Tales from the Stinky Dragon - [Second Wind] Infinight Infirms Pt 1

Episode Date: October 24, 2023

Jon, Barbara, and Micah talk about the crew that creates Stinky Dragon, what's been happening with Stinky Dragon Adventures, and a competition to determine the best Risinger! Support us at stinkydragonpod.com/first ! Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/roosterteeth Check out our merch and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and more: https://linktr.ee/TalesFromTheStinkyDragon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey stinkers, this is a special release just for you. Second Wind is a special bonus show that first subscribers get access to. We talk about the episode, character choices, and give you a more behind-the-scenes peek at what's going on in the Stinky Dragon world. If you want to catch up on all the previous Second Winds, you can sign up to be a first member at stinkydragonpod.com slash first and catch up on everything you missed. blurb goblur everyone and welcome to second win our bonus show just for you extra stinkers out there we're here to hang out talk about the show uh just vibe um maybe roll some dice um

roll roll a d20 what do you got? Do we... Oh, gosh. 11. I don't have it prepared. I got real dice. I got a... Seven. Micah?

15. 15. Micah wins the roll off. I love how Micah has a keyboard and a keyboard. Yeah. He's got his computer. Gotta be ready to compose at a moment's notice um speaking of dice i might as well go ahead if uh it hasn't been made clear quite yet um i'm not sure when

we're releasing them but we actually are working on another set of stinky dragon dice um just to let you guys know uh they are so pretty yeah we're um we're theming these one after grotesque and so uh while the first one was our like you know infinites you know stinky dragon green and gold this one's got some grotesque vibes to it so a little spookier a little more gothic um very excited about that and uh we'll have more info on that soon um but uh we should probably introduce ourselves oh yeah far into in case you don't know i'm john reisinger i play uh mud bramblecrack or metis confuses um in the show i like how it's an or well i mean we we uh we're doing infinites this this this episode i know this is This is an infinite bonus show.

But I'm Barbara Dunkelman, and I play Bart in the Infinite campaign and Elga Von Brath in the Roteth campaign. And then lastly, we have a special guest. Micah Reisinger. I write the show. I help edit the show with David, and I make music for the show. Have we, like, I don't know if we've ever like made it very clear like what everyone is contributing to the show like on a roles level i i say this only because

i i want to make it very clear uh this show is not made by a like a cacophony of people in the background, like a huge team of support. It is genuinely like made and performed by mostly everyone who you see in the show or here in the show. And so that's it. Yep. Yeah. We, you know,

we've got the, the cast of us that you see in every episode of the, of the four of us plus Gus. And then Micah made it very clear what his roles are with the show and everything like that we also have 15 yeah you got 15 very good um we've also we also have david who is our associate producer slash audio editor slash social manager and that kind of thing he he he is very kind to take on many hats in order to help make sure he's the zero and ones yeah yeah he he pushes all the buttons and keeps things posted and

updated and everything like that um and then we have ben who is our producer um and ben is uh ben's doing everything in between. I got to be honest. He is the DM behind the DM with Micah, helping with questions about Dungeons & Dragons rules while we're recording. He's also... Breath of knowledge. Yeah, he's running the cameras while we're doing Second Wind.

He's coordinating with anybody who's working on our our website at stinky dragon pod.com and making sure that looks all pretty and everything like that merchandise and all our merchandise he's coordinating with that with myself and everything like that and then he's also he's he's he's everything behind the scenes um i just want to make that clear like that team is small and mighty yeah that's that's that's basically our stinky dragon uh team um and uh and i i think i love that uh everybody is um contributing i mean like you know blaine and chris uh have been uh directing and writing stinky dragon adventures um and helping with that kind of stuff barbara uh serves as lead puppeteer on set for stinky dragon adventures i go see them all the time in the office and i just see them having

these like sock puppets they're just talking to each other and in this we're not even rolling cameras it's so yeah yeah they're just doing that kind of thing um i call it method i don't understand but yeah it's been really fun we've been we've been hard to work on that show the stinky dragon adventures which is a our full-length puppet show which i know a lot of people watching this podcast and hopefully this bonus show um might have found our podcast through the puppet videos we've been making on social which are just clips from directly from the podcast uh but the show is going to be full-length puppet shows of like adapted stories from the first campaign. So there's going to be, you know, familiar characters, new characters, new kind of plot lines, but all in the same kind of universe.

