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We have already enjoyed one half hour music and chatter segment from Alex, and now it's time for another one. As mentioned in the previous post, these were originally created for the mammoth Sidepodradio event that has now been postponed. They were too good to just sit on our servers until we sort everything out, so here is Giggles Part Deux.
I am loving the mix of music and funny skits that Alex has come up with. The amount of effort gone in to this is remarkable!
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Here we are for another recording of F1 Debrief, with a panel scheduled for afterwards. It may be a short panel though, as we only have one confirmed guest. Nevertheless, we've got an entire debrief to get through before we find out how things are looking after Top Gear.
We're scheduled to go live at 4pm GMT, so this post is a little bit late, but never mind. Please click the triangle in the top corner to visit the live commenting live thing, and we'll see you shortly.
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A cracking race at Monaco means there's no time to catch up on the news, which is good, because there wasn't any. Today, it's all about the racing.
Thankfully we had an extra day to make this show, how it's going to work for Canada, we just don't know.
Good week for Williams and Alonso, bad week for spying and being outdoors.
Only Coulthard could have such an intriguing crash - there's the wheel but where's the car?
So many incidents, so little time, but it all comes back to Sutil.
The Canada Sidepodcast meet up suffers a setback, but it's not out of the window yet, and both Drop.io and Kathi made our weekend.
We reveal our plans for Goodwood and entice you to listen to next week's show.
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By Mr. C.
Just a very quick heads up to say that the usual Sunday show will be slightly delayed this week, making it more of a Monday show.
Christine had a small incident with her laptop's power adapter earlier today, which means the podcasting workhorse (the laptop that is, not Christine) is now no longer capable of doing the job it was designed to do. With no available juice, the poor machine is little more than a doorstop at present.
Usually this wouldn't be an issue, and we'd simply use another one, except the section we recorded after Saturday's qualifying is stuck inside the box, and won't come out.
Plan number two in these situations would be to pick up a replacement adapter and carry on. Sadly this doesn't account for the fact that the UK is currently celebrating some sort of inexplicable holiday ritual involving chocolate fashioned in the shape of an egg (sounds appealing right?), and thus the local power distribution emporium have opted to remain closed today.
In short, we've exhausted every possible option available to us, so we're just going to have to sit on ours hands until the sun comes up. The net effect of that means the podcast will appear roughly 12 hours later than planned.
Sorry.
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One of the things that has been consistently changing over the course of the first year at Sidepodcast, is the show notes we refer to when recording.
The first two shows we ever made – my 2006 championship review – were entirely scripted. If you've heard them, this will come as no surprise I'm sure. I was not at all confident about talking out loud and to be fair, I wasn’t totally sure I knew what I was saying. I'd read a few other reviews of the season and cobbled together my own.
The co-host was, of course, quite happy just to stand in front of the mic and throw in his comments as and when he felt like it.
After that first show, we realised that it probably wasn’t going to make a great podcast, listening to me reading out a previously written script. It was immediately obvious that it needed to be more of a conversation, but how much we needed to write down and how much would come naturally remains a matter of great consternation between us.
Here's the thing – I'm forever concerned about coming across as sounding a bit stupid. It's partly because I'm a girl and we're always worried about what other people think. It’s also because I'm in the minority when it comes to F1, and I don’t want to let the side down by dropping a complete clanger.
I know so much more than I did a year ago, and to be fair, I'm still learning every day, but that's not really what the main problem is. My problem is my memory - I don't remember stuff and it helps to have it written down.
We usually just make a note of the topics to be covered on the white-board, and then keep lists of statistics so that we don't forget anything important. If the opinionated one had his way, that would be it and we'd just get on with it. However, when you couple his hatred for verbose note-taking with the complete inability to repeat himself, you have a recipe for disaster.
For example: Opinion is a dangerous thing when you have a loose tongue and we occasionally say things that could be considered by some to be slanderous. These words aren't fit to see the light of day and self-censorship can sometimes be a good thing. Problems begin though, when we try to restart the conversation.
Everything completely changes, even the good stuff that was worth repeating. It's like he's incapable of recalling words once they've left his mouth. By way of example:
Christine: Bugger, I can't say that out loud can I? Shall we do it again?
Me: Okay.
Christine: You wanna go back and pick up from Honda?
Me: What did I say?
Christine: That Ross Brawn is impressed with their steady progress, despite the testing results.
