Podcast Ping's Christmas Calendar Day 25

Day 25. Christmas Day!



http://www.archive.org/download/PodcastPingsChristmasCalendarDay25/ppcc25.mp3


For this show I have something special.

Some people might find the song I chose, “Rainbow Christmas” to
have a little too much “rainbow” in it. But it's the sort of song
that makes for a big production number that closes out a show and I
felt it suitable for that. It's been a long run starting back on
December 1st of 25 shows, and there was a lot of work that went
into making them even before that.

The biggest job was in coming up with enough poetry to fill the
shows. And since I only had about five or six Christmas poems, I
had to write about twenty. Now writing twenty poems isn't that
difficult, but having to make them all tie in with a theme like
Christmas--while still keeping them from sounding too much
alike--is.

This last poem, “How Jamie MacPherson Saved Christmas” is one I
wrote some while back. And to make it extra special I decided to
have the cast of the Blue Hot Gossip Comedy show read it. Part of
this decision was because I had just come off of doing the
Halloween episodes and was sort of in a mood for it, but I also
wanted the poem to be a little more than just me reading it.

Some might notice a similarity of approach as with “A Pickle for
Christmas,” the poem I wrote for the Podcast Pickle Christmas skit
a couple years ago. I likely would have used this poem for that,
but there wasn't enough interest. And in some ways it works out a
little better since I know the rhythm of the poem which is thrown
off when trying to get a number of people reading it.

I've been fortunate that there's not been any major outages with
Internet Archive or Blogger. And even though Mininova, where I post
the torrentcast, changed over about a week before I was to start,
it's turned out to be a big benefit since I'm seeing much higher
download numbers than I've seen before. The 24 posted episodes so
far have exceeded 42,000 downloads with many individual episodes
exceeding 2,500 downloads. It might not be cash, but it helps to
make the work worthwhile.

This post finishes Podcast Ping's Christmas Calendar. The next one
should be the New Year's episode, provided I can get it done. It
won't be a regular episode, but I'll explain that more then.

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