CubeCast Podcast E34 w/ Lucas Garron released!

krnballerzzz said:
The first month we came back the website got 1300 unique visitors, which was more than I was expecting. The number has been slowly growing this month. As an avid podcast listener, I realize podcast format is not for everyone... but the people who love it eat it up! At the moment, I'm looking for more interactive/vocal listeners rather than pure viewing numbers. Listener interaction makes the show so much more engaging/fun!

While were on the subject of listener interaction, do any of you guys have suggestions on how to improve the show? I have a ton of ideas lined up for the next episode as well as bringing back old favorites (puzzler?).
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Can we still donate and get a shout-out?
 
Basically the show comes down to the guest - don't pick someone just because they're good.
For a podcast, they have to be an energetic person.

Not to shame the cast of Season 2, but the only reason I like Thom/Andrew better is their energy and their guests. Cubing is cool and all, but I don't want to listen to it unless the guest is seriously passionate about the subject and has new ideas to offer. I think that's the reason I enjoy guests such as Chris Hardwick, Mike Hughey, etc. They do stuff that's different. They don't just solve NxNs all day, but work or have worked on 'different' events. Someone that conributes a lot to the wiki or even the guy that made PPT would be great guests.

Guests make up everything.
Invite guests from back when cubing was young(er). Go ask people that have made software you use, like aCube, Cube Explorer, etc.
There are so many topics beyond "yeah I do OLL/PLL" to go into and the podcast hasn't touched upon them yet. THAT's what I want to hear!
I want to hear about people actually bettering cubing. Cride5, Josef Jelinek, Frank Morris, Jessica Fridrich even, Lucas Garron, Macky, Brest, Jason Baum, etc.
These are people that have changed cubing, to their different levels. They have actively written up guides, developed methods and pushed cubing further than it was before.

Tim is a great step in the right direction - I really hope to get some great insight into how things are organized on a larger scale and very much you guys focus on that.
I just want more of it, I guess. Take me through the mind of Brest - ask him how he got into reconstructions. Why did Lucas Garron create cubing.net, and what are his plans? Seriously, there's so much going on software-side, and it's not seen by enough cubers.

/rant.
TL;DR; Guests should actually care about cubing, and you should focus on what makes them different. I don't care how fast Tim Reynolds is. I really don't, and neither does most of your user base. I care about the stresses, fun, etc involved in organizing a huge competition. I want the details.
 
StachuK1992 said:
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I agree that most of those people would be cool to hear from, but I also think you're discrediting the interesting things about some of last couple guests. There's certainly more depth and variation in their solving styles than "I do OLL/PLL". These days, I find it pretty interesting that there's a spectrum of the fast cubers, (this is just my observations) with Kevin at one end, being the epitome of "turn fast, 1case1alg4lyfe", and Mats at the other, having a lot of cool tricks and various algs for specific situations. Feliks probably lies somewhere in the middle, probably closer to Mats (and Alex Lau is off doing his own thing). It's an exciting time to be following speedcubing! It wasn't long ago that a lot of the fast people seemed to shun doing crazy tricks and stuff in your solves, but now that seems to be the common factor between Mats and Feliks.

A couple other people I'd love to hear from:
Robert Yau - Lots of algs, different fingertricks, different methods
Kris de Asis - Very slow turning
Cornelius? - I've never really taken a good look at his solving style to be honest, I'm not sure where he lies on the spectrum above, but I'd like to know :D
Any ex-3x3 WR holder - I'd like to hear their opinion on how the style of the fast people today is different than it was a couple years ago (because I think it's changed a lot).

Software wise, honestly, I'm not sure most of those people would be interesting to the general cubing public (I'm pretty sure the only software the majority of cubers even use is a timer). I agree on Lucas though. Also Michael Gottlieb, I don't think anyone has contributed as much useful software as him.
 
What about these people:
Adam Morgan
KOII Cubers
Tristan Wright
Phillip Espinoza
Bob Burton
Turbo
Izovire
Harris Chan


They have been listed as guests since at least early 2011, I never listened to this before then despite being on the forum since Sept 2010
 
There is so much to talk about that happened in the last few weeks! Anyone have any specific topics you want discussed on the upcoming shows (Tim Reynolds and Eric Limeback)? I already am planning on talking about the big events like Feliks WRs, Eric's 24 hour WR, and Chris Olson WR.
 
Since you're having a WCA Board member there, you could talk about the recent changes in the WCA structure, the new WCA board members (Ilkyoo Choi and Natán Riggenbach), the extinction of the IAC and the creation of the new WCA Disciplinary Committee (WDC).
 
First!

Kinda weird, being the first after five days. Anyway, very fun stories about worlds and the 24h record, and I was happy to hear a bit more about the M2 history :). But what's that "just like anyone else I googled it, youtubed it, it was much harder back in the day" nonsense, someone should tell you about the situation in the early 1980s!

And I screwed up *scrambling* for teamblind *twice*, I suggest you either do it like Andrew and say "down"/"back" or you drop the British accent :p
 
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The BLD situation Eric mentioned about Feliks is the real epitome of what being a teacher is all about, and it should motivate everyone to produce the best possible content and help out / teach someone out there. You never know who's out there eager to learn what you know now, and what great achievements they reach with it.
Also, I could not pick up teamblind as well. As a suggestion, it would be great if you could at least slow down calling teamblind scrambles, so that slower people can at least try to have a go at it (1 second per move?).
 
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What a relief! How is he?

Yes, I still find this funny :p
 
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