Here's a quick guide to the staff and hosts of the various RandomChatter podcast shows:
Owner, Executive Producer, Host
Shows: RandomChatter, AppChatter, The Pause Button, Trailer Trash Talk, DeadChatter
Prior Shows: LostChatter, Movie Survival Guide
Erik's been around since the very early days of podcasting, and he was the recipient of the 2005 People's Choice Podcast Award in the "Movies/Film" category for his podcast at TheForce.net. He remembers back when you had to have a program like FeedDemon to download shows, and can even tell you stories about the fight to get podcasts into the iTunes store. He also likes to lament about having to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow...
He's a trivia expert for Star Wars, Babylon 5, Firefly, the recent Battlestar Galactica, and LOST. He doesn't mind Star Trek, but he's not a Trekkie. His favorite book is Ender's Game. He loves science fiction and comedies.
He hates writing about himself almost as much as he hates referring to himself in the third person — however, if you contact him via the "Contact Us" page, he'd be more than happy to answer any questions.
Producer, Host
Shows: TechChatter, The Continuum
Prior Shows: RandomChatter, Movie Survival Guide, The Friendly Fire Podcast
(coming soon...)
Producer, Host
Shows: MovieChatter, DeadChatter
Prior Shows: Movie Survival Guide
Andrew's his name, and movies are his game. Andrew graduated from North Carolina State University, where he studied film, sociology and journalism. He is now pursuing a master's degree in Arts Journalism at the prestigious S.I Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He met Erik in 2006 and worked as a co-host on The Movie Survival Guide before taking over as host of MovieChatter. He is also a certified member of the press, covering entertainment reviews and news for the NCSU newspaper. His hobbies include, but are not limited to: reading, writing, filmmaking, studying theology, playing video games and thinking deep philosophical thoughts about the nature of the universe and the meaning of life (if only it was 42!).
He lived in Central America for eight years (Costa Rica, Honduras and El Salvador, respectfully) and is fluent in Spanish. He also spent a semester in China, where he researched the growing Chinese film industry, filmed a spontaneous documentary about a political protest, ate yak cheese, and hung out with one of the last matriarchal societies on the planet. He doesn't have a favorite film genre, though he does appreciate really good, idea-based science fiction - yes, he's one of those people who insists The Fountain is one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time. Fun fact: Andrew worked as a door-to-door salesman for two summers and swears it was the best job he's ever had. He also owns a Borat mankini which he occasionally lounges around in, since if you've got it you've got to flaunt it.
Producer, Host
Shows: RandomChatter, AppChatter, The Pause Button
Prior Shows: LostChatter
Lou started filling in as a guest host on LostChatter back during season 5 of the show and soon became a regular host along side Erik, Joe & Nathan. He then became a regular host on the AppChatter show in 2010. With the relaunch of the RandomChatter network in 2011 Lou’s role has evolved to include editing and producing shows (yes, basically grunt work).
Lou’s somewhat random background makes him a good fit with the RandomChatter network. What’s that old saying, “jack of all trades, mater of none”? Well, there you go. When he’s not at the computer, he’s usually on his mountain bike or behind his camera. Lou’s completest nature (let's not mince words and call it what it really is—OCD) forces him to watch all episodes of a TV series once started, even when it’s not very good.
Host
Shows: MovieChatter, DeadChatter
Morgan is a writer, actor and all around really, really swell gal who enjoys long walks on the beach and watching Kiefer Sutherland blow people up. As a student at North Carolina State University majoring in Creative Writing and Japanese, she wrote for the university paper, The Technician (technicianonline.com), for nearly three years as an arts reviewer, columnist and features writer. Her turn-offs include Victorian literature and video games featuring John Madden. Her turn-ons are hyperbole, her ego and cute widdle kitty widdies.
When she's not busy being totally and completely awesome at everything she does, she likes obsessing over the great cancelled TV shows (My So-Called Life, Touching Evil, Profit, Jack & Bobby, Sports Night, Titus, Brimstone, to name a few), rewatching Babylon 5 for the umpteenth billion bloody time, buying anime box sets which involve guys with big swords that cause massive localized blood explosions, and reading postmodernist literature (pretending she knows what's going on to look smart for all the pretty, well-read English babes she meets).
Host
Shows: RandomChatter, The Pause Button
Prior Shows: LostChatter
Nathan comes to the RandomChatter podcast family by way of his featured involvement with the movie-ranking social network, Flickchart. In addition to co-founding Flickchart, Nathan also works as a web and graphic designer, plays drums in severalFlorida bands, and is raising a family just outside of Orlando. His interests include disaster films, video gaming, and all manner of tech-geek gadgetry. If you want someone to debate the merits of the latest web apps, argue whether the Star Wars prequels were any good, or need the un-Googleable Google'd - Nathan's your guy.
Host
Shows: Trailer Trash Talk
Prior Shows: LostChatter
A gaming aficionado and a family man, Joe is what we call a “Renaissance Man”. Equal parts artist and technician, he is a corporate graphic designer and an audio-video wunderkind. Joe possesses the unnerving ability to work PhotoShop faster than the eye can follow. He's still bitter that George Lucas violated his childhood.
Founder of The Continuum, Host
Shows: The Continuum
Nick is 29 and lives in the Madison area. He's been a gamer since he was around six years old. He's the founder and a host of the Continuum podcast. He got his gamer tag, CreamyGrandpa, back when he was modding Team Fortress 2 on the Xbox and a friend tried one-upping him on who could come up with the creepiest name. Nick won, and it's stuck for four years now.
Host
Shows: The Continuum T.J. is a new addition to the RandomChatter community and is currently the youngest person on the Continuum podcast, being only 16. He moderates the Continuum server and has been around since the beginning. On the internet he is known as SearingMight or Searing for short. He made a habit out of playing games at a young age when he borrowed his uncle's Sega Genesis—for 6 years. Now a days he can be seen hanging around the server or talking to people on Skype into the wee hours of the night. He also has a strange knack for getting into the beta testing for many programs.
