Update: Jen “Flash” Andrews has set up an action and donation portal to help Emily out with the recent passing of Mike Frizzell. The auction ends on 23 November 2021.
Little Red Bandwagon‘s Mike Frizzell and his wife Emily have run into some unfortunate life road bumps and pot holes in recent times. A GoFundMe campaign was started and the goal was successfully met to help them out financially.
On Wednesday, August 31st, I headed up to Woodinville, Washington to go to the TBTL Summer Picnic held at Chateau Ste. Michelle. Unfortunately, due to the amount of rain that the area received earlier that day and slightly muddy nature of the lawn, the picnic and the recording of the show was moved inside into Chateau Ste. Michelle’s tasting room.
Below is a slideshow of the photos that I took from the event and posted on to Flickr. You can also view the album directly on Flickr.
As discussed in episodes in the run up to the TBTL Live Show in St. Paul, Minnesota, Luke and Andrew discussed the idea of creating a mixtape for those that are heading to the show. Today, Andrew posted up the mixtape tracks on to SoundCloud.
Due to download limits set by SoundCloud, the awesome gang at Little Red Bandwagon have made the tracks available for download. While over there, pick up some stickers or even donate a few dollarinis (or a few hundos) to help support a great podcart about another great podcart!
It’s that time of year again, TBTL-a-Thon week has kicked off! There are two new TBTL items available for this year’s TBTL-a-thon includes a slick TBTL water bottle and a sweet TBTL lunch box; and, if you would like to be a dazzling donor, you can pick up both! For those looking for a TBTL mug, it is still available at the $5/month level.
Click on this link to go to Infinite Guest’s TBTL-a-thon donation page!
Without TBTL, there wouldn’t be much of a Marsupial Gurgle page.
Trigger Warning: Hot Dog Story, Audio Geekery, Code Geekery
In one form or another, I have been asked what goes into the process of pulling clips from TBTL and posting them on to Marsupial Gurgle. I decided to use TBTL #2107 as the episode to document and highlight the process in a bit more detail.
Obviously, the first thing that goes into pulling clips for a show is to download the show when it gets published and open the audio file in my audio editor of choice, Audacity. As for the reason for choosing Audacity… well, it is free and available on both Windows and Mac (the latter being the primary platform that I now use). Although I have access to Adobe Audition CC by way of a Creative Cloud subscription, I found that it ends up being too much for the work I need to do.
As I listen through the show, if I run across an interesting bit, I will select the region before and after the clip, copy, and paste it into a new file:
With the clip in a new file, I start to trim away bits to isolate the specific clip that I want and do a fade in at the beginning, and a fade out at the end. I try to keep a padding (silence) of at least 0.040s before and after fade in and fade out (this used to be closer to 0.025s, but it was increased to provide for a cleaner start and end). I will sometimes fiddle with the actual amount of padding to get the clip have a total length that gets rounded up to the nearest 0.25s. Why? I suppose it’s to appease one of my OCD attributes.Continue reading“Hot Dog Story: What Goes Into Pulling Clips From TBTL to Post to Marsupial Gurgle”
The guys over at TBTL have curated the jingles that listeners have been sending in for the TBTL Voicemail Line and posted them on to Soundcloud for your listening pleasure.