Radio Free Burrito Episode 50: an episode of arbitrary significance

Stuff and things and other things, and moog synthesizer music. Yes, it is all in one place, and it’s all for you, Damien! IT IS ALL FOR YOU!

• 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.
• I have decided that doing show notes is not worth my time, because I feel like nobody cares about the notes, or uses them. You can tell me if I’m wrong, but I’m feeling like you won’t.
• This episode is 1h01m long and 87MB.
• This is the end of the notes.

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Radio Free Burrito Episode 46 – it makes a terrifying sound.

Hey nerds! It’s time for a new Radio Free Burrito! This show features a whole lot of me talking about how weird I feel, how afraid I am of falling into obscurity, and wondering what, if anything, I can do about it. There’s also a little bit of music, and a couple of radio spots for some 70s movies.

• 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 episode’s theme song is Never Let Me Down Again by Depeche Mode.
• Phantasm recently got a shiny new director’s cut, remastered by JJ Abrams for a special screening at the Drafthouse.
• Reggie Bannister, who is in Phantasm, was kind to me when I was at one of my lowest points in my adult life. I’ll never forget that.
• Everything is Terrible, but Shock Festival is pretty great.
• I make weird bullshit that lives on my youtube channel.
• Visit The River’s Edge.
• Here’s a reasonably good version of The Legend of Boggy Creek.
• Here’s the Wikipedia for Boggy Creek. It’s worth reading.
• I wrote a novella. It’s on sale in the Kindle Store or you can get it from WWdN or you can get the audio version narrated by me.
• When I updated the mp3 tags in Audacity, it showed me that I haven’t done one of these since 2015. That makes me feel sad.
• I feel sad a lot these days.
• If you are also late to the party with me, take a look at Fargo, Rick and Morty, and Mr. Robot.
• I played music from Blondie, Public Enemy, and The Rezillos.
• This is the end of the notes.

This episode is 59m04s long and weighs in at 62.1MB

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Radio Free Burrito Episode 44: The Cecil Hotel

It’s a Halloween episode, sort of, with a spooky, creepy, weird story that gets really dark by the end.

• 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.
• The theme music is from the unofficial Night of the Living Dead Soundtrack.
• The Devil in the White City tells the true and compelling story of H.H. Holmes.
• The Lore podcast did an episode about Holmes.
• Sean Bonner’s newsletter is always worth reading.
• It takes three episodes for American Horror Story: Hotel to find itself, but it’s still on a show-by-show probation for me.
• Josh Dean’s story, American Horror Story: The Cecil Hotel is both the focus of and inspiration for this episode. There are a number of interesting and relevant footnotes in Josh’s story, as well as a lot of photos. There are also comments and links from readers that you can read and follow if you really want to fall down a deep rabbit hole.
• Josh wrote this story for Matter. I can’t think of a clever way to encourage you to check out the stories at Matter, so this sentence will have to do.
• I realized while I was reading this story that I drive by the Cecil Hotel on my way home from every Kings game, but I only saw the hotel for the first time about a week ago … that’s a strange and unsettling coincidence.
• I used a lot of music for this episode. It’s all under license from Magnatune.com, and includes: Edible Arrangements by Kalabi, Illumination by Robert Rich, Mandala for Chaos by Sampson-Carroll, Into the Void by Subsonic Information, and Touch by Falling You.
• I already had a lot of respect for the production quality of podcasts like Lore, Limetown, The Black Tapes, You Must Remember This, Welcome to Night Vale, and The Memory Palace, but until I tried to replicate their style, I didn’t realize just how challenging it is to find music that goes with the words in exactly the right way, emotionally hits the right way, and is mixed the right way. I don’t think I got there, exactly, but I came close.
• This episode is one of the longest I’ve ever made, at 1h33m It’s a VBR file, though, so it’s not too huge, and weighs in at 62.3MB.
• This is the end of the show notes.

Here’s your embed:

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Happy Halloween, everyone.

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Not Radio Free Burrito 43a: This one ends abruptly

This is a very brief recording, with a little bit of music, and nothing particularly interesting (ding!) otherwise. In fact, you shouldn’t even listen to this one.

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.

