For those who don't know, RandomChatter podcasts have been around for a long time. We've been podcasting since early 2005.

Some of you wanted to see what our older episodes were like. Against my better judgment, I'm posting a selection of our archived shows.

First, here's a brief history...

The very first RandomChatter podcasts were in early 2005. I did three episodes. No, I'm not posting them. They sucked.

Then I started podcasting for TheForce.Net. I'm not posting those here out of respect for TFN, since they don't technically belong to me (though I don't think they'd mind). Trust me, even though I won an award, the stuff the ForceCast is currently doing is way better.

While I was doing the TFN show, I eventually went back to doing RandomChatter. I eventually had to give up TFN, because I didn't have the time nor staff to keep up with the show. I just stuck with RandomChatter, which was easier to do as one person. This was "volume one".

I thought we needed to change the name to something that more accurately reflected the "movies" theme of our show, so I chose the (bad) name "Movie Survival Guide."

About that time, my job was pretty taxing, and all of the employees were being overworked. I eventually threw in the towel and stopped podcasting, because there was no way I could continue putting out decent shows with my work schedule.

I picked it up again later on in 2006, going back to the RandomChatter name (volume two). About the time I did, my apartment caught fired and burned down, and then two months later I lost my job. So the show went back on hiatus again.

Now we're back again with volume three of RandomChatter. I've spun the movie reviews off into their own series, MovieChatter. And, of course, we now have LostChatter, TechChatter, and Friendly Fire.

...on to the episodes...

I've skipped the really, really bad ones. I've put my favorites in bold and preceded them with an asterisk.

Keep in mind that the audio quality is often pretty bad, and that the solo shows are scripted. Otherwise, there are some gems in there. My personal favorites are Ultraviolet, Dukes of Hazzard, Deuce Bigalow, The Island, Fantastic Four, and Firewall.

RandomChatter (Volume 1)

• *Batman Begins (Erik, Brian, Jeff) — RC_050619
• War of the Worlds (Erik) — RC_050704
• *Fantastic Four (Erik, Brian) — RC_050710
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [preview]; Wedding Crashers [preview] (Erik, Brian) — RC_050714mc
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Erik, Jeff) — RC_050719
• *The Island (Erik, Brian, Jeff) — RC_050725
• Sky High; Hitch (Erik, Brian) — RC_050801
• Hitch (Brian) — RC_050803mc
• *Dukes of Hazzard (Erik, Brian) — RC_050807
• *Deuce Bigalow 2: European Gigilo; Four Brothers (Erik, Brian) — RC_050814

Movie Survival Guide

(a.k.a. RandomChatter Volumes 2 & 3)

• *40-Year-Old Virgin (Erik, Brian) — MSG_050824
• *Red Eye; Brothers Grimm (Erik, Brian) — MSG_050829
• *Serenity (Erik, Brian, Jeff) — MSG_051007
• Jarhead (Andrew); Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Erik, Brian, Jeff) — MSG_051121
• *Walk the Line (Erik, Brian, Jeff) — MSG_051128
• The Chronicles of Narnia (Erik, Brian, Jeff, Andrew) — MSG_051212
• *The Producers (Brian, Pamela) — MSG_060108
• Match Point (Erik, Brian) — MSG_060114r (review); MSG_060122d (discussion)
• The Matador (Erik, Brian) — MSG_060203r
• *Firewall (Erik, Brian, Jeff) — MSG_060211r (review); MSG_060212d (discussion)
• *Ultraviolet (Erik, Brian, Jeff) — MSG_060305r (review); RC2_001 (discussion)

RandomChatter (Volume 4 — summer of 2006))

• *Ultraviolet (Erik, Brian, Jeff) — RC4_001
• Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest (Erik, Ren) — RC4_002
• Comic book movies (Erik, Ren) — RC4_004
• *Miami Vice (Erik, Brian) — RC4_005
• V for Vendetta (Erik, Brian, Jeff) — RC4_006
• Snakes on a Plane (Erik, Ren); Talledega Nights (Brian) — RC4_007

RandomChatter (Volume 3 — current series)

• Cloverfield — RC_001
• Spoiler-Free, for Wes — RC_002
• Jumper — RC_003
• And the award goes to... who cares? — RC_004
• A Cage Full of Tangents — RC_005

(see the blog and/or iTunes feed for more of the current series)

LostChatter

We went in a different direction with LostChatter than we'd initially planned, so I had taken the first five episodes down. Here they are...

• The Beginning of the End (Erik, Jeff) — LC_001
• Confirmed Dead (Erik, Jeff) — LC_002
• The Economist (Erik, Jeff, Ren) — LC_003
• Time after Time (Erik, Ren) — LC_004
• Bring Out Your Dead (Erik, Ren, Joe) — LC_005