Omega Eastern Benacia

[Jess]

As I got approved for my license, I am starting my podcast, maybe a once a week thing, Shireroth-only with a Shirerithian feel and to Include my home Country, just so we have enough news. If you want to be employed, I have the following position opening:

-Co-Hosts (2) Microphone Required, Skype Wanted (not necessary)
-Researchers/Directors (Unlimited) IM/E-Mail needed. (Duchy Correspondences)?
-Techie, Maybe a board or something
-Various Guests. We would love to have you on. (Microphone Required)

We will be on iTunes

EDIT: Eastern Benacia

Maybe KBEN?

We Could Get Batavie in and make it Benacia Radio?

[hypatias mom]

That sounds great. I'm lookking forward to hearing your podcast.

[b3n|<3r|\|]

Jess, you asked me if I had a microphone and I said I didn't. Well I went out and bought one yesterday. It set me back £15 bt it's worth it to scream at those noobs on TF2. Believe me. That's no joke.

Anyway, I might be able to do this with you if you want, though the time difference could cause problems. (Fort Benkern, London, remember?)

[Jonas]

Where is that damn microphone if I need it...?

[Gilrean Treebane]

I don't know how helpful or interesting a guest I'd be or anything but I do have a microphone (and a webcam coincidentally) built into my laptop!

[Jonas]

My microphone is no more...

[Jacobus Loki]

There is alleged to be a microphone in my laptop.

What's a skype?

[b3n|<3r|\|]

www.skype.com

It's a communications thing... you get an account like an AIM one and you can "call" each other using the program. You can also call real phones using it if you buy skype... monies.

[Gilrean Treebane]

you can also do video chat with someone for free over skype

you can audio chat with as large a group of people as you'd like but can only video chat with one person.

[hypatias mom]

And I thought instant messaging was ground-breaking. Things have certainly come a long way from snail mail and expensive long-distance calls ($10 for 10 minutes). That was when gasoline was about 28 cents a gallon, and movie tickets could be purchased for 75 cents sometimes.

[b3n|<3r|\|]

you can audio chat with as large a group of people as you'd like but can only video chat with one person.

Aww... so no recreating that scene from the Doctor Who finale during the next Kaiserial succession crisis.

And I thought instant messaging was ground-breaking. Things have certainly come a long way from snail mail and expensive long-distance calls ($10 for 10 minutes). That was when gasoline was about 28 cents a gallon, and movie tickets could be purchased for 75 cents sometimes.

As I'm sure it fascinates the generations before mine how much has changed and how much has been achieved in the last 50 years or so technologically, I'm always rendered in a state of awe when I hear about those days. I also think about how different people would be. None of us younger Shirerithians would have used the interwebs at our age ("our age" being an increasingly broad term these days). Would we have been different people because of that, and other technological considerations?

I read "To Kill A Mockingbird" last year as part of my english course, and the details concerning the Radley House I found somewhat quizzical until they were explained. You see in that novel, the Radleys are considered strange and reclusive because they keep their front door closed. These days, I don't know what kind of reaction you would get if you kept your door open all day - in London, certainly that reaction would constitute a criminal offence.

[Gilrean Treebane]

And I thought instant messaging was ground-breaking. Things have certainly come a long way from snail mail and expensive long-distance calls ($10 for 10 minutes). That was when gasoline was about 28 cents a gallon, and movie tickets could be purchased for 75 cents sometimes.

I'm sure things have changed alot since the days you're describing but I know that Skype isn't exactly "new" I remember my dad using it when I was 6 or 7 so it's at least 10 years old and in the technology world that's like ancient XD. Back then you didn't have to pay for calls to phones so my Dad would use it for any of this clients that were long distance/toll calls. I'm pretty sure it didn't have video chat back then but it still existed! They've just improved on it since then ^_^

[b3n|<3r|\|]

Skypes 10 years old? NO WAI!!!

[Gilrean Treebane]

Skypes 10 years old? NO WAI!!!

pretty sure it is. maybe a little less than that but at the very least 8 years old

[Noemi_Vassiliais]

o.O Actually... when I was in elementary school... I think... my dad had a web cam... don't know why though. o.O Or it might have been a mic... I can't quite remember. X3

[Jess]

http://ebr.podbean.com/

there it is...

[Malliki]

The initial release of Skype was in August 2003...

[Gilrean Treebane]

The initial release of Skype was in August 2003...

really? I so thought it was earlier than that... maybe my dad used something else that impressed me XD

[Scott of Hyperborea]

Beautiful. It fills the gaping hole left in my life by the demise of KZFO. Both informative and entertaining.
And I never had to worry about confusing Jess and Benkern's voices, that's for sure.

[Oroigawa Koreyasu]

Hmm....

Interesting...

I might have to get on this one day, make it a bit less childish

Pretty good, though. Were you eating?

[Jess]

I had a couple ice cubes...

[Gilrean Treebane]

never talk with your mouth full! did your mother teach you nothing?

yeah sorry I didn't get on, heh I totally wouldn't have had anything productive to say. Plus I do hate my voice when it's recorded >_<

[Jess]

I force myself to listen to it. We would like to have you on sometime though, we want everyone on.

[Oroigawa Koreyasu]

Hey, if you catch me around noon on a monday or wednesday, you can nab me.

[Jess]

*Makes note in mind*

[Gilrean Treebane]

heh I'd be watching kids at that time but I could probably send them off to go play in their room XD

[hypatias mom]

Jess and Benkern--

I listened with interest and think you are off to a good start. You might consider scripting it a bit more tightly. I"m not sure everyone has time for 20 minutes. I enjoyed hearing two hosts for the podcast, and I'm looking forward to hearing more news online in the near future. Keep up the good work.

[Aurangzeb Khan]

Vijay-an-agara... you hopeless illiterates.

[Jonas]

Jess is my new hero!

(Benkern was already added to the list of heroes before )

[Aurangzeb Khan]

Painful but worth it for listening to Jess speaking "Dutch".