Happy Food day folks! Bum raps, Presidential Turkey, and A Visit from Oz.

Yesiree, it's a whole new week and a whole new show.... Drinks in the Big House, Podsafe exclusive song, I take on the record companies and Adam Curry! And I sell my soul to Satan... again... All in!

 

Check out the Chariots here!

New Solo show! Ghost Pirates, Satanic Conspiracy, 3.5 Nerds... the usual.

1st week of November. Solo show! Visit our no-damnation shelter today! Better a day late than never... BUT I MAY BE ON TV NEWS!

Shocktacular Halloween special! The faithful have their say! Male enhancement! The dead speak! And a very special literary Halloween special special. Afterlife special.

The Ghosts of the Departed are annoyed... And Tekdiff takes a new direction. New Solo show! Enjoy!

Games for all occasions! FPS, S-Games! Solo flight! Whoot! Sorry, had to repost , there was a screw up.

New solo flight! Brace for landing! Drama! Pathos! Nurses! Press play!

September goes out, not with a bang, but a silent explosion of a sort. And the history of one of elgland most mysteriously- named sports. John Henry and Cayenne Chris Conroy bring the testify and noise! Enjoy!

A minute or three in Parallel hell, Jerome gets a job, and Mellman gets art schooled! Let's not kid ourselves deries. Another solo job! Whoot!

So, here's the new Solo show from Moi! All different kinds of fun for a glorious September Afternoon/evening. If you'd like to read the original Horned Women fairy tale from Ireland, go here!

'Nother quick dash off

New piece o' art I did tonight...

Gay truckers! Satan's master plan revealed! Bullets over Hollywood! It can only mean Tekdiff is all new and all SOLO!

Arrr! Here be some links ye might be likin'! And an HTML test!

 

cayenne@tcinternet.net

Channel Surfing Wipeout

Uncomfortable Questions

 

 

Ah ha! I messed up and if you downloaded the 8/31 show on Thursday night, here's my apology and why you might wanna download the show over again... or not...

Zoo Patrol Trilogy, the final chapter! John, Phil and I kick it weird school in perhaps the most disturbing Zoo Patrol yet. Plus: The stockholders meeting convenes! PUNCH IT!

Dashed off a cartoon. Have one they're small...

New solo cast! Announcements! Ghosts! Aieeee! The podcast Empire is a follows! tekdiff.com Uncomfortable Questions suegrandys.libsyn.com Channel Surfing Wipeout chansurfwipe.libsyn.com

A li'l 'speriment in uploading video! This here is a film written By Myself, Susan Grandys and David Cummer (3 Monkeys Comedy Troupe). Starring David Cummer, and voices by Cayenne Sue and David. It was Directed , scored, and Edited by Me (Cayenne). It's and MP4 file which should run fine in iTunes, but I'm not sure about anything else... Geez this may not work at all... If you're a fan, please drop me a line at tekdiff@tcintrtnet.net and tell me if it worked.

'Nother solo show! Drink up and duck!

New solo show! UNO!

This week, we present a very special episode of Tekdiff, with me and John Henry...

Last call for July! Kenji sees us out and the Principal has lost his bearings. Fun for the whole family.. if the family is a bit on the dodgy side.

Strap it on for the new show! Another solo jump from me! Have fun a nd clean up this place when yer done!

The mighty return! Okay, 1 week demands no fanfare, but hey, the show is up so tune in and lock on! Some links of interest: tekdiff@tcinternet.net http://suegrandys.libsyn.com/ My wife Susan interviewed me! It's a cool new show which asks deep questions to the average person. It's called: Uncomfortable Questions. Give a listen! check out: http://luckybitchradio.com/ Wanda Wisdom likes me and I like Her! http://garrickvanburen.com/firstcrack/ Firstcrack podcast is a cool show and Garric's a cool guy! And I'm afilliated with these here guys: http://www.podcastmn.com/ The Minnesota Podcasters Group don'cha know...

And the news IS...! No show this week. Sorry, but I need a week off so's I can get some house work done and recharge the 'ol creative batteries. SO! The next new show will be in the que on July 13th! And I promise it'll be a doozy! Also the viability of the video program will have been hashed out by then, so perhaps they'll be a video present for yez all! In case you were wondering, I'm thinking of making a second video comedy based cast, so keep a lookout for news!

