Cranky Fanatic Lost Podcast ~ Series Finale “The End”

Sorry for the delay and the less than great audio quality. I had trouble with this file because it was so large. I thought a lot about breaking it up into two but ultimately thought this was better. Below is the text of my “goodbye speech” as read at the end of this episode:

So here we are Lost fans. The end. We’ve watched the series finale, and said our final goodbyes to this motley crew of strangers who have touched our lives so profoundly over the course of the last six years. We’ve laughed and cried, ranted and raved, and have been both entertained and educated. Over these last four years I’ve produced 112 Lost podcast episodes, totaling over 4 days of continuous audio, and 3.24 gigs of file space, with hundreds of thousands of subscriber downloads. I’ve had over 700 callers, and nearly 2,000 chatroom participants. Not a bad accomplishment for a no-name fat guy with no marketing budget and a face for radio.

So here’s a twitter inspired list of both serious and snarky things that I’m thankful for, thanks to lost:

Thanks to Lost I’ve got a recording studio in my house.
Thanks to Lost I got to interview Jorge Garcia.
Thanks to Lost peanut butter is romantic.
Thanks to Lost large men with beards are called “Mr. Friendly”.
Thanks to Lost I’m going to have to roll that back and watch it frame by frame.
Thanks to Lost for letting me know that killing someones daughter is against the rules.
Thanks to Lost I circle my house with ashes.
Thanks to Lost I’m craving Frogurt.
Thanks to Lost dead people talk backwards.
Thanks to Lost I look for hieroglyphs whenever my alarm clock goes off.
Thanks to Lost I’m suspicious of people hanging in nets. They will lie for a long time.
Thanks to Lost I end my conversations with “Namaste”.
Thanks to Lost I’ve got some Arzt on me.
Thanks to Lost my web site is the first hit on a google search for “freakin polar bears”.
Thanks to Lost I look at the game Connect Four in an entirely new way.
Thanks to Lost old ladies working in jewelry stores are creeeepy.
Thanks to Lost I fear death when it rains.
Thanks to Lost I’m naming my next dog Vincent.
Thanks to Lost I want to re-write The Empire Strikes Back with a couple of improvements.
Thanks to Lost I can give passing small talk on the subjects of philosophy, electromagnetism, juxtapositional eugenics, and parapsychology.
Thanks to Lost I have an irrational fear of polar bears.
Thanks to Lost I’m suspicious of Mary statues.
Thanks to Lost I always think of taco night when I see Nathan Fillion.
Thanks to Lost I always carry magic torches.
Thanks to Lost I randomly yell out WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALT!!!!!!!!!.
Thanks to Lost I say “Razzle Dazzle” every time I see Billy Dee Williams.
Thanks to Lost I’m not sad that Heroes got canceled.

So from the bottom of my heart, I want to give the biggest thanks that I can to the writers, producers, actors, crew, and everyone else involved in bringing this wonderful show to my life.

Extra special thanks go to Jorge Garcia for reaching out to me and being willing to be on my show. And for sending me a picture of himself holding up a copy of a newspaper to prove his identity.

I have to give special thanks to Talkshoe as well. Thanks for giving me technology that has allowed me to connect with so many people and have this amazing show. Thanks for funding my early podcast efforts and enabling me to upgrade my podcasting equipment without having to beg my listeners for money or run annoying ads. Oh, and thanks a ton for terminating your talkshoe cash program in the middle of a pay period with no warning and not ever paying me what you owe me. Thanks for having the worst uptime of any Web 2.0 service I’ve ever used. Thanks for crapping out on us Every. Single. Week.

But all snarkyness aside, more than anything else I want to thank all of my listeners. You guys rock! You have no idea how much it’s meant to me to connect with all of you. I now know people in pretty much every major city on the globe, and I’m honored and humbled. I’m overwhelmed when I think about the dozens of people who wanted to spend an hour with me each week on talkshoe, and the thousands more who downloaded each episode. Thank you so much.

So what’s next for me now? Cranky Fanatic will now go into indefinite hiatus. I’m going to be moving on from Podcasting to focus my spare time on iPhone app development. Will the call of the microphone bring me back eventually? It might. I’ve thought a lot of about using the Cranky Fanatic brand to branch out and talk about ALL of the shows that I’m watching and enjoy. If I ever do, it will definitely be on CrankyFanatic.com so it wouldn’t hurt to check back now and again. I’ve also thought it would be fun to do more stuff like our Lost Jeopardy games or play more Lost Trivia. Honestly though, once this is over and the momentum has stopped, the chances will diminish greatly.

I hope that all of you will feel free to contact me at any point in the future. My Cranky Fanatic contact page will stay up to date. I’m not very hard to find online.

I’ve had the same intro music since I took on the Cranky Fanatic name. The song is “Nothing With You” by the Descendants, and I’ll play the full song this time at the end of this episode.

My tag line for closing my shows, as long as I can remember has been “Until next time, we’ll see you”. Well, this time there may not BE a next time. So instead, I’ll just say:

See you.

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26
May

Posted by Big-O in LOST

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