Weaving Around Everything!

               With all this podcast craze going on in our network re-uploading the old episodes, recording current episodes, we are busy. I am trying to get everything uploaded and scheduled so I can focus on the current stuff and currently in 2022 for episodes. Please note there are episodes that were live that are no longer available and it's beyond my own stupidity but we will post what I have stored in my Drive that I plug into the computer to grab episodes from 2022 - 2024.

               So weaving around the podcast and running this blog 5 - 6 days a week, we're swamped but a good type of swamp actually. We're keeping busy. Today's episode may be a tad late and there is a reason is I needed to catch up on a few hours of sleep but I will get it out today and remember it is only Audio at this moment and I have mentioned this time and time again. Anyways that is the post for today, I will talk to you all tomorrow for another blog post.

Chris

Proud of The Team.

         After a long battle with Podcasts.com, we are no longer using the platform whatsoever. We are officially with Spotify for Audio ONLY. So far it's been smooth transition and now we wait for the other episode to post. I know he's talked about this weekend to the team and that's fine and I know he will catch right back up. I feel he's very stressed out with the situation but I am proud of him for problem solving. 

         I am proud of him! He has shown so much growth as a content creator and always thinking outside the box or coming up with a quick solution for the problem and glad we are back up and running again! We can now move forward and work to get uploading the old Entertainment Man Podcast episodes and also the current ones too. That is everything I wanted to talk about, chat tomorrow.

Sara

The CBOTW Show is Back in The Saddle!

                 Today is a special day, The CBOTW Show is back in session! Larry and I are recording a sleuth of episodes including these:

- Power Rangers Reboot talk

- Ghostwriter, Ep # 1 - 5, Ghost Story, Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5.

                What an amazing start and I am holding off on Matilda till later like later on after Larry leaves but I will have notes ready for recording.  This will keep The CBOTW Show up and running over the next 6 weeks. I will work on Corner Gas and more Ghostwriter Episodes and will be mostly the big focus for us. I am open to collaborations and have to find room in the schedule to post it. I may have to wait, I may not. If it is series, I am going to say not right now as I have two going on one with Bob and one with Larry. Anyways that is the post for now, I will be back @ 11 am EST for the usual blog time for another post. 

Chris

Addressing The Spotify/Other Audio ONLY Platforms Issues...

              So addressing the elephant in the room with the issues with the Entertainment Man Podcast and I know I sounded quite angry and was a very angry person. You know I am a perfectionist and I shouldn't be a perfectionist but I am who I am and that is OK honestly. However, the problem and issue that we experienced was because when we redirected the Spotify Feed it wasn't updating on other platforms. I checked the RSS Feed with iTunes and it still was on Castbox so sounds like the redirect didn't work. 

              So now I have scrapped Spotify all together but I will use it as a 3rd party website which it will be posted via Castbox.  So we are back with Castbox and one of the reasons I kept Castbox in tact as I wouldn't be able to reupload as their a paid service now. Anyways everything is working and only platform I am waiting on deleting the original feed is Spotify. Anyways I have another blog post waiting in the wing and it will be up at 1 pm EST so I will talk to you all then.

Chris

End of The Week Updates [01-03-2025]

          The start of 2025 has been amazing.The CBOTW Show is back up and running on all Audio ONLY Platforms. Chris hasn't updated us on it yet and we noticed we lost a follower and we try and continue to update you guys on things as they go but it's a start. Entertainment Man Podcast is written and ready for recording. The CBOTW Show is also being recorded and edited for next week. Exciting stuff and excited for his return on the podcasts,

          YouTube is back and I roll my eyes at this because of all the drama but all of our regulars like Jimi, Josh, Gordie, Angela, our staff and anyone always supported us but we are planning to be cautious when modding people and he hasn't exactly announce the channel but it is work in progress getting it verified for longer videos and podcasts. I'm sure he will announce it very soon. Enjoy your weekend and will talk to you at the end of the week as Chris will be back on Monday with new blog posts.

