KOTG Microcast #15 - Quest for S3 DVD Extras

Show Notes:

Today we do a skype chat with some Guild fans who were lucky enough to get an advance copy of The Guild Season Three DVD. On our skype chat we discuss the Extras that come with the DVD. Please note that we will be talking about the extras in detail so there will be SPOILERS.

Our Guests for this Skype Call are: Eva, Higlet, Brian K, Chris F, Jeff V, Edgar G, Jenni and Kenny

Thank you all for taking the time and chatting with us.

On Monday, February 15th, Season 3 arrives on DVD exclusively on Amazon.com with a retail price of $14.95.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0031ESNZG?ie=UTF8&tag=watchtheguild-20&creativeASIN=B0031ESNZG

Bonus features on the DVD include “Do You Want to Date My Avatar” Music Video, The Making of “Do You Want to Date My Avatar,” the Halloween episode, Guild Applicant Rejects, How to Build Vork’s Sword, Audio Commentary with the Cast, Audio Commentary with the Creator, Director and Producer, Axis of Anarchy Interviews, Gag Reels, PDF of Script, Play All Feature and English Subtitles. The Amazon.com DVD release comes on two DVD-R discs by Amazon’s Create Space, and is NTSC format, region-free.

Hope you enjoy it…

Thanks,

Kenny & Jenni

Other Important Links

• Knights of the Guild Feeds/Downloads http://knightsoftheguild.com
• Knights of the Guild Daily Blog http://knightsoftheguildpodcast.blogspot.com/

Recording a Podcast

I had scheduled to record a podcast even though we had friends over, I was willing to give them a half hour of my time so I could get back to my friends. Well things didn't turn out as I had planned. We were recording a skype call with several Guild fans who were given the Season 3 DVD early and we were to talk about the DVD extras. It was to start a 5 and right from the beginning people kept dropped out of the call. We tried and tried to get everyone in the call but kept losing folks.. finally around 5:45 I went out to my friends and told them that we haven't even started yet. That I was sorry but I wasn't sure how long it was going to take. They understood and we had a nice visit so they decided to head home as it was getting late.

Went back to the skype call and finally made the call that we would just have to start without everyone. This was already taking a hour and we hadn't even begun yet. So we started around 6:00 and I then had issues with my recording programs as it wouldn't record the conversation. Instead of restarting my computer we had several other folks on the call record it. So about 6:10 we started his skype chat.

The chat moved along, folks were dropped and I'd add them back again and again. Finally around 7pm we finished this "quick" skype call. Brian emailed me his recording of the call, which was okay but had some audio glitches but it was the best we had.. Now I had to edit it and post it on our website as the DVD is coming out in a few days. I finally got everything edited and posted around 11pm. In the end it turned out to be a pretty cool podcast.

Lunch with Friends

Today our friends John and Moises came out to our house to visit for the first time. We also have a nice BBQ and played some board games. They seemed to really like our place which makes all our hard work worth it. It was a nice and relaxing visit. It's always nice hanging out with those two.

Taxes (Results)

This morning when I got up I had an email from my tax guy with the estimates of my Federal and State refund checks.. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised for Federal it looks like I'm getting 7 times the amount I normally do and for State it looks like 6 times the amount.. needless to say I was very happy. Just one thing stands in the way. I need my house paperwork showing that I actually purchased the house to get the $8000 deduction, and of course the paperwork I have there are no official signatures so I'm waiting to hear from my tax guy on what I need to provide next. Hopefully it's an easy fix and I will get close to the estimates that he provided.

Taxes

Today I went to see my Tax guy and do my 2009 taxes. I knew this year would be a bit different since I purchased a house. I normally go in and we sit down for a half hour and go over all my expenses and such and then he gives me an estimate on how much I'll be getting back from Federal and State (as I've always gotten a refund). This time because of the addition of the house and all the deductions that come with that he was unable to give me a number which kind of worried me but he did say that I should still be getting a refund. So now I have to wait and see just how much of a refund.

KOTG T-shirts

Wow the past few weeks I've been a little giveaway happy. I've given away at least 10 KOTG T-shirts. Either by doing quick contests or just wanted to give some shirts out to those who support the podcast. This morning I packed up a bunch of them to take to the post office along with autographed pictures for those who made donations.. well the weather worked against me and I was unable to get to the post office.. hopefully tomorrow things will be better.. so if I owe you a shirt or autograph picture it's been delayed a day.

Work around the House

Because I was so lazy on the weekend and didn't get nearly as much stuff done as I wanted to I figured when I got home from work I could start working on some minor things.. so tonight I putted up some chunks of trim that were knocked out when pictures fell. And also putted up some holes in our master bathroom. Once they dry I can sand them down and paint them. Slowly but surely we are going to get these things done.

Dinner

Tonight when I got home and as soon as I opened the door a wonder smell greeted me. Three times last week and now today Harry has made dinner. He's using his German cook book and making some wonderful dishes. I can get use to coming home from work and having dinner made for me already.

Lazy Sunday

Today we had planned to finish up the painting but may both Harry and I are burnt out and didn't feel like doing it.. instead we sat in front of the TV and chilled. I felt horrible for not doing some work but obviously I didn't feel bad enough to get up and do it. I mean we still have two weeks before the housewarming. ( I know this will come back to bit me in the butt). But because I felt guilty for not painting and wanted to feel productive.. I went ahead with Harry's help and built our office chairs and the DVD rack.

Building chairs is fun.. and it's even more fun when you put things on backwards and have to un-build it. This happen to both Harry and I. And then the DVD rack.. I thought that was going to be the death of me. I guess I wasn't in the building mood.. building this DVD rack frustrated me so much.. but in the end we have some great office chairs and a pretty nice looking DVD rack.

So this day wasn't a total lose.. but I didn't do nearly as much as I wanted to.