Doughboys is a podcast about chain restaurants. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted audio clip that is usually a mashup or remix of audio from previous episodes. This is one that I made.
I collaborated on this Doughboys drop with fellow Doughscorders S E A G U L L S, who provided the main vocals, and Chicago Leah, who provided the various “stairs” harmonies.
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Comedy Bang Bang is a comedy podcast. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted song or audio clip to introduce and/or close the Plugs section of the show. This is one that I made.
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The Sloppy Boys is a podcast about cocktails and comedy. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted audio clip to introduce their “Booze News” segment. This is one that I made.
This was played in episode 123, Dark ‘n’ Stormy.
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Doughboys is a podcast about chain restaurants. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted audio clip that is usually a mashup or remix of audio from previous episodes. This is one that I made.
Now we know who was on the other end of that conversation with the Big Bopper.
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YouTube allows anyone to be the star in their own television show, but the true dream job of every little girl and boy has still been out of reach: Vice President of Program Scheduling. But today, that dream becomes reality.
Channel Two is a web application I’ve written that allows you to run your own TV network in a Web browser. You simply define your programming schedule and open a browser tab — it’s just that easy!
Do you have a digital media library that you never watch anything from because it’s too cumbersome to sift through? Do you have home movies that you don’t ever see because it takes too long to pick one? Do you want a family-friendly TV channel available in your house where you control all of the content? Channel Two solves all of these problems.
Channel Two begins with the schedule file. It’s similar to a crontab file — every line defines the time to perform some task; in this case, the task is playing a specific video or a video selected from a directory.
Here’s an example Channel Two schedule:
shuffle=true
* * * * * /Media/Home Movies/
shuffle=false
0 7 * * * /Media/TV/Backyardigans/
30 7 * * * /Media/TV/Curious George/
0 12 * * * https://example.com/noon-affirmations.mp4
shuffle=true
0 14 * * * /Media/Movies/Rated-G/
0 14 * * * /Media/Movies/Rated-PG/
shuffle=false
0 17 * * * /Media/TV/Planet Earth/
ads=/Media/Ads/
0 20 * * * /Media/TV/Green Acres/
30 20 * * * /Media/TV/Gilligan's Island/
0 21 * * * /Media/TV/The Beverly Hillbillies/
30 21 * * * /Media/TV/Petticoat Junction/
0 20 * * 4 /Media/TV/The Office/(If you’re not familiar with cron, read this for some background.)
In plain English, this file tells Channel Two to do the following:
https://example.com/noon-affirmations.mp4./Media/Movies/Rated-G/ and /Media/Movies/Rated-PG/What happens when there’s nothing for Channel Two to play? If you don’t set backup programming with a line like * * * * * /Media/my-videos/ it’s possible that there will come a time when Channel Two has nothing to do. In this case, it will show a spiffy placeholder until it’s time to play something:
You can customize this by replacing the file assets/right-back.gif.
The lines shuffle=true and shuffle=false turn shuffle mode on and off, but what about the line ads=/Media/Ads/? That unlocks the true power of TV: commercials!
If you tell Channel Two which directory you’ve filled with ads, it will do two things:
Tip: You can find many many many TV commercials on certain Internet video sites, and tools exist to download them to your own computer. I can confirm that commercials from your youth can hold just as much nostalgia as actual TV shows and movies. ¡Yo quiero Taco Bell!
Once you have Channel Two open and running, it will play programming continuously forever (or until you close the browser tab, whichever comes first). To get the full effect and benefit of controlling your own TV station, I recommend either mirroring your computer screen to a television, or go all the way like I did and buy a digital RF modulator and permanently broadcast your media server’s screen on the channel of your choice so that all the TVs in your house can tune in.
You can view a demo version of Channel Two here on my website — it only plays three (public domain) videos, but it should give you an idea of how it works. The schedule.txt file for this installation looks like this, which ensures that the videos will always play back-to-back:
base=/home/cfinke/
* * * * * /media/His Girl Friday - Get Out.mp4
* * * * * /media/It's a Wonderful Life - Lasso the Moon.mp4
* * * * * /media/The General.mp4It sure does. Channel Two displays a chyron at the beginning of each program announcing what’s playing.
