How I Pulled Off the 100th Episode.

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!

Tags: behind the scenes, Podcast