Beantown Podcast - Audacity Stinks Potentially (05112024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: May 11, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE to bitch about Audacity, celebrate the moms out there, and offer up some suggestions for this summer's DNC

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Saturday, May 11th, 2024. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? We're going Spartan today. We're back to Audacity. Well, we've been on it for a little while now. No intro music. It's I'm putting on a brave face for the day. It's midday Saturday here, celebrated quite a bit with dear friend of the show, John Paul Pandowski. Last night, his law school graduation, congratulations to John Paul on his achievement in excellence.

So I forgot about this whole recording level thing that we were going through last month on our dacity. We're going to try to bump that up to 81 and see how long it takes for it to get back to 60. I forgot to Google that last week to try to figure out what the issue was. Anyways, get to bed like 1.30, wake up with the sun, because I forgot to close the blind.

So it's like 6 AM and just never did quite get back to sleep. So trying to hydrate. Went for a run, made breakfast, did laundry, all that stuff. Got a rally because going back out for another friend of the show, Abby Witzak's 30th birthday bar crawl today. So all that plus Mother's Day. Wow, what a what a weekend we got going on here. We'll get to that in a second here. My name is Quinn, and I'm the host, the creator. Oh, now we're recording. Well, I swear to God, this thing is down to 35%.

That's even worse than last week. Host, creator, and technical difficulties manager over here. I'm sort of a game manager when it comes to that stuff. I don't really solve the problem. The problems just happen, and I just don't. I can't really do anything about them. I'm literally sitting here. This is my least favorite thing.

You know what? We're going to tackle this issue right now. I'm going to pause the recording. Before I swear, I'll let you know listener discretion is advised. When you're listening to this program, number one, it'll teach you some language. Number two, this podcast is subjectively terrible.

I don't know. I got to go look at this, because it's making me so mad. So we'll be right back. I got to Google this. Recording volume keeps going down. It makes me so mad. All right. A nice five minutes of Googling with almost no information gleaned. G-L-E-A-N-E-D. And there it goes. It's doing it again. I don't know, man. All I could really find on the internet was that there are other programs messing with the audio, which doesn't make sense to me. I don't know why other programs would be messing with my recording audio.

But it said it's likely an issue if you have Skype open in the background. And I haven't had Skype open in any background in probably six or seven years. So I don't know. I got to pause here just to play back and make sure that this still sounds OK. This is making me so mad. Wow, I gotta pause here just to play back and make sure that this still sounds okay So making me so mad Wow

I just I just listened back to the whole show that I've done so far and this might be Actually the worst thing that's ever happened. We've been using audacity for a few weeks now I feel like the show has been fairly listenable, but boy it has really gone off the deep end here all apologies I know that the volume is completely bonkers and we're gonna have to try to look into that in the off season aka next week because there's really no off season with the Bean Town podcast to try to figure out what the heck is going on. It keeps automatically adjusting and it's making me very irritating. Now I am literally sitting

here, it's gonna be a miserable podcast experience, literally sitting here. It's going to be a miserable podcast experience. Literally sitting here with my cursor, selecting this recording level so that you all can hear the podcast normally. I'm literally having to hold down and click with my mouse just to keep this thing where it's at. So I don't know what's going on with it. I tried to do a little bit of Googling to see, oh, well, how do I?

It says, no, it's not audacity. It's your Windows is doing something funky to it. see, like, oh, well, how do I? You know, it says, no, it's not audacity. It's your Windows is doing something funky to it. I'm like, OK, well, tell me where to go in Windows to make it stop doing something funky. And it was not helpful at all. I think it was trying to give me instructions in Linux. Linex? Linus and Lucy?

Linus, what a great name. So yeah, it's going to be a short show, because I'm getting frustrated, right? And when you come to the Bean Town podcast, you just want calm, you know, meditation. It's almost one of those PTSD things. What is it? ASMR. And so me, when I'm upset, the bean heads are gonna be upset. I do want to thank our sponsors. This is gonna be a throwback episode in that it came in, I've been thinking for a couple days now, like what do we want to do the show about? It's

Mother's Day. See if we got anything good other than just a thank you to the moms out there. And just Total Riders block. Nothing ever happened. The mind is just moving at like 10% speed right now. which is where the recording level would be on Audacity. If I stopped keeping my finger on the slider here, I just let it go to see, oh, maybe it learned its lesson. You know, had it in time out for a little bit. Nope, went right back down to 55% for about two seconds there. I gotta stop talking about this.

