behind the scenes stuff here

00:00 Welcome to Show #12 & hello to Steve from Bristol, and to you too!

02:23 Song #1 Now is Now fronted by Mitch Alden rock with “Walk the Line”

07:32 Tom Interview Part 1
why he wasn’t allowed to go to boarding school with background song “Love” by Brian Turner.

10:55 Song #2 Chasing the Grey, written and performed by Buffy Hubelbank a.k.a “BuffyGirl” …what if we forgot about the past, and thought about today…

13:40 Tom Interview Part 2
oddities of a diamond mining town. Accompanying piano music is Change of Seasons by again by Brian Turner.

16:54 RinkyDink Comedy Clip of the fantastic Paula Poundstone.

22:10 Conclusion & details of “What’s That Annoying Sound” quiz from Show #11

Tom

I recorded this interview about the same time as Show #9 with Joanna. Both are colleagues and I recorded the interviews in a FirstPersonShow style. So Tom is my youngest male interviewee, and I think the first who’s not a granddad. What higher praise can I give for him than this: When my family joined some colleagues on a walking weekend in Yorkshire, all my Boys got on with Tom like a house on fire. (Kids are good judges of character, etc.).

Technically

I remember having my recording volume set to high in Audacity for this batch of interviews. Is it called overmodulating? I think so. The more microphones I try, the worst the volume gets. I’m hoping to get some good techie help from Phil next month when I’m in London. I am ready to spend more than £20 for a mic, but I’d like to do my homework beforehand.

RSS Feed

Loads of changes in the feed. It’s now “Browser Friendly” thanks to Feedburner. That means when you click on it, it shows formatted stuff and images and clickable links rather than just loads of xml code.

I also redid the “description” fields (both standard RSS and iTunes specific. That means when you view the Lyrics or Comments under Info you get the full shownotes. I’ve got the full html code in the standard RSS description field from the ShowNotes. That means if podcatchers don’t strip them down, folks’ll be able to follow the links to the artists websites and stuff right there from the RSS info. Everyone should be able to get the full timings now without going back to my website though.

Just a quick update to say I know a show is about due.

(thanks Phil for asking)

I’m booking an interview with a South African friend, and deciding whether to use some interview footage I got a few months ago. I have another South African and a Kiwi to choose from.

Either way, I hope to get Show #12 out soon.

cheers,
Kevin