Jeff RossI just got back from filming hockey and have sent Franklin what I recorded already. I’ll record more in the next couple of days and send it.
Franklin, feel free to e-mail me back with any feedback that you may have on audio quality, style, etc. that you may have after listening to what I recorded so far.
Jeff RossCool! I’m off to film a hockey game, so I’m unlikely to get my part recorded tonight.
Jeff Ross(I hope that this wasn’t a question I was supposed to wait for the podcast to answer.)
Jeff RossI’ll do my best to explain this weird English construction:
The proper construction is “she had better” or “she’d better” instead of “she better” in formal contexts. However, “she better” is a perfectly acceptable informal American construction, derived from mishearing the contracted form. The reason is that “had” is the auxiliary verb and “better” is the adverb. When omitting “had”, “better” has to turn into the auxiliary verb, which is not usually the role of “better” in a sentence.
To be honest “she had better” is a rather odd construction in its own right, so “she better” is not going to draw the ire of most American grammarians. In spoken English, “she better” and “she’d better” are almost indistinguishable, so this is really only a written English issue.
The purpose of the construction is to provide advice in a specific instance. Sometimes people say “she’d best”, but that suggests slightly broader, vaguer advice than “she’d better”, which alludes to a specific choice. “I recommend” is for advice that is of a less consequential nature. For more general advice, the construction to use is “It is better to be” or “It would be best to”. If you’re expressing opinion rather than advice, say “I’d prefer her to” or “I’d rather she would” instead of “she’d better”. If talking about requirements rather than choices, say “she must” or “she has to” instead of “she’d better”.
To summarize: Kristen was within her right as an American writing in an informal context to say “she better” when advising Brooke on which question to answer. However, since there are Canadians and formal English writers involved with this Not-Forum, the rather polite thing to do is to write “she’d better”.
Jeff RossI’d like to answer the duffelbag question, since it has an objective, researchable answer (and I’ve been wanting to answer it ever since I heard Rhett and Link ask it).
Jeff Ross#thatmomentwhen you agree with Masøn is almost all the time
Jeff RossThat would be pretty funny.
“Thank you to all of the listeners who support Ryan at patreon.com/ryanmatlock. Thanks to your generous support, this episode of the Aux Cable is commercial free!”
Crowd: “Hooray!”
“We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a commercial, because Ryan’s Patreon isn’t that well-funded yet.”
Crowd: “Awww”
Jeff RossHeels were originally worn by cowboys & horseriders as they helped keep shoes in stirrups, but I’m not entirely sure why they are fashionable nowadays.
Jeff RossSo…will you keep them?
Jeff RossThat is nice. #MasønCanMime
Jeff RossCool. I actually only have exposure to deaf poetry through Deutsche Gebärdensprache. I’m learning German as a hobby, and Ryan suggested that sign language can help with understanding communication, so I decided to incorporate a little of it into my German learning. Here is a video about a deaf poetry slam in German. Even if you don’t understand German, visually you can understand a good deal in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLlrfNPG-Pc
Jeff RossThanks, Franklin. Please let know when it is set up (or however we decide to submit audio files).
Jeff RossWell, maybe the sign language version, but normal slam poetry just takes practice and pacing.
Jeff Ross(Here is an example)
Jeff RossSlam poetry is poetry read with all of the emotion, cadence, and gusto of a performer rather than a Literature teacher.
That being said, the coolest kind of slam poetry to watch is deaf slam poetry. Not that we could incorporate that into a podcast.
Jeff RossWhere we all have high pitched voices? That might be hard to pull off en masse…
Jeff RossI’m looking forward to this project coming together, whether we end up needing my clips or not. (Or editing in parts of them.) It was a fun test to record & edit the clips since my knowledge of my microphone & Audacity is constantly improving.
As for the “Everything” echo in my clip, I was able to make it sound different enough from my normal speech in the recording that it comes across as a good parody. That being said, it would be cool in the ideal script to have many people saying “Everything”.
Jeff RossMind you, these are transcripts rather than scripts, so they sound a little better than they’re written here:
[Intro]
Coming up, in this episode: Itâs the Aux Cable Holiday Special: Fan Edition!!! All the F.A.C.E.s have gotten together to put forth a brand new Aux Cable episodeâŚallâŚbyâŚthemâŚselves! Weâll have to see how it turns out. This week, ON THE AUX CABLE!
