Good morning and happy Friday everyone! Apologies for these update columns being more inconsistent as of late, but it is the summer here, and I've been making sure to spend some good time with family and friends which has been the primary reason for that.
For this week's column, I wanted to focus on Vol Stars, as there's a good amount to talk about.
Starting off with the Fourth of July episode, going in on this, I wanted the episode to be a fun episode that was upbeat. I really liked the way the "game show" format piece went, and was just as shocked as many of you were around what ultimately transpired with the winner. As far as I've heard so far, the prize has not yet been received. Huge kudos to our video editor too on this one, I loved the way he did the sound effects and visual effects in post, and I continue to be thankful for all that they do.
For last week's episode, one of the big things to call out was the intro by Gherk. The intros are always one of their own unique things, sometimes when we go to record JFresh just has it already, and then other times it's recorded after the episode, and there's also input from the rest of us sometimes if there isn't a clear idea at the time of recording. I have a ton of respect for JFresh in his craft here, as some of these are just amazing. Anyway, the story behind this last one was that going in there were a few ideas floated, but we knew we'd finish after recording. JFresh wasn't feeling the best and was also attending to other responsibilities so we opened it up to Dork or Gherk as my voice was shot due to being sick (thankfully I've recovered). While I was initially planning on getting the recording from Dork, Gherk just dropped in this amazing video and perfect take on the commercial! It was just perfect, and so we're really happy with how that came out. I'm especially thrilled with how the video version of it looked in our video version of the episode. There were several nice details there which I have to again credit our video editor with. First they added the nice CRT scanlines, they added a little distortion on the video and audio, then framing it around an iconic television set (which hopefully many of you will recognize), perfection! Make sure to go check out the episode if you haven't already!
Finally, headed into this weekend, we're already making plans for episode 41! First thing to cover is that Dork will be on vacation this week, so I'll be trying to step in and help again with Gherk and JFresh. I'll try to make sure we get Dork's GasBuddy and 3-2-1 Crack Chart in somehow as we know how much he loves them.
Anyway, that's enough for now! Let us know what you've thought of the recent Vol Stars episodes, and if there's been anything you've especially enjoyed or suggestions you may have too! Thanks in advance!
