Why Didn't Someone Tell Me?!

Jul 252009

I’ve spent a good portion of today getting audio clips cleaned up in preparation for slamming them together in a way that may resemble a podcast, and lemme tell ya…it gets to be painful!

When Liam started going on about how he had grown to hate the sound of his voice, I laughed it off as Liam being his typical silly self. I understand now, though. Good lord do I understand. I have to ask…have I always had a habit of sniffing constantly like a coke fiend in conversation, or did I just save that delightful habit for when I’m being recorded? What the Hell?! And my habit of sort of launching in to a screechy kinda high pitch at times…UGH. How is it that nobody has ever slugged me? I mean, really, I kinda wanna punch myself at the moment!

Oh, and on a side note, James and I both hate you all with a passion. Okay, not ALL of you…some we merely dislike…but those of you who joined us in recording all of that audio. We hate you. Don’t take it personally, really, it’s just that after listening to you people speak again and again and again, this boiling feeling of intense dislike starts to bubble up from beneath the surface. And I hate ALL of us, DEFINITELY including myself, for some of the reprehensibly bad tangents we went off on. Seriously, editing out 2 minute long conversations about what would make for an extreme pickle (half of which was absolutely serious), meanderings going on and on about jars of fat, terrible excuses for ‘jokes’ that fall flatter than Kate Moss.

I just needed to get that off my chest. Aside from the fact I despise mankind, it’s going great!

Cliff

I also don't want to go too far in the other direction, though, where everything just comes off as robotic and prepackaged. I dunno, I figure we'll find a happy medium. And until we do, I'll continue loathing everyone involved.
legion

the sniffling.. oh my god, the sniffling and breathing, yeah it's pretty bad. I think even though I'm mostly done my podcast, I think I'm going to render it to a single wav (so I don't have multi-track adjustment issues) and re-edit all the conversation to eliminate sniffling. After the third time I listened to podcast#2 (which still kicks ass by the way) all I could hear was the sniffles. I think we all do it.

I'm all for agendas.. It would be nice to do less editing. I think because there were more of us, it was much harder to stay on topic. It's like either limit the group size, or make an agenda to keep everyone pointed in the same conversational topic. ugh. I agree! I hate everybody, all of them! (nothing personal)
Cliff

We never said we were on meth...it was CRACK. :)

Amusing narcotic semantics aside, yeah, we might wanna put a little time in leading up to podcast day to try and come up with some topics. Or, for certain sections we could actually be more general...have a few specific movies/tv shows but also just a general 'movies' 'tv shows' part right after. It's still the same theme, so that's all good.
Chad

In regards to the "bad tangents" thing.

I thought about this before I even participated in the podcast. I thought about this way back when we talked about having a radio show that was coffee-like in content (before podcasts were cool).

Those kinds of conversations are fantastic for the people who participate. Some of what it is said is worth repeating, but most is not. People that listen to it that have even less context (if that is possible) than we do must think "these are horrible people that are obviously on the meth... they even said so themselves!"

As much as a I mocked the idea of a thought-out agenda initially, I really think it would be a good idea for the next time.

As for our voices. While I haven't done near as much editing as you, I agree whole heartedly. In the places where I don't get reduced to a incoherent mumble, I sound like... like... some computer nerd... guy.

Oh, wait.