I think I'm going to do a little research into how we can do this as I think it would be a lot of fun. If anyone has any links on how to podcast or places to host a podcast post them here, and I'll do the same as I learn.

Love this idea! I do not have enough comic knowledge to host but I would be an avid follower and guest if needed!

Also, on a semi quasi related note....anyone do collection or haul videos on Youtube? I follow a few guys on there, it is kinda fun to see people's stuff that way rather than reading of it. Just wondering cuz if an of you do, let me know so I can follow!

Pol Rua has been involved in podcasting. Possibly he can chime in when it's no longer the misty morning time in Aussie land.

Once you have the recorded file, the software can convert it to MP3 format and you can post it to youtube, soundcloud, filedropper, etc.

Getting a podcast out there for people to listen to is not too difficult. At the most basic level you can simply just record yourselves, host the sound file on a free hosting site like divshare, then make the download file available to people (make a new tab on the CFF homepage and post the links in there) and you've got yourself a podcast.

Making it good on the other hand is going to take a little bit of money and a lot of time. Skipping the time you would spend preparing for the content of the show, let's just talk about recording and editing. Everyone participating needs a mic. There's nothing worse than a podcast with bad sound quality and it all starts with the mic. Expect to invest between $50-$100 on a serviceable mic. Now that everyone has a mic, everyone should get Skype. Skype has recording add-ons. Unfortunately, none of them are free anymore. $20 seems to be the cheapest these days. Everyone needs to get one (preferably the same one so you have matching files) so that they can each record the conversation as it sounds from their end. This is important because your own voice will sound best from your end of the recording as it won't have been compressed and degraded by Skype to be able to send it to the other participants in real time. From here comes editing. I was thinking about writing about editing the audio but I think that is an entire post unto itself. To give a brief overview of the process, you take all of the recordings and layer and sync them in an audio editing program such as Audacity. Once in Audacity you can do any little touch ups you either want or need to do such as filtering out any "noise", cutting the conversation so that it "flows better" or adding intro and outro music.

And that's not the only way to record. That's just one way of getting a decent Skype recording for a podcast. Of course, that's just production value. You can probably skimp on some of that and get away with it if you have an interesting format/group of people/topics to discuss. So really put in effort on your content. Be entertaining. That might seem obvious, but it's actually really hard to get across.

Oh yeah, and if you're going to put that much effort already, then you might at well set up an RSS feed and submit the podcast to iTunes.

I've done multiple podcasts that way, which is why I started my post saying that barebones you can do it that way. But from my experience recordings can vary wildly. Some of the sessions I recorded were passable. Others were atrocious (even for our purposes, which was just to record for our friends). Here's a way to mitigate that.

Of course, that is an investment to go that route. So my initial post can be looked at as an option for "the next step" if a group on here can put together an idea that gains steam.