Extra Voices

It has been far to long since I’ve gotten a podcast out. With life, holidays, my Game Day marathon, plus putting in ground work for my 2023 effort, this venture has been on the backburner for far too long!

To kick things off this year, I’m replaying all the interview segments that I had during my Game Day marathon back in December 2022. This is a great introduction to the kind of content that I do throughout the year.

This episode in particular is a great primer as the interview tables are turned! Adam Schifani, one of the Community Managers for Extra Life, dropped in to chat about my Extra Life efforts, how I got started and why I do it.

Why don’t you help me get started in changing kids’ health in 2023? Make sure to roll by gamin4aven.org and get those tax-deductible donations in!

Thanks to another wonderful $100 donation to my Extra Life Campaign, I am proud to bring another NCAA ‘14 Sim to the masses. This wonderful reprieve from my various house projects features this weekend’s Battle for the Jeweled Shillelagh between Notre Dame and Southern Cal.

Don’t forget, next weekend, starting Friday, December 2, I will start my Extra Life 24-hour marathon that will feature me playing through the entire 2022 Notre Dame season.

A huge thanks to good ‘ol Milfy for the $100 and his request to make this Notre Dame sim a reality. Also, a big shoutout to Sapipa, who tossed in $100 during this stream for a future Notre Dame @ Southern Cal sim as well!

For the second time this season, I return to the virtual pressbox where I found myself immediately greeted by what I can only assume is an elaborate Halloween prank a couple nights late.

Did the chat call for Drew Pyne to ride the pine? Repeatedly. Did I do it? Listen and see.

Typically, donations cause me pain through food and drink, but now…now we’ve found a new way to torture me.

Changing Kids’ Health, one stupid sim at a time.

When I had the concept of Extra Voices rattling around in my head, I had a list of who I wanted to interview for the show. Within that list were was a smaller group of reaches and I’m happy to say I’m one-for-one on them.

Eve, aka cuten00b, hosted Extra Life United this past spring. I had only two interactions with her the entire event. I thanked her for her work while among a group doing the same and ran into her at the hotel Starbucks catching up on some work before leaving for my flight.

I’m constantly amazed at how small interactions snowball into something much larger. This interview was everything that I hoped for and more. Not only does Eve have some a great story about how she grew into streaming and casting, but has both a focus on representing LatinX in gaming as well as having a huge heart for charity.

Be sure to follow Eve on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, and YouTube. Check out her casting on Galorants as well. Also, I encouraged her to put up an Extra Life page after she had only a weekend Tiltify campaign. After all, she has a goal of raising $10,000 for charity—let’s help her get there!

It was only a matter of time before severe technical issues invaded my latest project, and God himself brought down the thunder upon this venture.

It’s only fitting that this happens the first time I interview a Children’s Miracle Network employee as well. Travis Mantooth, the man now in charge of our Extra Life efforts at the Children’s Health Foundation of Oklahoma City, joins me in this episode. We discuss his new role (he’s only months into it!), his goals and plans for the future of the program, and the successes so far.

Travis is also a veteran Extra Lifer of over a decade as well! So we have plenty of discussion around streaming for the event, hopefully encouraging others to sign up.

Please make sure to follow Travis on Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and reach out to him via email with any Extra Life questions you may have! Oh, and donate to his Extra Life campaign as well!

Yes, it’s been longer than I wanted between uploads; however, my voice finally doesn’t sound horrid from a cold and I finally got a few breaths in from life!

This panel, a solo effort from Kris Kuss, Associate Professor of Movement at the University of Oklahoma City’s School of Theatre, focuses on the world of tabletop RPGs. More specifically, Kris focuses on the character work and interactions involved with the rest of the table to make the experiences memorable.

As someone that is looking to dive further into this world myself for the first time as a near 40-year old, I soaked just about everything in on this panel. So whether you are a long time player or someone looking to dive in, Kris has a ton of great wisdom and personal stories to share, including putting unrealistic expectations that stem from popular TTRPG content creators to the side.

After the initial content blitz, it’s time to settle back in to a much more relaxed posting schedule!

This episode of Extra Voices features the Gaming for Good panel that I participating in at MiracleCon 2022 in Oklahoma City. The panel is hosted by yours truly, guest of the pod, Amber Hanneken, and Jaku from Warp World.

We discuss all the different ways to using our passions for gaming to raise money for charity whether it be board games, streaming video games, or using cool tools like Warp World’s Crowd Control.

As a special treat, I’ve included part of the opening ceremony which includes Vicki Ernst talking about all the fantastic world the Children’s Health Foundation of Oklahoma City does and what all your incredible donations to Gamin’ 4 Aven directly supports!

The opening week launch of way-too-much-time-sensitive content is finally complete with this lasted donor pod.

Sure, I've retired from Her Loyal Sons, but a $100 donation to Change Kids Health will absolutely bring me back. In fact, another such donation has been made to sim Notre Dame vs. Clemson later in the year. Keep those donations coming in to and I will keep the sims coming--or any podcast episode you request.

$100 too much? How about $5 to add to the podcast mailbag or $20 to make me create a "Cameo" style video in which I say whatever you want and post to social media.

For those unfamiliar with this particular brand of silliness, at Her Loyal Sons, we decided to change how we "previewed" Notre Dame football games and had the CPU play out the current week's game. What resulted was a complete and wonderful disaster of glitches, bugs, and heartbreak. A huge thanks to @WojDaGawd for the donation!

To see all my Extra Life streams live, make sure to follow me on Twitch. If you’d like to see the video (an uncensored audio), head over to YouTube.

Donate to Gamin' 4 Aven

Another day, another pod and this time it’s of the $100 donation variety. I would like to thank Joe Siler for his continued generosity to Gamin’ 4 Aven and being the first donor to not just cash this incentive in, but to be the first donor guest as well.

Remember, while $100 can let you do a full podcast episode (and we have one more time sensitive one tomorrow…), just $5 will let you add to the Extra Voices mailbag in which you can ask me anything you want.

So enjoy Joe, and our mutual Sorin Otter brother, Mikey J chat about ND football, our upcoming Vegas trip, and well…just about whatever else came to mind!

Enjoy the flurry of podcast content while it lasts or, if you aren’t the biggest fan of this many emails, worry not, weather this storm, as they will slow down!

I’m happy to have my debut my first interview with Amber Hanneken, who helps run the second largest Extra Life fundraising event (behind yours truly!) at Game HQ in Oklahoma City. Amber is a fantastic representative of the tabletop community in OKC and you will absolutely enjoy hearing how she has helped #ChangeKidsHealh.

It’s fitting that I also introduce my recurring bit, D20 Questions, with a tabletop enthusiast. I ask three questions, determined by the roll of a D20, all with an Extra Life theme. Make sure to tune in to every interview I do in order to eventually hear all 20 questions!

Something else that I will be doing in each podcast is to make sure my donation button and any donation links are that of my guest. It’s just a small way to thank them for their time and to spread the Extra Life love!

You can donate to Game HQ’s Extra Life page here (and get in on their raffles) or clicking on the button below! Signed up for Extra Life, supporting Children’s Health Foundation of OKC and not on our team? Fix that and join us!