Our first wonky but excited steps into the world of social media, the fabled “season 0.5″, now on-line for the first official time.
The quality is low but the chatter is active. These few episodes hold a dear place in our hearts because they are, of a sense, our beginning. They are also a blessed time when we were able to have Kell Bengal on as a show host, a time I very much cherish.
So please enjoy our stumbling and excited steps into the world of social media, we sure enjoyed them when we took them
~ Kraden
A retrospect:
Some of you may have had the er…honour?..of being part of our start up season. You see, when we first started this gig we were somewhat green and the equipment and site was nothing compared to what it is now.
In the blustery past of the year 2008, Kraden had just finished up an old podcast and still had the itch. He had just started dating a bubbly Jeneara who, it just so happened, thought podcasting would be a wonderful idea. But something was missing, a charm & intelligence, a…calming influence on the two jitterbugs. And so it was they asked their good friend Kell Bengal to join the team, a request which he accepted with gusto.
The equipment was an ancient mixer with components almost as old as the hosts, the microphones were as sensitive as a Buddhist’s ego, and as far as technical expertise, well lets say we’re surprised the show worked at-all half the time.
Fenris, Nanaki and Ray Liehm joined us from the transition into the new Podcast with Kraden, and we were very glad to have them.
But what we did have was passion! Podcasting is a labour of love, and despite the loss of multiple episodes due to power faiilure, a poor track record for equipment and the generation of the now popular phrase “blame Kraden!“, we happened to pull this ship together.
The quality is low but the chatter is active. These few episodes hold a dear place in our hearts because they are, of a sense, our beginning. They are also a blessed time when we were able to have Kell Bengal on as a show host, a time I very much cherish.
So please enjoy our stumbling and excited steps into the world of social media, we sure enjoyed them when we took them
~ Kraden
Season 0.5 – episode 1: Introductions, meets and conventions (46mb)
“Well that was a wonderful lurch to the beginning of the podcast. The FTP server was down so the show didn’t upload till now. We’ve been away in Melbourne and not abot (see it’s authentic, it even has my spelling issues ~ Kraden) to sort out the problem, and the live feed has issues.
Ahh teething. How we love our creative children. Even when they scream and flail in the shoppign malls of our minds.”
~ Kraden
Welcome to episode one. We discuss what it is we actually do on this show, bring you some new IGnobel awards, and discuss what it is that makes meets and conventions starts or failures.
Interviews: KingRobidiah and Efimous, from Adelaide and Dubbo respectively.
Season 0.5, episode 2: Apocalyptic Fursonas (47mb)
Gah omg podcast le gone!!!!!!!!!!
Ok all fixed now…
This week on ACTfur on air.
We have an apolcalypse theme to celebrate the release of Fallout 3.
We talked about the Furry Census, put together by Kyle Evans, showing the changes in the fandom since 1993.
Our main dicussion was about  Fursonas (Dun Dun Dunnn), the why and the how we come up with them.
We talked to Mechafox from Melbourne, DarthMeow (our Server host) and theKoneko
so enjoy the show!
~Jen
Season 0.5, episode 3: furry survey (53mb)
Well…fourth time luckly. Keep your fingetrs crosssed it works this time.
We’re finally back from MIDfur and can concentrate on all this. Ep3 is about the furry survey as well as our normal connundrum of chit-chat and attempts at astronomical wit. Oh and remember, no matter what it’s Kradens fault (heck I even have an official association for it now).
We tried to get Kyle evans, who collected the data for the survey on air but worked nabbed him at the last moment. So instead we interviewed Carnival, Tempa, Koneko and BloodFox. Background music is by Sekonda Huest, middle segment by Xvolt (both on Fur Affinity respectively)
Fen returns with another rant too. Enjoy the show everyone!
Season 0.5, episode 4: Post Midfur X (2009) show (43mb)
Hello Afternoon Furland!!
Since we weren’t able to slot in at the official convention, we’re going to be running aMFX 2008 Wrap-up party on the show tonight.
We’ll be running the show longer, and opening the call centre for almost the entire broadcast so you can have your say about the biggest Australian Fur party this year. Tell the world and the community what went right, what went wrong, what the best events were, and who really made it happen for you!
Well be broadcasting on our usual stream:http://homsar.tunaweb.net.nz:1337/mpeg3.m3u Remember! This can only work on winamp as it’s the cleanest feed.
Broadcast At: 7:30pm Australian Eastern Standard time
INFORMATION:
Chat: Since TalkShoe eats a massive amount of bandwidth we’ll be moving the chat to a mIRC chat room. #ACTfur
Call-in: If you’d like to call in and have your say on the topic we’ll be taking Skype calls in the second half of the show. Our Skype name is ‘actfur’
Since there will probably be a high volume of callers, please e-mail us if you have the time with your thoughts and name so we have an idea of the topics coming in.mailto:ACTfur@live.com
If you miss the show we’ll be uploading it to our Pod bean account:http://ACTfuronair.podbean.com
Just a re-cap of the con we had the:….
Meet & Greet night: Hello Midfur X! Raining on Saturday: Walk, zoo-trip, dealer den and Gala ball! Sunday Major: Dealers, Panels (Suites, Lifestyle, Costuming), Talent night, Special guests show Money Major: Dealers, Panels (Writers, Artists, Feedback), Auction, Closing party As well as: Raising a Truck-load for the RSPCA, signing the ute, dinners, room parties and a whole lot more.
Let us know if you’ll be there!
~ ACTfur on air Hosts
Kell, Jeneara and Kraden
Extras:
Our original intro music
Oh man does this bring back memories. I remember being particularly proud of the computer vocalists correctly saying our name. Something I had to cut, re-time and edit to get right, and something we end up doing regularly for the audio play segments these days. And the fact that one of them sounded like the (at that time) president George W. Bush Jr., ahh…priceless.
ACTfur intro Mk1.mp3
And some old show artwork I found. Congratulations is you remember these 
Old ActFur title art
Our original banner from season 0.5, includes our pre-Mushi character
