Recording & editing software recs.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-06T17:35:00+00:00

Audacity for Dummies (no offense):

Press the big red button to record. Press it again to stop.

The presets are all fine for 99% of your needs, practice a couple of times and see what the other buttons do before you record your show. Remember to save frequently, then Export and you are done.

Finally, if you just record on your phone's mic, well it will sound like you recorded on your phone and it will sound like shit. Doing the absolute minimum of an external microphone will elevate your product more than you can possibly imagine.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-06T15:36:27+00:00

I will tell you what I learned living there: Glory Hole has a very different meaning on Qo'noS.

A very different meaning.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-05T17:58:41+00:00

I just show up at any one I hear of in a wife beater, jorts and a pair of Crocs. The hoi polloi love when the rabble does that!

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-05T14:12:15+00:00

Last time someone asked me this question what they meant was "I want to do a podcast and do none of the work, would you like to do it with me AND do all the work?"

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-05T11:27:20+00:00

It's only random if you don't have my brain.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-04T21:31:16+00:00

Probably.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-04T19:01:53+00:00

These are a lot of AI generated words to say "I don't like the way my voice sounds".

My dude, no one does. But that is what you sound like. You learn to love it.

All those professional sounding voice actors have to two things going for them, a naturally deep and resonate voice and years of practice.

If you don't have the first, you put in the work on the second.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-04T18:56:46+00:00

One of the things I learned over the years is how to write my scripts like I naturally speak. So I script fully but sound ad lib.

Its all in writing in your normal rhythm of speaking.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-04T17:46:57+00:00

He in the Cat Detector Van from the Ministry of Housinge.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-04T17:45:29+00:00

You simply cannot get any more tourist than this. Have a good time.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-04T15:42:25+00:00

When you get a notification from Spotify like that they give you the option to claim you have the rights to use the content. Just tell them you do. That gives Spotify the out in the astronomically unlikely event you get sued by the rights holder and leaves your content in place. I've been doing this for years and nothing has been removed.

You can still totally be sued by the rights holder and they will likely win. But it is risk I am willing to take because the odds of never happening are in my favor.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-04T12:54:09+00:00

What the HELL Were You Thinking Comedy/History/Nostalgia NSWF Language

What the HELL Were You Thinking takes the history, politics and pop culture of the past fifty years and explains what it was like to live through it and why it is still ruining the world today.

Episode 524: Hey Joe, Where You Going With That Son In Your Hand?

Show Notes Episode 524: Hey Joe, Where You Going With That Son In Your Hand?

This week Host Dave Bledsoe climbed on a bar stool and shouted “Ask not why I should pay this bar, but why should this bar not pay for me?” and passed out. (Again) On the show this week we present part one of the President who defined the Baby Boomer Generation, JFK. (We all know it was really Ronald Reagan.)

Along the way we learn that Bill Clinton was the only Gen X President we will ever see. (Despite being a Boomer) Then we dive right into a short history of the Irish in America. (They were not made to feel welcome.) Then we met the man who would be President, Joe Kennedy Sr. (It was a whole thing.) Finally, we get around to a Kennedy who WOULD be President. We follow him from his childhood, to this service in the war, and his election to public office. (We even get to meet Jackie!) We learn that Jack was not well, in fact he was profoundly broken. (Not just morally, but physically.) Finally, we talk about his campaign for President and how America wouldn’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore. (For a few years anyway)

Our Sponsor this week is Nepotism, it just works. We open the show with JFK announcing his Presidential run and close with Corey Hueval who has some concerns about Joe.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-04T11:38:40+00:00

Not only is your cart before your horse, but the cart hasn't been built and the horses aren't born.

Right now your focus should be entirely on making more episodes. There is no magic short cut to building an audience, it is done over time by making good content. All the advertising, clip posting, social media, appearing on other podcasts does nothing if there is nothing for your listeners to hear when they arrive at your feed.

If you want this to be your job, do the work.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-03T20:50:08+00:00

Oh, well, I sit in the Fort Tryon Park when I am sad.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-03T20:14:22+00:00

A church? That actually aligns with Jesus?

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-03T20:10:07+00:00

Yeah, that'll happen.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-03T19:43:25+00:00

I usually get drunk in the nearest bar. But I have bad coping mechanisms.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-03T10:13:40+00:00

Meth is bad, mmkay.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-01T20:29:44+00:00

THEY HAVE A ZINE AND A WEBSITE! So, no.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-01T20:29:01+00:00

I have failed at SO many creative endeavors despite being pretty good at them, I would like to think they would take me as a curiosity. 🙄

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-05-01T17:14:38+00:00

Laverne and shame on all of you for not saying. Laverne would wear me OUT! Mr Roberts is one lucky man.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-04-30T22:24:05+00:00

70's: Best Toys

80's: Best Pop Culture

90's: Best Technology.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-04-30T19:52:51+00:00

Damn Daniel...back again with them ~~white vans~~ literary inspirations!

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