Hey guys,

  So for a little while now, I've been throwing around the idea of streaming a monthly podcast about gaming, PA LAN events, and get some good discussion / debate out there on hot gaming related (but probably not always) topics.  I also wanted to have a guest caster on the show each month from different gaming groups /  PA LAN organizations to spice it up a bit and also let them use the show to inform / plug their events too if they want to. 

After talking with Czar, Shank, and Decepticon, they all shared the same kind of excitement and interest to get this thing rolling.  SO, this Friday at 9:30 PM EST, we are going to have the pilot episode of our Monthly LANcast / PA LANCast.  (We are still working on the name...feel free to throw out some suggestions...hopefully something less generic than what I came up with :P )

We all know it will take some time to generate some interest and buzz, as well as get a good flow going and all that good stuff that makes a podcast worth checking out, but if you can please feel free to tune in and let us know what you think.  We want to get as many gaming groups / communities / LAN Organizations involved as we can, so please give us your input, some suggestions for topics...anything really!     

The cast will be streamed on www.livestream.com   

Our channel (for now as it might change later) is www.livestream.com/palancast 

So, hit up that URL at 9:30 PM EST this Friday and check it out if you can

This is a good idea dude. 

Hi All,

Just wanted to extend a "Thank You" to the casters and listeners for our pilot episode last night, it was fun

Also, one of our friends in D.C. happened to listen to the cast late last night then sent gri3v and I an email with, "a few (humble) comments that I thought I'd share to hopefully help out.  Take them as you will and know that I'm just trying to help."

Here are a few of his bullet points (with my replies in orange): <-- see what I did there?

• Video - Could you guys do a split screen or something where all four of the hosts can webcam in?  Obviously you're not all in the same location so this might prove difficult  great idea, I think as of right now, the stream is just jim's desktop, but we all talked after the cast and thought it would be a good idea to throw up a browser (*cough* firefox *cough*) with youtube clips (on mute) of what games we're currently talking about or articles or anything dynamic based on the topics (gaming related or not) to keep everyone engaged in the cast
• You mentioned having special guests or specific guests as well as the fites guys are looking for some corporate sponsors.  One of the guys that goes to my church, works for the guys who created civilization.  He's actually a game developer.  I can see if he'd be interested in coming on one night or also if he'd be able to talk to his guys to see if there would be a possibility of sponsoring one of the lans (or any other ideas you guys might come up with)  very very cool... omg 1st thing that came to mind when I read this bullet was from Office Space -- "That's what I'm talkin' about when I talk about America!" hahahah we're going to try to get Tycho from LegendaryLAN for the September cast ( http://legendarylan.com/forum/index.php ), but will definitely keep this in mind for later this fall man, thanks for letting us know
• Speaking of Fites 2013 and any other LAN you guys might be involved in...I was wondering if I could help.  Specifically from the perspective of what we tried a little bit at the new years lan this year with the server hosting etc.  I've been doing a lot of work lately that I think could possibly work really well in that type of environment and would like to help out on the servers/networking/storage/etc side of things. Obviously we'd want to test it out first but all-in-all i have a couple of ideas for you guys on how to possibly make this a "business" of sorts and would be interested to hear what you guys have in mind for the future.  If you're not interested in that side of things that's fine, I think Jim had mentioned it in the past though.  Maybe we can chat sometime in the future over email/chat/etc...  Sounds like we should get you in touch with the FITES guys since they already have 200 MAN LAN's and I'm sure they have a servers/networking/storage resource that you could bounce ideas off of each other and/or learn how they do everything currently then pose your suggestions
• Future Topic - You could talk about the server side of things and how the big lans actually do things behind the scenes (from a technology perspective).  That may not be what you're going for with this but I would certainly be interested in that.  Yes, this sounds like earlier with broadening our audience and getting into different topics for discussion... again, we'll see how it goes as we get some more casts under our belt

I thought it was nice to get all this feedback already and figured I'd share with you guys.  Lemme know if you want his contact information and I'll PM you.  Game on amigos!

BAAALLLLS OF STEEEEELLLL.

That is all.


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cockmeatsandwich

I am always good for comentary, but unless the show is rated NC-17 the cast would probably just sound like a test signal due to all the stuff you would have to bleep out.

Here's a snip it of Broken's last public announcement