MCarterBrown Podcast

[Rainmaker]

I was thinking recently that it could be fun to just do like a weekly or monthly MCB Zoom call.

[glaman5266]

I like this. If we don’t/can’t get a podcast together this would be nice. Actually, this might be a good place to start anyway, to maybe see if a regular podcast is something we really want to do.

[AtomJaay]

I want to make some MCB alt accounts so I can "like" this post more times.

[DocsMachine]

Rather than a pod cast, we could all just stream our shop time.

-Way ahead of you.

Doc.

[BrickHaus]

Oh, I watch all of those vids Doc! Love your chip making vids.

But when I say stream, I mean like live with a camera looking at you AND your work. And you field user questions as you do your thang.

[Rainmaker]

Ok so let's say that this podcast gets off the ground...

What are some topics you want to hear about?
Who are some MCBers you want to hear from?

[KMDPB]

custom guns! plenty of paintball podcasts about teams and playing

[ChuckLove]

I'd really like a gun/gear centered paintball podcast myself.

[AtomJaay]

I'm like 90% lurker here usually but I've seen some successful and unsuccessful podcast efforts from the inside out, especially those that were born of a forum.

As someone who would like to subscribe and listen to this hypothetical podcast, I see a MCB podcast effort working as a network model due to the varied topics and for the sake of division of labor. The core team would maintain the distribution and provide some intro/outro audio as well as general guidelines for submission. The community would submit the finished audio of their own show episodes on the MCB network as individuals or groups and the core team would vet and publish. Less pressure for constant content on any one person, which can burn folk out fast or be stalled due life events.

[Cdn_Cuda]

Great idea! That allows a large pool of topics/interests funnelled into the podcast and puts less strain on those running it.

[DocsMachine]

I'd really like a gun/gear centered paintball podcast myself.

-This. Speaking purely personally, I have no interest in the latest tourney results, or what player just got traded to what team, or even where the next event will be held.

But I would love to hear a good- that's kind of a key word there- talk on guns and gear. New gear that's coming out, mods for existing gear, "tips and tricks", honest* reviews of gear, and maybe info on non-tourney events (like that this is the last Castle event, or when Oklahoma D-Day is, and so on.)

The thing is, most of us- me included- make very poor podcasters. Speaking clearly and concisely is hard. Speaking clearly, concisely, and in an entertaining manner is harder still.

For example: there used to be a podcast on webcomics- there may still be, for all I know. Several of the regulars were/are the "old guard" of webcomics, and had a lot of knowledge on running one and making it popular, etc.

But their podcasts were terrible. I mean, you could tell they were having a great deal of fun making them- cracking jokes at and off of each other, sarcastic responses, and just generally having a good time.

But for the listener, it was boring. A lot of the stuff was in one way or another an "inside joke", either between themselves, or something that happened at a convention somewhere, or a gag used in one of their strips like, five years ago. Or it was personal- that is, you had to know one of them had just grown a beard or something, or whose wife had just had a baby. Didn't know that? The joke falls flat.

Doing a good podcast takes a pretty dedicated team. Even doing just a decent podcast takes some work. Doing one on any kind of a regular schedule starts being a job.

Doc.

(*Unlike the "this is the best thing EVAR!!!!11one" like APG used to do. They had a glowing, "there's absolutely nothing wrong with this marker!" review of a freakin' TALON fer Pete's sake!)

[glaman5266]

I’d maybe like a small bit that does a “thread recap”, highlighting a couple notable tech threads from that week or month. I don’t always get the time to browse all the subforums but I like to take in as much as I can, ‘cuz I occasionally fix guns for others. Might help me pick up a few things I didn’t know.

[KMDPB]

Ooooo this is a great idea!!!

[Brokeass_baller]

Brilliant idea

[glaman5266]

Couple other ideas I had:

-News. I don’t mean pro tourney results and that sort of stuff, but things like trade shows, company acquisitions, legal proceedings, new products & companies, etc.

-Paintball-oriented Q&A sessions with willing members. Of course, it would be completely voluntary, but if someone wanted to put themselves out there that might be fun to get to know one another & their paintball life instead of just seeing a screen name.

-A 3-D printing segment. With it getting bigger now, it might be nice to have a more open & candid dialogue about it.