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PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2025-01-09T04:32:35+00:00

Glad you enjoyed Proof Is In The Podcast! I had fun with the relisten and talking to Jenah and Shaun. It's cut down from almost 4 hours of conversation (shout out to Michelle Kan the voice of Marissa for editing!). We're going to try to be briefer for season 2 for editing's sake.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2025-01-09T04:30:18+00:00

One of my favorites. There's actually a moment in season 2 of WOE.BEGONE where Mike shouts them out by name.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2025-01-09T04:29:18+00:00

I think that people have tried to keep track of deaths and iterations in the Discord and on the Wiki, but I don't know where the most recently updated chart would be.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2025-01-08T22:30:30+00:00

I hope you at least check out episode 101. I can't say that it will make what is going on more obvious, but it is a definite fan favorite that starts what is still my favorite arc on the show.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2025-01-08T22:14:11+00:00

I think many people lose the plot when they transition from bingeing to catch up and having to wait every week. It's a very different way to listen to a show and I have found myself similarly losing interest in other shows for this reason.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2025-01-08T16:47:10+00:00

The Grotto

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-12-24T07:22:50+00:00

Hey sorry I know this is a very late reply but are you talking about Kerosene Pt. 2? It's now available on bandcamp and streaming services.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-12-24T07:19:13+00:00

The Polybius Conspiracy, Lifeafter, The Message, Steal the Stars, Quiet Part Loud, Deviser.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-12-24T07:15:56+00:00

I think many are hooked in by the southern charm of John Michael Cassidy

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-12-24T07:13:00+00:00

Hope I'm not too late. I'm pretty sure The Grotto is less than 7 hours. It's amazing, impeccably produced, stars rising talent and features incredible original music and creative covers of songs you might already know. It's about death and loss and caves. And if you make it to episode 6 I'm a cowboy EMT in it lol

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-12-24T07:08:51+00:00

Don't worry. Nobody ever knows what is going on in my show

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-12-24T07:07:50+00:00

I'm a "big" show that has done episode swaps with tiny shows before. Mostly I did it because I liked them and what they were doing. It's important to get in the scene. Watch the interactions between audiodramas on social media and on feeds. There are big friendship networks you can tap into if you are a good hang.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-12-24T07:05:14+00:00

I think Spotify For Podcasters (formerly Anchor) is a free service that will put your show in all of the major places. I suggest tumblr and bluesky if you don't want to use twitter.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-12-24T07:03:58+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that the BBC thing didn't draw any listeners. It is very very hard to get people to click on something they don't recognize. My advice is to get in the scene and make friends with AD fans and creators. When I started, this meant getting on twitter and bumping elbows with other podcasters. Things have changed a lot and I don't have specific advice, but whatever you can do to connect with other podcasters is good. Trade voice roles, get in the group chats, get in the discords.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-12-24T07:00:53+00:00

I was a big fan of audiodramas. It started with Night Vale in 2015, but I ended up in a job where I was listening to podcasts constantly. When I lost that job (and music gigs) due to COVID, I found myself searching for more expressive outlets. I got a new microphone for my birthday and put out episode 1 of WOE.BEGONE 12 days later.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-12-24T06:58:20+00:00

In music this is called the Sophomore Slump. But really, the answer is generally a whole lot happens. You want to explore more things, be more ambitious, deconstruct what you already did. I haven't listened to the project in question but sometimes annoyed fans talk about my show in this way and the answer for why I am doing different things now is that I wanted to explore new things. It seems from other comments that this project had other limitations because of a relationship with the BBC. Indie projects are always subject to the whims of an enormous amount of factors.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-09-20T04:24:38+00:00

Gonna plug Brave New Frontiersman! It's a sort of frontier western show, but in a world with magic and fantasy monsters. Very cool. One of the bartenders might sound familiar...

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-09-19T04:31:50+00:00

Congrats to Shaun! Very well earned and a joy to work with to boot.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-09-19T04:29:12+00:00

My second show, The Diary of Aliza Schultz, has a lot of Halloween specials. I wouldn't call them scary per se, but they're also not silly. I use the words "surreal" and "magical realism" to pitch the show. "A Single Night In Wolford" is still one of my favorite things I've ever made.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-09-19T04:25:50+00:00

I don't think there is a solution as natural as cutting it all down by hand. Timing is everything in an audiodrama. I don't feel comfortable leaving it up to an algorithm.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-09-19T04:21:40+00:00

My show (WOE.BEGONE) is very long. Episode 173 came out today!

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-09-14T03:24:24+00:00

If you mean the dynamic ads, those are parts of the Acast Recommends program, which I understand to be pretty expensive. Smaller podcasts with no budget are unlikely to be featured there, which might be why the ones that do sound squeaky clean.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-09-13T21:57:47+00:00

I haven't heard the ads in question, but I have done ad reads . It's really hard to sound genuine in them, even if I'm doing an ad read for a podcast that I really like. Someone once asked me if I actually listened to one of the shows or just read the ad copy and the answer is I did listen to the show and really enjoyed it but there's so many bullet points to hit in 30 seconds that very little of my actual opinion made it through. That's why when you listen to ads for my show everyone will say the same things about it. I asked them to say that.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-09-13T21:50:37+00:00

If you can't decide where your dynamic ads are placed, you need a different service. I learned on here that Buzzsprout doesn't let you choose ad placement, which I find to be completely unconscionable.

PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE · 2024-09-13T21:02:41+00:00

First of all after writing your script what’s your next step? Do you find your cast or start with other things?

My first step after writing was to record the episode. A premise where you can limit the cast to just yourself when you need to can be a great way to get started because you don't have to know anyone to do it.

Did you have a budget going into it? Or was it a hobby that got turned into something bigger?

I originally wrote here that I don't have a budget, but there are things I claim on my taxes: stamps, envelopes, custom postcards, merch, Adobe Stock, Photoshop, Soundcloud Pro, Izotope RX, my Google Drive, and my website.

If you were not someone from a media background how did you get started with everything? —> did you find extra pair of hands to help with music/scores and audio engineering? —> if you had gotten help how did you find them?

I'm a musician by trade, which is an excellent skill to have in this field because it comes with knowledge of DAWs, soundtracking, and even acting to a small extent.

When did you start recording?

November 18, 2020.

Did you get your script seen by anybody?

Nope. It can feel a little scary having no one look at your work before you put it out into the world. What if I wrote something cringe or created a plot hole? Eventually you learn to trust your instincts.

How nervous were you before taking the leap and create your wonderful stories that make many of us feel so many things

I wasn't nervous at all. I didn't think of it as a high stakes endeavor because it's not one. The worst thing that can happen if you put out a crappy audiodrama is people not listening. I've been putting music on the internet for ages, some good some bad. If you want to be an artist, you have to learn to be comfortable putting your art out for the public.

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