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Right Angle: Backstage 10/17/24

Everything from Ford F-150’s to The Human League on this edition of Right Ange: Backstage!

This week: Ford F-150s; horses; Cowboys and Indians; the late, great Ed Ames and Suzanne Somers; bad plastic surgery; Meg Ryan; movie stars versus actors; Sling Blade; Taylor Swift; MTV and The Human League; and in the year 2525… all this and so much less on this week’s edition of Right Angle: Backstage!

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Favorite quote from the whole show.. Scott: “I’d like to hang out with Suzanne Somers… If I ever need someone to crack my walnut, that ThighMaster queen can take care of that for me..” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

R.I.P. Chrissy – but I was definitely more of a Janet fan.
Then I heard this past week that Ms. Sommers had turned the thigh master in to a $300 million fortune. Huh!? You go girl.

Annnnnnnnnddddd…..she went…..then the parade of faux Chrissies marched through the living room to torment Jack. Was always more of a fan of Chrissy #2. Jenilee > Priscilla.

I read Misty of Chincoteague as a child, in fact I read almost all of Marguerite Henry’s books. They were wonderful. Being a horse-loving girl, I also read all of the Black Stallion books, I spent many hours deep in those stories.

Bill, I worked in one of the only 2 medical facilities in a rural Wyoming county and I have to tell you that the most serious injuries we saw were from horse wrecks!! You may not want to mention that in you list of selling points.

Horses … one of the few modes of human transportation that will buck off a rider and run-riderless the ten mile trek to home.

I think Bill had to reload the whole site.
It happened while I was watching BackStage. I paused to go to a meeting, when I came back and hit play the video was gone and the whole site had reverted to several days earlier.
He had posted an image saying that he was in the process of building a new site and thought it was being done “behind the wall” but turns out it was being done live; warts and all.
Patience grasshopper –

Yup, same here, but the explanation is perfect. Bill’s talk on Friday’s TSL cleared everything up for me. check your personal E. Hat.

I am so far behind on TSL. I now have to live a few extra years to catch up.
will do on personal.

I guess I must be a rare person and maybe lacking in taste but when it comes to all the Taylor Swift admiration, to quote Scott—-“I’m glad I didn’t see that, and I wish I hadn’t heard about it”

You’re not so rare. I can’t turn the channel knob fast enough when her drivel is aired.
Swift is over-hyped by an unimaginative generation and those who lend credence to its uneducated and uncultured opinions.

I got my older brother’s sheet music of Barry McGuire “Eve of Destruchtion”. On 2nd grade class music day, little Road handed it to the young teacher with her guitar. Thinking she was going to hear little Road begin to sing some cutsey folk song….she cut me off after the 2nd verse with an “all righty now….that’s all we need of that. Thank you Road, that was….really something else!”

Let me start by saying I’ve been watching the show for years and have enjoyed my membership. Recently, the synchronization has been off and has affected the enjoyment factor. It has been difficult to keep track of the backstage conversations when dialog gets trampled. Please, can you help.

Thank you for all you do. Keep up the good fight.

It seems recently that Steve’s audio is a few seconds ahead of Bill’s and Scott’s.
The interesting things is that at the onset, they are reasonably well synched and it gets worse as the episode goes on such that by 45 minutes in it is terribly noticeable.
I will mention to Scott just so that they are aware and see if they are somehow recording at different rates.

I’ve done my share of video editing, it IS weird to have Steve’s audio file change speed if it is simply a process of downloading his recorded audio file, placing it into the project time line track with the other two guys on their tracks. It should never get out of sync as the video goes on. Audio filters? Steve, you recording on 10″ reel to reel tape again?

Wouldn’t it be a classic gag is Steve were actually doing this on purpose, just to get back at Bill And Scott for talking over Steve all these years?

OK, it was funny at first, Steve….now Stop It!

Being as they all three record their own files and then combine them in editing (As opposed to say, capturing the Skype or Zoom stream or whatever they use. Which would give us all crappy audio all the time.) it could be a problem in the compression/decompression of one of the files, probably Steve’s. It could also be a difference in a lossy/lossless codec the original capture was encoded in.

Either of those can look just fine on the storyboard but when combined and remuxed into a single file suitable for upload to the platform become problematic.

I’m just shooting from the hip here, I’m not a professional video editor but that’s an issue I’ve run into before. If you’re going to combine three separate files into one, they should all be recorded in the same format with the same codec with the same codec settings and the same compression or lack of. Or else they should be remuxed to be as identical as possible for those characteristics before the final mix.

I have sound, though like Elizabeth Elsea says there’s a lot of one talking over the other(s). But the sound is perfect even so and I can understand everyone.

Which means the problem is on your end and not with the actual file you’re receiving. Else none of us would have sound either. Depending on what you’re watching this on it’s probably a codec problem. I keep my codecs updated on my computer religiously. I never, ever watch this site on a phone, pad or tablet because those things are late or nonexistent when it comes to codec updates.

