The CVG Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue - Episode #021: Dust My Reboot!

"Maybe I'll find another way, find another day / Maybe I'll get it right next time...", William Bruce Rose, Jr., 1991

Episode Twenty One of The Chippewa Valley Geek Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue is complete and can be found here or on iTunes and Stitcher.

Recorded during our New Year's Resolutions and released just in time for the Resurrection -- this installment is all about reboots, remakes and re-starts!  
No wait, that's not right...  lemme do that over...

0:00:00 Intros
0:01:18 The Up Front: Fuck 2016, man
0:04:59 The Interview:  iFanboy's own Ron Richards talks about why reboots happen and when they work, and takes on the Geek-del Test!
0:28:48 The Roundtable:  Monster Mike and Jetpack Jack pick their best reboots and remakes, generally mispronounce a lot of words, and check in with some New Year's Resolutions...!
1:45:12 The Community Calendar!
1:49:42 Outro & Credits
1:50:06 Bonus Track:  "Shadow & Flame Boogie"

Some Show Notes and Links!

Meet this month's special guest, Mr. Ron Richards!

Check out the iFanboy podcast(s)!
or
All About Android
or
The Goodfellas Minute
or
The Damn Fine Podcast

Battlestar Galactica (The reboot)

Ghostbusters (The reboot)

Crisis on Infinite Earths

DC: Rebirth event

Doom Patrol by Gerard Way

Batman by Snyder & Capullo

Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier

Uncanny X-Men # 269

Some band recommendations:
My Bloody Valentine
Gorilla Biscuits
Quicksand
Tilt

The Roundtable:

White Christmas (The original)

Rocky (The original)

The Magnificent Seven (The reboot)

Rosemary's Baby (The original)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Love Story (The original)

Conan the Barbarian (The reboot)

Conan the Barbarian (The original)

Star Trek (The reboot)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture 

Star Trek - Generations

M*A*S*H

Flash Gordon

The Mummy

Fantastic Four (2006)

Fantastic Four (2015)

The Magnificent Seven (The "original")

A Fistful of Dollars

Blinded By The Light

With A Little Help From My Friends

Charlies Angels (The reboot)

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Dragnet (The reboot)

Omega Man

I Am Legend

All Along The Watchtower

The Silence of the Lambs

Red Dragon

Manhunter

Doctor Who (The reboot?)

Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser

The Star Wars RPG (FFG)

The Walking Dead

Benson

The Star Frontiers RPG

Alien

The Godfather

The Metamorphosis Alpha RPG

The Conspiracy X RPG

The Boot Hill RPG

Sherlock

Star Trek: The Next Generation

John Carpenter's The Thing

100 Bullets

WildC.A.T.s - Covert Action Teams

Gen13

Supergods by Grant Morrison

Wytches by Scott Snyder / Jock

Monster Hunters International by Larry Correia

The Fate Core System

The Dresden Files RPG

Diaspora

PC Stinger:  Charlie Bludger

This month's stinger is a mariner bold conributed by our Community Calendar stand-in himself, Monster Mike.  Check out his character sheet here...

The backing sound effects used in this episode included:

-  "Lightning crash.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Dream harps.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons 0 license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Magic wand glitter.flac", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Beautiful string music.mp3", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons 0 license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "sleigh bells.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons 0 license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Smashing #1.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Tires Squeaking.aif", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons 0 license.  The original file can be found here.


All apologies to R. L. Burnside.

The CVG Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue - Episode #020: Knock On Words!

Episode Twenty of The Chippewa Valley Geek Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue is complete and can be found here or on iTunes and Stitcher.

This installment is all about stories and writing!  We're tellin' tales out of school (and occasionally singing into a can)!

0:00:00 Intros
0:01:22 The Up Front: On nerves of steel and the courage to tell stories
0:05:59 The Interview:  Publishing agent Jennifer Johnson-Blalock talks about the world of pitches and queries, reveals her favorite storytellers, and takes on the Geek-del Test!
0:51:13 The Roundtable:  Monster Mike and Jetpack Jack talk about storytelling, misattribute famous 70's gangster movies and give readings from their favorite works of fiction!
2:33:34 The Community Calendar and The Monthly Marathon: Grovers' Mills, Population: You!
2:38:38 Outro & Credits
2:40:03 Bonus Track:  "Rocket Into Space"

Some Show Notes and Links!