• I played New Wow by Weartists stream it and buy the album at Magnatune.com
• Blindspot on NBC.
• My Quarterly subscription thing.
• Canned cat food smells really, really gross.
• The Infamous Clown Sweater.
• This episode is 21.6MB. and 22 minutes long.
• This is the end of the (very brief) show notes.

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Radio Free Burrito Episode 40: …meh, it’s good enough.

Hey, Welcome to Radio Free Burrito!

This week, I talk a lot about my creative process, how I’ve found myself at a bit of a creative and existential crossroads, and what I’m doing about it.

• 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 M-Squad, recorded by Johnny Gregory and his Orchestra.
• I’m nominated for another Audie this year!
• I thought I’d recorded 38 audiobooks. Turns out it’s slightly less: 28 for various authors at Audible, 3 of my own at Bandcamp, 2 for Cory Doctorow at craphound, and I think a couple others I’m forgetting. Still, wow.
• The cast of True Romance is phenomenal, and I think it’s some of Bronson Pinchot’s best work.
• One of the funniest scenes in Serial Mom.
• But, seriously, True Detective.
• Awww, hell-tits.
• Music time was St. Barnabas, by The Seldon Plan. It’s from their fantastic album, The Collective Now.
• I found some lovely Vivaldi concertos at archive.org.
• Thank you, Dangerousminds dot net.
• This is the end of the show notes.
• This episode is 51 minutes long and 22Mb.

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Radio Free Burrito: Episode Twenty-Eight

Holy Crap, it's time for a new episode of Radio Free Burrito!

Has it really been three weeks since the last show? I guess it has. Well, I brought a note that will hopefully excuse my absence…

Show 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 does, 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 Head On, by Jesus and Mary Chain, from their album Automatic.
• Seriously, check out Slacker; it's awesome.
• This show is almost entirely an interview with Felicia Day about The Guild.
• Turns out neither one of us could remember who that artist was, and my Google-fu in this regard is appallingly weak. Luckily for me, listener McKenneth Blue is a fountain of art (and other) knowledge, and told me that the painter is, in fact, Magritte.
• Patrick Duffy reference!
• Slightly-different Patrick Duffy reference!
• Patrick Duffy leg!
• The Guild: Season 3
  at Amazon.
• I played a tiny bit of Elvis Costello's Miracle Man, from the album My Aim is True.
• Unless you hate comedy, you should listen to the nerdist podcast.
• You may also want to listen to Knights of the Guild.
• This episode is about 48MB.
• This episode is about 49 minutes long.
• I am aware that the tags are screwed up and the feed doesn't validate, so unless you're grabbing RFB from iTunes or getting it directly here, it's a giant hassle to get it. I am aware of this problem, but it's a gigantic pain in the ass for me to correct it, given the tools I have available to me. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, and I'm very annoyed by it, but I can make a podcast, or I can be a bug-squashing code monkey. I can't do both, and I quite frankly prefer making the podcast. Listener Dave K. built a workaround that you can learn all about here. Thanks, Dave!
• Again, no embedded artwork. This distresses me, but it's Apple's fault, not mine, and it's too much of a pain in the ass to get it done. Hopefully, they'll fix the bug REALLY SOON.
• This is the end of the notes. 

Ready? Then suit up your avatar and get ready to

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Radio Free Burrito: Episode Twenty-Three

Holy Crap, it's time for a new episode of Radio Free Burrito!

It's a very brief episode this week, because I've just been too busy to cook up a proper burrito.

Show 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 does, 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 Mango Mangue by Charlie Parker, from the fantastic album The Essential Charlie Parker.
• On today's show, I tell a very quick story about something amusing that happened to me this morning on my way into work on The Big Bang Theory.
• Here I am on Twitter. If you choose to follow me, read this first.
• Here's a picture I took on the set today.
• Here's a hilarious (and more accurate) version of the same picture, from dburns308.
• Podcasts you may enjoy in place of (or in addition to) Radio Free Burrito while I'm too busy to make it every week:
• • The Moth.
  • CBC's Spark.
  • The Nerdist Podcast with Chris Hardwick.
  • Stuff You Should Know, from How Stuff Works.
• This episode is about 12MB.
• This episode is about 13 minutes long.
• Again, no embedded artwork. This distresses me, but it's Apple's fault, not mine, and it's too much of a pain in the ass to get it done. Hopefully, they'll fix the bug REALLY SOON.
• This is the end of the notes. 

