Podcasts, Yard Work and Fires

I think the title of this blog is pretty much the title of all my blogs recently. Once again today I wanted to work on editing some podcasts. I think with the weekly CompanionCast it seems all I do on weekends are editing podcasts. Luckily there are only 4 more CompanionCasts left for the season. I got up at 7:30am and went outside to do some yard work. Did that for an hour before coming in an taking a break. I tried to motivate myself to do some podcasts but it was a struggle and instead I surfed the net and watched some TV.  I really wanted to start watching my new Star Wars on Blu-ray, which I got yesterday but I knew if I started I wouldn't be able to stop and I have to much to do to devote an entire day to Star Wars (though that sounds WONDERFUL).

At 11am I had set up to record several podcasts with my friends Al and Joyce. I was doing a Confessions of a Fanboy with Al and a Confessions of a Fangirl with Joyce. Also Joyce and I were doing a podcast for one of their shows call Just Because. This episode's title is Coffee Talk with Kenny and Joyce. Had a blast chatting with these guys. Got done with that around 1:30pm and noticed helicopter sounds coming from outside and that's never a good sign. So I went out back and saw a brush fire just over the hill. It looked like it was burning for a while and it was going in the opposite direction from my house so I was feeling okay, but winds could change and things can go from good to bad in a matter of seconds. I watched the fire for a half hour or so and then decided to head out and grab some lunch. While driving down Sierra Highway there was a ton of people on the side of the road watching the fire, it was kind of bizarre seeing so many people out and about as this is normally a very quiet area. Got my lunch from El Pollo Loco and headed home. While eating lunch I watched a few hours of TV, again trying to motivate myself to edit my next KOTG
CompanionCast. Finally around 6pm I jumped on the computer and began to edit the next CompanionCast. Around 9pm I realized that I hadn't eaten dinner so I made myself a quick dinner and watched the latest Doctor Who (it was really creepy, super sad and had a surprising ending, can't wait to see where it goes). After Who my buddy Greg Aronowitz texted me and asked if I was up for a skype call to talk about episode 9 for the CompanionCast, the one I'm currently working on. He's been so busy lately that we haven't been able to hook up and talk. So of course I love having him part of the podcast I jumped on skype and did the interview him. Will have to cut that in tomorrow morning and the podcast will be ready to go.

All in all it was a lazy yet productive day. I had my moments of laziness but then burst of energy and was able to get some things done. Still haven't opened the Star Wars blu-ray :( Hopefully I'll have a few hours on Sunday and watch some of it.

Goonies Never Say Die

A surprise was waiting for me when I got home today. My Goonies 25th Anniversary blu ray  box set arrived. My buddy Andrew tweeted just two days ago about Amazon having a 50% sale on the blu ray and I've been wanting this every since I found out about it a few months ago. I of course I ordered it and it already arrived. Even at it's regular price of $34.98 it's well worth it but I got it for $17.49 (and it's still on sale now as I blog this.. so go pick it up HERE). It includes the movie on Blu-ray of course but comes and that disc has director & cast commentary, making of featurette and the Cyndi Lauper Music Video. You also get 10 awesome Storyboard cards, The Goonies "Where Are They Now" Empire Magazine Article reprint, The Goonies 1985 Souvenir Magazine 64-Page reproduction and the closest thing besides the movie The Goonies 25th Anniversary Exclusive Board Game "Escape form One-Eyed Willy's Cave"

This set is beyond AWESOME!!! I can't wait to have a Goonies party.

KOTG - CompanionCasts S5E8

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Show Notes:

It’s time once again for the next CompanionCasts for The Guild Season Five. First of all be sure you watched Episode 8 of season 5 “Social Traumas”. If you haven’t seen it yet watch it HERE

Our Season 4 CompanionCasts were a huge hit so we thought we would do them again for Season 5. So what is a CompanionCast?? It’s a behind the scene look at the current episode of The Guild. I was on set everyday while they shot Season 5. As actors and crew were finished with scenes I would try and speak to them. Get some inside info about the scene they just shot. I also interviewed Felicia Day and Kim Evey about the storyline and Sean Becker about the directing.

Each one of these CompanionCasts will be episode specific and will vary in length depending on how much guildie goodness I am able to gather.

In this CompanionCast I interview Sandeep Parikh, Jeff Lewis, Amy Okuda, Vince Caso, Robin Thorsen, Sean Becker, Greg Aronowitz, Leslie Crystal, Bonnie Burton, Amy Berg, Zachary Levi, Lisa Fredrickson, Floyd Van Buskirk & Felicia Day. I hope you enjoy a look behind the scenes of Season 5 Episode 8 “Social Traumas”

The Hunger Games Trilogy

Well I finally finished listening/reading this book trilogy series last week but have been too busy to blog about it. So since I have some free time I figured I'd give my thoughts about this series. There are three novels. Book 1 "The Hunger Games", book 2 "Catching Fire", and book 3 "MockingJay". This blog won't have any spoilers as it's more of a general review of the series.

Here's a short synopsis;  The Hunger Games Trilogy is a young-adult science fiction novel written by Suzanne Collins. It introduces sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world in the country of Panem where North America once existed. This is where a government working in a central city called the Capitol holds power. In the book, the Hunger Games are an annual televised event where the Capitol chooses one boy and one girl from each of 12 districts to fight to the death. The Hunger Games exist to demonstrate that not even children are beyond the reach of the Capitol's jurisdiction. And the story evolves from there.

