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0:03HostWelcome to Interceptor Beyond Podcast. My name is Arthur and today I am alone. There's no guest. I am solo by myself. Why? I think it's a good opportunity to experiment a little bit. Also, there are some gaps between the episodes and it's high time to recap. I have something new to say, some announcements and we'll see how long can I talk without any other person. I've never done it before. First, why does this podcast exist? The reason. Let's talk about the history. Well, the idea behind the podcast was that I like music podcasts. I like interviews. I like music interviews, but I just wanted to do it my way. I wanted to record the knowledge. I wanted to ask questions that I want to ask in my way and I wanted to record the experience of the musicians. Of course, it's all fun because as you know, I record live, online, semi-live. I think there are three ways. Online, when we have the Zoom call, I have live edition, when I go to the concert and I record the interview right there before or after the show. And there's a long form of a live recording when it's like a typical setup. We have two microphones or three microphones and we talk for a long time. Also, there's number four, when I comment on stuff while being at the festival, but it happened only once. Anyways, the whole idea is that record the experience, make it useful and it should be fun. First of all, for myself. I wanted to do a podcast for a long time. And finally, around two years ago, in summer, the conditions were perfect. I've contacted Psychic Hit, the first band, and we recorded the interview on Instagram live. And then I took the audio and made the podcast out of it. Super nerve wracking, especially when it's live, when it's recorded and when there's a video. But it worked out. It was a good proof of concept. Then for some time it was quiet because I had to apply the new knowledge. And then, yeah, just I got it going. Sometimes there are pauses. Sometimes you need to pause, re-evaluate, see how you're doing, improve. With each episode I'm trying to improve. I got new gear, get good microphones, got a good recorder. The rest is just improving the quality of the interview, the talk, the conversation. In general it's fun, but sometimes it's not fun. Obviously, it's like a full-time job, kind of. Depends how many interviews you have per week. Usually I have one episode per week, which means that I need to record at least one episode per week, which means I need to book a band or a musician or a guest at least once a week. Booking takes a long time. It's a new type of skill that I'm improving. Then there's also the research. My favorite part. The loading of information to your brain until your head explodes. Depends on the age of the band, how much information is out there in the wild. For example, with the band Clutch. My God, they have so many interviews. It's unbelievable. 35 years plus and all those podcasts, interviews, written interviews, reviews, publications. I can write a biography now. They should hire me to write a biography now. And then you load it in into your brain until the interview, the day of the interview. You do the interview, which is usually like 15-25 minutes. And then you erase it from your brain. Otherwise you go nuts. Professional journalists do it all the time. I mean, after a while you feel that your brain becomes like a rubber thing. You know, you need to train those muscles, those brain muscles, that memory. After a while it's easier. But still, there's a new skill. Which kind of information, what is important, what is not important, what you're trying to ask, what's the whole idea, what's the angle. This is the most difficult part of the interview, actually. The second part is actually the interview, because I still get really nervous before interviewing a guest. It feels like an exam. After a while, it was after like 20 episodes, it became easier. And then when I started to interview the bands that I'm listening to for like years, aka Meeting Your Idols, now that's a new level of anxiety that you have to learn how to deal with. And after a while, it will go away, I know. But still, it's not easy. Each time you think it's getting easier. No. Each time it's getting harder. Kind of. As usual. Anyways. My favorite type of the recording is live interviews before the show. Or sometimes after. It depends. Before the show, it's cool, because you can do an interview and you're free. You can enjoy the concert. You can have a couple of beers. You're free. After the interview is good on a different level. Because usually, the musician is high on adrenaline. You're also pumped. And the whole conversation goes like really smooth. You can feel the energy. It's so pumping. It's like, I love it. But you need to keep all that information in your head. Probably, ideally, it's to get to the point with the musician, with the guest before the interview and then chill out. But it happens not so often. Especially when I interview bands. It's at least one band. So, usually, it's two bands or three bands. Some want to do an interview before, some after. The most I had, as you know, were six bands. There's a heartbreak festival. Sonic Heartbreak Festival. Six bands. That was really hard. I almost died. My head almost exploded. But then, after a while, it was fine. Recorded interviews. I mean, the interviews recorded online are also cool. But, I mean, you don't need to travel. And you can connect to all the people around the world. That's cool. But there's this X-factor thing of a live recording. I mean, it's the same thing as, like, if you're a performing artist. Live performance or recording is, like, two separate things. You can, with the recording, you can experiment and whatever. You can do whatever. Yeah, by the way, of course, I'm editing my episodes. Because I don't like pauses between the talking. I just want it, like, snappy. Just give me the info. That's my way. Because, for example, when I'm recording this, of course, there are gaps. Because they need to think.

