A Speedsolving Forums podcast, featuring: All of you!

[Bingus Ringus McDingus]

Who wants to start the Speedsolving Forums Podcast with me?

Some ideas:
First, an example intro.
"Hey, welcome to the Speedsolving Forums Podcast, where cubing and fun meet! I'm your host, Bingus at Bingus Ringus McDingus, and today, my co-hosts are Person at Person123, Human at 7Human7 (and more names followed by usernames afterward)."

We start with small talk about personal lives, cubing endeavors, new hardware, records, news, etc. Then, we move onto the topic of the day, which, let's say, is "The World of Big Cubes". We talk about innovations, record times, their significance, history, and all that, with some silliness sprinkled in.

First recording could be December 8 or 9, so it's an OK time for everyone to plan it out.

Who's with me?

 

[NebraskanSpeedsolver]

Depends on how it's done, like I mentioned in the other thread.
I have a mic so that part's easy
Edit: Maybe Discord could work, I gotta confirm with my parents

 

[ProStar]

It’s quite difficult to find an entertaining group of people who all mesh with each other well and are distinct enough for audiences to enjoy. I’d warn against getting too many people all at once, particularly if it’s a rotating group. It makes it very difficult for audiences to develop a connection with all the hosts and become familiar with them. In my opinion, you may be better off having a few hosts who know each other and mesh well, and then inviting on a guest or two each episode, that way it’s a mix between an interview (so you can get to know the different forum members) but also can be a fun discussion.

I’m not a podcast expert though, good luck with your endeavor!

 

[GeographicalCuber]

I might not be able to, I'll have to check

 

[randomness...]

i would but i dont have any way to do so
seems interesting though!

 

[Bingus Ringus McDingus]

It’s quite difficult to find an entertaining group of people who all mesh with each other well and are distinct enough for audiences to enjoy. I’d warn against getting too many people all at once, particularly if it’s a rotating group. It makes it very difficult for audiences to develop a connection with all the hosts and become familiar with them. In my opinion, you may be better off having a few hosts who know each other and mesh well, and then inviting on a guest or two each episode, that way it’s a mix between an interview (so you can get to know the different forum members) but also can be a fun discussion.

I’m not a podcast expert though, good luck with your endeavor!

I would probably have only 2 or 3 other people on at one time (not including me) and I think that at most, we could have around 8-9 unique people per 10 episodes, so some people will come back multiple times.

 

[Arcanist]

Cool idea! I don't really think I'll be a huge part of this but I hope it goes well, and if a podcast does come out I'll make sure to listen to it.

 

[TheSpeedSkewber]

A podcast would be interesting.

It reminds me of Cubing World, a channel featuring many fast cubers and Speedsolving members who teamed together to create videos. I think part of the reason why that worked well is that each person had their own strengths in cubing and i think that may work for this if you do it right. I propose a segmented podcast split into different events with 2 main hosts per episode. Like ProStar said,

It’s quite difficult to find an entertaining group of people who all mesh with each other well and are distinct enough for audiences to enjoy. I’d warn against getting too many people all at once, particularly if it’s a rotating group. It makes it very difficult for audiences to develop a connection with all the hosts and become familiar with them. In my opinion, you may be better off having a few hosts who know each other and mesh well, and then inviting on a guest or two each episode, that way it’s a mix between an interview (so you can get to know the different forum members) but also can be a fun discussion.

I’m not a podcast expert though, good luck with your endeavor!

It's hard to find an entertaining group of people, so instead by having 2 people who we know 'vibe' well, e.g Bingus and @fes_77 as well as people good at events, like @gsingh.

Not an expert, just reccomendations.

 

[An Animating Cuber]

I could probably do it on the 9th, only problem is I don’t have access to a professional microphone, I’d either have to use the one that my phone has or maybe the ones on my earbuds

 

[gsingh]

Who wants to start the Speedsolving Forums Podcast with me?

Some ideas:
First, an example intro.
"Hey, welcome to the Speedsolving Forums Podcast, where cubing and fun meet! I'm your host, Bingus at Bingus Ringus McDingus, and today, my co-hosts are Person at Person123, Human at 7Human7 (and more names followed by usernames afterward)."

We start with small talk about personal lives, cubing endeavors, new hardware, records, news, etc. Then, we move onto the topic of the day, which, let's say, is "The World of Big Cubes". We talk about innovations, record times, their significance, history, and all that, with some silliness sprinkled in.

