Long long time readers know that years ago Dina and I tried doing a podcast, that was just recording on my phone as we drove home from movies. We had fun, but it didn’t really go anywhere, so eventually we stopped. We still talked as we drove home, just didn’t bother recording. A few months ago a new reader on the blog reached out to me and volunteered his professional expertise as a sound engineer to give podcasting another try! So here we are with a real actual professional sounding episode!
First, I offer a bribe. It is Christmas Giveaway season. So if you make a lot of comments on this post with a lot of good feedback, you COULD qualify for a personalized Christmas Card as the most-commenting person of the week. Just saying.
Okay, here is the audio file (hopefully, let me know if it doesn’t work for you):
I know y’all and I know your first instinct will be “Perfect! No notes!”, but that’s not super helpful for us, trying to make a good podcast. So I’m gonna give some sort of jumping off points for feedback:
Do you think we should lean more into “accessible to new viewers and giving background” or more into “discussing things that would be interesting to existing viewers”?
Would you like the bit at the beginning where I talk and give background to be longer and more in depth, or shorter, or cut entirely?
What was your MOST favorite part, the part where you turned up the volume to make sure you caught all of it?
Any technical things? Bits where the editing felt weird, or hard to understand or something else you didn’t like/hit strange for you?
TOPIC IDEAS! What would you like to hear me and Dina talk about next?
Oh, and the “listener” bit is done by AI (that’s so weird, right?). If you are willing/interested in sending in an audio clip, you can just record it on your phone or where ever and email it to me as an attachment file. For this episode, it would be something about movie theaters and your experience I guess?
