phpBB Weekly #082: Bertie Mons Presidential Debate
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Episode Duration: 1:23:18
On This Episode: Douglas Bell (Fountain of Apples), David Lewis (Highway of Life), Paul Sohier (Paul), Sean (House, representing Lyndon Bertie Johnson), Tim (T50Webmaster, representing Sir Bertie Jr.), harmlessgoat22 (representing Barack O’Bertie), and Jordan (Hank the Cowdog, representing Albertie Einstein)
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The excitement in our President Bertie Election Contest is really heating up, now with four very strong, very active candidates, campaigning to be elected the next president of Bertie Mons. We invited the campaign managers of the candidates to join us on the show (since Berties can’t talk for themselves unless there’s a ventriloquist nearby) to participate in a presidential debate discussing each candidate’s plans for the future of Bertie Mons if they are elected.
Unfortunately, running an eight-way Skype call (with half of those participants happening via SkypeOut on the phone) caused technical difficulties, making Douglas impossible to be heard by anyone except David, so that wound up flubbing us up a bit. Nevertheless, we did have an interesting debate, with some, um, interesting conclusions. It will be up to SCOFF Media to detect any gaffes that the candidates made during this debate. Also, two of the candidates were forced to leave early towards the end; we will be posting their answers to the questions that they missed on the forum within the next day or so.
We also spent a little time discussing the phpBB MOD Team’s announcement about Junior Validators, a new group of potential MOD team members who will help out with validation and get trained for the future potential of becoming a full-fledged MOD validator. If you want to apply, make sure you’re familiar with the validation checklist, and fill out the application form.
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Doug I could hear you, I sorta wasn’t paying much attention to the questions when they were asked the first time.
I could hear T50Webmaster and David the best. Harmlessgoat22 was a little muffled, House was quiet, and Doug was breaking up every other word. :/ It cleared up after harmlessgoat22 left, though.
That’s a bad idea
I could hear Doug and David and Jordan, but and a little bit of T50, but couldn’t here Sean or Paul at all. I mean, I heard them, but it sounded muffled…I always heard the questions, but then they’d say Barack O’Bertie, and I’d usually only hear “Bertie”, and you know, there are a couple people with “Bertie” in their Bertie’s name, so I was like “Me???” haha.
Certainly one of the more interesting (and entertaining) episodes.
*laughs* I had the urge to listen to this again, love it. Pity about Sean and the whole not hearing thing. Well I guess these things happen and it added to it. Loved the whole campaign, will it happen again this year? (why be every 4 years? it’s too long!).
Brilliant stuff, long live cookies!
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