An Explanation of Infrequency

Good morning all!  We apologize for the infrequency of our podcast so far - there have been a few hiccups along the way.  First of all, while I was pleased with the overall content of our first podcast, as I mentioned upon posting the audio, I wasn't entirely pleased with the actual audio quality, specifically the volume levels of the recording.

Regardless, Shannon and I were all geared up for recording a second podcast this past weekend, seeing as our goal was to post at least one podcast per week.  However, we encountered a couple issues.  First of all, we weren't exactly sure what we should be talking about - should each show have a theme?  Should we simply talk about our day and hope something interesting comes of it?  Should it be entirely or moderately scripted or pre-rehearsed, if at all?  We were discussing these things for a while as we were sitting down, and when we came to a common understanding and wanted to test the mics for functionality, we realized that my mic was working and Shannon's mic was not.  This was a problem, and I immediately realized that this was issue that caused the volume problems of our first recording.

You see, Macs come with this great software to record audio called Garage Band, which is a really awesome venue to create a podcast, if you so choose.  However, there is this one hangup such that traditionally, you can only record audio through a single USB microphone - any other additional microphones plugged into a different USB port will fail to pick up audio.  There exists a roundabout way to solve this dilemma if you would like to record audio from two distinct mics (as we are), and I thought I succeeded at following through with this method, but I realized that I failed to complete the last step of the process, thus no microphone for Shannon in our first podcast, and thus low volume levels for Shannon.  The good news is that I have now gotten the kinks out of our audio problems, and the next step is to actually figure out what kind of content we want to include in our podcast.

So, with that being said, we plan to have a new show recorded and up on this site within the coming week.  But in the meantime, to keep our (abundance of) listeners satiated, I found a really old video of what must be one of my great-grandfathers or something.  It must have been recorded in the '20s or something seeing as its really grainy.  If you look really closely, though, I feel like there is some significant resemblance between the subject on the video and myself.  Here, have a look for yourself!