I really enjoyed the first novel, at first it was hard to imagine this was a young adult novel with all the killings of children. But it's a very intense and violent story. But it's also very engaging and you start to care about these character right off the bat, which makes it worse when some of them die.

The second book was enjoyable, but it's defiantly felt more like a set up for the third book then the first book did to the second book. The first book felt like a complete novel.. books 2 and 3 felt like a complete novel together.

Book 3 was great 2/3's of the way through and then suddenly this one scene happens (won't spoil it) and everything after that was kind of blah!! It just fell apart and I found myself annoyed. The ending is not bad enough that I would say it detracted from the entire trilogy but I have to say up to that point the story was moving along and everything was tense and great.. and I'm not saying the ending didn't have it's moments but it felt different after that moment.

So would I recommend this series. Short answer Yes!! even with the weak ending the series as a whole was dark, tense and very entertaining.

MASH 4077 Podcast Episode 16

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Kenny Mittleider from Knights of the Guild & Confessions of a Fanboy Podcasts, Simon Meddings from Waffle On Podcast and Al Kessel from Tales from the Mouse House, Fast Forward & Just Because Podcast discuss one of the most successful and longest running television series in history.. M*A*S*H

 
Today we cover Season 1, Episode #16 -The Ringbanger
Directed by Jackie Cooper
Written by Jerry Mayer
Production code J316
Original air date January 21, 1973

Set during the Korean War in the 1950’s

Plot Summary: Hawkeye and Trapper conspire to take down a colonel who has accumulated twice as many casualties while only gaining as much as half of the ground, marking the first of several such attempts from Hawkeye. In an effort to achieve this, they convince him that Frank Burns is a crossdresser and that Henry Blake is an alcoholic who is having a sordid affair with the promiscuous Margaret Houlihan. These stories achieve the purpose of rendering Hawkeye and Trapper the only two people in camp Buzz can be sure are trustworthy. A little manipulation and some conveniently timed events add some apparent proof to these claims. For example, when Buzz is drinking with them in the Swamp, they leave a pair of gold high heeled shoes by Frank's bed. Later, Frank tries to check Buzz's leg to see if it is healing properly, and he is rebuffed by Buzz, who suspects that he has romantic or sexual intentions. When Margaret becomes suspicious, Hawkeye and Trapper tell her that Buzz is suffering from low self-esteem and heavily imply that he needs intimate contact with a woman to prove that he is still a man. While he is alone with Margaret, they get Henry Blake very drunk and give him a pistol (telling him that he needs to undertake an arms proficiency test) and arrange for him to walk in on the two of them and encourage an angry, drunken response.

Throughout the episode, they undertake more subtle measures to try to convince him that, among these people he cannot trust, he is going mad. Such measures include switching his tent, leaving him confused about whether it has been there the whole time, and telling him to drink his glass of milk that he so fervently asked for, despite his never having asked for a glass of milk. At the end, convinced that there must be something wrong with him, Buzz is shipped back stateside.

Hope you enjoy it,
Kenny, Meds & Al

Confessions of a Fanboy #3

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Hey all you Fanboys and Fangirls, it's time for another installment of Confessions of a Fanboy.

On today's episode we have the Confession of a Fangirl, Jacqueline Dunn or better known as Jax. Here's a quick bio on Jax. She's a 23 year old fangirl who works at a bookstore. She got her BA in Literature so that she could do her senior thesis on Lord of the Rings, and so that she could read old poetry every day. She love books, comics and video games. You can find out more about Jax by reading her blog at jaxofspades.blogspot.com where she talk about these and other nerdy things.

If you want to confess your fanboy or fangirl-ism to me send me an email at ConfessionsofaFanboy@gmail.com

You can also follow the podcast on Twitter @FanboyPodcast, or follow the Host Kenny @Geekyfanboy. You can also follow our guest Jax at @jaxofspades

Please go to our podcast page on Facebook and "Like" us.. just click HERE

Confessions of a Fanboy is a Geekyfanboy Production  and has a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. All Rights Reserved

Mortgage Woes

I was checking out my bank statement today and my mortgage loan is also through the same bank so I get to see how much money I still owe on my house and I have to say I was shocked. I've been in this house for two years now. Our starting loan amount was $258,000, I've made 17 payments of $1747.20 and then homeowners insurance was raised and the last 7 payments have been at $1939.48. So if you add all that together the total amount I have paid toward my loan is $43,278.76. Now of course this total includes money that I have put towards my home owners insurance and state taxes. So minus $4000.00 ($2000 a year) for that, leaving $39,278.76, which sounds great, but when I went to look at my loan balanced I noticed it was at $250,000 meaning I paid $8000 on my loan and the rest $31,278.76 went to interest. I feel sick to my stomach that so much of my mortgage payment went to interest and so little to the principle. How can banks be failing with a rip off scams like this.

