I am not a real appreciater of music, i was was a main sstream guy, only listening to whatever was on the radio. It was the war of the worlds crossover that I decided to give the real congregation a chance. I have been listening to it from the most recent to November of last year so far and I am loving it. Marc really got me looking towards the unconventional with eagerness. I can’t wait to hear it all.

Marc as a short time listener I thank you for all the hard work and passion you put into the show. I look forward to hearing you from time to time maybe catch a show at the geek easy.
But most of all 8 thank you for playing Johnathan Richmond’s morning of our lives. Both your example and that song might be the real shove to start achieving something that I thought I didn’t have the skill for. Even if in the end it turns out i didn’t have the skills i will still be thankful for your unconscious act of helping someone like me.

enjoy whatever it is you will do. Cherish the time with your family and keep on smiling.

Yeah @marcfi, you definitely Shyamalan’d me with that announcement. I can think of a few reasons why the show had to go the way of the buffalo, and I can certainly relate to the time commitment pressures, but I’ll miss it for sure. I’ve really only been keeping up with the Prime episodes, DnD, the Nerd Groove, and the real congregation, so losing this one will be a bummer. I don’t know where I’m going to get my strange records of the week now…

It’s been about a week since the episode was released, so I thought I’d start responding to things all in one big go-round.

I know, I know, twist ending. It felt better to me going out with the actual congregation representing themselves rather than a big wind-up about “OMG LAST SHOW EVER”. A bunch of things in my career are ending, and I was a little sick of making a big deal of that sort of thing. Also, if everyone knew the show was ending, why bother listening? You could see a headline and simply keep scrolling. I announced it in the episode, because the end of the show only mattered to listeners. Hope that makes sense.

@Ice Abyzz: Thank you. When I received Cap’s speech via voice mail, it was the first time that I got choked up about the end of the show. A fact that may not be widely known about me is that when I’m making something – a song, a show, etc – I’m “all business” to a fault. I become very “eyes on the prize” about the end result and often leave emotion completely out of it. Cap’s comments reminded me of why I wanted to do the show in the first place and really touched my heart.

@Armadon: Those words mean so much to me. I’m touched that through the show, you felt motivated and had your horizons broadened. I’m still on “the journey” but being very busy had led me to skipping days at a time. When I don’t have time to listen to and fixate on at least one record per day, you know that’s a heavy sort of busy, right? So yes, but I won’t be chronicling it. That being said, Cap and I have discussed the possibility of doing the odd “special edition” of TRC here and there on the network, but nothing is etched in stone. The show is dead as a going concern for right now, but there is a possibility of one-shots in the future.

@delphi: Wow. You’ve really opened up a Pandora’s Box of questions and emotions. I’ll do my best to satiate your curiosity. I’m not sure how much I can say here, and if I hit on something that’s a little too “in the know”, @cap should feel free to come in and edit those things out. What you’d noticed about TRC’s absence from Soundcloud is pretty on the money. The decision to end TRC was made much earlier this year than you probably anticipated, and it truly was a product of a mixture between the following:

-the new distribution model not being terribly conducive to TRC’s format
-TRC was increasingly not making sense on the network (in my eyes, at least)
-I was swamped with other projects and didn’t feel able to fully devote myself to the show any longer.

Any ennui from me that you may have noticed probably had more to do with an overall attitude and certainly not one directed at TRC or Nerdy Show. I love the show, the network and will still be around when I’m able and needed.

@max: Thank you so much for listening to and supporting the show. If you truly find yourself in the depths of despair without “strange records”, I can point you in the direction of some websites that may satiate you. You’ll just have to wade through them to find the “cream of the crap”, which can be arduous and off-putting. Take it from someone who knows.

Thank you all so much for letting me into your eardrums. “Marc With a C” as an entity will continue unabated, it’s just that some of the things I do are being pared down a bit. It’s been an honor to entertain you here. I’ll be around 🙂

As are the Audrey controlled episodes

I have at least five TFCs I’ve been developing and wanting to record (if only there was time). But if they’ll be actually show’s called “The Fake Congregation”, I couldn’t say. If TRC was still happening there’d be no question – it’s a great format and our iTunes feed for TRC is still open, but I wouldn’t want to be disrespectful to TRC or the listenership by doing a *Fake* Congregation after Marc so eloquently closed the show. But I do want to do more shows, I just couldn’t say how or when.

Seriously. I’m only up to The Descendents at this point. For all I know, I may not make it to the end in this lifetime.

@Max – a few times over now!