No More Suspense

I've decided to end the suspense. I'm going to admit something. The Bustopia podcast was started as a joke. The conversation went like this:
Noobulous: "Bustopia should do more stuff."
TERRANCE: "What should we do?"
Noobulous: "We could start a podcast."
Qalar: "Bustopia DOES need a podcast!"
Noobulous: "Lets do it!"

Like every joke on Bustopia, we took it way to far. As in, we actually produced a podcast. But, like most jokes on Bustopia, it got old. For a while I was forcing it along anyway, hoping it could be a regular tradition and maybe we were just tired for a while. But no, it had, in fact, gotten old. I can't find time to edit it anymore, the people of Bustopia are happy to go back to unstructured conversation, and I no longer have any recording devices left (besides the crappy laptop). Plus, the year is drawing to a close so the teachers are pwning us with the homework. So sorry, we pretty muched failed you. If there's an outcry of people who miss the show, maybe I will consider putting effort into it, but I seriously doubt that will happen.

Episode 6 is fully recorded, and the audio has been waiting to be edited for a month now. I'm thinking I'll probably just do that and release it this summer, so you have something to remember us by. But I might not, it's all a matter of willpower.

Anyway, stay tuned for Dormtopia next year, from the UT honors dorms. Maybe.

Guide to the Pr0n

This is a guide to pronouncing TERRANCE. Are you ready? Good. We shall begin.

Step one. Select an epsode of The Bustopia Podcast. Step two. Download the episode. Step three. Transfer the episode to your listening device of choice. You may skip this step if you listen on the computer. Step four. Drink alcohol. Step five. FLAME WARRIOR STORMS THE CASTLE!!!

Step six. Begin listening to The Bustopia Podcast. Step seven. Continue listening until you hear a name that reminds you of Mary Poppins. Step eight. Rewind to before the name and listen again. Repeat until the name is burned into your brain like Flame Warrior's sword in balsa wood. Step nine. Say the name aloud until the people around you wonder about your sanity, or if you are alone, until you wonder about your sanity.

Step ten. Go about your business for 24 hours. Step eleven. Speak the name again. Step twelve. Listen to the name again to verify your speakage. If you have spoken it wrong or not at all, You Need More Training! Whiplash. Wha-tch!. Go back to step six.

Step thirteen. You win. Treat yourself to a gallon of ice cream. Step fourteen. Don't sue me for making you fat.

No Ep6 Yet

Well, it's been a week since I should have released Episode 6, so I suppose I owe you some sort of apology.

Sorry, I've been busy.

That's your apology. Given how little anybody cares, it should be enough.

Bustopia to be Sold

Bustopia is going to go through some major changes to offset the rising costs of podcasting (equipment, advertising, bandwidth, etc). We have opened bidding for a corporation to purchase the Bustopia podcast. So far, Fox Networks, Apple, Public Broadcasting Corporation, and Air America have expressed interest. Since whatever road we take will screw over you listeners, I felt it was only fair to warn you. I will list the cons of each; the only pros in any case is we get our financial burdens lifted.

Fox Networks
Episodes would be available for stream, but not download
We would be required to run a few advertisements throughout each episode

Apple
All episodes would be purchased at the iTunes Music Store, for 99 cents each
We would each be given a Mac and then required to pretend we like it on the show
We would have to conform to strict censorship

Public Broadcasting Corporation
We would have donation buttons on the site and regularly ask for donations during the show
We would regularly play Public Service Announcements
We would add a "history time" section

Air America
We would be required to set aside 30% of each show for Republican bashing
We would no longer be allowed to talk about how much we love Dick Cheney
We would be required to increase our ethnic diversity by getting some black dude to ride the bus
We would no longer be allowed to use the terms "Democrat," "liberal," "nerd," "gay," "ghey," "elderly," and "hippie" as insults

Feel free to post comments telling us which company you would most like to see Bustopia a subsidiary of. Unless there are large differences in the money involved, we will try to cater to our listenership like the suck-ups we are.

HELLO, MORTALS!

Consider yourself warned! 16-9 days remain before the coming of the apocalypse. There will be swords of flame and demons aplenty, not to mention I, your subterranean overlord, Adrian. Pestilence will overcome nations, as greed turns to bloodshed and regularly peaceful busses revolt, not don't stopping and such. APOCALYPSE!

Is that you Adrian?! No. It can't be. I defeated you in Episode... um, in a prior episode. *draws sword. Now we duel! *swords clash, sparks fly. Gaah! My arm! *thunder crashes in background, grunts issue from both parties as they struggle against each other.

You haven't bested me yet, TERRANCE! En garde! *sword comes down between shoulders, hewing body in two.

AHH! Oh. I'm awake. Well, that was exciting. And now, to practice my swordsmanship for when I must face him in real life...

~Bustopia Podcast Episode 5~

Surgeon General's Warning
Episodes of Bustopia evenly divisible by 5 are known by the state of California to cause birth defects in babies (as are most substances). Additionally, they are known to the civilized world to cause you not wanting to listen to Bustopia ever again.

Well, folks, we've come a long way since the birth of our fine podcast (just look at the difference between 0 and 1 or between 1 and 4!). As you may know, it takes a lot of work to keep the podcast bitchin' awesome, and every once in a while I need a break. So, we conceived the "behind-the-scenes" episode. Originally, it was going to be an episode where we talk about how the podcast is produced and stuff, but it turned out (partially thanks to Qalar) just to be something where I record the entire bus ride and don't edit. (I'm going to do about two rides per /5 episodes, since that comes out to about an hour). Anyway, we revert to the style known only as "Noobulous running a podcast before he knew how to run a podcast." Enjoy.

Just to be clear, there is no reason to feel obligated to the /5 episodes. Unlike the rest, they exist for our entertainment, not yours. Listeners such as Barnaby who have large quantities of free time due to excessive TARDIS use should feel free to listen to this, but listeners like the Mad Potter who had to be coerced into listening to Bustopia at all should steer clear.

On the show:
-whatever the hell we felt like saying/doing

Send death threats, rude comments, and DDoS to bustopia@gmail.com

Bustopia Episode 5

Ep5 delayed

I started the upload last night, and in the morning I found that it had failed. I copied the file and resumed the upload from my desktop PC. It gave an ETA of 45 minutes, and the Busride was 1 hour. When I got to school, I checked in the file and it did not seem to exist. So the upload failed. The facist school firewall blocks FTP, so I can't reupload. I should have interim-hosted it on my own webserver, but I didn't. So you will get it later today.