Rippercast- The Jack the Ripper Podcast

[Jake L]

I've been catching up lately...and the podcasts are a great way of doing it.

Besides, it's nice to be able to look forward to Mondays

Thanks to all those involved!

PS The title for the Philip episode gave me fits!!!!

[jmenges]

We're beginning to get questions from the Ripper community for Stephen Ryder. Keep them coming!

JM

[Mike Covell]

This will be yet another fantastic show, I for one am really excited by this landmark event.

great stuff Mr. Menges,

[jmenges]

Episode #8

Episode #8 of Rippercast, to be recorded Sunday, April 6...

Special Guest: researcher, author, and father of Casebook.org Stephen P. Ryder

We are happy to have Stephen Ryder as our upcoming guest!

A new feature of Rippercast is Listener Questions. If you have a question or two you would like the hosts of Rippercast to address to Stephen Ryder, please email them to rippernet@mac.com, or PM questions to myself, Howard Brown, Mike Covell or Robert McLaughlin (RJM). This episode records at Sunday 2pm EST/6pm UK. So get your questions in before that time.

We are all looking forward to the next episode of the podshow and thank Mr. Ryder for agreeing to appear!

JM

[Howard Brown]

Brick:

If I could get Mr. DeLocksley on...would you hire ( and pay me ) on at your job? Menges is tighter than a fishes you know what with the dollar.

Find his email address and I'll lie and tell him I'm related to Maid Marian ( I had an uncle in Marion Prison,Illinois...whats the diff,right?)...we ought to have a pretty good show. Failing that, we could get Alan Sharp. Again, whats the diff?

Brick II

[George Hutchinson]

Please get De Locksley on. It would be the best show EVER.

PHILIP

[Monty]

John,

I second Hows proposal, that would make great listening.

I would also like to hear researchers and ideaists, if possible, such as Rob Clack, Glenn Andersson, Debra Arif, Chris Scott, Gavin Bromley and, may I suggest, Jake Luukanen. He knows a bit too...just to name a handful.

Monty

[Howard Brown]

John:

It would be nice if you and Colin Roberts could appear either separately or together.

Nick:

Thanks for the plug for the show...and Dan Norder too.

[John Bennett]

Phil's interview was my introduction to Rippercast and as somebody who knows the man, has done the tour and read the book (I don't have the T-shirt yet), I found it entertaining and facinating.

I'm now working my way through the others.

Top stuff and well done to all - technical things scare me!

JB

[Mike Covell]

The case is so huge and diverse that we could do an hour long show every week forever!!
The C5 shows will be intresting and I am aware loads of lovely people will be making appearances on the show, which is a treat for both listeners and the participants.
There also a couple of other ideas in the pipeline but these will be revealed in good time.
If, of course you have any ideas, contact Jonathon or post them on here and they will be addressed!!

Welcome to the boards

[jmenges]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the feedback. The "new" music was just a one-off for the Philip show. One of his (and my) favorite bands are the Icelandic group Sigur Ros. So I put one of their numbers on the episode as the theme. Morrissey will be back as the show theme next week, although I kind of liked the Sigur Ros music, it seemed to fit somehow.

Nick,

Thanks for listening!

Yes, we plan on doing a show eventually on all the C5. We'll be doing a weekly show until the case is solved, at which point there will be a 90 minute extravaganza.

I believe, but don't hold a gun to my head on this, that the next 'victim' show will be Eddowes. And it may occur in the next month.

Most of our shows run slightly over one hour and there's several reasons for keeping it this length. Firstly, it's just part of the human condition that most people do not want to listen to anything that lasts any more than an hour. We want to get the most listeners comfortable to download and hear an entire episode. Secondly, the size of the mp3 file would increase by half, which may cause slower page loading times. The smaller file size the better, not only for the website itself, but for the people who download it to their hard-drives. And last but not least, the time difference between here and the UK means that any longer of a show and we'd be keeping Mr. Covell up past his bed-time, away from his famiy etc. so we try to limit it.

Any point on a subject that we miss, we encourage listeners to email us their comments. And just because we have done a show on a certain topic in the past does not mean that we cannot revisit it in a future episode.

I'll leave it at that for now, thanks again for your comment and welcome to the Casebook boards, you lurker!

JM

[Dan Norder]

I listened to the episode (with Kelly, of course) and also enjoyed it. It's always interesting to hear the routes people have taken to end up in with an interest in the Ripper case.

What's with the new music at the start of the episode, by the way? I had trouble getting the podcast to load on the first try, and then when it did I thought I had accidentally gotten the wrong show entirely.

[Nick]

Long time lurker here guys - but I have listened to all the podcasts so far and they are getting better and better. How about extending some to 90 mins? ie, those involving each of the C5 victims.

Will you also be covering suspects as well later on?


Thanks,
Nick

[jmenges]

Silliness.

You should all be fired.

JM

[Mike Covell]

No but i have an old sky box, only one previous owner, and I think Jonathon has plenty of used headsets!!