Yes, we all know Foamy the Squirrel is just some dude who’s sped up his voice. I slowed it down. Check it out!
Also, go watch the Teachers and Bullies episode of Foamy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R95pTekso_Y
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One of the things I just adore about podcasting is it’s speed and flexibility. It’s an audio format just designed for guerrilla activites, and I me some love guerrilla podcasting. The internet can bring you inspiration at the speed of the internet, and if you know what you’re doing, you can zap out a response just as fast.
Because fast means funny!
For instance, it appeared on my facebook feed the other day that a woman asked Cayenne Chris Conroy to explain where his nickname came from. He provided a perfectly good explanation, but for some reason, the woman wasn’t satisfied with this answer. She said “ I have to admit that I was hoping for a story that was a little more… Monty Python-y, or Benny Hill-y.”
Brandi Palmer, I hope this brings you the satisfaction you seek.
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One of the most hated business developments of the past 20 years are those automated touch tone answering things, where you push 5 for more options.
It seems there’s more to it than that.
And so there’s more to it than this, I am throwing down the gauntlet! Since this weekend is Balticon, and it feels like everyone I know is having a liver-punishing good time in Maryland without me, I issue this challenge: Anyone who plays this episode of Braindouche! for a crowd at Balticon, and can prove it to me somehow, I’ll send you $5. I don’t know how you’re supposed to prove it, that’s up to you.
Good luck!
UPDATE: Round about 2:30am, the fantasticly fantastic Nutty Nuchtchas brought the FETIDUS party to a screeching halt and completed the challenge! Here’s the video proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XST358xxCmU
She actually managed to do it twice, but thanks to flaky wifi in the Balticon hotel, it took almost 7 hours to download this 7mb file, and she only got halfway through the first time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRE2-w33jgU
So, Nutty shall be awarded the princely sum of $7.50, in thanks for spread Braindouche! mayhem in my stead. Thank you, Nutty!
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I got real lucky with this one. I was looking for another promo for my show, and none other than Sherwin Sleeves came available! I couldn’t pass that opportunity up, so I sent of my little email and my little project specs to see if I could get on the list and have him do some VO for me.
Some time passed, and he eventually sent back the raw audio. I haven’t had the opportunity to edit together the promo yet, but… you just gotta listen to this.
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Jason Remy once asked me what it means when I said I learned how to make a synth play patty-cake. I decided this was the best way to explain it to him. I’m not sure what I was thinking at the time.
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(this is a guest episode, but I’m not making it an Episode 100 because I’m lazy.)
Follow along with me.
Lets say that your humble podcaster has suddenly found herself at the mercy of an incredibly huge project. Being self-employed, she finds it nearly impossible to say no to giant projects that will ruin her life for months at a time, because those sorts of projects tend to pay really, really well.
Lets then say that your humble podcaster, considering the scale of the massive project as well as the budget, decided to hire an assistant to assist in various tasks both professional and personal. Said assistant is then tasked with everything from running routine backups to running to the grocery store. This sort of indentured servitude pleases your humble podcaster greatly.
Let us then further say that, among many other projects, there are audio-related tasks that your humble podcaster wishes to delegate to her assistant, knowing that her assistant is both musically trained and kind of geeky. To that end, the assistant must be trained in the various programs and techniques required to work with audio to your humble podcaster’s strict and incredibly fussy standards.
And let us finally propose that the assistant is infact a longstanding fan of your humble podcaster’s humble little podcast.
Therefore, it stands to reason that, as a training exercise, a podcast be created. A podcast with guidelines as follows: “You’ve heard my show. Just keep the final thing under an hour and I’m only paying you for the first two hours you work on this.”
The result? My friend, my landlord, my hired-other-wife, she has made a podcast. She has aurally speculated as to what my dreams are like. It’s weird, it’s in poor taste, it violates copyrights on 2 continents, and it’s FREAKING AWESOME.
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Once again, the fantastic Kelly reads a little something for me.
Crystal Skulls is taken verbatim from an email I received the other day. This is for real. It is not a joke.
Seriously, you guys. I mean it. This is important stuff. Really. Don’t laugh. It’s not funny.
If you would like to attend, more information is here. You’ll probably have to join the Ning group, but I’m a member. They’re good people.
As usual, the music is from the incomparable Incompetech.
Other links: New Age Musik Circle, Sounds of Sirius.
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A long time ago, in a podcast far, far away, I had this really ambitious idea to create a podcast that would explore my “perception is reality” take on life, the universe and everything, using this audio clip of an ear nerve firing when it’s listening to something. I had a big long script and there was going to be original music and I failed so hard. But that’s ok, I kept all the bits and pieces on my virtual mixing desk.
The other day, I had the really ambitious idea to completely reorganize my audio archive, and it was a screaming success. Not only did I get everything where it’s supposed to be, I found a bunch of audio I thought I’d lost, and I found lots and lots of audio I don’t remember making at all, and never did anything with.
That means there are lots of podcasts in your immediate future, you lucky person.
I also came across a bunch of unfinished and abandoned projects, including this, Sound of Sound. There was a short script with it, and rather than read it myself, I asked my buddy Kelly to read it for me, which she did quickly and with skill, because she’s awesome.
So what is this? Just a little bit of pseudo-intellectualism with some lovely lo-fi noise. It’s a quick little bit of weird. I feel like I haven’t been doing much weird stuff lately, and I didn’t realize how much I was missing it until now.
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A little Christmas cheer for you.
Wait, what the hell is this Acoustic Tea shit?
Ok, so, for the better part of a year now, Dani and I have been working on launching a little side project, made of audio stories and maybe later books and stuff. It’s called Acoustic Tea, and tonight it’s finally fired. If you head on over to the website, you’ll find the exact same story posted over there, along with all the basics you’d expect in a site. Dani read it, I produced it, and J.E. Ignatius McNeill, aka @dreamrock wrote it. And the music is from Magnatune, and completely awesome.
It’s actually kind of awesome how the story happened. I was searching high and low for a “seasonal” story to read for Acoustic Tea, either public domain or Creative Commons. I wasn’t finding anything, so I lamented as much on Twitter. @DreamRock responded “I can write something for you. Gimme a week or two.” And he totally did and totally blew my mind in the process.
Anyway, as far as you’re concerned, Braindouche! is still going to be exactly what it is, but Acoustic Tea is going to function as my “professional audio portfolio”. Because, I mean, you guys understand that I can’t send potential clients here out of the gate unless they’re real special people, right? The Normals aren’t going to get it. So that’s for them. And I needed another project, right?
Right?
Merry merry.
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Can you believe we’ve been hanging around here for two and a half years, through 99 episodes of this garbage? I never did. My biggest goal for this show was to hit episode 26, because that would be a “full season”. That feels like a long time ago.
Nonetheless. Episode 99 means that episode 100 is right around the corner. And for me? That means I’m going to avoid THE HELL out of episode 100. I’m going to post episode 101 and breeze on by like nothing ever happened, and that’s because YOU are going to produce episode 100 for me, my inexplicably faithful listeners. Anyone can produce and submit an episode 100, I will play whatever you submit with a minimum of comment, and I will release as many episode 100′s as I have to until they’re done.
So what do you think? Wanna play? If you want to produce an episode 100, send me an email, podcast at braindouche.net, hit me up on twitter, at-braindouche, leave a comment, or find me somewhere else on the internet. If you have any questions, just let me know.
What else is there to say, really? Here’s to 100 more. Thanks for listening.
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