Additionally, you can use the left and right arrow keys to move forward and backward respectively in the content list for the given timeslot. Don’t want to start a series at season 1 episode 1? Just press the right arrow until your preferred episode plays.
Now what?
schedule.txt and define your schedule.php parse-schedule.php --schedule schedule.txt. This will generate a JavaScript file that Channel Two uses to manage programming.channel-two.html in your browser.
Comment below or email me at cfinke@gmail.com with any questions or feedback.
There’s a line in Sam Smith’s “Unholy” that sounds like the Winkie soldiers from The Wizard of Oz chanting “Oh-ee-oh.” This inspired me to make a mashup that incorporates the Winkies in a bigger role.
Comedy Bang Bang is a comedy podcast. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted song or audio clip to introduce and/or close the Plugs section of the show. This is one that I made.
If you know, you know. (This remix was played on episode 793 — “Coca-Cola Loaded” with Reggie Watts, Vic Michaelis, and Dave Theune.)
Doughboys is a podcast about chain restaurants. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted audio clip that is usually a mashup or remix of audio from previous episodes. This is one that I made.
I’m a child.
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Doughboys is a podcast about chain restaurants. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted audio clip that is usually a mashup or remix of audio from previous episodes. This is one that I made.
Yes, Mich Ultra, not Mitch Ultra.
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Doughboys is a podcast about chain restaurants. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted audio clip that is usually a mashup or remix of audio from previous episodes. This is one that I made.
This drop was played in the episode “Two Hands Corn Dogs with Jamie Loftus.”
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Doughboys is a podcast about chain restaurants. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted audio clip that is usually a mashup or remix of audio from previous episodes. This is one that I made.
This is one of my entries for this years Doughboys Drop-Off. The instructions were to “challenge what a drop can be” so I decided to get a little meta.
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Doughboys is a podcast about chain restaurants. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted audio clip that is usually a mashup or remix of audio from previous episodes. This is one that I made.
It seemed like it was finally the right time to do a Kanye-themed drop for Doughboys.
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Doughboys is a podcast about chain restaurants. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted audio clip that is usually a mashup or remix of audio from previous episodes. This is one that I made.
Nick’s been everywhere. This drop “won” the 3rd annual Doughboys Drop-Off.
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Comedy Bang Bang is a comedy podcast. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted song or audio clip to introduce and/or close the Plugs section of the show. This is one that I made.
Scott scott scott.
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Doughboys is a podcast about chain restaurants. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted audio clip that is usually a mashup or remix of audio from previous episodes. This is one that I made.
Barry Mann never explicitly says which song made his baby fall in love with him, but in this never-before-released cut of the song, we find out for the first time.
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Doughboys is a podcast about chain restaurants. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted audio clip that is usually a mashup or remix of audio from previous episodes. This is one that I made.
I suspect that this clip has been used in several drops that were not played on the show, so I don’t have high hopes for this version.
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Comedy Bang Bang is a comedy podcast. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted song or audio clip to introduce and/or close the Plugs section of the show. This is one that I made.
I broke out my trombone from cold storage to make this triumphant return to brass music in the form of a “Closing Up the Plug Bag” theme remix for Comedy Bang Bang.
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Doughboys is a podcast about chain restaurants. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted audio clip that is usually a mashup or remix of audio from previous episodes. This is one that I made.
Another day, another Doughboys drop. This drop was played on the episode “Sushi Stop with Alie Ward.”
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Doughboys is a podcast about chain restaurants. In each episode, they play a listener-submitted audio clip that is usually a mashup or remix of audio from previous episodes. This is one that I made.
Here’s my newest Doughboys Drop, pirate-themed for Yarrrctdoughbarrrchest. It was played in the episode “Yarrrrctdoughbarrrchest: Pirates Dinner Adventure with Evil No Handerson aka Eva Anderson.”
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Ben Zvan has very helpfully added support for round LEGO bricks to my LEGO modeling library, LEGO.scad.
To circle your squares, specify type='round' in your call to block(). Thanks Ben!