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Glider Voicemail...

Mar 9, 2006 11:27AM PST

The Glider voicemail did not seem to play on BOL. Did anyone else have the same problem???


Peter

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Same
Mar 9, 2006 12:29PM PST

Happend to me too, also the podcast dilivered late and i never got the news letter. Sad sad.

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thought it was a joke.. then
Mar 9, 2006 7:28PM PST

I thought it as a joke at first, but then I felt so left out because everyone was laughing and I had no clue what was going on...

hehe. I get the feeling that we'll hear it on Friday's BOL.

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no voicemail, but it begs a question for Miss Veronica....
Mar 9, 2006 7:49PM PST

in the podcast, there is only a few seconds of silence and then you guys give your reaction to the voicemail. Is that editing, or do you guys fake the reaction? Do you really listen to the voicemail live time? I imagined that the voicemail was a separate audio track, you guys give a couple secs of silence, veronica marks the time and then later inserts it. If thats how it goes, its pretty funny to hear the not so live time reactions after "hearing" the voicemail.

anyways... How's it done?

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Can it live up?
Mar 9, 2006 8:55PM PST

I wonder if the actual clip can live up to what I have imagined if we do eventually hear it. It sounds like it will be frakin' hilarious!

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well...
Mar 10, 2006 2:01AM PST

Hey guys, first post after two voicemails. The clip is kinda funny, but more interesting I think.

As for how they do the voicemails, it's just a guess but maybe they play them in the studio but then cut it out to put in just the voicemail clip so it'll sound better. But I have no idea. Hope you guys hear the clip soon!

-Dave

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I think dave's right
Mar 11, 2006 1:56AM PST

that's probably how it works. I think this happened once before, with another voice mail that wasn't quite as funny. The next day they gave a summary. I hope they actually play this one, or post a link to the clip and put it online somewhere.

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ditto
Mar 10, 2006 3:16AM PST

I was curious about this as well.

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Gliders ARE reeeally quiet....
Mar 10, 2006 8:13AM PST

Does anyone remember the National Lampoon Radio hour's recurring bit "the lost glider"? it was about 30 seconds of near dead-air (I guess the sound of a light breeze) and then a quiet voice muttering about how profoundly lost he was.
I too thought it was a joke. Unless something unspeakable happened to the glider. I thought I heard SOMETHING.... could've been a snake.... =O