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Hello there! My name is Shahan Hamza – you may know me from The Magnus Protocol!The Magnus Protocol is still currently on hiatus, but we have plenty of exciting things to keep you entertained as we wait for the second act in season two.Firstly, voting for the British Podcast Awards Listeners Choice Award is open now! If you love The Magnus Protocol or Neon Inkwell, please do consider voting for them. To cast your vote, visit www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting and search for “The Magnus Archives” or “Neon Inkwell” to vote.Next up, this June marks Rusty Quill's tenth anniversary – and we want to celebrate this momentous milestone with you!Join guests from across the last ten years of Rusty Quill including myself Alexander J Newall, Ben Meredith, Tim Meredith, Jon Gracey, Nemo Martin and many more on Saturday 28th June for a Big Birthday Livestream on Twitch.We'll be playing special themed games and activities, including in-character Among Us with the cast of The Magnus Protocol, Rusty Quill Jeopardy and a tabletop roleplaying game special, hosted by the GM of Ain't Slayed Nobody, cuppycup!It also says here – and I'm not sure if I'm reading it right…. It just says the word “Dig”? Over and over? Weird.As part of the stream, we will be fundraising for two fantastic charities: The Trevor Project, who provide crisis services and advocacy for LGBTQ+ youth, and SpecialEffect, who work to transform the lives of physically disabled people by creating innovative, accessible ways to play video games.So, come along, join the fun, and show your support for these incredible ventures on Saturday 28th June at 3pm BST.For more details visit rustyquill.com/rq10 or follow us on Twitch at twitch.tv/rusty_quill to get notified as soon as we Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