That was making me very irritable. Hello to our sponsors in, well first and foremost, Pakistan. Not really financially sponsoring, more spiritually. You know, the Sikhs and the jihad's and you're, you know, run-of-the-mill Muslims. Hello Karachi, hello Hyderabad, hello Khyber Pass. Thank you for making us the 112th Ring to Comedy podcast in the great nation of Pakistan. And of course, our good friends. We'll bundle them up this week, because that's just how this week is kind of going, right?

Hello to Home Pired Oregon, 541-40316. Give Stevie a call. Oh, little Stevie, you got so much love, little Stevie. And you take away the pain. Give me all a man can be And I want you to be my Lyric started that song. I don't know. It's a great song though. Best is at the end when the backup voice are going you Stepped into my life and a thing and getting a duty to do my life. One time I was in Milwaukee and I was like two or three beers in and that song came on in the bar, a crowded bar and I was vibing so hard. It really hit me spiritually

much like those Pakistanis we were just talking about. Of course our good friends at Cuts by Q, when you need a fresh shoe, something snappier, call the experts at C experts at Cuts by Q. And finally, our good friends at the Samson Q2U series. You know, Audacity and Windows are not doing so well with recording this week, but you know who is always doing well, who always comes prepared. It is the Samson Q2U series. When God speaks, He uses Samson. So let's shout out all the moms out there in particular my mother Jane who's been on the program a number of times. Happy Mother's Day Jane. Be on the lookout perhaps for a fun e-card tomorrow. I gotta go into the archives and see what 123 greeting cards dot com has available for Mother's Day.

And of course my mother-in-law or soon-to-be mother-in-law Betty. Happy Mother's Day to Betty. Sorry, this episode sucks so much. And then Grandma Sal, of course, kind of the matriarch. Sort of like if The Godfather was set in southern Minnesota, and there were not a lot of murders. It was more like school teachers and travel agents. And not really Italian so much as English and Norwegian.

That's sort of the Sally Furness story. So Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there, mom to be, my sister-in-law. So congratulations across the board, really. You guys achieved a great feat. I was thinking of, I had this thought when I was on my run this morning. It's like, what if I did a trivia question one week,

and it was, I give you a bunch of different sports, and you have to tell me what is the unit of measurement that they use in that sport? So for example, cycling is probably a tour to France, right, I would say tour de France. And it would be like miles or kilometers, whichever one of these. I don't know.

But the reason I was thinking about it was because I was running past the golf course, and I was thinking about how golf, usually when you think of yards, it's just like an American football thing. That's the only, I feel like, and then I guess maybe some swimming pools. Some pools are yards.

Some are meters. But I usually think of just football. But golf, interestingly enough, is also done in yards, I believe. So although maybe now that I'm thinking about that, I don't know if that's even true. Who knows what to believe anymore? So I give you a couple of different things.

What do they use in cricket? Some sort of British unit of measurement, or Pakistani, or Indian perhaps, or New Zealand? Maybe some measurement from down under maybe a nautical mile How many nautical miles do you think there are between New Zealand's islands? Probably not a lot because I feel like they're kind of close together Who even knows what a nautical mile is but happy Mother's Day to everyone out there Let me just this is gonna be the worst because I want to go to another tab, which involves moving my fingers. Can't hold down, I've been holding down

the recording volume slider at 90 this whole time, and now it's back down to 36. So, I guess we're back to the drawing board. I don't know, it's really, maybe I just gotta shut my computer down after this, give it a strong reset, because we've been using Audacity for like two months now.

And the issue has popped up here and there, but today is being really bad. What I was trying to say is, hey, I want to go look at the other things I have open on my computer so I can do our trivia. And this week on the campaign trail, but I'm not even going to. I'm going to do it live, as Bill O'Reilly would say.

