Ogg format.

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