Meet our special guest, literary agent Jennifer Johnson-Blalock of Liza Dawson Associates!

Jennifer's guest post on Carly Watters' blog!

Hamilton!

Gilmore Girls

Gossip Girl

Jennifer's Top 5 Storytellers (off the top of her head)

• Aaron Sorkin
• Jane Austen
• Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides, The Marriage Plot)
• Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge, The Great Gatsby)
• J. Courtney Sullivan (Commencement)

Follow up for more of our guest out at: www.jjohnsonblalock.com!

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Better Off Dead

Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence"

Curtis Hanson's "Wonder Boys" and Michael Chabon's "Wonder Boys"

Barrett

Izzy Stradlin  

What the World Needs Now


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The Roundtable gives a lot of storytelling shoutouts to:

• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Lee Child 
• Jetpack Jack has fightin' words about Jane Austen
• Phillip "Merlot"
• JRR Tolkien 
• Isaac Asimov
• Alan Moore
• Stan Lee
• Jim Henson (Check out The Dark Crystal or A Tale of Sand)
• Neil Gaiman
• Agatha Christie
• Fritz Lieber
• Graeme Morris
• Douglas Adams
• The late Spalding Gray and Swimming to Cambodia

• Kevin Smith

• Garrison Keillor 

• Ira Glass

• Paul Harvey (Really, Mike?)
• Benjamin Bagby's "Beowulf"

• Springsteen's, "Nebraska" and "Hammersmith Odeon, London 1975"

• Joseph Conrad
• James Herriot 

Shit Pitches on Twitter

• R. A. Salvatore 
• Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child  
• Michael Crichton 
• Dean Koontz
• Stephen King
• Edgar Rice Burroughs 
• Mark Kurlansky 
• Stephen Hunter
• Larry Correia
• Richard Rhodes actually wrote "The Making of the Atomic Bomb"
• Charles Dickens

The Roundtable Readings:
Jim Butcher's "Summer Knight"
Stephen King's "Salem's Lot"
Robert E. Howard's "Queen of the Black Coast"
Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club"
Patrick O'Brien's "The Reverse of the Medal"
Vladimir Nabokov's "Pnin"

I also highly recommend the Dark Horse adaptation of Mike's REH reading in "Conan, Volume 13: Queen of the Black Coast".

Mike also drops some P.G. Wodehouse on us.

Then there's Lolita...

"Undaunted Courage" by Stephen Ambrose

For the record, Scorsese is pretty cool, but:
- Dog Day Afternoon was directed by Sidney Lumet
- The Godfather was directed by Francis Ford Coppola
- Scarface was directed by Brian DePalma

The final reading is from The Stranger by Albert Camus.

Luke Cage!

The backing sound effects used in this episode included:

-  "Pirate ship at bay.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Electronic music loop 2 M1", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons 0 license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Lightning crash.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Incoming Artillery.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Explosion 2.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons 0 license.  The original file can be found here.

I also cribbed a bit of the first episode of Futurama.

All apologies to Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats

The CVG Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue - Episode #019: Scratch My Bard!

Great River Shakespeare Festival 2016 Mosaic by Barbara Keith Designs

Episode Nineteen of The Chippewa Valley Geek Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue is complete and can be found here or on iTunes and Stitcher.

Scratch My Bard

A Podcast in Five Acts

Dramatis Personae (in order of appearance):
BRIAN, Prince of Cats - The Chippewa Valley Geek
DOUG SCHOLZ-CARLSON - Artistic Director of the Great River Shakespeare Festival
"MONSTER" MIKE - A country vicar, In love with Hernia
"JETPACK" JACK - Sea-captain, Former Roomate of a Fourth Cousin to the Exiled Duke

Act I, Scene 1 - Intros
Act I, Scene 2 - The Up Front: On the Classics and Accusations of Snobbery
Act II, Scene 1 - The Interview:  GRSF Artistic Director Doug Scholz-Carlson tells us what goes into making a festival happen, muses about what makes Shakespeare great, and takes on the Geek-del Test!
Act III, Scene 1 - The Roundtable:  Monster Mike and Jetpack Jack wax lyrical on bards, the Bard and a lot of other ado about really not much else of importance.
Act IV, Scene 1 - The Community Calendar
Act IV, Scene 2 - The Monthly Marathon: Bardic Lore cont'd!
Act V, Scene 1 - Outro & Credits
Act V, Scene 2 - Bonus Track:  "Hey Nonny Nonny"

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Some Show Notes and Links!

