Scott and Chad are joined by
special guests to celebrate our two year anniversary.
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Saturday, May 25, 2013
The Agreeable Brains Ep 99
Chad is joined by Travis and
T.Rob to go where no podcast has gone before – we review Star Trek
Into Darkness. Warning, our phasers are set to Spoil!
Saturday, May 18, 2013
The Agreeable Brains Ep 98
Chad is joined by T.Rob to
discuss Star Wars, the injustice of the end of happy endings, a
possible new D&D movie, and becoming an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Friday, May 10, 2013
The Agreeable Brains Ep 97
Chad is joined by Third Brain
Travis to discuss the Avengers payroll, the end of the world, free to
play games, upcoming movies, and reincarnation. Plus we solve most of
the worlds monster problems.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
The Agreeable Brains Ep 96
Chad is joined by Jason,
Josh, T.Rob, and Movie Brain Travis to totally discuss (and totally
spoil) the new movie Iron Man 3. Stay tuned to the end for a very
special surprise guest.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
The Agreeable Brains Ep 95
Chad is joined this week by
Jason and Jeremy. We review Man with the Iron Fists and Injustice
Gods Among Us. We also discuss the state of the Marvel Universe,
Brijes, and the next Xbox.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The Agreeable Brains Ep 94
Chad and Scott leave the safety of their Battlestar and ride their pet snails to a hidden arctic base. Then we team up with the Middleman to bring in Bigfoot alive.
Theme song by Sharks in Winter Solstice.
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
The Agreeable Brains Ep 93
Chad figures out how to poop
in space while Jason runs an iron man marathon. We visit the X-men
moviverse to catch fish with no blood and then MacGruber our way out
of a situation to avert an Infinite Crisis.
Theme song by No Good
Daredevil
Monday, April 8, 2013
Sunday, March 31, 2013
The Agreeable Brains Ep 91
Scott buys some bigfoot hair
and Chad studies Terraria. We join forces with some ulitmate vault
hunters to break down the elf door so we can save the cave men from
the menace of gators on YouTube.
Theme Song by XXX Hero
Saturday, March 23, 2013
The Agreeable Brains Ep 90
Scott beta tests and Chad
tests some demos. We join forces with SHIELD, Sherlock, and The
Doctor to skin cats and file for divorce with little reason.
Theme song by Small Pony
Money
Saturday, March 16, 2013
The Agreeable Brains Ep 89
Scott wants to return to Mars
and Chad plans his alter ego. We use our sunstone to find a
prehistoric lake and then get Shamrock Shakes with assassin pirates.
Music by Weaponized Dolphin.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Scott Shetley
15 March 2013
The History of Podcasting
As a host of a weekly podcast, The Agreeable brains, I was unaware of the early history and development of this form of internet communication. From early technology, to the want and need to be sole owner of one’s own opinion, to the creative release that podcasting provides. I will discuss what a podcast is, the beginnings of podcasting and the tech behind it.
Podcasting barrows its name from the now iconic MP3 player known as the Ipod, Adam Curry, former MTV VJ loved an early audio blog so much that he wanted to listen to it on the go using his Ipod. So he wrote a program to aggregate the audio blogs he wanted and download them directly to his Ipod. (The First Podcast, Bob Doyle) The show that Curry wanted to listen to the most was by Christopher Lydon, a popular Boston area TV and Radio host in the early 2000’s. Lydon, after a legal battle with his radio station over who owned the content of his show decided to take control and use an up and coming medium on the internet called Blogs to publish both video and audio content under his own terms. Lydon’s audio blog, later called a podcast, was called
After being taught how to use all the new tech, Lydon created what we now know as a podcast. Bob Doyle, who wrote “The First Podcast” stated:
After 25 years of being surrounded by the cream of the crop sound engineers in state-of-the-art studios, Lydon was alone with his recorder, a laptop editor and tools to upload audio to a media server…
Lydon was now in complete control and ownership (good and bad) of his content that he now self-published to the internet. Removing the middleman from the equation gave Lydon the freedom to cover what he wanted and the listener a direct source into one of their favorite talk show host.
