General BSD Question

by STU Boy on Jul 16, 2009 8:48 AM EDT

I was reading Dr. Saturday this morning to kill some time at work, and I saw that he was doing a podcast with Maize and Brew, so this got me thinking. Are you guys thinking of ever getting into things along the same line as this? Right away, I imagined podcasts between you and some of the other bloggers the week we play their team, and thought that would make for some awesome entertainment. Plus I know you guys would do a killer job with it.

I imagine the problem is podcasts take time and loads of money for the bandwith, but if you put up a donation for podcasts I know I would personally put up my share of $5-10 dollars.

I never really considered this before, so I was just curious if there are any more plans for BSD taking over my life ever moreso than it does now. And if this post is treading on your guys plans or if you don't want to talk about this stuff, that's cool too. Thanks!

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I've wanted to do this for years.

And we’ve talked about it. I think it’s a matter of free time and logistics. Every three months, one of us says “hey, we should do a podcast!” I saw that Maize n’ Brew and 11W combined to do a podcast (still waiting for it to be posted, haven’t checked yet today).

I’ll have to check into some of the newer podcast apps.

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Order your copy of "We Are Penn State", like, now. One team, 128 pages.

by Run Up The Score on Jul 16, 2009 8:53 AM EDT reply actions

Will you discuss grotto technology?

You know, For The People.

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Jul 16, 2009 9:07 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah we should just do this damn thing already.

I actually have all the audio skillz. The only thing I haven’t looked into is equipment/software to handle doing this over the phone.

Order your copy of "We Are Penn State" The offseason is long. So is this magazine.

by KevinHD on Jul 16, 2009 9:20 AM EDT up reply actions

Do you have great vocal chords?

by Cairo on Jul 16, 2009 10:34 AM EDT up reply actions

I don't think any blogger does.

At least none that I’ve heard.

Order your copy of "We Are Penn State" The offseason is long. So is this magazine.

by KevinHD on Jul 16, 2009 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions

Hmmm....

I’ve heard RUTS has a face just built for podcasts.

V-logs? Whole ’nother story.

Kidding, Bro. Jos keedin’.

'People are about as happy as they decide they want to be'

by Pete the Streak on Jul 16, 2009 1:52 PM EDT up reply actions

I have a face for podcasts...

…recorded in a dark room while wearing the mask from “Scream”.

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Order your copy of "We Are Penn State", like, now. One team, 128 pages.

by Run Up The Score on Jul 16, 2009 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm sure all three of them do

I heard they’re planning to sing the alma mater in harmony at the beginning of each podcast.

by dawsonPSU10 on Jul 16, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions

Good suggestion

If we ever do a podcast, we’re totally kicking off every episode with a song.

Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

by BSD on Jul 16, 2009 3:14 PM EDT up reply actions

(o) (o)

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Order your copy of "We Are Penn State", like, now. One team, 128 pages.

by Run Up The Score on Jul 16, 2009 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions

does that mean

the 2nd podcast is going to be named “Bigger than Jesus”?

"I'm driven by greatness" - Derrick Williams

by HookMania on Jul 16, 2009 5:08 PM EDT up reply actions

then will you

do a reunion podcast on roof of old main?

For the glory

by lionalum05 on Jul 16, 2009 6:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Tony Pittman has one

You should just hop on to his operation and split the responsibilities/profits with him.

by Mr. Rosewater on Jul 16, 2009 9:17 AM EDT up reply actions

It would be great

For me it’s just an issue of not enough hours in the day. I work a full time job and don’t get home until 6 PM most days. We put our kids to bed at 8 PM, so most nights it’s 8:30 until I get to relax. By that time it’s already 9:30 on the east coast and a bit late for us to put together a podcast.

I’m sure Maize n Brew will ask us to be a guest on their podcast. Dave is a good friend of the program and I’m looking forward to it. As other bloggers start up their podcasts we’ll probably be asked to sit in on them from time to time. I could do some work in reaching out to them to get us more exposure.

The other option is one of you readers picking up the torch and put together an official BSD podcast. You could put it together and we’ll post them here on BSD so you don’t have to worry about setting up and maintaining your own website. We would gladly participate and help you get in contact with other bloggers. Now that we’re in print we’re a lot more credible with the athletic department and may even be able to snag an interview with a player or coach from time to time.

Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

by BSD on Jul 16, 2009 10:27 AM EDT reply actions

You know what's funny?

I read that “we’re a lot more credible with the athletic department”, while I know that there’s about a 50/50 chance someone has posted something about bacon, Zug, or “That’s what she said” in another thread,

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Jul 16, 2009 10:34 AM EDT up reply actions

Pot calling the kettle black.

by Cairo on Jul 16, 2009 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions

Screw you

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Jul 16, 2009 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions

Credible!

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Jul 16, 2009 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions

I think we shouldn't rest until...

BSD is INcredible with the athletic dept.

A shipment of delicious center cut bacon might help grease the wheels a bit.

One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's

by rahpsu92 on Jul 16, 2009 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Well

I can only wind up the toy and put it in motion. Where it goes beyond that is out of my control.

Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

by BSD on Jul 16, 2009 10:54 AM EDT up reply actions

50/50!? Really!?

That’s it?

by dawsonPSU10 on Jul 16, 2009 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions

Man...I'd actually have to listen to this podcast

personally I’m anti-podcast, as it is harder to do other work while listening (maybe it is just me, but I have trouble focusing on what people are saying, and working at the same time), while I can read snippets 5 min at a time. I also can’t “speed-read” podcasts. So many people start doing podcasts that I never get a chance to listen to, that I feel I miss out on those “blogs”.

I suppose if you guys do start doing podcasts, if you could keep them as concise as possible (is that possible with all the tangents around here?), and either edit out any slow material, or (probably even better), make sure you write a timeline of what is discussed when. I think my #1 pet peeve with podcasts is that there’ll be one “new” piece of information I want to hear (since I swear most podcasts wind up just being recaps of the print articles anyway), but it is a 2 minute segment buried in around the 17 minute mark of a half-hourlong podcast, where the other 28 minutes are just a waste of time for me.

Or if you really wanna be nice, you could write out transcripts ;-)

by The JuggerNitt on Jul 16, 2009 3:22 PM EDT reply actions

Wow

Lotta demands there, JNitt. Sheesh. :-|

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Jul 16, 2009 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions

See I guess this where we differ

I personally love them, because at work it makes time fly. If I listen to an hour long podcast, I may not catch every little thing but it will keep me interested and will essentially kill an hour of work. I believe this is the beauty of podcasts and I know a lot of my coworkers agree with me.

by STU Boy on Jul 16, 2009 3:55 PM EDT up reply actions

I like podcasts for say a morning commute

but I don’t really have one. And I can listen to music or something I’m not particularly interested in while at work, but with a PSU podcast I’d be glued to every word, so I wouldn’t be able to get ANY work done while it is on. Plus anything I can listen to in a podcast I can generally read about 10 times faster.

I know a lot of people love podcasts (otherwise they wouldn’t be as popular), but to me they’re not as efficient of a way to get information (except, as stated, when there is no access to the internet during a commute, and one has previously downloaded the podcast).

by The JuggerNitt on Jul 16, 2009 4:45 PM EDT up reply actions