Treespeak On The Air, The new (and unoffical) BZPowercast Options

[SPIRIT]

Welcome to Treespeak on the Air (a.k.a. TotA). It's the largest BZP audio show ever (including BZPowercast) and it may very well be the largest Bionicle audio show as well. Basically, it involves various BZPers connecting over the Internet and talking about various aspects of BZPower, Bionicle, etc.



Episodes

Episode 1- 8:40, 3.559 MB
Speakers: SPIRIT and Cee-estee.
Topics: BBC 32, The Comedy Forum, What We've Seen of 2006 so Far, and Staff Survivor.
Comments: Well, it's episode 1, what did you expect? It would have been better if we had more people.
Transcript.

Episode 2- 19:20, 4.553 MB
Speakers: SPIRIT, Cee-estee, and Core Dimension.
Topics: BZPower Slow Server and the Search Feature Offline, Official 2006 Set Pics, Lego Employees on BZPower, and The Non-Existent Comics Forum.
Comments: I did a little more editing on this one, so it should sound a little better than the first. Also, since we have more people and more to talk about, this one is significantly longer.
Discussion Contributors: Arch-Angel and lavaside rahi

Episode 3- 22:08, 5.189 MB
Speakers: SPIRIT, Dr. Bionicle, and Roodaka.
Topics: Ninjo Becoming an Admin, The Voya Nui Online Game, The New Features on Bionicle.com, and The Increasing Amount of Violence in Bionicle.
Comments: This episode was cursed- it was not meant to happen. A largely unfair amount of things happened prior to and during its creation. In the end, I won the battle with fate and the episode was finished.

Episode 4- 37:25, 4.368 MB
Speakers: SPIRIT, Cee-estee, Dr. Bionicle, and Onu-Defendant.
Topics: New Piraka Information, The 2001 Storyline, BZP Contests, and BZP Fads.
Comments: We were a little long winded on this show. Sorry about that, it just happened. However, I was able to compress the show quite a lot, so it shouldn't be that much of a problem.

Episode 5- 23:16, 2.728 MB
Speakers: SPIRIT, Cee-estee, and Roodaka.
Topics: Piraka.com, The New Google Adds, The 2006 Toa, and The 2002 Storyline.
Comments: Sorry about the wait and lack of holiday episode but that's life. This episode has a bit of information from Bionicle Legends #1 in it so those who hate spoilers beware.
Audio Questions: Oradow, Nikira

Episode 6- 25:35, 3.000 MB
Speakers: SPIRIT, Dr. Bionicle, and Nikira.
Topics: BBC 33 results, The 2003 storyline, German Toa 'Igniter' Descriptions, and The New Lego Magazine.
Comments: The very first show with a girl in it (I'm talking about Nikira, not Dr. Bionicle, j/k). A little more off topic than episode 5, but a lot less off topic than 3 and 4.

Episode 7 (Special Bionicle: Quest of the Toa episode)- 23:39, 2.772 MB
Speakers: SPIRIT, Roodaka, Lewa11, and Skye Green.
Topics: Script, Voice Acting, Animation, and Side Projects.
Comments: This was the BQotT special show where we talk all about Lewa11's movie and the work that goes into it. Not only that, but this is also the show where we officially become bigger than even BZPowercast. Thanks to all who helped this come together.
Question: Phyoohrii the Dark Hunter Hunter

Episode 8- 32:51, 3.852 MB
Speakers: SPIRIT, Dr. Bionicle, and gifboy99.
Topics: MNOLG1 Returning, Umbra, The Toa Inika, and The 2004 Storyline.
Comments: This would have been out sooner if I hadn't accidentally deleted it as soon as I had finished editing it thus having to re-edit it. Sigh... such is the life of a TotA editor.
Written Question: TS
Audio Questions: Aoran, Fauxgod, Lady Kopaka, Reepicheep- valiant mouse

Episode 9- 26:58, 3.162 MB
Speakers: SPIRIT, Dr. Bionicle, and Shade Vortex.
Topics: BBC 34, The 2005 Storyline, Axonn and Brutaka Bios, and Irnakk.
Comments: Sorry about the audio distortions, Shade Vortex's microphone was a little faulty, but I tried to edit out as much as I could. Also, you may notice that Shade Vortex doesn't talk a lot, this is partly because he was somewhat sleep-deprived and partly because (according to him) Dr. Bionicle and I talk too much.

