part1 unused clips

on microphones

[00:00:35] Droste: by the time our show comes out, it's gonna be too late, but there's some really great holiday deals on, um, I mean, like even Rode, they have, um, some USB mics that are like 70 to $169 sixty nine, a hundred sixty $9. Um, you know, they plug in the headphones to 'em and yeah, it's great.

[00:00:59] Liquidiot: I tell people a hundred dollar USB mic will sound so much better than anything else than you currently have. It may not be like broadcast quality, but people will notice the difference. And if you're spending, like a lot of us are, a lot of time in voice meetings, even if you're not on camera and even if it's not being recorded, it will help.

[00:01:17] AirPods, which I usually don't recommend just because of the battery. You don't want to die mid, show or recording, whatever. But using just like an older laptop, and on a wooden desk.

[00:01:29] So the whole thing you just hear, the computer fan and there's, it's like vibrating through the frame of the laptop into the microphone or AirPods or whatever. But there's only so much I can do with that.

[00:01:38] Droste: Yeah. People don't realize it. there's little things you can do. move the mic a little closer, maybe put a towel on your desk.

[00:01:46] Liquidiot: Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah.

[00:01:48] If like, if you like doing stuff in order, I thinka audio is, should be first. Then with video I would suggest don't go right for an expensive camera. Go for lighting. It's like audio, then sort out your lighting. Cuz good lighting will make even this shitty webcam I have here I don't have my lights up right now, but it will look so much better with good lighting. And good lighting is cheaper than a good camera.

[00:02:13] Droste: Oh, light. You can get really great lighting pretty cheap now.

[00:02:16] Liquidiot: Yeah. Yeah.

[00:02:18] Droste: LEDs are great. Uh, color temperature adjustable made for videos so they don't flicker. Oh, it's great. Yeah.

[00:02:25] Liquidiot: Yeah. The easiest step to get just like exponential results is a good microphone. Cuz even if your picture is, People will still watch it. If you don't sound bad. You don't think about it, but, um, bad video is much easier to digest than bad audio.

[00:02:46] Droste: I don't think people realize that.

[00:02:48] Liquidiot: Yeah. Cuz we're very visual creatures, right. We just look at stuff and you don't think about audio. But

[00:02:53] Droste: but if you start watching a movie, you've probably been to film festivals and stuff, right? Like in their student films and indie films and things like,

[00:03:01] Liquidiot: yeah, I don't care how good it looks if the sound is outta sync or there's some kind of weird

[00:03:07] Droste: That's it.

[00:03:08] Liquidiot: I just can't watch it. It's just un undigestible. Yeah. Sorry. It's it, it should become a silent film at that point to me. Just turn off the volume and I'll just watch the pictures, you know?

[00:03:21] Droste: that'd be hard to do as a podcast.

[00:03:23] Liquidiot: Yeah.

[00:03:25] Droste: We're doing a silent film podcast.

[00:03:27] Liquidiot: it's just reading basically.

[00:03:29] Droste: never got traction.

[00:03:30] Liquidiot: Yeah. Didn't get out of the gates. Still,

on Japanese toilets and pricey mattresses

[00:03:34] Droste: I forgot how to speak English.

[00:03:36] Liquidiot: yeah. Yeah. Welcome to my world.

[00:03:38] Droste: Nope, that

[00:03:39] Liquidiot: Lose something. Turn on this light. I do love that most Japanese lighting is remote lighting that lets you control the temperature.

[00:03:49] Droste: Just like the toilet.

[00:03:51] Liquidiot: Yeah. Remotes for everything.

[00:03:53] Droste: Oh, I flushed the toilet. I meant to turn on the color cycling party lights

[00:03:59] Liquidiot: ahh.

[00:03:59] Uh oh. Yeah. Here's a joke. My downstairs toilet is automatic, so it's got a sensor close to your lower back. So when you stand up it just flushes for you.

[00:04:07] Droste: Oh.

[00:04:07] Liquidiot: And you get used to that. And then you go to other toilets, maybe perhaps another person's homes and you forget that that's not there.

[00:04:13] Droste: I see where this is going.

[00:04:15] Liquidiot: And then you start to walk out of the bathroom like, oh shit, literally. Got, gotta flush this myself.

[00:04:21] I try to avoid that in other people's homes, but occasionally, you know, you just --timing's off. Yeah, the, our upstairs one does not do that, so I should know better. But the downstairs one, just.. One of my old friends had one that the toilet seat would open automatically when you walked in the room and it would greet you and then you could have it play. Yeah, you sit down, it would do everything for you. There's lights around the bottom, uh, like ambient lighting. It had music that it would play. If you wanted to, you could connect it to Bluetooth also. A lot of 'em do the water sound. It's called privacy mode. So if you're peeing and you don't wanna be heard, you push the button and it makes it sound like a waterfall.