And like just adapted essentially from the wonderful writings of Micah. Yeah. There's you. What? And not to put a plug inside of a plug. And not to put a plug inside of a plug, but if you want to see some BTS stuff, you guys as first members, you have access to our Discord and specifically our first only Discord channel. We're posting stuff in there. We're also posting stuff in the BTS channel.

But I highly recommend you go there because they're posting photos. They're posting videos. I saw people on the subreddit were excited because barbara you went live on instagram and uh we're showing people like a tour of the show and you uh you let people see a special new character you gave a little bit of a of a sneak peek to a new character that appears in sneaky dragon adventures yeah we can't i saw some speculation of people talking about who that character might be but a lot of the speculation was of characters that appears in Stinky Dragon Adventures. Yeah. I saw some speculation of people talking about who that character might be. But a lot of the speculation was of characters that were in the first

campaign of who that might be. Some characters you see might be brand new ones written for the show. I'm just going to say. I'm really excited for people to see it. It's a huge labor of love. The entire crew for that show is like seven people total. You have Blaine and Chris directing. You have me doing puppeteering. Cody huge labor of love the entire crew for that show is like seven people total um you know you have

blaine and chris directing you have me doing puppeteering cody hawkins on on lighting and gaffing and also puppeteering you got cameron pester on camera who's just a fantastic dp um ashley jones who's essentially like our set pa she does like everything gets us lunch and runs the slate and all that jazz and then Marla who is our producer I think that's it am I missing someone Ash of course oh my gosh Ash Schmidt who is our art

director for the show so like anything that you see visually and of course Patty Reisinger who's made all of our amazing little puppets I think I've heard of her they tell have i told you guys about the conversation i had to have with my kid about uh a request for their grandma did i tell you guys about this i know this yeah um so before my mom was making

dolls for stinky dragon as gifts was there ever a time this is the day you were born um she's always been crafting i can at least say that each of you throughout each year of your life yeah my mom has always been crafting and has always been doing all kinds of different kinds of crafts um uh but before she was doing dolls for the show she was making dolls often for um the family as well as especially my kids. I'm her favorite son because I'm the only child that gave her grandchildren so far. She told me different. And so she told me that I was her favorite. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That tracks. So she's been making that kind of stuff. So often my kids on their birthdays and Christmas, they can expect, or even just a visit, um, from Mimi. Um, they would get toys. And so,

uh, recently me and my kids, we've been watching a lot of blue eats. One of our favorite shows, especially me and my youngest. Um, there you go. Um,

and, uh, my youngest was like, oh man, we should ask Mimi to make, uh, some bluey dolls. Um, and I was like oh man we should ask mimi to make uh some bluey dolls um and i was like that's a great idea and then like a week later uh my kid asked me like oh did you ask mimi to do this i was like and i realized during that time i was like mimi's busy because my because we had just commissioned our my mom to make like a myriad of like new puppets for Stinky

Dragon Adventures and so I had to tell my kids like Mimi can't make your dolls right now because Mimi's working Mimi's pumping Mimi's a doll making machine right now trying to make all these new dolls for the show and so once Stinky Dragon Adventures wraps then we can go back to Mimi and ask Mimi to make you toys Mimi's gonna have to do some serious repairs on all the boys after the show is done because they are getting put through the ringer with this show. They're so well crafted and so well made. But boy, were they not designed to be manhandled by our team. Well, I think that's, I don't know if we've made that clear. I want to make that clear right now.

