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Thersa Matsuura and I are starting a new podcast called "Yappari Japan." Right now it's in "Minimum Viable Product Mode." I just submitted it to iTunes so it won't show up for another few days. Here's the description:
"The Yappari Japan podcast is a weekly, 10-20 minute show where Rich Pav and Thersa Matsuura walk and talk together while separated by hundreds of kilometres and share with you their experiences and insights as long-term expats in Japan."
The cool thing is it's ...a BINAURAL 196kbps MP3! (3x the quality that Herro Flom Japan used to be.) If you listen to it wearing headphones, you hear exactly what we hear. A bird flies overhead, a neighbor says good morning or a truck drives by and it sounds like you're right there.
If you know how to subscribe to a podcast using the RSS feed URL, here it is:
http://www.yapparijapan.com/feed/podcast/
Some behind the scenes info: We use super-sensitive stereo cardioid lavalier mics from Giant Squid Audio Lab and the Zoom H1 recorder. We each record separately while using Skype to talk to each other. (That's a lot of gadgets and wires we're both wearing.) After our daily morning walk, Terrie uploads her gargantuan WAV file to our FTP server. I download it, sync it with mine in Audacity and send the mix to Terrie as an MP3. We both listen to, log it, and discuss which parts are the best. Once a week I gather them up and paste them into a 10-20min weekly podcast. The end.
Herro Flom Japan Podcast shared a link.
I don't know if many people will notice, but I recorded this with the gain set way too high. It's 18:30 min of me playing with kindergarten kids this morning.
Herro Flom Japan Podcast shared a link.
"This is what happens when you fight a stranger in the alps!" --The Big Lebowski
The website I put up about James Yellowlees being a con artist is the top hit when Googling his name because I made it go viral on Reddit back in February when it got 2,800 hits in one day. It has been viewed 7,000 times this year.
I just emailed these two screenshots to him.
Tonight's podcast is an example of why I'm glad I'm using the chumbucket. 15 seconds in, I lost my train of thought.
Somebody complained about the photo I was using of the heinous chum bucket from the TV show Fear Factor so I changed it. Big baby. 
;-)
If you use the Twitter hashtags #herroflomjapan or #HFJ I'll get an alert on my piece of crap Android smartphone.
Herro Flom Japan Podcast shared a link.
I'm plotting to get Tony used to being recorded. You know how parenting experts say that you're not supposed to be "best friends" with your children? I totally blew that one.
I went for a walk yesterday and did a brain dump. The 8 min edited version is on HFJ, the 45 minute lullaby (I fell asleep listening to it) is in the chumbucket.
I'm a deeply neurotic perfectionist. A long time ago I made the Herro Flom Japan Chumbucket with the idea that I could upload total crap to it and not feel self-conscious about the quality. But my perfectionism runs even deeper than the deepest, smelliest bucket full of chum. In an attempt to break through the thick crust of stagnant gunk, I've uploaded a test recording.
I threw a video in the chumbucket. The camera angle was too low, I wasn't looking into the lens, I got verklempt and I need more practice. But I figured out how use Final Cut Pro to sync video shot on an iPhone with binaural audio recorded separately. And if I don't put this up I'm going to put off restarting for another decade.
