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my first audio advertisement (Promo)

Introduction

00:40 Rod on collecting as kids
01:08 Barbara on Carribean village names
02:30 Jerry tells a classic story from my own family
03:13 Doug POW Capture clip
03:38 Shelly’s Podcast
03:56 Brother Love promo for FirstPersonShow.net

Music Clips:

04:55 Arthur Yoria “I’ll Be Here Awake”
05:24 Julie Gribble “a Little Bit Lonely”
05:41 Tara Leigh Cobble “White T-Shirt”
06:12 Ray O’Hara - “Hole In My Pocket”
06:43 Closing featuring Studs Terkel who gave me my tagline
“Celebrating the Uncelebrated”

Hey! Wait!

I’ve been listed in Apple’s iTunes directory! If don’t use iTunes, download it for free and try it out. Then you can subscribe to this show with only two clicks:

Barbara talked to me about growing up in Guyana, working for the UN in New York, and traveling to Egypt.

behind the scenes stuff here

ShowNotes

Intro & Welcome to show #6.

00:00 Hello

Song #1

1:32 Emily Zuzik, sings “The Fall”

Barbara’s Childhood in Guyana

05:34 7th Birthday party in Guyana, “the Eye” was all it took, daubing the bottom house

RinkyDink Clip

11:05 Ellen Degeneres comedy clip

Guayana Memories Part 2

17:18 Village number 63

Song #2

19:55 Adrina Thorpe “Fly Fly Fly”

Conclusion

22:45 Announcing contests to celebrate upcoming Show #10. Soon you’ll be able to vote for one of the FirstPersonStars and the interviewee with the most votes will feature on Show #10
I’ll also play some clips from some of the best musicians featured in past shows and ask you to vote for your favourite. Again, the one with the most votes will be the 1st to have their 2nd song played on FirstPersonShow.net! I’ll even give away some CDs from the FirstPersonShow musicians–for free!

great songs at PodSafeMusicNetwork
(which is where I got the background music used with the interviews).
Rob Costlow’s song Family from Sophmore Jinx used as my theme (intro/outro)

Doesn’t Barbara have a great laugh? Sorry I positioned the microphone too close to her mouth. I’ll get that right next time. But at least the volume isn’t too quiet for either one of us.

FirstPerson Interview Contest

I’m editing the interview segment right now, and am thinking of doing a contest where you can vote for previous “stars” and the interviewee with the most votes will get a second show (I have enough good footage from my conversation with Barbara to do another one with her already).

Web & Stuff

I’m testing the stuff needed to get my feed iTunes compatible. There’s a plug-in for WordPress which automates it nicely. I’ve got album art working, I think.

Thanks to Steve for the logo he made for me:

And I found a cool website which creates a “favicon” which means the little browser icon to the left of your website address is customized for FirstPersonShow, like this:

iTunes

Look out for a new icon on the left under “Subscribe”. I’ve got the RSS feed iTunes compatible and it’s been submitted tonight. When (if?) it shows up I’ll put up the link and then there’ll be yet another way to find & listen to the show.

Sound Techie

As I said at the beginning of this entry, sorry about having the microphone too close to Barbara for her interview. I don’t know the technical term for it, but it ended up sounding like when I had the microphone voume set too high for Jerry in Show #4 and Show #5.

Anyway, I did my first techie sound experiment last night when I saved my draft version of this show (everything except the into/outro and background music during interviews) in two copies: a 128kbs and another at 64kbs bitrate. Then I queued them up and played a small section of each–side by side. If I compared them myself I’m sure the verdict would be that they both sound exactly the same. Sparing no expense, I brought in an expert (well, my Bride has a much better ear than me). She listened and wasn’t sure which one was which. So, this is my first show created at a lower bitrate. That means it’ll download faster for you and take up less space on your computer/MP3 player.