Summary: Finally. I’ve been talking about this for a long time. I even started and stopped twice. But now, finally, it’s ready to go: the weekly We Love No Other podcast. When I first tried this, I was recording things on my phone. One time I tried one of those Julie from Time Life headsets. I could get the podcast together, and I could even record phone calls, but the sound quality was awful. So I put the podcast on the back burner until I could get some real recording equipment. With your help, I was able to purchase it all, and now here we are. My plan: Weekly during the season – maybe bi-weekly during the offseason – I’ll put together a podcast interviewing anyone having anything to do with the Illini. Sometimes it will be as simple as me breaking down the game with friends. Sometimes it will be authors. Sometimes maybe an Illini player or two. I hope to add “where are they now?” Illini players, too – track down Jens Kujawa somewhere in Germany and see what he’s up to. The format: I’ll try to keep it to a half hour or so – something you can listen to on your commute. The plan is to post it on Mondays (might be Monday morning, might be Monday night, but the plan is Monday). You can listen to it here on the site, and we’ll also try to make it available for download elsewhere (that’s the Brumby department, because as I’ve proven time and time again, I have no clue what I’m doing). For this first one, I break all of those rules. I wanted to kind of beta test this whole thing, so for the first episode, I chatted with my friend Nate about being an Illini fan back in the 1990′s. The lessons I’ve already learned from this first podcast: I didn’t sit close enough to the mic, so Nate is loud but my voice is too soft. I talked too much and didn’t let Nate talk enough. I still have to figure out how to set the recording levels. We talked for nearly an hour. As I told Nate – and this has nothing to do with him and everything to do with me – this will be the worst podcast I ever do. I learned of so many bugs going through this process that I can get fixed next time. Listening to myself I also learned that I need to shut up. By podcast #26, I’ll really have a good handle on this. For this one, though, here it is, warts and all. Next week I’ll hopefully have it available to download through various podcast avenues (read: I’ll ask Brumby to figure all of that out). For today, just click on the link below and quasi-enjoy.
