Ep. 52: First Annual DINGHY Awards™

How Not To Sail

Join me as we reveal YOUR winners!

Wanna see the video version? CLICK HERE. (I expect this may not stay on YouTube forever…for reasons I mention in the outro.)

Show Notes Why these DINGHY Awards™?

Glad you asked.

As I mentioned in Ep. 51, I was racking my brain to figure out which bucket of haphazardly-organized audio source material I should turn into the fifty-first episode…when suddenly it hit me:

Hey, I’ve done a s— ton of work to birth these first fifty episodes. As we get into a new year with bright prospects, why don’t we celebrate a little?

And once I got going on it, it really got the creative audio juices flowing.

Why not make it sound like a real awards show like the GRAMMYs®, I thought?

…so I got into my REAPER audio software and got cookin’…

I even made some wax-sealed envelopes—not just for our two other presenters, but for me.

What can I say? That’s just how I roll sometimes.

How did I select the winners?

In short…I didn’t.

Here’s how the winners were selected:

• You voted.
• I counted ’em.

(Of course, the “accounting firm of Dewey, Cheatham & Howe” is—hopefully—fictitious, and the “Special Merit Awards” are just great excuses to recognize cool people. But in those four categories nominated in Episode 51, it’s very simple. You voted, I counted. And THANK YOU for voting!)

The results should be visible later today at the above link. (I *think* I set them to become visible by 12:30, right after the premiere…but who knows?)

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Music

“The Supermarket Theme” licensed via Music Vine

“Mojacari” licensed via Music Vine

“The Spirit Of Champions” licensed via Music Vine

…and others not requiring attribution. (I generally like to recognize free music contributors, even when attribution isn’t required. But if I paid to use it…well, I’ll mention if I have time.)