A Chocolat How To! Oui!

[WyethDigital]

The timeless French countryside, and the quiet, pastoral village of... um... Lodi, France, are awakened from their dreamy slumber when a young and beautiful Chocolatier moves in and sets up shop. Soon the townspeople can’t get enough of Madeline’s Puppy Chow, Candy’s Dandies, and her off-beat Movie Parties.

Monsieur Eric, fearing for both the souls and the tranquility of his placid town confronts Madeline about her modern ways. Can Madeline calm Monsieur Eric’s fears so she can have her Movie Night? More importantly, will Doug, the mysterious troubadour, be able to finally give Madeline the window she so desperately wants? With two chocolate snack recipes packed into this episode, it’s our most ambitious show yet (http://www.howtogirl.com/howtogirl/how_to_podcast/AC91A9CB-1840-47A7-8705-E8026C642265.html) -- Until next week’s! It's certainly our longest show yet (8 min and change); and longest New Show Announcement!

Not a French peasant? Need something more hi-tech than a sheep shears and a loom? Check out Cali Lewis, the fearless head of the Geek Intelligence Agency as she hands out the latest gadget news and passes on her GIA marching orders at GeekBrief.TV (http://www.geekbrief.tv/)

You can find Madeline’s chocolate recipes in our Show Notes, (http://www.howtogirl.com/howtogirl/howto_show_notes/454AF6C7-0F64-40D5-8F3A-D40E3E2EFB68.html) and you can even buy our favorite movies through our Amazon Store! (http://www.wyethdigital.com/how_to_resources.htm)

We've also got a PodTrac survey! (http://www.podtrac.com/audience/start-survey.aspx?ver=1&pid=GzC1ZFKGyyw$) Why doncha waste a few precious moments of your valuable time and fill it out? Please? With chocolat on top?

Thanks!

Eric

[WyethDigital]

Bumpin' it Diva style! (http://www.podcastalley.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62288&highlight=#62288)

[WyethDigital]

Yeesh, it's gonna need another bump before too long! ;)

Eric

[evilproducer]

Cool! Can't wait to see it!

You mentioned feed issues? iTunes gave me an error about the URL or something being bad. :? Is this what you meant in the other thread, oh grouchy one?

Juice, as much as I can't stand it, seems to see it and DL it just fine.

Later,
Evil.

[evilproducer]

Bump

So did you get a chance to look at the Morons with matches bit? How about the Northern Redneck Used Auto commercial. I kept it clean. In fact I have yet to shoot my other gags. Maybe tomorrow.

[WyethDigital]

Cool! Can't wait to see it!

You mentioned feed issues? iTunes gave me an error about the URL or something being bad. :? Is this what you meant in the other thread, oh grouchy one?

Juice, as much as I can't stand it, seems to see it and DL it just fine.

Later,
Evil.
How long ago did you try it? ITunes seems to be updated and working now. It sometimes takes their crawler a while to update after you ping them. I'm just pissed my feed was down for five hours.

Eric

[evilproducer]

Bump

I was going to take the survey, but decided against it, because I didn't want to skew your results.

[WyethDigital]

So did you get a chance to look at the Morons with matches bit? How about the Northern Redneck Used Auto commercial. I kept it clean. In fact I have yet to shoot my other gags. Maybe tomorrow.
I did not get a chance yet. It's in my computer right now. We went to the Lodi Fair tonight and spent too much money. At least I won some stuff for Judy.

Eric

[WyethDigital]

Bump

I was going to take the survey, but decided against it, because I didn't want to skew your results.
I took the survey. It takes about 5 minutes. Just say you're a sixteen year old girl into high tech beer and you make about $100,000 per year.

That'd be my way of skewing the results. We honestly don't take the **** thing too seriously. So far Podtrac is really dropping the ball on the stats :?

Eric

[evilproducer]

Works now.

Earlier I thought it was my machine or software, so I decided to delete the feed and resubscribe. I chose to save the 'casts I had already DLed. They show in my library but not in my Podcast playlist. iTunes shows the episodes greyed out and has the Get button next to them. Any idea on how to get iTunes to display them as DLed again in the Podcast playlist? BTW I do know it is a smart list.

