About this Episode

Arlill tells the story of how they discovered podcasts (through an earlier interest in gaming) and how they came to produce Random Chatterings: a show that covers ‘all aspects of pop culture including video games, movies, television shows, and the internet at large’.

Content warning: suicidal ideation, depression, transphobia, violence and some coarse language

Podcast case study: Naked Tech Podcast (listener)

Find Arlill on Twitter @HHowardson.

Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF or in plain text.

Links and Show Notes

Gaming and Group Dynamics 00:00:00

• GamesRadar
• TalkRadar
  • ‘Epic Honor’ is episode 123.
• The Ricky Gervais Show
• Medal of Honor (video game series)
• Kirby’s Epic Yarn
• Queer
• MP3 player
• iPhone
• iPod
• Sega Genesis
• Existentialism
• Random Chatterings
• Maintenance Phase
• Aubrey Gordon
• Michael Hobbes

Editing Process 00:11:25

• iTunes
• Apple Podcasts
• VTuber

Professionalism 00:18:46

• Bookish with Sonya Walger
• Instagram
• TikTok
• The Daily
• Amazon (company)
• AIM (software)

Motivation and Identity 00:23:44

• Leftism
• Progressivism
• Roe v. Wade
• Arlill’s top three Random Chatterings episodes
  • Episode 41.5 - Undertale
  • Episode 60.5 - Let’s Talk About... Virginity
  • Episode 65.5 - Let’s Talk About... Procrastination
• Undertale (2015 video game)
• Indie game
• T-bone steak
• Talking Simpsons
• Bob Mackey
• Henry Gilbert
• Patreon
• The Simpsons
• Gender Reveal (podcast)
• Tuck Woodstock
• Latine (also ‘latin’, ‘latinx’, ‘latino’, ‘latina’ or ‘Latin American’, with various meanings and uses)
  • See Usage and pronunciation for an explanation of the differences.
• ‘Trans’ is a sociological term that may refer to either transgender or transsexual.
  • Please note this important distinction between the terms, as explained on the second webpage linked above (under Relationship to transgender): ’The term transgender was coined by John Oliven in 1965. By the 1990s, transsexual had come to be considered a subset of the umbrella term transgender. The term transgender is now more common, and many transgender people prefer the designation transgender and reject transsexual.’
• Coming out
• ‘Cis’ refers to cisgender.
• Donald Trump
• Patton Oswalt
• Michell McNamara (deceased spouse of Patton Oswalt)
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (2018 book by Michelle McNamara)
• YouTube
• Twitter
• Animal Crossing
• Episode 86.5 - Animal Crossing and Gender Expression on Random Chatterings
• COVID-19 pandemic
• Pinterest
• Nintendo
• Gender binary

Final Thoughts 00:43:19

• Naked Tech Podcast
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Credits

Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio

Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion

Contact

• Website: rsspod.net
• Email: martin@loungeruminator.net
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• Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld