Blue Hot Gossip's 13 Days of Halloween - Day 04

Day 4.

http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween-Day04/Day04-13.Days.Of.Halloween.mp3

I initially wrote the story as one long script then divided it into 12 parts. I planned on doing it as 13 parts but found it would have seemed too stretched out done that way. And there's enough narrative in the first day so that the story isn't really missed.

As the days go on the narrative shortens. I was going to have a paragraph of narrative before the song but found it hard to come up with material. And as it works out it's probably for the better. As the story gets going the narrative isn't really missed.

Blue Hot Gossip's 13 Days of Halloween - Day 03

http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween-Day03/Day03-13.Days.Of.Halloween.mp3

Writing the script wasn't the only work although it was the first time I've tried such a long story as a script. With the introduction of a new character it meant that on a few episodes I was doing as many as five different voices. This also meant the creation of a new voice which you may notice varies a bit throughout the days. I had much the same problem last year with Count Cordova although I've gotten smoother with that voice this year.

Blue Hot Gossip's 13 Days of Halloween - Day 02

Day 2.

http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween-Day2/Day02-13.Days.Of.Halloween.mp3

This year I decided to do a story instead of poetry. Had I realized how much work it would be I likely wouldn't have bothered. And if I do one next year I'm likely to just stick to a short narrative before the song. Last year I was able to use a few poems I had already written but this year required a completely new story. However, much of the narrative is shortened, mostly because I found I just didn't have the time to spend. Although the story makes up for it. In comparison, I believe the scripts for each episode are longer.

I'm also trying to torrent it through The Pirate Bay and Demonoid as well as Mininova which I used last year. Since Mininova's traffic has fallen greatly I figured the other sites would help make up for the loss. I don't expect the number of last year's show but I would still like to get about a thousand downloads per episode. It does mean more work to upload and The Pirate Bay doesn't seem to give stats, but it will help to reach a larger audience than just the blog and Mininova alone.

Blue Hot Gossip's 13 Days of Halloween - Day 01

Day 1 of Blue Hot Gossip's 13 Days of Halloween.

http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween-Day01/Day01-13.Days.Of.Halloween.mp3

For the next 13 Days from now until Halloween I will be releasing an episode a day. As I did previously I'm inclined to post them the night before.

For those who haven't listened to The Blue Hot Gossip Comedy Show before, you can find it at http://bluehotgossip.blogspot.com. The story presented this year uses characters from that show. While the episodes of the show are meant to be independent of each other, it helps to have some familiarity with the show. The first five episodes are loosely structured and are just a collection of short vocal skits with music intermixed. It was about episode six that I got into the current format which was setup by the last skit of episode five. But they're all worth listening to and with less than 20 episodes it doesn't take long to catch up.

While I did this on Podcast Ping last year, I thought I'd do the 13 Days of Halloween on Blue Hot Gossip this year for a few reasons. For one thing, the main character is a Blue Hot Gossip character so it seemed more suitable. I'm also using comedy music and I decided to do a story this year which uses the Blue Hot Gossip characters and setting. Blue Hot Gossip has also been the only podcast I've been doing this year. So it just seemed much more appropriate.

The Blue Hot Gossip Comedy Show 19

The boys take to the sea--and get taken.

http://www.archive.org/download/TheBlueHotGossipComedyShow19/BHGCS19.mp3

I've been meaning to do an episode without music for a while. It's not really any less work, in fact it was probably a bit more. I played with the editing a little to adjust for the movement of the characters and added a bit of background sound.

I've already started working on the scripts for the 13 Days of Halloween. I wanted to get episode 19 in because it sets up the story for the 13 Days. Since I expect to be spending the next while working on the Halloween episodes I probably won't be getting another podcast out until then, although I did want to get this one out. Although depending upon how things go, I might just squeeze one in. I do have an idea for one, it's all a matter of whether I find the time.

Last year I did The 13 Days as Podcast Ping episodes but this year I'll be doing them as Blue Hot Gossip episodes. They seem more suited to this show than Podcast Ping. And I haven't dropped Podcast Ping, it's just that I never found the time to work on it this year. I was going to do an audio book but I couldn't decide on the story. And unless I'm ready to do at least an episode a month for it, if not one a week, I'm better off just leaving it as it is.

The Blue Hot Gossip Comedy Show 18 - Good News Bad News

This show is about good news and bad news, if you could even call it news.

http://www.archive.org/download/TheBlueHotGossipComedyShow18/BHGCS18.mp3

I've got the script for the next one written but I may extend it a little. The next show is going to be a little different.

I've got the music and an idea for the one after that, but I don't know if I'll be doing it before the 13 Days of Halloween or not. The 13 Days will take a lot of work and I expect to start into it next month, just like I did last year. I'll also get at least a Christmas episode in sometime in December but since I'll be doing the 13 Days I don't know about one in November. So aside from the 13 days I'd be doing another 1-3 episodes for the year depending upon how things go.

I also meant to do a story for Podcast Ping this year but I haven't had the time or energy. I'm also uncertain as to what story I would do. I have been leaning towards continuing with the novel I started, although I still haven't finished writing it and I would prefer to use something I could do completely.

I admit I did edit the Art Linkletter intro a bit, although I didn't add anything that wasn't already there. I just tightened it up a little to make it a bit funnier. Of course the advice still holds true in part, but if there really was a nuclear disaster there would be a little more to worry about. And as the last big blackout showed, people wouldn't follow this advice anyways.

The Blue Hot Gossip Comedy Show 17

A little late but here it is:

http://www.archive.org/download/TheBlueHotGossipComedyShow17/BHGCS17.mp3

It's been a little while since the last regular episode. I did take a break for a couple months but as I was going to get back to it I caught a cold which lasted about a month. And as I was getting over that one, I got hit with another one that took a month to recover from. They weren't bad colds, but they made it difficult to do voices. This episode isn't the one I was initially planning on doing (the one for Count Cordova mentioned previously), but I just wanted to get one out. I've got a general idea and some music for the next few episodes, so they shouldn't take as long to come out.

I've also passed the million download mark for all my podcasts collectively, most of it being from Podcast Ping, and the vast majority of it from torrentcasting. Podcast Ping has been around longer and has more episodes, although this podcast does much better on a per episode basis. Blue Hot Gossip does have the highest download for a single episode at over 57,000 downloads. The least downloaded episode of Blue Hot Gossip, excluding today's, has over 3,700 downloads. The average is about 17,000 downloads per episode.