I produce the Gascony Show. Or rather, I produce a Gascony Show. There was a different Gascony Show back in the day, hosted by John Slattery. My show does not have anything to do with his. It is a coincidence that we share names. John Slattery once interviewed a person named “Michael Jackson” for his show. It was not the late American singer, but a namesake. I take advantage of all that and say on my show, “The Gascony Show, a show that once interviewed Michael Jackson”. Never do I try to imply that John Slattery’s show and mine are the same in any sense, or even less, that I interviewed the famous American singer. Actually, usually I add, “it is not a joke, rather a riddle, go Google that”. I hope this all suffices as a disclaimer.
I do my recordings on old PCs, running Linux and using the Sox application. I use a cheap, white plastic, microphone I bought at a second hand shop for €1. I don’t need more. Find the recordings at my chats web site. Also on that page, find a link to an audio stream where I play my recordings in random order.
The Gascony Show, my show, is extremely amateur-ish. I don’t give a damn. I am not a professional radio broadcaster. I just like to grab a mic and record myself. Or I would take my hand-held tape recorder and do segments from the street or the beach. I don’t have a theme, although there are some recurrent topics and segments. It does not have a rigid schedule, I just record and post whenever I feel like it.
The Gascony Show features segments in English, most of the times, but also in Romanian and Spanish. Seldom do I record in other languages; there were some segments in Japanese and Italian. As I say in the show, I am the “Jack of all languages and master of none” :)
At some point I will record a segment for the Gascony Show in Gascon! I owe that to my listeners, I promised that long ago.
This is an original posting for my blog. This blog is hosted at SDF. Today is Aug. 3, 2021.
The current URL for The Gascony Show is http://gasconheart.sdf.org/gascony-show/.
July 4th, 2022