On this show, I play a song from Billy Treacy and the Scope; all the information is on the task; I am way into Junior Taskmaster; I watch all English language Taskmasters but am not sold on Norway; Three Bean Salad podcast is not for me; I reiterate Slusher's Law of Podcasting; let's make transitions clear for that one dickhead with the bad review; I set up Pi-Hole in my network; I got fiber to my house; the first hour of fiber and Pi-Hole were dicey; I am trying to tidy my house 10 minutes at a time; I am working on Spanish with telenovelas and one page at a time; I am selling grampa stuff one weird coin at a time.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, November 18 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Billy Treacy and the Scope
• "The End" by Billy Treacy and the Scope on YouTube
• Mike Wozniak on the Taskmaster Podcast
• Junior Taskmaster
• Three Bean Salad Podcast
• Pi-Hole
• Yo Soy Betty La Fea
• [email protected] is my Bookwyrm account
• My Keybase account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from Amy Ray; I saw the Indigo Girls the night I turned 21; I have neither Halloween nor Xmas spirit; the chiropractor nagged me into buying proper shoes; mean time from buying shoes to covering the in dog food was shockingly short; reality competition shows are truly terrible and all the same; even good reality shows are bad; I am ridiculously excited for Junior Taskmaster; Mike Wozniak is extremely funny; I watched QI and have feelings about it; I hate "first thought theater"; we are getting fiber imminently; I am exploring LibreTime and creating tiny pirate radio stations; I've forgotten that my production workflow is in my control.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, November 4 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Amy Rays official site
• Buy Amy Ray's music at Daemon Records
• Black Dog Outfitters in Conway SC
• Hoka Shoes
• Junior Taskmaster
• Taskmaster: The People's Podcast
• Geologic Podcast
• Build your Own FM Transmitter
• LibreTime
• Radio Valencia
• Syncthing
• Join the EGC Discord
• Follow me on Mastodon @[email protected]
• [email protected] is my Bookwyrm account
• My Keybase account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from Landon Blood; children in jeopardy make me cry; redefining masculinity; being a parent is a long process of trying to make the next minute happen; people who are spreading FUD about hurricane relief efforts to score political points are the worst people alive; I ended up switching the Nabu Casa supplied remote Home Assistant connection for Tailscale; now that I'm old, my back is falling apart; Scott Edelman has a new podcast and cited me as a competent solo podcaster; it can be hard to sound conversational while talking to yourself; I had to buy myself some ubiquitous carry notebooks; I forgot how A sizes work; A4 paper may have unblocked my zine; Ken Levine's Mount Rushmore of Radio had one broadcaster I liked and three I hated; I bounce off of Tom Scharpling and the Best Show.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, October 25 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Landon Blood's song "Son Hold On" on Bandcamp
• Home Assistant
• Nabu Casa
• Tailscale
• Scott Edelman's new podcast Why Not Say What Happened?
• Fax from Sarajevo at Amazon
• Evo Terra
• Join the EGC Discord
• Follow me on Mastodon @[email protected]
• [email protected] is my Bookwyrm account
• My Keybase account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from JD McPherson; my podcasting workflow and process would make no sense to anyone else; I spent a little time in the less devastated part of the Hurricane Helene devastation; I don't understand what is happening with Matt Mullenweg; I am glad to be done with WordPress; I upgraded to Eleventy 3.0.0; I was happy at the Brisbane Lions winning the AFL grand final and even more at the Sydney Swans losing; I haven't earned the right to be happy at Braves success; just because Mastodon is a hippy open thing without an algorithm that doesn't mean obsessing on it is healthy; we won trivia again; I am done with being asked to take surveys; I went my whole career without a direct report.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, October 6 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• JD McPherson's Official Site
• JD McPherson's song "Sunshine Getaway" on YouTube
• Buy the album Nite Owls at New West Records
• Eleventy
• Brisbane Lions
• Sydney Swans
• Dirty Myrtle Wing Company menu
• David Graeber
• Bullshit Jobs
• Join the EGC Discord
• Follow me on Mastodon @[email protected]
• [email protected] is my Bookwyrm account
• My Keybase account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from Louise Connell; I have already been late to the new school; I read Never Get Angry Again by David J. Lieberman and found it pretty mediocre and barely useful; I still have a Headspace account; we are watching Unforgotten; we gave Taskmaster New Zealand a second chance; the amount of ANZAC content I consume has really increased; this Hyperfixed podcast needing 200k listeners to be viable is madness; I am now listening to two different Homicide: Life on the Street podcasts plus watching the show; I dropped Two Cool Moms podcast for the crazy high ad load; I am listening to a boatload of Homicide: Life on the Street podcasts and rewatching the show; the Amazon Podcast ads talking about how good it is to get podcasts ad free is puzzling.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, September 28 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Louise Connell at Bandcamp
• Louise Connell's song "Minor Expectations" on YouTube
• Never Get Angry Again on Bookwyrm
• Headspace
• Unforgotten TV Show
• Taskmaster New Zealand on YouTube
• Taskmaster Minnesota
• David Correos
• Hyperfixed podcast
• Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything podcast
• Homicide: Life on the Set podcast
• Homicide: Life on Repeat podcast
• Join the EGC Discord
• Follow me on Mastodon @[email protected]
• [email protected] is my Bookwyrm account
• My Keybase account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard; I very briefly touch on the presidential debate; you can't refute the lies of people whose whole deal is that they lie with impunity; my kid asked to go to a Kansas concert; Setlist.fm helps me decide whether to attend concerts; we watched all of The Morning Show and it made me appreciative I no longer work; jobs are bullshit; the Tim Ferriss blog post about "how to have a successful" podcast is exhausting and only applicable for a very specific type of douchebag; I let my server die and did nothing; I let my tire explode and did nothing; migrating servers and moving house both involve either a lot of prep or transporting a lot of trash; I migrated my old GMail accounts to Proton doing one well and one badly; I am watching the AFL finals and barely understand the finals format; I like when games slowly get unwinnable; I need a favor from an Australian travelling to the USA this fall.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, September 21 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's song "Flight b741" on YouTube
• Buy King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard music from Bandcamp
• The official website for the mighty Kansas
• The Morning Show on Apple TV
• Tim Ferriss' blog post about how to podcast if you are a dickhead
• WatchAFL
• Join the EGC Discord
• Follow me on Mastodon @[email protected]
• [email protected] is my Bookwyrm account
• My Keybase account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from The Heavy Heavy; I play an audio comment from James Cridland; we close the discussion on Radio Open Source; I talk about our trip to DragonCon; I had my first EV charging site confrontation; the Kennedys were our benefactors for the event; the Hilton reverted to elevator operators; everything at DragonCon is a line; we had steaks at the same building as my dad took me after the Atlanta Fantasy Fair in 1984; we waited over an hour for a panel without getting in; I did karaoke with the podcast nerds; we played D&D; a nice guy gifted us dice; I chatted with Gregg Schigiel, Jim Mahfood, P. Craig Russell and Valentine De Landro; my print protectors are never big enough; I ran into my former co-worker; we had dinner with one of my oldest friends in fandom; it was worth doing and we probably aren't going back.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, September 7 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• The Heavy Heavy
• The Heavy Heavy's song "Feel" on YouTube
• James Cridland's Podnews Newsletter
• Radio Open Source
• Gregg Schigiel
• Bob Burden
• Jim Mahfood
• P. Craig Russell
• Valentine De Landro
• Cuts Steakhouse
• Join the EGC Discord
• Follow me on Mastodon @[email protected]
• [email protected] is my Bookwyrm account
• My Keybase account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from The Three O'Clock; arguments about podcasting are tedious; I am attending Dragon*Con on a low preparation trip; the old dog had an incident; everyone who called the ACA marketplace "socialism" is an idiot and can go to hell; why do corporations fight something that will reduce their costs? I am amazed that the Democrats are doing business a different way; pundits gonna pundit; my garage is fully wired with ratgdo boards; AliExpress was a mixed bag; I want less Amazon in my business; the Boox color e-ink reader is looking good to me; New Zealand Taskmaster underwhelmed me; we are enjoying Loot and The Morning Show.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 30 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• The Three O'Clock's song "Jet Fighter"
• Podnews Newsletter
• Ratgdo garage door boards
• Boox Note Air 3
• Taskmaster New Zealand
• Taskmaster Minnesota
• Join the EGC Discord
• Follow me on Mastodon @[email protected]
• [email protected] is my Bookwyrm account
• My Keybase account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from The Gentle Readers; I take a victory lap about 20 years of doing this particular podcast; I tell the quick version of my origin story and cite Dave Winer and Adam Curry for me getting started; Bloggercon 3 and Portable Media Expo were important stops in the journey; why I podcast instead of doing another syndicated radio show; my "minimum viable audience" is zero; I can't attend a Podcast Movement during the first week of high school; I used Adam Curry's original iPodder Applescript, iPodderX, and bashpodder at various times; I play a clip from Exene Cervenka talking about early punk that seems applicable to podcasting; I gear up for another twenty years.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 23 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Thank you Gentle Readers for the theme music
• The Gentle Readers song "California"
• Adam Curry
• Dave Winer
• WREK Atlanta 91.1 FM
• KRVS Lafayette 88.5 FM
• Bloggercon 3
• Brian Ibbot's Coverville
• Backbeat Media
• Dave Hamilton
• blosxom blogging engine
• James Cridland on Mastodon
• Tony Kahn
• Exene Cervenka on Record Store Day Podcast
• Jah Wobble on Turned Out a Punk podcast
• My episode Why I Don't Believe in God
• Podcast Movement
• Join the EGC Discord
• Follow me on Mastodon @[email protected]
• [email protected] is my Bookwyrm account
• My Keybase account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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Twenty years ago today, inspired by Dave Winer and Adam Curry I sat down in front of my laptop and started talking. The methods and equipment have changed but I've never stopped.

