October 2020 Patreon Exclusive Video Oddcast
For anyone who is interested, here is the October Patreon exclusive video.
It’s a touch over an hour long - but you’ll find chapter marker in the video description on youtube.
At the end of the video I mention how a totally random and unconnected stranger has posted a rip of Movies Vol.1 from VHD - here’s a link to his/her/their video https://youtu.be/bhaelTTzEDQ
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I grew up with Cassette and Vinyl, at the same time I was growing up with floppy discs, CDs, MP3 Players and when the Ipod was new (!), my folks brought out their old collection at the same time that I was listening to other stuff, it just became part of my life. For me listening to cassettes and vinyl now is just me holding onto a bit of nostalgia, I just enjoy the physical format. Talking about these old formats as if they're having a massive resurgence is a little ridiculous to me, it generally caters to a specific market and it gets annoying reading those sort of click bait headlines
Nice one Mat, don't worry about the short term memory loss, it happens to the best of us. If you can find a MIDI version of the 2001 music - Perifractic used a midi version of the "Back to the future" theme on his recent time traveller video - so I think you could use that without fear of copyright claim. I'm sure Richard Strauss would give you permission to use it. :)
You see there goes the memory again, because after I put this one out I realised I’d used a MIDI version of that tune in my first video on the Triple deck boombox. So I had it ready to go all along.
Congrats, Mat, on landing a fine-looking M90 - a rare and valuable beast indeed! I'm looking forward to RepliTronics mini-sized offerings - I think they'll be hugely popular! 📻
Awesome boom box segment. (Glad you liked it!) ROFL. I avoid sending those auto remarks on LinkedIn.
That initial drop off is most likely people skipping through the YouTube AutoPlay function
I've been a Patreon supporter of this channel for about 2 years now, and I always watch these Oddcasts and enjoy them a lot. A good time frame is 45min to an hour. I find them interesting (as always) and relaxing.
I think you’re right with 45 minutes - that’s what I’d like to aim for.
Definitely enjoyable Mat
Just a comment on the cassette resurgence - it would probably be fairer to measure current cassette sales as a percentage of total physical media sales. All physical formats are now only a fraction of what they used to be. It would be interesting to see how the ratio of vinyl, cds and cassettes compares to the halcyon days!
One of the highlights of the month for me! It's like waiting for as new Game of Thrones episode was! Regarding Keith Richards - he actually changed his name to "Keith Richard" for a while early on in their career, so that is probably correct on your little Karaoke card credits.
That was a fact that I was unaware of until I posted this video and someone mentioned it almost straight away. I had no idea - so if nothing else, putting this video out has increased my Rolling Stones knowledge.
👍 . Looking forward to the next Oddcast. No pressure 😉.
The extra material is definitely worth it. One thing though... maybe use the 4k camera?
All the cameras are 4K - unfortunately the Atem Mini switcher is only 1080p - so the output that is recorded on the Blackmagic Video Assist is 1080p.
From my perspective anyway, best Oddcast so far. Please keep it up and thanks. Your Hindenburg allusion gave me pause for thought, I refuse to thank you for that…
Just to let you know, as you asked, that I really like these 'behind-the-scenes' videos anyway, I'm of a similar age and experience and you always make me chuckle, and this month's was no exception. Good to see you obviously enjoying yourself. I did enjoy the cutaways to the other stuff, I think they worked well. Anyway, enough of me, thanks for reading...
I've put out a few cassettes lately and I have to agree with you on the resurgence being.....not much of anything. I'm putting them out because I think they're neat, and I enjoy listening to them, but for every cassette we sell we're selling like 4-5 digital copies. Even then, every cassette has a download code stuffed in it, so that if we sell them in person the fan can add them to their bandcamp library. I don't really expect that most of the people buying my casettes are actually listening to them. They're putting them on a shelf to look nice, and actually listening to the digital. Heck, the main reason we're even doing them is because they're easy to make on a shoestring budget, and keeping our per unit costs low so we don't have to charge very much for them. So, needless to say, I 100% agree with you seeing them as 'merch' rather than as a music medium.
Every time I see one of the Oddcasts have been uploaded, my head goes wow and my heart goes flutter! (I'm sure this joke has been made 1,000 times but I'm throwing it here anyway) Great episode this time. As others have said, I enjoy the TV show sort of vibe this has as well. I've been watching and listening while I work.
Thanks - and the pressure is on now for the next one.
