Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for September 7 2024 - Everything is Difficult Download audio

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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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 30 2024 - Could the Stakes Possibly Be Lower? Download audio

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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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 23 2024 - 20th Anniversary Podcast Episode Download audio

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.

Where It All Began - the First Episode of the Evil Genius Chronicles from August 20, 2004 Download audio

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 16 2024 - Vacuum Hose to Your Wallet Download audio

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

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 5 2024 - The Sheer Force of my Charming Ass Personality Download audio

On this show, I play a song from Lawrence Rothman; grampa's house is sold; the Taskmaster watch continues forward; Mike Wozniak is my favorite contestant; we are watching the Mae Martin show Feel Good; I am planning for a 20th anniversary livestream; am I going to do it on Peertube? I am surprised by feeling hopeful about the presidential campaign; I am all in on Zigbee and turning the other stuff off.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 5 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• "The Plow that Broke the Plains" by Lawrence Rothman
• Taskmaster YouTube Channel
• Sam Campbell
• Mike Wozniak
• Mae Martin
• Feel Good TV Show
• PeerTube
• My Experimental PeerTube Channel
• 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

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for July 21 2024 - Manic Depressives with Big Dreams and Poor Execution Download audio

On this show, I play a song from Pharoah Sanders; I have really been enjoying several local venues; selling grampa's house is getting real; we play a new round of terrible podcast promos; I do a bit of a retirement check-in; we traded one crappy pool for a less crappy one; a refrigerator fridge is changing my life; I have collectibles to liquidate; string lights and Home Assistant improved my back yard; more stuff goes away; Patreon fixed their weird bug and all patrons in exile are back!

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

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• "Going to Africa" by Pharoah Sanders
• Just Jazz on WREK Atlanta
• Player 1UP in Murrels Inletl
• Dirty Myrtle Wing Company
• My Brother My Brother and Me podcast
• Home Assistant
• Roderick on the Line episode that helped me throw stuff away
• Ed Pietrowski Bobblehead
• The new pool
• 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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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for July 12, 2024 - I Wished Nothing But Ill For Him Download audio

On this show, I play a song from The New Marines; grampa's house is under contract; the family went to Carowinds and we went to Heroescon; my con strategy was different this time; less bin diving, less autograph seeking, more print and collection buying; I am now using poster protectors; we went to the NASCAR Hall of Fame; I did not like Sweet Tooth Season 3; I did like The Bear Season 3; I haven't bothered to watch House of the Dragon Season 2; I am immune to the charms of James Acaster.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, July 12 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• "Ride On" by The New Marines
• Heroescon
• Carowindsl
• Michel Fiffe
• Fred Van Lente
• Ryan Dunlavey
• Geof Isherwood
• Howard Chaykin
• Daniel Warren Johnson
• William Stout
• Estampa Gaucha
• Nascar Hall of Fame
• Sweet Tooth TV show
• All Episode of Taskmaster on YouTube
• Comedian's Comedian 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

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 14 2024 - Swift Immediate Poetic Justice Download audio

On this show, I play a song from Agitprop; middle school is finished; I could skate through K-12 and I could not skate through Georgia Tech; I never signed the kid in late for middle school; I was petty cleaning out a classroom; we play "Is This Asshole The Asshole?"; the Discord title polls have revitalized my podcast production; we are going to Heroescon; this year I will be more art focused than comic focused; there is less of an agenda for Heroescon this year so maybe I will be more relaxed; keep the hotel an extra day; it's all inner monologues with me; I am learning to appreciate stillness.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, June 14 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Problems Respond by Agitprop
• Heroescon
• Gregg Schigiel
• Michel Fiffe
• Maximum Fun
• Join the EGC Discord
• Follow this blog on the Fediverse @[email protected]
• 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

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 3 2024 - Sweaty Working Class Metal Heads Download audio

On this show, I play a song from the Beths; I had to spike a show for audio reasons; I am in danger of getting my Podcast HOF Trophy repossessed; we are limping to the finish line of middle school; my family stayed in grampa's house; the cleaning standards discrepancy is a huge friction point; I don't have many local friends anymore; I set up some more WREK RSS feeds; Stonehenge is subscribable from podcatchers now; I don't much like Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys, Paul Simon, the Everly Brothers or the Supremes; I had a hard time deciding whether to root for the Carlton Blues or the Collingwood Magpies; I saw a Cybertruck in the wild and it was ridiculous; the Turned Out a Punk episode with Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo was terrific as was the Kathleen Hanna episode; punk is good for not having gatekeepers but if Tim Yohannon or Ian Mackaye didn't like you then you were fucked; punks are from Emory, metal heads are from Georgia Tech.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, June 3 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• The Beths official video for "Expert in a Dying Field" on YouTube
• The Beths Official Site
• X The Band
• Yale Brothers
• WREK 91.1 FM in Atlanta
• Stonehenge on WREK
• Stonehenge RSS feed
• Mark Mothersbaugh on Turned out a Punk
• Kathleen Hanna on Turned out a Punk
• The Metroplex is discussed in this page (PS - the RHCP/Fishbone/Thelonious Monster show mentioned is the one at which I thought I would die)
• 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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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 17 2024 - Find a Nickel in your Intestines Download audio

On this show, I play a song from Bourgeois Tagg; I talk a little about the Ellen James Society and Mojo Nixon; are we a low functioning family? I had a day that was my Platonic ideal of a retired person's day; I hate my school day routine; I don't measure my retired life by my output but my family might; Kagi is the second worst choice for search engine, right after all the others; the left is dying to dock your score; I remember when I believed Google; Chick-Fil-A has pierced its own corporate veil; Bridgy Fed and Webmentions.io and all that are defeating me; do I rewrite old posts to eliminate broken links to dead projects or leave them as a time capsule? what is the deal with Calckey/Firefish? I unsubscribed from Death Sex and Money as well as Batteries Included; you can squander karma.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, May 17 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Bourgeois Tagg on YouTube
• Ellen James Society at Daemon Records
• The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy
• Kagi search engine
• Bridgy Fed
• Webmentions.io
• Wordpress ActivityPub plugin
• Batteries Included podcast
• Death Sex and Money podcast
• Reloadio
• 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

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.