Today I am celebrating that auspicious date by reposting my original episode. This preceded the coining of the term "podcasting", the existence of any podcatcher other than the Applescript Adam wrote, any tools to publish. This first week of my show I wrote a plugin in Perl for the Bloxsom blog engine that I used at the time.

We figured it out as we went and I am honored to have been a part of it. Thank you to these gentlemen, to all my colleagues in the podcasting space and especially the listeners. Thank you to everyone who has ever listened, to one episode or to every episde. You are really the only reason I am still at it. Long may we all wave.

On this show, I play a song from Ortega; we attempted a vacation and abandoned it due to a tropical storm; we rafted in man-made rapids; the Great Wolf Lodge did not soak us; delivery drivers love to give us wet packages; I opted to not jerry-rig a whole house generator; we bought actual hard kayaks from a guy who seems to not want to sell me more; I bought a Ratgdo garage opener that inexplicably works; Chamberlain and MyQ can go to hell; I decided to roll the dice on some Zigbee stuff from AliExpress; 20th podcast anniversary next week.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 16 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Ortega's album Fashionista at Bandcamp
• Whitewater Center in Charlottel
• Great Wolf Lodge in Concord NCl
• Ratgdo Garage Door Opener
• Home Assistant
• Join the EGC Discord
• Follow me on Mastodon @[email protected]
• [email protected] is my Bookwyrm account
• My Keybase account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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