5: Podcasting: Melissa and David From The Strong Sense Of Place Podcast Share Their Love Of Books, Travel & Laughter

​David Humphreys and Melissa Joulwan are the hosts of Strong Sense of Place, a podcast and web site dedicated to literary travel and books with vivid settings. In each episode of their show, they explore one destination and talk about what makes that place different from everywhere else on earth. Then they recommend books set in that destination and talk to a special guest.

Melissa and David's Contact Info:
Instagram & Twitter: @strongsense of 
Website: https://strongsenseofplace.com 

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Their Podcasting Set Up

And the the tent fort

(LEFT) This is a screenshot of our Zoom video call for this episode. On the top is me (Steph) and on the bottom is Melissa and David's recording tent fort. They ducked down for the photo cause we wanted to get the full fort for you to see. You can clearly see David's orange mic on the right and Melissa's black mic on the left. 




And BELOW is the rack that the fort is based on. 

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Have you been to their favorite bookstore? 

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ANNOUNCEMENT: 
#PodRevDay is where we tell Podcasters why we love their podcasts in a review and post it on social media with #PodRevDay for everyone to join in on the love. The next PodRevDay is March 8th.
​More info here: 
https://www.stephfuccio.com/podrevday-podcast-review-day.html

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Melissa was kind enough to share her reading notes template with us. 

And Melissa mentioned finding out about the oldest library in the world while researching their Moroccan episode. Here is the video they posted on this beautiful space. 

https://strongsenseofplace.com/podcasts/2020-03-02-morocco/

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In this episode David talked about how he prepares for his 2 truths and a lie segment. Here is a peak at their podcast transcripts from their Japan episode showing how clever his selections are. 

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Book Podcast Recommendations

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Music courtesy of

​Damon Castillo

The song in this episode

is “I Will Remain"

from the

"Mess of Me" album.

https://www.damoncastillo.com

This episode was created with:
-Steph was using a Samson Q2U microphones 
- We chatted on Zoom Cloud Recoding, https://zoom.us/ and did a triple ender, where we recorded each track on our ends.More on this edit below. 
-Auphonic,free online leveling software
-Canva, episode art, https://www.canva.com
-Producer, Editor, & Host: Stephanie (Gmail: stephfuccio or WeChat: stephfuccio)

Geeky Editing Note: 
I then edited them in one file, my first 3 track editing session, in fact. Photo below for you audio geeks. I learned this week that this kind of audio silencing of the non speaking tracks is called "checkerboard edit". Thanks Ray!

@PodcastHelper is this a checkerboard? Is it still a checkerboard if the nonspeaking tracks are not silenced? Not sure why they wouldnt be but stoked to get a new #audio term under my belt so wanna use it correctly. @neoelemento this is where command-L or ctrl-L come in handy. pic.twitter.com/G9cEg9d04M

— Stephanie Fuccio (@stephfuccio) March 4, 2020