[00:05:00] Droste: Wow. You know, I, there's already people that have a problem using either public restrooms or using the restroom when they travel.

[00:05:09] Liquidiot: Yeah.

[00:05:10] Droste: I just gotta believe that between the weighted blankets and the, you know, temperature selectable beds and,

[00:05:19] Liquidiot: Eight Sleep.

[00:05:19] Droste: You can't go anywhere.

[00:05:21] Liquidiot: Well. Yeah. Well you get too.. And I've listened to people talk about how great this stuff is, and I'm like, that sounds nice. I would like to sleep in a temperature controlled environment like on my bed. That would sound so amazing. But you get so used to it that you can't not have it. When I was young, I had a ceiling fan in my room, uh, and I would always have that on, and I got used to the fan sound and now I'm a very light sleeper.

[00:05:46] So if I don't have a fan running like that constant home and I hear something else, it'll wake me up. So now I have to constantly have a fan running in order for me to sleep.

[00:05:57] Droste: We train our brains.

[00:05:58] Liquidiot: I can't back that train up now. And I'm worried that if I do something else like that, if I get used to something else, that I won't be able to sleep anywhere else, travel, you know, I'm, I kind of worry about getting too spoiled by some of these things that sound fantastic, but

[00:06:13] Droste: Yeah. Anyway, let's, um, go ahead and record a couple things as if it's just the episode,

late '90s email gags

[00:06:20] Liquidiot: That idea

[00:06:21] is actually predated by an email I used to get in the nineties. Do you remember this email where it would say, through this new technology, we can use your screen as a camera, and the screen would flash, and then it would just show you the picture of a chimpanzee. And it was like this, you know, those email gags, everyone was forwarding these email gangs around, so like you're sitting there in front of your screen.

[00:06:43] I was like, I can't believe they figured this out. And then this white light flash and then slowly it reveals like, like developing a chimpanzee picture. I was like, oh my God, you got me?

[00:06:52] Droste: Yeah. They had the Halloween thing where they tell you to look intently at the screen for like

[00:06:58] Liquidiot: Oh yeah. The the, the thing screams at you. Like, ah. It's like, oh my God. Yeah, God. The, the fucking late nineties email gag culture. My goodness.

part1 unused clips

on microphones

[00:00:35] Droste: by the time our show comes out, it's gonna be too late, but there's some really great holiday deals on, um, I mean, like even Rode, they have, um, some USB mics that are like 70 to $169 sixty nine, a hundred sixty $9. Um, you know, they plug in the headphones to 'em and yeah, it's great.

[00:00:59] Liquidiot: I tell people a hundred dollar USB mic will sound so much better than anything else than you currently have. It may not be like broadcast quality, but people will notice the difference. And if you're spending, like a lot of us are, a lot of time in voice meetings, even if you're not on camera and even if it's not being recorded, it will help.

[00:01:17] AirPods, which I usually don't recommend just because of the battery. You don't want to die mid, show or recording, whatever. But using just like an older laptop, and on a wooden desk.

[00:01:29] So the whole thing you just hear, the computer fan and there's, it's like vibrating through the frame of the laptop into the microphone or AirPods or whatever. But there's only so much I can do with that.

[00:01:38] Droste: Yeah. People don't realize it. there's little things you can do. move the mic a little closer, maybe put a towel on your desk.

[00:01:46] Liquidiot: Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah.

[00:01:48] If like, if you like doing stuff in order, I thinka audio is, should be first. Then with video I would suggest don't go right for an expensive camera. Go for lighting. It's like audio, then sort out your lighting. Cuz good lighting will make even this shitty webcam I have here I don't have my lights up right now, but it will look so much better with good lighting. And good lighting is cheaper than a good camera.

[00:02:13] Droste: Oh, light. You can get really great lighting pretty cheap now.

[00:02:16] Liquidiot: Yeah. Yeah.

[00:02:18] Droste: LEDs are great. Uh, color temperature adjustable made for videos so they don't flicker. Oh, it's great. Yeah.

[00:02:25] Liquidiot: Yeah. The easiest step to get just like exponential results is a good microphone. Cuz even if your picture is, People will still watch it. If you don't sound bad. You don't think about it, but, um, bad video is much easier to digest than bad audio.

[00:02:46] Droste: I don't think people realize that.

[00:02:48] Liquidiot: Yeah. Cuz we're very visual creatures, right. We just look at stuff and you don't think about audio. But

[00:02:53] Droste: but if you start watching a movie, you've probably been to film festivals and stuff, right? Like in their student films and indie films and things like,

[00:03:01] Liquidiot: yeah, I don't care how good it looks if the sound is outta sync or there's some kind of weird

[00:03:07] Droste: That's it.

