Suggest Ideas to the CubeCast

[FatBoyXPC]

Cubekid57: No need to double post, click edit. They've already mentioned how to prepare for competitions, it was in their first one I believe, or maybe it was the one with Feliks (or as andrew says Fell-icks).

 

[krnballerzzz]

Hmm, there are some good stuff in here. Keep em coming! If I end up using anything here, I'll obviously give you credit~ Perhaps even name it after you?

 

[prostx23]

OOoooooh I like the quiz idea, could be asked to the guest. How about doing it in the format of the NPR show "Wait, wait, don't tell me!"
Chris

Man I hate that show..mainly because locally (Phila, PA) my public radio station has kicked my quiz show choice Whad' Ya Know aside.

Back to Topic... I'd like to hear some interviews with some of the 1982 World Championship gang. Or how about you guys spin some yarns about the tomfoolery and hijinks that goes on at the different WCA events (Andrew's sad tale of his plane trip to Nationals is a good example).... random teabaggings, gluing someones cube together, going out to roll bums, lubing each others cubes (if you know what I mean.

Mike

 

[krnballerzzz]

I like the quiz idea. I also would love to have older cubers on from the 80's. But it's tough to get in contact with them.

 

[irontwig]

Guus is on the forum quite often, an episode with him would probably be pretty cool.

 

[Kirjava]

Wat

I completely forgot about Guus. I hope he wants to do that very very much.

I would love to talk about WC1982

 

[mdmrubik07]

How about Jessica Fridrich as a guest?

 

[PhillipEspinoza]

How about you use Cubecast as a way to talk about controversial WCA regulations, maybe have debates. Most of the time, we talk about regulations through text, through the WCA Forum. But I think it'd be interesting to include a segment on controversial regulations, and regulations/puzzles that want to be added that way we'd be able to actually "discuss".

You could make a quiz/trivia on WCA statistics. Like, what's the podium WR and who is it held by? Where did the term Sune oranginate from? Which country besides the US has held the most competitions? What is the oldest standing WR?

 

[Cubenovice]

Some additional guests to consider:

Lars Petrus
Gilles Roux
Gaetan Guimond
Zbigniew Zborowski
Ron van Bruchem
Lars vandenbergh
Dan Harris

 

[Andrew Ricci]

Maybe a signature of the episode kind of thing. Go through a bunch of peoples sigs and find the funniest/weirdest/etc.

 

[Owen]

Talk about me!

 

[oprah62]

Lol if you guys got guimond...........................

 

[flan]

Some additional guests to consider:

Lars Petrus
Gilles Roux
Gaetan Guimond
Zbigniew Zborowski
Ron van Bruchem
Lars vandenbergh
Dan Harris

Yeah get dan harris. His book was very good and he's easy to get hold of.

 

[ThatGuy]

What about some way for a certain amount of listeners to listen live and interact with the hosts using chat?

 

[maggot]

i got ninja'd

broadcast. last episode there are a lot of ****blank**** moments. having a chat room enable during a broadcast with a 3rd person monitering the chat discussion to pop in during ***blank*** moment to keep it fresh. there are probably lots of people willing to be involved with monitering discussion... kind of like how most radio talk show are where there are 2 or 3 people talking, but other people in the backround coming up with fresh stuff in case there is a down moment. much like howard stern... you need a "robyn"

also, i think an =3 approach would be interesting. find a user submitted question and before the episode is finish, let everyone know what the question is, make a thread on the SS forum (if needed) and then next episode, discuss interesting comments and give your own, discuss with the guest.

i also like the quiz idea, although i cannot imagine what the question would be ^^:

 

[jms_gears1]

Invite Harris Karsch to be on the show :3

 

[waffle=ijm]

I think waffo would be ossim on the show. I'd send him some pretty epic qqs if he was.

 

[krnballerzzz]

i got ninja'd

broadcast. last episode there are a lot of ****blank**** moments. having a chat room enable during a broadcast with a 3rd person monitering the chat discussion to pop in during ***blank*** moment to keep it fresh. there are probably lots of people willing to be involved with monitering discussion... kind of like how most radio talk show are where there are 2 or 3 people talking, but other people in the backround coming up with fresh stuff in case there is a down moment. much like howard stern... you need a "robyn"

also, i think an =3 approach would be interesting. find a user submitted question and before the episode is finish, let everyone know what the question is, make a thread on the SS forum (if needed) and then next episode, discuss interesting comments and give your own, discuss with the guest.

i also like the quiz idea, although i cannot imagine what the question would be ^^:

Those blank moments usually are fine and not that bad during recording. But, due to lag sometimes the gaps are a little longer than I would like. In my opinion, havingn some natural gaps does keep things fresh.

Having someone on the side to monitor this would only create more "talking over each other" in my opinion. Thom and I usually do a good job of trying not to step on each others feet on top of trying to get the guest to talk. If we add in a fourth, I think it would be very tough. However, that doesn't mean I won't give it a shot in a future episode. The KOII cubers will be a fun test for this.

I do like the equals three or quiz idea. Doing both would be too much imo since we are asking the listeners to participate in both on top of sending in questions.

 

[Andreaillest]

I think Harris Chan will make a great guest. So would Erik.

 

[riffz]

Bash the proposed average of 5 format for BLD.