May 14, 2021

After our minorly successful recording session last night, we woke up focused on the podcast. We decided to give the next episode a shot, and picked a few ideas that we thought would be interesting. The recording lasted only about 30 minutes, but the editing took much longer as we went in a more fleshed out direction for some segments of the podcast. This meant I had to splice in pieces of music, which proved to me much more of a hassle than I had expected. After exporting the podcast and listening to it back though, we weren't very happy with the outcome. It was definitely more focused and reigned in, but nearly too much. It lacked some of the energy found in our pilot episode, and so after further contemplation we decided to vault it. There were some parts we really enjoyed though, particularly towards the end, and so we will definitely use those. 



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