October 2: Renfield is met with an accident. This episode contains medical ableism and the use of narcotics in a medical context. Transcript here. This episode featured: Isabel Adomakoh Young as Mina Harker; Felix Trench as Renfield; Ben Galpin as Jonathan Harker; Bonnie Calderwood Aspinwall as Smollet; Graham Rowat as the Deputy; Nathan Blades as Bloxam; Ben Meredith as the Mitchell Businessman; Alan Burgon as Van Helsing; Giancarlo Herrera as Quincey Morris; David Ault as Lord Godalming; and Jonathan Sims as Jack Seward. Dialogue editing by Stephen Indrisano. Sound design by Tal Minear. Featuring music by Travis Reaves. Produced by Ella Watts and Pacific S. Obadiah, with executive producers Stephen Indrisano, Tal Minear, and Hannah Wright. A Bloody FM Production. Find us online: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/redracula Ad Free Feed: bit.ly/dractober Merch: https://store.dftba.com/collections/re-dracula Website: www.ReDracula.live Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/re-dracula Bloody Disgusting Website: www.Bloody-Disgusting.com Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/re-dracula Twitter: https://twitter.com/bloodyfm Instagram: https://instagram.com/bloody_fm Discord: https://discord.gg/nReJ4JTSyf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"May have invented doomsday machine..." In this episode The Interviewer and Kozlowski (Langston) are based in London, running The Daily Phoenix newspaper with their assistants Salinger and Joe. Of course the newspaper is actually a front for the death faking business... and on November 4th 1909, an African American inventor known as "the black Edison" visits The Daily Phoenix. He may just have invented something that will change the world... This episode was written by Oystein Ulsberg Brager with sound design by Alexander Danner. It features Alan Burgon, Tim Meredith, Ben Meredith, Hemi Yeroham, David S. Dear, Jordan Cobb and Erin King. It is dedicated to Grace Colum. Full credits on our website. Website: https://ameliapodcast.com  Transcripts: https://ameliapodcast.com/transcripts Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ameliapodcast Donations: https://ameliapodcast.com/support Twitter: https://twitter.com/amelia_podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ameliapodcast/ Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/ameliapodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Embark on an eldritch adventure with Ben Meredith, Helen Gould, Pip Gladwin and GM Maddy Searle, as they end their one-shot of Corporate Overgoats! This week, Madame Fluffy, Edwin and Aloysius have to make sure that the wedding feast and the party in the town square go off without a hitch. Content warnings:Food & alcoholInnuendoTentacles & body horrorPhysical violence & goreDeathCultsMentions of: medicine & injurySFX: background chatter & cutlery, goats, continuous rumbling & bubbling, distorted screaming, bodily transformation, squelching, ocean  Transcript: Chapter and Multiverse Thank you to all our Patrons for your continued support. If you'd like to join them, visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill.comSFX this week by bdvictor, digital.arts.MA, ihitokage, kupp2, BennettFilmTeacher, davethetech, souchav, MichaelGillighan, bevibeldesign, Stevious42, pfranzen, waveplaySFX, themfish, Terhen, LittleRobotSoundFactory, Aris621, EminYILDIRIM, ThefitzyG, LucasDuff, MWLANDI, michaelkoehler, unchaz, j1987, EFlexMusic and previously credited artists via Freesound.orgAdditional music:"Drunken Sailor" by Cooper Cannell from the YouTube Audio Library Game System: Corporate Overgoats by Morgan J : tempestgames.itch.io/corporate-overgoats  Executive Producers Alexander J Newall and April SumnerCreated by Maddy SearleDirected by Maddy SearleProduced by Natasha JohnstonDialogue Edit by Maddy SearleSound Design by Tessa VroomAudio Mastering by Cathy Rinella Featuring:Ben MeredithHelen GouldPip GladwinMaddy Searle Music by Nico VetteseArt by Guerilla Communications Check out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quillJoin our community: WEBSITE: rustyquill.comFACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquillTWITTER: @therustyquillREDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuillEMAIL: mail@rustyquill.com Chapter and Multiverse is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share alike 4.0 International Licence.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Embark on a swashbuckling adventure with Ben Meredith, Helen Gould, Pip Gladwin and GM Maddy Searle, in their one-shot of Corporate Overgoats!         This week, Madame Fluffy, Edwin Poole and Aloysius Gout try to avert disaster, brought on by a mysterious horse-sized goat.   Transcript with Content Warnings: Chapter and Multiverse    Thank you to all our Patrons for your continued support. If you'd like to join them, visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill.comSFX this week by ChristianAnd, EminYILDIRIM, Kinoton, CosmicEmbers, ljudman, Avreliy, MrAuralization, unfa, Volterock, Zangrutz, soundmast123, jar jar vince, "Whistle, Finger, Short, A.wav", "Whistle, Finger, Long, A.wav", and "Whistle, Finger, Medium, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk), TurboFool, Kreaton, juanlopz08, paulfabb, SamsterBirdies, matthewHoldenSound, Erdie, apinasaundi, btherad2000, julius_galla, Anthousai, Ienba, alienistcog, Terhen, JustInvoke, martian, SomeoneCool15, iwanPlays, Vartan, johonbravo, Motion_S, bevibeldesign, TurtleLG, MichelleGrobler, CastleofSamples, 16G_Panska_Sand_Nikolas, SilverIllusionist, newlocknew, pfranzen, Kneeling, MWLANDI, Clagnar, Breviceps, MrFossy, d.n.audio.uk, Uzbazur, templeofhades, duckduckpony, IntraMental, Benboncan and previously credited artists via Freesound.org   Additional music:    "Drunken Sailor" by Cooper Cannell from the YouTube Audio Library, “Sailors Lament” by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://audionautix.com/ Game System: Corporate Overgoats by Morgan J   tempestgames.itch.io/corporate-overgoats    Executive Producers Alexander J Newall and April Sumner    Created by Maddy Searle    Directed by Maddy Searle    Produced by Natasha Johnston    Dialogue Edit by Maddy Searle   Sound Design by Tessa Vroom   Audio Mastering by Cathy Rinella        Featuring:   Ben Meredith   Helen Gould   Pip Gladwin Maddy Searle       Music by Nico Vettese    Art by Guerilla Communications        Check out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill    Join our community:    WEBSITE: rustyquill.comFACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquillTWITTER: @therustyquillREDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuillEMAIL: mail@rustyquill.com        Chapter and Multiverse is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share alike 4.0 International Licence.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Embark on a bleating adventure with Ben Meredith, Helen Gould, Pip Gladwin and GM Maddy Searle, as they begin their one-shot of Corporate Overgoats! This week, Madame Fluffy, Edwin Poole and Aloysius Gout are tasked with making a pirate wedding as memorable as possible with their herd of adorable goats. Content warnings: Threats of violenceGuns & bombsFood & alcoholMentions of: animal deathSFX: ocean & birds, goats, background cheering & chatter, brief rumbling Transcript: Chapter and Multiverse Thank you to all our Patrons for your continued support. If you'd like to join them, visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill.comSFX this week by richwise, Calcuttan, gladkiy, ecfike, vahdena, WhisperPotato, beskhu, Bidone, Erokia, ohhaaaaiuser, SweetNeo85, martian, bevibeldesign, giovannagaludetto, Lukeo135, duckduckpony, DSOADigital, ericnorcross81, MATRIXXX_, ROBAMOS, monte32, dynamique, Cllari, Benboncan and previously credited artists via Freesound.org Additional music:“Procession” by Geographer from the YouTube Audio Library, "Drunken Sailor" by Cooper Cannell from the YouTube Audio Library Game System: Corporate Overgoats by Morgan J tempestgames.itch.io/corporate-overgoatsExecutive Producers Alexander J Newall and April Sumner  Created by Maddy Searle  Directed by Maddy Searle  Produced by Natasha Johnston  Dialogue Edit by Maddy Searle Sound Design by Tessa Vroom Audio Mastering by Cathy Rinella   Featuring:  Ben Meredith Helen Gould Pip GladwinMaddy Searle Music by Nico Vettese Art by Guerilla Communications Check out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill Join our community: WEBSITE: rustyquill.comFACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquillTWITTER: @therustyquillREDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuillEMAIL: mail@rustyquill.com Chapter and Multiverse is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share alike 4.0 International Licence. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Embark on a Western adventure with Ben Meredith, Helen Gould, Lowri Ann Davies, Lydia Nicholas and GM Maddy Searle, as they continue their one-shot of Vampire Cowboys!This week, Cigar, Choo Choo and Gunbo flee the mansion, leaving Squishy to have a showdown for the ages…Content warnings:Physical violence & death (inc. decapitation)BloodLoss of consciousnessGunsMentions of: food, human remains, drugsSFX: rain, tinkling, crickets & squeaking, gunfire, occasional beepsTranscript: Chapter and MultiverseThank you to all our Patrons for your continued support. If you'd like to join them, visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill.com SFX this week by couchhero, domasmo, amholma, DylanTheFish, dave.des, brandondelehoy, Podcapocalypsis, "Swirling Velvet Cloak 3" by F.M.Audio (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), Fabrizio84, JarredGibb, "Door Squeak, Normal, E.wav", "Gunshot, Distant, A" and "Horse Whinny, Close, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org, MrCisum, alexpovy, "Door, Front, Opening, A" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org, reinsamba, PianoFarm, justkiddink, daveincamas, mrrap4food, alanmcki, Nightflame, coelhoigor, okieactor, RutgerMuller, Hupguy, nicotep, justkiddink, FilmmakersManual, bennychico11, giddster, univ_lyon3, GoodListener, newlocknew, bennychico11, SamuelGremaud, maaks, brumxyz, dylanthefish and previously credited artists via Freesound.orgGame System: Vampire Cowboys by Maddy Searlemaddysearle.itch.io/vampire-cowboysExecutive Producers Alexander J Newall and April SumnerCreated by Maddy SearleDirected by Maddy SearleProduced by Natasha JohnstonDialogue Edit by Maddy SearleSound Design by Maddy SearleAudio Mastering by Cathy RinellaFeaturing:Ben MeredithHelen GouldLowri Ann DaviesLydia NicholasMaddy SearleMusic by Nico VetteseArt by Guerilla CommunicationsCheck out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill Join our community:WEBSITE: rustyquill.com FACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquill TWITTER: @therustyquill REDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuill EMAIL: mail@rustyquill.comChapter and Multiverse is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share alike 4.0 International Licence. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Embark on a Western adventure with Ben Meredith, Helen Gould, Lowri Ann Davies, Lydia Nicholas and GM Maddy Searle, as they continue their one-shot of Vampire Cowboys! This week, Cigar Lionel, Squishy Chewing, Gunbo Baggins and Choo Choo Strongstart head to the saloon to gather some intel on the wealthy Jedediah Fenton.Content Warnings: Blood Alcohol Loss of consciousness Innuendo Physical violence & murderDiscussions of: robbery, worker mistreatment/oppressionMentions of: food, knives & gunsSFX: horses & crickets, background chatter & music. Smashing, sucking, bitingTranscript: Chapter and Multiverse   Thank you to all our Patrons for your continued support. If you'd like to join them, visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill.com SFX this week by opticalillusions, Oscar de Avila, nicotep, justkiddink, mlteenie, klankbeeld, 15FPanskaMalinska_Patricie, somatik7, PianoFarm, nsmusic, reinsamba, Sonicquinn dave.des, brandondelehoy, DylanTheFish, Breviceps, "Door, Front, Opening, A" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org, kyles, ryding, qubodup, NachtmahrTV, amholma, kingsrow, tdmoulin, avakas, yadronoff and previously credited artists via Freesound.org Additional music: “Billy Goat Stomp”, “The Joint is Jumping” and “King Porter Stomp” by Joel Cummings; “The Entertainer”, “The Cascades”, “Maple Leaf Rag” and “The Easy Winners” by E's Jammy Jams from the YouTube Audio Library Game System: Vampire Cowboys by Maddy Searle maddysearle.itch.io/vampire-cowboys   Executive Producers Alexander J Newall and April Sumner  Created by Maddy Searle  Directed by Maddy Searle  Produced by Natasha Johnston  Dialogue Edit by Elizabeth Moffatt  Sound Design by Maddy Searle Audio Mastering by Cathy Rinella   Featuring:  Ben Meredith Helen Gould Lowri Ann Davies Lydia Nicholas Maddy Searle   Music by Nico Vettese  Art by Guerilla Communications    Check out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill  Join our community:  WEBSITE: rustyquill.com  FACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquill  TWITTER: @therustyquill  REDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuill  EMAIL: mail@rustyquill.com    Chapter and Multiverse is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share alike 4.0 International Licence.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Embark on a vampiric adventure with Ben Meredith, Helen Gould, Lowri Ann Davies, Lydia Nicholas and GM Maddy Searle, as they begin their one-shot of Vampire Cowboys! This week, Cigar Lionel, Squishy Chewing, Gunbo Baggins and Choo Choo Strongstart return from a successful train robbery to discover a rather hairy problem right on their doorstep.Content warnings:InnuendoLoss of consciousnessPhysical violenceGunsSupernatural transformation (inc. SFX)Discussions of: blood & murder, robbery, drugsMentions of: smoking, food & alcoholSFX: horses & crickets, gunfire, growlingTranscript:PDF: CHAP Vampire Cowboys 1 - A Hairy Problem.pdfWord: CHAP Vampire Cowboys 1 - A Hairy Problem.docxThank you to all our Patrons for your continued support. If you'd like to join them, visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill.com SFX this week by nicotep, matucha, justkiddink, bruno.auzet, SomeoneCool15, cameronmusic, Andrew Duke, Glitchedtones, duckduckpony, ValentinPetiteau, nioczkus, Kleeb, JoelAudio, Pablod, qubodup, kd_jack, mattiagreyfox, dersuperanton, denao270, Zenleser, Podcapocalipsis, _def, erkanozan, dansotak, “Snapping, Wooden Fence, T” by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org, appdoc, n_audioman, Oscar de Avila, reishugo, ali-6868, burbujaflms and previously credited artists via Freesound.orgGame System: Vampire Cowboys by Maddy Searlemaddysearle.itch.io/vampire-cowboysExecutive Producers Alexander J Newall and April SumnerCreated by Maddy SearleDirected by Maddy SearleProduced by Natasha JohnstonDialogue Edit by Maddy SearleSound Design by Maddy SearleAudio Mastering by Cathy RinellaFeaturing:Ben MeredithHelen GouldLowri Ann DaviesLydia NicholasMaddy SearleMusic by Nico VetteseArt by Guerilla CommunicationsCheck out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quillJoin our community:WEBSITE: rustyquill.comFACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquillTWITTER: @therustyquillREDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuillEMAIL: mail@rustyquill.comChapter and Multiverse is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share alike 4.0 International Licence. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello! Thank you so much for tuning into our first episodes of Chapter and Multiverse!I just wanted to let you know what you can expect from the first nine weeks of the Chapter and Multiverse feed. Alongside our campaign of Masks: A New Generation, which will be releasing every Wednesday, we also have three one-shot specials to share with you!These specials will introduce you to the rest of our fantastic players, who will also be appearing in future campaigns and one-shots. These specials will give you some insight into the many and varied iterations of the city of Chapter! Each special has three episodes, and will release on Saturdays.First up, we have Vampire Cowboys, with familiar voices Helen Gould, Ben Meredith, Lydia Nicholas and Lowri Ann Davies.Our second one-shot, Corporate Overgoats, sees the return of Helen and Ben, alongside Pip Gladwin for some goat-themed chaos.And our last special, Definitely Wizards, features new voices Connie Chang and Shamini Bundell, alongside Pip and Lowri for some magical shenanigans.I hope you enjoy listening to these one-shots as much as we enjoyed playing them!Music by Nico Vettese Art by Guerilla Communications Check out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill Join our community: WEBSITE: rustyquill.com FACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquill TWITTER: @therustyquill REDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuill EMAIL: mail@rustyquill.com Chapter and Multiverse is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share alike 4.0 International Licence. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“Mine colleagues and I art in urgent need of thy help. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark...” Episode 54, Season 4.  With Alan Burgon, Alex Scott Fairley, Carli Fish, Ben Meredith, Torgny G. Aanderaa, Sarah Golding, Alexander Mercury, Spencer Lee Osborne, Anthony Glennon, Andrew Golder, Chris Polick, Julia C. Thorne and Julia Morizawa.  Written by Philip Thorne Story editing by Oystein Brager, T.H Ponders and William Shakespeare Sound design by Adam Raymonda Music by Fredrik Baden Sound editing by Philip Thorne  Directed by Philip Thorne and Alan Burgon Graphic design by Anders Pedersen Production assistance by Maty Parzival For full credits see our website.  The Amelia Project is an audio fiction series. We recommend starting at the beginning. The Amelia Project is part of the Fable & Folly Network.  Website: ameliapodcast.com  Transcripts: ameliapodcast.com/transcripts  Twitter: @amelia_podcast  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today Preston and Sayre are joined by Ben Meredith. Ben has a doctorate of education from Pepperdine University and from 1983-1994, served as an active duty infantry officer, including command of an infantry company during Desert Shield/Storm. Our focus of conversation with Ben entails the 1943 Allied Invasion of Sicily, codenamed "Operation Husky." Operation Husky was a large amphibious and airborne operation, followed by a six-week land campaign, and initiated the Italian Campaign. We discuss the role the United States played in this complex operation, including the 82nd Airborne Division's pivotal role in establishing America's newly-created paratroopers. The lessons learned from Husky helped set the stage for the main land invasion of Europe on D-Day less than a year later.

