S02E02 Fun Facts (Patreon)

Hey everyone! Thanks for listening and watching last week. The goat-themed fics we read in episode 2 are Sheltered, Travis the Goat Man, and The Goats. Listen and watch again. It's a good one. 

When I put out the call for fanfic submissions for the season, we got hundreds of submissions and probably like 15 were related to goats and me, so I knew I'd need to curate an episode based around goat stories. When I found out Otto would be available as a guest, I knew this batch of stories had to be the ones he read with us. 

I'm the one who trawls through all the fanfics and decides which stories we read on the show. Awsten never has any idea what we're going to read. I only have a vague sense; I check what the ship is and I skim through them to make sure there's nothing particularly hateful or bad in them, but neither of us actually reads the stories until we're recording the show. For season 2, it was fun (although daunting and exhausting admittedly) looking through the hundreds of emails trying to select not only which stories to read in general, but also putting them into different groups so that there was a good variety of ships and genres throughout the season.

And in this episode we had our first guest of the season, Otto, which was why he was present for episode one and got to hear about his meaty balls. As you surely heard/saw, the laptop he was reading off of died during recording, so he had to read off mine for the remainder of the episode. This is a very good example of our very good planning, and does not at all demonstrate that we are idiots. 

That worked out fine in the end, though, because he was our first and last in-person guest. But we had many more people read fanfics with us this season. ooooooOOoh!! Who could they be???? Not even I know!! (That's untrue, I know who they are, I can remember.) 

Here's us drinking our smoothies before recording the episode. Awsten is in the process of Facetiming one of our upcoming guests to make sure they're ready to record later in the day. 

I've only ever had Smoothie King while recording seasons one and two of this show. What I get is uh...I don't know the name of it, it's some kind of sugary banana thing that I think the menu says can substitute as a whole meal? Which is absurd, but whatever, it's insanely delicious. Ever since recording this season I've been getting banana shakes at Sonic and those are good too, but honestly...the Smoothie King one is better. 

Anyway, hope you enjoyed this one! And if you didn't, don't tell me, because I will feel bad. 

- Travis (from the podcast)