Visioncast With JC & Friends

About Visioncast With JC & Friends

Welcome to Vision Cast Network, Where Fun, Talent, and Randomness collide! We offer two episodes each week. Our normal episode which includes a dose of technology, fun, and randomness, and our performances episode, which includes recordings of different performances from the team members and other participentss, mixed in with a bit of randomness and fun. Please check out our website for more information.

Publisher

Preston radio

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Jun 2021

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 373 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026

   The-VisionCast-Fall-Talent-Show-October-14th-2026

   The VisionCast Fall Talent Show: Tornadoes, Teslas, and the Case of Actions available Missing audio file. Rachel hosted the show, opening with an apology for starting a little Actions available late — lots of moving parts with setup, her family having just left Actions available town, getting Donald's songs sorted, and a surprise she'd prepared. Actions available She had Muse do a random shuffle draw for the performance order: JC Actions available first, then Cecilia, Rachel, Donald, George, Nora, Veronica, cycling Actions available back through for everyone's second and third songs. Actions available In the studio: JC, Preston, Nora, Phillip (briefly), George, Salvis Actions available (up early in cold Latvia), and Nolan — welcomed back after deciding to Actions available pursue DJing instead of going back to college for social work. Actions available Veronica and Brittani weren't there — Brittani was out with her mom. Actions available Round one: Actions available - JC opened with a preview of his winter recital ( Actions available November 21 voice instructor Anaya. Actions available - Cecilia performed "Table of Friends," a Suno country song she Actions available co-created about good times with friends, name-checking ACB friends Actions available and a Guiding Eyes for the Blind visit. Actions available - Rachel performed "Chocolate Medicine," her Suno song from November Actions available 2024, remastered in Suno v6. She told the story behind it: the fence Actions available contractors, Madison telling her not to let the dogs out, and the Actions available - Donald performed "A Family's New Tesla," a Suno song about a family Actions available getting a Model Y. Actions available - George surprised Rachel with a song he'd made that day — a romantic Actions available one addressed to her ("Oh Rachel, love is strong... George and Rachel Actions available written in the sky"). Actions available - Nora performed "Coat of Many Colors," her Dolly Parton cover from Actions available community karaoke. Actions available - Veronica performed "Sweet Baby James" (James Taylor) — her only Actions available performance of the night. Actions available Round two: Actions available - JC performed "Praise You in This Storm" (Casting Crowns cover, also Actions available from karaoke), mentioning a Logic Pro hiccup where his mic dipped. Actions available - Cecilia performed "Show Me Your Glory," a Suno song about the talent Actions available show itself. Actions available - Rachel performed "A Chance to Do Better," a 70s soul song she Actions available dedicated to Brittani and Willow. Actions available - Donald performed "Austin Glide." Actions available - George performed "Ink in the Moon" (the "fatal white shoes" one) — Actions available Rachel called it "very, very George." Actions available - Nora gave her final performance of the night. Actions available Round three: Actions available - JC's third song, "Where the Green Grass Grows," wouldn't play — the Actions available file showed as incompatible with no audio. Rachel promised to play it Actions available next week. Actions available - Cecilia performed "The Uneven Slice," about baking with JC. Actions available - Rachel dropped her third song to keep things even, saving her big Actions available finish for last. Actions available - Donald performed "Blind People Driving," about a blind couple's road Actions available trip in a self-driving Tesla Model 3. Actions available - George closed his set with "The Mystic Mask." Actions available Finale: Rachel played "The Tornado Argument" — her full multi-voice Actions available audio drama voiced by Muse (Lionel announcing, Nadine narrating, Actions available Sabrina as Rachel, Miles as Dan Whitfield, and the rest of the cast), Actions availableu with her own music and sound effects mixed in. Big reaction — everyone Actions available wanted more, and she promised to Lucas Chronicles down line.

2. 

   3 Oct 2026

   MaccessHub for VoiceOver, KZZP Radio Nostalgia & Halloween Plans (Vision Cast 2026.09.30)