This week on Enthusigasm, Helen chats to Ben, Gavia, Marisa, and Rhys about graphic novels. They discuss how they got into them, their favourite authors, and where folks who are new to the medium might like to start.Transcript:PDF: https://bit.ly/3Lmow9uWord: https://bit.ly/3IRxB8WContent warnings:Occasional beeps Sexual references Discussions of: depression & mental illness, zombies & apocalypse Mentions of: food, body horror, grief (inc. post-partum), alcoholism, misogyny, sexual assault You can find Gavia's podcast, Overinvested, here: http://www.overinvestedpodcast.com/Thank you to all our Patrons for your continued support. If you'd like to join them, visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill.Directed and hosted by Helen GouldFeaturing Helen Gould, Ben Meredith, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Marisa Ewing & Rhys TiradoEdited by Maddy Searle & Cathy RinellaProduced by Lowri Ann DaviesExecutive Producer: Alexander J. Newall and April SumnerMusic by Sam JonesArt by Anika KhanCheck out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quillJoin our community:WEBSITE: rustyquill.comFACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquillTWITTER: @therustyquillYOUTUBE: youtube.com/rustyquillREDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuillEMAIL: mail@rustyquill.comEnthusigasm is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share alike 4.0 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's episode features Becky, Ben, Helen, Jonny, and Travis! They talk about their first role-playing games and how they got involved in the hobby, the joy and complexities of gaming, and their favourite systems to play.TranscriptPDF: https://bit.ly/30gXSwIWord: https://bit.ly/3lrdBkWFind our guests here:Black Armada: https://blackarmada.com/Dark Dice: https://darkdice.com/MacGuffin & Co: https://www.macguffinandcompany.com/Content warnings:Brief reference to BDSMDiscussions of: death & murder, physical violence, warMentions of: fascism, religion, alcohol, amnesia, fictional child death, trauma, prison, food, vampiresSFX: occasional beeps Thank you to all our Patrons for your continued supportIf you'd like to join them, visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill.Directed and hosted by Helen GouldFeaturing Helen Gould, Ben Meredith, Becky Annison, Jonny Sims & Travis VengroffEdited by Tessa Vroom and Cathy RinellaProduced by Lowri Ann DaviesExecutive Producer: Alexander J. Newall and April SumnerMusic by Samuel D.F. JonesArt by Anika KhanCheck out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quillJoin our community:WEBSITE: rustyquill.comFACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquillTWITTER: @therustyquillYOUTUBE: youtube.com/rustyquillREDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuillEMAIL: mail@rustyquill.comEnthusigasm is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share alike 4.0 International Licence. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

STL Season 3 Outtakes 2What did we edit out of the second half of season 3? Listen and learn...Content warnings:Innuendo & sexual referencesMentions of: deathSFX: loud beeps throughout, coughing, shouting & crosstalkTranscript link: https://bit.ly/3jdXRkIThank you to all our Patrons for your continued support. If you'd like to join them be sure to visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill.Created by Tim Meredith and Ben MeredithProduced by Katie SeatonExecutive Producer: Alexander J NewallFeaturing: Tim Meredith, Ben Meredith, Maddy Searle, Jenny Haufek, Annie Fitch and Amy Dickinson. Editing: Maddy SearleMusic: Samuel DF JonesArtwork: Anika KhanMastering: Jeffrey Nils GardnerSubscribe using your podcast software of choice or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribe and be sure to rate and review us online; it really helps us spread across the galaxy.Check out our merchandise, available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill.Join our community:WEBSITE: www.rustyquill.comFACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/therustyquill/TWITTER: @therustyquillREDDIT: www.reddit.com/r/RustyQuill/DISCORD: https://www.discord.gg/rustyquillEMAIL: mail@rustyquill.comStellar Firma is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we present the fourth and final winning entry of our Rusty Fears 4; "New Roots" written by Cecelia Morelli, directed by Maddy Searle and performed by Ben Meredith.Note: this is a piece of stand-alone fiction and not a part of the Magnus canon.Content warnings:Death (inc. suicide & parental death)Human remainsPain & bloodGraphic body horrorMentions of: food & eating, smoking, illness & fatigueSFX: continuous low-pitched & high-pitched droneTranscripts:PDF - https://bit.ly/3qm3n67DOC - https://bit.ly/3zWgKyzThank you to all our Patrons for your continued support.If you'd like to join them, visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill.Edited by Maddy Searle & Nico VetteseProduced by Lowri Ann DaviesCheck out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop & https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill.You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice, or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribePlease rate and review on your software of choice, it really helps us to spread the podcast to new listeners, so share the fear.Join our community:WEBSITE: rustyquill.comFACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquillTWITTER: @therustyquillREDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuillDISCORD: https://discord.gg/KckTv8yEMAIL: mail@rustyquill.comThe Magnus Archives is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

STL Season 3 Outtakes 1What did we edit out of the first half of season 3? Listen and learn... Content Warning for:InnuendoMentions of: fire, guns, food, alcohol & drugs, death.SFX: loud beeps throughout. Thank you to all our Patrons for your continued support. If you'd like to join them be sure to visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill.Created by Tim Meredith and Ben MeredithProduced by Katie SeatonExecutive Producer: Alexander J NewallFeaturing: Tim Meredith, Ben Meredith, Jenny Haufek and Helen Gould. Editing: Maddy SearleMusic: Samuel DF JonesArtwork: Anika KhanMastering: Jeffrey Nils GardnerSubscribe using your podcast software of choice or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribe and be sure to rate and review us online; it really helps us spread across the galaxy.Check out our merchandise, available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill.Join our community:WEBSITE: www.rustyquill.comFACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/therustyquill/TWITTER: @therustyquillREDDIT: www.reddit.com/r/RustyQuill/DISCORD: https://www.discord.gg/rustyquillEMAIL: mail@rustyquill.comStellar Firma is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Event planning is never easy. Event planning for a double-booked megatube space station where five different alien species (one of which is very tasty) all have to get along? Well, you can imagine. Meet the species and find out what starts to happen with grand ambitions meet the constraints of space and budget!BEN MEREDITHTwitterPatreonJENN MARTINTwitterBully Pulpit GamesTIM MEREDITHTwitterPatreonWE ARE THE DUNGEON STREAMS! We Are the Dungeon Streaming Schedule! May 10-8pm Eleni, Gannon, and Mike from NeoScum! May 11 – 8pm The Doubleclicks! May 12 – 8pm Adira Slattery and Jeremy Gage! May 12 – 9:30pm Val and JV from Paper Boat Productions! May 13 – 8pm Victoria, Tracy, and Bee from The Broadswords! May 16 – 8pm Jordan Shiveley, aka Dread Singles! May 18 – 8pm Aaron and Jeff from All My Fantasy Children! Live, on the One Shot Twitch Channel (all times EST) MICRO RPG BOOKOrder Now!ULTIMATE GAMEMASTER’S WORLDBUILDING GUIDEPer-Order now!BUY OSN BOOKSThe Ultimate RPG Gameplay GuideThe Ultimate RPG Character Backstory GuideA Dragon Walks Into A BarTAKE ACTIONRegister to VoteFind your SenatorsFind your CongressmenMake 5 CallsTrans LifelineTrevor Project

Event planning is never easy. Event planning for a double-booked megatube space station where five different alien species (one of which is very tasty) all have to get along? Well, you can imagine. Meet the species and find out what starts to happen with grand ambitions meet the constraints of space and budget!BEN MEREDITHTwitterPatreonJENN MARTINTwitterBully Pulpit GamesTIM MEREDITHTwitterPatreonMICRO RPG BOOKOrder Now!ULTIMATE GAMEMASTER’S WORLDBUILDING GUIDEPer-Order now!BUY OSN BOOKSThe Ultimate RPG Gameplay GuideThe Ultimate RPG Character Backstory GuideA Dragon Walks Into A BarTAKE ACTIONRegister to VoteFind your SenatorsFind your CongressmenMake 5 CallsTrans LifelineTrevor Project

On this week's episode, we're joined by Ben Meredith and Jonathan Sims (Rusty Quill, The Magnus Archives) as we dig into two John Carpenter movies: IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS and PRINCE OF DARKNESS!

Something, something food. UHHHHH. I'm preliminarily saving this bit. Still giving it a final listen. What's this episode called again? Let me check the Google Doc. CAROLINE! It's NOT ON THE GOOGLE DOC! ...right, now that Caroline has sorted that out, you can check out the transcript. Join Hughes and Mincks as they get a sense of how the other half lives - investigating the haunting of the fanciest restaurant in town! This episode of Hughes and Mincks: Ghost Detectives starred the sparkling Sophie Hughes as Hughes, Caroline Mincks as Mincks, and was written and edited by Caroline. This episode also featured the voices of the charming Alexander Endymion Hernández Díaz as Luis, the magnetic Ben Meredith as Amadeus, and the angelic Sarah Rhea Werner as Jo. Follow us on Twitter @HughesAndMincks and give us a shout if you've got any haunting happenings going on! MOZART - Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332 by Paavali Jumppanen, piano is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