This week on the campaign trail, what I wanted to mention, Joseph R. Biden with a big pit stop in Chicago on Wednesday, which just happened to be the one day of the week that I went downtown for work. And it doesn't even, oh man, I was just holding my finger on the recording level and it looked like it went down automatically.

Now it's revolting against me. It's not even gonna let me just keep this whole episode, 30 minutes of Quinn just talking about how recording level sliders work on Audacity, or more like how they don't work. Anyways, Wednesday was, of course, the one day I go downtown. Downtown is a whole mess while Biden is in town. He flew his, he's all about energy efficiency, right? Well, he flew Air Force One to O'Hare,

and then took a helicopter from there to Soldier Field, and then took a caravan of limousines, or whatever they call those things, SUVs basically, over to the Palmer House Hilton, which is just about two blocks from my office. And did a big fundraiser, raised $2.5 million. Meanwhile, Trump is still embroiled, much like a function on your oven,

in this whole hush money case. A lot of good Stormy Daniels testimony this week, a lot of good penis talk. And Trump gets to go to Barron's graduation, but he's also going to a dinner in Minnesota that day that he got off for Barron's graduation So it was unclear on the internet because Barron's graduation apparent is like 11 a.m. so in the dinners, you know seven or something it so it was unclear if Trump was actually like

straight up skipping Barron's graduation or if it was like, no, he's actually going to do both. But I feel like if he was just going to do both, that would be an easy thing for him to just come out and say and put all these rumors to rest, right? But I don't think he said that, although I haven't completely been following what he's been up to this week. It seems like he's just kind of stuck in court.

So tough day for the big guy. So that's what's going on in the campaign trail. Still no debates. I guess you can't really fit any debates in now that Trump has kind of sidelined here. But yeah, we got the RNC in July or something like that. We got the DNC in August here in Chicago. I think the RNC is in Milwaukee.

So we're really getting some midwestern comfort going on here. Maybe I'll do something. I don't know. The DNC, it's not like the NFL draft or the Blackhawks draft watch party or something where it's like, oh yeah, this is going to be fun. Let's go have some drinks and go downtown and get nuts. I feel like it's, I don't know, if I wanted to go see Pete Buttigieg give a speech or something. What we really need to be doing with these conventions is actually having WrestleMania-type stuff to determine primary opponents or whoever

is representing their party in the general election, because that's, that would be much more interesting than just watching Mike Lindell ramble on as he introduces Donald Trump. I mean, that's not, that was interesting, like 10 years ago, and now it's just kind of soul played. We'll see what happens this summer. I don't know. What if I just stop? We'll see what happens this summer. I don't know. What if I just stop? What if I keep it here? It's allowing me to type in what number I want for the recording level and just leave it there. Could that be the secret hack to keeping the recording level? Nope. It didn't work. I was like, oh, what if I just keep the text box? It was like, you know, because it was 80. And I was like, okay, it could type in a new number. What if I just leave

it at 80? Will that prevent it from changing while the text box is still open? The answer is it won't. And the last thing here I wanted to do is our trivia question, in case you're wondering, yes, this episode does stink. It is very short.

It's not very exciting. The volume keeps fluctuating. What's going on? Is it me? No, it's me. It's not you. It's me. I woke up, you ever wake up in the morning and you're thinking about, there's like a

song in your head or just some random entity of any kind? This happens to me a lot. And one of the things I woke up thinking about this week was Disneyland. And that turned into me reading about Disney World. And then I started reading more about Epcot. And I realized that although I've been to Epcot, and I'm sure I've seen this at some point in my life, in the moment, I could not figure out or recall what Epcot stood for. And even as I'm sitting here holding down

this goddamn forsaken recording level button so you can hear me talk, I actually am thinking about it right now. I'm like, I don't remember what it was. So that just shows you how my memory is working, my attention span, if you will. I always look up all these great things on Google that I'm thinking about in the moment that I want answers to,

and then about two seconds later, completely forget it. I don't know. Should I just speak it out loud? Should I carry around a notepad and write down the answer to? Got to do something. So there's your trivia question of the week. What does Epcot stand for? It's got that big space ball in the middle of planet Earth,

I think is what it's called. You can drink your way around the lake. When I was there with my dad, Stevie, we had a strawberry shake. That was awesome. I don't think that was from any particular country. It was just kind of there. And then Fish and Chips from England. And there was a Beatles cover band there that pops, was pretty exciting to see.