[Post-Theme Song Intro]
Hello and welcome to the Aux Cable, the show where we get you plugged in to advice on everything! EVERYTHING! Iâm Jeff Ross and Iâm here as a representative of all the F.A.C.E.s (that is the Fanatical Aux Cable Enthusiasts) who have worked so hard to put this podcast episode together. We found out that Ryan and Matthew have very, very busy schedules; They arenât just the hosts of this podcast. So because they have such busy schedules, we thought we would all put our combined talents together and put out an episode for them. So we hope you enjoy the show!
[Outro]
And this concludes the Aux Cable Holiday Special: Fan Edition. The hashtag for this episode is âAux Cable Fanâ. Thatâs right, #auxcablefan for this episode. And weâd like to wish you a happy and safe and enjoyable holiday season. Whether that be Canadian Thanksgiving or American Thanksgiving or Black Friday or Hanukkah or Christmas or Boxing Day or New Yearâs or the release of the 200th Episode of the Inner Tube or Epiphany, whatever holidays youâre celebrating this holiday season, we hope you have an excellent time celebrating them. My name is Jeff Ross; On behalf of all the F.A.C.E.s, we hope you stay tuned for the next episode of the Aux Cable and we hope you come and check out the Not-Forum on the website. Thatâs auxcableshow.com, check out the Not-Forum there. And check out all previous episodes of the Aux Cable while youâre there on the website. Feel free to go back and binge-listen to all of them. I know that Ryan and Matthew would not mind if you did that. Also, you can submit questions for future episodes (that we have been promised will come eventually). You can do that or e-mail them at questions@auxcableshow.com. That concludes this awesome, awesome podcast episode thankyouagainforeveryonewhohelpedmakeitpossiblewehopeyouhaveagreatdayokaybye!
Jeff RossAs for the Intro and Outro, a collaboration would be fun. Nevertheless, if you’d like I can post the transcript of my generic intro & outro so that you know what our backup plan is. (I’d suggest considering the intro and outro last on our production schedule, since those tend to be tailored to the main episode’s content [and what I’ve recorded already will probably work for anything we do; it’s that generic].)
Jeff RossI’d suggest doing up to 16 now. đ
Jeff RossI just finished recording a generic outro, so I have three audio files ready to be previewed and considered for inclusion into the final production.
I think Franklin is 100% correct. I do want Kristen writing her own questions.
You know, one way we could do it is have Kristen ask questions that everyone else answers (each person taking a question) if that would make it easier. Otherwise I’m completely fine reading questions that Kristen writes with no answers to them. (I’m still not sure whether we’re going the rhetorical route or the “Hopefully Matthew and Ryan answer these on a future episode” route or the “someone, anyone, answer these questions” route.)
Jeff RossI think that would give the production a better feel than the alternatives would, since we have so many people wanting to work on this project.
Jeff RossI have now recorded the “generic” material for right after the theme song that welcomes the listener to the episode. Hopefully we have some sort of transition sound effect that can distinguish between segments so that whatever follows what I just recorded doesn’t “blend in” by accident.
Jeff RossWhy couldn’t we e-mail the website administrator and see if they wanted to post our production to the official Aux Cable website? (Once we have the finished product, of course.)
Jeff RossAlso, I would like Kristen to write the “Kristen’s Questions” segment, even if I end up recording it.
Jeff RossI’m interjecting quickly to say that I have a Blue Yeti microphone and I may have just recorded the intro to the episode already. (Excluding the part that is consistent for every episode that Gabe Miller composed the music for. That part we may have to request the actual files from Ryan & Matthew for Franklin to edit in.) It’s a “generic” intro, but one that I think will work well for this project.
Jeff RossThank you; hopefully Ryan and Matthew think the same thing.
Jeff RossShot
Jeff RossIf I really were to do “Kristen’s Questions”, then it would either end with an ad for the Clarification Station or the questions would be presented in a more philosophical manner, similar to the video below (except with more questions than statements):
Jeff RossI know that I was intimidated at first. I thought I would never be able to keep up with all that goes on in the Not-Forum. Then Inner Tube Episode 179 happened and, well, the rest is history. I started reading and interacting and I realized that I could keep up after all.