We kick off the mid-season break for The Magnus Archives with a retrospective look, as Jonny poses a few questions to various cast members, past and present, about their involvement with the show.Featuring:Imogen Harris, Ian Hayles, Evelyn Hewitt, Mike LeBeau, Ben Meredith, Lydia Nicholas, Chioma Nwalioba, Fay Roberts, Sasha Sienna, Jonathan Sims, Sue Sims, Alasdair Stuart & Frank VossContent Warnings:Explicit languageSpoilers for show to dateMentions: claustrophobia, insects & arachnids, zombies, clowns, environmental destruction, existential dread, isolation, thalassophobia, supernatural/paranormal encounters, body horrorEdited by Nico Vettese, Jeffrey Nils-Gardner & Alexander J NewallFor more information on this weeks sponser visit http://bit.ly/RhythmofWar for more infoCheck out our merchandise at https://www.redbubble.com/people/rustyquill/collections/708982-the-magnus-archives-s1You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice, or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribePlease rate and review on your software of choice, it really helps us to spread the podcast to new listeners, so share the fear.Join our community:WEBSITE: rustyquill.comFACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquillTWITTER: @therustyquillREDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuillDISCORD: https://discord.gg/KckTv8yEMAIL: mail@rustyquill.comThe Magnus Archives is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"But what they created wasn't remnant or envoy, it was something different. The many stories differ on what - a drifter, a machine, a seeker, a monster. For years it wandered, collecting tales as others would figurines. Everywhere it went new stories blossomed, until, they just stopped." - a fragment from the memories of Serrata Paige. *** Cast out, Nepps wanders the patchwork of Ryne. It drifts through the Oceans, climbs mountain, wanders desert others would find inhospitable. Its curiosity alight, it scours the world for understanding. Everywhere it goes it collects, gathering threads of spirit around itself like a blanket of concept, emotion and resonance. And, as it travels, it changes. On its trail are its creators. Occlo, Hiseka, Vade, and envoys of the remnant Inahus. They mean to capture it, to undo its growth. It's inevitable that they will catch it, but when that happens will they destroy Nepps, or will Nepps destroy them? *** This is part two of a two-part special. We play the eponymous The Brokenhearted by Tracy Barnett. It's a game about being a creation, on the run from those who made you. You have broken free into the world. What do you find? How do you change? At some point you will come face to face with your creators - will you destroy them, or will they destroy you? For these specials, we welcome two of Rusty Quill's own. This episode, we welcome special guest Ben Meredith. In part one, This Thing We Started, we welcomed Helen Gould. We're delighted to have them both on the show, telling sad stories with us. *** Follow the show on twitter @flimsyrituals Find our website at flimsyrituals.com Chat to us on Discord *** Hosted by Thryn Henderson. Starring special guest Ben Meredith alongside Beck Michalak and Ryan Evans. Produced by Thryn Henderson Ocean sounds by esh9419 from freesound.org

"We searched for ages for rumour, for story, for precedent for what we were about to do. If anyone before us had created a remnant, perhaps then the path that we were on wasn't heresy, perhaps what we were creating wouldn't be an abomination. The closest we could find was a collection of stories from the Sounds; of something called the Spindle, called the Anchor, called Nepps." - A fragment from the memories of Serrata Paige. *** Along the ocean floor, ten great trunks move - their every step disturbing centuries of silt and sediment. Follow one of those legs upwards - drifting past a mile of singing barnacle and coral - until you begin to see sunlight breaking above. There you will find the legs' meeting point, a great crag of calcium and basalt that breaches the sea's surface. Behold Inahus, the great wandering titan who collects secrets from the salted winds. On Inahus' island, a group gathers - Occlo, Hiseka, Vade. Their backs are bent, their brows furrowed as they work to realise an impossible dream. Together with the remnant, they are going to create something beautiful - not envoy, not remnant, but something new. A life unique to Ryne, a creature of curiosity to help them understand the world. *** This is part one of a two-part special, we play the eponymous This Thing We Started by Tracy Barnett. It's a game about being on the trail of your creation. You created it, but now it has broken free. Who are you, its creators? What have you made? At some point you will come face to face with it - will you destroy it, or will it destroy you? For these specials, we welcome two of Rusty Quill's own. This episode, we welcome special guest Helen Gould. In part two, The Brokenhearted, we welcome Ben Meredith. We're delighted to have them both on the show, telling sad stories with us. *** Follow the show on twitter at @flimsyrituals Find our website at flimsyrituals.com Chat to us on Discord *** Hosted by Adam Dixon. Starring special guest Helen Gould alongside Elizabeth Simoens and Steve Martin. Produced by Thryn Henderson Ocean sounds by esh9419 from freesound.org