[WyethDigital]

Works now.

Earlier I thought it was my machine or software, so I decided to delete the feed and resubscribe. I chose to save the 'casts I had already DLed. They show in my library but not in my Podcast playlist. iTunes shows the episodes greyed out and has the Get button next to them. Any idea on how to get iTunes to display them as DLed again in the Podcast playlist? BTW I do know it is a smart list.
Well, it's treating it as a new subscription now, so I don't think you can. Maybe I'm wrong on that.

Eric

PS -- The problem was that my image tags weren't publishing and when I handcoded them, I did it in the wrong spot and missed half the info. Duh. Plus I had to insert all of Podtrac's pointers in there as well.

[evilproducer]

I took the survey. It takes about 5 minutes. Just say you're a sixteen year old girl into high tech beer and you make about $100,000 per year.

That'd be my way of skewing the results. We honestly don't take the d*mn thing too seriously. So far Podtrac is really dropping the ball on the stats :?

Eric
:shock: Wait! Let me get this straight! I say I'm a sixteen year old girl, I like beer, and then I get about $100,000 a year?!? Woohoo! I'm there! :shock:

Hi! I'm Patty! I'm sixteen! Someday my boobs will be bigger! Did I mention I like beer? Not just any beer though. High Tech Beer. The kind that Apple makes. iBeer. It's so good! Come by and see me on my MySpace page! LOL ROFLMAF HA HA!

Okay, where's the dough? :mrgreen:

[WyethDigital]

:shock: Wait! Let me get this straight! I say I'm a sixteen year old girl, I like beer, and then I get about $100,000 a year?!? Woohoo! I'm there! :shock:
Keep on dreamin', Sally.

You take the survey and I'll get $100,000 a year.... snicker... okay, right.

Anyway, the used car bit is good. I'm surprised you didn't get Paulsy to help with that. Good job for a mostly solo effort. Like the bit about the car for $50, and the engine for $1200.

Eric

[evilproducer]

Well, it's treating it as a new subscription now, so I don't think you can. Maybe I'm wrong on that.

I figured. There's probably a way to hack the smart list, but I'm to lazy to dig for it. I'll just go through my episodes and create my own list, then delete the individual greyed out items from the Podcast list. It'll take about five minutes.

Later,
Evil.

[evilproducer]

Anyway, the used car bit is good. I'm surprised you didn't get Paulsy to help with that. Good job for a mostly solo effort. Like the bit about the car for $50, and the engine for $1200.

Eric

I think Paul and the boyz were working on Mike's El Camino so that he could take it to Iola this weekend. He and Paul have done a spectacular job. I don't know all the specs. such as the engine size, (I think it's a 400) but I do know they took it up to 600 hundred HP. That's actually being a little conservative. The body torques when he guns it. :shock:

The sound is crap on the video because I don't have a good lav. and it was windy (as it always is here, :x ) so I had to use a highpass filter to minimize the wind noise.

I also like the Morons with matches bit, just because it's so retarded. Plus blowin' stuff up is cool. 8) You should see what I made today. I couldn't find the normal small sparkelrs, so I had to go a little larger. :wink: This one will be used in daylight, and I will have a high shutter speed to catch all the gory slow-mo details! :D

[WyethDigital]

I also like the Morons with matches bit, just because it's so retarded. Plus blowin' stuff up is cool. 8) You should see what I made today. I couldn't find the normal small sparkelrs, so I had to go a little larger. :wink: This one will be used in daylight, and I will have a high shutter speed to catch all the gory slow-mo details! :D
I just hope you have fingers left, and that the ATF doesn't come down on your head :)

Eric

[WyethDigital]

http://www.howtogirl.com/howtogirl/howto_show_notes/454AF6C7-0F64-40D5-8F3A-D40E3E2EFB68_files/chocolat-filtered.png
By the way, the recipes in our podcast are really good if you like chocolate and peanut butter! But you don't have to download the show to get the recipes. We've got a downloadable/printable PDF file in our Show Notes. (http://www.howtogirl.com/howtogirl/howto_show_notes/454AF6C7-0F64-40D5-8F3A-D40E3E2EFB68.html) Go now. We'll wait for you!

