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We recorded our third Lost Podcast episode on Wednesday, December 29th. Due to some scheduling issues, we had to record a bit earlier than normal and as a result, there were a few interruptions of children during our recording session. I spent a great deal of time editing the show to make it flow as much as possible. In spite of that, this may still be the best episode to date and I think we still can improve as we find out what types of things work and don’t work for our discussions. We need your feedback!

Please leave us feedback! You can comment on this post or send an email to podcast@ravenscraft.org. However, We are just dying to get our first VOICE MAIL COMMENT! Our Listener Comment Hotline is (413) 521-0958. There’s no personal greeting there, but if you call and it says push one to leave a message or press 2 to leave a fax, then you dialed the right number. As we get some donations, we will pay to be able to customize this greeting.

Listener Feedback

We want to say a special thanks to those who sent us feedback and comments this past week. Gracie’s Mom (KIM), we’ll keep these episodes coming as long as you will listen to them! Ashleigh, you spend nearly as much time thinking about Lost as I do! Thanks for your many comments on the blog! John, thanks for your input as well! I’m glad you reminded us of Danielle’s husband’s name (Robert). Brendon, we will definately make the resource of the week a normal part of the show. And last, but certainly not least, thank you Tristan & MIchael E. for your honest feedback! We hope to gain you as a long time listeners to the show.

Today’s show started off with a bit of listener feedback, as we discussed The Oceanic Air Website, The Hanso Foundation Website, and more about the Mural in the hatch and how it compaired to Thomas’ painting. I am personally certain that Thomas painted he mural in the hatch. Tristan respectfully disagrees with me. However, I was looking at the Scott & Steve Podcast Blog and noticed that they had placed a link that was given to them by a listener named Aimee. This is an Amazing Link regarding the Mural and Thomas’ painting! Thanks also to Sam G. who posted this link to our last set of show notes just before recorded our show!

Thanks to Humys.net for this Screenshot…

In my Thomas Theory, we talked about the shot Desmond took with the numbers written on it. If Thomas had previously worked on the island, could he have also taken this shot? Could this shot have done something to Thomas’ dna that when Dharma found out that Claire was pregnant, they would come after their baby? I like this theory!

Resource Of The Week:

We’ve decided to give two resources of the week this week. This first one is especially nice during a six week only hiatis.

1) Next Episode Of Lost Countdown!
I can’t wait to see the 23rd Psalm!

2) The Ten Commandments of the Island
We had a fun time discussing each of these on our show!

Generally Speaking Status Report!

As of 12/30/05 06:44am (Newer Data Than Even In The Show!)
-395 People have downloaded the First Episode
-444 people have download Last Week’s Show!

-Blog Readership Record Has Been Set! 1,953 Total Unique Visitors to this blog this month and we still have a few days left!

-We Have Subscribers from the Following Countries:
United States, Australia, Great Britain, Canada, France, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Singapore, Mexico, The European Union, and one person from Hong Kong.

-Our Goal is to have at least 1,000 people downloading our show weekly by the end of January 2006! You can help! Tell everyone you know about our show!!!!

-Any size donation to this podcast is welcome. There is a PayPal donate button in the menu on the right. Just a dollar or two or two from a few people will help us to keep this show available for everyone to listen to!

SPOILER’s

Special Recap: Lost: Revelations
Airdate: January 11, 2006 at 8 p.m.

Discover the complete story of the grueling first 48 days on the island for the fuselage survivors and tailies after the crash of Oceanic flight 815. Since the beginning, “Lost” has mystified and intrigued viewers with its interesting characters and unique style of storytelling. Season One dealt with the fuselage survivors, the hatch and a failed attempt to get off the island. Season Two continues these stories and also introduces viewers to the survivors of the tail section. “Lost: Revelation” puts these two seasons together in a linear fashion that provides an illuminating view on one compelling story. See the sequence of the aftermath of the failed raft attempt, the opening of the hatch, how the tail section and fuselage survivors lived separately and the unwitting intersections of their lives, and how both groups ultimately collided in one catastrophic moment. “Lost: Revelation” offers new and avid viewers a fresh perspective, comprehensive and enlightening, in one of television’s most intriguing series. (Source: ABC)

DO YOU HAVE ANY FRIENDS WHO ARE NOT YET INTO LOST? Get them to tune in on January 11th so they can catch Lost Revelations! This will give them what they need to enter into season 2 episode 10. I bet if you do, they will immediately go out and buy the season 1 dvd!

