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!

Download radio_free_burrito_episode_11.mp3

MIRRORS

Radio Free Burrito Episode 11 from Brian

Radio Free Burrito Episode 11 from Media Pundit

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Torrents from our good friend Brian May

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p style=”margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; “>High (orig):
http://athena.unearthed.org/torrents/radio_free_burrito_episode_11.mp3.torrent

Low (mono, VBR bit rate range 0-24, 3.1 MB):
http://athena.unearthed.org/torrents/radio_free_burrito_episode_11-low.mp3.torrent

Radio Free Burrito Archives: Episode Six

Here is Radio Free Burrito Episode Six, as the great ten-minutes-per day experiment moves on to day two. I've already figured out that ten minutes is just not enough time for a long-winded, tangent-prone guy like myself, so I don't know if trading off manageable time for more content is really worth it. We'll find out in a few days, I guess.

Thank you so much to everyone who has sent in logos! Holy crap, you are a talented bunch of people. I'm going to try on lots of different ones this week, send them all out on dates with the Crushinator, and figure out which logo will be permanent via a reality tv show in the coming weeks. If you haven't sent your logo idea in, please don't feel like you missed the boat; I'd still love to see what you guys come up with, and there's a very good chance I'll be able to use more than one logo for different things.

Show Notes:

• I am a moran. I know it's episode six, but I say "This is episode seven" at the beginning. Numbers, like math, are hard. I blame it on the date, the rain, and a bad spot of corned beef.
• The website I talked about is ChangeThis.com.
• My tune is called Heroes, and it was created in GarageBand. I may release it on its own at some point in the future.
• As I mentioned near the end of the show, I'll be offering a signed, limited edition chapbook preview of a few stories from Do You Want Kids With That at the convention this weekend. If I have any left over after the show, I'll sell whatever's left through my blog.
• The intro music is Atomic, by Blondie.
• 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.
• The image I chose for this show was sent to me by WWdN:iX reader Chuck, fromairbrushmypic.com.
• Radio Free Burrito is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
• This episode is 10:19 and weighs in at 4.4 MB.

Anyway, here it is. Your feedback is always appreciated, and thanks for listening.

Download radio_free_burrito_episode_six.mp3

Update: Torrent Master Brian says:

Here's Episode 6? (You start off by saying Ep 7)

High (orig):
http://athena.unearthed.org/torrents/radio_free_burrito_episode_six.mp3.torrent

Low (mono, VBR bit rate range 0-24, 1.8 megs):
http://athena.unearthed.org/torrents/radio_free_burrito_episode_six-low.mp3.torrent

Mirror for the Low..
http://www.badmonkies.com/rfb/radio_free_burrito_episode_six-low.mp3

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p style=”margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; “>Thanks, Brian! And thanks for pointing out my lameness on the numbering. I've updated the show notes accordingly.

Radio Free Burrito Archives: Episode Zero

Well, here it is! It's alive!

As I wrote earlier today, "It will either be really cool, or the stupidest fucking thing in history, and I'll proceed accordingly." My initial feeling is that it falls somewhere in the middle: it's longer than I wanted, and it's a little unfocused, but I'm willing to allow myself the freedom to make as many mistakes as it takes to either come up with something cool, or accept that I just don't have what it takes to make a podcast.

Observations on getting this thing from my brains to your ears: I thought the recording would be very hard, but it was actually super easy. I've tried in Audacity several times before, and it never wants to work, so today I just followed the instructions from Apple for creating podcasts in Garageband, and it was simple and easy. But holy shit the converting and the uploading was so hard, I felt like I had no thumbs and an IQ of 24. I'm sorry to report that this episode is only available in the stupid, proprietary, Apple AAC format, but that's the only format I could get to upload (the .aiff file was over 300MB, and TypePad just wouldn't let me upload it. That was really annoying.)

So now I need to know what you, the audience, think. What would you like more of? Less of? Is it too long? Is it too narrowly focused, or not broad enough? Most importantly: when it was over, did you feel like I earned your 30 minutes, or did you feel like you wasted your time?

Heh. The last time I felt this nervous about releasing something into the wild, it was the first version of Dancing Barefoot. This is both cool and scary.

Afterthought: I just realized that I stupidly recorded this thing in super-ultra-hyper-mega-stereo, when nifty-old-mono would have been just fine. The result is a ridiculously large file (71.8 MB) which I can only leave up for a few hours before I blow through all my bandwidth. I'll see if I can convert the file I have to mono, and if not, look for Episode .05 to hit the airwaves in the next 48 hours. Yeah, I am really a moran. iTunes won't let me convert it to mp3, and Audacity won't even open it. So this file will stay up until about 8:00 PM Pacific time, when I'll have to take it down. If someone wants to mirror the file, go nuts. Gods, I am sofa king stupid. I blame my nervousness for this ultrarookie error. When you mock, please mock me gently.

AfterthoughtAfterthought: I owe Shane Nickerson a huge debt of gratitude, because he pointed out to me my stupid mistake. I'll reveal my shame a bit later on. In the meantime, here is a .mp3 file, which is much smaller: "only" 27.3MB:

Download radio_free_burrito_episode_zero.mp3

Oh boy! Several Mirrors!

Mirror one, from WWdN:iX reader buford: radio_free_burrito_episode_zero.mp3

Mirror two, from my friend Kathleen: radio_free_burrito_episode_zero.mp3

Mirror three, from WWdN:iX reader  UglyRedHonda: Unauthorized low-bandwidth-friendly re-encoding

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p style=”margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; “>And the coolest of them all . . . a .torrent. Man, do I feel like I've arrived now! Thanks, Brian! :)