Eric

[WyethDigital]

Wanted to give you all a special sneak peek at the opening we're working on next week. Never before seen. Can you guess the movie we'll be spoofing?

http://www.howtogirl.com/images/TR_shots.mov

Eric

PS -- Bump!

[evilproducer]

I think Eric listened to the Speak French In Three Lessons podcast by Pepe LePew. :P

It's very difficult to get sparklers up here. Everywhere I go looking for clearance sparklers I get asked (with a wink and a nod) if I'm going to make sparkler bombs. I don't know if it's a local thing or not, but I had never heard of it 'til this year. Must be a fad.

Some kid **** near blew his hand off with one of those, but the moron was holding and going to throw it grenade style. Darwin Awards Honorable Mention if you ask me.

Later,
Evil.

Bump.

[WyethDigital]

I think Eric listened to the Speak French In Three Lessons podcast by Pepe LePew. :P
Actually, in the movie, "Chocolat," they don't make a huge effort to create French accents. So some people have them and some don't. Kind of odd. That's what we decided to do, too.

Eric

[evilproducer]

I think Eric listened to the Speak French In Three Lessons podcast by Pepe LePew. :P
Actually, in the movie, "Chocolat," they don't make a huge effort to create French accents. So some people have them and some don't. Kind of odd. That's what we decided to do, too.

Eric
Bobnnie wanted me to watch. I told her I'm on a diet. No Chocolat. :wink:

[Kell]

I have been being badgered the last few days - Does Madeline have a new show out? How bout now? show yet? Momma when can we watch Madeline. Tomorrow we are having a day of toe & finger nail painting, smoothie drinking, and madeline watching.


Oh this is funny - Jason was like holy crap Eric's post said Chocolate Oui Oui (wee wee).

[evilproducer]

Eric posted a link today to some "sneak peaks" of a couple shots of the TR How-To. The link is above in one of his posts.

There's no audio and the compositing isn't quite done yet, but it may be good to give the young'un a fix!

Later,
Evil.

[evilproducer]

Ahhhh. I'm back to my old hairy self. 8)

[WyethDigital]

Bobnnie wanted me to watch. I told her I'm on a diet. No Chocolat. :wink:
Who's "Bobnnie"? And does Bonnie know about him?

If you don't watch Chocolat (the movie, not our little spoof), you're missing out on a pretty racey scene! Ooh la la!

Eric

[WyethDigital]

I have been being badgered the last few days - Does Madeline have a new show out? How bout now? show yet? Momma when can we watch Madeline. Tomorrow we are having a day of toe & finger nail painting, smoothie drinking, and madeline watching.


Oh this is funny - Jason was like holy crap Eric's post said Chocolate Oui Oui (wee wee).
Sweeet! Gotta love it when the fans get impatient!

I'm busy trying to make up for some lost ground from last week, so I hope we'll be on schedule: I had to go to court to sue a deadbeat client! And I won! HA! Now I can legally say they were deadbeats without being sued for slander! But I'm not gonna say who they are, because I don't want to give them the publicity! ;)

I don't know... maybe I shouldn't be that hard on them... If I hadn't worked for them, I wouldn't have met Madeline, and we wouldn't be making a podcast together. So some good came from it! Who am I kidding, though! They're still deadbeats! :D

Eric

[WyethDigital]

Ahhhh. I'm back to my old hairy self. 8)
...with the man-boob playing peek-a-boo! You should be banned, you disgusting goob! ;)

Eric

[evilproducer]

Ahhhh. I'm back to my old hairy self. 8)
...with the man-boob playing peek-a-boo! You should be banned, you disgusting goob! ;)

Eric

Well at least I don't have a macro shot of my pasty like you do!