Episode 0- 9:25, 2.209 MB
Speakers: SPIRIT, Dr. Bionicle, and Luap.
Topics: Electric Turahk Becoming Staff, BBC 31, The 2006 Comic Preview, and Bionicle 3.
Comments: The jig is up. This is just an April Fools prank.

Episode 10- 28:49, 11.825 MB
Speakers: SPIRIT, Dr. Bionicle, and Lady Kopaka.
Topics: MNOLG1 is Back, Piraka Attack, New Magazine, and the RPG Contest.
Comments: FINALLY! This show had the worst luck ever, I thought we'd never finish it. Well, it's here now so it seems like the curse has been lifted (but we can only hope).

Episode 11- 31:40, 7.426 MB
Speakers: SPIRIT, Dr. Bionicle, and Lewa11.
Topics: Bionicle Heroes, Summer/Fall 2006 Sets, Ignition #2, and The Disappearing Gear Functions.
Comments: This show was a fiasco. My recording program died on me, so I had to get Dr. Bionicle to record it, then it took us like a month to get the recording from his computer to mine (because the file was over 200 MB). When I got it, I discovered that something messed up with Dr. Bionicle's computer that made us all sound like echoing Goa'uld. I did my best to fix it, but the audio quality is still pretty bad.
Discussion Contributor: The Great Protodermis Sea Dragon.

Episode 12 - 17:56, 4.206 MB
Speakers: SPIRIT, Dr. Bionicle, Core Dimension, and Bioni-Cool Jack.
Topics: Inika Mask Powers, Skin Contest, BBC 36, and the New Member Q&A Forum.
Comments: For the longest time, this episode was lost on Dr. Bionicle's computer, but it's found now and ready to be listened to. And just a note, this was recorded about a week or so before Dr. Bionicle became a staff member.
Transcript.

Episode 13- 27:27, 3.219 MB
Speakers: SPIRIT, Dr. Bionicle, and Mr. E.
Topics: Epic Contest #5, Blogs, the LEGO Bionicle Sets Forum, and Toa Inika Fully Out.
Comments: Finally some good luck! This is the first time we've tried to connect with Asia and we were quite surprised at how well it worked, considering the lower quality we had when connecting with Europe in the previous show.
Discussion Contributor/Audio Question: BileChunk the HitchHiker.

Episode 14- 29:51, 3.500 MB
Speakers: SPIRIT, Mr. E, and .:Haruko:..
Topics: The Bionicle Storyline & Theories Forum, The BS01 Greg Interview, The Inika Commercial, and Ignition 3.
Comments: Ha ha! I bet you thought we couldn't do a show spanning three continents, well, you were wrong. Here it is, TotA's first tricontinental show!
Written Questions: Delta-32 and DarkHunterSZ.
Audio Questions: Godzilla Forever and Shinha_piraka_of_mountains.

Episode 15- 36:10, 4.769 MB
Speakers: SPIRIT, Dr. Bionicle, BileChunk, and Shinha_piraka_of_mountains.
Topics: S&T Contest #2 Results, Epic Contest #5 Results, The Bionicle Collectables Forum, and Freetheband.com.
Comments: Wow, this was hard. The original recording was about 2 hours long and I've gotten rid of about three quarters of it so I think the week-long editting process should be acceptable. Oddly enough, though, this hasn't been our longest episode- it just goes to show how off topic we got.
Audio Questions: Jedi Master J., lavaside rahi.


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Credits

Intro Music, Logo, Banner 1: Lewa11
Banners 2-11: legoguy14
Transcripts: Mr. E and SPIRIT

Staff
Editor, Coordinator: SPIRIT
Newscaster, Segment Manager: Dr. Bionicle

This post has been edited by SPIRIT: Nov 10 2006, 07:17 AM

[Cee-estee]

Well, not much for me to say here, except my voice sounds really low quality. But that's ok.

*sounds like a little kid*

- Cee

[Bionicle Geocach...]

I have a comment: Release it in ISO/IEC 11172-3 Layer 3 format. WAV creates way too big of a filesize.

Other than that, not too bad

This post has been edited by Bionicle Geocacher: Nov 10 2005, 04:28 PM

[Onuki]

You make a good point, SPIRIT, in that first episode... With only one moderator in the Comedies Forum, the deletion of posts can be a painfully slow process. Perhaps OBZPCs and/or Premier Members should be able to delete posts in their own comedies. However, as with anything, it could be abused, although in theory those who had the ability are supposed to be good BZP citizens anyway. And people might become Premier just so they could delete posts unscrupulously.

