We’re showing the premiere of Say Hello to Black Jack’s second season after the Popcorn Roulette movie night of Space Jam in downtown Haverhill, Massachusetts. So if you’re local, feel free to join us! It’s gonna be a fun time! You can find out more about the Popcorn Roulette movie nights here!

    Recently, I watched Austin McConnel’s video “i made a movie. it stunk.”  In it, McConnel talks about the one feature length movie he made after achieving a string of successes with short films.  Sprouting Orchids (2013), broke him.  And this video is an attempt to share every lesson he could salvage from that Read more about On Editing[…]

  The Internet was down for three days.  It’s no fun when that happens, but luckily Say Hello to Black Jack was saved to my computer on pdfs, and I took this opportunity to slam out the rest of the scripts for Season Two. Fifteen scripts is a tricky proposition.  Season one contained five episodes, Read more about 15 Scripts for Season Two: Complete[…]

The First Forty-Five Days—How Does Our Audience Add Up?   According to Libsyn, “The median number of downloads for an episode that has been live for 30 to 60 days is around 160.” The key word here is ‘median’. Libsyn is talking about the average show, not the average number of downloads.  Otherwise, shows in Read more about So Who’s Listening To This Podcast, Anyway?[…]

  When I first started this project, I could only find 23 issues of Say Hello to Black Jack translated into English. Episode 23 ends abruptly. But I knew Shuho Sato experienced problems with his publisher, and chose to go to a different magazine to publish a continuation of his manga called ‘The New Say Read more about I Just Hit the Motherload[…]

I’ve been poking at Reddit for the last two weeks, learning how to promote the podcast without being a nuisance.  For years, I tried convincing myself that I should be an active part of the community, so if something important like SH2BJ came up, I could promote it, and people will listen.  I should listen to myself Read more about Learning to Reddit[…]

Added ‘Say Hello to Black Jack’ to every podcast directory I could find.  Maybe thirty total?  That’s a day’s work unto itself.  The first couple of hours were spent dealing with iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and TuneIn.  Well worth my time.  By the time I got to hour four, however, I was scraping through potentially dead servers to add Read more about All the Directories[…]