Sara

The CBOTW Show is Returning To Audio ONLY Platforms in 2025!

              I know I have been away from posts for a bit now and I totally forgotten to ANNOUNCE that The CBOTW Show is indeed RETURNING to Audio ONLY, outside of our website starting in January. Due to New Years Day being on our normal scheduled, the first episode of 2025 has been scheduled to January 8th, 2025. We have ONLY the one feed, as trying to get 2 really proved difficult which our expansion we have to be careful with our wording and things will have to be switched around when the time comes. 

              At this time of this post being posted, I am working on the Audio ONLY Feed. This is why we are on a brief hiatus. By New Years, we will be ready to post up 52 episodes a year with no break! That is how serious we are with The CBOTW Show. Now the schedule we have for 2025 remains in tact. Just now we are on more platforms then we have been the last few months. We are planning to stay Audio ONLY for now but we could by Spring be on Spotify Video as well like my podcast is on. Anyways be ready because we're coming back fast and the furious like the movies yes but no cars so stay tuned for our first show in January and you never maybe a New Years episode is in the cards or even 2 days after you never know but I will talk to you all this afternoon for another blog post on this Special Sunday edition!

Chris

The CBOTW Show- List

              This will be a very straight forward blog post so here is the list of different Feeds we have with The CBOTW Show:

Movies: Covers all kinds of different genres of movies, comedies, Horror Films, Action, to name a couple of them which there is so many different types of movies, certain movies with our favorite actors we want to cover, the list is on and on!

TV Shows: Again pretty much any topic, but mainly comedies, dramas, detective series, old retro shows like Power Rangers when we covered that, 90's series and 2000's and many more. 

Reality TV: This is a department we would love to bring back under The CBOTW Show's direction which is awesome idea but it will take interest to have other hosts to host the show besides myself and Larry but we will start working on that in the spring and see if it is possible. 

            Anyways that is the list and originally this was suppose to be posted back in December near the middle but it has now been rescheduled due to the hiatus notice. Anyways that is the post for today, as always I will talk to you all on Monday for another post!

Chris

End of The Week Updates [12-06-2024]

                First of all I am sorry for no post this morning. Had to deal with staff stuff as always. So this has been an interesting week for us. First the addition of the website was the Lounge. Now it hasn't been used much but we the staff hangout in there all the time and it's there if you guys want to chat but no pressure whatsoever. Also Chris has taped a bunch of episodes and the problem that's been festering with The CBOTW Show and Chris is really considering a hiatus of the podcast till February at this point. He's really frustrated by these issues and not sure where to go to after all of this. 

               Podcasts.com needs to reply to his emails and he has been emailing them once a week to find out when the two feeds will be back and that has been the issue and why we are now backlogged in episodes 2 with Larry and Chris which sounds like he will be slowing down for the year perhaps and the studio is in disarray too. Too much going on but he will be posting what's left for The CBOTW Show then he will be doing a hiatus till end of January, hopefully this issue is fixed. I will be reaching out personally to assure they reply back to his emails. Chris is fully booked up for the rest of the year for Entertainment Man Podcast and will be looking at interviews after Christmas to record. Website has been overhauled, 10th anniversary removed, schedule under about, and the addition to getting involved as a guest on The CBOTW Show.Those are the major updates, I will chat with you guys next week.

 

Sara

             

The Future of Both Podcasts!

                 I have been thinking about things on the weekend while getting work done. Here is what I am thinking:

Entertainment Man Podcast: Being the lead podcast on the network, I as the Executive Producer/Host of the podcast feel like it is more a radio show or radio program every week. So I have decided to keep Entertainment Man Podcast on Audio ONLY for the foreseeable future.

The CBOTW Show: I want to this to be the primary focus for the company as it is something we want to continue to grow in the future and even if Entertainment Man Podcast goes off air at any point of time in the future this will be back fall back moving forward. But I am not counting my podcast out yet, not yet... So much amazing things to come in the future! 

