Check out my Podcast - Saga Ohio!

My Saga Ohio podcast is now live with its first episode!

After many pleasurable hours of listening to the Northern Tempest Saga Podcast while I paint, I decided to take the plunge and create my own Saga podcast. To me, it's the perfect accompaniment to a painting session. Joe and Jim's conversation is always funny and informative. They sound like guys you'd want to have in your game club. Plus, the "Saga talk" inspires you to keep painting. Once I'd run through all of their episodes dealing with Version 2 of Saga, I also started watching/listening to Saga Thorsday on YouTube. Rodge and Monty are like the Upper Midwest version of Joe and Jim. I particularly love their discussions of their own painting projects, dealing with long periods of no production, what inspires them to finish off that army -- great stuff!

I tossed the idea out on our Saga Ohio Facebook page, and got positive responses. Jim Beegan from Dayton was the most enthusiastic, so I invited him to be my first guest. I did some research and decided to use Cleanfeed for us to "meet" and record our session. The quality of the audio is superb. I am hosting my podcast episodes on Anchor, as their service is completely free. Plus, they push your episode out to other podcast channels, such as Spotify, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, and more. You download your audio file from your Cleanfeed session easily, and can then upload and edit it on Anchor's software. I ended up doing my editing on my MacBook in Garage Band because I wanted to "talk over" the intro sound effect. I then exported the file as an mp3 and popped it into Anchor. Boom...done! 

Click here for the link to my Saga Ohio page on Anchor.

I hope to do episodes once every two weeks or so. Local Saga guru Andy Swingle is slated to be my next guest. I'd like to be able to use the guest slot to eventually introduce all of the Saga Ohio members. I had a blast talking to Jim, and he was the perfect, easy-to-talk-to person to help me host my first episode. So, check it out, and stay tuned for more episodes!