Episode Twenty-One
Ravi and Sonia welcome their first "unknown" guest -- his identity shrouded by the grace of the DriveTime digital elves -- who explains his blog precogs.net. Ravi encourages him to embrace his anonymity with the aid of a paper bag... before revealing his true identity to the world.
And evening hours in the studio reemerge for the first time since October.
(QuickTime, 08:47)
posted by Ravi at 8:47 PM
14 Comments:
Awesome special effects, yo! Although I kinda wish you had given me a deeper voice, too.
It's good to see that "Studio A" survived it's "Episode Twenty" repairs and is back in the current studio mainstream. And the laid back, post "Drivetime" evening slot definitely made it with the atmospheric lighting and simple shopping list. Keep it coming.
"shorter episodes"?! NOOooooo!
"... lean cuisine..."?! NOOoooo!
"e muffs"? I won't even tell you how I interpreted that at first, before realizing you were buying english muffins!
Sorry. I seem to be overreacting to everything today.
Good episode, although I would have liked to learn more about the guest than the quick description of his blog and the origin of its and his names. I don't even think you mentioned that he doesn't live in the Boston area! Perhaps this is the result of the shorter format. If so, I'm not so sure I was overreacting above.
dashiell -- the DriveTime audio elves called in sick!
!!! -- oh that lighting! Studio-A is none the worse for wear after it's trip to the shop. We might "hear" from Studio-A in a future episode...
david -- e-muffs! It's always a push and pull with getting the right balance of episode length, pre-guest banter (in this case, "post") and guest exploration. This has been a topic of recent episode comment threads and everyone has their own particular preference -- damn it, that's democracy! Except it's up to me. Well, I've said it before -- when I get that magic balance in an episode, my time here will be done!
Okay, well, my (worthless) vote is for 30 minute episodes with about half of that sans guest (Perhaps 10 minutes pre-guest and 5 post-)
hey now,
i enjoy watching your drivingtime tv show on the internets.
perhaps a little intro/outro music is needed? (w/ a lil'cowbell please) seriously.
hey, how about cutting to the "under-the-hood" camera? (nightvision)
or a bumper cam ?
just thinking,
-brian
Ravi,
Gee, that was the first guest to wimp out. "Dashiell," just put on the bag! It's a great gag. Go with it man! Our host looked bad as a result of this denial (as we say in the comedy business).
The Ravi + Sonia kiss was very nice. The softer side of DriveTime. Most sites charge $5.99/minute for this kind of 'action.'
The post interview segment (grocery shopping) was a creative glance in the lives of our show hosts.
What was that noise in the background at the end? It almost sounded like a stomach growling.
The bag seemed a little too "Syriana" for a me.
I forgot to mention though, that as a kid I used to do my Unknown Comic impression to entertain the family. Too many memories!
Oh, and since I realize now that I didn't say it here... thanks again for having me as a guest! It was great fun.
david -- your vote is noted (with worth!)
brian -- mayhaps a hiatus is in order while we gussy up DriveTime?
ken -- it may have been my stomach grumbling, but I actually think it was another offending vehicle (we were in the parking lot at that point.) The kiss was supposed to be subliminal (I'll go trim 6 frames...)
I encourage arm twisting guests -- keep at it!
dashiell -- we enjoyed having you (despite not being able to hogtie you, so to speak).
We'll get a bag on the head of guest before we're done here!!
I'll put a bag on my head if I'm ever in the area!
BTW, did you guys see our DriveTime "tribute" when we interviewed the DJ? I may have missed the comments if you did. When was that... *goes to look*
jeshii -- I didn't know about this tribute! I wrote a post on Raviblog about this... and duly commented on the Yamato Damacy site of course!
domo arigato mr ravito!
With our powers combined, we form... The VLOGOSPHERE!
jeshii -- I think that vlogosphere has already emerged from the primordial blog ooze without the benefits of our powers! ;-)
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