Over A Half-Hour Of "Man & Wackiman" 's first live Wally-Cam Archived Online

[MiddleBro]

Hey FOT,
    While the premise of a live web-cam feed accompanying the on air audio was an experiment, in and of itself, a sub-experiment of recording and saving the content came about from that.  I mainly wanted a personal archive, and would have done the whole show, had I known how it worked or if it was being saved to my computer, rather than my thinking being it would take up space on Hatch's.

Anyway, it turns out it stores it online at the ustream site.  Hatch sent me the link, and now I will share it with you, so that you can re-/live the segment of the show we recorded.  In Hatch's ingenuity, it was synched to the audio of the show, so callers and stuff are intact, and it's not just staring at Wally, hearing only the voices in the studio at their natural, un-amplified levels.

Check it out, here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9577588

For those of you who watched, live, I hope it will be a fun way of remembering, and for those of who you didn't/couldn't, I hope it gives you a fun look into just what kind of stuff Wally and Hatch had cooked up, and thus a hint of what they might again cook up when/if they come back as a fill-in, again.  Thanks, and enjoy!


   -The Z-Man

[daveB from Oakland]

"Terrifying"

       -- Samir from Florida

[Jason From Buffalo]

Wally looks either like a new born or a completely stones out teenager completely intrigued by the camera, just staring at it wide eyed. Watching him makes me feel like he isn't really paying attention to what he's saying, and that in his mind he's trying to figure out what the camera is.  It really made me uncomfortable after a few minutes.

[fonpr]

Wally looks either like a new born or a completely stones out teenager completely intrigued by the camera, just staring at it wide eyed. Watching him makes me feel like he isn't really paying attention to what he's saying, and that in his mind he's trying to figure out what the camera is.  It really made me uncomfortable after a few minutes.

Blinking once in a while would reduce the creep factor, I do declare!

[MiddleBro]

Hey Folks,
    Sorry about that, but he wasn't built with that capacity.  Hopefully I'll learn how to do that for some future puppet.  Either way, he was mainly looking out to the audience, so they would feel he was really in it for them, rather than him just being on camera but not paying attention, and thus looking like he wasn't committed to it.


   -The Z-Man

[Spoony]

Don't worry Z-Man, people who have unusually intense personalities like Wally unsettle some people. The rest will fall into line and become a cult, founded in the glory of The Purple One.

Unless Fredricks knows a lot of ATF officers, he won't be a problem. I suspect he has ATF problems of his own.

[Kibblesmith]

I have been in actual staring contests where the feeling of "being watched" was milder.

I might just leave this playing at my desk full-screen and go home.

[MiddleBro]

Hey Everyone,
    Just so you know, the first officially titled "Man & Wackiman" podcast is up.  But you'd know that, already, if you were subscribed to the Best Show podcast, which I'd hope you were.  Enjoy it all over again, or for the first time, for those of you who missed the live airing.


   -The Z-Man

[fonpr]

he wasn't committed to it.


   -The Z-Man

il burattino non è commesso

[fonpr]

Unless Fredricks knows a lot of ATF officers, he won't be a problem. I suspect he has ATF problems of his own.

Speaking of the ATF, why'd they put all the fun, legal stuff in a special category?

I know a few officers, not a lot.

[dave from knoxville]

Hey Folks,
    Sorry about that, but he wasn't built with that capacity.  Hopefully I'll learn how to do that for some future puppet.  Either way, he was mainly looking out to the audience, so they would feel he was really in it for them, rather than him just being on camera but not paying attention, and thus looking like he wasn't committed to it.


   -The Z-Man

His inability to blink reminds me of the terrifying Steve Forbes. But Wally is in my love pit regardless. Wait, that doesn't sound like a good thing.

[MiddleBro]

il burattino non è commesso

What's with all of the foreign speak, lately, Fredericks?  My best guess was Italian, but when I put it in a translator, all I got was "the burattino he is not store clerk".  Huh?  I just don't get you, sometimes.  No offense intended, of course.


   -The Z-Man

[fonpr]

il burattino non è commesso

What's with all of the foreign speak, lately, Fredericks?  My best guess was Italian, but when I put it in a translator, all I got was "the burattino he is not store clerk".  Huh?  I just don't get you, sometimes.  No offense intended, of course.


   -The Z-Man

I just don't get you, sometimes.

Me neither, sometimes.

This time Use a better translator.

Free translation.com or something, burattino.

[MiddleBro]

Okay, so now I got "the puppet is not committed".  Still not sure as to why you felt the need to say so in Italian, especially as my point was that I wanted to make sure to NOT give off the idea that he was, and I was not saying that he truly was.  Also, now curious if you echoing me is referring to not getting me or yourself, sometimes.


   -The Z-Man

[fonpr]

Appena rilassarmi trastullo!