So for those of you who's interested, let me clue you in on the sad pathetic present of your favorite podcast and why It's becoming a bit of a struggle to keep my enthusiasm up about doing the show... I've been doing the show since late Feb 2005, and I've seen a slow but steady climb in listenership. However upon consulting with a few fellowpodcasters, I discovered that my #'s were rather obnoxiously low without cause. At the peak of my subcription level, I hit about 2000 listeners a month, whereas other podcasts who hadn't been around as long as mine were routinely getting 3 or 4 times that listenership a week. I couldn't quite fiqure out what to make of this for the longest time. Perhaps the kind of comedy I was doing was of no interest to all but a few people. Several times i thought of giving up, but I wasn't ready to give in just yet. Now, don't get me wrong; big #'s is not my primary reason for doing Tekdiff. I do this out of a love of audio storytelling, and because I enjoy entertainig people no matter how few they are... But, let me be honest, I've never been a roaring success at any of my creative endeavors, and even when I stuck with them I remained cloaked in total obscurity, not even able to get my friends to look/listen to my work when I handed them free copies. I've never known what it is about my personality that renders me forgettable, and i have learned that never is this dismissal personal, but there you are... I shout and no one pays attention. This podcast represents the closest thing to an actual tangible audience I've ever managed to hold sway over for any period of time, and even so It's been an uphill battle to get people to listen in (including my friends). My ray of hope in this scenario was the impending release of iTunes 4.9, which would expose my show to a whole new range of listeners, and would hopefully make the grind of the last 5 months of production seem even more worth it. But, as anyone who's checked iTunes has discovered, no Tekdiff in the directory. All right, I didn't thake it personally, but in my attempt to get my show listed with Apple's killer app, a shocking fact revealed itself to me... SInce I started Tekdiff, iPodder.org has been my primary listing space (though I have signed on with others) and as it turns out, the comedy directory at iPodder.org does not work with any of the iPodder programs except iPodderX. This means that only Mac OS X 10.2 or higher users running the paid for iPodder X shareware program could ever happen across my show by accident from within the aggregator. All mac iPodder users and ALL Windows users were prevented from accessing the list of comedy podcasts from their programs. They would have had to come across me some other way entirely. On top of that, it seems that iTunes uses the iPodder system to updated their listings and lo and behold! No comedy podcasts from iPodder made it if they were listed exclusively there. This means that my show was hobbled from it's inception, with almost no hope of finding an audience, and now, as podcast subscriptions soar, I remain totally unknown. Wait, it gets better. Not only is my fan base not increasing, it's actually contracting at a depressing rate. You see, it seems iPodder X users (where 90% of my listeners came from) have all upgreded to iTunes, and have not resubscribed to Tekdiff. I now have fewer listeners on a weekly basis than I did in the 1st 2 weeks of the show going online. So there you have it. 5 Months of fairly hard work producing a scripted, highly produced program and my reward is, well, nothing. Nada. Bupkus. Well, nothing Except for those of you wonderful listeners who enjoy my show each week. Thanks you so much from the botton of my sticky heart for those of you who listen in and vote and drop me the occasional line and give me a chance. It makes me feel like I'm having an impact and helps to dull the ache of realization that my show is possibly doomed to total obscurity forever. I promise I will continue to do Tekdiff until the ideas give out and my mind dies, which judging by my notes won't be for about 50 years. Keep tuning in, you guys are the tits! (Sorry if I sound a little maudlin here, I'm just a bit crabbed out about all this listing hoo-ha). -Cayenne

Me and John and Phil return for another Zoo Patrol! Welcome to all you iTunes listeners!, Though how you could have found me I don't know. As of this podcast I'm not in the iTunes directory (thanks for nothing iPodder). ENJOY OR I'LL GET MY BELT!

It's back to the Zoo Patrol for Tekdiff! Brand new show with J Henry and Phil Edwards chippin' in. Have a smiley sticker and get the HELL OUT!

HooWhee! New show with a Western Theme... for a bit anyway... whatever... Old Western Radio Tribute is the feature for this week along with other random goodies! John Henry and my Wife Susan Grandy join in for more of said. Enjoy!

Small craft warning! It's the new SHOW! WHEEEEEEE!

HooWAH! God GOD! New podcast! Let it rip! Listen to it and duck and cover! Then send me a message for Dr Kenji! tekdiff@tcinternet.net! also go here! nosewatertokyo.com http://www.podcastmn.com/

The latest round of Tekdiff! Solo flight, so enjoy! More sketch comedy! More fun! More SUGAR! http://www.nosewatertokyo.com/ For all kinds of gifts! I'm with these guys! http://podcastmn.com/

I've decided to make this here part of my site the space for the non-audio areas of my life... mostly my cartooning. Look for interesting artwork here on a regular basis!