              So this is the future of both podcasts and there is a lot of things I am not saying publicly yet. But Sara and Larry know the plans and also I have talked about it on The CBOTW Show once but not the entire plan. This will be starting in 2025 and if it is requested, I will definitely put Entertainment Man Podcast. But that is the post for today and I will talk to you all tomorrow.

Chris

The CBOTW Show-- Lots of Updates!

                 Today brings a ton of great news! So I will get right into it:

New Audio ONLY Feeds: We are NOW offering two feeds on The CBOTW Show, TV Shows & Movies. Yes we are planning two different feeds which will be work in progress hence the TV Shows have been limited lately. Will be working on that this week on top of three movies for 4 shows next week for Halloween week to make up. Will be adding those to The CBOTW Show on our YouTube Feed Momentarily. 

Series: Will be planning on a series in the new year and any collabs with other people will be posted on a Friday. 

Two Audio Feeds on our Website: We will be creating two feeds here on our website so it will be listenable here on ChrisBOnTheWeb.com. Excited for this new expansion. It is a ton of work but it will take time for us to get everything up to snuff with our two need feeds and changing of the RSS Feed for our podcast meanwhile Entertainment Man Podcast remains with Castbox for the foreseeable future. 

Reality TV Podcasts: They will be placed eventually to the TV Feed. We aim to get this done by end of the year so we can start doing TV Shows again in 2025. So TV Podcasts are taking a break and we will continue on with movies for the remainder of the year.

             So those are the massive updates and it is a lot to digest on the first day back but I was excited yesterday when I got the approval from Podcasts.com and cannot wait to get this move done. Anyways that is the post so sorry it took me so long, was getting settled into work life again and as always I will talk to you all tomorrow!

Chris

End of the Week Updates [09-06-2024]

                 Another week has come to a close to a crazy week. Anyways, I have finally finished up The CBOTW Show and I stayed up till 330 am working hard to have it up for 900 am EST sharp this morning which is now released and I'm happy. I promised you guys in a reel that I'd double up two different episodes with two The Simpsons episodes maybe just one but I am planning on doing Matilda instead on one of the two days. We'll see I will try and fit all 3 two next week and the following week another. I'm not sure at the moment. 

               Website has been overhauled entirely and looks a lot better and easy to understand. As you may know I stream now on Twitch but it is not listed anywhere on our website at the moment. Maybe in the nearby future I will but for right now it is not actually being listed at this current time. What's next on our list of projects for our content in the community? Planning to record Entertainment Man Podcast and the next two The CBOTW Show episodes today at some point and probably part of tomorrow (Saturday) and Sunday if we need to as well. Anyways that is the post for today, have a great weekend and talk to you all Monday for a 2 in 1 blog review and Tuesday Talking about the Orono Fair as well.

- Chris

The CBOTW Show is on YouTube??

              So The CBOTW Show is on YouTube? Yes in a way it is on YouTube. However it is Audio ONLY at this moment. I am sure I can convince Chris to do video, it'd blow up the main channel in views honestly! However for now he is audio only at this moment. Just baby steps. This is a step in the right direction with the podcast and honestly I think The CBOTW Show is better off Audio ONLY for now. Maybe once the channel grows Chris will maybe make the decision to make the video move.

            But, I am proud that he is expanding podcasts and growing but he has to remember to focus on the content. That is always going to be the upmost importance to us is the good quality content. That is why we have ChrisBOnTheWeb Media is for the content. However we have to remember to grow slowly. I think sometimes we go a little too fast so Chris is going at a slower pace with things and I am happy he's taking a slower pace. I will talk to everyone tomorrow at the normal time I promise and sorry for the late post.    

Kelsie

Kept Questioning Am I Sure of My Decision?

