Metasode 7 - One Of Us Doesn't Like Movies Any More

That's it then. Season done. 2021 done.

I think we were hoping to be going out on slightly more of a high in this episode. Geek Towers is a thing, our new format is great, we've got our heads around the new tech. We have battled and emerged victorious. Surely we should celebrate? 2022 looks like it could hold a real re-surgence for the 80s Kids, and indeed it could, but there will be some shocking twists and turns in the evolution of the 80s Kids to make this happen.

For now, Leo and Ian turn their own view in a different direction. They've been around the "new content" blocks enough times to understand that when they do something new for the folks at home then it has to stick within some fairly rigid existing rules. But is it time to bend some of those rules to breaking point? Very probably. It's going to be an interesting new year people.

This week's episode features bedding music Continuum Filter by Data Rebel. The track is licensed under a creative commons non-commercial attribution-based licence. Follow the link for more information.

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Metasode 6 - The Show They Couldn't Cancel

Emerging once more, blinking into the daylight you'd think these things would get easier for the kids from the 80s, but that isn't the case in reality. Fatigued and battered from the global lockdown Leo and Ian have emerged with vastly different takes on the whole experience.

Leo, for example, has decided to put classic Revenge shows in a rotator and fire up a 24/7 internet radio station. Ian, has been playing video games and trying not to think about it all too much. It wouldn't have surprised us if the pandemic had finally killed the cast. After all, it has effectively killed, or at least put on brakes, for our most exciting format the summer review and follow up. This season we're going to have to reflect on this stuff before we can go forward into the future.

There will be reflection on the season ahead, a quick precis of what's to come, some technical niggles and the unfortunate technical fall out that one of us or other might end up sounding like the booming voice of good in the first two episodes before we sort it all out. So, just an average day for the kids, then? Yeah, pretty much.

Direct Link: https://archive.org/download/metasode-2-geeks-in-search-of-a-tower/Metasode_%202%20Geeks%20In%20Search%20of%20a%20Tower.mp3

Metasode 5 - The Hotel For Elephants (Archive Material)

Way back in the dim and distant days of Summer 2020 the 80s Kids decided to maximise their use of lockdown by recording this one 50 minute metasode and then not editing it until lockdown restrictions were largely lifted. You'd have thought that they could use their time with everyone holed up indoors to work on their community building or whatnot, but no, they just holed up with video games and Netflix and waited for everyone to be too busy to require an excess of free entertainment again.

So, what's even in the Hotel for Elephants? Well, let's just say the number of guests it had at the time of recording has only grown. There's a lot of big talk in here about backing away from the cast and using our time more productively. And did we do any of it? Well, not in any way like we say we're planning to in the cast, that's for sure.

So, really, this is just a moment captured, of where our heads were at after a couple of months of lockdown, when we dreamed medium-sized and ended up achieving little of what we set out to do for many and various reasons but mostly because remote collaboration is pretty hard.

This episode uses an excerpt of the Anchor Hill's immense world beat banger "Shake Off the Shackles". The full track can be downloaded here.

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Metasode 4: Time For The Big Push!

So, here we are, several months later and a season of content wiser. You haven't heard that, of course, but you're about to.

We stand at a great crossroads, confident that we have done all we can to tie down the format and present something that gives food for thought. We are, I think it is fair to say, proud of this season of content. Not that we aren't proud of Rot80sK's back catalogue and the great work it represents. The upcoming season is, if anything, a consolidation of everything we have been accidentally into something purposeful. Only one question remains, do the listeners like it?

Revenge of the 80s Kids was always something we did for fun, and it kind of still is. The big split is whether we do something else for fun or if the Revenge audience can add that dash of special sauce that keeps us rolling into the future. We'd like to do more Revenge, but not on the current "howling into the void" model. If that's all that's on offer we may well do something else instead.

What would that be? Well, we have some ideas. We've tried to pull something together whilst simultaneously committing to regular seasons of Revenge, that hasn't worked. It may be that we need to put Revenge on hiatus to get something else done. Everything is in the hands of you, the audience at this stage. Further explanation, and a full preview of the upcoming season in the metasode...