The Magnus Archives is brought to you by folks who are completely serene and professional humans at all times, on and off-recording. Totally and absolutely.Content Warnings:Explicit languageFeaturing voices of: Alexander J Newall, Fay Roberts, Ian Hayles, Francesca Renée Reid, Paul Sims, Sue Sims, Lydia Nicholas, Jonathan Sims, Mike LeBeau, Frank Voss, Ben Meredith.Edited by Annie Fitch & Alexander J NewallCheck out our merchandise at https://www.redbubble.com/people/rustyquill/collections/708982-the-magnus-archives-s1You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice, or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribePlease rate and review on your software of choice, it really helps us to spread the podcast to new listeners, so share the fear.Join our community:WEBSITE: rustyquill.comFACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquillTWITTER: @therustyquillREDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuillDISCORD: https://discord.gg/KckTv8yEMAIL: mail@rustyquill.comThe Magnus Archives is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Not to be outdone by their recent 1 million active install celebration, Astra finds itself in some hot murky water. The theme was recently suspended when the theme review team found affiliate links “cloaked” in buttons recommending other plugins. Friend of the show Ron Huereca shows us a code snippet of how they achieved this, and LayerWP hosted a short written interview with a member of the theme review team. In today's episode, I'll share my take on the matter and where I'd love to see the theme repo move to for small product creators. You can read the theme guidelines cited in the episode, here. Also mentioned in the episode: Every word of this Tweet (down to the ALT text on the image) remains true more than a year later. It's a shame that this is still allowed in WordPress. https://t.co/0iTAXx94uP— Ben Meredith (@benUNC) August 8, 2020 Thanks to our sponsors SearchWP & Gravity View for supporting the show! Please say thank you on Twitter! Read the full transcript show more Matt: (00:04)This episode of the Matt report is brought to you by search wp.com and gravity view.co more on them. Later in today's episode, we're talking about the recent Astro debacle of just some thoughts around WordPress monetization. What it's like to be a product creator, a product maker in the WordPress space, especially in the year 2020, let's dive right on in. Matt: (00:29)All right, everybody. Welcome back to the mat reports. It's maryport.com [inaudible] dot com slash subscribe to join that mailing list. For those of you that know they started a new job a couple of weeks ago over at Casto the makers of a seriously simple podcasting plugin. I'll be the head or actually no, my official title is director of podcaster success. So I'm gonna help folks get their podcasts up and running over at Casos. If you're thinking about starting a podcast yourself, send me an email, Matt at [inaudible] dot com and, uh, I guess some more videos up on the plugin Tut channel youtube.com/plugin Tut, check out all of my WordPress plugin theme tutorials. I'm going to get into some no-code stuff that just, uh, those are the things that, that really excite me. So some know code stuff that's in and around the WordPress space. So do check out that channel recently, a theme with over a million active installs, one of the most popular, the most installed and activated WordPress theme in the WordPress repo. Matt: (01:34)That is not a default WordPress theme. In other words, a theme that doesn't ship with WordPress by default Astra was, uh, was removed from the repo briefly for something of, uh, going against the theme developer guidelines of wordpress.org by injecting affiliate code links or affiliate links within the code of, of the theme. They sort of cloaked it in a way where you didn't really know when you hit upgrade. Um, on these recommended plugins that they mentioned six of them, that they were getting an affiliate commission. If, if you did decide to upgrade, I've got a lot of thoughts about this stuff. I'm sure you do as well. But first search WP search wp.com is today's first sponsor of the show and they were a repeat sponsor. I really appreciate the support from the folks over@searchwp.com. Looking if you're building out a website, you're building out, you know, what's really popular now, of course, in this pandemic world that we live in, I've even thought about it. Matt: (02:49)Myself is to start up a new directory site for a particular niche in, in my local area. Right? If I built out a directory site, I wanted to search that content. Cause that's generally what you do. Search WP is fantastic for that. It searches your eCommerce products, custom field content, custom database tables, PDFs, and documents. I mean, even though it's the year 2020, and restaurants still use PDFs for menus, you know, you could start a directory service of all these restaurants. And if they're still using PDs for menu, you could search those PDFs. You do short codes, you can do Gutenberg blocks. You can do taxonomy terms, post titles and contents. But the real shining feature in my opinion is if you're running one of these content heavy sites and you do need great search, not only consortia BP, do that for you, but they give you stats. Matt: (03:38)They give you analytics around what people are searching for. And this is analytics. You're not going to get from Google analytics. This is going to be analytics on your site. What people are searching for is going to help you make better decisions with the content that you're producing. Again, if you're a webmaster for a university and now people are searching for classes and they're looking for certain, uh, things to download, you can get all of these insights from that. If you're a publisher high content traffic site, uh, this is going to help you make better decisions. Search wp.com. You can get it@searchwp.com. It starts at $99 for one website for the year, 149 for the most popular plan. Check it out. Search wp.com. Search wp.com say, thanks for supporting the show. Okay, so I'm going to take you over to a former, a former sponsor of the show. Matt: (04:32)Uh, in the past, Ron, Ron Eureka media, ron.com wrote up a piece. If you're looking for exactly what Astra did from a technical, uh, view media, Iran highlights this in the code snippet, and he shows you exactly what they were doing in the functions file of Astra. And they're filtering the upgrade buttons to these, to these plugins. And here are the plugins that they were recommending. They were recommending Ninja forms, uh, WP forms, this social snap.com uh, plugin, which I have not heard of before, uh, give WP. And, uh, of course HubSpot, and it's your typical play, right? Like a theme. Doesn't do everything, uh, you know, most notably like a contact form. So what do they do? They recommend these other contact forms. They've provided styles and, you know, allegedly some support probably for these, these types of plugins, these contact forms, uh, styled into the themes. Matt: (05:35)So it works and they say, Hey, we recommend this. And by the way, if you do go and buy this, we get a little kickback in the form of an affiliate link. Now the issue is if we take a look at the theme, a handbook here are things that they say in here, and this is what I want to pontificate on themes should not display quote, obtrusive, upselling themes are not allowed to have affiliate URLs or links. Okay? So that's pretty clear. Themes are not allowed to have affiliate URLs or links. The one before that themes should not display an air quotes. That's what I'm doing, air quotes, but it's literally quoted in the article, obtrusive upselling. Matt: (06:24)And this is where I, this is where this whole thing from my perspective starts to fall apart. I get the affiliate URL is you can't do that. But as a small product maker myself, now, I dabbled in themes. I didn't even know how long ago, six, seven, eight years ago, you can actually still go and get the themes I add. Haven't had a chance to really see how I can decommission these themes from being downloaded and installed. Cause they're no longer supported the theme review process. Again, when I was doing it, it was tiring. There was a lot of friction. People were getting away with things and even most notably, if you think back to cyber chimps, there was a time in the, in the theme, repo, uh, annals of history that you could, you could review the most themes. And then if you were reviewer reviewing the most themes you could pick, which theme was featured on the landing page of wordpress.org/themes. And for many years, while I say many ways, maybe two years, this believe this is how long it lasted. And, uh, well, Trent from cyber chimps, again, this is just a business play said, well, I'm going to pay people to review themes. And then they will pick my theme as the top theme. Matt: (07:52)It's always been that sort of wild West kind of way. I remember submitting themes to the repo. Uh, and you know, we had a theme that we created. You can still find it. I'm assuming journal was the name that I wanted to submit it with. Now, mind you, there were other names in the repo already that was like paper, you know, rock, you know, these names, right? And I said, well, most people want to write a blog. A lot of people consider this a journal. And if somebody was like, thinking, how do I start a journal with WordPress? Well, maybe that's going to be in my advantage is see there's people that think that's wrong, but it's not. It's it's meat. It's marketing. It's it's promotion. It's SEO. It's this is how it works. And I submitted our theme called journal and it was denied. The name was too generic. Matt: (08:45)The name journal associated with a blogging platform was too generic. What more on that in a minute, let's talk about our second sponsor gravity view.co gravity view.co it's a page builder using gravity forms data. So if you've ever used gravity forms, a very powerful form builder, and you submit all this data, you know, people submit data into these forms and you know, days, months, years goes by you get all this data. You want to pull this data out, or maybe you want to create a directory with that data. We just talked about directories of search WP. Now, maybe you want to create a directory using all of that gravity forms data, but you're not a developer. How do you pull that data out of your database and display it onto your website? Gravity view.co will help you do that. Starting at 55 bucks, 55, a U S dollars. Matt: (09:43)That's a 20% off sale happening site-wide right now. And look at it allows you to display that data in a table and a list. And then you can get more advanced views. Like you can show it in a Google maps. If you're doing addresses again, like if you're building out a real estate site and you want, you know, you don't want to use these off the shelf, real estate plugins from, let's say a theme forest, maybe you're afraid of the code quality and the support you start putting together things like gravity view.co and gravity forms, and maybe search WP. And you're starting to build these very powerful websites without having to do too much coding. You can also edit entries that have been already submitted with gravity forms. I mean, pretty much anything. This is like the frosting on the gravity forms cake, right? You want to be able to do stuff with the gravity forms data, but you're not a developer or you just want to move quickly. Gravity view.co will help you do that. If anything, if maybe you're not a gravity forms user, just go to gravity view.co and check out the music video promotion video thing that Zach had produced when he first launched gravity view. This is years ago. And I remember seeing this and it still holds still holds true today. It still holds up. Zach has a unique angle on promotion and marketing that I appreciate gravity view.co gravity view.co a page builder using gravity forms, data, thanks for supporting the program. Matt: (11:17)So back to my story about submitting a theme called journal and getting it denied because the name was too wasn't unique enough is what I was told. And this is the thing like, and, and, and I haven't looked at the thing that you can watch. You can read all the conversation. Well, all the public conversation in the wordpress.org Slack, you can go to the theme review channel, and you can see all this stuff. This is, you know, for the most part, it's all public. And I remember having these conversations, it wasn't Slack back then. It was just all in track and it was nice. It was too generic. You can't use the word journal. It's just like, there's no rules for generic naming. I mean, maybe there is now who sets the rules of it. Okay. You can't have the name. It's just somebody's opinion. Matt: (12:06)That's on the team. And this is where I really draw, uh, a thread of just, you know, who said the themes should not display obtrusive. Upselling. Obtrusive is subjective to some people. And we've went through the same thing where it was like, know, boy, we had nothing crazy in terms of ads and upsells and admin notices and all this stuff. It was your typical sidebar. And some people said, nah, we don't like the fact that you, you know, you have a upgrade now in bold, you're going to tone it down. No, you can't have a link out to your social media. Okay. You know, and then, but then it's like, you get pushed to the back of the line or that's what it was like back then. And then it was this subjectiveness on your code quality. And my developer, Scott is amazing. Like he does a great job. Matt: (12:56)He's just, you feel like it's not coded the way you would want to do it. So you're putting up these red flags, which is stalling, the process. And all of this is to say, make this. And this has been my argument for years. Ever since I witnessed this experiences, make it a real marketplace. I've been waving that flag for years now, because if it's a real marketplace, then a creator like myself, a creator like Astra will be taxed. If you think of Involta. If you think of Shopify, if you think of the iTunes app store, there is a tax to distribute. It is common business practice. And when you don't go this route, well, then you just say, well, you know, we're not really about money, but there are people monetizing. And then we have these ambiguous rules. And at any point, somebody can just say something like Astro, you're going to be shut down for five weeks. There's no rules. There's no guidelines that say, okay, if there's an affiliate link, here's what happens when we find an affiliate, you know, somebody just comes up with this number five weeks because they was going out to, uh, well, there was six links, but they said it was a link per plugin that they were linking to one, two, three, Oh, it was five yet. So it was five. So five weeks, just random, just a bunch of volunteers just coming up with this. Here's how we're going to, uh, here's how we're going to chastise Astra. Matt: (14:35)If you look over at layer WP, I believe Ben is, is his name. He did a quick interview with William Patton, who was also on a theme review team. I'll link this in the show notes. And he sort of does a quick interview about this debacle. And he highlights. Why don't you think that five weeks was, was pretty harsh? And, uh, I'm just paraphrasing here. He says, yeah, we thought it was pretty harsh, but it was a harsh thing. They were breaking the rules. They were breaking the guidelines. Okay, I get it. But still five weeks for a theme that was a million plus downloads. I mean, now you're, and I should preface this again. astros' back in the repo is down for a couple days. They removed whatever they had to remove to get the affiliate links out. Matt: (15:30)But what you're going to shut down auto updates for a million users for the fact that they were trying to make money. And this is what's going to transition me into my next thread of thought. Here is because it's not a true marketplace because we cannot monetize the transaction as creators, as builders, product makers. When you don't give us this one way to make revenue, then we're left to make revenue ourselves. And then because there's no true guidelines and this is a team of volunteers, no one's getting paid here. It's just this massive gray area. So of course, things like this are going to happen. Astros, running a business, they have a million active installs, good for them. They build a great product. I've used it. I've recommended it. It's awesome. And Oh, by the way, the plugins that they're recommending most of which are my friends, Ninja forms give WP science companies. Matt: (16:33)Everyone should be held accountable. My friends aren't going to buy me beers. The next time they see me at word camp, if that's ever a thing anymore. But all of these plugins should have got a little slap on the hand. They were benefiting as much as, uh, Astro is benefiting. And I would say they would probably benefiting even more because they all have free plugins. So Astra of their million active installs in whatever it is, 2 million of these, maybe even more people who have tried Astro and have now been introduced to these other plugins through their recommended page, they're benefiting from it brand exposure, traffic, upsells using the free theme, maybe eventually upgrading. And Ashwin never got a dime of that affiliate link, but they should be held accountable to on the other side of the coin, these are not bad plugins. It's not like Astro was routing off to some Bitcoin, uh, mining service that you didn't know was happening. Matt: (17:39)They were recommending great plugins from friends of mine. This is the game we play. This is how we make money, but because it's the word affiliate. Oh my God. What about if it was called revenue share partner agreement? Well, maybe it wouldn't sound so bad, but it's affiliate link. Well, that's the only way we can make money. If I was Astra now I would then turn to give WP and my friends, sorry, friends, but this is what I would say. It's business. Hey, I I'll recommend you in our million plus active installs for $5,000 for the year. Matt: (18:21)Now, Astro has to make that disclaimer, these are sponsored updates. Maybe they say these are sponsored, uh, plugins that work great with Astra. They're also great companies. So find a way to be transparent with that. But it's also another way. I mean, they were making money with it. This is not, this is not illegal to, to have these types of deals in place. Maybe it's illegal not to, uh, display it to you uses, okay, I get it. But they're trying to make money. There's nothing wrong with that. I mean, not in my eyes. What about you? What do you think about that? Matt: (19:08)You know, my friend, maybe he doesn't want me to call him a friend. Maybe he doesn't even want me to loop him into this conversation, but Ben Meredith, Ben Meredith, uh, at Ben, UNC, he tweeted recently every word of this tweet down to the all text on the image remains true more than a year later. It's a shame that this is still allowed in WordPress and he's citing a tweet or he's re tweeting a tweet that he posted last year, April 2nd, 2019. And this tweet reads, I make a bit of site income off of better click to tweet.com. All folks who purchased come from free users of my wordpress.org, hosted plugin after years of hard work, it shows up first in the list. When you search the word tweet, good for Ben, this is his way of ranking. And this is his way of making some site income, presumably paying for his mortgage and his family's needs unless you have Jetpack installed. And he shows an image of when a user has Jetpack installed Jetpack, still hijacks search results page on wordpress.org. Matt: (20:21)So if you were searching for the word tweet, jam pack is going to show you publicize their feature in Jetpack called publicized first, right next to his better click to tweet. This is akin to, you know, your brand or somebody Googling for your brand on Google and you get all those ads above, right? And then somebody's buying against buying an ad against your brand name. And then it becomes like a pay to play thing, but you can't even pay to play in the WordPress repo unless you're Jetpack. You know, and this is like, this is what drives me nuts. It's this sort of double standard of the wild wild West. Is that a thing it's like a double standard, but there's no standards as the wild wild West. And then there's this group of people. God bless them. I'm not saying that the theme review team is bad. Matt: (21:17)In fact, I say, turn it into a real marketplace so that the foundation WordPress foundation makes money. And then they can take that money and support word camps and pay people to volunteer@wordpress.org, pay people to volunteer@wordpress.org. Maybe turn it into a travel fees, paying off you. If you contribute to wordpress.org, we'll buy your flight to work camp Europe or us, you know, when that's a thing anymore, or maybe they can use it as education, right? Uh, all the money collected, uh, will be doled out in some kind of scholarship. And you know, if you've, if you've committed time to wordpress.org, uh, we can buy your books for school. We can buy you an online course. Hey, maybe Matt can leverage some of his, uh, authority in the, in the tech space to, uh, you know, whatever, some of the big online education course where sites are, uh, maybe, uh, I think linda.com or LinkedIn learning, whatever it might be called nowadays, you know, maybe we can sponsor people and then they can get free access to education, right? Matt: (22:36)Something, because it's not fair for, for us to be upset at some, because there are Audrey employees that also, uh, are paid to work on wordpress.org and admin, some of this stuff, but the volunteers, we should not be coming down on them hard again, the gray area of, uh, other folks who are paid, who do sit in the way of some of these decision makings, uh, without any accountability or transparency, those folks should be held accountable. But I say, make money so that we have clear defined lines. We don't need to randomly tell, say, Oh, you're five weeks now out of the game, pay people to review these things. Everyone is happy. Everyone is making money. This is what Shopify does. This is what iTunes does. It makes sense. It makes sense in my eyes. What do you think? What do you think about this whole debacle? Matt: (23:41)Look, if I'm, it's hard to create a product, it's hard to think about a product it's hard to get your first product off the ground. It's hard to monetize that product. It's hard to support that product. It's hard to market that product in the face of the competition. Although foolish people like myself still wake up every day and try to do it because we have a passion for it. Uh, we're sort of masochists in that sense. We liked the pain of doing this stuff, you know, and it's a challenge, but sometimes the, the deck is stacked against you again, in the, in the face of jet pack, everyone thinks like I simply don't like jet pack because it's automatic. It's incorrect. I have absolutely no problem with jet pack monetizing. I have absolutely no problem that jet pack has, you know, three or four plans. Matt: (24:39)I don't even care that jet pack stuffs the, uh, you know, when you install Jetpack and his premium plans, and then it stuffs it down at the bottom and you, and you don't see it anymore. But what I don't, what I don't appreciate is how, you know, people can go against other small product creators, even large product creators. That's unfair that you monetize. I don't want you to pro plan. I don't want your admin notice. Okay. I get it. Those things can get annoying. I don't want your affiliate links. Meanwhile, jet pack is just doing it right out in the open. I mean, go ahead, install a w a WooCommerce site, install a WooCommerce site and tell me when Jetpack stops telling you to install their, their services and then WooCommerce external services as well, all in automatic company. Matt: (25:37)Then when you look back at Ben's tweet and you see that not only are they hijacking the search, which would, I mean, why don't all plugins, do that, all themes, do that. I mean, would it be better if Astra, if you search for, I don't know, contact form and because you had Astro installed it filtered, uh, Ninja forms and, uh, WP forms, right? To the top of the results I use that is that bad Jetpack, does it, you know, maybe, maybe that's a thing. Can we get that as an official guideline that you can, you can do that officially without being wrong. Matt: (26:16)It's a fine balance. I know some people, you know, it's all about the freedom. It's all about the free more so, you know, it's more about the free than the freedom of freedom that a thing they don't like to be paid only be advertised to and only be tracked. I understand a hundred percent get it, but this isn't unique to WordPress. This is what every piece of software does ever. You know, if you have a free service, it's collecting all the data about you and sending that data somewhere or selling that data somewhere, or upselling you to another product or feature affiliate links are not bad. Matt: (26:57)I use affiliate links myself on my YouTube channel and on Maryport to put food on the table, it's the creator, or, you know, the, uh, the developer or the creator or the product owner to make the right decisions on what products they affiliate with. So again, affiliate links, isn't bad. It's the person who's wielding the affiliate link, you know, Apple news. It was just shown. I tweeted this out the other day and sort of a parody of this whole thing when you search, uh, or when I actually don't even think when it happened in New York times anymore, because I think they're actually getting out of Apple news. Uh, but you know, when a publisher publishes content on Apple news, it's loading an Apple news and not even going to the publisher. This is like what Google does with amp. Matt: (27:54)Everyone everywhere is trying to own the experience, which I think is the only thing that WordPress can do to survive is to own the experience. And that's a double edged sword. Isn't it more on that in a future episode? Let me know what you think. This is the second recording I've done of this episode, because the first one I felt like if you thought this episode was harsh, the first episode, I kind of ranted a little too much. I feel like I've dialed it back a little bit here, but I don't know. You let me know. You let me know. It's my report.com airport.com/subscribe. Don't forget to check out the YouTube channel. Let me know what kind of content you want. Now that I've been podcasting a little bit more and getting some great feedback. People are telling me that they like the show. Thanks. Matt: (28:42)Leave me a five star review on iTunes. If you made it this far, uh, we're the highest rated WordPress business entrepreneur podcast on iTunes in the five out of 50 States. Now I'm just kidding. I think we have the highest ratings in the U S anyway, uh, for this particular niche, I love to have more, I would love to bro. I've been saying it for years now. I'm probably probably sick of it. I'm trying to broaden and get out of the WordPress, just the WordPress bubble and bring in more stuff. Hoping I can do that as time moves on, but life comes at you fast, three kids COVID and all this other fun stuff, changing jobs. Matt: (29:18)All right, everybody say thanks to our sponsors, search WP gravity view.co, by the way, 20% of my sponsorship goes to a big orange heart. I'd like to support that, that effort supporting mental health in and around the WordPress space. I only make these, uh, sponsorships available on Twitter at random times. Uh, I don't want to get into having, you know, uh, sponsors locked in all the time. It's, it's probably not good business acumen, but I like to have the randomness. I like to have the sort of lottery opportunity for new people to come in and sponsor the show, but they are available on store.maryport.com. It's a hundred bucks. That's all. I charge a hundred bucks to sponsor the show, to add reads per show in 20% of that. So a $40 goes to a big orange heart, and 100% of all my merchandise profits goes to a big orange heart. So if you buy a hat, a tee shirt, I'll be releasing more stuff pretty soon with the Maryport logo on it, a hundred percent of the profits go to a big orange heart to support that effort. All right, we'll see you in the next episode. show less ★ Support this podcast ★