A podcast is a streaming or downloadable MP3 file that someone has placed onto the internet, stating a passion, a gripe or anything else someone might want to hear. If you have an opinion then you have a show! It’s just that simple. The tech behind most podcast is a home computer, a mic plus freeware software found on the internet. The computer can be an old desktop or laptop that maybe has lost its usefulness over time. All it needs to be able to do is run an audio editor, record sound and upload to the internet. “There are multiple advantages to recording and editing your podcast using your personal computer. The ability to record long uninterrupted podcast, digital editing – quickly and easily remove unwanted background noises or embellish the audio track with music and sound effects and digital processing – add effects to your voice, such as reverb, or echo, and master your entire podcast for sonic clarity”. (Podcast Tec, www.voices.com)
There are a wide variety of podcast available to listen to and many places to find them. The most popular and widely known podcast service is ITunes. ITunes gathers, distributes your podcast to the masses at no cost to you. They will however place advertisements onto the webpage that host your show to help fund the servers. This is a minor nuisance and the ads aren’t very invasive so it is easy to ignore. Stitcher.com is another services that will host your podcast at no cost to you. What makes Stitcher different from ITunes is that they offer your show as a stream and as downloadable. Streaming your show is an easy way for someone to listen without downloading it and taking room on their hard drive. Streaming is relatively new as technology, data speeds and data caps are raised or lifted off of our mobile cellular devices.
In conclusion, podcasting is cheap, easy and fun! It allows for a creative release for content creator. Podcasting cuts out the middleman that might interfere with the structure of your show. Your show is directly available to your audience and they alone are the judge and jury. There are hundreds of podcasting services to make your show available to or you can go for complete control and publish it to a home server. Find a topic, record your opinion and make your voice heard!
Works Cited
Doyle, Bob. The First Podcast. Information Today Inc., 2005.
Logsdon, Ian. “Why Podcast.” Ezine @rticle 2013: 1.
Hammersley, Ben. “Audible Revolution.” The Gaurdian (2004): 4. March 2013 <http://www.gaurdian.co.uk/media/2004.feb/12/broadcasting.digitalmedia/print>.
“Podcast tech” Www.voices.com. Web: Interactive Voices Inc., 2013.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
The Agreeable Brains Ep 88
Scott raids with vikings
while Chad gets dishonored. We fly around in space ship with Russell
Crowe and check out bad Star Wars, Shots, and TV shows. Then we check
out Pea Porn on Pornazon.
Theme song by Microscopic
Microscopes.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
The Agreeable Brains Ep 87
Scott blacks out and Chad
dogs dragons. We team up to fight robots and evil corporations with
brave warriors who combust spontaneously.
Theme song by Flesh Wheel.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Comet Friends Are the Coolest!
I had to write this for my english comp II class. Thought I might share my homework on here. Maybe I should publish the corrections my teacher suggested. That might be more interesting.
Scott.
Scott.
Comet Friends
Are the Coolest!
Realizing what type of friends we keep close to us
and the fact that it might be these same friends may both holding us back and supporting
us at the same time may come as a shock to most of us. Analyzing our friends,
the type of friends and the time you spend with them will in the end, make us a
better friend to those that matter.
The first type is the “best friend.” The best friend
is a friend that has been with us thick and thin, through toil and trouble and
who has always been there for us. Friends of this type believe our story, even
though mounting evidence might suggest that we might be wrong. The same best
friend also knows when we are wrong and helps us see the errors of our ways.
Some of the best friend’s qualities are listed
above, but what about their worst qualities?. “If they had any qualities that I
didn’t, couldn’t or wouldn’t overlook than they are most likely not to be my
best friend”. That is a valid point, one that is mitigated by the fact that we
all grow and change as we get older and wiser.