My friends and I would take time out of our days to get together and experiment with different tape types, argue about Dolby C 'pumping' and getting bias adjustment just right... until Andrew bought a 3-head AIWA that self-tuned itself and, that was the end of that. It was actually a bit sad because the quality was good, any tape, all the time. I often lament the passing of analogue and cassettes, and my reel-to-reels as I turn over in bed listening to the best quality version of The Police I've ever heard before raising my watch, taping it a few times and switching to Thompson Twins for a bit.
There’s a lot to be said for auto calibration. I’m not astute enough to get this kind of thing right on my own.
These Patreon videos have become an equal part of why I'm a patron as the public videos. I'm going to have to start writing lists of comments to add! So in no particular order . . . I'm amazed at that content match thing for technical reasons. Surely, every time a new video is uploaded YT doesn't scan every existing video to see if there's a match - therefore - YT must keep some sort of historic audio match file against every video uploaded and do an occasional match procedure for every new video against every old one. In which case, if the old one was genuinely uploaded earlier that ought to trigger an intelligent human intervention to see what's happening. I find that really weird! Next, That recently acquired Boombox looks interesting. I won't ask when, but I will say I'm looking forward to seeing that one. Gmaill is now offering those one-line clickable replies to emails, too. When you do a location recording, I know you have an Osmo Pocket, use that (on a selfie pole if you wish) with the Osmo external mic adapter and a Rode Wireless Go. Seriously works a treat! Recommended set-up. FInally, The Andromeda Strain. Oh yes - a great film with an intelligent, well-thought-out sci-fi plotline. One of my favourites too. You don't need to answer any of this. :-) Thanks for a great update. SB.
I’ll answer one bit. Unfortunately the Osmo pocket fell off a shelf onto the floor and died. I don’t want to buy another until they offer one with a wider angle - and it’s a lot to spend too. It had probably been used for a couple of hours at most. So for the moment I’m Osmo-less. But I’ve got a few other things I can try.
It was like a huge regular Techmoan episode of various bits and pieces, quite nice indeed.
Incidentally, thanks for mentioning the Earth, Wind and Fire ad campaign. Every time I hear EW&F's "Fantasy" I automatically remember the Panasonic commercial that used the song. Which perhaps isn't what Earth Wind & Fire had intended. Anyway, I'd forgotten it was Panasonic and was able to find the ads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hv8I_cGKzU
I’ve never seen those adverts before - that’s the most enjoyment I’ve had all week. I hadn’t considered that there might be TV commercials to go with the print advert. It’s fun to see the evolution of their boomboxes too. After Maurice passed on, I wonder if I moved one place up the list for the highest forehead in ‘entertainment.’
Enjoyed you using J Dilla - Donuts cassette on the boombox, love that album. Might need to be careful with that one though as Stones Throw are quick to do copyright strikes.
Paused on the close ups of your tape collection... interesting variety of artists you’re into!
don't know about the t shirt ... the logo looks like the size sticker (M M M M M ) Auto responses are interesting technology! Using a neural network/machine learning algorithm, (specifically a RNN or transformer) we're able to get some idea of what a sentence is expressing. The real money making application for this is is being able to determine if movie reviews are positive or negative, etc...
The T-Shirt has been removed from sale due to the fact I am not happy with the way it looked.
I really enjoy the video oddcasts. Well worth it for my part. Thank you!
As before, this month's video oddcast was very entertaining and interesting! I've always enjoyed films from Michael Crichton and/or Robert Wise, including "Andromeda Strain", "Westworld", and "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" (my favorite "Star Trek" film). I also enjoy most of the soundtracks of Maurice Jarre ("Lawrence of Arabia", "Doctor Zhivago") and the legendary Jerry Goldsmith. A quality soundtrack is often as important as the writing, directing/cinematography, and acting. What do you think of the slow "takeover" of film studios in the last 30 years by sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots, and other continuations of previously-filmed fictional property? And if you were to guess, how do you think COVID will ultimately affect films and theater chains?
A type of film I really enjoyed - thrillers set in the real world, with a bit of action and perhaps a few twists that you didn’t see coming - largely disappeared a decade or two ago. The big audiences wanted superheroes and big names, so they stopped making my kind of film. I never enjoyed the cinemas near me, so I haven’t been to one in twenty years. I always watched my movies at home. Over the last few year I had thought that if a company bought out my local cinemas and installed all the latest tech, full size IMAX and Atmos and everything else then I’d give it another go - however last night they announced they’re shutting the lot so that’s the end of that. So as it stands at the moment, they weren’t really making the kind of films I like and now after Covid they aren’t making any films. There’s no cinemas and I’m left trying to find films from the 1960s through to the 1990s that I haven’t seen or don’t remember. In all honesty though this is what I’ve been doing for at least the last decade, so it’s not a massive change.
