Podcast Awards Victory, Audio Quality Standards
The hosts celebrate winning the Best News and Politics category at the Podcast Awards, despite reports of voting irregularities referred to as Podcastgate. They emphasize the role of their listeners as the true producers of the show. A discussion follows regarding the importance of high audio quality in podcasting and the technical limitations of various VoIP solutions.
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00:00 What is the point of this messaging? It's bullcrap. Adam Curry, John C. DeVorah. It's Thursday June 30th 2016 and time once again for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 838! This is no agenda Reading crappy books so you don't have to and we're broadcasting live from the capital drone star state here in FEMA region 6 on this award-winning podcast in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where I am caressing the award, The trophy finally achieved. I'm John C DeVore. It's crackpotting buzzkill! In the morning... Well, I know that to be factually untrue
00:39 Because if we want the trophy I believe we have to send bunny. Yes, Bunny has to go there. We have to send money. Bunny! You wanna take a trip? Money, money... Money? I thought you meant bunny No, money man It's a... hey, screw that. Congratulations John! Well thank you and congratulations to you You're the one who produces the show so expertly I am still... they took the best producer award away I think Really? I didn't even see it on there Really? Best produced? Best produced is not available Otherwise you would win it Thank you Well mainly I want to thank our producers The actual producers of the show
01:25 which is everybody who is listening and contributes with, of course financial contributions information insider info artwork sound jingles feedback we don't call you producers for nothing people so congratulations Best News and Politics podcast. And you know what was crazy? I thought that this was going to happen next week because we had to be on Skype, and we even sent in our bios if you recall after the show... We were gonna be on Skype! Yeah so I thought it's next week all of a sudden here people are like oh congratulations so go congratulate them to see the podcast awards and then oh wait a minute Podcastgate
02:06 Some falsification in the voting process. Did you follow any of that? No, tell me! So everyone's like hey you won and I'm like how can this be this makes no sense so i check it out there is a big note all the winners are on hold because there some tool out there that bots were using we have to figure it out oh my god Fake voting going on in the podcast awards. I'm shocked at tell you and we know it's not our producers because Our guys begging them to do it for your no one ever does it for us What's the point they don't care? But III am gonna pick a star is their concern were already gold well, this is true
02:54 But anyway, and congratulations to all the other nominees. Just being nominated in that fine category was honor enough don't you agree John? Oh yeah that's right! What am I thinking... It is so interesting people are saying oh you're gonna get so... I haven't won an award for how long it has almost been 10 years maybe... I only have I have the Hall of Fame award from the... That's just lifetime achievement, Hall of Fame. It means it's time for him to die What are we going to do about this guy? He hasn't won anything and everyone knows him Hey thanks for putting The Buzzkill on my award When did you get that? Last year! Oh that was a different one. I agree You deserved that award Because it was actually a pioneer award more than it was a...
03:50 That Pioneer Awards, I think are great because the guys who started the whole thing they never get credit. Most of the time they fall off you know and at some point like recently when those guys from PBS started to say well we invented podcasting. Oh yeah of course, of course. And Ricky Gervais is the podfather and yeah we know how it works that's okay that's okay it doesn't bother me uh It really doesn't but I took title podfather away from ya Yeah that was a good one. But that award's fine so your...that's a good award I'm thinking about more when you're like 70 and they've noticed that, shit this guy's done a billion great movies and he's never won a damn thing. What are we gonna do? We gotta do something with him! Yeah exactly well what an honor fabulous thank you so much thank everybody who voted but more importantly thank y'all for doing it with us A number of emails came in people saying oh man
04:45 You're going to get so much attention. Are you insane? I got that same mail, no! I sent a note back home. It's like let me think... No. You're gonna get a lot of attention. Yeah, you are none and three homeless. Exactly. That was pretty much about it. Nobody where- In fact couple years ago when they did these awards i checked out all the nominees and who actually won these awards to see maybe, well maybe there'd be something good here. No it was all mainstream stuff pretty much Well yeah and not only that but either that or it was just... It wasn't I don't hate to say this because a lot of people podcast and except for maybe five or six of these podcasts out of thousands most of them are hard to listen to like I find them not entertaining at all. Yeah I personally believe a lot of that is because of the quality of the audio
05:43 That's something I'm very anal about and I think it's very important. There is an element of that, but if material was good, I think it would at least make up a little bit for the... Somebody I know well has started up a podcast recently. And, uh...I went to check it out and there's like three or four episodes out and it's all poorly modulated and I realized that this person had done a lot of broadcasting or done podcasting of a sort but it was all the stuff where you have ten engineers and some guy micing the person up
06:23 And but I guess this person's never Mike. So so so I tell you that podcast sounds mostly like this. But hey, I wouldn't be making too many jokes today because you sound like you put your underwear over the microphone today. But that's just a Skype anomaly unfortunately. Well, I'm not, you know, over popping my peas or no and oh as an aside please do not email me with your better VoIP solution It's just not necessary. I appreciate it but... People still do that? Oh my god, yeah all the time But they don't understand things like latency Yeah we can make it sound dynamite But it would be like this In the morning John! And in the morning to you Adam and how are you today? I'm good Outstanding That's pretty much what it would be So thats not gonna work Anyway anyway
