WE DID IT!!!!!

Today we went past 100,000 downloads. When I started Knights of the Guild podcast I never thought in my wildest dreams that it would hit 100,000 downloads. Thank you to all our loyal listeners who come back time and time again and enjoy the bantering of Jenni and I. We call this a "Fans" podcast not only because Jenni and I are "Fans' but because this podcast is all about The Guild Fans. The Guild was built around it's fans and it's the fans that got us to 100,219 downloads as of 9pm 7/17/2010

Editing Podcasts

This past week I have been working on editing podcasts. Since Comic Con is next week I am really trying to get as many podcasts done before then. Today I spent the entire day working on these.

My current goal is finishing CompanionCasts for the first 3 episodes of The Guild (currently got 2 done). A regular podcast Episode 18 pt2 (almost done just waiting for two segments still to be recorded) and an surprise Microcast (which is done).

So as of now I have 1 CompanionCast for S4E3 and finishing Ep18 pt2. All in all I'm very happy with how much I have done this week. Should get done before next Tuesday when I head down to San Diego.

The Last Airbender

Harry and I just got back from seeing this movie. Now first let me say that I have heard nothing be bad reviews and comments about this movie. But from the previews both Harry and I wanted to see it. Again when I tweeted that I was in the theater getting ready to watch this movie I got over 15 replies saying things like.. "Run for your life" , " Get out while you still can", "You can't unsee this stuff once you watch it"... and so on.

When it ended I turned to Harry and said so what did you think. He looked at me and said I don't know what everyone is talking about.. I loved it.. and I said I know.. whats up with that... I loved it too.

It was a cool story, beautifully shoot, AWESOME effects, I felt for the main character and it was non-stop action. All in all it was a fun entertaining movie.

I have to say that I have never seen the TV series, but even if I had I would have still loved this movie. I am one of those rare people who understand what an adaptation is. I know it's not going to be like the TV series.. it's another persons idea of the same story... ie Harry Potter

I still can't get over the SFX.. they show alot of them in the commercials but man there are so much more. And the ice castle and temples are amazing looking. I know some have complained about the casting as most of the cartoon characters are Asian and they weren't Asian in the movie. Part of me understand why that route as an all Asian cast wouldn't sell to the masses.. it's sad but true. I think they casted very well all the main characters. The other thing is this only book one of the story.. though there is a beginning, middle and end they do leave the story open for book 2.

Anyways.. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. If you want a fun, entertaining ride then go see this movie and don't pay attention to all the haters out there.

A Visit from Lydia

My friend Lydia from Switzerland/Germany came to LA before heading down to San Diego for Comic Con. We've been trying to hang out all week and finally on her last day we manage to accomplish it. Harry and I wanted to take her out to Vasquez Rocks since it's only a few miles from us. Only issue is it's over 100 degrees. We figured we'd go and at least show her the place.

When we got there they were filming a movie, signs said HIRO but looked like Firefly to me. Maybe it's the new Mad Max film. Anyways we got out and walked around a bit. Even though it was hot she wanted to take a little hike. About a half hour later and a lot more hiking Lydia hit a wall and couldn't go any further. While she rested in the shade with Harry I quickly got back to the truck and drove to as close as I could got pick them up. Harry says she was really bad for a moment and looked like she was going to pass out... she didn't luckily and both made it back to the truck.

Once back at home both Harry and Lydia looked like they had heat stroke. Lydia actually took a shower to cool down and rinse off. After 2o minutes or so both were fine and ready for lunch. Since Lydia is a vegetarian I questioned my plans to take her to Islands (one of our favorite places) but they had veggie burgers and she was cool with that. So we had lunch, came back home and chatted for a bit. She debated on leaving at 4ish and dealing with traffic or leaving at 7ish and getting to SD really late.. she opted for 4ish and dealing with traffic.

It was a fun visit.. other then almost killer her from a heat stroke.

Knights of the Guild Ep 18 pt1

THIS PODCAST IS DEDICATED TO OUR FRIEND JIM QUON AKA SCARBUCK

Show Notes:

Here it is Episode 18 part 1 of Knights of the Guild… Enjoy!!!