I do like these Oddcasts. You needn't have quite the same worries with these as you do with the public videos for your channel. Here, you're speaking exclusively to people who "get" you.
I enjoyed hearing your take on cassette nostalgia. My own fascination with this phenomenon is more about the hardware than the cassettes. YouTube's algorithm has sent me no end of videos from people who are ecstatic about their $3000 Nakamichi Dragon, and my regular eBay hunts for strange or unique players routinely turn up high-end HiFi decks or portables for CRAZY money. And of course there are plenty of Hi-Fi message boards discussing the highest-quality recorders, and oh no don't buy a deck with auto-reverse because they're all garbage...etc. And I always think "But...that's totally irrelevant, isn't it?" Because why on earth would somebody with an interest in high-quality audio give any cassette player a second look? LP fans keep banging on about the warmer sound, people like me swear by CDs for the ability to build a better-than-streaming-quality music library that'll work on almost any digital platform past present or future...etc. But the highest praise one can bestow on a tape deck that costs thousands of dollars today is "Wow! In places, that sounds as good as the FLAC file on my phone! Gosh!" So I keep thinking about why many people come up with reasons to justify the tradeoffs regarding expense, inconvenience, and quality. "I like the tactile experience, which I don't get from digital streaming" is easy to understand. But then I get another video of somebody explaining why they're upgrading their decks, or another person demonstrating the quality of a deck that currently costs thousands of dollars and requires as much attention as a steam locomotive, and I'm back at my original questions. That said, I'm enjoying my little collection. I enjoy the stories these decks tell, as an industry kept working on the problem of making the tape format compete with the LP in terms of fidelity, cost, and convenience. And I enjoy seeing all these different styles of industrial design, as expressed over two or three decades.
I suspect it’s a modern day equivalent of messing about with a classic car - but cheaper and takes up less room. At a time when space is at a premium - it’s something that most people can still find space for and can almost justify with “it can play my old tapes” - but mostly it’s just an excuse to have something a bit out of the ordinary that makes you smile. When I was a child - ‘old men’ of my age now would have a classic car in pieces in the garden so they could relive their youth. Now people have no garden or classic car - but there’s still in many people an innate desire to mess about with old stuff as a hobby. Well that’s my hot take. Again I might just be talking for others without understanding their angle. I also suspect most people don’t understand what’s driving them, much like making a mountain out of of mashed potato.
This version of "Satisfaction" fails to live up to the song's longstanding reputation as sexual dynamite. Mick Jagger singing to this backing track would, if anything, inspire all of the ladies in the crowd to put a second pair of panties on over the first pair.
Just my two cents- but I really enjoy these chatty videos about what have you. And breaking them up slightly with bits here and there is a nice touch. I would imagine it removes the pressure for trying to get it in one mostly unbroken take.
I have my suspicions about this "Skip Intro" person ... I suspect a rejected name was "Mat Headroom." ;)
If you get the new smaller JVC boombox replica, it would be good to start the video off with one of them, then "magically" transform it into the other. Have a bit of fun with a reveal. For the t-shirt, I'd recommend having it larger and centred, and using the transparent one (only on black) so it doesn't have the black border. Extra bits are good - almost like a full Techmoan video!
Unfortunately the transparent one is a mess with bits of the black outline showing - it’s unusable. I did do a centred one - but I’ve withdrawn them all now.
I haven't watched just yet but I gotta say I'm digging the beard! Very nice shirt too.
Regarding the copyright claim, I don't see how someone who has released something this year can claim copyright infringement from something uploaded 3 years ago. Do you have a working time machine? Other than the one you used to use to bring new old stock back from the past, of course.
With how often this is going on, I'm surprised YouTube does not have an option on videos to set the publish date. This way the content match would only scan for videos posted either after that date or after the date of uploading the video if unspecified. Better still, the content match could then instead notify video owners with uploads before the specified publish date that a newly uploaded copyrighted video is using a clip of their video.
It's bad enough when I get messages on WhatsApp when I am on another app and it comes up with auto responses for me - I never use them.