Podcasting Weekend

It's seems like the majority of my weekends are filled with podcasting. I can't remember a weekend when I didn't work on one of my podcasts. Doing the weekly Knights of the Guild CompanionCasts take up so much of my free time. Before when I had just MASH 4077 Podcast & the regular Knights of the Guild podcast which both came out twice a month it wasn't that bad but I don't know how folks do weekly podcasts week after week. Luckily The Guild's new season only runs 12 episodes (12 weeks = 12 CompanionCasts). Normally I can handle the work load but since I'm towards the end of my MTV gig (only two weeks left) things are crazy. But I'll get through it like I always do. I've always said that once podcasting feels like job and is no longer fun I'll stop doing it... and though it does feel like a job at times I'm still having a blast doing it.

Still hoping all this hard work pays off with some sort of professional podcaster for my next gig. Just need to figure out how I can make enough money to live off podcasting.

Anyways this weekend I wanted to get four podcasts done. 1 MASH 4077 Podcast, 1 Confessions of a Fanboy, 1 Knights of the Guild "Regular" podcast and 1 Knights of the Guild CompanionCast.

So on Saturday I got started early, felt great was going to get a ton done today. Started with my MASH 4077 Podcast, worked on it for hours before taking a break. Continued to work on it for the next few hours and finally around 5pm I was done. It took me a bit longer then expected but I'm very happy with the results. After dinner I started the next KOTG CompanionCast. There are 14 interviews in this one and I have to edit each and every one of them. I got about half way through it before my eyes went cross and I have to call it a night.

So I didn't get done was much as I was hoping but I still had another entire day.

So on Sunday I got up and really struggled with motivating myself to finish editing the podcasts. I did mange to finish the rest of my KOTG CompanionCast and now that's ready to be released next Thursday. I took a break from podcasting and went to lunch at Boston Market, then Best Buy to pick up X-Men First Class and finally to Target. At Target I picked up some shirts, shorts and a hat but wound up putting it all back as I really didn't need them. Instead I bought what I actually went there to get a new toilet seat as the one in the guest bathroom has broken completely off. It was strange shopping by myself. Again this is something that Harry and I did together. Just reminded me that I was alone.

Got home and jumped back on the computer. I started to edited my next "regular" Knights of the Guild podcast as I wanted to release it on the 15th but realized since it's a major relaunch and I want to do it right and add a few more segments I pushed the release date to the 1st of October which gives me a few more week to get it done. So instead I took a break and put on my new toilet seat but found out that I don't have a standard toilet and the seat I purchased was too small.. oh well it will work for the timing being. After that  I sat down to watch the latest Doctor Who and had some dinner. This weeks Who had me bawling like a baby... so good. After that I went back editing podcasts, this time I worked on my Confessions of a Fanboy and actually finished it before I was too tired and had to go to bed.

So I didn't get everything done that I wanted too.. but it was a pretty productive weekend.

Going Gray.. not!!!

Today in between podcasting I took a break to dye my hair. Well at least over it up for six weeks (so the box says). I've used the "Just for Men" before and liked the results so I opted to do it again. And once again it turned out pretty good. It's funny the box says it only targets the gray hairs but it actually darkens all my hair, which I don't mind. It's only temporary and the gray will be back. I don't mind gray hair as the years pass I'm just happy to still have a little hair left to turn gray.

Recording with Teal

Today after work I headed over to my friends Teal and Ali's house for some dinner. Teal and I were also going to record an episode of my Knights of the Guild podcast. I haven't done a "regular" Knights of the Guild podcast in a few months and really want to get them going again.

So I got to their place around 7:30, we had some yummy dinner and good conversation. Around 8:30 I set up my studio in Teal's office. Was using all my new equipment (Thank you all). Teal was my guinea pig not only my first new co-host with this new formatted Knights of the Guild but I hadn't worked with this new equipment in the field yet. Everything looked great until I realized that Garageband only recorded for 8 minutes at a time. I knew there had to be away to change the length as many friends us it to record long podcasts but for the life of me I couldnt' figure it out. Luckily I had my back up plan and had my awesome new hand held recorder and after a few false starts we got the podcast going. After an hour we were done and I think for a first attempt it went pretty good. If you listen to my podcast you know it's very structured and this new format felt all over the place. It's going to take some creative editing to piece it all together but I'm liking the idea of this newly revamped format for Knights of the Guild.. hopefully the listeners will like it too. It was suppose to come out Sept. 15th but I think I'm going to wait and really make it good and release it on Oct. 1st as the new podcasts come out on the 1st of every month.

Anyways it was a fun night hanging with my buddy Teal.. she's a sweetheart.

Potter Happiness

Today after a very long and stressful week I came home to a package on my door step. I had an idea of what it was and was very excited. The past few years I've been collecting Harry Potter mini busts (among others) and a few weeks prior I had found this really good deal of a set of four Harry Potter busts, Luna, Dobby, Sirius and Harry Potter (1st edition). Now these busts pop up on ebay from time and time and each can go for $100 to $250 each. Well I put my max bid in for all four at $300 and when it ended I won them for $280 + $13 shipping. So I roughly paid $75 a figure, which in my book is pretty good and I got some really hard to find ones.

