If there’s one thing I’ve learned in this world, it’s when people get bored, good things happen (our podcast for instance). What happens when the one and only Miss Chevious gets bored? BEHOLD!

I can’t believe how well she captured the likeness.

There’s times editing this show where I just feel defeated. This is one of those episodes. Walrus King just got a new laptop and he recorded his audio on it. However we both forgot that skype is automatically set on new computers to re-adjust the mic levels to adapt to a person’s voice. The program thinks it’s helping.

IT DOES NOT.

I tried to salvage the audio the best I could, but there are still a ton of problems. WK and I fixed the problem so it won’t happen in future episodes, but unfortunately for this one WK’s audio ranges from tolerable, to “wait what did he say?”

This is too bad because this week we’re joined by a new addition to the show, my good friend Miss Chevious. Even though I didn’t plan on ever bringing her on to the show, the circumstances under which we recorded gave her the opportunity to be on the show.

And also because I completely spaced on emailing, sorry FT for not getting back to you with your story! We covered this in the episode, but if you’ll send in the section you want read we’ll happily “perform” it.

Click the link on the right hand player to give it a listen. That or download it in iTunes. Or Zune. Or

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Here’s a video I made today since there’s no audio episode. I had to edit it together really quickly, hope you enjoy it!

This will also be added to the video podcast feed. Sorry! WE’LL HAVE ONE NEXT WEEK!

Well my face is red. WK is back from Hawaii but his work schedule is so hectic that we couldn’t do an episode (that and Sir Michael’s computer is still broken, M is in another country, and Osiris quit). There was supposed to be an episode this week, so instead of an episode I’ll post a video podcast. Still not sure exactly what it will be, but it’ll be up later in the day tomorrow. If you’ve got any questions you want to ask me in the video leave in the comments section below.

Sorry! We’ll have one next week!

Well I completely spaced that Walrus King was going to Hawaii this week, and since I’m not getting a reply from him I assume he’s already there. That being said I don’t have a back up host this week and it’s a little too late to get someone.

Sorry about this. I know new episodes have been sporadic lately and in all honesty I planned to have one this week. I’ll keep you posted if something comes up.

FANTASY MADE REAL!

The new episode is up. I couldn’t think of anything to type about it so….yeah.

It’s with M, and hilarity insues.

You can listen to it in the right hand player or listen to the copy you got off itunes. Also sorry about the audio quality. Don’t EVER record in a wide open room. Lesson learned.

Also this episode was recorded way back in the beginning of January so some things we talk about are very dated.

As the week of the 100th episode comes to a close, I thought I’d let you guys know how I actually pulled it off. I don’t know if it came across in the episode, but this was the hardest I’ve ever had to work to complete an episode. This is the longest episode to date, and in order to finish in two weeks (with school and other responsibilities taking priority) I had to edit the show in chunks. Here’s how I did it:

The first thing I worked on was the new theme music and closing music. I worked on it secretly for 3 weeks before the episode aired and was changing it all the way up until the episode’s release date. The closing music is a variation on the tune heard in the third part of the opening music.

Then I spent the 2 weeks before the release date scheduling people for records, planning the episode format, and recording the call in segment. I immediately went to work on editing audio as it came in, starting with the call in segment.

You’ll notice in  the pictures that the opening skit, call in segment, and host montage are all giant audio clips. This is because they were their own garageband projects that I exported into a finished project later. This made it so the editing wasn’t so messy and I could complete the segments faster.

The week before the episode was released was spent finishing up records and editing like crazy. Believe it or not the actual episode audio was recorded the Wednesday before it aired. We had originally recorded the show after we did the call in segment, but I was so dissatisfied with it that I deleted the file and we recorded it again. You can see that there’s and edit almost every 5-8 minutes. This was to take out “umms,” dead air, and jokes that didn’t work.

I was working on it up until 3 in the morning on Thursday to make sure it went out on time. The project took over and hour and a half to export because it was so huge!

Well that’s how I did it. Hope you enjoyed the episode and found this interesting!

As you all probably know by now, Villainy INC got a brand new theme song last episode. Since the old theme is being retired, I thought I’d post it here in case anyone was interested in downloading it.

You can download it with Randy’s VoiceOver:

Podcast Opening(voice)

Or with music only:

Podcast Opening(music only)

I’ve always liked this theme song, but since we’ve had it for almost 100 episodes I really wanted a change. Goodnight sweet old theme song. May a flight of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Here’s the website Walrus King mentioned last episode. I forgot to put in the post so here it is now.

http://www.hopeforhaiti.com/

Although we are cold evil masterminds, we also care. If you’ve got some extra dollars I know there’s someone in Haiti who desperately needs it.