Regarding the charts, back in 1985 a bloke in the shared house I lived in who did a bit of DJing had bought every Number 1 single from about the last ten years and was still buying them. Recently they repeated a Kylie at the BBC programme which included the fact that it was retailer Woolworths who suggested the Kylie and Jason single "Especially for You", correctly predicting how many hundreds of thousands of copies it would sell. Congratulations on getting the M90. The seller did a great job with the packing. You just never saw such high end Boxes in the High Street retailers like Dixons . Someone must have sold plenty of GF555s as they are always appearing on UK Ebay.
Thinking back I never really saw any of the high end tech - it was all the usual consumer level stuff from Rumbelows or Dixons. It’s amazing that anyone managed to buy any of it.
The Beatles in the credits made it through the contents control. "Hey Dude". "Jude", "Mat".
As always: Very entertaining. I am looking forward to every new oddcast. Maybe because I am around the same age, are interested in tech stuff and something new: Love movies - not only the 70s movies but there are a LOT of good ones from that area. I spend way too much money for DVD starting in 1999. Became much better in English because of that as I had to watch German dubbed films before the DVD came out with multiple language tracks (and I hate dubbing ever since) and 20 years later I own 1600 films in HD or UHD. I'm that kind of absurd that I even buy films in the US, India or UK only because the picture quality (or the extras) of this particular edition is better than the one in Germany and convert it to a MKV file, extract the German language track from a different version of the film and add it to the one with the best picture only because I want them to enjoy with my kids who are not able (yet) to watch them in English.
My memory is just as bad so forgot this was coming, it was a nice surprise to get another this soon. Definitely worth the extra effort, really interesting and it was especially great to see the RCM90. Honestly as these have progressed I think they're equal to if not better than the early video releases. Single click replies are definitely disingenuous, I think YouTube are hoping people won't notice and will just be happy to have any kind of response. Might work for kids.
re: locating logos on shirts: the company I used to work for used to give away merch a few times a year, and at one point I started seeing people around the office wearing shirts and coats with the logo on the rear, off to one side on the shoulder. I'm positive somebody used some sort of tool to place the image on a mockup of the item, and somehow either it was transposed from where it belonged on the front to the back, or they just didn't notice it was wrong.
I wonder if that’s what happened at Superdry and they decided to run with it - I see those on a shoulder.
Wow! Yay! Best oddcast video ever! Actually, it was quite good. The inserts were a neat break. I do have to say the end shot with the puppet creeped me out, and I had to zoom to see what the flippin’ ‘eck was going on. I’m not using any auto response unless it says “huzzah!”
That Testcard is very creepy, but also very familiar to a generation of people in the UK who saw this image daily when BBC shut down for an afternoon nap.
I really enjoy the patron videos please keep doing them. I collect 4k blurays no region control lol. Enjoyed the making of/ follow techmoan for day videos
Another great oddcast, thanks Mat. I guessed that it was a sharp 777. Your description was leading me down that route. Prices of those are astronomical! I have a sharp gf-9090 but it needs new belts and pinch roller. Cheers
I do have a 777 as well. It’s not as well put together as this one, but they’re both classics.
Not to criticize the guy who did the Techwood-logo too harshly (I certainly couldn't have done it any better myself!), but now when seeing both logos on the same screen I notice that the original has only a single red triangle. Perhaps just the "M" should have the red triangle, as its pretty much the inverted "W" of the original. But again, it is a very nice tribute! I'm sure the Technics logo would lend itself just as well for a similar pastiche - half the work is already done! Also the Walkman logo... 🤔
It’s times like these when I wish I was a skilled graphic designer.
This was absolutely terrific! Loved the inserts and cutbacks. More please!
Very enjoyable update video. The testcard at the start reminded me of Frank Sidebottom's live overnight test card for Channel M. Perhaps we can have the puppet on a live test card next time! Mind you, we had enough of your singing in that MIDI portable player video ... ;) https://youtu.be/O0JMvVU1F6I?t=53
Thanks again Mat for another great update and yes, please keep doing them.
I do like the inserts. Or insets! whatever, you know what I mean. Maybe you should make the transition faster, no long explanations. "While I change to the new t-shirt, see me unwrapping my latest parcel". And switch. Ok, this time maybe a bit hard. "See me unwrapping". LOL. But I guess you got it.
I’m not one for saying one word when ten won’t do. I’ll try and make things snappier.
Saw the prototype for the mini M90 at the RepliTronics booth at E3 last year, immediately hoped you'd be able to get one once it came out since it looked quite slick. Getting the original is about a thousand times better though, looking forward to that eventual video. Those automated comment responses though, haha. I really can't imagine who would ever use them. Gmail does this now as well, attempting to respond to emails with horrendously impersonal results. One of my favorite replies is "Got it." Just imagine sending that response to a novel-length email from a viewer, it's like they're trying to make YouTubers look like jerks.
