You may have noticed an entry for a certain couch on the ENnies Submission list. (Hint: We’re way down the bottom under ‘Podcasts.’) We filled out the form last weekend and have been studying our site stats for signs of largesse from the fine folks over there, or jealous attention from our fellow competitors. This is made more difficult by the fact that our site stats never made a lick of sense at the best of times.

In all honesty, the competition looks like a bunch of awesomeness and it’ll be an honor if we get anywhere near being nominated.

In other news, we’ve been tweeking and tidying all over the site and in the background of the show for a while now. So, this is what we’ve been doing and why.

The enormous buffer is there so that Tonya can go on a three week Pain Management course in March/April without having to worry that the Big Red Couch will be sending out cricket noises and tumbleweeds over that time. It’s been a lot of work and everyone has pitched in on the sound editing to make this possible.

This has triggered many conversations about the amount of work that goes in behind the scenes and how we can make it more sustainable. Many of the Couchers have some big life changes coming up, (nothing bad, I assure you,) which means we need to figure out ways of giving you the best listening experience we can in a more sensible number of hours.

We are very grateful to everyone who helped and everyone who continues to make this podcast worthwhile by tuning in every once in a while.

As always, we like hearing from you guys, so if you have any feedback, comments, rants, game ideas or just want to say hi, you can email us at BigRedCouch(at)hoarde(dot)net.

Hello Audient!
We at the Big Red Couch have been having chats about making things a bit better around here. We have decided that our buffer needs to be a bit bigger, but that we can do that in such a way as it make it easier for you to see what’s coming up and where we are up to in the editing process.

So here’s what’s happening. Sometime soon the Coming Up On The Big Red Couch page will sprout not only a bunch of new cards, but also some bookends. These will tell you important things like:-

-Which shows have been recorded and edited, (so any responses you have will probably end up in bonus episodes,)

-Which are in the process of editing, (so any responses you have might be able to be spliced in if you hurry, or else bonus pile.)

-And which are merely wobbling around in our heads like newly hatched quadrapeds, (so any responses you have can be added in and responded to as part of the show.)

You will still have the option of sending us stuff in text or mp3, or just slapping stuff into the comments.

Wish us luck for the upcoming Drawapolooza!

{Edit: because I forgot he was going to do this until I saw him doing it,)
Because it is very nearly a whole new year, Craig is making us an Archive. That means you won’t have to click the Back button quite so much if you happen to want to listen to our very early shows again (or read the associated show notes) because it will be it’s very own tab thingee in the sidebar.  Although you can do it the hard way if you want. That’s cool too.

We had a query from a friend this week asking if we minded her using an idea she thought she’d gotten from us. (She hadn’t, and we’d kinda like to steal the idea she mentioned for our own nefarious porpoises.)

So here’s a general clarification:

We have more ideas than we can use.

We want you to have them.

We’d like it if you dropped us a line to tell us how things went, at which point we will probably say, “Dude, That’s Awesome!” but it’s not a deal-breaker.

Take care and watch out for them porpoises,

Tonya