Direct Link: https://archive.org/download/rot80skmetasode/Rot80sK%20-%20Metasode.mp3

Metasode 3: How We Are Not Critics And What We're Going To Do About It - Part One

Welcome, welcome, friends, and thank you for stopping by.

You find the Kids from the 80s in reflective mood, for, hark, 'tis another Metasode, i.e. not an episode but, rather, a show ABOUT the show. We like to keep our navel gazing compartmentalized away from the main strand. This is so you can skip it if you only came here for the show and not to hear us waffle on about what we're planning or thinking about the show itself.

On this occasion, however, we would urge you ON NO ACCOUNT SKIP THIS EPISODE, or its companion, due out at some point after all the fuss about Europe has died down in Leo's neck of the woods. For, you see, we come to begin contemplating the very nature of the show itself in this two parter.

As we begin we lament the lack of interaction we have with listeners. We opine that maybe our content production focus should change to accomodate a new form of 80s kids content. Nostalgia for the 80s is fine and all, but as we have discovered, it doesn't appear to draw people in. So, we've considered what we might like our audience to be, as we have no idea. In this show we outline our plan for the content for the rest of the year in "vague mode". In part two we will inform you of the menu of delights that will form up the remainder of the content for 2019.

In the meanwhile, why not check out our social media page on facebook, if you haven't already. Interim updates will be coming via that medium for the time being. If you get involved it might even chivvy Leo and Ian into action and get that sweet, sweet content piped to your earholes even sooner.

This episode uses excerpts of Prazdniny (Vacation) by John Bartmann

Direct Link: https://archive.org/download/M003HowWeReNotCriticsPartOne/M-003-How-We_re-Not-Critics-Part-One.mp3

Metasode 2: Hello Anchor People

Hey, regular fans! This is by way of an explainer for people joining us on anchor.fm where we're also going to be releasing future casts.

Welcome Anchor-ites to the land of the 80s Kids. This isn't one of our real podcasts and, as you can see from the 2 in the title, isn't even the first "Not An Episode" of our little endeavour.

If you want explanations of what the heck we're on about then this is what this "not an episode" has in spades. If you want a "real" episode of 80s Kids goodness then you might want to check back here next week. Until then you can head over to our Facebook page or our archive (link on our profile description) to get all Revenged up in the meanwhile.

This episode uses Excerpts of Coconut Monkeyrocket's Juicy Jungle and John Bartmann's My Time Done Come, both available on Bandcamp and used under a Creative Commons License

Direct Link: https://archive.org/download/300AnchorMetasode/3-00-Anchor-Metasode.mp3

Metasode 1: Season of the 80s Kids

Regular listeners to our show may be forgiven for having been sitting in the living room, worried sick, counting flowers on the wall, smoking cigarettes (health risks notwithstanding) and watching Captain Kangaroo (on DVD obviously). Now, here we come, bedraggled, the worse for wear, our key scratching at the lock, our clompy boots not the best for tiptoeing through this house of lies.

We make our way, whispering in urgent tones, clearly assigning the blame for our misadventures amongst ourselves. And then we catch the eye of the listener, stone faced, curlers in hair, dressing gown cinched too tightly. We realise, the jig is up. We are going to have to explain where we've been since October 2015.

Okay, yes, fine we can bring the regular listener a bouquet of 2018 Summer Predictions, we can promise to do better in the future, but the damage is done. The rgular listener was thinking that we'd succumbed to podfade out there, and yet, here we are with all our 80s nostalgia, and year shows, like nothing happened. The regular listener knows that Ian hates talking about our real lives, but this is a special exception. So, we settle down for this "Not an Episode" Metasode of the 80s Kids that seeks to begin setting expectations for the years ahead.

After that, maybe we can get back to business, almost, as usual.

Direct Link: https://archive.org/download/Metasode1SeasonOfThe80sKids/Metasode-1-Season-Of-The-80s-Kids.mp3

This episode features an excerpt from Nuevo Chanson by the excellent John Bartmann.