Well they arrived and I excitedly unpacked them one at a time. First was Luna and she looked great, then Dobby and again he looked fantastic and then I unpacked Harry and noticed that both of his hand were gone. I noticed that one was removable and must still be in the box but the other one had snapped off and was laying next to the figure. :( I was disappointed at first and was going to write the person but they did wrap them up in a ton of bubble wrap and did everything they could to protect them so I couldn't blame them. Luckily the break was under his sleeve and with a little super glue you would never know it has snapped off. I then opened Sirius who looked great. So proudly displayed them with the rest of my Harry Potter mini busts and it was a great way to end this crappy work week. I love HARRY POTTER!!!

Only A Few Weeks Left

Is what I keep telling myself to get through another day of this stressful job. I don't know why I keep putting myself through all this stress. Yes the money is good but it's not worth the headaches, chest pains and sleepless nights worrying how I'm going to get all this stuff done. My official last day on this job is my birthday Friday September 23rd, which is only two weeks away but my list of things to do is so long that I may have to come back the following week for a few days to finish everything. And if I don't get done by then I'll be back after my Florida vacation on Oct. 10th but I really don't want to do that. I just want this job to end!!!!

KOTG CompanionCast S5E7

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Show Notes:

It’s time once again for the next CompanionCasts for The Guild Season Five. First of all be sure you watched Episode 7 of season 5 “Downturn”. If you haven’t seen it yet watch it HERE

Our Season 4 CompanionCasts were a huge hit so we thought we would do them again for Season 5. So what is a CompanionCast?? It’s a behind the scene look at the current episode of The Guild.

I was on set everyday while they shot Season 5. As actors and crew were finished with scenes I would try and speak to them. Get some inside info about the scene they just shot. I also interviewed Felicia Day and Kim Evey about the storyline and Sean Becker about the directing. Each one of these CompanionCasts will be episode specific and will vary in length depending on how much guildie goodness I am able to gather.

In this CompanionCast I interview Sandeep Parikh, Jeff Lewis, Amy Okuda, Vince Caso, Robin Thorsen, Sean Becker, Greg Aronowitz, Maurissa Tancharoen, Leslie Crystal & Erin Gray.

I hope you enjoy a look behind the scenes of Season 5 Episode 7 “Downturn”

Kenny

Confessions of a Fanboy Logo

Check out my new logo for my new podcast Confessions of a Fanboy. My friend Ken Todd surprised me with this today.

This is the same awesome guy who sent me this fantastic drawing (picture) of me for my 40th birthday

Fires, Podcasts & Glee.. Oh My!!

Today have been an interesting day... got up early with plans to finish my next episode of Knights of the Guild CompanionCast S5E7 and MASH 4077 Podcast #16. I also wanted to do a bit of cleaning and replace my headlight and a fuse on my jeep.

Like yesterday I had a very hard time keeping myself motivated. Those remaining six episodes of Glee kept calling to me.  But I resisted (for a while) and get started. I strung out my next Knights of the Guild CompanionCast and then cut together the three hosts audio for my next MASH 4077 Podcast. I then took a break to get some breakfast and watch some TV. And like yesterday this was a mistake as I watched not one, not two, not three but four episodes of Glee. Glee has been a hit or miss with me, I mean that's why I left the last 9 episodes on my DVR for months. But once I start watching it sucks me right back in and I'm so in love with Blaine (Darrin Criss) and I enjoy his relationship with Kurt, I just had to keep watching. I still have two more episode in season 2 but I really needed to get back to podcasting.

So I decided to work on my next KOTG CompanionCast as that is due Thursday and my next MASH 4077 Podcast isn't due until the next, next Thursday (Sept. 15th). So I already know I'm not going to get both of these done and the KOTG needs to get done first. So I work on that one for an hour before I remember that I wanted to go buy a new headlight and some fuses for my jeep. I figured I'd pick up some lunch while I was out as well. So I went to Pep Boys and then do Del Taco and as I was heading home I noticed a think black smoke coming from over the hills where I live. As I got closer I realized the fire is still a few miles away from me but it's growing fast.

So for the next few hours I'm on high alert, I can see the fire from my home across the valley. And smell the smoke in the air but there really isn't anything I can do but wait and see. So I ate my lunch and yep you guessed it I watched the last two episodes of Glee from Season 2.  I really enjoyed the last nine episodes of the season. So happy to see that Kurt and Blaine's relationship is going so well. I was afraid they were going to have a rocky one.. but I was wrong. Went out to check on the fire and while I was out I replaced my headlight in my Jeep, that was an ordeal but in the end I got done. And for the fuse I couldn't find the one that went to my dash board and it was too bright to see if the one I did replace did the job.. will have to wait until it's dark to see if I fixed that.

Back in side and no more excuses I had to get at least one of my podcasts done so I continued to work on Knights of the Guild CompanionCast S5E7. As I blog this I'm about 2/3'ds of the day done and will put the finishing touches on it tomorrow.

Just noticed that my Confessions of a Fanboy podcast website is done and must go to investigate.

Fire is still going on but it seems that the firemen have everyone under control, let's just hope the winds stay down and everything goes well tonight.. I'll keep you all posted.

Confessions of a Fanboy #2

Hey all you Fanboys and Fangirls, it's time for another installment of Confessions of a Fanboy. On this episode I chat with fellow Podcaster and all around great guy Kevin Bachelder. You may not know his face but you will definitely know his voice as he's hosted some of the top "geeky" podcasts out there. The Signal, Scapecast, Seekercast and Tuning into Sci fi TV Podcast.

