Shel

@shel

The Transsexual Chofetz Chaim

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Mutant, librarian, poet, union rabble rouser, dog, Ashkenazi Jewish. Neuroweird, bodyweird, mostly sleepy.

I write about transformative justice, community, love, Judaism, Neurodivergence, mental health, Disability, geography, rivers, labor, and libraries; through poetry, opinionated essays, and short fiction.

I review Schoolhouse Rock! songs at @PropagandaRock

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Shel @shel5/8/2023, 1:17 PM

I really like Friends at the Table but the episodes being so long really makes it hard for me to really get into it like I want to. I realized a big contributor to the episodes being so long is that everyone just speaks really slowly, which makes sense since everyone is thinking a lot while they talk.

So I'm experimenting with speeding the episodes up to 1.5× speed, maybe 2× speed, and so far it's helping but it does raise the pitches of everyone's voices quite a bit. Resulting in a new podcast experience I'm calling Mice at the Table.

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[Gateway of Last Resort]‮@wxcafe5/8/2023, 1:28 PM

they are only allowed to play mouse guard. no cheesing

cyberdoe systems @onethirdxcubed5/8/2023, 2:11 PM

A good dedicated podcast app like Pocket Casts or Overcast should let you increase speed without changing the pitch, and skip through silences. Kind of ruins some of the dramatic tension though

Shel @shel5/8/2023, 2:36 PM

Wait what how would it do that..... I'm using podcast Republic

cyberdoe systems @onethirdxcubed5/8/2023, 3:02 PM

That site seems to do the tempo shift without affecting the pitch (if it didn't everyone would really sound like Chipmunks of the Alvin variety at 2x) but doesn't have the auto skip through silences part of Smart Speed

graham @graham5/8/2023, 4:16 PM

I've listened to mice at the table now for years. It's still pretty good!

Daeren @Daeren5/8/2023, 5:40 PM

Bc of my brain shape combined with the giant backlog of stuff I'd like to watch from people who do stuff i basically set every podcast and stream I watch to higher speed unless it completely destroys the mood, to the point where if I catch some streams live I have to take a moment to be like right this is their actual cadence, not them putting on a bit

also some video game soundtracks at normal speed just sound innately Wrong to me now bc my exposure to them was at nightcore speeds

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