Today’s show features:

• * First up a classic Vorkism
• * We are recording this weeks podcast live in a secret location.
• * We discuss the latest Guild News
• * We have a great interview with crew member Stephanie Rose

• * We also announce winners of our end of month contest for June and our winner for our Business Time Contest as well as talk about continuing contests
• * Then Business Time (I continue to use our contest entries as they are so good)
• * Then our Good byes

Thank you again for all your support, we do this podcast because we are fans and more importantly for the fans.

Kenny & Jenni

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KOTG CompanionCast S4E1

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Show Notes:

Here is our very first CompanionCast for Season 4 of The Guild. First of all be sure you watched Episode 1 of season 4. If you haven’t seen it yet watch it here.

What is a CompanionCast?? It’s a behind the scene look at the current episode of The Guild.

I visited the set everyday while they shot Season 4. 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 Beacker about the directing. Each one of these CompanionCasts will be episode specific and will vary in length depending on how much guildie goodness I was about to gather.

In this CompanionCast I interview Felicia Day, Kim Evey, Sean Becker, Sandeep Parikh, Jeff Lewis, Tymberlee Hill and Greg Aronowitz

I hope you enjoy a look behind the scenes of Season 4 Episode 1 “Epic Guilt”

Kenny

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Podcast Craziness

As many of you know I do the official podcast for the webseries The Guild. Well because of my vacation by podcast duties go a bit behind. Not only am I doing our regular podcast, microcasts, and minicast I've added something else to my duties.. CompanionCasts.

If you read my blog on a regular bases then you know I worked on set of the Guild. This season I was solely there as a podcaster, gathering interviews about the upcoming season. And now that Season 4 is about to begin I have to create this brand new podcast.

So the past four days (Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday) I have been working on various podcasts. I have to do 3 CompanionCasts, 2 Regular podcasts and 1 Special podcast. All by next Tuesday.

I currently have 1 CompainCast done, and just in time as it is released tomorrow (or midnight tonight). I finished 1 regular podcast Ep. 18 part 1 which is due Thursday July 15th. Once those are done I have to work on 2 more CompainCast for episode 2 (which is released next Tuesday, which means my cast has to be done by Wednesday) and 3. Then part 2 of episode 18 which we still have to record a part of it. And I have to get all these done by Tuesday of next week as I'm heading out to Comic Con on Wednesday and will be gone until Sunday evening.

So I have lots of work ahead of me. I'll be spending most of the rest of this week working on these podcasts. I'm hoping now that I have 2 done the rest will be easier to finish.. I hope.

Top Secret Project

Today was a ton of fun. I got up early to get there. Once there it was nothing but fun and excitement. Got to meet some new people and hang out with old friends. It was a super long day 8am to 11pm but it was chuck full of OMG and I can't believe they did that moments. Will be doing this all again tomorrow. Can't wait until I can share what it exactly it is I did.

(BTW this is the only picture I can show that doesn't give away anything or does it...)

Home Sweet Home

Today I did very little.. did a little unpacking, had to go grocery shopping (as we made sure we had no food before we left for our trip) and tried to caught up on some internet stuff but for the most part I did nothing but relax and catch up on some TV that we had recorded during our vacation. It's good to be home!!!

2010 Pacific Northwest Road Trip

17 Days, 8 States and over 4000 miles. Harry, Daisy and I had a fantastic vacation/road trip. For the most part everything went as planned. We didn't have any issues with the truck and only a few issues with the hotels. Daisy was wonderful, if not over protective at times and Harry and I got to see some very beautiful sites.

I know I was ready to come home when we did but Harry said he could continue to travel for another few months.

I'm not going to go into great detail about the trip as I did written and video blogs every night of the trip. If you want details read/watch my previous posts.

I'm looking forward to getting my life back to normal, or as normal as my life can get. I was excited to get up this morning and not have to drive anywhere.. that was a great feeling.

I will be traveling again at the end of the month for Comic Con but that's down in San Diego and only a few hours drive.. I think I can handle that.

Hope you enjoyed my daily blog and felt as thought you got to travel with us during our 2010 Pacific Northwest road trip.

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Pacific Northwest Road Trip - Day 17

This is the final day of our 2010 vacation / road trip. We are driving from St. George, Utah to our home in Agua Dulce, California. We took an unusual way home as both Harry and I are not fans of the Arizona Governor and her ultra right wing garbage with immigrants and gays. So instead of driving the 50 miles stretch of the 15 through Arizona Harry routed an alternate route.. only issue was that it was 135 miles out of our way and would add 2 1/2 hours of travel time. I was willing to over look hating Arizona and just get through that state as quickly as possible but Harry was adamant not to set foot there and I understood where he was coming from and agreed to drive the extra miles.

