Arlill Rodriguez
Really Specific Stories
Reflections on Favorite Episodes
The hosts discuss their favorite episodes of the podcast, including one about mental health challenges and another about finding silver linings in difficult times.
Arlill tells the story of how they discovered podcasts (through an earlier interest in gaming) and how they came to produce Random Chatterings: a show that covers ‘all aspects of pop culture including video games, movies, television shows, and the internet at large’.
Content warning: suicidal ideation, depression, transphobia, violence and some coarse language
Podcast case study: Naked Tech Podcast (listener)
Find Arlill on Twitter @HHowardson.
Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF or in plain text.
Links and Show Notes
Gaming and Group Dynamics 00:00:00
- GamesRadar
- TalkRadar
- ‘Epic Honor’ is episode 123.
- The Ricky Gervais Show
- Medal of Honor (video game series)
- Kirby’s Epic Yarn
- Queer
- MP3 player
- iPhone
- iPod
- Sega Genesis
- Existentialism
- Random Chatterings
- Maintenance Phase
- Aubrey Gordon
- Michael Hobbes
Editing Process 00:11:25
Professionalism 00:18:46
Motivation and Identity 00:23:44
- Leftism
- Progressivism
- Roe v. Wade
- Arlill’s top three Random Chatterings episodes
- Undertale (2015 video game)
- Indie game
- T-bone steak
- Talking Simpsons
- Bob Mackey
- Henry Gilbert
- Patreon
- The Simpsons
- Gender Reveal (podcast)
- Tuck Woodstock
- Latine (also ‘latin’, ‘latinx’, ‘latino’, ‘latina’ or ‘Latin American’, with various meanings and uses)
- See Usage and pronunciation for an explanation of the differences.
- ‘Trans’ is a sociological term that may refer to either transgender or transsexual.
- Please note this important distinction between the terms, as explained on the second webpage linked above (under Relationship to transgender): ’The term transgender was coined by John Oliven in 1965. By the 1990s, transsexual had come to be considered a subset of the umbrella term transgender. The term transgender is now more common, and many transgender people prefer the designation transgender and reject transsexual.’
- Coming out
- ‘Cis’ refers to cisgender.
- Donald Trump
- Patton Oswalt
- Michell McNamara (deceased spouse of Patton Oswalt)
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (2018 book by Michelle McNamara)
- YouTube
- Animal Crossing
- Episode 86.5 - Animal Crossing and Gender Expression on Random Chatterings
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Nintendo
- Gender binary
Final Thoughts 00:43:19
Credits
Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio
Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion
Contact
- Website: rsspod.net
- Email: martin@loungeruminator.net
- Mastodon: social.lol@martinfeld
- Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld
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