Nik has been sick (probably faking!), so we won’t be recording Episode 003 until he’s feeling better. No one (not even his girlfriend) wants to get infected from his breathing all over them. If he really is sick, it’s probably not serious; probably just mono or the plague.
In the meantime, why not check out one of the other excellent podcasts we link to on the right side of the page?
Each episode, Nik and I make media recommendations. So you don’t HAVE to listen to the podcast, you can read our list of picks right here:
Episode 001
Nik: Borderlands
Keith: The Hurt Locker
Episode 002
Nik: The Men Who Stare At Goats
Keith: Pandorum
Episode 003
Nik: Tetris
Keith: Modern Family
In this episode, Nik and I discuss how wonderful automatic bathroom utilities such as auto-flush, auto-soap dispensers, and auto-paper towels are. Then we compare a few modern web browsers; Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, Chrome, and Firefox.
Feel free to comment, rave, rant, or hate on us. We can take it.
**Things we got wrong: Some poisonous spiders will get into homes (Keith said they usually don’t), and Keith mangled the name of the podcast in the intro, and Nik was wrong about the bathroom habits of most Turks.
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As mentioned yesterday, Nik and I finally recorded episode 001 of Germanglish. It’s not terribly long, only a little over 32 minutes, bite-sized (fun-sized?) by today’s standards. We hope you enjoy it.
Subject matter of our little discussion includes: full body scanners, airport security, privacy concerns, alien abduction, long distance space travel, and the utility of duck tape.
**Things Keith was wrong about in this episode: Distance between the Earth and its moon (average is 238,857 miles), the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968, time it takes to travel to the moon (3 days+), George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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I’m happy to announce that Nik and I finally miked up, Skyped out, and recorded episode 001 of Germanglish Podcast. It’s in the can and ready for editing. Barring any unforeseen complications, you can expect to find episode 001 ready for download or streaming Thursday morning.
It’s with deep-felt embarrassment that I tell you that at one point Wednesday morning, just after we thought we had finished recording, I believed I had made the cardinal or secondary sin of podcasting. When I opened the .wav file for editing, instead of the stereo (left and right) track I expected to find, there was only 1 mono track. When I pushed play, all I heard was the robotic sound of my own voice. UH OH x 1,0000! Nik seemed to think I was joking when I told him my fear that I had only recorded my own side of the conversation. He wasn’t laughing when I told him he’d have to take the track and re-record everything he had said. Fortunately, both sides of the conversation were there on the mono track. Though not what I intended, it’ll do.
Since you’ve all been so patient in waiting (or got lucky and showed up today), here’s a REAL sneak peek at what episode 001 contains:
1. Full body scanning of airline passengers by security personnel
2. Alien abduction (oh, it’s relevant!)
3. Colonization of the Earth’s Moon and/or of Mars
4. Our media suggestions
5. Quote of the episode
If any of that seems even a little interesting, I suggest you get counselling (unless you’re benign like us), and return here tomorrow to listen to our very first, brand spanking (yeah, we’re into that) new, shiny, happy podcast of ambiguous purpose. FYI: I think we kept it PG13-ish for the children.