First recording could be December 8 or 9, so it's an OK time for everyone to plan it out.

Who's with me?

I can't give my full commitment, but I could maybe help with an episode or two.

 

[SpeakCuba]

I can't give my full commitment, but I could maybe help with an episode or two.

x2.

 

[caleb_g]

i have a good mic so i could join, i think it would be fun

 

[Bingus Ringus McDingus]

Please check the poll if you want to be part of this!

@caleb_g @SpeakCuba @gsingh @An Animating Cuber @NebraskanSpeedsolver @fes_77 please check it!

Also some people who may be interested/interesting:

@Fukuoka Kengo James (hardware expert), @Mike Hughey (cool to know the forum's history), @abunickabhi (skill expert, for blindsolving), @Garf (skill, mega expert), @Swagrid (skill expert, ZZ), and many, many others!

 

[Davian]

Im pretty interested, I may or may not be an clock expert (not an expert in solving, just to tell about it)

 

[An Animating Cuber]

Please check the poll if you want to be part of this!

@caleb_g @SpeakCuba @gsingh @An Animating Cuber @NebraskanSpeedsolver @fes_77 please check it!

Also some people who may be interested/interesting:

@Fukuoka Kengo James (hardware expert), @Mike Hughey (cool to know the forum's history), @abunickabhi (skill expert, for blindsolving), @Garf (skill, mega expert), @Swagrid (skill expert, ZZ), and many, many others!

What’s the subject matter for the first episode? I’m very good at Pyraminx and are well versed in the events hardware

 

[Cuber2s]

I think I can do this. I average sub 10 on 3x3 and sub 3 on 2x2 and I think I have decent hardware knowledge for 2-7

 

[Bingus Ringus McDingus]

Subject matter will probably be about the history of the current WCA events and the historical significance they have, so I could go from an arbitrary grouping, like this:

1. Pyraminx and Skewb (feat. @An Animating Cuber)
2. Clock and 2x2 (feat. @Davian)
3. 3x3 and 3x3 OH (feat. @gsingh and @Cuber2s probably)
4. Megaminx and Square-1 (feat. @Garf maybe for mega?)
5. Big Cubes and FMC (feat. @NebraskanSpeedsolver for big cubes probably, but more likely @gsingh realistically)
6. Blind events (feat. @abunickabhi and/or @Fukuoka Kengo James maybe?)
7. TBD. Maybe method mix-up with @Swagrid for ZZ and a Roux user?

Potential hosts:
@randomness... @caleb_g @fes_77

 

[gsingh]

Subject matter will probably be about the history of the current WCA events and the historical significance they have, so I could go from an arbitrary grouping, like this:

1. Pyraminx and Skewb (feat. @An Animating Cuber and @Davian for Pyraminx and Skewb, respectively)
2. Clock and 2x2 (feat. @Clock_Enthusiast maybe?)
3. 3x3 and 3x3 OH (feat. @gsingh and @Cuber2s probably)
4. Megaminx and Square-1 (feat. @Garf maybe for mega?)
5. Big Cubes and FMC (feat. @NebraskanSpeedsolver for big cubes probably)
6. Blind events (feat. @abunickabhi and/or @Fukuoka Kengo James maybe?)
7. TBD

I can help with big cubes as well

 

[Davian]

Subject matter will probably be about the history of the current WCA events and the historical significance they have, so I could go from an arbitrary grouping, like this:

1. Pyraminx and Skewb (feat. @An Animating Cuber and @Davian for Pyraminx and Skewb, respectively)
2. Clock and 2x2 (feat. @Clock_Enthusiast maybe?)
3. 3x3 and 3x3 OH (feat. @gsingh and @Cuber2s probably)
4. Megaminx and Square-1 (feat. @Garf maybe for mega?)
5. Big Cubes and FMC (feat. @NebraskanSpeedsolver for big cubes probably, but more likely @gsingh realistically)
6. Blind events (feat. @abunickabhi and/or @Fukuoka Kengo James maybe?)
7. TBD. Maybe method mix-up with @Swagrid for ZZ and a Roux user?

Potential hosts:
@randomness... @caleb_g @fes_77

This is okay, however, I dont really know much about skewb, only pyra and clock as those are the events i'm good at.

 

[Bingus Ringus McDingus]

This is okay, however, I dont really know much about skewb, only pyra and clock as those are the events i'm good at.

Ok, I can put you down for clock. Are you good at 2x2?