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Life Updates Kyle: wrapping up work projects.  Basketball pickup.  Adam: boys back in school. Daughter on her way. Better for me! 🙂 WordPress News Jason Schuler created a cool new WordPress product: WP Landing Kit Buffer's work trends predictions   Changes Jeries Eadah has joined Platform.sh Ben Meredith has been promoted to head of support…

In this episode, Jason and Bridget take a small break in their format to chat about developments this week in the WordPress ecosystem. How will these changes affect how plug-in businesses and freelancers market if at all? Tune in.Thank you to our sponsors!The WPwatercooler network is sponsored by ServerPress makers of DesktopServer. Be sure to check them out at https://www.serverpress.com as well as Kinsta.If you’re interested in sponsoring the 40-minute mark of this show, check out the details on our sponsor page. We offer episode by episode spoken ads, rather than large contracts. A show by you for you.Jeff Chandler Leaves WPTavernBridget thinks his editorial voice will be sorely missed.Journalism tries to get both sides whereas editorial content should have opinion.Jason was more intrigued by the use of service accounts for connected services on multi user websites.Both Bridget and Jason wonder who will now provide timely, non-biased WordPress news. “Hot takes on WPwatercooler.com” is still valid news. And, honestly, most of us who comment on WordPress are also Inside Baseball. So, we’re commenting with our own source material.Thanks, Jeff for being awesome for ten years!Bridget’s Trip to MontréalBridget loved WordCamp Montréal. It was extra special because she got to see Breann McDede’s first presentation.Also, it was really neat to see how the WordPress community in Montréal embraces bilingualism. As Michel Bluma says, “#BonjourHi.”I decided to sit in Q&A part of a presentation in French. It's funny to hear words I know: "A-C-F," "Gutenberg," "Custom Post Types." Can't get much more Montreal than that. #BonjourHiPHP 7.5 — P++ Ending Backwards CompatibilityFrom PHP Storm.“P++ – The controversy and accusations in PHP Internals over the removal of short tags

