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Potts</itunes:summary><description>Musings on sound, culture, politics, technology, science fiction, and geek fatherhood from the mind of Paul R. Potts</description><itunes:owner>   <itunes:name>Paul R. Potts</itunes:name>   <itunes:email>paul@thepottshouse.org</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:image href="http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/gpp.png" /><itunes:category text="Society &amp; Culture">  <itunes:category text="Personal Journals" /></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Technology">  <itunes:category text="Podcasting" /></itunes:category><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><item><title>General Purpose Podcast #1: Learning to Listen</title><itunes:author>Paul R. Potts</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Or, What I Listened to on my Summer Vacation, by Little Paul R. Potts, Age 40</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Fragments of audio from my summer vacation in Michigan's upper peninsula, and thoughts about sound and recording.</itunes:summary><enclosure url="http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20001%20-%20Learning%20to%20Listen.mp3" length="36612024" type="audio/mpeg" /><guid>http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20001%20-%20Learning%20to%20Listen.mp3</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:30:00 -0400</pubDate><itunes:duration>19:04</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>Creative Commons, field recording, Michigan</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>General Purpose Podcast #2: I Like Peanut Butter</title><itunes:author>Paul R. Potts</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Some sound from a Sunday morning at home with the toddlers.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A sound collage recycling some audio from the previous podcast along with audio from my two younger children, Veronica and Sam, and some ukulele playing.</itunes:summary><enclosure url="http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20002%20-%20I%20Like%20Peanut%20Butter.mp3" length="15108020" type="audio/mpeg" /><guid>http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20002%20-%20I%20Like%20Peanut%20Butter.mp3</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:51:00 -0400</pubDate><itunes:duration>7:52</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>Creative Commons, field recording</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>General Purpose Podcast #3: A Walk in the Park with Veronica</title><itunes:author>Paul R. Potts</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>An interview with my pre-school daughter, recorded October 25th, 2008.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Step inside the mind of a pre-school girl as she takes a walk in the woods with her father at sunset, and lets her imagination, creativity, and sense of humor off the leash.</itunes:summary><enclosure url="http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20003%20-%20A%20Walk%20in%20the%20Park%20with%20Veronica.mp3" length="69059845" type="audio/mpeg" /><guid>http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20003%20-%20A%20Walk%20in%20the%20Park%20with%20Veronica.mp3</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:30:00 -0400</pubDate><itunes:duration>35:58</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>Creative Commons, field recording, Ann Arbor</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>General Purpose Podcast #4: The Arrival of the Newbie, Part One</title><itunes:author>Paul R. Potts</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hear a blow-by-blow description of the birth of my baby son, including audio from the delivery room. Note: may not be suitable for young children.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Joshua is a fully web 2.0-compliant baby: his birth has been twittered, blogged, and now, podcast! You can hear my status reports and audio recorded right in the delivery room. May not be suitable for young children. NOTE: revised to improve the mix and remove some dead space at the end of the file.</itunes:summary><enclosure url="http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20004%20-%20The%20Arrival%20of%20the%20Newbie,%20Part%201.mp3" length="50372064" type="audio/mpeg" /><guid>http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20004%20-%20The%20Arrival%20of%20the%20Newbie,%20Part%201.mp3_CORRECTED_1</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:56:00 -0400</pubDate><itunes:duration>26:14</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>Creative Commons, field recording, Twitter</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>General Purpose Podcast #5: The Arrival of the Newbie, Part Two</title><itunes:author>Paul R. Potts</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hear a blow-by-blow description of the birth of my baby son, including audio from the delivery room. Note: may not be suitable for young children. Part two.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Grace labors on into the wee hours of the night and the conversation meanders into votesmart.org, the bailout bill, economics, and the notion of GDP, inspired in part by reading Joseph Pearce's book _Economics as if Famiies Mattered_. Note: may not be suitable for young children.