Yes we don’t need any help to do that. I didn’t mention in the video but I did also order/back one-each of the larger and smaller mIni M90s from Replitronics too. I’ll line them all up like a dissembled matryoshka.
All good, Mat - as someone already said, these Video Oddcasts are worth the $5 a month on their own. Where else can you get over an hour's entertainment perfectly tailored for the middle aged gentleman interested in the subjects you cover for that amount? btw, Keith Richards changed his surname to Richard in the early 1960s because it 'looked more pop' but in the 1970s changed it back. Satisfaction was written in 1965 so Richard would be correct for that year. Thanks, as always, Mat!
That’s a bit of trivia I didn’t know. Always good to learn something.
Nice one. I did enjoy the inserted sections - gave a nice bit of variety to it all. Skip Intro sounds a very interesting "person" - your covert description did make me chuckle! 😄
Love it! One thing I've noticed about your videos and ads is that the American technology Youtubers are far more frequently interrupted by ads than yours are. I don't know why that is, but I thought it was interesting.
I turn off all but one of the mid-roll adverts on the longer videos. I still get a lot of compliants about too many ads though. If I left it to do it’s own thing it gets a bit silly.
Got the T-shirt! Here's a photo on Twitter (which Mat no longer uses): https://twitter.com/Crivitz89/status/1312764201023295488
That’s now a limited edition collectible. I took the design down because I’m not 100% happy with the printing.
Also as to the movies mentioned, Andromeda Strain is also a favorite of mine, and as far as movies of the 1970s, just last night I watched Day Of The Jackal again which is another favorite, also recently watched a biopic of the director Hal Ashby, who had a phenomenal run of films in the 70s. Also a big fan of the original Narrow Margin, though haven't seen the remake, which sounds like a good one and has been on my watchlist on Amazon, but like you, I sometimes find it hard to pay for an SD version--I may as well go on and watch it. As to the things that make you feel old, I've been experiencing that just as you have described it, it's definitely a thing. I recently completed a project of scanning loads of film from a stash of my parents' photos, from the early 70s until late 90s at which point they began using an APS film camera which didn't seem easy to digitize. Quite an experience watching this process of your family members aging through the years.
I liked Andromeda Strain so much I considered drinking Sterno.
I had a good time watching this update. I found the explanation of the cassette comeback informative and it makes sense to me, to which I'll add: Good Tip! Good Point! Good to Know!
Just joined on Patreon and watch my first Oddcast. Very cool! Can’t wait to see a video on the JVC boom box. I recently found an Emerson boom box like I had when I was a kid. Brings back great memories. And as for auto-generated content based on trending videos, I think it already exists. Read an article a while back about ‘kids’ content on YouTube like that. There’s some really bizarre stuff there...
As long as the auto-generated stuff stays creepy and weird we’re OK. It’s the day I can watch one and think there’s nothing odd going on - that’s when I’ll be worried.
I never get the adverts you do- it must be that they’re advertising to you, rather than them being associated with your videos?
Yes everyone gets some kind of personalised adverts depending on location and cookies. If anything though I get a more vanilla set of adverts than many as I have tracking cookies disabled and sometimes change my age on my Google account. The fun thing about talking about adverts is that most people won’t see the same ones, so that gives me something to talk about.
I think the term you were searching for was 'disingenuous'
It was - I was having difficulty remembering words while shooting this. There was a whole spiel at the beginning about how I thought that this might happen, but I cut it out. I think I was having blood sugar issues.
Enjoyable stuff as always, Mat. I totally agree with the comments (from both you and Tony) about the supposed resurgence. Pre-recorded cassettes are just a novelty item/ merch now. That said, there must have been a pretty significant interest in cassettes/home taping because the price of hifi decks and NOS blanks has shot up in recent years.
"I've never been into collecting cassettes", he said whilst seated in front of shelves stacked with his huge cassette collection. 😁 I thought there was a fridge hiding in that enormous Russian monolith, at first. 😳 By the way, Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" is available on numerous public domain, or otherwise royalty-free, recordings. Here's one that's fairly good: https://archive.org/details/uso20000527/uso20000527-01-strauss-zarathustra-partI.wav I've used it in PowerPoint presentations myself. 🤓
I meant to say Blank Cassettes - there’s a whole culture of collecting these and the rare ones go for a lot of money. Thanks for the music link.