But as for the rest of the broadcast, it was pretty interesting. This was a good test run for the series. I might suggest trying to just sketch out a bit of a script, just so you don't have long periods where no one's really saying much and everyone has an idea of what they're going to say. But doing it via improv works too.

Don't feel bad, Cee, I haven't been keeping up with Staff Survivor too much either! Somehow I think that if some of the staff were let onto a broadcast (especially if there were both Fleas and Fastaways), things could get ugly. Better keep only tribe on at a time.

As always, something new and innovative from you, SPIRIT. Well, it's an old idea, but you've put a twist on the original BZPowercast series.

- Onuki

[GMan]

*Clapclapclapclap* Good job, Cee and SPIRIT, you reaaly have a great point about the mods in the Comedy Forum thing. I agree. I have seen how posts won't be deleted for maybe even months. Don't feel bad at all Cee, I don't read Staffivor much either. Yeah, the grins might be overdoing it a little, but the Piraka are a new species in the Bioniverse, and we don't know what a lot of other things and people might look like in Bionicle. So anyways, Treespeak On The Air (TOTA) is a good idea. I like it. Moose out,


The G/V\ /-\ /\/

[Viological Weapo...]

Yay! It's up!

I love it =D

So.... can't wait for the ones where me and Doc are in =D

*rubs hands together msichievously*

James

This post has been edited by The Violinist: Nov 10 2005, 09:23 PM

[SPIRIT]

[Andrew K.]

Man, everytime I get a good idea it seems some one else gets the exact same idea...

Well this sounds cool, maybe in the future it can even become the official BZPowercast. Since we've been needing an update on those...

I have nothing much to say as since I'm having trouble to get it to load on this computer, but I'll give a nice review soon...

That was so cool.... It's nice to even hear a BZP Koronan talk cause we're usually just realing there words, it's nice to know there are people out there with interests in bionicle (Like obviously there is, I mean like discussing it in words not ahh whatever It's hard to explain) I loved all of it and will be anticipating the next episodes!

Good Luck on the future episodes!

This post has been edited by Library Ninja: Nov 10 2005, 10:29 PM

[-Googly Eyes-]

I personally love the idea: It gives BZPers a nice chance to share some mature opinions about BIONICLE and the like. As always, you guys have some good ideas to share, and go about them nicely.

You guys make a nice team, as well. I loved it when SPIRIT cracked a random joke.

[Etcetere]

[Venom:.]

[whispers]Cee sounds like he has a stuffed nose[/whispers]
xD
This is interesting.. keep it up.
B-Zed-Power!! Woot! xD

<S|

[Nukora]

Nice work on all of this. I actually have it on one of my playlists. I don't think I'll audition for the next one, but possibly later.

[Azdgari]

I'm gonna audition. I've sent you an email.

This post has been edited by Lightning Keerahk: Nov 11 2005, 05:50 PM

[SPIRIT]

[Azdgari]

Yeah, I've sent it to spirit [at] bzpower.com. It's short, but to the point.

E-mail edited by request of Spirit

This post has been edited by Screenguy: Oct 23 2007, 11:54 PM

[Kopaka Nuva Toa ...]

Oh! thats why you wanted to do audacity and Skype. well I think its awsome.
sorry I couodn't participate


KToI

BTW: cee you do sound kinda funny, and spirit sounds.... OLD!

"interesting" "interesting" (cee you are a little full of goof)

This post has been edited by Kopaka Nuva Toa of Ice: Nov 11 2005, 06:38 PM

[Spoony Bard]

Spirit you sound excellent with the mic, but a little louder. You. Cee, no offence but you need to speak louder and clearer. You need that boom.

I must say, you guys really took away my idea to re-create the Powercast.

-Omi

[Kohaku]

I just listened to it and it was good.

I may audition in the future for it. Not right now though as I'm being attacked by my Physics test that I have to take on Monday so I have to study... and try not to fail the test. (Physics is a very hard class.)

Kohaku

[Etcetere]

Could you have it available for download? I right-clicked the link, but "Save Target As" is an unavailable option.

- N-E -

[SPIRIT]

[Cross Wired Frea...]

Works fine for me as well =D

Online webcasts seem to be big these days, and yours is very good!
I like the name as well, good job guys

-CWF-

[takuaE3]

Nice work. Someday another BZP veterans topic will come up, and we will be saying, "I remember when the first TOTA come out."
I definately agree the Comedies forum needs more than one Moderator, especially with Schizo tearing around Le-Wahi in various states.

By the way, I didn't catch a single word of treespeak. Makuta clawteeth! That is what the talkshow is namecalled!