If you want to confess your fanboy or fangirl-ism to me send me an email at ConfessionsofaFanboy@gmail.com

You can also follow the podcast on Twitter @FanboyPodcast, or follow the Host Kenny @Geekyfanboy. You can also follow our guest Kevin at @kbachelder

Please go to our podcast page on Facebook and "Like" us.. just click HERE

My Sunday

Today I had planned to do nothing but podcasting. Since yesterday was my Dad's family BBQ and tomorrow is my Mom's family BBQ. So today I wanted to get another episode of Confessions of a Fanboy done as well as my next episode of Knights of the Guild CompanionCast and MASH 4077 Podcast.

Well in reality I wanted to do nothing, I wanted to just kick back and watch TV. I have quite a few TV series DVR'd. So I started preparing my next Confessions with an interview I did last month with my buddy and fellow podcaster Kevin Bachelder. Strung it out and started editing it. Took a break for lunch and started to watch a Glee episode.. which was not a good idea. I had nine episodes on my DVR so I watched one, then another and then a third before forcing myself to stop and get back to podcasting.

Finally got my next episode of Confessions of a Fanboy #2 with Kevin Bachelder all edited, leveled, converted and uploaded. By the time I got done it was late and I had gotten a call from my mom earlier today cancelling the BBQ for tomorrow so I figured I would go to bed and work on the next two podcasts tomorrow.

So I started off wanting to get 3 podcasts done but by the end of the day I had only finished one but I did get 3 episodes of Glee watched and loving it. Still got 6 more episodes to go, maybe I'll watch them tomorrow... no bad Kenny.. must get my podcasts done!!

Family BBQ

Today was my Dad's side of the family's Labor Day BBQ. I hadn't seen his side of the family for a few years. (They were supporters of Prop 8 - Anti Gay Marriage Bill here in CA) so we (Harry and I ) boycotted going to family events for a few years. But it really was only one of my cousins and her family. And they're not bad people just Mormons.

Anyways it was time to see them again and I really did miss them as we just found them five or so year ago (Dad was adopted, found Wally his half brother five years ago). So I drove to a park out in Lakewood (I think), got to meet alot of Wally's family, played some volleyball with my cousins kids as well as some croquet. Played with Kenobi at the playground. It was nice visiting with them. They always treat us like we've known each other all our lives. Can't wait to see them again at Christmas time.

KOTG CompanionCast S5E6

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Show Notes:

It’s time once again for the next CompanionCasts for The Guild Season Five. First of all be sure you watched Episode 6 of season 5 “Revolving Doors”.

Our Season 4 CompanionCasts were a huge hit so we thought we would do them again for Season 5. So what is a CompanionCast?? It’s a behind the scene look at the current episode of The Guild.

I was on set everyday while they shot Season 5. As actors and crew were finished with scenes I would try and speak to them. Get some inside info about the scene they just shot. I also interviewed Felicia Day and Kim Evey about the storyline and Sean Becker about the directing. Each one of these CompanionCasts will be episode specific and will vary in length depending on how much guildie goodness I am able to gather.

In this CompanionCast I interview Felicia Day, Kim Evey, Sandeep Parikh, Jeff Lewis, Amy Okuda, Vince Caso, Doug Jones, Robin Thorsen, Jillian Armenate, Sean Becker, Greg Aronowitz, Maurissa Tancharoen & More.

I hope you enjoy a look behind the scenes of Season 5 Episode 6 “Revolving Doors”

Kenny
© Geekyfanboy Productions

What A Day!!!

Well the day started off with an email from our EP just ripping apart one of the mixes of our show. Not the thing you want to wake up too in the morning. That's when I headache started. Drove into work, took Harry's truck as it was super hot and his truck as AC. Well about halfway to work his engine light comes on, great something else I have to worry about now. I make it work and it's as thought all the crazies was just waiting for me to walk through those doors.

I won't go into detail as many of you would have no idea what I was talking about and others would just find it boring. Needless to say that I can honestly say that this has been one of the worst works days I have had in a long time and that's saying something as I have had many bad works days as of late.

Anyways.. I was stressed out, still had the headache and my chest was hurting again. Not a good combination. I took a few minutes to calm down and remind myself that I don't care what happens here. I already quit once and if I would to be fired I would welcome it. I even considered quitting again as chest pains are not a good result of your work enviroment. But I mangaged to calm down and as the day went on I was able to get things under control so that by the time I left work things were back in order and I was able to enjoy my dinner plans.

Dinner was with one of my best buds Will. We hadn't seen each other in over two months which is way tooo long. We had a nice dinner and chat at Chevy's out in Burbank. He was working and took a dinner break so we couldn't hang for hours but we did get to spend some great time together and it's just what I needed after the horrible day I had.