Me: Sooo, anyway, Honda have been hopeless in testing and it's no wonder they haven't got any sponsors.
Christine: Ugh...
You see what I have to put up with? Not only do I have to remember what I want to say, I also have to remember everything he's just said as well.
So what do you think?
Should we have more notes, less notes, completely random conversations or perfectly scripted prose?
We're always meddling and trying out new ways of doing things so if you have any suggestions for improving short term memory or can recommend an alternative co-host, please let me know!
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Sidepodcast reaches the ripe old age of 50 shows, which is such a milestone that we don't even mention it!
We're better and busy, tweaking the blog here and there - see if you can spot our amendments.
The Australian GP and Christian Klien share our bad week accolade, whilst Honda and Trulli cash in on the good luck.
A catchup of the news from Barcelona, even though it is ongoing as we record. The new Red Bull fin, McLaren's head down attitude, and Williams troubles, all discussed here. We also recap the Honda and Renault launches, whether our predictions last week came true, and what we think of their new sites. Plus, visit thepaddockmagazine.com for a unique insight on the world of Formula 1.
Two wonderful people called and left us voicemail this week, and we try to encourage more. Plus, someone starts a conversation with himself.
The Facebook group grows ever stronger, with some amusing comments to share. One of my favourite men is doing his thing over in the States. Finally, we start a new initiative - Must Comment Monday.
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By Mr. C.
Just a quick note to say that this week's show is running a little late, due to a minor bout of 'man flu' coupled with Christine's unique ability to to acquire sporting injuries whilst sleeping... seriously, she went to sleep in perfect health only to wake up the next day unable to move her head more than five degrees in any direction.
Regardless, normal service should resume later today. In the meantime we have a new addition to our podcasting arsenal in the guise of this little toy:
It's the type of disruptive technology that'll either take a podcast to a whole new level, or simply swallow up so much time that nothing will ever get done again.
See what happens when we have so much free time between races?
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At the end of the last show, Episode 43, I mentioned that this week we would finally be getting round to our championship review podcast. The thing is, it's taking a little bit longer than we'd anticipated. Who knew the year was actually quite so involved?
We're working on it, and we're making it the best it can be, of course, so we don't want to jump the gun and bring you anything half finished. At the same time, we don't want you to be stranded with no Sidepodcast to listen to, so instead, I can present to you our new series: Days that Shook the F1 World.
It's one that I've been thinking about for a while, and it would have been the previous series, if F1 People hadn't been such a compelling idea. Now it's time to bring this series to life, and catch up with some of those days in the history of F1 that really made everyone stop and think.
As always, I'd love to hear your feedback, especially if there are any important days you think I've missed, but for now, look out for Days that Shook the F1 World coming later today.
The season review will follow shortly. At some point. When it's done. Like we keep saying, the season isn't really over yet anyway.
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By Mr. C.
'Tis the season for new podcast clients, it would seem. Earlier this week the Participatory Culture Foundation released version 1.0 of their free open-source desktop video application, more commonly referred to as Miro.
Miro has been designed with the primary goal of letting users control how they watch Internet television. Unsurprisingly this means the primary focus is video, although it will happily play audio should you want it to.
Unlike the Zune Marketplace we looked at yesterday, Miro isn't a replacement for iTunes. For one thing, it doesn't sync to any of your portable devices. What it is designed to do however, is offer the best all-in-one solution for watching Internet TV.
Alongside the facility to manage your video podcast subscriptions, is the ability to search multiple sources of online content (including the likes of YouTube, Dailymotion and many others). This means, not only can you find all of this years Sidepodcast TV shows easily, but you'll also be able to keep up with the latest episodes from the likes of Honda Racing TV.
We've been using this application throughout its gestation period (which feels like forever). It used to be slow and clunky, but the 1.0 release has brought with it speed and stability. It looks clean and runs on almost any platform you can think of.
Internet video is big news these days, especially in the world of Formula 1. If you're looking for a way to manage it all, you could do a lot worse than checking out Miro.
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By Mr. C.
It's the 2nd in our run of Formula 1 track previews. As the season rolls into Europe for the first time, Christine takes you on a fast loop around the Spanish track.
Music played: Ritchie Hernandez, Salsa Picoso
Music comes from music.podshow.com, with special thanks going to Allianz SE, for the use of their video footage.
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