A few months ago I had the pleasure of being a guest on the Vito X Dino podcast as part of my Kickstarter reward for Dean Haspiel's ANTIMATTER comic. It was a really fun conversation. When it was over, I was immediately sad that I wouldn't be on their show the next week.

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Semi-related, I had previously volunteered to be their audio intern. The show begins on YouTube and the audio is later posted to Spotify where it propagates to podcast feeds. I have since been doing that job. When I started, the audio was four months behind the audio. Three audio episodes a week have been going live and the audio will catch up to the video in mid October.

It's been super fun. I started doing this job because I was a fan of the show and wanted the audio to come out regularly. You might think that with access to all the shows that I would be listening early but I actually only listen to the full shows when they are released. As part of production I listen to the first and last minutes to make sure all the pieces were assembled correctly. I save enjoying the full show for when the public gets it. I hope you enjoy it as well.

On this show, I play a song from The Makeouts; I can't handle a schedule on a holiday week; mornings are my time; I cherish those morning moments when everything is quiet; I realized I put so much attention to my podcast backlog because it feels like achievement when in fact it is nothing; I got some attention with my Mastodon post about podcast growth; is Brian Ibbot the only podcaster I came up with earning a living from their show? I rate the Off-Panel one star only because he tells us every show to rate him five stars which infuriates me; any measurement that turns into a KPI becomes useless; shake off that feeling that you need to "produce" every day; the podcast industry is tedious people doing tedious bullshit; Podcast Movement feels like the undercover cop of the new media world; I miss Podcast Expo in Ontario California; my 3d printer sitting idle is making me itchy; I printed my pieces for the upcoming Grendel game; I am getting serious about the Silhouette Cameo 4; turns out the Cricut cutting mat is not interchangeable with a Cameo machine; I have got to figure out something with Patreon pretty quck as they are changing November 1.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, September 18 2026.

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On this show, I talk about my history with Dragon*Con during the nineties.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, September 21 2026.

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On this show, I play a song from Burden's Landing; my kid got us a table at the restaurant and it almost made me cry; the notion of "imposer syndrome" made me laugh; working on the Vito X Dino podcast led me to Devil in Detail, a Grendel comic re-read podcast; I volunteered to be a coordinator for the FediZineFest with very little forethought; those early Comico comics were some slapdash affairs; the very worst comic book you've ever read was actually printed and distributed; making a terrible thing is still making a thing which is hard work; if you don't sing you don't get to criticize anyone's karaoke performance; Jack Kirby was a great artist and an imaginative thinker but never had the courage to back himself; I am thinking to myself about the viability of going into business fulfilling crowdfunding campaigns; I have been thinking about the successes and failures of our CREATE South conference; a bickering old couple really bummed out what was already a bad takeout experience.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, September 4 2026.

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On this show, I play a song from Pillow Spiders; my child is driving to school solo; I am wistful; bees can't consent to give you honey; I am trying to face opposing opinions by asking "what of this can I agree with?"; clicking the link to Reddit is almost always a mistake; argumentative privilege is real; I will do boring work for your open source project but I will not argue for it; people who are comfortable arguing will get more of what they want; the 22nd anniversary of this podcast happened and was acknowledged but not celebrated; I am using CoMaps because Waze is good but also creepy surveillance capitalism; editing OpenStreetMaps is a thing; it makes sense to have a Discord - I have a discord - but when every show and project has one it is unwieldy; I hate YouTube clickbait thumbnails and titles so much that I think I hate YouTube.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 28 2026.

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On this show, I discuss why I like and don't like podcasts and what a hazy choice it can be. Names are named.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 21 2026.

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On this show, I play a song from Djembe Funk; paper bags were the key to cleaning my upper office for good; filing comics will eat up a week; I was a guest on the Vito x Dino video show; I am now the unpaid intern for the Vito x Dino audio podcast; I could not care less about growing this podcast but I want to grow theirs; Alone is a reality show I can watch because it lacks the manufactured bullshit drama of others; outdoor skills being equal, the most centered person with the best attitude will win any given season of Alone; why show up if you know you have to leave almost immediately; contestants focus on the macro to the exclusion of the micro.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 14 2026.

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On this show, I discuss 3D printing, my history with it and my new printer.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 7 2026.

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On this show, I play a song from Brooke Eden; having the full blog publishing loop working makes me want to publish more posts; dynamic podcast ads are becoming so bad and so plentiful that I am motivated to remove them; all ad removers use LLMs; I am so angry at the LLM companies for poisoning a useful technology with their financial scams; Democrats love to sign me up to mailing lists against my will; I used fake initials to figure out which magazine sold me out to junk mailers; I love Ruby on Rails as a web development tool but I hate David Heinemeier Hansson; Marc Andreesen is the dickhead whose name I blanked on; my people have been in America for centuries and I have no problem with immigrants; it is a Sisyphean task to try to keep evil companies and people out of your life and toolchain; some cliches of TV and movies have gotten on my last nerve; did you just say the title of the show? the detective always figures things out 3 seconds before the bomb explodes; I have made my bed on the YouTube algorithm and now I must lie in it; The Hack-A-Day podcast is my new place to find projects to expand my horizons; please suggest starter electronics projects for me!

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, July 31 2026.

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In this quick bite episode, I discuss my home lab, the concept of a home lab and what it entails to keep one running.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, July 24 2026.

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