They were not intended to be puppets for a, for video production. They were genuinely just these gifts that my mom sent everybody. Cause I think Stinky Dragon might be the first like production I've ever been participating in where my family can fully enjoy watching it because it's not only is it very fun and very well made, but it's also like a little bit more family friendly which is more of their vibe um and so our entire family micah and i our entire

family listens to the show and enjoys it and two of us are involved in it now too yeah and that and that yeah i've done stuff for you in the past but like this is the first one i'm like fully in on yes that was also like an easy in was that you know it's almost like i'm the favorite son or i don't know yeah i don't want to put words in people's mouths but i just heard things yeah it's fine you know you can think that maybe maybe we'll do a dice roll up at the end of this to figure out exactly yeah brother dice roll followed by us wrestling i also yeah well you know i'd actually be curious to see who would win that. I feel like Micah would be a lot more feisty than we give him credit for.

Sorry, I'm in a weight class above him. I've always been the heftier Reisinger son. Not when I was one. When I was one, I was like a beefy boy. Beefy boy. We have a dog to prove it. Yeah, he came out as just the biggest chunk. And then I don't think he gained weight ever since is what it is.

Just like stretched, just stretched out. We made that joke about my younger brother too, about how he just stretched out instead of out. You have the tall younger brother. Yeah. Yeah. Tall, slim younger brother. I do want to make sure we talk about this episode. That's a good one. tell slim younger brother um i do want to make sure we talk about this episode and what we're doing obviously like this bonus show is like a mix between like us just catching up talking about

what we're up to and and also of course the episode that we just recorded um so i had no idea we were gonna be doing this uh until micah messaged like hey you guys should review your campaign one characters be familiar with their spells and then i asked because we were in stinky dragon adventures production and i was like hey why do we need to know what our like like review our first campaign characters like what are we doing and blaine's like oh we're gonna be doing like a special uh one shot like two-parter thing and i was like what that's amazing um because I think we all have missed our campaign one characters of course and are excited to do this special thing but I'm curious like why like why are we doing this what uh kind of spurred the idea it was I can't remember who

originated it might have been a Chris suggestion um but uh it was mostly like with stinky dragon adventures being a show that showcases the original campaign infinite characters we thought uh it would be fun to highlight that and just kind of uh celebrate that whole campaign um with this kind of a tie-in so we're all kind of having a little return moment to the infinite interns while the that stinky dragon adventures is coming out um because i mean it's part like yes it's for fun because we like these characters we adore these characters it's a campaign that will be special yeah they'll be special to us for forever um and then it also like i'll be, it's also part of like, we just want to do everything we can to let people know about Stinky Dragon Adventures. Because it is the biggest endeavor we've done thus far, as far as like a production.

And we're putting so much time, effort, and resources into it. We just want to do everything we can to showcase this amazing thing. Because it like, just like the show stinky dragon avengers even more i'm like everyone needs to see what you guys are making i haven't even seen edits of what we're making but every time i see i go into the room and check and check out what you guys are doing or see any videos or pictures i am agog with just glee uh because it's beautiful it's puppets i've always micah can attest to this i've always been the puppets kid i was muppets of every everything jim henson i adored and so this is i'm just like i'm so happy so yeah we're just trying to like we're trying to do our best to

make sure everybody's like yo this is out you should check it out um yeah that's why that's awesome and i think that's a great idea too and i i'm curious too micah i saw that you posted and i want to know if it's related you posted like i think it was on twitter or something like that saying that like you just finished writing something that like a story you've been really excited to tell i assume that's related to this i don't know someone's got secrets and i don't know who it is could be you this is definitely involved with that yeah

I was I had these ideas in my mind a while back like when Ben I think approached me and said like you know infinite kind of stuff I was like okay like I was worried at first because like it was so well bookended I was like what do we do after um, I was worried at first. Cause like it, it was so well bookended.

