Arlill Rodriguez
Nov 24, 2022•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Arlill tells the story of how they discovered podcasts (through an earlier interest in gaming) and how they came to produce Random Chatterings (https://randomchatterings.weebly.com): a show that covers ‘all aspects of pop culture including video games, movies, television shows, and the internet at large’.
Content warning: suicidal ideation, depression, transphobia, violence and some coarse language
Podcast case study: Naked Tech Podcast (https://nakedtechpodcast.com) (listener)
Find Arlill on Twitter @HHowardson (https://twitter.com/HHowardson�).
Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF (https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/7fd4f-2022-11-really-specific-stories-transcript-e28094-arlill-rodriguez.pdf) or in plain text (https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/transcripts/c/c67dadf4-8798-4528-8e7d-e45b83c1d218/episodes/6/688aefbc-ab26-4533-b298-297a60236362/transcript.txt).
Links and Show Notes
Gaming and Group Dynamics 00:00:00
GamesRadar (https://www.gamesradar.com/news/)
TalkRadar (https://www.gamesradar.com/talkradar-compendinarium/)
‘Epic Honor’ is episode 123.
The Ricky Gervais Show (https://www.therickygervaisshow.com/podcasts)
Medal of Honor (video game series) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor_(video_game_series))
Kirby’s Epic Yarn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby%27s_Epic_Yarn)
Queer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer)
MP3 player (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_media_player)
iPhone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone)
iPod (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod)
Sega Genesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Genesis)
Existentialism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism)
Random Chatterings (https://randomchatterings.weebly.com)
Maintenance Phase (https://www.maintenancephase.com)
Aubrey Gordon (https://twitter.com/yrfatfriend)
Michael Hobbes (https://twitter.com/rottenindenmark)
Editing Process 00:11:25
iTunes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes)
Apple Podcasts (https://www.apple.com/apple-podcasts/)
VTuber (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTuber)
Professionalism 00:18:46
Bookish with Sonya Walger (https://bookishwithsonyawalger.com)
Instagram (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram)
TikTok (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok)
The Daily (https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-daily)
Amazon (company) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company))
AIM (software) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_(software))
Motivation and Identity 00:23:44
Leftism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics)
Progressivism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism)
Roe v. Wade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade)
Arlill’s top three Random Chatterings episodes
Episode 41.5 - Undertale (https://randomchatterings.weebly.com/latest-episodes/episode-415-undertale)
Episode 60.5 - Let’s Talk About... Virginity (https://randomchatterings.weebly.com/latest-episodes/episode-605-lets-talk-aboutvirginity)
Episode 65.5 - Let’s Talk About... Procrastination (https://randomchatterings.weebly.com/latest-episodes/episode-655-lets-talk-about-procrastination)
Undertale (2015 video game) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undertale)
Indie game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_game)
T-bone steak (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-bone_steak)
Talking Simpsons (https://talkingsimpsons.libsyn.com)
Bob Mackey (https://twitter.com/bobservo)
Henry Gilbert (https://twitter.com/hEnereyG)
Patreon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patreon)
The Simpsons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons)
Gender Reveal (podcast) (https://www.genderpodcast.com)
Tuck Woodstock (https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock)
Latine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx) (also ‘latin’, ‘latinx’, ‘latino’, ‘latina’ or ‘Latin American’, with various meanings and uses)
See Usage and pronunciation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx#Usage_and_pronunciation) for an explanation of the differences.
‘Trans’ is a sociological term that may refer to either transgender (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender) or transsexual (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsexual).
Please note this important distinction between the terms, as explained on the second webpage linked above (under Relationship to transgender (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsexual#Relationship_to_transgender)): ’The term transgender was coined by John Oliven in 1965. By the 1990s, transsexual had come to be considered a subset of the umbrella term transgender. The term transgender is now more common, and many transgender people prefer the designation transgender and reject transsexual.’
Coming out (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_out)
‘Cis’ refers to cisgender (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender).
Donald Trump (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump)
Patton Oswalt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patton_Oswalt)
Michell McNamara (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_McNamara) (deceased spouse of Patton Oswalt)
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ll_Be_Gone_in_the_Dark) (2018 book by Michelle McNamara)
YouTube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube)
Twitter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter)
Animal Crossing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Crossing)
Episode 86.5 - Animal Crossing and Gender Expression (https://randomchatterings.weebly.com/latest-episodes/episode-865-animal-crossing-new-horizons-and-gender-expression) on Random Chatterings
COVID-19 pandemic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic)
Pinterest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinterest)
Nintendo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo)
Gender binary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_binary)
Final Thoughts 00:43:19
Naked Tech Podcast (https://nakedtechpodcast.com)
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission)
Credits
Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack (https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) and Ferrite Recording Studio (https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/)
Martin’s edit in Ferrite https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/901c6-2022-11-really-specific-stories-arlill-rodriguez-ferrite-timeline-screenshot.jpeg
Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion (https://www.alexcanion.com)
Contact
Website: rsspod.net (https://www.rsspod.net)
Email: martin@loungeruminator.net (mailto:martin@loungeruminator.net)
Mastodon: social.lol@martinfeld (https://social.lol/@martinfeld)
Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld (https://micro.blog/martinfeld)