I'm kind of glad we did as it was an adventure into it's own. Harry mapped out everything on google maps but our travels didn't go as planned. We got to the highway that Harry had mapped out but soon it turned into a highway that we didn't know about and shortly after that it turned into a dirt road. Yeah we were in the middle of Utah/Nevada desert on a dirt road hoping we were going the correct way. When we hit a fork in the road we started to panic.

Harry had no idea which way to go and there was no clue as to which road to take. So we used our trusty GPS (which btw didn't show us on any road, just showed us driving in the middle of nowhere) I zoomed out on the GPS as far as it would go and saw that the 319 (which is the highway we were looking to connect with) was north of us so we took the north fork. Another half hour and we saw a sign that said 319 15 miles ahead. I could breath again... still had to drive on a dirt road but we knew we were going in the right direction.

After that we made it to the 319 then to the 93 and finally back onto the 15 and into Vegas. It was a long and crazy detour but a fun adventure.

Once it Vegas I knew we would hit traffic as it was the Fourth of July holiday traffic and it was Monday so everyone would be heading home.. I was hoping we were early enough to miss the traffic but I was wrong. Took about an hour and a half to drive from downtown Vegas to Primm (CA/NV border). After that we hit pockets of traffic here and there and in the end it added about 2 1/2 hours to our already extended trip home.

But at 8:30pm we made it home and man there is no place like home. I know Harry could have traveled for a few more months but I was happy to be home.

I'll write up an overview of the past 17 days in the next few days.. Thanks to everyone who has followed my video/written blogs for the past 17 days... hope you were entertained and enjoyed them.

Pacific Northwest Road Trip - Day 16

Today was the last day of sightseeing of our 2010 Vacation. We planned to visit Zion National Park. So we left around 10 am, took I-15 to Highway 9 and followed it east. about 1 hour later we got to Zion. We checked the map and it turns out that most of the features of Zion can be explored if you go backpacking. Since dogs are not allowed on trails, that wasn't really an option. So we drove through the southern part of Zion. That are about 15 miles or so, but it was still very impressive and the rock formations are incredible. Something that definitely has be experience in person. We have to go back to Zion in the future and without the dog to go backpacking. We crossed Zion from West to East and by the time we reached the East Entrance it was just a little after noon. People told us that we should go visit Bryce Canyon National Park while we were down here.. so we looked it up on the map and saw that it was about 60 miles north of were we were so we decided to go up and check it out.

So we took US Route 89 north to Highway 12. We followed highway 12 east. While on the 12 we came across a place called Red Canyon and OMG.. there was some of the most amazing looking rock formations that I had ever seen. It was like driving on Mars.. everything was an organish red. It's hard to describe the beauty of the lands, it's something that really needs to be experienced in person. At every view point we stopped and took a ton of pictures and video.

After the Red Canyon we followed highway 12 and got to the entrance of Bryce Canyon National Park. Our first stop was called Swamp Canyon. You have a pretty good view of parts of Bryce Canyon and here it becomes clear, why it is called a canyon. Until that point it reminded us more of your average forest. We drove further up and decided to stop at most of the view points on our way back down, since they all were on the opposite side.

We finally made it to Rainbow Point, the endpoint of the road and with an elevation of 9115 feet also the highest point of the canyon. From this point you have an absolutely amazing 180 degree view... And man what an fantastic view. The Hoodoo's are absolutely stunning. A Hoodoo is a Sandstone Columns, it's something that I have never seen before.

After we had taken pix and video we started to drive back down. We stopped at several view points and from every view point we had an absolutely stunning view. One that was pretty cool was called Natural Bridge. It's kind of a rock bridge, but it reminded me way more of an arch. Regardless it was just amazing to look at. After taking pix and video we continued to drive down Bryce Canyon. We stopped at several amazing viewing points before we got to Bryce Pointe... WOW.. that is all I can say about that view. I can't even put it into words. I have to say that this is the best thing I have seen on our entire trip.. and I've seen some really beautiful stuff.. this view took my breath away. While I was taking pictures I saw way down at the bottom what looked like a hiking trail... the only thing I thought was, that this has to be one of the most amazing hiking trails I have ever seen. Guess we will have to go back to Bryce Canyon and hike that entire trail, but in order to do so we have to leave the dog at home.

