EP169: How I Mounted Goldie, Saved My Partner Lori, and Sniffed Out The People’s

[Windup]

This is our other child and his name is Studz McCorgi. =)

  Ein?

I hope they didn't name him that -- it's an awful lot to live up to...

[goatkeeper]

Hilarious story and great read!  One of my favs

[Hatton]

You nailed it.  That was exactly my inspiration for this character voice.

The phrase "It's the stick!" does not appear in the story, but if it did, I'd have been so ready.

Hence the reason I'm glad for two things - caffeine and short EP episodes.  I don't know if I could take that pace for more than 45 minutes at a time.  Despite my wife's best efforts, I'm definitely NOT a dog person!

[SFEley]

Okay, for those who wanted it, the here's the raw session recording.

Koda, your Pembroke puppy picture melted me.  Here's one of Yuna:


More pictures of her at Smugmug.

[Hatton]

You nailed it.  That was exactly my inspiration for this character voice.

The phrase "It's the stick!" does not appear in the story, but if it did, I'd have been so ready.

Heh, after I posted that I also found this:

EXCERPTS FROM A DOG'S DIARY (Submitted by Claire)

• 8:00 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE!
• 9:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE!
• 9:40 am - OH BOY! A WALK! MY FAVORITE!
• 10:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE!
• 11:30 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE!
• 12:00 noon - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE!
• 1:00 PM - OH BOY! THE YARD! MY FAVORITE!
• 1:30 PM - ooooooo. bath. bummer.
• 4:00 PM - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE!
• 5:00 PM - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE!
• 5:30 PM - OH BOY! MOM! MY FAVORITE!

EXCERPTS FROM A CAT'S DIARY

• DAY 752 - My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while I am forced to eat dry cereal. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of escape, and the mild satisfaction I get from ruining the occasional piece of furniture. Tomorrow I may eat another houseplant.
• DAY 761 - Today my attempt to kill my captors by weaving around their feet while they were walking almost succeeded, must try this at the top of the stairs. In an attempt to disgust and repulse these vile oppressors, I once again induced myself to vomit on their favorite chair.. must try this on their bed.
• DAY 765 - Decapitated a mouse and brought them the headless body, in attempt to make them aware of what I am capable of, and to try to strike fear into their hearts. They only cooed and condescended about what a good little cat I was...Hmmm. Not working according to plan.
• DAY 768 - I am finally aware of how sadistic they are. For no good reason I was chosen for the water torture. This time however it included a burning foamy chemical called "shampoo." What sick minds could invent such a liquid? My only consolation is the piece of thumb still stuck between my teeth.
• DAY 771 - There was some sort of gathering of their accomplices. I was placed in solitary throughout the event. However, I could hear the noise and smell the foul odor of the glass tubes they call "beer.." More importantly I overheard that my confinement was due to MY power of "allergies" Must learn what this is and how to use it to my advantage.
• DAY 774 - I am convinced the other captives are flunkies and maybe snitches. The dog is routinely released and seems more than happy to return. He is obviously a half-wit. The bird on the other hand has got to be an informant, and speaks with them regularly. I am certain he reports my every move. Due to his current placement in the metal room his safety is assured. But I can wait; it is only a matter of time......

[errant371]

What a delightful story and a wonderful reading.  Great fun.

[ryos]

Okay, for those who wanted it, the here's the raw session recording.

Koda, your Pembroke puppy picture melted me.  Here's one of Yuna:
*snip*

More pictures of her at Smugmug.

Heh, Yuna. Nice one. I still wish I could get back the 40 hours I devoted to that game.

Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of my dog. She's so deathly afraid of cameras that she bolts whenever she sees one.

[Noira]

Being of the role playing sort, I kept thinking of how my dogboy Ace would regard, well, the dogboy enthusiasm. Ace is a Coyote dogboy, of the Rifts variety.
Or
I enjoyed the story, and couldn't help comparing my current, bouncy husky with the ever so serious mutt, who wandered into, and out of, my life (to die, of old age, we presume) eons ago.

[Void Munashii]

Okay, for those who wanted it, the here's the raw session recording.

  That was awesome to listen to. Not only was a lot of the stuff edited out quite interesting, it also gives me a better appreciation of just how much work you put into each of these episodes. The final product is always so good, it's easy to slip into the idea that you are just running through these stories in one continuous take (which I think certain other shows do, and the difference shows)

  Thanks for the peek behind the curtain.

[Archelon]

I LOVED this one!!!  Steve - you kill me.  This is by far the most excellent character voice d'Steve ever.  I am still smiling days later...

Woof!

--Archelon

[Sandikal]

This story was so fun.  The reading was perfect.  I think this is one of those rare pieces for me that works better in an audio format.

[Bdoomed]

*big, BIG grin* I LOOOOVED this one!  I am a big dog person, and the reading was PERFECT!  Amazingly fun story!

[Zathras]

I am not a dog person.  I am a cat person.  It gives me great pleasure to picture the interviewer as a capped cat.  I got that image about 2/3 of the way through, and am keeping it.

GIGO

[hirozed]

This has been one of the most entertaining stories I have listened to in a long time.  Steve was spot on and I laughed out loud several times at Bull's mannerisms.