7:34?And then they remove all the silence. Bam! So, anyways. As I mentioned, there were, like, four types of recordings. And because of that, the numbering system was a bit messed up.

7:46HostBecause I thought, okay, I'm gonna number this type of recording. Like, live recording, field recordings. And we have online recordings. And each one will have separate numbers. And, yeah, I messed it up. I got confused myself. So, I just counted all of them, like, one by one. And now we have... This is, I think, episode 25.

8:09GuestLike, ah, whatever. We need to start somewhere.

8:12HostSo, yeah, it's episode 25. It's not really important. It's mainly for the reference. If somebody's gonna make a Wikipedia page, then it would be easier. Also, at some point, there were text transcriptions that I was doing. But because I'm so loaded with the booking and the whole process of recording and editing of all these episodes, it's super problematic to do a proper text transcription. I mean, of course, I can pay somebody to do that. But at this point, I don't see the purpose. Do actually people read interviews? I mean, I read interviews because I need to do research. But in reality, do people read interviews? Is it just a thing that you fill the gaps on a blog, like Cloudwire or something? I don't know. I mean, it's a publication, of course. But I don't know. That's why I have a podcast. Anyways, this was like a small behind-the-scenes description of how I do things. Yeah, I have to mention something you need to say, right? I mentioned this. Updates. So I'm going to release these episodes on Mondays instead of Wednesdays, as usual at 5 a.m. in the morning, because I prefer my podcasts early in the morning, because I listen to podcasts while I'm in public transport. The reason I chose Mondays is because I checked out the stats of listeners. And when I publish it, of course, the number goes up and then it goes down. And then on Mondays it goes up again. So I guess people want to listen to podcasts while they're in public transport like I am. I'm not sure. We'll see. But for now, I want to release episodes on Mondays. Or actually, you can tell me. I mean, you can always comment. Let's do it like this. If you're listening to this podcast, especially to this episode, which is the most boring thing ever, write a comment on Instagram under this post. But when and where, no, probably when. Which day of the week are you listening to the podcast? This would be really useful. I always do it like this. Of course, if you're listening to this podcast, this means that you're listening to podcasts in general, which means that you listen to podcasts almost every day, most probably, right when you don't listen to podcasts. Like Saturday or Sunday. I don't know. Just give me some info, you know. It would be nice to hear. Okay, other updates. There are many cool bands are coming to town. Some of them are already confirmed for an interview.

11:01?Some I need to wait a bit. Some I'm waiting for a confirmation. But many, many cool bands. If you checked out properly the calendar of who's going to town, there are many cool bands. Also, most probably in the near future, there is going to be an update to the format. But it's not going to be each episode thing. But special episodes. Let's say it like that. There are two updates that might happen. Can't say what it is. But it would be cool. It would be cool. Both of those. By the way, on my website, I'm going to publish the process of how I made the music video for the Loom of Time.

11:41HostA video called The Lens of Longinus. And what's cool about that process, which I will publish on my website, as I mentioned, is that Matt of the band The Loom of Time recorded his side explaining his experience of creating the song, deciding on a video, what kind of video it should be, contacting people, finding me, and his side of working with me.

12:14?That was really cool.

12:15HostSo, soon this page will be online. I mean, his you can check out. It's called The Tomb of Lime, The Lands of Longinus. Let's do it like this. Because he has a podcast also, and it's called The Tomb of Lime. And the band is called The Loom of Time. Funny, but I just realized it's sometimes confusing right now to explain where to find what. By the way, everything that I mentioned is going to be in the description. All the links to things is going to be in the description. So, yeah. I mean, I have no idea what to talk about. It's, like, pretty hard to talk to a microphone and see the notes in front of me. Nothing. We'll see how it goes. If you want to write something, you can always write a comment under the Instagram post. That's what I will check the most. Also, there is, like, an email. Podcast at interceptorbeyond.com. But I don't think anybody would do that. There's also no Patreon, but it's too early for a Patreon. I figured out it takes too much time to deal with the freaking Patreon. I just want to focus on good conversation with cool people. So, in the end, it's been, like, a short, whatever. Proof of concept of the solo edition conversation with myself kind of thing. It's not easy, man. It's not easy. So, in the end, I want to do a discovery of the week, of the edition, whatever how they call it on YouTube, my recommendations at this point of the trifecta, the three main topics that I'm interested in, which is cinema, arts, and music. And in the end, I will put the song, right?