Next up was a viewing point called Paria View. This point had some great views, but doesn't even compare to Bryce Pointe. We then saw Inspiration Point, Sunset Point and Sunrise Point. Though they were all great views after Bryce Pointe, nothing would compare.

We headed back through Red Canyon and back on the freeway. It took 2 hours to get back to our hotel, we picked up some Wendy's for dinner and called it a night.

All in all it was a great day.. so glad we decided to head to Bryce Canyon because if we didn't we wouldn't have seen Red Canyon or the stunning views of Bryce Canyon.

Pacific Northwest Road Trip - Day 15

Today was pretty much a travel day. We were going down to St. George (UT) since we will be visiting Zion National Park tomorrow, and St. George was the closest city where we were able to get a hotel.

We got up at our usual time and started to get ready. By 10 am the truck was all packed up and we were ready to leave. So we took US Route 191 North until we reached the junction with I-70. We followed I-70 to the junction with US Route 6. We stayed on I-70 and followed it west.

I-70 was so much more interesting to drive than the I-15, as the areas you drive through are more diverse. There are a couple of view points along the freeway that we checked out. Two of them were Black Dragon Canyon and Bottom of the Sea. Black Dragon Canyon is a mini version of the Grand Canyon and therefore very impressive. Bottom of the Sea is, like the name suggests, the former ocean floor and quite an impressive site as well.

The only thing that you have to consider when traveling the I-70 is the fact that you should make sure you have enough gas. We didn't fill the truck up at the junction with US Route 6 and you have only 1 chance to fill up for about 106 miles.

We weren't sure if we were going to make it to Salina, so we got off the freeway and drove to the little town of Emery (UT), it was about 12 miles from the freeway and we got gas there. So we filled the truck up and headed back to the freeway.

We probably could have made it to Salina, but it was better to not take the chance. We got off the freeway in Salina anyway and had lunch at Denny's. We got back onto the freeway and continued to head south-west until we hit I-15. we got onto I-15 and headed south. At the next rest stop I took over the driving.

The further we got south the hotter it got. So far it hadn't been that bad... It has been around 85 all day long. That changed during the last 30 miles, when the temperature went up to 100. Pretty toasty. At 4.30 pm we had finally made it to the hotel in St. George (UT).

Looking forward to Zion tomorrow.

Pacific Northwest Road Trip - Day 14

Today we took a trip into Arches National Park. Since we were staying in Moab (UT) we were only a couple of minutes from the park entrance. We started driving into the park and stopped right at the beginning at a point where you had a great look at the Moab Fault. We then continued driving through the park. And the same thing as in Glacier National Park was happening. You see one absolutely great view and you turn around to find an even more amazing view. We got to see lots of absolutely amazing rock formations. You just have to see these in person as there are no words to adequately describe them.

Our next stop was a point called Courthouse Towers. An absolutely stunning rock formation. As always Harry and I took lots of pix and video. Next up was a stop at the Petrified Sand Dunes. As the name suggests it's a rock formation that looks like sand dunes frozen in stone.

Up next was the Balanced Rock. This formation features a large rock being balanced on a very small surface. It's incredible how it sits there right on top and not falling over. We stopped at a formation called the Garden of Eden.

Next up was our first real arch. This feature is called Windows. I walked up and took quite lots of video. I got also to take same video of the second arch of the Windows arch feature. Since we had the dog we had to take turns going on the path and checking out the three arches. Harry took the video and I took photos. We got to see the North and South Arch and what they call The Turret Arch.. all of them were amazing.

Next up was an overview point from where you have a very good overlook over the 'Salt Valley'.
Then we checked out the "Delicate Arch". I walked up first and checked out the lower and the upper view point. Turns out that it doesn't really matter which view point you choose, you pretty much have the same view and man it's a long walk up to the second higher view point. I saved Harry from doing it. The only way to get a really good look of that arch, would be to take the 3 mile long hike to the arch, which we couldn't do since we had Daisy with us.

Next up was "Fiery Furnace", again this is something that needs to be viewed in person as it's so hard to describe it's beauty. The next stop was an arch called "Skylight Arch". It's another cool looking arch.

Once we were done with that, we drove to "Devils Garden", were the road ends. We took pix and video, but couldn't go up to any of the features since that would have been a longer hike and since dogs are not allowed on trails that wasn't an option. So we didn't see Landscape Arch and a couple of other arches.

