About
Tech HotDish is a Internet podcast broadcast network featuring weekly podcasts on a variety of topics from rock concerts to the best software for consumers. Created by Malcolm Michaels in January of 2010, the Tech HotDish network is about informing and entertaining people around the world.
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About Malcolm Michaels
Malcolm Michaels (aka TC), started his broadcast career at Brown College in Minneapolis, MN. After working at a radio station in Burlington, Colorado for about 20-minutes (it turns out Satan’s daughter wasn’t very fun to work for), he returned home to Minnesota and took a job with WXCE Radio in Amery, Wisconsin. During that time he developed Howard Stern disease. If you’ve seen Howard’s movie Private Parts, at the beginning of the movie he talks in a very high voice while on the air. TC did the same thing and it was pretty lame. Like all good on-air personalities, TC was fired from WXCE on a cold winter night after three years as the station’s night time jock and music director.
It's TC, Everybody!
Maybe radio wasn’t his niche, afterall he wanted to be Mutt Lange, not Casey Kasem. And radio pay was crap, so TC headed down some different paths, but eventually found his way back to “radio” in 1998 when he launched a “podcast” (before podcasting was even called podcasting) called the Daily Dementia. These times were fun for TC, as he made new friends and talked to everybody that was anybody in the gaming world, including the guys at 3D Realms, id Software, BioWare and hundreds more. For nearly two years TC was the host of this show that was “broadcast” every day and was hosted on the IGN.com servers. Back in those days, bandwidth did actually cost money and ultimately IGN came calling and said, “You need to monetize the show or we can’t host anymore.” TC replied, “You guys monetize it!” IGN stuck its tongue out and said, “No, you!” TC wondered what monetize meant.
Despite losing his servers and cutting his show schedule back, TC fought on like any great American and eventually was introduced to a 16-year-old boy wonder in 1999. He liked TC and said, ‘you should come to work for us in 2000.’ He also revealed that in 2003 the company would change its name and launch a website called MySpace. And if that wasn’t enough, this boy wonder said Fox would buy the company for like $600 million in 2005 and told TC to make sure he asked for lots and lots of stock options. TC thought, ‘what are stock options?’
In the end, it sounded too good to be true and he took a job with eUniverse in 2000 and started the online radio show called eUniverse Live. He interviewed all kinds of celebrities including Josh Groban, Mark Hamill, and hundreds more. Unfortunately, the show never met the “zing bar” set by the Daily Dementia, mostly because TC was scared of stepping on corporate toes. So, TC moved onto other parts of the company in product management creating MadBlast, GameRival, Grab, and MySpace Games. It was fun.
Ironically, in the summer of 2005, Fox bought Intermix (renamed from eUniverse) along with a web property called MySpace. In the fall of 2006, TC left Fox to start his own casual games company called Jenkat Games. To his disappointment, TC hasn’t spoken with the boy wonder in almost four years, though he heard recently that boy wonder’s new company was post-revenue and killin’ it. These days TC knows what monetize, stock options, and post-revenue mean.
In 2010, TC is ready to get back into “broadcasting/radio/podcasting” with the Tech HotDish Network, his brainchild and new project.
