A couple of weeks ago, Caleb, Robbie, and I decided to bring back the TROLLTIDE Fantasy Network Podcast for the 2021 season, covering the MiLF, the DSL, and whatever other fantasy arenas our little hearts desired. We decided that our first episode of the season would be for the DSL, pre-draft, to look at rule changes, draft pick trading, etc.
I had been hoping I’d be able to share that first episode with you today. We recorded last night for about an hour. Everything went smooth. Significantly smoother than our first go around. The conversation was good. We covered what we needed to cover. I talked shit about CJ Anderson. We all talked shit about Corey. Robbie changed some rules mid-podcast. Everything was as it should be.
Then, I went to cut it down and edit it, and I slowly started to remember (after a year and a half away) how temperamental the app we’d been using for remote multi-hosting was. The fact that we had to host from a cellphone (instead of a computer) was already kind of a pain in the ass, as the audio quality is going to be less consistent, but we actually had fewer connection issues getting everyone in the call than I’d remembered in the past. The issue came when I remembered, “Oh, shit. We used to break up the recording into like ten minute segments.”
We recorded in one long take. Early on in the podcast there were a few moments where the app had decided to speed my audio up and compress it to where I sounded like a chipmunk. This was no problem, I thought. I can cut around it, go back in and redub my questions, everything will be peachy. By 25 minutes into our 50 minute podcast, I realized it was unsalvageable. Caleb and Robbie’s audio was fine throughout, but my audio (I was “hosting” from my phone) was sped up and compressed over 50% of the time. It was completely indecipherable as my high pitched, high speed rambling was rolling over Caleb and Robbie. So we had to scrap it.
The podcast is still coming. We just have to re-record it. We’ve found a new software we are going to use that will allow us to host on our computers. It looks clean. I’m excited. All of this just means we will have more information to analyze about all of the dumb shit you fucks are doing pre-draft. This all seems pretty par for the course for TROLLTIDE whenever we try to do something new or try to go back and do something we haven’t in a while. We go big and fall short. It’s kind of our modus operandi.
Troll tide, fellers.