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 #015: Mean Talkin' Blues!

You may have had to have been there...

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

We're talking about the Dark Side, and how you got to change your evil ways (baby)!

0:00:00 Intros
0:01:12 The Up Front: On Bulgakov and the Necessity of the Shadow
0:06:07 The Interview:  Our first return guest, Rev. Derek White, the Geek Preacher, comes back to tell us about the history of the dark side, opines on the nature of evil, and re-takes the Geek-del Test!
0:53:31 The Roundtable:  Now with improved Monster Mike and Jetpack Jack!  Ethics!  Matchups!  Dark secrets revealed!  And more!
1:45:58 The Community Calendar and The Monthly Marathon: I'm still stuck in Season Two of Twin Peaks
1:50:09 Outro & Credits
1:51:32 Bonus Track:    Roll It!

Some Show Notes and Links!

The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

(The opera is pretty good too...)

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Incidentally, you can get your own awesome Behemoth Tshirts here!

Meet Rev. Derek W. White the Geek Preacher!

The Geekpreacher.org!

Zoroastrianism for dummies!

St. Augustine and the Just Christian War

Roger Zelzany's Princes of Amber series

Elric of Melnibone

Get your own 14-sided Virtue & Vice die here!

How about some Green Ronin books?

• Thieves World d20
• Freeport
• Mutants and Masterminds
• Mythic Vistas: Testament
• Mythic Vistas: Eternal Rome

A Search for Evil

It holds the universe together!

FEAR is the path to the dark side...

Time Bandits!

The Shadow!

Highlander!

Mystery Men!

Peter Pan with Christopher Walken!

Kim Jong Un eating things!

Jack Thompson

Support the Goldman Piracy Career Academy!

Side Jobs by Jim Butcher

This episode's cover art is an impression of Satan's grand ball in The Master and Margarita by MadLittleClown on deviantart.  Check out the original here!

The backing sound effects used in this episode included:
-  "atrium loop" by leswagcupcakes, obtained from Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license.  The original file can be found here.

More Behemoth!

The CVG Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue - Episode #011: Come On In My Kitchen!

A Supper to end all Suppers in the Geekery.  (Yes, ALL the holidays.)

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

We're covering the holidays with an examination of feasts and food in history, games and geek media!

0:00:00  Intros
0:02:00  The Up Front: On pageantry and periodicity
0:05:38  The Interview:  Medieval food expert Cassandra Baldassano tells us about medieval misconceptions, humors us with a discussion of the four humors, and takes on the Geek-del Test!
0:27:!6  Payin' some bills
0:32:19  The Roundtable:  Wherein Mike and Donny and Jack make with the matchups, celebrate 7 holidays in 90 minutes, and enjoy an offally good dinner!
1:58:04  Announcements and the Community Calendar
2:03:43  Outro & Credits
2:04:54  Bonus Track:    Highway 53 Blues!

Hey, how about some show notes?

Check out Cassandra Baldassano and her Culinary Journey!

Penzey's is a great place to get your spices!

Here's the Geek's main Amazon link!

Attention kids and giblets: KWIKSTARTER IS NOT A REAL THING.  Neither is A Pwnable Feast.

PATREON sure is though!

Let's hit some holidays!

THANKSGIVING!

HANUKKAH!

KWANZAA!

Give a listen to the Atomic Array!

Or the Gamer's Haven Podcast!

Or Postcards from the Dungeon!

Or Gaming & BS!

FESTIVUS!

How about some Feats of Strength!

Mike and Jack square off...

Donny goes "Tusken Raider" on the Festivus pole...

MERRY XMAS!

Afterlife with Archie! by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla

The Manhattan Projects! by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra

Black Science! by Rick Remender and Matteo Scalera

Go watch Ravenous!

Or Crazy Legs Conti and the Zen Art of Competitive Eating

Or Cannibal! The Musical

NEW YEAR'S EVE!

We want to get to:

Trail of Cthulhu
and
The One Ring

BURNS NIGHT!

Try it with something from the Keweenaw Brewing Company!  (I recommend the Widow Maker Black Ale.)

Remember you can get your own copies of the bonus tracks out at Bandcamp!

PC Stinger:

Euriol of Lothian is how Cassandra Baldassano is known amongst the SCA, and as she explains, "Euriol is Welsh and Lothian is the county where Edinburgh resides.  My mother was born in East Lothian and most of my ancestors in the geneology research I've done were born in... East Lothian"
The backing sound effects used in this episode included:
-  "Magic Wand Glitter.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "01914 punches and slaps.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Space Engine.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license.  The original file can be found here.
-  "Space Beam, Cloak, Warp, Jump, etc.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons 0 license.  The original file can be found here.

Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!