[wyrder42]

This was a great story, I loved it.  For some reason, I seem to be a sucker for the "story told from the PoV of an AI enhanced agent" thing.  I'm thinking of this story and "How Lonesome a Life Without Nerve Gas" and "Conversations With And About My Toothbrush".  See?  I still remember their names.  When the skull caps come out, I want one.

[Thaurismunths]

This was FANTASTIC.
I'm out of town right now, but Shwankie's been bugging me all week to listen to it. I finally found time this morning.
Steve totally nailed the excited but not too bright (although brilliant) dog voice, and Sullydog did an outstanding job writing it.


As a side note, I'm bummed to find out he's in Detroit, as I've been a fan for some time but just moved away recently.

[oddpod]

 Steave!!! You where born to narate this story!!!

[koda]

This is our other child and his name is Studz McCorgi. =)

  Ein?

I hope they didn't name him that -- it's an awful lot to live up to...

Nope.  Studz.  And he is... so when we decide we want another corgi (we have decided we will own them forever) and he is such a character we already have puppy "dibs" and my brothers want to name theirs Ein.

I vote for Studz II or Yoda.  But then again I named my Dalmatian "Pink". =)

[Planish]

That was one of the most enjoyable eps yet. Definitely in the Top Ten. Please do make the out-takes available.

It was humorous, but it also had some serious overtones. Assuming they could be made to talk, would evidence obtained from a dog ever become admissable in court? How about evidence from Koko the gorilla? Or maybe from a dolphin? It might never happen, given that evidence from human child witnesses is still such a tricky issue.

I would so like to hear a sequel, from a cat POV. Possibly something in the Hard-boiled private eye genre, but read in a voice like Stephen Wright's or Roseanne Barr's. "Yeah, whatever."
OTOH, a cat detective might be more like Mycroft Holmes. Smarter than Sherlock, but too damned lazy to leave the Club.

Heh, after I posted that I also found this:

EXCERPTS FROM A DOG'S DIARY (Submitted by Claire)
[snip]
EXCERPTS FROM A CAT'S DIARY
[snip]

Shoot. I was going to post that. 

Instead I'll offer this: "Dogs have owners. Cats have staff."

As far as the origin of Yuna's name goes, I confess that I had to look that one up, and in the process discovered that David Bowie does not actually have heterochromatic eyes.

[added later]
Ah. I see that Sullydog also wrote Niels Bohr and the Sleeping Dane. That one is at least in my top five EP favourites, possibly #1.

[The Dunesteef]

I loved this story!

Steve's reading was great...although at first I was wondering what the freak was going on.  Once I realized Steve was a dog, then I was able to settle in and enjoy.  I expected the over-exuberance of the dog to get old and irritating at some point, but it didn't.

The repetition of the dog's simplemindedness reminded me of that bud light commercial that ran a lot last year, where bud light now comes with the ability to talk to animals, and the guy talks to his dog, and all it does is yell for sausages.  Good stuff.

[nojoda]

Well read. Very creative

[Roney]

I would so like to hear a sequel, from a cat POV.

Anyone looking for more stories about enhanced animals could do a lot worse than check out We3 (which I think I've plugged in this forum before).  As long as you don't mind your stories in graphic novel form, and quite gory, and very short, and almost unbearably poignant.

(Moderators, please magic the link.)√

[Rigger]

One of the few episodes I've been able to listen to twice in the span of a week. This was an excellent story, kudos on the writing and the reading!

As for the cat comment - I somehow had a mental image that the interviewer was a cat from these two points in the story:
1) Where Bull points out that he doesn't like her, and that she "doesn't even smell right"
2) Humans can't be skull capped - the speed at which she was processing data and entering it into the system sort of implied (at least to me) that she was possibly enhanced as well. However, with this theory I am discounting advanced vocal recognition from computers.

/shrug

Anyone looking for more stories about enhanced animals could do a lot worse than check out We3 (which I think I've plugged in this forum before).  As long as you don't mind your stories in graphic novel form, and quite gory, and very short, and almost unbearably poignant.

(Moderators, please magic the link.)

An excellent suggestion Roney. I just picked this up a month or so ago.

[eytanz]

One of the few episodes I've been able to listen to twice in the span of a week. This was an excellent story, kudos on the writing and the reading!

As for the cat comment - I somehow had a mental image that the interviewer was a cat from these two points in the story:
1) Where Bull points out that he doesn't like her, and that she "doesn't even smell right"
2) Humans can't be skull capped - the speed at which she was processing data and entering it into the system sort of implied (at least to me) that she was possibly enhanced as well. However, with this theory I am discounting advanced vocal recognition from computers.

My understanding was that the interviewer was an AI, possibly housed in an humanoid body. That explains why she doesn't smell right (she looks human but doesn't smell like one). She also mentions her "memory banks" (or some similar phrase) at some point.

[Listener]

Heh, Yuna. Nice one. I still wish I could get back the 40 hours I devoted to that game.

Which? FFX or FFX2?  Because X2 got really tiresome really fast, but X is still my second-favorite FF after VII.