At 42:00 I was wondering if inside there was an Yamaha speaker, that one with "elephant ears" polystyrene woofers
Great Oddcast! Well, I have to say I am one of those three of four people who like your "Directors cut special edition extra Street..." but I can understand why you cut it out for Youtubers. However, feel free to publish other deleted scenes, at least for us Patreons. I won't tell you what I thought when I witnessed that monolith, but I am relieved to see that it included an awesome Boombox and not... In the thumbnail, I thought the puppet was showing the finger. Maybe it's just me, and I am still little shocked about your strange clickbait adverts. ;-)
Cassette come back is a complete myth just a bit of fun. It’s more like a novelty collector item. Lets face it people have a tendency to collect almost anything. If people want a good cassette deck you can still pick up vintage ones for little money. I love the Victor unit. I did buy one of the VU meter teeshirts Mat. The quality in not bad, but not black more dark grey
Thanks to whoever it was that uploaded the Movies! VHDs. 😉
Just liked the "Chunky" stuff!!
Soeaking of shirts... Each time I tune in you're wearing a really great shirt. This purple job with the sort of paisley splotches... put your tech-wood ken-moan logo onto those!
If that was an option I’d be all over it,.
Thanks a lot again! It might be a bit long (although that doesn't really bother me), but I like the bits and pieces in-between, I see it also as something behind-the-scene, which I alway like! The automatic suggested replies are a thing from Google, we use the enterprise suite from Google at work, also get the same ideas for replies to emails, never understood the sense of that...
Glad you liked it! (This was my attempt at guessing an auto-response)
I'm not convinced on the shirt. The black block around it looks tacky and cheap, perfectly alright if you want to print a picture of your cat on your shirt but no, this doesn't look good. Your channel is all about the GOOD stuff, well-crafted made things that are expensive and all, and I think the shirt should reflect that.
I’m not happy with the way it looks either. I’ve removed them from the store. I’ll try the logo again with a non-clothing item when I get the opportunity.
Just wait until YouTube starts suggesting automatic comments under videos, and the creator can post automatic responses. Will really streamline the entire experience. I think it was in a Douglas Adams book (Dirk Gently?) where an alien visitor to Earth assumed that a VCR was a labour saving device, it watched tv so you don't have to. Popped into my head when watching this for some reason.
Once youtube can make an automatic video upload based on the trending videos it’s time to go and live off the grid in a shack in the woods.
Love it, thank you!
Very much enjoyed this one! Can't wait for the video on the M90. Just one thing. I don't know about the t-shirt but if you put that logo on a mug it's an instant buy for me. Maybe even one of those fancy ones where the print is only visible when you put something hot in it?
I’ll see what they can do at a sensible price.
June Foray
That’s her - I can’t remember what I said, but yes its June Foray. I was struggling with my memory and words quite a bit in this one.
Glad you enjoy making these Mat because I’d pay the $5 a month just to watch these. As you say - more like a tv show and a very enjoyable one at that . Had to chuckle at you keeping the our man in the field section in just for the joke 😆 Keep up the great work and look after yourself.
I like these. It's a nice peek behind the scenes and sheds light on the content creator side of things I usually don't think that much about. I also like a little bit of rambling it makes it feel like we get some genuine insight and not some sleek brand building PR stuff.
Thanks for posting the extended intro for the Street Rocker. I understand why you cut it out, but I did like hearing your perspective on it, that you got that boom box and comparing it to an older boom box with, in theory, same low end mechs, but still sounding good and even showing an example of one. The extended edition was definitely super interesting and thanks for sharing it.
Wasn't too long. Liked every bit of it. Usage of those japanese 76-95 MHz FM receivers was not allowed in Germany up to sometime in the 90s. They were able to receive german police radios and firefighter radios. However those were still sold, but marked as "for export only". And nobody really cared.
I remember being told it was illegal to listen to the police on the radio (at one point you could pick them up on most radios). I recall tuning in secretly and expecting the police to surround the house and knock down the door.
Thanks Mat, I really look forward to these every month :D
Fun episode! Say hello to Skip and tell "him/her" I subscribed immediately!
If I ever see them again I’ll let them know.
Oddcasts are the best! Love the stream of consciousness.
I see what you did there: https://youtu.be/8Kkmf8zHqnU 😄 Will watch all of it later. When I first became a patron, I didn't think I'd "bother" with the Odd-casts but I soon discovered they're very worthwhile! Bug report: there's a typo in the chapters where it says "32”33 Content match woes"
Thanks for spotting that - I’ve corrected it now.