Tasmanian Salmon
Greetings from R2 Studios. April showers have brought us May flowers. It's a delightful time of year here at the lovely, wooded, & blooming GMU campus!
The Consolation Prize team dropped a new mini episode May 10: "Pacific Salmon Run." This episode completes Consolation Prizes world tour by going to the last continent on which the United States had a consul: Australia. This is a fun episode about the unlikely connection between American Consul in Tasmania, Alexander George Webster and the California salmon he tried to import.
We mentioned this a couple weeks ago, and it's worth reiterating - Consolation Prize's last episode is approaching soon. To celebrate the life of the show, we're planning an event on June 7. We'd love to have you join us--check out the invitation here.
In the meantime, we want to hear from you! We want to hear what you've learned from Consolation Prize. Did you learn about consuls? Did you learn about historical podcasting? Leave us a voicemail on our website telling us what you learned or what you liked about CP and you could win a CP tumbler and coffee!
The Green Tunnel team is working on our next season, and we had a fun planning retreat out in the mountains near West Virginia not far from the Appalachian Trail. Here you can see producers, writers, and researchers (from left to right) Hayley, Jeanette, and Ashley brainstorming for next season. You can see by their shoes we were all ready to hike, but time didn't allow for that.
Thank you, Shannon, for your kind words about Consolation Prize!
Do you like to travel? Do you want to go where most people don't dare to go? Even if you can't travel in person, you can still learn about some of the most interesting places in the world with the Atlas Obscura podcast. Check it out!
This gal was the most delightful part of our Green Tunnel planning retreat, Hayley's pup, Kena. When Kena wasn't napping she had some great ideas for season two about squirrels on the Appalachian Trail, whether or not dogs should be leashed on the trail, and whether or not cats should be allowed anywhere ever. She was a very good girl!
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And that’s it for this edition of “Good Tape!” Thanks for reading, and we’ll see you next time.
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