Many people ask, “I love listening to SwaG!, but how can I enjoy my favorite broadcasts over and over?”
The answer is: Through the miracle of the home cassette audio tape recorder!
More convenient than the old reel-to-reel method, more reliable than the wire dictaphone, more modern than the Edison tinfloil cylinder, the cassette taping method is taking the country by storm! For on-the-spot event reports, capturing home puppetry performance or the barkings and mutterings of pets and tots, home audio recording will record the sounds of your world for instant playback over and over and over and over.
For recording SwaG! we recommend three one-hour-long cassette tapes, a radio, a microphone, a recording machine and a silent indoor environment (preferably a bathroom with a lock).
Tune radio to 89.1 FM in Kalamazoo, MIch., hold microphone carefully aimed at the radio speakers, and press play and record (AT THE SAME TIME!) and conduct a series of tests. Continually check sound quality, and note your progress on 4X6 index cards. Once you have perfected your method, at precisely 9 p.m. Wednesday night, start recording!
Remember, you wish to avoid capturing other noises such as heavy breathing, door slams, shouting, etc. PAY ATTENTION TO THE CASSETTE TAPE. Note that you can view remaining tape through the recording machine’s viewing window. Once the tape ends, QUICKLY and SILENTLY flip it over. DO NOT FLIP TO A SIDE CONTAINING THE PREVIOUS HALF HOUR OF SWAG!!!! Once both sides of a tape are full, insert a blank cassette.
Repeat until you have “captured” the entire program.
Now you have a convenient way to hear SwaG! in your personal cassette player, home or car stereo.
Your other option would be to download the episodes as they appear on the SwaG! web site. But that would mean waiting for Bat Guano to prepare the episodes for download, and he’s far too much of a lard ass to do that in a timely manner.
SwaG! Broadcast of July 1, 2009.
SwaG! Broadcast of July 8, 2009.