14:07GuestSo, cinema.

14:09?Le cinema.

14:10HostWhich movie is it? Bam, bam, bam. It's The Quick and the Dead, a 1995 film by Sam Raimi. Well, no, Sam Raimi. It's a great movie. I've seen it, like, a long time ago. Starring Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, and Leo DiCaprio. I had good memories about it. And then I rewatched it recently. It's a freaking great movie. I love it.

14:34GuestIt's stylish.

14:35HostEveryone is looking cool. It's a Western. I love Westerns. I love this genre of movies. It's freaking great. One of the best movies by Sam Raimi. And here on Interceptor Beyond Podcast, we love Sam Raimi. He's a cool, cool, cool director.

14:53?All right.

14:53HostSo, you're listening to this on Monday, let's say, or Tuesday. You have a couple of days to watch this movie. And write what you think about this movie in the comments under this post on Instagram. All right.

15:08?That was cinema.

15:09HostNow let's go to arts. Well, it's technically not arts. But what's interesting, which my recommendation for arts is, game industry. All right. Computer games. PC games. Console games. Games. Right. So, there's a company called Double Fine, led by Team Schaefer. And Team Schaefer is the dude who created, co-created, created Monkey Island series, Grim Pantango, The Day of Tentacle, right? I think it's called The Day of Tentacles or Tentacle, I don't know, Testicles, Tentacles, whatever. So, this company, and especially also the game Psychonauts and Psychonauts 2. And Brutal Legend. Man, I played recently Brutal Legend. Freaking awesome game. Heavy metal, man. Heavy metal. This company, Double Fine, a couple of weeks ago, released on YouTube a 32-episode documentary about the creation of Psychonauts 2, which took six years to make. Each episode is at least half an hour, sometimes longer. Why I put it in the arts category? Because if you take this documentary, it basically shows how they created the game, right? So, it's like, okay, here's an idea. We'll bring this people, we'll bring that people, we'll have this meeting. In theory, it sounds boring, but in reality, it's freaking amazing. If you take out the gaming aspect of it, and just replace it with music, same shit, man. It is like Metallica, some kind of monster documentary, I think. But it's just longer, and without Metallica and music. But it's still cool. Highly recommended, especially if you're in this industry, in the creative industry, where you need to create something in a freaking team. This is the perfect documentary. It's not for everybody, but if you are into games, I'm into games, like, somewhat, right? I'm into good games. It's like, I see which games, I, like, stand the test of time, and then I play it. Like, for example, like, now I play the games from 90s, everything that I missed. Or 2000s, whatever. Sometimes newer stuff, but usually old stuff. Not so often. Anyways. Highly recommended. You can find it on YouTube. Double Fine. Psych Odyssey. It's called Psych Odyssey, the link is going to be in the description. Watch it. And maybe, like, rewatch also Metallica, some kind of monster. If you're not into that. Not into games. And the last thing, the last recommendation of the Trefecta of Cinema, Arts and Music is a song. And this song, I discovered, there's actually a Reddit, subreddit, called Vintage Obscura. And it's, I think I discovered it there. I might be mistaken. It's not that important. What's important are two things. The song and the Vintage Obscura. Vintage Obscura, also as a website, vintageobscura.net. It's like a live radio. And the whole idea is that all those people on Reddit, they find really rare, cool music. Like vinyls and stuff, you know. And there's, like, certain guidelines. It's like rules. It should be, like, under... If it's on YouTube, it should be, like, under 1,000 views. It should be, like, before... It should be released before 1970s or something like this. Like, really cool stuff. And I found some cool stuff there. Which led me, probably, to this song that I'm about to say. But anyways, vintageobscura.net. And you can find it on Reddit also. But I discovered this website, like, recently. But Reddit I discovered years ago. But anyways, I wish you all the best. And let's listen to Astronomy by Thin White Rope. And I'll see you next time.