This morning something amazing happened that at this moment I can't announce yet.  However I was thinking that wow!  We are a year and a half old and look at everything we have accomplished.  Back in December of 2008 when Malak and I sat down deciding to do a podcast based on a geek show we made some basic goals. 

1.      Learn how to do a podcast.

2.      Publish our podcasts.

3.      Get a website.

4.      Get on-air on a radio station.

We then jokingly set up the goal of interviewing Tracy Hickman and RA Salvatore.  Both amazing fantasy authors, which have made huge impacts on our lives both with gaming and reading.  For those of you that have been following since the beginning we have had our bumps and bruises along the way.  We have lost our hosting for our podcast and we went to a CON with no experience in interviewing people.  So we were able to get our first three goals out of the way and put out fifteen podcasts and then got online with CONDuit a large CON based in Salt Lake City.  CONDuit really changed our lives and the direction of the show in May of 2009.  We were pretty much the newbies on the block but everyone treated us like friends.  They sat us down with our very first interview.  Up until this point the podcast had always just been Malak and I.  So here enters in Howard Tayler.   Author and Illustrator of Schlock Mercenary and we knew nothing about him and boy did he let us have it!  Now don’t get me wrong Howard wasn’t rude in any way but he seemed a bit put our or annoyed that we didn’t know who he was.  After that we did an interview with Dan Wells a great guy that was a friend of Howard’s.  They do a radio show Writing Excuses and he said he enjoyed interviewing with us and they would do a plug for us.  Little did we know that this would be the catalyst that changed our fate forever.

You know how you watch a movie and there is that one pivotal moment in the movie that forever changes what happens from that point on? This was that moment.  We went in to this panel for writing excuses thinking that this would help get our name out there.  Well then that moment struck and the guys at writing excuses had forgotten their recording equipment.  We offered to help out since we had all of our equipment on hand at our table.  We rushed back got all of our equipment and the rest is history.  After that panel we had tons of interviews and we really grew stronger in our interviewing skills.  Then form there we were approached to do a live internet radio show.  Two months later we were live on-air with UtahFM.

Since then we have had many great experiences and met many great and talented people.  We have interviewed L.E. Modesitt Jr., John Brown, Dan Wells, Clint Johnson, Dan Willis, Larry Correia, Paul Genesse, Howard Tayler, Sandra Tayler, Jaleta Clegg,  B.C. Hailes, and Brandon Sanderson to name a few.  And finally after all this time in May of this year we interviewed Tracy Hickman a dream come true to be sure!  That interview will be posted as a podcast later today.

And now today I spoke with RA Salvatore and Bob gladly agreed to interview on our show.  We are now in the works of arranging an interview with WotC. 

Malak and I are ecstatic!  This last year has been a dream come true and has really helped to fuel our passion and desire for the show.  We want to thank all of our listeners new and old.  Please tell your friends and family about us!  We want to thank everyone that has given us a portion of their time to sit down and interview with us.  We are very excited for the upcoming GeeX Expo at the South Towne Expo Center in Sandy, UT and the upcoming to air interviews.  Brandon Sanderson’s Way of Kings book release party and the many more things we have coming in the future.

Who know what the next year will bring but if anything it will be a fun and wild ride!! 

-Revan
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