All in all it was a great day.. it amazes me how Glacier National Park was so beautiful with it's waterfalls, lakes and green everywhere. And Arches was just as beautiful with it's rock, dirt and brown everywhere.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Poster

Today the WB released a teaser poster for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows parts 1 & 2.

This poster is amazing and gives me chills every time I look at it. What do you think??

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Trailer

OMG.. this came out a few days ago and when I watched it for the first time it brought tears to my eyes.. it looks AWESOME!!! I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. I LOVE the books but I also LOVE the movies and this final movie (well 2 movies) look like they are going to be the best. I so can't wait till November for this to come out.

Pacific Northwest Road Trip - Day 13

Once again this is a travel day. Driving from Ogden, Utah to Moab, Utah. The drive was pretty good. It got warmer as we went south and east. Utah reminded me of California more then any other state. It has the same stores, fast foods and looks the same with the brown hilly lands. As we went further southeast we got to what I see in my mind as Utah. The cool rock formations and the red rocks.. that's Utah to me.

We made it to the hotel and are relaxing for our long day tomorrow of exploring Arches National Park.

Pacific Northwest Road Trip - Day 12

Today was a travel day.. we were going from Butte, Montana to Ogden, Utah. Our next destination is Arches National Park but it would have been too long of a drive, or at least to long of a drive for us. So Ogden is a halfway point. Nothing really happened. The drive was nice. Idaho is a very green and hilly place. It did get hotter as we went south. North Utah wasn't what I expected.. it's also farmland and very green.

One thing that did happen is I broke Harry HD video camera. Not on purpose, it was an accident but I felt horrible so we stopped in Idaho Falls, Idaho at a Best Buy and I purchased him a new cam. It was a costly mistake on my part but I hope the broken cam is still usable.

Pacific Northwest Road Trip - Day 11

Well today we were visiting Yellowstone, but the day started off badly.. actually it stated last night when we got to the hotel and I realized I booked us a hotel that was about 125 miles / 2-1/2 hours away. Now it wouldn't be bad if we didn't have to come back to the hotel later that night. So my mistake added an extra 250 miles to our already 3500+ and an extra 5 hours of driving for the day which takes away time from our visit to the park.

Anyways we get to Yellowstone around 1pm. We enter the west entrance and just a few miles in we see a group of Moose's. One actually crosses the street and walked about 5 feet from me.. it was pretty cool.

When we entered Yellowstone wasn't what I was expecting.. I expected tall trees all over the place and there as nothing but acres of tiny (5 feet) trees all over. I mentioned this to Harry and he said "wasn't there a fire here years ago" and that is why there were no big trees.. they all burned down and what we saw were the re-plants. There were larger trees in other parts of the park and there were also blacken trees that have yet to be re-planted.

A few more miles and we see a few Buffalo's/Bison. We decided to take the south route as this is where the majority of the Geysers and hot springs are. We stop over and over at each group of geysers/hot springs. We took tons of videos and pictures. Because we had the dog we had to go one at a time while the other one watched the dog. I took all the pictures and Harry took all the video, expect the video I took with my still cam for my blog.

We wound up at Old Faithful and missed it by 5 minutes. Since this is something that both Harry and I really wanted to see we waited the 90 minutes for another eruption... and it didn't disappoint. Again because of the Dog I was back in the tree area (where dogs were allowed) and I took pictures and Harry was up where the benches were with the video camera.

We only had a few hours of day light left so we headed toward the north exit and on our way we came across the Mud Volcano section. There were several cool hot springs like Dragon's Mouth and a Mud hot spring.

After that we headed out as the we were losing light but as we were leaving we saw a group of Elks and stopped to get some pictures and video.

Now it was dark and we headed out of the park which was going to take an hour just to get out. A lightening storm started, then rain and then dusty winds. I was driving these small windy roads getting blown around and not being able to see because of the heavy rain and dust. There was one moment where I was stuck between two hills and a gust of dusty wind swirled through and there was a moment where I couldn't see anything.. it was a very scary and slow drove back to the hotel. We got back to the hotel at 1am and there was no time to do any blogging or anything.

Next up Utah!!!

Day 11 - Yellowstone - Mud Hot Springs

There are several of these hot springs that spue mud instead of water.