Ready? Then shuffle your Mystic Warlords of Ka'a deck and…

Download Radio Free Burrito Episode 23!

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Radio Free Burrito Archives: Episode Eleven

Holy crap!

Look out the window for restless horsemen . . . it's a new episode of Radio Free Burrito, less than a week after the last one!

Show Notes

• I think we should just go ahead and give this podcast the [Explicit] label, if it doesn't have it already. Consider yourself warned.
• The logo was designed by WWdN:iX reader Marc, who asked that I not link to his "in progress" website. Thanks, Marc!
• Episode X let me get my podcasting legs back, so I felt much better with this one, even when I had to stall while trying to splat-tab into Firefox, where I saw that I hadn't pre-loaded my blog. Whoops.
• I put chapters, links, and images in this one. Yay!
• The full Code of Honor review isn't up yet, but you can read all of my TNG Reviews at TV Squad if you haven't already.
• When I mentioned all the great blogs at Wired that people may not know about, I forgot to mention GeekDad. It's not because I don't think it's a great blog, but because I took for granted that everyone reads it already. I also mentionedUnderwire, Listening Post and Threat Level.
• Here's the offending Alt Text column. Here's my Tweet. Here's my facepalm.
• You know you want to learn more about fabulous Palm Springs.
• Brad Sucks does not suck. You can listen to the album I Don't Know What I'm Doing at Magnatune.
• Mister Bungle is a shame, because he spoils lunchtime.
• I really do appreciate feedback; it makes me feel like I'm not broadcasting into an empty box.
• Radio Free Burrito is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
• This show is 18 minutes long, and weighs in at 16.6 MB.
• As always, let me know if you decide to mirror the show, and I'll update this post.

Thanks for listening!

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Radio Free Burrito Archives: Episode Four

Yes, it is true! At long last, the long-overdue Episode Four is here. According to certain other episode-numbered series, this should be the episode that grabs everyone's attention and establishes me as a Force to be reckoned with . . . but it will be the next episode that proves to be my best ever, one which I'll never be able to top.

I guess I should figure out a way to get a hold of Lawrence Kasdan, huh?

This episode is another audio diary one, this time centered around an audition I had this morning for a new Nickelodeon animated series. It was an awesome audition, thanks entirely to the totally cool people who I read for, who made me feel welcome, and enthusiastically worked with me to bring my version of this character to life. (I know some of you read my blog, so thank you for doing that. I had an awesome time today. You guys rock.)

The audio diary is 33 minutes long, so I didn't do Q&A in this show, but it will be back in the next show. In fact, I'll devote most of the next show to Q&A, since many of you have written in that you like that, and it's pretty damn easy for me to answer questions about myself.

Show Notes:

• The intro music is "Gone for Good" by The Shins, from their album Chutes Too Narrow. In Garden State, Natalie Portman says that The Shins will change your life, and plays New Slang to back up this bold statement. I think New Slang is a great song, but it doesn't have the emotional resonance for me that Gone for Good does. Why? Listen to the podcast to find out. For those of you scoring at home, the updated board should read Garden State: 0 Wil: 1
• The link to save Teen Titans is:http://www.titanstower.com/source/animated/saveseason6.html
• The song you heard from Nada Surf is Neither Heaven Nor Space, and it's off their nearly-perfect album Let Go.
• There's a picture from inside Nickelodeon, which I snapped with my super-stealth cameraphone, in my Buzznet blog. I meant to mention this months ago, but Buzznet has this thing where you can make posters, calendars, books, or postcards from your Buzznet images. I have a book filled with images taken up until last summer, and it's really cool.
• Comments can be sent to podcast at wil wheaton dot net, questions can be sent to ask at wil wheaton dot net. Please use a descriptive subject line.
• Radio Free Burrito is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

The entire show is 47 minutes long (ouch. sorry about that.) and weighs in at 18.8MB. Enjoy!

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