            The last few weeks since the end of the 12th Season of Everything About Reality TV if I was sure I really wanted to continue this if that passion for the podcast is still there after 4 years now. Hearing any of the Reality TV Show themes just gives me that strength to continue on and gets me extremely hyped for the next season coming up. Not just the fact this is Season 40 of Survivor but the fact we have a new team member joining us, Jasmine and my goal of bringing a team for this podcast on it has completed what I wanted to accomplished especially after a year of planning this it has come to a full circle and we are close to almost a complete schedule for the podcast. Not only Jasmine will be covering Big Brother Canada but also Big Brother 22 in the States so that is indeed exciting to do and I will not have a repeat of last year where I quit almost at the end of the season. This takes off the pressure off of me and as well helps the podcast grow even more and we are all about growth on this podcast in the end and that is exactly what we are doing with the podcast. So was my decision the right decision? Yes this was the right decision and proud of this decision too.


             Where did this come out of? Well when I was at the open auditions for Big Brother Canada and after I was done that is when I looked at my phone to realize that I had pile of emails with the title "Re: Everything About Reality TV" when I got home from Toronto from a very long day with Eric and I did look in the morning that there was some emails too and I told him it was overwhelming response to the "This is my final season" and made me realize this was a mistake ending it on a high note when I believe I found out that IHeartRadio picked us up out of nowhere so we must have an unique podcast that interested them so that is definitely a bonus for us and it isn't easy to get onto IHeartRadio. So to leave the podcast when we are on big time platforms probably not the right time so that definitely has a big impact on the decision but in the end I am doing this for you guys the fans and you guys come first and since the decision was made everything seems to have come into place weeks later so everything is coming together and with 2 weeks till the start of our 13th Season begins we're excited to what is to come on Feb 5th @ 9 pm EST.




Chris

When I Started Podcasting, I Had Horrible Audio...

               When I started this crazy adventure with no followers or listening whatsoever, my audio was terrible, horrible. My voice was very distorted as heck as I over modulated my voice because I had the volume on my mixer way high so that had a lot to do with the podcast and I think in 2015 I had the other mixer the older one that didn't help but obviously in 2016 I had this mixer I currently use to this current day and have been since Summer of 2016 when I made the purchase for this mixer. As time got further during the podcast things got better and I got followers for the podcast and I am talking YouTube days. Now Audio ONLY things got better as I started to always do an audio check or sound check or as they call it in the world of "Radio" Air check which I always do before I set off to do the recording of the podcast to ensure the quality is top notch each and every time an episode is being recorded every week to every few times a week depending on the recording schedule from season to season. 


                 The next thing I did was upgrade some of the gear in the studio, got a boom arm to hold the mic so I wouldn't be lifting up the stand with the microphone so it is much easier to maneuver in behind the screens as you probably seen it in pictures of me on my Instagram feed from time to time when I am between recording like currently at this moment as I am about 5 days from the next episode to be released for you guys. Now the AT Pro 31 hand held mic was good and what not but it was aging and I have had it since 2014 so 4 years now if you include it to today. It has seen broadcasts from YouTube to Twitch.TV to other platforms that I have been on that I rather not even mention at this point as I am banned from those platforms for certain reasons I will not state on here. In 2017, 1 year ago I invested in a more of a professional microphone. I bought the AT2020 Condenser Microphone, $200 bucks later but worth the money and the upgrade. Don't worry I still got the AT Pro 31 mic as a guest mic in the studio that will need a boom arm down the road!


                   So over the years, things got better and I am sure down the road it will become even a bigger podcast then it is now in the years to come as I make more and different ideas I can bring to the table and I have hinted on social media I wanna do something with the podcast which I will be talking about on another blog post on another day, down the road from now when the time gets closer but ideas are brewing for me and Chris B On The Web. I am proud how far I have come with the podcast and what is to come for it in the nearby future as well which I am excited to share with you very soon and I am nothing but proud of how far this podcast has done.



Chris