WoW Insider Show Episode 71: In da (guild) house
by Mike Schramm 
Jan 5th 2009 at 11:30AM
Quite a podcast last Saturday -- Turpster came back and BigRedKitty joined us as well, so it was a rip-roaring time. We talked about our predictions for 2009, talked once again about which reps to work towards, where WoW might get more players from, answered lots and lots of emails from listeners, and we even made plans to give away an authenticator. More about your chance to win the authenticator, how to get a brand new song from Turpster, and how to get your voice on the podcast after the break below.We do this every Saturday on Ustream at 3:30pm Eastern, and then post the results here every Monday morning, so you can listen to the show any way you'd like. It's always a great time -- as Turpster said this week, it's just like reading WoW Insider, except we do the reading for you.
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So we have quite a few things going on around the WoW Insider Show lately:
-First, we're giving away a BlizzCon 2008 Authenticator, and if you happen to be a Turpster fan, he'll even sign it for you before he sends it out. To enter that contest, you've got to head over to our Facebook page (make sure you go to the newer one, with the new logo on it), and leave the word "bananas" in this discussion topic (there's only a few comments in there now, so you've got a pretty good chance to win so far). We'll choose a winner randomly from that group, and you've got until next Saturday to do that.
-Second, we're trying to max out the number of fans we have on Facebook, and the way we're doing that is with bribery: if we reach 4,000 fans, Turpster will record a brand new song (he may even get BigRedKitty and I to sing along with it), and we'll release it on the WoW Insider Show. So tell your friends about that -- send them on over to the Facebook page and tell them to become a fan. We're just over halfway there so far, so there's a ways to go, but for a brand new Turpster song, we'll do it.
-Finally, we are in need of intros from you, our listeners. You've heard intros from fans to the past two shows -- just record an mp3 shouting out whatever you want (your character, your guild, your website, anything else you want to say) and kicking off the show for us to our email address, theshow@wow.com. You can add music or sound effects if you want, or just leave it dry, it's up to you. Each week we'll play one before the show, so if you send one in, you and everyone else listening will eventually hear it live as the very first thing we play! We've got a small buffer already, but we need more intros, so if you've been thinking about doing one, now's the time to do it and send it in!
Thanks for listening, as always, and we'll be back next week.
Filed under: WoW Insider Show, Podcasts, Podcasting, Wrath of the Lich King, Bosses, Humor, Instances, Blizzard, Odds and ends, Virtual selves, Analysis / Opinion
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
FireStar Jan 5th 2009 2:31PM
That wireless interference was pretty crappy. L2 believe two people that say that your volume is going crazy at that time period. Since the noise isn't actually going Into your mic, it makes sense that you may not see this difference on your side. This is no external sound going into your mic. This is also not solely caused by a cell phone.
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question230.htm
Correct me if I'm wrong plz.
mkb Jan 6th 2009 7:03PM
Great program! Mike needs a better microphone. Perhaps WowInsider should buy one for him? Also, the mix would benefit from a little compression to even out the levels.
Eko Jan 7th 2009 9:57AM
Well, BRK keeps stating that he doesn't care about Achievements...
On a different topic, guess who raised his Unarmed Skill to 400 and achieved "Did Somebody Order a Knuckle Sandwich?" :-p
Doc X Jan 7th 2009 3:02PM
Mike's microphone needs to record him louder (or whatever you use to mix the voices needs to up Mike's levels or lower everyone else's levels). Also, BRK needs to turn off his phone during recording. In fact, everyone needs to turn off their cell phone while recording. That's what causes that noise on the recording.
Besides, if someone's recording the show, they shouldn't have their cell phone on anyway since they're doing something important and don't need to be interrupted while recording, right?
F0REM4N Jan 9th 2009 9:12AM
They figured out the cell phone issue. I actually found it the funniest thing in the show in a painful sort of way. Mike's level sounded fine to me.
OhioDude Jan 14th 2009 8:40PM
Though I dig the content of this show, it's production value lease a lot to be desired. The mic problems, the cell phone issues etc, could have been edited out, or at least cleaned up a bit. You guys really need to take this pod cast thing seriously. Listen to the Instance podcast, just two dudes doing a podcast that blow WoW Insider away.
Zanrok Jan 22nd 2009 1:47AM
Great show, Always entertaining to listen to you three chat, no offense to the other podcasters, but you guys have the most chemistry.