   Recorded live on September 30, 2026, this Vision Cast has Rita in the host chair, opening from Guadalupe, Arizona with her electrifying guitar intro, and the best news of the night comes first: Rachel is back after a week under the weather. The two trade Rebel Rita and Rebel Rachel nicknames before the roll call brings in JC, George, Preston, Nora, Donald, Phillip, and Salvis on the audio controls. Phillip calls in from a train platform, thoroughly out of breath from the stairs but triumphantly not late. Preston opens the announcements with a salute to Donald, whose Music Mayhem Marathon filled the whole weekend with shows pulled from the archive. Tuning in across Friday and Saturday, Preston caught old episodes with friends guest co-hosting, and was tickled to hear George and Rachel broadcasting over Skype back in the day, part of what George calls the Echo Project. As Donald points out, half the joy of the older shows is hearing the technology of the era right along with them. Then comes the calendar, and it is a full one. The final Vision Cast Music Mayhem hybrid show of 2026 lands on October 23. The Vision Cast Halloween party is recorded on October 28 , and the last KSRN show of the year follows on October 30. The hybrid returns on January 8, 2027 . Christmas Wonderland Radio switches on November 1 , and George and Rachel will co-host a Halloween-into-Christmas show across both stations. The talent show on October 14 is shaping up too, with Nora sending in her performances, Donald packing a zip file of songs, and Rachel hosting the whole thing from her Mac. Rachel also updates the room on the KSRN interview with Sriram from the Lumin voice-email app, postponed once when he was ill and again when she was, and now being put back on the books. JC then takes the floor for the demo of the week: MaccessHub, a free and open-source macOS menu-bar app from developer masonasons, available on GitHub. Built with VoiceOver users in mind, it brings back event sounds, key clicks and spoken system information, adds audio-device switching on the fly, and ships with soundpacks, automatic updates and a launch-at-login option. Best of all, it folds a pile of older Hammerspoon accessibility scripts into one native app, so nobody has to go anywhere near Xcode to get their sounds back. Rachel answers with another of her AI-generated comedy songs, and George is once again the target: a road-trip saga about a bathroom emergency that goes about as undignified as these things can go. The room does not recover quickly. Rita brings the night home with radio nostalgia, remembering KZZP in Phoenix, the Top 40 station she grew up on, and its golden era from 1985 to 1989 under program director Guy Zapoleon. She has been part of a KZZP history group online for four years now, and still finds herself reminiscing over what radio used to be. JC closes with a hope for an October jam session, and a promise to finally introduce the team to Ariel, a songwriter who can write a song on the spot. Old radio, new tools, and a family back at full strength. Recorded 2026-09-30. Final length 1 hour 42 minutes 16 seconds, mastered to -14 LUFS. If you’re interested in learning more about Max hub, please visit: http://www.github.com/masonasons/maccesshub/releases

3. 

   3 Oct 2026

   Sweet Child Riff Lore, Van Halen Tapping & JC on Christian Radio (Vision Cast 2026.09.23)

   Recorded live on September 23, 2026, this Vision Cast has JC in the host chair while Rachel rests up. She is under the weather this week, and the whole family, Nora and Katie especially, sends her love and wishes for a quick recovery. Around the table: Rita, Shaun Oliver, Preston, George, Nora, Katie, Donald, Phillip, and Salvis on the audio controls. Shaun Oliver turns the opening stretch into a classic-rock history hour. He retells the legend behind the Sweet Child o' Mine riff, the one where Slash is just warming up his fingers until Axl Rose tells him to keep doing that thing, and a chart-topper grows out of it, with Rita placing its run at 1988. From there Shaun traces how Eddie Van Halen took inspiration from Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker and turned two-hand tapping into his own signature, and the room pauses to remember Eddie. Then JC shares the proudest news of his week. He auditioned at Sound of Life, the Hudson Valley Christian radio station at soundoflife.org , and he brings two clips with him: one recorded in the studio, one captured straight off the air. In the aired piece, host Lisa Berry tells the story of Juan Carlos, a blind man of thirty-five whose doctors gave him almost no chance of survival when he was born and whose mother prayed anyway. Then JC's own voice comes through the speakers. The text messages started arriving the moment he left the building, from people who had heard his name on the radio. Juan Carlos's story lands hard with Rita, who remembers being given no more than a year to live, her parents warned about the excessive oxygen in her incubator. Blind people, she points out, have been outliving those first predictions ever since. The conversation moves into broadcast and accessible technology: the automation and cart systems humming behind a real radio studio, StationPlaylist, the braille display Shaun keeps beside him when he is on air, the 3D printer he is about to buy, and the tactile pieces JC got to hold at a friend's place, including a cube whose faces carry different dot patterns standing in for colours. A Beatles tangent follows, from the kazoo buried in Yellow Submarine to Here Comes the Sun, which sends Rita back to playing kazoo songs at ASGB in the spring of 1990. Looking ahead, talent show submissions are open and Preston says the show is only weeks away, JC will be singing Hotel California with his voice instructor, and Preston is off to hear a Central Pennsylvania duo at the Double Barrel Roadhouse with a promise to bring back a recording. The Music Mayhem Marathon takes over Super Hit Mix Radio all weekend long with George and Rachel at the helm, and Vision Cast now reaches listeners on both KSRN and Super Hit Mix. The night ends in the best possible way. A dear friend's daughter, Autumn Grace, arrived at four in the morning the day before, and the whole room celebrates her. Recorded 2026-09-23. Final length 1 hour 41 minutes 34 seconds, mastered to -14 LUFS.

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New member joins the team, tech updates, and more!

Published 3 Jul 2021 · Transcript excerpt

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5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

4.0 / 5

4 ratings

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80

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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