[Electric Turahk]

I only listened to about half of it, SPIRIT, but I must say it's not that bad. Cee definately needs to speak up, and both of you could speak a little more clearly. But otherwise it was good.

[Dr. Bionicle]

SPIRIT Jr., eh SPIRIT?

Nice job guys. Interesting, yet funny.

I like how you throw in all these jokes as you come up with 'em, because I know you don't have a script.

Well, we'll have to set up a time . . .

. . . because you can just imagine how many BZPers are dying to hear me talk.

Dr. B

[Cee-estee]

Arr, yes, I know, I was kinda mumbling. And I wasn't trying to speak up, cause my dad was in the other room, and he'd think I'm an cool dude. Lol. But for the next episode, depending on when we can do it, I should be better.

- Cee

[Andre]

That was great! I like it. I could make it into a podcast if you would like me to. That way, the people with podcast catchers could download the episodes without going to this topic.

[Rahknanzhi]

Quite good. Don't we all just love talk shows. Volume's a bit low, but it's the first one. Bravo.

I don't like coffee either.

~Rahk~

[lavaside rahi]

Nice. I actually have never bothered to listen to the original PowerCast, so I really like this. It gives BZPower members a voice(literally). Cee-Estee was mumbling, but overall I thought the topics were worthy ones. The Comedy Fourm one was particuarly interesting. There is much too much spam that goes on in that fourm.
Being a comic maker, I think I might find a few worthwhile questions to ask you guys. Unfortunatly, I don't have any means of recording my voice.
Keep it up! This is great!
-lavaside rahi

[Tesseract]

... Interesting, yees. Moving faster might be helpful, and I notice Cee's not too clear most of the time - mabye the mic, I don't know - but in any case it gets hard to understand ya when you're talking, and I need to turn up the volume to understand.

Still, I think half of the problems come from the fact that this is the first episode, and things'll clean up before long.

Now I just gotta find my mic.. Bwehee. It'd be fun to join in on some of these convos, if I could..

*Searching for mic*

Edit: .... I found the mic/headset, but it's fighting me.. .Bwee. ;-; Wonder what I'm doing wrong... Mebbe I can get a new one...

~Tess

This post has been edited by Tesseract: Nov 12 2005, 03:42 PM

[Toa Avak: Engine...]

Wow, that is great. I can see you guys put allot of work into it. Keep it up, and I cannot wait to see (or rather 'hear') the next episode.

[BionicleMan3000]

Unforyunatley I did not like it I couldn't understan you and you did a lot of ums. (NO AFFENSE) It was kinda boring and I closed it when it reached 2 minutes and 20 seconds because of that. Sorry.

[Phyoohrii]

SPIRIT Jnr? Be prepared for my master plan! Muahahahaha!
Haha! Cee ceems to have such a funny voice! Sqeaky, squeaky! Though I can't talk.
I love it, SPIRIT and Cee! I haven't been follwing staff survivor at all, so your impressions of it are funny! Hope the next to will be great. The question, ooh scary...

Phyoohrii, I don't like coffee

[Mr. Bojangles]

This is great. I hope you can keep this going for over 5 casts. I hope my question gets through...

[MIKO NUVA]

You should realease it as a podcast.Its a thing on itunes.
kutaw

[SPIRIT]

TOTA is now available as a podcast. Thanks so much to Andre for setting it up. Since he will be managing it, and not me, the podcast won't be updated as soon as there is a new episode.

I've written a .rss file for it, so Andre won't be managing it any more, but I'd still like to thank him for all the help he gave me.

This post has been edited by SPIRIT: Nov 13 2005, 07:30 AM

[~{-Spartan-}~]

This is great, Even though Cee-estee was a bit hard to understand. My favorite part was how SPIRIT kept talking about coffee.

[Dave]

Well, that was... weird.

It was pretty hard to understand some of what was said.

SPIRIT's voice was clear and understandable, but Cee... mumbled a lot.

Overall, it was entertaining to listen to. I'll keep on listening to it.

And if I can get my microphone to work, I'll maybe send in a question (dunno what about, though)

-Dave

[Nukora]

Hey, SPIRIT, can I PM you a link to where my audition is on my site? I can't use my e-mail for security reasons.

I can't wait for ep. 2. Cee actaully sounds better the second time through.

Edit: Yay! Cee pronounces Moc out instead of saying each letter!

This post has been edited by Nukora: Nov 14 2005, 10:12 PM

[SPIRIT]

[Cee-estee]

The new episode is up! This one went a lot better, and it features Core Dimension.

- Cee