Join Jonny Sims outside of his role as the Archivist as he leads Alex J Newall, James Ross, Bryn Monroe and Ben Meredith through the second half of their spooky adventure in the Deadlands Campaign setting of Savage Worlds.Listen to our gang slowly fall apart as they desperately attempt to survive in a world populated by supernatural horror.Content Warnings for this episode are at the end of the show notes.Thanks to this week's Patrons: Garrett Monroe, Chris Main, John Wm. Thompson, Gavin Taylor-Black, Eliza Margaret, MJ Stokesish, Dawn A Weisenberger, Mark Young, Andrew Kopplin, Douglas Lewis.If you want to hear more improvised adventuring with the team, check out our sister podcast Rusty Quill GamingIf you'd like to support us, head to www.patreon.com/rustyquillEdited by Alexander J Newall.Sound effects for this episode provided by Bini_trns, Slave2theLight, jacobalcook, gneube, sandufi, Massivecarcrash and previously credited artists via freesound.org.Check out our merchandise at https://www.redbubble.com/people/rustyquill/collections/708982-the-magnus-archives-s1You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice, or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribe.Please rate and review on your software of choice, it really helps us to spread the podcast to new listeners, so share the fear.Content Warning for:Gun ViolenceBlunt Object ViolenceBody Horror See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join Jonny Sims outside of his role as the Archivist as he leads Alex J Newall, James Ross, Bryn Monroe and Ben Meredith through a spooky adventure in the Deadlands Campaign setting of Savage Worlds.Meet our band of questionable desperadoes as they attempt a bank heist in a world populated by supernatural horror. Its a straightforward job and surely nothing could go wrong… right?Content Warnings for this episode are at the end of the show notes.Thanks to this week's Patrons: Hannah Tsim, Jessica Mulleneaux, Hal, Luke Currie, Brandon Wheeler, Surreal Bill, Rhydwyn, Patrick Haggerty, Steve Palopoli and Fred RosenbergerIf you want to hear more improvised adventuring with the team, check out our sister podcast Rusty Quill GamingIf you'd like to support us, head to www.patreon.com/rustyquillEdited by Alexander J Newall.Sound effects for this episode provided by Ramston, csengeri, RockSavage, Benboncan, CGEffex, cedarstudios, mlteenie, Max_Headroom, Podsburgh, StephenSaldanha, GoodListener, shadoWisp, Eneasz, soundmary, TimPryor, woodmoose, steveygos93, Craxic, vmgraw, fastson, Ned Bouhalassa, MrProfDrDickweed, CosmicEmbers, dheming and previously credited artists via freesound.org.Check out our merchandise at https://www.redbubble.com/people/rustyquill/collections/708982-the-magnus-archives-s1You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice, or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribe.Please rate and review on your software of choice, it really helps us to spread the podcast to new listeners, so share the fear.Content Warning for:Gun ViolenceGamblingExplosive Violence See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#8640514Martin Blackwood, Archival Assistant at the Magnus Institute, recording statement number 8640514, statement of Doctor Algernon Moss, given May 14th 1864.Content Warnings for this episode are at the end of the show notes.Thanks to this week's Patrons: Emma Bogan, Jon, Victoria Wetherington, Jack Merryman, Alexandra Sipe, Nadia Heller, Charlotte, Steven Gilbert, Internaut, Maz DixonIf you'd like to support us, head to www.patreon.com/rustyquillEdited by Elizabeth Moffatt, Brock Winstead & Alexander J Newall.Tim Stoker is played by Mike LeBeau, Elias Bouchard is played by Ben Meredith, Martin Blackwood is played by Alexander J Newall, Melanie King is played by Lydia Nicholas, PC Basira Hussain is played by Frank VossSound effects for this episode provided by qubodup, SunnySideSound & previously credited artists via freesound.org.Check out our merchandise at https://www.redbubble.com/people/rustyquill/collections/708982-the-magnus-archives-s1You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice, or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribe.Please rate and review on your software of choice, it really helps us to spread the podcast to new listeners, so share the fear.Content Warning for:Body horrorPoisoningReported violence to childrenSelf-harm See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ben Meredith is a WordPress man about town, working with lots of great folks in the community like GiveWP, and putting out his own plugins. In this episode, Ben and I talk about Better Click to Tweet, a fantastic and free WordPress plugin he created. Show Notes Ben Meredith Ben on Twitter Better Click to […] The post Episode 53: Ben Meredith and Better Click to Tweet appeared first on How I Built It.

With Season 1 complete and Season 2 in development, Jonathan Sims and Alexander J Newall take some time to answer your questions.Thank you to everyone who has listened and helped our small operation grow into the cult it has. If you haven’t already be sure to leave a review, check out our forums and spread the word of your favourite Horror podcast. Particularly with Halloween on the way.If you want to help us out and take the time to vote in the Audioverse awards you can do so here: http://www.audioverseawards.net/site/vote/ Be sure to hurry though as time is running out!Special thanks to menacingsibrow, missnash, Coil, Seanfsmith, Kitsune, Spooniermist, Kea, Seelingkat, Atlas Robson, Ghiacciato39, SwordOfBraavos, VorpalisRabbitus and everyone else who has taken the time to send us in questions. Apologies that we couldn’t get round to answering them all.Season 2 of The Magnus Archives will commence on Thursday 1st December and before then Jonathan is also appearing as a special guest in the Halloween special of our sister program, the Rusty Quill Gaming Podcast, alongside Alexander J Newall and Ben Meredith, the voices of Martin and Elias. Be sure to subscribe at www.rustyquill.com/subscribe or via the podcast app of your choice.Also, don’t forget, Rusty Quill is expanding! If you would be interested in joining our team and working with us to make new and excellent content, send us an email to mail@RustyQuill.com, letting us know what skills you’ve got. (Currently only accepting UK based applicants.)For more information visit www.RustyQuill.com, Tweet us at @theRustyQuill, drop us an email at mail@RustyQuill.com or comment on our dedicated Forums available at the website. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Case #0160729-BStatement of Elias Buchard, Tim Stoker, Sasha James, Martin Blackwood and Jonathan Sims regarding the infestation of the Magnus Institute by the entity formerly known as Jane Prentiss.…And so we arrive at the end of Season 1.Season 2 of The Magnus Archives will commence on Thursday 1st December but before then we will be featuring an interview with Jonathan Sims, writer and voice of the archivist.If you can’t wait that long, Jonathan will also be appearing as a special guest in the Halloween special of our sister program, the Rusty Quill Gaming Podcast, alongside Alexander J Newall and Ben Meredith, the voices of Martin and Elias. Be sure to subscribe at www.rustyquill.com/subscribe or via the podcast app of your choice.Thank you to everyone who has listened and helped our small operation grow into the cult it has. If you haven’t already be sure to leave a review, check out our forums and spread the word of your favourite Horror podcast. Particularly with Halloween on the way.Also, don’t forget, Rusty Quill is expanding! If you would be interested in joining our team and working with us to make new and excellent content, send us an email to mail@RustyQuill.com, letting us know what skills you’ve got. (Currently only accepting UK based applicants.)For more information visit www.RustyQuill.com, Tweet us at @theRustyQuill, drop us an email at mail@RustyQuill.com or comment on our dedicated Forums available at the website. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

SEASON FOUR - Raw Feed (Originally Broadcast on 9JAN15 @1206PM on RichmondBIZLIVE) Companies that Changed their Markets & Niches Mark Deutsch & Rick Grossberg - Charim and Leadbury: Use of Social Media to BreakOut in their Markets.Ben Meredith - MagicTech: CRM Pioneer's: Beyond Desktop Based SoftwareWilliam Eastman - Amazon and Dennison Lubricants - Changing the Location: Making Tade Happen at Client Sites

The Ex-Queen makes her move and the King is caught at every disadvantage. The Irish, the birds, and a three-man tent meet in glorious, decisive battle as the King fights to keep his family exactly how he likes it. -- Written and edited by Tom McNallyMastered by John Bartmann -- Performed by Ben Meredith, Claudia Treacher, Alex Hatton, Joshua Crisp, Ellen Buckley, Tom McNally and Ben Edwards.   Ellen Buckley played Queen Medb Joshua Crisp as Saint Artalus Alex Hatton played Colonel Glowfist & Pineycone Ben Meredith played Axe Axewound & Father Figaro Claudia Treacher played Sally Minefield, the Ex-Queen & Prince Prince Tom McNally did the narration and played the King Ben Edwards was Cutty -- The theme tune, 'The King Is Coming,' written by Nicolai Roos -- Track art by Bruno Stahl

The King comes back to life just in time to face the rampaging Irish hordes brought to his doorstep by his ex-wife. Queen Medb has also been brought back to life after being in Hell for however many years. The King doesn't even get to meet her before her motives are brought into question. -- Written and edited by Tom McNallyMastered by John Bartmann -- Performed by Ben Meredith, Claudia Treacher, Alex Hatton, Joshua Crisp, Ellen Buckley, Tom McNally and Ben Edwards.   Ellen Buckley played Queen Medb Joshua Crisp as Ba'al, Dr. Tchaikovsky, Lord Moneyfight & Little Louie, Duke of Portugal Alex Hatton played Colonel Glowfist, Saint Francis & Pineycone Ben Meredith played Axe Axewound, Father Figaro, General Magnificent & The Green King Claudia Treacher played Sally Minefield and the Ex-Queen Tom McNally did the narration and played the King Ben Edwards was Cutty -- The theme tune, 'The King Is Coming,' written by Nicolai Roos -- Track art by Bruno Stahl

The King hits all of the nightclubs in an attempt to mend his broken heart, while the Adventure Team recruits a charming new friend who is also an ancient Irish queen. Nothing but the best for the Adventure Team. -- Written and edited by Tom McNallyMastered by John Bartmann -- Performed by Ben Meredith, Claudia Treacher, Alex Hatton, Joshua Crisp, Ellen Buckley, Tom McNally and Ben Edwards.   Ellen Buckley played Queen Medb Alex Hatton played Colonel Glowfist Ben Meredith played Axe Axewound, Father Figaro, The Green King & the Devil Claudia Treacher played Sally Minefield, Helen & Emma Tom McNally did the narration and played the King & the Devil Ben Edwards was Cutty -- The theme tune, 'The King Is Coming,' written by Nicolai Roos -- Track art by Tom McNally