And here we go again. John Henry joins me for another Zoo Patrol outing and I get a little silly by myself. And get your mind out of the gutter you heathen monkeys. Here are some links from last week's show for you: Wanda Wisdom's lovely podcast can be reached here: http://luckybitchradio.com/ Learn all you need to know about Hollywood here: http://www.samandjimgotohollywood.com/ For instrumental sounds go here: http://composerplanet.com/speechless/ and e-mail me here tekdiff@tcinternet.net I plan to update my blog here more often so check back on occasion please!

Hola! The new show is here! Witness to the bearing of my sole! Hoo HA! Cop beat continues and America gets a tribute! Laugh DAMN YOU!

Well, John Henry returns for another in-your-face p-cast! And we sing our new song! It's a lazy sit-com with an unprnouncable name! No! It's a cop show! No! How far can a man be pushed!? Just listen! It'll explain itself. Really.

Here's the new show! Oomp! Wiggy! Hodee hodee ho! Or something...

New show. 26 min bit o' bizzy ness. Goes long to finish up my pretentious audio play. And the 1st 1/2 gets religon. Don't let that stop you, it's funny!

New show. More solo shennanigans. Enjoy!

New show... a little different this week I guess... Solo flight. Be sure to stick around for the word of the day.

Whoomp! Here it iz. The 6th in an ongoing round and round in concentric circles series of podcast-o-ramas. I play solo again, so take a pill and enjoy! tekdiff@tcinternet.net

Yessir its Tekdiff #5! Join John Henry and mesself for an ogre-slaying, Cthullhu summoning, pencil case-vaporizing geekaround renfest-a-go-go hootnanny! This is the dorkiest show in town pt. 1, as we explore H.P Lovecraft, LARP loonies and pop-culture hell! 25+min so forgive the lengthy diatribes! Nerds only!

I fly solo for another almost 17 minutes! Enjoy! and drop me a line at:
tekdiff@tcinternet.net

New show is up and weighs in at a whoppin' 24 mins. With a little assist again from John "Ricky Russian" Henry. John wrote and performed "The letter to the World" bit and The reply. I merely added commentary. We both wrote and performed "Zoo Patrol" The part about mummies was all me.

So, in case anybody is wondering, I used Apple's Garageband to record this here show, which allows me to do all the multilayering of voices and create decent music as backdrop elements. If you want to use this method in Garageband (this method may aslo work in Sony's acid, but I'm not familiar with the newer versions of that program or how it relates to iTunes, which is an essential component of how I work), here's a recommendation for sketch comedy specific recordings. Create each sketch as a seprate song file and export it to iTunes with a file name indicating which podcast it belongs to. When you've got all your files done, create a new song file in GB, and open iTunes with all your show files in a playlist specifically for them (or the default that GB creates will do). Put ITunes and GB's windows right next to each other, and drag the song files from iTunes to GB's track window. Put each of the files in their own new track (just drag and drop them one under the other). Doing this will allow you to easily put sketches in a new order and drop new material in without having to shift everything (espicially the volume controls which don't move when you shift the loops and elements...APPLE, yeah I'm talkin' to you!). Then do all your post production, and do a new mix and export to iTunes and then make an MP3 for up load.

New show!

this is a repost. Had to remix the sound. So it's comedy ahoy! Once again... Sorry.

Now then. The previous post is the Podcast feed for Teknikal Diffikulties, which is a ressurection of a Realaudio show I did about 5 years ago. That one was live.. this one 'aint. It's comedy oriented but I hope to expand it's parameters in some direction or another soon. I wrote the whole friggin' thing myself, and did about 90% of the voices except for the wife on the bit about reporters, which was performed by my lovely and talented wife Susan Grandys, and I got some more creative and acting support from John (Ricky Russian) Henry, on Zoo Patrol. He did the voices of Danny and Brett. It was recorded with Garageband on an eMac, with Audio technica XLR dynamic mics, and thru a Radio Shack 4-channel DJ mixer. If any tech heads need model numbers I can provide them but I'm not sure why you'd want them. My audio skills are Hella shitty. I doubt the equipment is a reflection on the barely passable mix job I did. Live and learn.