</itunes:summary><enclosure url="http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20005%20-%20The%20Arrival%20of%20the%20Newbie,%20Part%202.mp3" length="67652159" type="audio/mpeg" /><guid>http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20005%20-%20The%20Arrival%20of%20the%20Newbie,%20Part%202.mp3</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:08:00 -0400</pubDate><itunes:duration>35:14</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>Creative Commons, field recording, Twitter</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>General Purpose Podcast #6: The Arrival of the Newbie, Part Three</title><itunes:author>Paul R. Potts</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hear a blow-by-blow description of the birth of my baby son, including audio from the delivery room. Note: may not be suitable for young children. Part three.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Grace's labor is not progressing well, but the pitocyn drip keeps her contractions going and an epidural helps greatly with the pain. Note: may not be suitable for young children.</itunes:summary><enclosure url="http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20006%20-%20The%20Arrival%20of%20the%20Newbie,%20Part%203.mp3" length="68164577" type="audio/mpeg" /><guid>http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20006%20-%20The%20Arrival%20of%20the%20Newbie,%20Part%203.mp3</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:30:00 -0400</pubDate><itunes:duration>35:30</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>Creative Commons, field recording, Twitter</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>General Purpose Podcast Bonus: The Future Soon (Jonathan Coulton Cover) featuring Isaac Potts</title><itunes:author>Paul R. Potts</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>We interrupt your regularly scheduled podcast for this cover of Jonathan Coulton's song "The Future Soon," sung by my son Isaac, when he was thirteen and his voice was in the middle of changing. I'm sure he'll get his revenge one day.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Take my 13-year-old son, have him sing a Jonathan Coulton song about adolescence, love, and robot armies. Screw around with it. Listen to the results. Add some tracks. Screw with it some more. Add some cowbell. Then, since it is already incredibly screwed-with, screw with it one more time. Finally, it seems right! So, here it is. Isaac sings the main vocal line, although his voice is Cher-ized and heavily processed. There is a scratch vocal track of mine in there, but it is beaten to a pulp. Then, an sweet and mellow acoustic guitar turned into something not so sweet, and a fretless bass that grew tentacles and tried to strangle me as I mixed it.</itunes:summary><enclosure url="http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/The%20Future%20Soon%20(Jonathan%20Coulton%20Cover)%20featuring%20Isaac%20Potts.mp3" length="6836663" type="audio/mpeg" /><guid>http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/The%20Future%20Soon%20(Jonathan%20Coulton%20Cover)%20featuring%20Isaac%20Potts.mp3</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:24:00 -0400</pubDate><itunes:duration>3:35</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>Creative Commons, field recording, Twitter</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>General Purpose Podcast #7: The Arrival of the Newbie, Part Four (Conclusion) featuring "Stroller Town" by Jonathan Coulton</title><itunes:author>Paul R. Potts</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hear a blow-by-blow description of the birth of my baby son, including audio from the delivery room. Note: may not be suitable for young children. Part four (conclusion). Featuring the song "Stroller Town" by Jonathan Coulton.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>After the epidural kicks in and she gets some rest, Grace's labor progresses through the morning until the moment of the birth itself arrives with startling speed. Note: may not be suitable for young children.</itunes:summary><enclosure url="http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20007%20-%20The%20Arrival%20of%20the%20Newbie,%20Part%204.mp3" length="74724061" type="audio/mpeg" /><guid>http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20007%20-%20The%20Arrival%20of%20the%20Newbie,%20Part%204.mp3</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:11:00 -0400</pubDate><itunes:duration>38:55</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>Creative Commons, field recording, Twitter, Jonathan Coulton</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>General Purpose Podcast #8: Binaural Baby Boozle</title><itunes:author>Paul R. Potts</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Mom left me in charge of the 4-year-old and the 10-week-old while she ran an errand, giving me a chance to experiment with in-ear binaural microphones.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Baby Joshua is upset because his mom has left for an errand and he is teething. But my four-year-old girl and I figure out a way to distract him. Listen on headphones for maximum effect.</itunes:summary><enclosure url="http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20008%20-%20Binaural%20Baby%20Boozle.mp3" length="5571860" type="audio/mpeg" /><guid>http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20008%20-%20Binaural%20Baby%20Boozle.mp3</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:45:00 -0400</pubDate><itunes:duration>2:54</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>Creative Commons, field recording, binaural</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item></channel></rss>