Many of the cheaper devices never update their codecs at all and you’re just stuck with whatever was installed when you bought the device. This is a problem because codecs like any other software are evolving and improving constantly. So if you can get sound on some other device that would be diagnostic of a codec issue.

If you’re watching this on a computer try updating your codecs. I use the K-Lite Codec Megapack, you can Google that if you like. If you’re watching this on something else try updating the device. They don’t generally tell you what the update is, just “system updates” or something like that. If it can update codecs that’s how you do it.

If that’s the case you’ll have to try to find information on how to update your device. They don’t all do that the same way.

I’ve always loved Lewis Carroll’s work and Jabberwocky is one of my favorite poems. I even named a cat I had “Mimsy Borogrove”. (Just “Mimsy” for short, my veterinarian thought that was a great name for a cat.) She was a brilliant conversationalist for a cat and sadly died way too young.

Democrats do not want to work with Conservatives. They have hated America and our Constitution from the beginning. The party should be destroyed. Have we not learned anything about this domestic enemy!

Speaking of one-upping, here’s mine.
I got to see Jefferson Airplane before they became a Star Ship; Yes when they were still a Maybe (as warm-up for rocker Alvin Lee); and the Grateful Dead when they were all still alive (even Pigpen).

Hah, good one and I think it trumps mine. I would have loved to see Grace Slick sing White Rabbit.

I got to see The Eagles at the Red Rock Amphitheater outside Denver when they performed the Hotel California tour. That was an epic experience.

I also took a really gorgeous girl to a ZZ Top concert that I had backstage passes for. She got to meet the band and was suitably impressed. She was also a really nice girl and one of the major regrets of my life is that I didn’t realize at the time that I should have married her. I wasn’t willing to give up the work I was doing to settle down with a truly wonderful woman and in hindsight I got the lesser bargain thereby.

I went to quite a few concerts back in the day but those are the two that really stick out in my aging mind today.

Interestingly, WWII happened just when a relatively new, creatively stunning, popular and accessible – due to radio – music was reaching maturity, namely jazz. This was the era of the Big Band, some of the most fun music to dance to, listen to, and play that has ever been.
Vietnam was when rock was hitting maturity, it was not all anti-war, but you are right that it was mostly counter-culture. But Motown wasn’t, Led Zeppelin wasn’t, many of the singer songwriters weren’t, and even if they were, war sucks and having an outlet to help you with the suck was valuable. You could be a good soldier who took orders and did your duty and at the same time like Jimmy Hendricks.

I don’t see why anyone should “change your mind”. You’re entitled to your own opinion and welcome to it. If someone doesn’t agree with your opinion that doesn’t compel them to try to change yours. Or vice-versa. It’s OK to disagree on some things. Music is one of those things.

I liked the music of the Vietnam War Era and I don’t feel even the slightest urge to convince you to agree with me. 🙂

I think Scott’s idea of pitching federalism to the Day Zero kids as a new idea wouldn’t work because they already think they know best and have no need to test and follow the science with studies.

Janie Got a Gun and Don’t you Want me are two songs I’ve heard over the years but just saw videos this last year. Rather changed my impression of the songs.

Major deja vu on the “liked them before they were big” and Bill’s line about liking the groups they were in before they were in the big group.

The Democrats not voting for the Speaker just exposes them all as lying hypocrites. It is so necessary that the House gets to business but they’re not being bipartisan at all. If it was as important as they say and they were willing to reach across the isle they should be voting for a Speaker, not holding back.

I think Bill was thinking of Cantonese as the second Chinese language.

(I commented earlier today and it didn’t post, so I hope this isn’t redundant.)
Scott’s reaction to Taylor Swift is similar to mine when I reluctantly went to a Madonna concert. Didn’t like her or her music, but she had the most professional, well-done show I had ever seen.
When y’all were talking about knowing where you were the first time you heard certain music that was iconic to you, I pitied you. 8-). I was a band nerd and was fortunate to have played in big bands – Duke Ellington to Chick Corea -, wind ensembles – Rimsky Korsakov’s “Scheherazade” to Respighi’s “Pines of Rome”, to funk bands – covering Earth Wind and Fire to Ohio players -, and rock bands that did Chicago to the Allman Brothers -, ‘Memphis horns – essentially a Blues Brothers cover band -, my “First Time Hearing” experience represents some of the most glorious you can imagine. Again, I pity y’all. 😎

Keith – we took Ronette to see Taylor Swift as her first “big” concert 14 years ago. I remember the conversation with my mom who grew up on Sinatra and saw him several times and raved about how he worked and moved the audience.
I told mom that even at 17 or 18, this kid had IT. She knew when to pause and let the crowd swell. And she definitely worked hard. And it was a SHOW. I can only imagine that she has gotten better at it though I still only know the songs from that early tour.
Mid-20s angst over losing boyfriends, I don’t think I am the target market for those songs.

150s no probably not. I wonder how many 350s there are though. Plumbers and HVAC trucks are probably on Ford frames or something else similar.

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