You could have all of your episodes in the feed, not just the last 100 if you wished. It's fine that you don't, it's your call, but you could do that to to combat the iTunes dropping the day feeds
How is this possible?
Just add them back to the RSS feed? I don't know much about RSS, but I remember for a while when Greatest Movie Ever was moving to Libsyn Gooberzilla was altering his feed so that just the available episodes came up, and then once he had everything he got it all back in order, so I presume there is a way to add episodes and have them show up earlier in the timeline.
The Fist of the Northstar movie Fast Karate episode, and then saying "This other podcast is equally good" and linking to the home page with the most recent episodes. Also, it would be a Monday or Thursday episode. Maybe Thursday, but not Wednesday. I showed someone to Tribes episode once to get him to play Tribes with me - he didn't, but he started listening to the podcast regularly.
I agree with the Thunderdome episode. It's one of my favorites. As are many of the "How Not To Suck" ones, which I think would make good introductory episodes as well. The one where you review the Pokemon movie with Entei and the Unowns was also all kinds of hilarious. I actually wept from laughter at more than one point.
The shaving episode with Emily (even though it contains egregious scientific errors).
As much as I like both those episodes, I don't think that any episode that has a non-Scrym person in it should not be used as a sample episodes. Some of my favorite episodes are guest episodes (Comics are for Boys, Geek Profiles: Gerald), but I don't think those would be appropriate for a "sample" episode.
Ah, Side note - when you're better prepared for this in the future, why not have a couple of different options for which to give out? For example, you're going to, say, Gamercon in Generictown, you could have a mix leaning towards gaming episodes, Anime conventions, move up the Anime slider and move down the gaming slider, General cons, a mix of all four. Of course, you're going to get people at all of those with varying interests - But having a few different versions to suit different tastes can't hurt. Lure them in with what they like, and then ambush them with other good content that might not be their primary field, but they'll still enjoy.
Some of my favorite episodes are guest episodes (Comics are for Boys, Geek Profiles: Gerald), but I don't think those would be appropriate for a "sample" episode.
The question was not about sample episodes but about episodes to lure new listeners (and even for samples: not using one's best episodes? Really?). The best bait: Shaving, Masturbation, The Barge.
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