Epside 50: The Scariest Things Podcast 🔪💀👻 Retrospective!

One year in the books, and it’s time to reflect upon our experience as Podcasters and Writers!
L! Yes. L! That’s fifty episodes for those of you in the know. A full year in the bag! That’s hundreds of reviews. 300,000 - yes, 300,000 website visits, countless more of you have trucked on over to hang out with us Facebook and Instagram. Mike often likes to exclaim, with each podcast, “I can’t believe we made it this far!” And, it’s kinda true. It is remarkable that we’ve managed to keep our heads above water, and that we get word from around Portland that we’ve got a good thing going. And, I suspect we might get a similar reaction in Mumbai, and London. To say we had humble beginnings is an understatement. We had no idea what we were doing… but we gave this a shot!
The growth we saw last year has been incredibly rewarding and we couldn’t have done it with out y’all. Those interested in the horror genre and those not. Casual friends, acquaintances, family members, and complete strangers, and creepy freaks have all been welcomed under the horror umbrella. And welcome you we did. With total and scary aplomb. This endeavor really is a team effort. Everyone’s got a different take on horror, a fav’ movie, those things they WON’T touch, and a genre they continue to go back to like a pair of well-loved shoes. Our goal throughout has been to sort through all the junk - for YOU! No one has time to wade through the best films from the early 1950s, or other whacked out horror ephemera…and that’s where we come in. Each week, we curate the best of the best (…or at least the Fearsome Foursome) from genres, studios, directors, and every other category that comes to our gore-soaked brains.
So things have been going great, right? Well, there was one big flaw with what we were doing. Our podcast sounded terrible at times. Sometimes it sounded like Eric was in a different room than Mike. Sometimes we’d get a high keening noise, or a bonk, and then the podcast sounded muffled. We’d get fans commenting on this now and then, and most of you have been kind enough not to pillory our sometimes clunky production.
If you managed to battle your way through our Portland Horror Film Festival interview with the Callahans, you get a merit badge. That was rough. Enter Pro-Sound Audio (Thanks Danny!) who has provided us with a state-of-the-art audio recording setup. A Behrenger mixing board. Audix microphones. 48 bit recordings. If you are starting or looking to improve a podcast, go see these guys! They are the absolute best: prosoundonline...
And with that… here’s Podcast Episode 50! (My God… 50… I can’t believe we made it this far.) We decided to celebrate the momentous occasion by having Mike, Eric, and Liz sit down and ruminate on the reason we got in to this biz, what we’ve learned, and the things that have made us go ahhhh….or aieeeeeeeee!!! So sit back and enjoy our spooky reflections on the year that we all reveled together as horror buddies. Thanks horror buddies!!!