It was like, what do we do after that? And, uh, but I was like, I have ideas of what we could, who we could bring back and, and that kind of stuff. And so I think,

I think it'll be fun. You guys done the first half so far. And the second half is even, it was even, it's going to even one up that I think. Yeah. I'm excited to see what happens in the part two. Um,

I think the audience is going to adore the fact that it's little Jimmy themed. Oh my gosh. I also noticed, I don't know if you guys saw, but when we record our podcast remotely, we're recording remotely today, which is why we're all in our individual homes. Yeah. But I was watching, we have our webcams on so we could actually like see each other when we record just like we do in person. so we could actually see each other when we record, just like we do in person. But when Gus was recounting what all the characters were up to and kind of how we ended the campaign,

I saw Blaine getting a little misty-eyed. It looked like he was getting a little emotional, and it was really sweet. I think this story and these characters just mean so much to us. That's true for me, too. When I was writing this, I found moments where I'm like, oh, wow, these characters have really been, this story has really become part of me,

which is true of when you create something for so long, it's just inherently, like I remember the final episodes of the campaign, writing that or editing that, I was just weeping, making music for it especially because the themes just kind of capture emotions for me. And that's so true. I think it's across the board too with the audience. I remember seeing so many people react to the end of the uh infinite campaign of like

anyone else just like crying on the bus listening to this or like when people say they're doing a repeat listen that's so great um well i i i'll i'll close this out since we've been recording a good amount. We all got to go have lunch, and then we're going to record the second part of it. So we got a big day of recording ahead of us. But I have a question that Barbara, actually both you and Micah made me think about. We just recorded that episode. So Micah, you haven't gotten to the editing room or anything like that. That you know of.

Do you have thoughts on... He's editing right now. We're doing it at the same time. We're going to have a new song. Our happy birthday. Our happy birthday song. What are you going to do with that? Are you going to do something with it?

I want to try. Do you have time? You're going to have time? Yeah, that's the part. That's the hard part. If I have enough time, I will try to put some You have time? That's the part. If I have enough time, I will try to put some stuff in there. That's every week. That way I do

editing for this show. What decisions do I make that I focus music on? I wish I could do music for every moment of the show, but that's just impossible. That's 90 minutes of music. We already gave you a perfect song. You just got to add a melody to it, right? I got the kazoo, so that's one. I know.

The whole time Chris is going, We already gave you a perfect song. You just got to add a melody to it, right? I got the kazoo, so that's one. I know. I know. The whole time Chris is going, like covering his nose the whole time. It was great. So funny. Yeah. I hope you either sample that for something or help with our birthday song.

Either way. Just a remix social video. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mike is going to run out of time time and we're going to get to the edit and all it's going to be is just like a staccato piano note with our stupid song. Yeah. And that's all it's going to be.

And it still would be fun. I know it would be amazing. Yeah. It's a, we're, we always love getting to record the podcast and I think getting to do, you know, a revisit to the first campaign has been great,

but yeah. Stinky dragon Adventures again to remind you guys comes out in November it's a huge production we are literally filming from 9 a.m to 7 p.m every day and like every moment of those hours is packed with figuring out how to get a shot setting up a set and if you want you could check out our Instagram live where we actually archive the video on our account if you want to see. But you'll see how it takes like literally half an hour to set up and get just one quick like movement.

And so it is definitely a very tough show to make, but we love it. And we love you guys who watch the show and help support us. So please spread the word when it comes out and check it out. It's a labor of love and we appreciate your support. Okay. And listen to part two of this. Yeah. Let's go have lunch and record some more D&D.

All right. Thanks all. Brother roll off. Oh yeah, brother roll off. Place your bets. No modifiers. 13. I got, oh wait, I rolled a D6.

It just automatically did a D6. You lose. You lose. I win. Wait. You lose. 17. 17. 17 d6. You lose, you lose, I win. You lose. 17, 17, 17. Okay, you win this one.

All right, thanks all. Until next brother roll off. I mean, second win. Bye. Blurble, blurble. Blurble, blurble.