DwarfCasts and feeling old

[Jenuall]

I started listening to the whole set of DwarfCasts again from the beginning today (yes I still enjoy the early ones where It sounds like the team are recording the whole thing inside an echo chamber and using a microphone from the 1870s!)

Anyway it struck me that DwarfCasts (first published October 2006) is now older than Red Dwarf was when that first DwarfCast went out.

And yeah, now I feel very old

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[Dave]

We need Dwarfcast commentaries on old Dwarfcasts.

[Warbodog]

I found them in probably late 2008 when I was doing a job checking digitised patient records that pretty much involved hitting ‘Enter’ for 8 hours a day and let me work through tons of audiobooks and podcasts. I binged however many episodes were available in a day or three and mainly kept up even without the visuals or most of the sound. Even since, I don’t think I’ve ever used a DwarfCast as a proper commentary track, except alongside the Smegazine.

This is another Smegazine Rack nudge, isn’t it?

[Dave]

Even since, I don’t think I’ve ever used a DwarfCast as a proper commentary track,

I think knowing the episodes so well means you can do this fairly easily for the classic era. Not so much the Dave episodes. 

[Jenuall]

I don’t think I’ve ever used them as a commentary personally – as Dave says the familiarity with the material means it’s not really necessary. The pips synchronisation is completely wasted on me! 

DwarfCasts on old DwarfCasts would be good – also I’d be up for revisiting the commentaries themselves, you’ve had 20 years to develop new thoughts on some of them! 

[clem]

I don’t think I’ve ever used a DwarfCast as a proper commentary track, except alongside the Smegazine.

I always sync it up for the Re-Disc-overy episodes. I don’t know the DVD bonus features well enough to get anything out of the commentary without the visuals. 

[Jonathan Capps]

[Jonathan Capps]

We’ve definitely discussed going back to re-do commentaries. Unfortunately there’s probably about 20 I’d like to redo so that wish-list will need to be cut down a bit, I think.

2006 seems like an utterly preposterous time to be making podcasts. I so distinctly remember listening to LOSTCasts obsessively (their season 2 map episode is legendary in my mind) and just downloading them directly off their website onto my MP3 player, which is why I thought it acceptable to not have a direct RSS / iTunes feed early on.

[Ian Symes]

DwarfCasts turns 20 this year. I turn 40. I’ve been doing this nonsense for half of my life.

[Flap Jack]

[Unrumble]

[Jenuall]

[Moonlight]

I was lurking at least as early as age 12, possibly 11, so I’ve been getting brain damage from this site for nearly two thirds of my life.

[Nick R]

We need Dwarfcast commentaries on old Dwarfcasts.

The problem with that is that talking over other people talking doesn’t work very well. 
I can think of two ways to solve this:

1. Play the original Dwarfcast audio, and pause it every time one of the present-day commentators has something to say.

2. Do it as a video in which the original Dwarfcast audio plays uninterrupted, and the present-day commentators add their commentary through silent methods like charades, hand gestures, facial expressions, and holding up Wile E. Coyote-style signs.

[Jonathan Capps]

“DwarfCasters LIVE REACT to OLD DWARFCASTS” (circle around Ian’s weeping face with an arrow pointing to the word “cunt”)

[Unrumble]

It’s probably been about 20 years since I listened to it for the only time, but Ross Noble’s ‘Sonic Waffle’ DVD had a commentary and a commentary about the commentary. 

[Jenuall]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I like it when John shouts “cunt” unnecessarily 4 times in a row 

[Moonlight]

CUNTCAST: A DWARFCAST PODCAST

[Technopeasant]

[Dave]

“He loved the shit bits” made me laugh out loud, Jenuall.

[Jenuall]

[Will B]

I’m a teacher and usually start my summer holiday by listening to a dwarfcast while walking in the woods. I like the Dave era reaction ones where John Hoare seems to be wrestling with his conscience 

[Moonlight]

Me wrestling with him largely having valid criticisms of the Dave era that even as a fan of those episodes I agree with, but then preferring Series VIII which is almost always worse.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

To be fair I don’t think k he ever says he prefers VIII, he hates both VII and VIII, he just says VIII makes him laugh more than some Dave stuff. 

[clem]

He’d definitely rather watch the golf than Back to Earth though, he was very clear on that. 

[Moonlight]

That might be the meanest thing ever said about a television program.

[Asclepius]

Would definitely listen to a Dwarfcast where the Boys From the Dwarf(cast) are listening to that recent Doug Naylor interview, and pausing every few sentences to give commentary on it.

Please.

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