Category: Podcast

Did you know I have a podcast?

Posted on 11 March, 2016 By Wil

There must be, like, fives of people out there who would want to listen to this podcast that I occasionally do, and I they don’t even know it exists!

Well, let me fix that, and introduce you to Radio Free Burrito.

The current episode contains no secret messages.

This show features a whole lot of talking about stuff, including the JoCo Cruise, art, auditions, and why it’s great to do things that are hard.

So maybe give it a listen, why not, share it with your friends, and review it on the places you do that sort of thing.

stuff i like that you may like

Posted on 5 September, 2015 By Wil

From the most recent Radio Free Burrito’s show notes:

This show’s theme music is Blank Space, by Taylor Swift.
The videos for Style and Wildest Dreams are so good.
Tove Lo’s Queen of the Clouds is the first pop concept album I think I’ve ever heard.
I did not expect to love the Mocking Jay Part One soundtrack, and yet.
TV Crimes is a new podcast I do with Mikey Neumann.
The Battle for Zendikar is going to be a really fun set to play.
Your long wait to have 13 minutes of commercials from Little Rock radio in 1971 has come to an end.
The Memory Palace is amazing.
You Must Remember This is your new favorite podcast.
There is not a single crystalline entity in Lore.
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is an incredible book. I also just found out that it was made into a movie and now I have to see it IMMEDIATELY.
You can watch The Trip on YouTube.
You can see some wonderfully weird Kenneth Anger films there, too.
John Waters is my hero.
Leadbelly’s Where Did You Sleep Last Night? is really great.

A bunch of stuff about Dread, Titansgrave, Armada, Brewing TV, and TNG

Posted on 19 May, 201520 May, 2015 By Wil

There’s a lot of stuff to share, which all happened in the last 24ish hours for some reason, so I’m just going to put all that stuff here in one post, instead of spreading it out.

We released a video and some information about Hank Green’s Titansgrave character, Aankia. Similar introductions will be released throughout this week.
I filmed a wrap-up thing for Dread, instead of a winner’s wall thing, because a winner’s wall felt inappropriate for that episode. For some reason I’ve forgotten, it didn’t get into the final cut of part 2, so we put it on Geek & Sundry today as a bonus.
I talked to the Mission Log podcast about working on The Next Generation, in a way that I’ve never really talked about working on The Next Generation before. If you enjoy it, and you’d like some additional context, you may want to listen to The Big Goodbye, from my book The Happiest Days of Our Lives: The Extended Edition Or Whatever I Decided To Call It.
I made a video with Brewing TV a couple months ago, where we made an IPA that was inspired by Pliny The Younger. The first part is online, now.

Huh. When I put it in a list like that, it doesn’t seem like that much stuff. In fact, it’s not as impressive as it felt when it all came into my inbox or whatever one at a time over the last couple of days. Maybe I should have split it up.

Anyway, I’m still working on the audiobook for Armada, and I’m about halfway through. It’s a really fun story, and I’m having a great time performing it. In the last two days, though, I’ve learned to have tremendous empathy for people who have a daily commute, and boy am I grateful that I don’t have a daily commute.

the point of view that creates the world

Posted on 19 February, 201519 February, 2015 By Wil

I imagine my creative process as a cycle of filling up a reservoir with inspirations and ideas, and then emptying it out into various creations. Sometimes that reservoir is drained in one explosive surge, but mostly it’s emptied out a little bit at a time, into different projects.

Recently, I’ve been using my creative reserves to power the writing on the Tabletop RPG show, and whatever is left is going into Radio Free Burrito. My stupid random thoughts and links, once the exclusive property of my blog, are filling up Twitter and Tumblr, and I haven’t had much to say here, anyway.

BUT.

I have a new Tabletop for you:

Most of the things I’ve been consuming are helping me power up and work on the Tabletop RPG show (all day today I have conference calls with our writers and designers!) and I would like to share some of the ways I’ve been refilling my creative reservoir, starting with books:

And Podcasts:

Also, movies:

Some TV:

And Anime:

So my reservoir is slowly being refilled, at a rate that is just slightly faster than it is being emptied … and neat stuff is happening.

The War of the Worlds Rehearsal

Posted on 17 January, 2015 By Wil

In a few hours, I’m heading to the theatre for the final rehearsal for tonight’s performance of The War of the Worlds, as part of the 2015 Sci-Fi Fest.

I have the great honor and privilege of playing Orson Welles as Professor Pierson. It’s a bit of a dream come true for me, because I’ve been listening to the infamous 1939 broadcast of War of the Worlds since I got my very first cassette player in the late 70s. I can recite most of it from memory, but for tonight’s performance, it was important to me that I didn’t just mimic Welles’ performance. I need to make the character my own, and to do that, I’ve been reading and performing the scenes just like I would to prepare for any other character I was creating.

I thought it would be interesting to share some of my rehearsal process, so I recorded myself yesterday, and put the recording on my Soundcloud.

It’s about ten minutes long, and I think some of you may find it interesting, and maybe even entertaining. You can listen to it there, or push play here: