Germanglish Podcast

Nik and I have decided that since he’s not actually dying (and beginning to feel better) that we should probably record another episode.  On Wednesday, we’ll do that.  We have topics lined up, so no need for our listener(s)to submit ideas for this one (not that you would anywayz!).

Since Nik has been staying home sick, he should have lots and lots of good media recommendations that I won’t let him share (the rule is 1 per episode), but I will let him cough on you.  I think he’s been practicing his English talking abilities by looking American movies.  Through the magic of editing, I’ll remove all evidence of Nik’s illness, sanitizing the podcast for your protection.

UPDATE: On Monday afternoon, I re-confirmt with Nik  that we are on for recording Wednesday.  A new episode should be available for listening on or before Friday evening.

In an effort to seem more professional-ish, we’ve decided to splice together some pre and post episode content into a fatty, gristly sausage full of bonus content.  In addition to this, we are constantly striving for a higher quality level in our recordings (sound quality, not content quality).  As we pursue this goal, please don’t hold the low quality of our bonus content and counter-anti-unprofessionalism against us.  This stuff was never intended for public consumption.

What I’m trying to say in the above paragraph is that although I used to be a goddamn mad evil editing genius, I’m rusty.  So in the unlikely event that you feel urge to give us an iTunes review or rating our podcast, please do so on the quality of our main episodes, and please don’t ding us for our inane outtakes/bonus content.

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Nik and I have decided that Germanglish will release episodes on a weekly basis.  Theoretically, we’ll post on Thursdays or Fridays.  Either way, you’ll get a fresh new Germanglish episode in time for the weekend.

Also, we’ve added links in the upper right, making it easier than ever to subscribe with an aggregator or iTunes.

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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