Just wanted to thank everyone who listens in on our little podcast slice of the SCA.  Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your family.  Cherish them and enjoy your time together.

Richard and Kith

A 10 time Duke!  2 in the East and 8 in Atenveldt.  He has lineage and is long and consists of many other great fighters.  He has influenced and been a part of both sides of the coasts in the SCA and has some unique experiences. 

We talk a bit about how his first armour was a full suit of Plate!  Talk about taking the plunge!  We talk a fair bit of the recent Pennsic and what his goals were as King of the East.  We also briefly explore a new topic of discussion, such as generational stylistic difference in fighting and some who fall into different catagories.  1st. Gen - The originals who formed the basis of our rules set, who I don't recall, but one would probably be Duke Paul, who sort of falls into the 2nd Gen.  Others in the 2nd Gen would be Duke Brion, Duke Brannos, Duke Palymar, Duke Lucan and others.  The 3rd Gen, who we briefly discuss might be someone like Duke Edmund or Duke Alighinan.  Of course, the 4th Gen would be those making the scene right now, such as Duke Felix, Count Michael and HRM Bardolph.

A bit of history and yet another awesome discussion with one of the great personages of the SCA!  For more information about Duke Brion, check out his household's website here.

ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

Well it has been a year since Kith and I posted our first Podcast up and WOW, it has been one hell of a ride.  During the summer months, we seemed to be able to get about 1 a week up, but as time has gone along it has gotten harder.  We are at about 1 every other week or so and very few Event Reports.  Partially because I scaled back my attendance partially as well as my declining interest in doing it as often. 

There are a LOT of folks out there, who are wonderful and I hope to get to know and interview!  We are recently reminded as a close friend and fellow fighter, who I had the pleasure of knowing over the past decade passed away, Count Sarnac of Ealdomere.  I had hoped to interview him at some point, yet it did not happen.  This is just one of the many reasons I do the interviews, because we are all only blessed with so much time to get to know one another and the SCA is a family of sorts after all.  You can read about Count Sarnac here.  If you knew him or if you can, please consider donating to a fund they have setup for his daughter, Amber.  It is one small way to ease the gapping hole many of us have and especially his wife and only daughter.

You can see our stats from the past year with the picture posted up, coutesy of our web host provider.  Our original blog/podcast was on 11-19-2005 that we were going to do this and our first recording went up on 12-10-2005!

Well I hope you still enjoy our little podcast when we put stuff up Hopefully I find more time to make it happen.  If you really enjoy the show, please consider providing us feedback with comments here on the site, donate some money via the Paypal link at the right and/or buy some Pain Bank Merchandise as it will help cover costs of equipment, the website hosting and make it just a bit more worth the time spent away form our families when we are doing this.

Richard fitzWilliams and Kith the Silent

Well, this one is a bit late, as we recorded it on 8-31-2006 just after Pennsic, but I finally finished editing it!  At the time, Michael was King of Artemisia as well!  I hope you like it as we certainly did.  It was wonderful to meet Michael at Pennsic and cross swords with him, but even more so to get an interview with him and talk about what it is like being a Rock Star at Pennsic, aka Royalty!  As it was his first time there, it was also fun to get to hear his stories about that part.  Oh ya, he is only 29 years old and reigned as an Unbelted King! 

We learn a bit about the kingdom of Artemisia, which is one of those out west big kingdoms.

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