Podcast Award Nominations, Live-to-Tape Production Philosophy
The program opens with news of nominations for the Podcast Awards in the People's Choice and News/Politics categories. A comparison is made between the "live-to-tape" production style used here and the post-produced methods of shows like Serial, Radio Lab, and This Week in Tech with Leo Laporte. The difficulty of managing high-quality audio and Skype integration in a live environment is highlighted as a superior form of production.
podcast awards· people's choice· serial podcast· joe rogan experience· live-to-tape· leo laporte
00:00 This is right now. Adam Curry, John C. DeVorah It's Thursday March 5th 2015 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 701! This is no agenda Fighting the crappy software industry coming to you live from FEMA region 6 in downtown Austin Tejas in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where I'm enjoying a mimosa made with blood orange juice. I'm John C Dvorak Are you drinking on the job? I am now
00:40 Okay, I think you're in fact. I was just about to do drugs and like this is the perfect day for all this We had a bad start very bad I think we need to tell talk about it because if you're in a video get in a very strange mood And I'm really angry so now are you just cussing like a truck driver? Well that's not on the recording I didn't do that So I have a pride myself even though now first let's step back The podcast award nominations are out. This show, the best podcast in the universe has been nominated for two One is as usual people's choice and we never win that It's hard to win that because they always have something like I think this time it's everyone's into cereal Not even a podcast Is cereal nominated? On tape! Is it nominated? Yeah, I think so No Really? Yes Take a look Ugh, will
01:34 We're nominated in the news politics category. And there you have Rushel, uh, Russell, Russell, Russell Limbaugh. Either way I think that should be her name, Russell Maydow. Yeah! I'm all in on that. Russell Maydow. Good one. Well, Russell Maydow's been nominated... And that's not even a podcast Russell made out. Oh, man you're right the serial podcast is people's choice so that's gonna win because Dumb things always winning thing it's trendy trending second one they even did you know I didn't do a second It's not even a podcast. It's trending. It's a podcast
02:15 Why is it not a podcast? Is it on the radio, no. It's on tape! It's a radio play. Look all I know is we got snubbed in the comedy category again if I was you...I know you like to use this as a running gag but if I were you yeah especially after the way you just began the show yeah how come you weren't nominated for best produced podcasts thank you this is exactly what I was going to say well I said at first now so but I pride myself on what we do here and making it sound good and making Skype sound relatively integrated with the local sound that I have, trying to make it all work. And the clips in the balance of levels you have probably... I would say that if anybody put your gear at all this plugins and all the crazy stuff you've got going there up against anybody's rig, you would be
03:08 They'll get the best producer. Yes, exactly Well, that's what I said But do you give me credit for this for this accolade? Oh more importantly Do I get credit by being nominated and best produced know the Joe Rogan experience? I like Joe but what it was What so hard about miking some people up? Radio lab which will win because hey they edited the crap out of that its unlistenable Yeah, editing is not... I know. There's two theories of course of producing there's post-producing your product or live to tape and i think what we do live to tape but i don't think anyone does it the way we do it
03:52 Even Leo doesn't do live. I mean, Leo does kind of half the show most of the show live to tape and then they post it right? They posted the end The beginning of the show is posted that beginning of leela ports twit is Posted in another words what we see where I would I'm sorry when I say post that I mean post produced mean Produced after the shows over you sit down and then you fiddle with this show And fiddle with this show and your fiddle with the show about fiddle about he's gonna fiddle abou In the case of Leo's show, he does all his lead-ins and all the rest at the end. And then they have to go into some edit booth and they have to edit it in video and audio so it makes it even more complicated.
04:38 The other theory of doing these, and you see it's actually done in some ways on some like the three camera shoot comedy shows as opposed to the one camera ones which are most of them nowadays with them. And then they post a whole thing because you have to. It's all edited is a different style of producing. To me pure production do absolute best way to do it if you can and it's also the hardest is to live-to tape it. In other words, you start the show... You do everything on the fly. You don't edit stuff in and out and then make it look fancy after the fact takes hours and it's a waste of time And this slightly amateurish in some sense Right To do it the way YOU DO IT We're doing the work of four men actually on this show
