Sorry, Iron Man
The 34th Collings & Herrin Podcast is done, and - a record I think - we take a full 40 minutes before getting to the day's news in the newspapers. That's a preamble. Finally, eventually, we cover the following hot news topics: the way the credit crunch is affecting Prince William, the new indecent exposure laws soon to rock the world of indecent exposure, the cream-and-seasonal-vegetable-based divorce of Madonna and Guy Ritchie, the election-losing teddy bear eyes of John McCain, bum-on-bum action in the Madrid derby (whatever that is), the world of "amateur tits" and a sneak preview of our survey results. Enjoy the award-winning photo of the autmnal colours outside Richard's window.Warning: the podcast, which is quite long but not long enough to accompany the full 75-minute workout of one survey respondent currently training to be Iron Man, just stops in the middle of what was a very funny sentence. We carried on, but the computer didn't. It seems that after one hour and six minutes, GarageBand decided we'd said enough about Ben Miller.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 12:40 PM
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This is my favourite podcast since number 13, i think.
The slapping noise at 1hr04, is that you beating Richard up?
I'm only listening back to it now, Vik. I'll check.
Damn, I'm going to be 2 'casts behind now - I've been driving in to work as an experiment this week, and haven't copied my podcasts on to my stereo yet. Arse.
Did the survey none the less - I'm well up for Sponsorship, providing it doesn't detract from the show. I know I mention it a few times, but film Director Kevin Smith recently got sponsorship for his Smodcast (after about show 50) by the website ThinkGeek - it's a funny 45 second ad at the start, recorded fresh each time by Kevin and Mosier, and I consider it to be part of the podcast. I've even bought some stuff from the ThinkGeek site as a result - no harm done, and they're happy too.
Mr. Collins,
I didn't elaborate on one of the questions, so an amendment please: I listen to the podcast on my commute to and from school. It is a 2 hour commute one-way (I live in a place where a ferry is involved.) So I have a request not to limit the podcast to 20 minutes or 40 minutes, but to please expand it to the promised 120 minutes in one of the podcasts. It makes at least one leg of my trip highly enjoyable!
Thank you!
I'm about 25 podcasts behind, so don't anyone give too much away about what happens. If I am eventually made redundant again (surely only a matter of time with the dickheads running our company) I might actually catch up.
Just one idea you could read and then ignore: if you had some kind of other recording device you can plug microphones into, you could record the podcast through that, with the outputs connected to the computer so that that's simultaneously recording the same thing. That way you'd be more likely to have a back-up in the event of something going wrong. (Even a camcorder might do.)
Andrew – assuming you are using Garageband 3 – if you want more recording time, just find the purple triangular notch/cursor on the time-bar above where the recorded audio is displayed and drag to the desired length you wish the project to be. Several hours of recording time should be available to you. Then of course, when you've finished recording, drag the cursor back to the end of the recorded audio regions before exporting. That way you will be able to avoid being cut off mid-sentence again or at 1hr 6mins. The same should apply to the latest version of Garageband if Richard is recording too. Or there may even be a project setup menu in the new one which will allow you to do the same – but quicker.
Apologies if you already know this and I'm just being patronising.
Even though you posted a comment and asked for it not to be published, Stephen, I take onboard your comments. The thing I said on the podcast was supposed to be a parody of the kind of attitude you mention, but at the same time, it doesn't help the misconception you also mention. If you want to email me privately, I can go into it in more detail. I appreciate what you wrote. And thanks for the support!
As you were.
In addition to what Paul said - I don't know anything about garageband, but I notice that you've never had a longer podcast, but have had two exactly the same 1:06:36 (#30 and #32) so it sounds to me like some setting could be changed.
This was the best one for a while.
The next one will almost certainly be sponsored by Asda and we will have to pay for it, and it will be 20 minutes long, with an advert in the middle!
See, exclamation point.
Just to reiterate what a couple of the other posters have said about the survey - I reached the end and realised that there wasn't really anywhere to write what I actually liked overall about the podcast.
Catching up on a couple this weekend I was disappointed that I hadn't put down about enjoying the general outrageousness & offensiveness of many of the comments taken wonderfully too far (especially when I realise that my devoutly Christian neighbours from the flats upstairs have their children playing right outside & have to rush to close my open window!); the good-natured arguments and the frequent times you both just totally crack up with laughter, often over the most pointless of things.
The fact that the two of you genuinely seem to be enjoying yourselves comes across and feeling included in that is a big part of the fun!
Cheers.
Listening to the bit about Madonna, I wondered what was wrong with her putting expensive cream on.It took 5 minutes to realise that you weren't talking about Asda Extra Thick Channel Island Double Cream but some sort of cosmetic.
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