One of the main things we do in editing our podcast is cut stuff. We cut long pregnant pauses, we cut fillers, we cut obnoxious background noise, and we cut long tangents. But a lot of this stuff we’ve saved in “outtakes” files, primarily for our own entertainment. We like to laugh at ourselves and how many fillers we use, for example.
While adjusting to the pandemic lifestyle through the Spring and early Summer kept us from our normal editing and posting schedule, Lucia decided to make a rough cut of outtakes and release it on 1 April 2020. She did this on schedule. Though we haven’t posted it to the site until now, it did appear in all of our podcast feeds on April 1st…without any explanation. This is the result. The track goes all over the place, from conversations with chickens to drum-beat loops of stuff getting knocked over through people stuttering or laughing until they vomit, randomly picked from two years’ worth of outtakes (so the age of the players – and the quality of their voices – jumps all over the place). Enjoy!