We usually go on at 9pm UTC. This because there's a lot of European folks, and some of those UTC+1 or even +2. This means that, on my part, I start at around 10pm(sometimes later), and after the obligatory greetings, it's about 10:45pm, my time when we actually get around to recording. Recording takes an hour or two, and then it's past midnight.

Setting it earlier also spawns a few problems. Some of us have children, and this would be directly in conflict with their bedtime.

Now, while we'd love to meet everyone's needs and preference at all times, the planet has a 24h difference. Hawaii, for instance, is 12 hours after Norway. There might not be any Hawaiians on this shindig as of yet, but I suspect you get the idea.

We're also looking into recording at different times, but the problem we've been facing every week, is that 10 people say they can make it, and 2 hours before recording time, 8 of them back out. That leaves two people, which is a fairly weak number. So we scramble and get a few more sitters at the proverbial table, and then once we're about ready to record, more people say they're able to participate after all, leaving us in a pickle. We either make due with 8 people, which is incredibly difficult to pull off the way we're doing things, or we're forced to split the recordings in two sessions, and split people into groups they fit the best in.

But hey, as far as podcasts go, we're young. We've barely made it out of the cradle, and are taking baby steps along the route to make it a versatile and including podcast to fit everyone here, and elsewhere. Bear with us in this startup phase, and I promise we'll get to all of you, and include you in the episodes you want to be in. If you really want in, and can't make it at the scheduled time, we'll do our best to reschedule that episode to a more fitting time.

Sound good?

Having a solid 'usually' time is a good start.

I apologize for my insensitivity to the scheduling needs of others. I was only trying to offer a positive, actionable suggestion for recording with bullet3 during this weekend. I may be wrong, but I seem to recall he is in Australia, where 3am is not 3am, but in fact early afternoon.

He does, I do, and Owen does.

Well, a new week is here. Are the TNG era movies on the schedule for discussion?

Cool, can't wait to listen to it

Are we doing just TNG, or TNG and the abrams movies, or ...?

I believe the TNG movies are up next. If you turn around 3 times and whisper my name into a mirror I can be summoned to *gulp* defend Generations.

Me, I'll be around, I want to talk about STID

I don't mind Generations, actually.

I've been on the fence about Magic Lantern for years now, so if it's possible to listen in on the youtube stream I'd appreciate a link, otherwise I can wait for the podcast release. Real shame I've not installed it on my camera yet.