[00:03:08] Liquidiot: I just can't watch it. It's just un undigestible. Yeah. Sorry. It's it, it should become a silent film at that point to me. Just turn off the volume and I'll just watch the pictures, you know?

[00:03:21] Droste: that'd be hard to do as a podcast.

[00:03:23] Liquidiot: Yeah.

[00:03:25] Droste: We're doing a silent film podcast.

[00:03:27] Liquidiot: it's just reading basically.

[00:03:29] Droste: never got traction.

[00:03:30] Liquidiot: Yeah. Didn't get out of the gates. Still,

on Japanese toilets and pricey mattresses

[00:03:34] Droste: I forgot how to speak English.

[00:03:36] Liquidiot: yeah. Yeah. Welcome to my world.

[00:03:38] Droste: Nope, that

[00:03:39] Liquidiot: Lose something. Turn on this light. I do love that most Japanese lighting is remote lighting that lets you control the temperature.

[00:03:49] Droste: Just like the toilet.

[00:03:51] Liquidiot: Yeah. Remotes for everything.

[00:03:53] Droste: Oh, I flushed the toilet. I meant to turn on the color cycling party lights

[00:03:59] Liquidiot: ahh.

[00:03:59] Uh oh. Yeah. Here's a joke. My downstairs toilet is automatic, so it's got a sensor close to your lower back. So when you stand up it just flushes for you.

[00:04:07] Droste: Oh.

[00:04:07] Liquidiot: And you get used to that. And then you go to other toilets, maybe perhaps another person's homes and you forget that that's not there.

[00:04:13] Droste: I see where this is going.

[00:04:15] Liquidiot: And then you start to walk out of the bathroom like, oh shit, literally. Got, gotta flush this myself.

[00:04:21] I try to avoid that in other people's homes, but occasionally, you know, you just --timing's off. Yeah, the, our upstairs one does not do that, so I should know better. But the downstairs one, just.. One of my old friends had one that the toilet seat would open automatically when you walked in the room and it would greet you and then you could have it play. Yeah, you sit down, it would do everything for you. There's lights around the bottom, uh, like ambient lighting. It had music that it would play. If you wanted to, you could connect it to Bluetooth also. A lot of 'em do the water sound. It's called privacy mode. So if you're peeing and you don't wanna be heard, you push the button and it makes it sound like a waterfall.

[00:05:00] Droste: Wow. You know, I, there's already people that have a problem using either public restrooms or using the restroom when they travel.

[00:05:09] Liquidiot: Yeah.

[00:05:10] Droste: I just gotta believe that between the weighted blankets and the, you know, temperature selectable beds and,

[00:05:19] Liquidiot: Eight Sleep.

[00:05:19] Droste: You can't go anywhere.

[00:05:21] Liquidiot: Well. Yeah. Well you get too.. And I've listened to people talk about how great this stuff is, and I'm like, that sounds nice. I would like to sleep in a temperature controlled environment like on my bed. That would sound so amazing. But you get so used to it that you can't not have it. When I was young, I had a ceiling fan in my room, uh, and I would always have that on, and I got used to the fan sound and now I'm a very light sleeper.

[00:05:46] So if I don't have a fan running like that constant home and I hear something else, it'll wake me up. So now I have to constantly have a fan running in order for me to sleep.

[00:05:57] Droste: We train our brains.

[00:05:58] Liquidiot: I can't back that train up now. And I'm worried that if I do something else like that, if I get used to something else, that I won't be able to sleep anywhere else, travel, you know, I'm, I kind of worry about getting too spoiled by some of these things that sound fantastic, but

[00:06:13] Droste: Yeah. Anyway, let's, um, go ahead and record a couple things as if it's just the episode,

late '90s email gags

[00:06:20] Liquidiot: That idea

[00:06:21] is actually predated by an email I used to get in the nineties. Do you remember this email where it would say, through this new technology, we can use your screen as a camera, and the screen would flash, and then it would just show you the picture of a chimpanzee. And it was like this, you know, those email gags, everyone was forwarding these email gangs around, so like you're sitting there in front of your screen.

[00:06:43] I was like, I can't believe they figured this out. And then this white light flash and then slowly it reveals like, like developing a chimpanzee picture. I was like, oh my God, you got me?

[00:06:52] Droste: Yeah. They had the Halloween thing where they tell you to look intently at the screen for like

[00:06:58] Liquidiot: Oh yeah. The the, the thing screams at you. Like, ah. It's like, oh my God. Yeah, God. The, the fucking late nineties email gag culture. My goodness.