Tonight, I put the playlist & a link to a recording of the show I did a week or two ago, The Dickenbock Report, on the Self Help Radio website. It feels like I've been doing this forever but in fact it was only the fourteenth episode. The show happened on International Sex Workers Day & so has many, many songs about that business, focusing primarily on prostitution. A fun time guaranteed for all.
This was a show I did - the first actually - live from my little computer at home. & as such it begins awkwardly. Unfamiliar with the program (called Mixxx, which makes it seem like it's related to porn) I promptly accidentally slowed down the backing track during my first airbreak. But wait, it gets better. If you choose to listen to the first part of the show, you'll find that first airbreak a bit awkward. That's because Mixxx for some reason delays its broadcast of my voice by a fraction of a second, so when I am listening to myself during the airbreaks - a standard radio model - it's on a delay, & I slow my vocals down to compensate. It's very, very annoying.
Since it was my first live show, it took me a while to figure everything out. But otherwise it went without a hitch. I think. I was very, very nervous.
In any event. I think I learned something. I learned I liked broadcasting live from my home. I would rather be in the studio, sure. But absent that - live is the way to go.
Also I learned not to listen to myself during airbreaks. At least not from home. That delay just totally fucks me up.
The show is at the Self Help Radio website, right under this past week's SHR. Listen to it if you must, but, please, be kind.
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