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A quick podcast tour through Rome (featuring a cameo from Florence).

Sites featured include:

00:21 — Birds in our Roma courtyard

00:59 — Exiting our apartment onto the Tiber

02:38 — Walking down the Tridente, Via di Ripetta

03:50 — San Luigi dei Francesci

05:08 — Outside the Pantheon

06:01 — Inside the Pantheon

06:56 — Piazza Navona

08:01 — Early morning birds at our Roma apartment

08:29 — Yes, even more birds

09:30 — At the Vatican Museums' square (with the Pine Cone)

10:35 — Explanation of the Sistine Chapel

11:08 — Walking the Vatican Museums

11:55 — The Sistine Chapel

14:43 — Walking through the Basilica of St. Peter

15:57 — The bells of St. Peter's, plus the changing of the Swiss Guard

17:56 — Buskers in the Piazza del Popolo

18:46 — Crowds in Florence

20:28 — Sitting on a park bench in the Villa Borghese

22:20 — Mass at Basilica of Santi Ambrogio e Carlo on the Corso

A relaxing walk through the woods at Cape Flattery, the northwesternmost point of the contiguous United States.

The sounds that filled the cracks of 2022 and 2023 (I'm late, I know).

Mary Oliver once wrote, "The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time."

Poems are by:

RikkyBoy399: https://freesound.org/people/RikkyBoy399/sounds/240389/

acclivity: https://freesound.org/people/acclivity/sounds/156550/

tim.kahn: https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/74891/

A quick podcast tour through Tokyo.There were many more sounds I could have captured, but I've been a little burned out on audio lately. This is still a nice vignette of Tokyo's massive sonic fingerprint.Locations are as follows:01:24 — Tokyo Station04:59 — On the street by the Imperial Palace08:05 — Hibiya Park10:27 — In the Metro14:45 — Kanda Matsuri, at Kanda Myojin Shrine19:47 — Shibuya 21:21 — Kitanomarukoen22:00 — Senjo-ji at Asakusa23:22 — Sumo Grand Tournament at Ryogoku

There's a cool concept called "The Global Sunrise." This is the idea that, as the dawn sun hits the earth, birds are waking up and singing their morning song. As daylight moves across the planet, there's a constant hum of new birdsong ringing out somewhere. 

So here's a little sonic experiment, where you can experience birdsong from all over the worth, progressively, as the day light might hit it.

All the bird sounds in this episode came from the following:

https://freesound.org/people/EduFigueres/sounds/266376/

https://freesound.org/people/Vortichez/sounds/432523/

https://freesound.org/people/Vortichez/sounds/432523/

https://freesound.org/people/robyn.levy323/sounds/519206/

https://freesound.org/people/taylordonj/sounds/521366/

https://freesound.org/people/rbnx/sounds/268080/

https://freesound.org/people/tbirch55/sounds/340091/

https://freesound.org/people/rbnx/sounds/268080/geotag/

https://freesound.org/people/straget/sounds/411849/

https://freesound.org/people/Franki-01234/sounds/214869/

https://freesound.org/people/DCPoke/sounds/387978/

https://freesound.org/people/hargissssound/sounds/345851/

https://freesound.org/people/1ratatosk1/sounds/392181/

https://freesound.org/people/ciccarelli/sounds/442844/

https://freesound.org/people/mmiinneerr/sounds/649218/

https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/452411/

https://freesound.org/people/Martin.Sadoux/sounds/423908/

https://freesound.org/people/EpicWizard/sounds/394291/

https://freesound.org/people/burgersmoke/sounds/642005/

https://freesound.org/people/burgersmoke/sounds/640991/

https://freesound.org/people/Oxlaey/sounds/371881/

https://freesound.org/people/hendricbona/sounds/294467/

https://freesound.org/people/coalcon/sounds/636071/

https://freesound.org/people/Lydmakeren/sounds/510480/

https://freesound.org/people/royshavit/sounds/653915/geotag/

https://freesound.org/people/thegreatbelow/sounds/546794/geotag/

https://freesound.org/people/99021905683/sounds/571316/

https://freesound.org/people/99021905683/sounds/571316/geotag/

https://freesound.org/people/sphion/sounds/158527/

https://freesound.org/people/MartinDanta/sounds/511486/

https://freesound.org/people/baryy/sounds/409145/

https://freesound.org/people/jigmet/sounds/479324/

https://freesound.org/people/liseclavier/sounds/463530/

https://freesound.org/people/guanescape/sounds/640088/

https://freesound.org/people/universildo/sounds/151773/

https://freesound.org/people/cartoonrob/sounds/588465/

https://freesound.org/people/ollermarc/sounds/426276/

https://freesound.org/people/sama66/sounds/462136/

https://freesound.org/people/titi2/sounds/509937/

https://freesound.org/people/emmanuel.faivre/sounds/611615/

https://freesound.org/people/Tito%20Lahaye/sounds/332025/

https://freesound.org/people/Rajaraman/sounds/362211/

I turn on my phone, open TikTok, and the hours blur away. So much content, I had to make some more. Where were you when you made your first Facebook account? 

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