Day 13 - Halloween http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween2011-Day13/Blue.Hot.Gossip.13.Days.of.Halloween.Day.13.mp3 Happy Halloween! Took the time today to carve my pumpkin for this year. It saves me the time and effort of doing it tomorrow when I'll likely be busy decorating. This may be the last post for Blue Hot Gossip, …

Day 12 http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween2011-Day12/Blue.Hot.Gossip.13.Days.of.Halloween.Day.12.mp3 I was able to record and edit the final day today which I'll be posting tomorrow. It will be nice getting it finished, although at this point it was good having done it. I can't say at this point I won't do it next year, …

Day 11 http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween2011-Day11/Blue.Hot.Gossip.13.Days.of.Halloween.Day.11.mp3 I haven't found much so far in the way of good new podsafe Halloween songs. Fortunately there's plenty of older stuff but it will make it harder to come up with stuff for next year, should I do a show. At this point I'm t…

Day 10 http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween2011-Day10/Blue.Hot.Gossip.13.Days.of.Halloween.Day.10.mp3 It turned out to be a busy day for me today and I almost forgot to upload the episode. I've still got to record the final day but that shouldn't take too long and I can do that on Sunday if I have to. The theme of this sh…

Day 9 http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween2011-Day9/Blue.Hot.Gossip.13.Days.of.Halloween.Day.09.mp3 Today's theme happens to be zombies. I'm not really a fan of how they treat them today since they've made them out to be really what they aren't. The zombies that are popular today are actually more akin to revenants than t…

Day 8 http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween2011-Day8/Blue.Hot.Gossip.13.Days.of.Halloween.Day.08.mp3 I've been spending most of the day cleaning up and organizing files my computer but I did get a script written for the final episode. I did have to get rid of part of a line that I liked but it was keeping the flow of conve…

Day 7 http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween2011-Day7/Blue.Hot.Gossip.13.Days.of.Halloween.Day.07.mp3 The ad I've added to the end of the shows is better explained in my blog: http://writerpatrick.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/business-support-services/ By using the podcast as promotion it helps to justify doing the podcast.…

Day 6 http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween2011-Day6/Blue.Hot.Gossip.13.Days.of.Halloween.Day.06.mp3 I've been having a bit of trouble with my computer after I tried out Windows 8 so I've spend most of the day getting it back to normal. However, I was able to get all but the last episode finished up and ready to go yesterd…

http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween2011-Day5/Blue.Hot.Gossip.13.Days.of.Halloween.Day.05.mp3 It would be hard to do a show about skeletons and not include Dem Dry Bones. I was lucky enough to find a decent copy to put in the show. Mostly because it's old enough to fall into public domain. There are plenty of songs I woul…

Day 4 http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween2011-Day4/Blue.Hot.Gossip.13.Days.of.Halloween.Day.04.mp3 It seems to me that devils were more popular in the past as part of Halloween than they are today. It might have something to do with the pranking origins of modern Halloween. In the past pranks were performed to scare peop…

http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween2011-Day3/Blue.Hot.Gossip.13.Days.of.Halloween.Day.03.mp3 I'm glad I got the the first three done since I've been a little busy the past couple days to do any work on it. But it doesn't take long to edit the shows together once the voice recording is done and edited. The rest should go …

Day 2 http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween-Day2_463/Blue.Hot.Gossip.13.Days.of.Halloween.Day.02.mp3 I've been busy these past couple days so I don't have the time or energy to write much. I've got up to episode 8 recorded and only up to episode 3 edited and ready to post so I'll have to try and get some more work done tom…

Day 1 http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween2011-Day1/Blue.Hot.Gossip.13.Days.of.Halloween.Day.01.mp3 It's time again for the third annual 13 Days of Halloween. I say third even though it's only the second year I'm posting it at Blue Hot Gossip. The first year was posted at Podcast Ping. I started working on it a little lat…

After a long delay, here's episode 22. http://www.archive.org/download/TheBlueHotGossipComedyShow22/BHGCS22.mp3 This will probably be the last episode of the podcast, at least for a while. It's been hard enough to get around to doing it with all the other things I need to work on, and many of those take more priority. I also have another podcast I'…

The Blue Hot Gossip 2010 Christmas episode. http://www.archive.org/download/TheBlueHotGossipComedyShow21/BHGCS21.mp3 I know it's late in the month for a Christmas podcast but I almost didn't do this one. I kept getting interrupted and had too many other things to deal with this month. And I had trouble coming up with good music; most of the humorou…

This is a somewhat special episode featuring the music of Billy Jones. He was a comedy musician back in the 20s and 30s, although much of his work holds up today. http://www.archive.org/download/TheBlueHotGossipComedyShow20/TBHGCS20.mp3 I was initially planning on getting this episode out before Halloween but I was too busy with the 13 Days of Hall…

http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween-Day13/Day13-13.Days.Of.Halloween.mp3 So this is the final day of the 13 Days of Halloween. In many ways it seems anti-climactic, at least to me, but it's only because the characters are finally out of the basement. But that doesn't mean they're out of danger. I could probably have had …

http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween-Day12/Day12-13.Days.Of.Halloween.mp3 Since this was the first time did a script this long and I was trying to stretch it over 12 days, I probably stretched the story out a little longer than needed. This episode may also not seem quite as climactic or scary, but this was suppose to be …

http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween-Day11/Day11-13.Days.Of.Halloween.mp3 This episode was tricky because of the number of voices I had to do. In doing so many it's easy to forget exactly how I did the voice. Fortunately, I've added voices gradually over time so I'm usually only dealing with one new voice. But I commonly …

http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween-Day10/Day10-13.Days.Of.Halloween.mp3 The title and transition music is just something I made up using a program that allowed me to write sheet music and convert it to a midi. I then re-recorded the midi as a sound file and modified it a bit. I used an organ sound partially because of i…

http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween-Day09/Day09-13.Days.Of.Halloween.mp3 There were many firsts for this production for me. It was the first time I've tried such a long story, particularly one stretching over many days. While I do try to keep some sort of consistency to the overall storyline of the show, each episode ten…

http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween-Day08/Day08-13.Days.Of.Halloween.mp3 When using the background sounds I had to be careful not to allow them to overpower the character's dialogue. As such some sounds seem softer than they should as anyone who has tried to record in a moderately crowded room would attest. But this tric…

http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween-Day07/Day07-13.Days.Of.Halloween.mp3 Day 7 marks the mid-way point in the 13 days. At this point all the real work is done and it's just a matter of uploading. But even that takes time and it tends to be a little boring. It's sort of a marathon since I have to post every day, including…

Day 6. http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween-Day06/Day06-13.Days.Of.Halloween.mp3 Doing a voice, let alone a new voice, can be difficult. While I might come up with one I like it's not always easy to reproduce it the next day. My throat might be tighter, drier or more congested than when I first did it. And I've got to fin…

Day 5. http://www.archive.org/download/BlueHotGossips13DaysOfHalloween-Day05/Day05-13.Days.Of.Halloween.mp3 I used some background sound on Blue Hot Gossip 19 and decided to use some for this story. I've kept it fairly simple though. The echoes were nothing more than a filter but they do add to the atmosphere. I was only going to use background sou…