The remaining members of the Adventure Team nip through Hell to take a shortcut only to engage in a comedy of manners with the Devil. They beat him up. -- Written and edited by Tom McNallyMastered by John Bartmann -- Performed by Ben Meredith, Claudia Treacher, Alex Hatton, Joshua Crisp, Ellen Buckley, Tom McNally and Ben Edwards.   Joshua Crisp played Saint Artalus Alex Hatton played Colonel Glowfist Ben Meredith played Axe Axewound, Father Figaro & the Devil Claudia Treacher played the Ex-Queen Tom McNally did the narration and played the King & the Devil -- The theme tune, 'The King Is Coming,' written by Nicolai Roos -- Track art by Tom McNally

The King navigates through the netherworld to find his broken heart on the Astral Plane, though maybe this is a metaphor? Also, some stuff happened in the past that we should check out. Obviously this whole story happened in the Medieval Epoch but we're talking a paster past than that. -- Written and edited by Tom McNallyMastered by John Bartmann -- Performed by Ben Meredith, Claudia Treacher, Alex Hatton, Joshua Crisp, Ellen Buckley, Tom McNally and Ben Edwards.   Joshua Crisp played Ba'al Alex Hatton played Colonel Glowfist, Mickey & Saint Francis Ben Meredith played Axe Axewound, Father Figaro, General Magnificent, Erik Rage-Eater!, Terrorthaw & The Green King Claudia Treacher played Sally Minefield & the drummer Tom McNally did the narration and played the King, the King's Father & Mechanicus -- The theme tune, 'The King Is Coming,' written by Nicolai Roos -- Track art by Tom McNally

The King suffers all the inconveniences of death - no clothes, horrifying spectres, a tedious jog, but he at least has his new spirit guide, Sally Minefield, to show him the ropes. -- Written and edited by Tom McNallyMastered by John Bartmann -- Performed by Ben Meredith, Claudia Treacher, Alex Hatton, Joshua Crisp, Ellen Buckley, Tom McNally and Ben Edwards.   Alex Hatton played Colonel Glowfist & Mickey Ben Meredith played Axe Axewound, Father Figaro, Terrorthaw, The Green King & the grigori Claudia Treacher played Sally Minefield & the Ex-Queen Tom McNally did the narration and played the King, the King's Father & Mechanicus Ben Edwards was Cutty -- The theme tune, 'The King Is Coming,' written by Nicolai Roos -- Track art by Tom McNally

Pineycone, the Custodian of Europe, sets some public policy in the absence of the King. The bureaucrats of the court have to appease him but he won't come down from the rafters. -- Written and edited by Tom McNallyMastered by John Bartmann -- Performed by Ben Meredith, Claudia Treacher, Alex Hatton, Joshua Crisp, Ellen Buckley, Tom McNally and Ben Edwards.   Joshua Crisp played Lord Moneyfight & Little Louie, Duke of Portugal Alex Hatton played Pineycone Ben Meredith played Lord Votecount Claudia Treacher played the Ex-Queen Tom McNally did the narration and played the King -- The theme tune, 'The King Is Coming,' written by Nicolai Roos -- Track art by Tom McNally

Ba'al Hadad, the Mesopotamian god of agriculture and thunder, is making trouble for General Magnificent's party. Can Cutty, the King's sword, deliver a tongue-lashing stern enough to clear the path and advance the adventure?   -- Written and edited by Tom McNallyMastered by John Bartmann -- Performed by Ben Meredith, Claudia Treacher, Alex Hatton, Joshua Crisp, Ellen Buckley, Tom McNally and Ben Edwards.   Joshua Crisp played Ba'al Ben Meredith played General Magnificent Tom McNally did the narration and played the King & Mechanicus Ben Edwards was Cutty -- The theme tune, 'The King Is Coming,' written by Nicolai Roos -- Track art by Bruno Stahl

Distraught about Feelings, the King flashes back to key events in his awesome past and takes his friends along with him. The full story of his failed marriage to the Ex-Queen is revealed throughout high school, his gap year in India, his wild years and that time when they all hung out as babies. -- Written and edited by Tom McNallyMastered by John Bartmann -- Performed by Ben Meredith, Claudia Treacher, Alex Hatton, Joshua Crisp, Ellen Buckley, Tom McNally and Ben Edwards. Alex Hatton played Colonel Glowfist, Pineycone & Rotter Axewound Ben Meredith played Axe Axewound, Father Figaro, Terrorthaw & General Magnificent Claudia Treacher played Sally Minefield and the Ex-Queen Tom McNally did the narration and played the King, the King's Father & Mechancius Ben Edwards was Cutty -- The theme tune, 'The King Is Coming,' written by Nicolai Roos -- Track art by Bruno Stahl

Chris introduces a new contributor to the show, Australian Ben Meredith. Irish journalist Louise Parkes reviews the first leg of the FEI Top League that took place in La Baule, France with a win for Belgium. You can download the podcast on iTunes, catch the show on your SmartPhone App such as Podcaster, Hallway Feeds and Instacast or tune in right here...

The King has made the error that many conquerors made before him - Germany is so safe and well-designed that distracting side-quests and minigames are thin on the ground. Driven to desperate measures, he takes off to confront old sins in Denmark. -- Written and edited by Tom McNallyMastered by John Bartmann -- Performed by Ben Meredith, Claudia Treacher, Alex Hatton, Joshua Crisp, Ellen Buckley, Tom McNally and Ben Edwards.   Alex Hatton played Colonel Glowfist Ben Meredith played Axe Axewound and Father Figaro Claudia Treacher played Sally Minefield, the Page and the Ex-Queen Tom McNally did the narration and played the King Ben Edwards was Cutty -- The theme tune, 'The King Is Coming,' written by Nicolai Roos -- Track art by Bruno Stahl

Right out of the gate, the King and his Adventure Friends are set upon by dread enemies. Birds were new to this plane of reality in Medieval times, so you can imagine how terrifying it must have been to have encountered a whole flock of them. Kill them all, team! -- Written and edited by Tom McNallyMastered by John Bartmann -- Performed by Ben Meredith, Claudia Treacher, Alex Hatton, Joshua Crisp, Ellen Buckley, Tom McNally and Ben Edwards.   Alex Hatton played Colonel Glowfist Ben Meredith played Axe Axewound & Father Figaro Claudia Treacher played Sally Minefield Tom McNally did the narration and played The King Ben Edwards was Cutty -- The theme tune, 'The King Is Coming,' written by Nicolai Roos -- Track art by Bruno Stahl

The journey to establish a military foothold in the North has hit a shaggy problem - an unfeasible number of goats blocking the road. An old lady wants a troubling word with General Magnificent and only Mechanicus' wacky chrono-antics can set the poor man's mind at ease. -- Written and edited by Tom McNallyMastered by John Bartmann -- Performed by Ben Meredith, Claudia Treacher, Alex Hatton, Joshua Crisp, Ellen Buckley, Tom McNally and Ben Edwards.   Alex Hatton played the ice-cream drone Ben Meredith played General Magnificent Claudia Treacher played Bedshaw Broomrape Tom McNally did the narration and played Mechanicus Ben Edwards was Cutty -- The theme tune, 'The King Is Coming,' written by Nicolai Roos -- Track art by Bruno Stahl

No journey of import could be legally approved in Medieval Europe without the imparting of thoughtful and powerful presents. Though the presents may be sweet, the goodbyes the King has to make are bitter. Could these two emotions combine to form a new, more powerful emotion? Stay tuned! -- Written and edited by Tom McNallyMastered by John Bartmann -- Performed by Ben Meredith, Claudia Treacher, Alex Hatton, Joshua Crisp, Ellen Buckley, Tom McNally and Ben Edwards.   Alex Hatton played Colonel Glowfist & Pineycone Ben Meredith played Axe Axewound, Father Figaro, General Magnificent & Sir Votecount Claudia Treacher played Sally Minefield, Prince Prince & the Page Tom McNally did the narration and played The King and Mechanicus Ben Edwards was Cutty -- The theme tune, 'The King Is Coming,' written by Nicolai Roos -- Track art by Bruno Stahl

The King assembles The Big Important Council Of Europe to propose a war on Winter. But there is a serpent in his Eden: a horrible man named Terrorthaw, and he has a gun. -- Written and edited by Tom McNallyMastered by John Bartmann -- Performed by Ben Meredith, Claudia Treacher, Alex Hatton, Joshua Crisp, Ellen Buckley, Tom McNally and Ben Edwards.   Alex Hatton played Colonel Glowfist & Pineycone Ben Meredith played Axe Axewound, Father Figaro, Terrorthaw & Sir Votecount Claudia Treacher played Sally Minefield & the Page Tom McNally did the narration and played The King and Mechanicus Ben Edwards was Cutty -- The theme tune, 'The King Is Coming,' written by Nicolai Roos -- Track art by Bruno Stahl

Having solved all other problems in the Medieval world, the King of Europe gathers up his highest-level hangers-on and sets out to kill Winter, the season that makes everyone cold and miserable for one half of their entire lives. -- Written and edited by Tom McNallyMastered by John Bartmann -- Performed by Ben Meredith, Claudia Treacher, Alex Hatton, Joshua Crisp, Ellen Buckley, Tom McNally and Ben Edwards.   Alex Hatton played Colonel Glowfist Ben Meredith played Axe Axewound Claudia Treacher as Sally Minefield, the Page and Prince Prince. Tom McNally did the narration and played The King -- The theme tune, 'The King Is Coming,' written by Nicolai Roos -- Track art by Bruno Stahl -- Transcript available here.