Event Recap Chat with Tis the Podcast

[maximos]

I'm NEVER going to agree Anthony is in charge

 

[Anthony_Tis_The_Podcast]

One of the things we established early on was consistency. We read that to establish an audience, you had to be consistent with the day of release. So in terms of coordinating our schedules, we set aside our Tuesday nights - 10 pm EST/9 pm CST - to record, and we've been remarkably good at keeping to that schedule most of the time. At most, we've missed one or two times per year. This year, knock wood, we've missed no weeks!

 

[Jeff Westover]

That's fantastic!

 

[maximos]

But he does put in a tremendous amount of work to carry the dead weight for the other elves. Though tonight I am cleaning up some audio for a couple of episodes, so I at least feel like I'm helping this week

 

[Jeff Westover]

Obviously you all know how to play off each other really well

 

[Jeff Westover]

What kind of prep goes in on an individual basis?

 

[maximos]

We do; it's almost like we've created characters for the show

 

[maximos]

It depends on the movie

 

[maximos]

A different one of hosts each week

 

[Anthony_Tis_The_Podcast]

We try! We established a pretty good rapport early on. I think we really hit our groove by episode 6 or 7 -the Krampus episode. And over the course of 3 years we've become legitimately good friends. (More like family, honestly!)

 

[maximos]

That person is responsible for researching the history of the film, cast and crew, and interesting trivia

 

[maximos]

Then the host edits the audio

 

[Jeff Westover]

I know you gotta love the topic matter, no matter what...so tell me your Christmas story

 

[Anthony_Tis_The_Podcast]

Most importantly, the editing - everyone's least favorite part! Though that's something that's gotten easier as well over the past 3 years.

 

[Jeff Westover]

What is it that made you want to go with Christmas entertainment?

 

[Jeff Westover]

hi @Art the Bookworm

 

[Anthony_Tis_The_Podcast]

Christmas has been an enormous part of my existence my entire life. I inherited that love from my parents who have always gone all out for for it - in terms of decorations and gifts and just family time. They made every year special, and it all started the day after Halloween and lasted until the week after New Year's. And that love for the holidays was just instilled in me and stuck there my entire life.

 

[Jeff Westover]

Were movies and TV shows part of it?

 

[maximos]

Honestly, just a borderline unhealthy Christmas obsession. Anthony and I met on the r/Christmas subreddit. He posted about wanting to a podcast and asked for anyone who had experience. We chatted, had similar ideas for what we wanted to do, tricked Julia into joining us and the rest is history.

 

[Jeff Westover]

So you all didn't know each other before...offline?