So the day started on a low but ended on a high.. thanks Will

MASH 4077 Podcast Episode 15

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Kenny Mittleider from Knights of the Guild & Confessions of a Fanboy Podcasts, Simon Meddings from Waffle On Podcast, Al Kessel from Tales from the Mouse House, Fast Forward & Just Because Podcast and our special guest Harry Dauz discuss one of the most successful and longest running television series in history.. M*A*S*H

Today we cover Season 1, Episode #15 -Tuttle

Directed by William Wiard
Written by Bruce Shelley & David Ketchum
Production code J315
Original air date January 14, 1973

Set during the Korean War in the 1950’s

Plot Summary: Hawkeye creates a fake doctor (based on his imaginary friend from childhood), Captain Jonathan S. Tuttle, to give supplies to the local orphans. Henry wants Tuttle to be officer of the day, so Hawkeye creates a fake personnel file, and all his back pay is given to the orphanage. When General Clayton wants to reward his generosity by placing his picture in the newspaper and awarding him a medal. Hawkeye is forced to invent a story about Tuttle jumping from a chopper without his parachute! Of course, Trapper's new friend, Major Murdoch, obtained the fake dog tags and parachute...!

Hope you enjoy it,
Kenny

Editing KOTG CompanionCast S5E6

After work today I headed home and jumped on my computer and started editing the next CompanionCast for my Knights of the Guild podcast. Once again I string everything out and it's over 2 hours long with 14 interviews. I worked on it till midnight but my Avid was acting funky and finally when it crashed for a fifth or sixth time I took it as a sign to go to bed. I did get about 3 hours of work done on it and about about halfway done. Figure I'll get up early and get some editing time in before work tomorrow morning.

Lot's a great interviews in this episode. Season 5 of The Guild has been pretty epic and the companioncasts have been chuck full of awesome behind the scenes information. I hope to finish it tomorrow night and have it ready for it's Thursday night release.

Grocery Shopping

Well it's been several weeks since Harry left for Austria and I've been doing really well. I'm getting use to coming home to an empty house, sleeping and eating alone and watching TV by myself. I still have my moments when I open the door and expect an excited Daisy there to greet me. But today after work I went to Stater Bros. to pick up some groceries. This was the first time I've gone shopping by myself in eight years. This was always a couples thing that Harry and I did. When I got home and started bringing in the bags this overwhelming feeling of loneliness hit me. It was strange because it was so unexpected. I have been doing so well and getting use to being alone but now the panic and depression welled up inside me and my heart started to ache. It only lasted a half hour or so and then things went back to normal (or as normal as they are for me).

I know things won't be "normal" for a while but I thought I had gotten over the desperate feeling of loneliness, but I guess doing something that I've always done with Harry by myself effect me more then I thought. This is a learning process..

My Sunday

Since I didn't get done as much as I was hoping for yesterday I really wanted to focus on doing nothing but podcasting today. Got up at 8am and had to watched the last six episodes of MASH season one as I was having a skype call with my buddies Al and Simon so we could record episodes 19 to 24 of our MASH 4077 Podcast. Took a few hours to watch those six episodes and then I worked on MASH 4077 podcast episode 15 which is due to be released on September 1st. Worked on it a few hours before having to stop and jump on this skype call at noon. Took us 3 hours to record our six episode but it's always a blast recording with Al and Meds (Simon).

After the recording I headed out to grab a bite to eat. Got home and watched an hour of TV before jumping back on the computer around 5pm and at about 6pm I was finally finished with my first pass for the next MASH podcast. I then took a break to clean up my pantry/laundry room. Got back to work and did my 2nd pass on the MASH podcast (that's when I add the audio clips from the episode). That took a few hours and around 8:00pm I finished with it and finally was ready to do my final "polish" pass and that took me another hour or so. So at 9pm I had finally finished editing my next MASH podcast. I leveled the audio, converted the file and uploaded it in a half hour. Podcast #2 is done, finished Confessions of a Fanboy #1 yesterday and MASH 4077 Podcast #15 today. But I still had one more to finish. I knew it was hopeless so my new plan was to string out all the interviews for my next Knights of the Guild CompanionCast S5E6. There were 14 interviews and over 2 hours of audio and at 11pm I finally finished the stringout. Still got alot of work to do on it and if I wasn't so tired I would try to start editing but I'd rather get some much needed rest. I have a few days before this podcast is due so I'll be working on it the next few nights after work.

It was a Podcast kind of weekend. Launched a new podcast, got another episode done for my MASH podcast and got started working on my new KOTG CompanionCast. Also recorded audio for my MASH podcast episodes 19 - 24. Cleaned a few rooms in my house and visited family and got the best news I could wish for.... all in all it was a pretty good weekend.

Confessions of a Fanboy #1

Hey all you Fanboys and Fangirls, it's finally here... the first episode of my new Podcast all about being a fan. Figured since I'm a fanboy I'll start off with my own Confession.

If you want to confess your fanboy or fangirl-ism to me send me an email at ConfessionsofaFanboy@gmail.com

You can also follow us on Twitter @FanboyPodcast, or follow the Host Kenny @Geekyfanboy

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My Saturday

So this weekend I have 3 different podcasts that I need to, if not finish, get a big portion of them done. So I got up around 7am and started working on episode 15 of my MASH 4077 Podcast. After several hours of editing and needed a break so I went and cleaned my kitchen. When I got back to my computer I decided to try and record and finish my very first Confessions of a Fanboy podcast. I recorded some of it a few days ago but still had some more recording and then editing of the podcast. 

At 10am I decided to take another break and this time I went out and did some much needed yard work. It was hot, in the high 90's so I only lasted a half hour, but got quite a bit of work done. After that I had to take a shower and get ready to go visit my Dad.