Episode 2.10: The 23rd Psalm
Airdate: January 11, 2006

Master Sgt. Crystal L. Anderson was an extra in a filming of LOST in Hawaii. She played a member of a church congregation. The scene was designed to depict the mental flashback of a character in the show named Mr. Eko, played by veteran actor Adewale Akinnuowy-Agbaje. Per an interview with a local army newspaper, she says Mr. Eko is “king of the warlords” in Nigeria. He enters the church with other warlords and asks his brother, a minister in the church, to ordain him as a minister. Everyone is frightened, knowing Mr. Eko’s reputation, and the church is cleared, so only two warlords, Mr. Eko and his brother, are left. (Source: The Transmission)

Mr. Eko interrogates Charlie about the Virgin Mary statue, Claire begins to lose faith in Charlie when she discovers his secret, and Jack is an interested observer when Kate gives the recovering Sawyer a much-needed haircut. (Source: ABC)

Eko’s upcoming flashback episode, titled “The 23rd Psalm,” will shed more light on why the character took a 40-day vow of silence on the island. And producers promise more info on that stick. “It has its own flashback,” [Damon] Lindelof quips. (Source: TV Guide)

Eko-centric. (Source: SecretAgentMan at TWoP)

Episode 2.11: The Hunting Party
Airdate: January 18, 2006

Jack, Locke and Sawyer pursue a determined Michael after he heads into the jungle toward the dreaded “Others” in search of Walt. Meanwhile, Sun has a surprising reaction to Jin’s desire to join the search party, and Hurley and Charlie commiserate over the age-old conundrum of “what women want.” Monica Dean, Ronald Guttman and John Terry guest star amongst others. (Source: ABC)

Damon Lindelof revealed that John Terry will be in this episode. (Source: Ain’t It Cool News)

Jack-centric. Julie Bowen will guest star. (Source: Ain’t It Cool News)

Episode 2.12: Fire + Water
Airdate: Winter 2006

Flashbacks will feature 8-year-old Charlie and 12-year-old Liam. (Source: SpoilerFix.com)

Charlie-centric episode that will feature his parents as well as his brother. We learn that Mr. Pace is a butcher. The episode will also feature Karen, the wife of a rock star (Liam?) and a British director. (Source: My Entertainment World)

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This evening, Stephanie, myself, and our neighbor Racheal Griffin recorded the second episode of the Generally Speaking Lost Podcast. If you haven’t yet subscribed to our podcast, you really should!

In the show, we talked a lot abou the mural in the hatch looking an aweful lot like Thomas’, Claire’s ex-boyfriend, paintings. In fact, if you look at the two screen caps I did below, I’ve pointed out a face that seems to be exactly the same. It’s reversed and in Thomas’ apartment, we can see that it isimply is finished with the detailed work, but it is OBVIOUSLY the same artist who did both murals.

Other things we noticed were that in the hatch, the mural had several numbers. In a painting in Thomas’ apartment, we see a number, 125, on the painting. Look really close at the 5′s in both screen caps. They are the exact same “hand/paint” writing? You can click on these two screen caps to see much larger images.

Resource Of The Week!
Our resource of the week is a post made on the lost-forum.com website. CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK! This post has a graphical design layout of the hatch. The author of the post has clearly done their homework. Rather than try to explain it, please just check it out.

This is the article that is Proof The Numbers Don’t mean anything. However, we are hoping that the producers will change their minds and decide to use any one of the great theories that we fans have come up with.

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We want to send a special thanks to Scott & Steve (Dylan & Craig), Lostcasts, and of course Ryan & Jenn from The Transmission for the plugs for our new podcast! I already feel like a family member of the Lost Podcaster Community.