How many of us can say that we have the same best friend’s as we did
when we were in grade school, middle school, high school? Very few of us can
make that claim. People change over time, which is a fact. That change can lead
to what we hold as values and if someone we consider close no longer aligns
with those values, we tend to abandon them. It’s only natural, so don’t feel
guilty. Most likely if this has happened than we have already re-aligned
ourselves with a new best friend that shares our belief system.
The next friend is the close friends, “comet
friends.” Comet friends who we are emotionally close to personally but due to
some unforeseen circumstance, usually distance, seem to just cruise in and out
of your life the way a comet does to a solar system.
This is my favorite kind of friend. I equate it
to grandparents that get to spoil their grandchild and then send that spoiled
brat back home to its parents, or in this case, whoever the comet friend has to
deal with daily. This friend is that person that we were very close to or the other
half of a best friend duo. When the two or three of us get together it’s like no
time has passed what so ever. The old jokes begin to flow, and new ones form.
There is no awkward re-get-to-know-you phase that less meaningful friends require.
A vital part of this friendship is the nervousness that comes with the
anticipated meeting of these friends. To me, if we aren’t nervous about having
a good time or if they’ve changed or not than we aren’t being a good friend to
the comet friend as we could be. The Comet friend is making sure to be ready
for our encounter. Having entertainment ready, trying to be in a good mood
despite, what might be happening in their lives. Like planning a date or a special
occasion for a loved one, we want it to go just right. If we are true comet
friends than, even with all the worrying, it just seems to come together anyway
and a blast will be had by all!
The final set of friends is the social friend.
This friendship is the broadest of them all and encompasses a variety of people
in our life. Everyone from work mates, people that enjoy the same hobbies as
you, school mates, ex-school mates ,drinking friends, A.K.A. the people at that
one bar we go to that know our name but we won’t necessarily stop to help out if
we see them on the side of the road with a flat tire. This group is large and
takes up most of our time but a minimal amount of our energy.
The social friend is the group most likely to
produce the friend that needs a “talking
to” or the one that eventually needs cutting off all together. This group of
friends is on a need-to-know basis. This means that, if we need them to know,
we will tell them. We don’t share information with them, we’re not friends on
Facebook, we don’t get invited to their kids events and they expect us to not
invite them to ours. The social friend can be the biggest time suck on our
calendar. They are mostly who we interact with daily. If we don’t focus that
much time and energy on this group, then our place or work, school or wherever
these people are may suffer as a result of our negligence. It is healthy to
foster these types of relationships. We are pack animals and need to interact
with other’s of a like mind. It’s when one social friend tries too hard to invade
our other friend zones when things tend to get complicated and thrown out of
whack. Sometimes, in dire situations, this social friendship will need to be
hacked off at the trunk to keep the balance in your bio-friends-sphere. If we
let this corrupt friendship’s roots creep to deeply into the cement of our
other friends zones than it can break those bonds and we might find ourselves
in a place we regret being in.
In the end, it’s the time and effort that we
place into recognizing, growing and nurturing friend zones and being as good as
a friend as we can be will our friendships be long lasting and very satisfying.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
The Agreeable Brains Ep 86
Scott wants to play a game
and Chad visits Defiance. We sleepwalk to meet some artizens and fake
bands and then investigate some slime with our Spaceteam.
Theme song by Human Puppet.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
The Agreeable Brains Ep 85
Scott and Chad are joined by
Charlie to play round two of Drinking Quest. Live play session of
Drinking Quest 2: Yeddie Veders Yeti Adventure by Wiseman
Innovations.
Theme song by Forbidden Lute.
Friday, February 8, 2013
The Agreeable Brains Ep 84
Scott crumbles like a house
of cards while Chad makes increasingly poor decisions. Then we get involved in a rebellion against the Empire of Spiders.
Theme song by Boobies in the
Woods.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The Agreeable Brains Ep 83
Scott and Chad are joined by
special guest Jason to play and review the board game Tahiti by
Minion Games.
Theme song by Open Coconut.
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