At 11:30am I headed out to my Dad's and arrived around 1pm. Had a nice visit with my Dad, had lunch, and took him shopping. He had his final chemo treatment a few days prior and so he didn't have a lot of energy so we took our time. I did get some great news.. as of my Dad's latest doctors appointment they did a cat scan and couldn't find any more cancer. All test were negative so the doctors have said he is now cancer free. His while blood cell count is below average and that's because the chemo kills the bad cells but also kills the good. So he'll need to take some meds for the next few months but he should be back to normal in no time.

I got back on the road around 4pm and arrived home at 6:30pm. Had some dinner and then jumped back on the computer to hope and finish both my MASH and Confessions of a Fanboy podcast. Well that didn't quite happen. I did finish my first episode of my new podcast Confessions of a Fanboy so I feel as thought I accomplished something... but that leaves two podcasts that I have to finish tomorrow. Oh well will see what happens.

A Magical Delivery

Well if you keep up with my blog you know last month I was robbed at San Diego Comic Con and along with all my podcasting equipment they took my Harry Potter wand. Now like any good Wizard I have to have a wand so I went on Ebay and planned on purchasing a replacement wand but there were so many cool ones to choose from so I got all SEVEN of them. And here they are...

Oh almost forgot they all light up as well.. soooo coooool (click on photo for larger version)

Hermione's Wand

Voldermort's Wand

Dumbledore's Wand (Elder Wand)

Mad Eye Moody's Wand

Sirius Black Wand

Ron's Wand

Harry's Wand

KOTG CompanionCast S5E5

Download from itunes - http://bit.ly/KotGCast or listen, get direct download at http://bit.ly/2CrYxk

 

Show Notes:

It’s time once again for the next CompanionCasts for The Guild Season Five. First of all be sure you watched Episode 5 of season 5 “Focus Problem”. If you haven’t seen it yet watch it HERE

Our Season 4 CompanionCasts were a huge hit so we thought we would do them again for Season 5. So what is a CompanionCast?? It’s a behind the scene look at the current episode of The Guild.

I was on set everyday while they shot Season 5. As actors and crew were finished with scenes I would try and speak to them. Get some inside info about the scene they just shot. I also interviewed Felicia Day and Kim Evey about the storyline and Sean Becker about the directing. Each one of these CompanionCasts will be episode specific and will vary in length depending on how much guildie goodness I am able to gather.

In this CompanionCast I interview Felicia Day, Kim Evey, Sandeep Parikh, Jeff Lewis, Amy Okuda, Vince Caso and Greg Aronowitz

I hope you enjoy a look behind the scenes of Season 5 Episode 5 “Focus Problem”
Kenny

Professional Podcaster

So my current TV gig is ending in less then a month (Whoo hooo). I'm really trying hard to not go back into TV Post production supervising because as I am getting older the stress of the job is taking a larger toll on me mentally and physically. So what do I do instead. 40 is pretty late in life on a career change and my next career I would love to have less stress and I don't need to make a ton of money as long as I can pay for my mortgage and monthly expense then I'll be good. So what to do?? PODCASTING!!!

Well I love Podcasting; creating, producing, editing and hosting.. it's all tons of fun and I think I'm pretty good at it. Unfortunately podcasting doesn't pay and even costs money for URL's, websites and podcast servers. I got to thinking my podcasts numbers are decent Knights of the Guild is averaging 6000 to 14000 a month and my MASH 4077 is averaging about 2500 downloads a month. I'm also starting up my new Confessions of a Fanboy podcast so will see what the numbers are like for that one as well. Regardless, if I was able to charge 99 cents per episode/download that would be a nice monthly income. But I do realize that paying for a podcast is not the "norm", that most podcasts are free to download. I'm sure I would lose a lot of listeners because of it, but even if a 1/3 of my listeners stuck with me and paid the 99 cents per download,  I could survive on that and create even more fun podcasts and making podcasting my new career.

Of course there is always a plan B. Again my numbers are decent I might be able to get some advertising and/or sponsorship and go that route. But without HUGE numbers I wouldn't be able to charge enough money to survive solely on my podcasting.

These ideas are all still in there early stages, gotta do a bit more research on both charging for podcasts and finding advertisers and sponsorship. Unfortunately that means I may have to take another stress filled post job before I can put anything of my plans into action. But I'm determined to make my future living as a professional podcaster.

Chatting with Felicia

Tonight after a 2 hour 10 minute commute home I barely had time to take off my shoes before I had to be online and chatting with Felicia Day over skype for some upcoming Knights of the Guild CompanionCasts. We discussed episodes 505 and 506 (this weeks and next weeks episodes) Felicia was kind enough, on her one day off from Eureka to chat with me. As always it was a fun chat. I love hearing Felicia's thoughts on these episodes, you really get some detailed behind the scenes information that you can't get any where else. After the interview I tried to edit a bit more of the next CompanionCast (due out Thursday PM) but was too tired and went to bed around 10 knowing I had to get up early for a conference call with New York MTV.

Heading Over to the Whedon's

Today after work I had the pleasure of going over to Maurissa Tancharoen Whedon's house to sit down and do an interview with her for some upcoming Knights of the Guild podcast. Her character Alena appeared in episode 4 and I unfortunately wasn't able to interview her for that episode but I wanted to make sure I got her for future episodes.  Well I got to her place around 7:30pm and she graciously welcomed me into her home. I set up my Ipad to watch the episodes we would be talking about. Jed came downstairs and joined us. After the episodes we did the interview for about thirty minutes. Got lots of great information and also got an update for her fans on Mo's health... btw she looks fantastic!!

