The Ears Have It! [excerpt]

From: Geo Beach
Length: :30

The indefatigable Geo Beach tells us about one travel accessory that's small enough to fit in your pocket, cheap enough to purchase with pocket change and can change your whole travel experience. Read the full description.

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When he's not traveling, the irrepressible Geo Beach sends postcards from the end of the road in Homer, Alaska.

2 Comments

Hans Anderson

Posted on December 05, 2003 at 07:43 AM | Permalink

Review of The Ears Have It! [excerpt]

I love it that all of us audio folks push the Theater of the Mind, the convenience of audio, the fact that, if you turn the sound down on a movie, you can't readily figure out what's going on, but you leave the sound on, and close your eyes, and you catch 90% of it.

Play this piece during a funding drive, I think it would be an enjoyable short piece and would give the local hosts something to talk about right afterwards.

Transom Editors

Posted on September 25, 2003 at 12:14 PM | Permalink

Review of The Ears Have It! [excerpt]

Wee playful tribute to our very favorite art form: audio! Everyone should air this everywhere. Read so fast it's over almost before you absorb it, and I enjoyed it more the second hearing, so maybe everyone should air this everywhere twice.

Transcript

The Ears Have It

by Geo Beach

Friends, roamers, cross-country-men:

[Female voice-over:
"Another audio Postcard from the Edge of Tomorrow, courtesy of The
Savvy Traveler's Geo Beach."]

and Dear Rudy, you qualify for all three... so lend me your ears.

Shhh - listen up!

There's one travel accessory that's small enough to fit in your pocket,
cheap enough to purchase with pocket change, and it can change your
whole travel experience.

One word, Rudy: Earplugs.

When I was a firefighter flying out to wildlands fires and remote
medivacs in the Alaska bush, I learned that earplugs were more
important than fireplugs. Helicopters and small planes are just plain
loud and that wasn't good for my concentration - I didn't want to get
burned out on a noisy flight when I might get burned up once I landed
and was up to my ears in flames.

And speaking of...
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