Finally, with our three plugs from the other three major Lost Podcasts, I expect that our subscriptions will increase greatly. The cost to make these files available for download to so many people is going to go well beyond what I’m currently paying with my current hosting package I have here at ravenscraft.org. Any amount of a donation would be greatly appreciated! I’ve tested the Paypal donate button on the menu, and you can donate as little as ONE DOLLAR to the podcast. If enough people donated a single dollar, we would be able to pay for the bandwidth we need to keep this show available.

The time has finally come. This past week, I launched my very own PODCAST! I’ve been interested with new technology for as far back as I can remember. I used a computer to sign onto a bbs before there was an official internet. I sent my first official internet email on September 2nd, 1996. I’ve had my very own web page for going on nine years now. Four years ago, I turned my static web page into a BLOG which I hard coded myself before online tools became available to make blogging easy for the average web user.

If you have never heard of a podcast before, then you may be confused by the terminology. You might be thinking to yourself that you will not be able to listen to my podcast if you don’t own an ipod or some other form of portable mp3 player.

Podcasting is a term used to describe a group of technologies for distributing audio or video programs over the Internet using a publisher/subscriber model. It differs from earlier online delivery because it transfers the digital media files DIRECTLY to the subscribed user’s computer AUTOMATICALLY for later use. There is not a NEED for a podcast or anything other than the computer you already have with a set of speakers attached.

Podcasting enables independent producers, like myself, to create self-published, syndicated “shows.” Subscribing to podcasts allows users, like you, to collect individual programs from a variety of sources for listening or viewing at the user’s convenience. In contrast, traditional broadcasting provides only one source at a time, and the time is broadcaster-specified. The great thing about listening to podcasts is that you can listen to WHAT YOU WANT and WHEN YOU WANT and most importantly WHEREVER YOU WANT TO.

The most popular play to subscribe and listen to podcasts is with the FREE downloadable program from Apple called “I-tunes.” There is a Windows version available as well as the Mac.

My podcast is titled “generally speaking.” I was going to devote a whole podcast to the HIT TV SHOW LOST making this what is called a Lost Podcast or a Lostcast. However, then I was considering doing another show and devoting it to Technology calling it a techcast. Of course, I couldn’t leave out my Faith and so I was thinking about doing a third one devoted to panel discussions about Faith and calling it a Faithcast.

While it was not difficult to set up my podcast, the initial work of designing my website for the shows and then promoting it was quite consuming. A great thought occurred to me, why not do one show and simply make it a multi-format, multi-topical show. Thus the phrase generally speaking came to mind. A few days later, I’m up and running on I-tunes.

A majority of my shows will initially be devoted to the ABC TV Show Lost. This will be where a majority of my subscribers will come from at first. So far, I only have one show to introduce myself online and it has only been up for three days and already I have 26 subscribers. There are four other major LOST fan related podcasts that are plugging my show over the next week.

One of my fellow Lost Fan Podcasters emailed me and told me “Our third or fourth week we had 24,000+ downloads in one week. We’re down to about half that now.” I think I will be getting a plug on his show this week. I already got a plug from another Lost Podcast that reaches about 6,000 people. The fist day it was available, 16 people subscribed to my show. This number will only grow as that show has already been downloaded to each of the subscribers computers, but the majority of them simply haven’t listened to it yet.

Lost will not be the only topic I discuss. My friend, Robert Johnson, lives down in Florida. He and I talk about technology all the time. I have the ability to talk to him over the internet and record our conversations. I plan on publishing some of those talks.

I’m really excited about some great ideas for panel discussions on a variety of Christian Faith Topics. For example, I’m working on producing a show about a new culture of people who would rather be the church than go to a church. Sound’s like an oxymoron doesn’t it? Believe it or not, there is a growing culture of people who are completely sold out to God and desire to do His Will but reject the concept of going to one of today’s established churches. In this first Faithcast, we will discuss this phenomenon, why it’s happening, and what this means to the future of the church.

If you have never heard or understood what a podcast was before reading this post, I hope that you will look into it. There are a vast number of podcasts available to you. You can literally find one that talks about almost anything that interests you. It’s better than radio in so many ways. In fact, many radio programs are now issuing podcast versions of their show.

I hope you check out my podcast some time. For those of you who don’t want to bother learning how to subscribe to the show, you can always go to my generally speaking website and listen to or download the show online just like any other file.

As always, please leave me a comment to let me know what you think!

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