Go check out the Great River Shakespeare Festival!

Running this year:

• As You Like It
• Julius Caesar
• Georama

The Red Clay Ramblers (Personally, I heartily recommend Live - one of my faves...)

Mike Munson

The BBC Hollow Crown

An Amazon search for bards...

Branagh's Henry V comes up a lot

Romeo & Juliet (1968 Zeffirelli)
Romeo + Juliet (1996 Luhrman)

Dungeon magazine back issue #52 - containing Spirits of the Tempest by Mike Selinker
Dungeon magazine back issue #54 - containing Dark Thane Macbeth by Mike Selinker
Dungeon magazine back issue #78 - containing Lear, The Giant King by Mike Selinker

Bone up on your Pushkin too...


The Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff podcast
Hamlet's Hit Points by Robin Laws

The Birthright Campaign Setting

The 7th Sea RPG

Fiasco: The London: 1593 playset 
and the
Fiasco: The Break a Leg playset

The Works of Shakespeare RPG Sourcebook

Apocalypse World

Night Witches: the RPG

Our friends at the Saving the Game podcast

Selling England By The Pound by Genesis just seems like a good fit here.

A Summary of Star Trek and Shakespeare

William Shakespeare's Star Wars by Ian Doescher

The Shakespeare Unlimited podcast

Everything is a Remix

Schadenfreude!

Poison on a Fouler Toad - The Film (based loosely on Richard III, Act 1, Scene ii):

The backing sound effects used in this episode included:

-  "Balalaika loop", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license.  The original file can be found here.

GRSF Season 13 Poster

The CVG Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue - Episode #018: Break Your Moneymaker!

Smaug always was a sucker for the "Scrooge McDuck Dive"

Episode Eighteen of The Chippewa Valley Geek Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue is complete and can be found here or on iTunes and Stitcher.

We're cashing in with a discussion about economics, money and coinage in our games.

0:00:00 Intros
0:01:26 The Up Front: On Piracy and Being Poor As Flumph
0:05:37 The Interview:  Game designer Caleb Stokes talks to Monster Mike about Red Markets, economic horror, and takes on the Geek-del Test!
0:43:53 The Roundtable:  Monster Mike and Jetpack Jack, ante up and put in their two cents about how money should work in our games...
1:51:20 The Community Calendar and The Monthly Marathon: Bardic Lore!
1:53:15 Outro & Credits
1:54:35 Bonus Track:  "Tarras Q"


Some Show Notes and Links!

Our special guest Caleb Stokes is from Hebanon Games

Get in on The Red Markets Kickstarter!

Check out the Red Markets playtest actual play podcasts

Check out the rest of Roleplaying Public Radio Podcast

Caleb also wrote No Security: Horror Scenarios in the Great Depression

Twilight: 2000

Call of Cthulhu RPG

Delta Green

Eclipse Phase RPG

Here's everything from Cubicle 7

An Amazon search for treasure

Currencies of Krynn and Dragonlance

Wheel of Time RPG

50 Fathoms RPG

Campaign Coins

The World of Darkness

d20 Modern

In Time for Timberlake

EVE Online

Metro 2033 by Dmitri Glukhovsky

Caleb Stokes contributed this month's PC Stinger from Half Off, his PC from one of the Red Markets playtests (the fellow in the middle in the pic below).  You can learn more about the playtest campaign by reading the RPPR forums here.

The backing sound effects used in this episode included:
-  "My Tavern 1.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Screaming_Crowd.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons 0 license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Dinosaur Scream.flac", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Dragon Scream.flac", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license.  The original file can be found here.