After the interview Maurissa and I just sat around and chatted about life for the next hour and a half. It was great. I meet Maurissa on the set of Do You Want to Date My Avatar (as she was a dancer and Jed was directing it). We chatted for a bit then and a few other times at wrap parties or Felicia's gaming parties and even on set but we never got any real good one on one time with each other... until tonight and it was so much fun. We talked about her current health situation and my person life craziness as of late. She let me in on a few upcoming project that she and Jed are working on, she also took me upstairs where they do all their audio recording and editing. 

About 9:30pm I said my good night and headed home. It was a fantastic way to end my day. Hopefully we have many more "hangouts" in our future.

My Return to Disneyland

Today I went to Disneyland to meet up with some "online" friends from Arizona. Both Al and his wife Joyce are huge Disney Fanatics and both have become really close to me though we had never met in person. They were here for D23, which is a big Disney convention so I thought it was time for me to visit the part again and finally meet two of my closest friends in person. They were in panels until around noon so I left my house around 9:30am and got the part around 11am. I've been wanting to buy and annual pass for a while now so when I got there I went to get it. I had planned to get a Deluxe ($380) one which allows you in both parks 315 days a year, which isn't bad. But then Joyce texted me and said "you should consider the Premium pass ($500) as you'll be paying $15 to park everytime you come" so it got me thinking, you pay $80 for one day pass at one park and $15 to park that's $95 a visit for one park only. If I come 6 times in a year that will pay for the Premium pass and you get free parking and you can visit both parks 365 days a year. Oh and you get 10 to 20% off food and merchandise.. sounded like a win win to me. I mean this was my first visit, I'm coming back again next month at the end of September and then once again in October when a friend comes down from Michigan. So that's three times in three months.. and who's to say I won't go in between those time.  Needless to say I got the premium pass.

I got into Disneyland around 11:30am and I figured my friends Al and Joyce would be heading over around Noon so I didn't want to get on any rides so I kind of wandered around, took some pictures, did lots of people watching.. it was actually nice being at Disneyland and not having to rush around feeling like you have to do to everything because you paid so much for your one day pass. Now I can leisurely enjoy the park. Al and Joyce made it over to Disneyland a little after 1pm.  They though they would sneak up on me by not telling me they were actually in the park but I actually spotted them and kind of followed behind them as they looked for. Until I finally said.. "who are  you looking for" It was like greeting old friends. If felt as though we've known each other for many years.. and the fact is we have known each other for a few years just never met in person.

First thing we did was grab some corn dogs as I was starving. After corn dogs we headed over to Star Tours (of course) and got in line. Said was going to be an hour but it actually took about 2 hours to get on. But I don't mind lines as long as I have someone to talk too. This was going to be my first time on the new and improved Star Tours. There are 54 different scenarios/combinations you can get. There are 4 different variation to the story.. (1) We got Darth Vader attacking (2) then went to Tatooine and got in a pod racing game (3) Yoda came to us (4) we were in a battle over Coruscant and then flew into the planet and through traffic. The new ride is so much fun.. felt like it just flew by. I can see myself riding this again and again and again.

After Star Tours we headed to Space Mountain.. at least Joyce and I did  as Al is not a big fan of roller coasters. It was nice having some one on one time with Joyce. She's one of the sweetest people I know and we've had some great talks over facebook. We had a great time on Space Mountain.

We met back up with Al and I wanted to go shopping. I wanted to pick up a Captain EO tshirt and a few Star Tours thing. I got my Captain EO shirt and also picked up an AWESOME Star Tours tshirt and one of my most favorite things my R2D2 Mickey ears with my name on the back.

After we did that we headed over to Disney California Adventure to go on the new Little Mermaid ride. That was actually alot of fun. Kind of reminded me of the Haunted Mansion (but less scary of course) same type of chairs and mover. But well worth the hour wait in line.

We then went and had dinner at an Italian restaurant which I can't remember the name of but it was some very good food. After that we headed over to the Toy Story ride (which I have never done) and stood in live for a good hour or so for that ride and I have to say that is one of my new favorites. I had blast trying to beat Al.. in the end he killed me but it was so much fun.. that's defiantly a must ride when I visit the parks.

I really wanted to do ElecTRONica so they took me over to that section and it was like a big Rave.. loud music and laser lights all over the place.. it was pretty great.

It's was now 9:30pm and I had planned to stay to Midnight but that wasn't going to happen. I was tired and my feet were hurting and I still have at least an hour and fifteen minute drive home, but before we left Al and Joyce had never had a Churro so of course I had to buy them one and they both really enjoyed them. After that we said our goodbyes and I got back on the tram to go to my car. Finally got on the road around 10pm and traffic was pretty heavy but I did manage to get home around 11:30pm.

Anyways it was a wonderful day. I finally got to meet two of my best friends and it was great visiting Disneyland again and now that I have my annual pass I'm sure I'll be going several times a month if not more.. that place is and will always be Magical!!!

You can check out more pictures HERE