COMMIECAST
The COMMIECAST was the short lived official podcast for COMMUNISM in 2014, during the 3rd Golden Age.
| The COMMIECAST | |
|---|---|
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| Presentation | |
| Hosted by | Shelarahn, Pigeon |
| Starring | Shelarahn, Prude, Pigeon, varied COMMIEs |
| Genre | Comedy, Slice of Life |
| Length | Varied |
| Production | |
| Opening theme | Государственный гимн СССР |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 5 (4 audio, 1 video) |
| Publication | |
| Original release | July 5th, 2014 – August 27th, 2014 |
| Related shows | Bimmercast |
History
The WIDEVERSE had long dabbled in "content creation", reaching all the way back to the lost Karazhan raid videos of 2007. After the launch of the COMMUNISM Revival, Shelarahn had taken what he had learned while in Friend Zone and begun creating clips of the boys antics. This proved especially successful while on Wildstar, where COMMUNISM leveraged YouTube videos as part of their forum posting, especially when recruiting new members.
Fresh on the back of that, and with a fresh influx of new faces from Wildstar, Shelarahn set out to start putting out a podcast comprised mostly of random and off the cuff voice call recordings.
The show only lasted for 5 episodes, however, with interest beginning to wane as well as a lack of new material being created. Eventually it was abandoned all together, but it would remain references for many years, with a few earnest attempts to maybe start it again, especially a year or two later after COMMUNISM folded into BMW, when a potential "Bimmercast" was considered, but never realized.
The shows spiritual successor, The BEEF STREAM, debuted on January 17th of 2022.
Format
Mumble, Raidcall, and even some historical Ventrilo recordings were used as material for the podcast, as opposed to the traditional concept of purposefully recorded sessions. Each episode would consist of 1-4 different clips that were recorded during voice chats, rarely ever matching a theme or having any relevance to each other.
Episodes
(Quotes taken from YouTube descriptions)
- Episode 1 (July 5th, 2014)[1]: "The long awaited monument to our stupidity is live! That will show all those people we hated in high school! In this weeks episode we introduce the audience to our cast of despicable characters and some of the general themes that you can come to expect from the COMMIECAST. In Act I, Daniel grills Skyler, Chris' girlfriend, on her motives in dating Chris. Act II, Devin brings Donny a late Christmas present on New Years Eve when he texts his schlong to her. Act III, We have a serious insightful conversation on Sonic sperging
- Episode 2 (July 5th, 2014)[2]: In this episode, Chris takes the reigns and we talk about privileged white boy problems.
- Episode 3 (July 8th, 2014)[3]: Act I: Daniel recounts his week stay in a hospital. Act II: Chris' reveals his mother is e-dating. Act III: Daniel reviews Chris' questionable game playing time.
- Episode 4 (Jul 19, 2014)[4]: Chris takes the helm again and Daniel raises his autistic flag high.
- Video Episode (Aug 27, 2014)[5]: The COMMIE CREW and our exploits and fuck ups in Rust.