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On December 9, 2010, NSFW was selected as one of the iTunes Best of 2010 for podcasts. (They listed it under audio...which means the video version must have been too much to handle!) | On December 9, 2010, NSFW was selected as one of the iTunes Best of 2010 for podcasts. (They listed it under audio...which means the video version must have been too much to handle!) | ||
Revision as of 19:43, 12 December 2010
NSFW the evolution of BBLiveShow into (an attempt at) a professional show. NSFW is part of the TWiT Netcast Network and hosted by Brian Brushwood and Justin Robert Young. It premiered on November 24, 2009 with guests Leo Laporte and Alex Albrecht playing Name That Autocomplete.
Show Format
Each episode begins with a viral video (sometimes suggested by the chat room, others chosen by Brian or Justin in advance). Usually they play two or three quick games with their guest that take up about half of the show, before getting on with the main event which takes up the second half. Recordings are made of each episode and are available as a podcast (or "netcast" as Leo says). Like the BBLiveShow before it, the "after show" that follows the live broadcast is not included in the podcast.
Acronym
The "NSFW" name itself does not always literally mean "Not Safe For Work". When introducing the show, Brian interprets the acronym as the "New Show Full of Win" and "New Sauce For the Webernets." Others include:
- Not Sure? Fail Whale
- Naughty Samurai Fighting Woodchuck
- Now Serving Fantastic Waffles
- New Show Fails Weekly
- New Science For the World (used in #27)
- Never Suck Fapper's Willie
Fans
Fans of the show were dubbed "Dolphin Fuckers" by King Leo during a TWiT recording on April 11, 2010 as a reference to the dolphin puppet incident.
The term chat realm was made popular to refer to the chat room during The Scream Queens vs. Zombie President.
Awards
On December 9, 2010, NSFW was selected as one of the iTunes Best of 2010 for podcasts. (They listed it under audio...which means the video version must have been too much to handle!)
Name Change
Brian, Justin, Leo, and others at TWiT suspect that the "NSFW" name is making some potential fans avoid the show. Those people may be expecting truly Not Safe For Work content while the show is actually quite "PG" and tame. This has prompted discussions about renaming the show starting in the summer of 2010 with fans lobbying for names like "Night Attack" and "This Podcast Is Awesome" among many others.
In October 2010, it was announced that a new name had been selected. However, the name as well as the method of introduction has yet to be determined.
Technical Details
NSFW is the only TWiT show that handles its switching locally (via Brian on Vidblaster); where other remotely-produced TWiT shows' participants connect to and handle production through the TWiT Cottage, Brian does all the production and video switching from his home and the TWiT Cottage essentially serves as a receiver to record and edit the audio/video for release to podcast. Though TWiT captures the show, Brian also records locally in case of all-too-frequent technical failures.
None of this applies, of course, if Brian is away from home or is physically at the Cottage; in such cases, all show participants connect to the Cottage as normal and the engineer on board (initially Colleen Kelly; more recently John Slanina) will handle the production. In such cases, a different set of "lower third" graphics are used as opposed to the usual NSFW bug that appears in the lower left-hand corner when Brian is producing from home.
NSFW is rarely rerun on the TWiT live stream, presumably for content reasons or tech failures... or because the engineer forgets to put it in the queue or most likely: Leo is embarrassed of the show.
Fan-made Promo