And I don't remember if we ate anything else there, but it was a good time. It was fun. It was a nice day. A lot of walking. Got our steps in. So in case you're wondering if you want the answer to the actual trivia question, it is experimental prototype community of tomorrow.

So go ahead and email us, Bean Town Podcast at Yahoo.com. Let us know how you did on the trivia. Speaking of trivia, I finally got around to watching the first episode of Jeopardy Masters, which is two games in one. They're like through three episodes already. And it's a, I'm bummed that I haven't been keeping up with it live, because last year I was really into it and watched it. I feel like I watched some games live. I don't know how I would have done that. But it's on Hulu the next day.

So I watched the first set of two games. And boy, if you ever watch Jeopardy and you feel like, not super knowledgeable. I don't really know many of these answers. You go turn on Jeopardy Masters and, dude, the first, the top level of both rounds, the 200 clues and the 400 clues, that's where you shine. You can usually get most of those.

And then, if you want to get down to the second row, it gets pretty gnarly. If you want to feel really stupid about yourself, Jeopardy Masters, streaming on Hulu. It's the three finalists from last year, James Holtzauer, who won, and then Matt Amodio and Mateo Roach, and then the tournament of champions winner, which was Yogesh Raut.

Guy's lucky. It's crazy. He's lucky he even got invited to the tournament of champions, because he only won two or three games, and then ended up winning the tournament of champions. And now he's here. The Jeopard he even got invited to the Tournament of Champions, because he only won two or three games, and then ended up winning the Tournament of Champions. And now he's here. The Jeopardy!

Invitational Tournament, which was just like producers picked a bunch of people from the years and threw them together. And that was Victoria Gross, who you know from The Chase. And then the producers pick, which was kind of bullshit, was Amy Schneider, which is like she didn't play very well in Jeopardy Masters last year. She didn't win the tournament of champions and, or not the tournament of champions, the Jeopardy Invitational Tournament, and the

producers were still like, yeah, we'll throw you in there. It really feels like out of those six, I mean, Amy's had a lot more screen time lately, but it really feels like she is like clearly the weakest Which I didn't think I would say because I feel like for a while. I thought she was way stronger than Matea for sure and maybe even matamodial, but she has really kind of fallen falling down the power rankings for me At least so there you go in case you're wondering yes, that is the show We managed to go 18, 19 minutes here without really saying anything, although maybe you

learned something about Epcot. But I'm not going to babble any further. There's so many other things out there in life you could listen to, podcasts, sounds of birds, the cicadas. You know what's interesting? Cicadas were supposed to happen this week. Haven't really seen them yet. But the thing with cicadas,

you don't need to see them, you hear them, right? And so I haven't really heard any of the cicada action. We'll see if that kicks in at all. That's what I got for you guys. Thanks for tuning into my program. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast. Sorry for a little bit of a dud week, but after the highs and the glory of our top 10 horse names

last week. Also, boy, that Kentucky Derby finish is the most insane thing I've ever seen. I've tried to watch a Kentucky Derby every year since I was like five years old. And, you know, there's been some close finishes here and there, but having three horses all within a whisker of each other, I've never seen that before. So that was a whole bunch of fun. That's what I got for you. That's going to be it. Thanks for tuning into my show everyone hope you're having a great day get ready for some Memorial Day weekend action in two weekends here got a move

so a lot of a lot of interesting stuff come up for us here on the show to be the fifth fifth home of the being town podcast in two weeks here looking forward to it we'll see how the acoustics are over there up in North Center. Thanks for listening to my program, everyone. Stay safe, stay sane, and I'll check in on you next time. Bye.