Les is (having conquered numerous technical difficulties) looking at starting some sort of podcast. And he’s been kind enough to actually invite me to help him out.
The test recording I made last night sounded decent enough, though there was a weird phasing effect from time to time that made me sound like I was in a bad sci-fi film. I had ***Dave check it out to see if it sounded OK to him and he said it was pretty good though I had a deeper voice than he expected. I told him my voice varies depending on the time of day, how excited and/or how tired I am. It’s a lot of jumping through hoops to make use of TalkShoe, but it works and doesn’t sound half bad. The next step is to actually plan out an episode and find someone to join me so it’s not just me blabbing aimlessly. ***Dave has already said he’d be happy to do the first podcast with me and we’re looking at maybe a half-hour to get things started.
Which means there can be two of us blabbing aimlessly, I guess.
The wonders of the Internet, that someone I’ve never met in person could invite me to record chit-chat together on some topic TBD and then have it posted such that family, friends, and utter strangers in Ulan Bator can listen to it whenever they want. Freaking amazing.
It was kind of interesting hearing Les’ voice. Obviously he’s a large, solid fellow and all, and evidently it does change in pitch like everyone else’s, but it still sounded deeper and more resonant than I’d “heard” in my head. Which also raises the parallel interesting (well, to me) question of what people think my voice sounds like. Which will soon no longer be a secret held closely by, ah, everyone who wanders within voice range of me.
Anyway, check your local listings for date and time. Or, um, I’ll let you guys know if/when it happens.
Oh goody, so we finally get to hear what Les sounds like, yay!
You know what would also be fun?
To have a Marn/***Dave Podcast. =)
Cool, my two favorite blogs united in a podcast! I’ll listen…will you put it up on Itunes?
We’ll be using TalkShoe.com and I believe it supports uploading it to iTunes so that should be a possibility. It’ll also be streamable and embeddable so there should be plenty of ways to check it out.
Actually, thinking about it, it would be fun to have a once a month ***Dave podcasts with X person he would really want to do a podcast with. 🙂
Yeah, I think I’m going to dip my toe carefully into the Podcast world. I don’t actually listen to many myself — not encouraged at work (for bandwidth reasons), and I can read a written post in a fraction of the time it takes to listen to a podcast of same. And, unless it’s being transcribed, that info is “locked away” until we get a reliable text extraction / transcription / search capability for audio files, so the historian in me sort of dislikes them.
So I’ve listened a handful of podcasts over the last few years. They’re always entertaining (voice provides data that is missing from just writing), but it’s never been something I’ve been inclined to.
But I keep hearing that all the cool kids are doing it, so …