I completely agree with Teague. There's something in my setup (Samson CO3U recorded in Audacity) that often produces a significant drop in quality when output to MP3 even at 80 or 96 Mbps, whereas I notice other podcasts output at 64 Mbps or even lower don't seem to suffer the same slight digital muddiness. If I were a better audio engineer, I'd figure it out. Maybe it has to do with sample rate or the LAME engine or something.

And of course mike technique is a huge factor. It always bugs me to hear podcasts recorded with headsets, and the speaker jams the mike against his lips like an airline pilot and pops every plosive in the language.

EDIT: re: John's Goldwave mention.... Noise reduction in Audacity is really quite good now and has been for 3 or 4 versions. Same with compression, which used to be disastrous. I use compression to raise whole tracks if they were recorded quietly (I process other people's commentaries sometimes before listening to them because it annoys me when they don't sound decent) but otherwise use it pretty sparingly because it's effects are not as predictable as I'd like.

ADDITIONAL EDIT: Teague is too modest. FIYH always sounds professional quality.

I hadn't heard that he'd changed from Pym to Lang. That suggests he didn't have much of a script for a long time. Maybe then the creative differences lie in the realm of Wright failing to tie the story into the Avengers stuff once he did have a script.

This is unfortunate and comes obviously at a particularly depressing time, but it sounds like you're well rid of such a person.

One of the great things about this forum (and our own commentary collaborations) is the mutual respect we all afford one another's opinions. You can't have a meaningful discussion if you can't see some of what the other person is saying, and you certainly can't be persuasive. It sounds like this guy never developed that engine, and his contempt for and resentment of others was always lurking beneath the surface, even during the best times you spent with him.

I really hope for the best for you and your mom. My own mother's health is declining, and I find it confusing, frustrating, and saddening.

Musk's tweeted offer to help is a classy move. He has the resources to get people involved in forming a proper board of directors and raising the money to build a proper museum. And it won't cost him $8 million personally.

It's possible that he has thought (or been told by his PR staff) that he needs to build a Tesla museum of some kind anyway, even if it's just in a corner of his corporate headquarters, off the lobby waiting room. It's just good policy. Most big corporations have something somewhere that displays some of their history.

EDIT: And I don't regard it as especially crass of Inman to ask. Everything he says is true, and it's the kind of thing that museum directors say to potential donors all the time. He's just a little clumsy to say it publicly on his little cat cartoons website.

I strongly suspect that a conversation between an established museum director and a potential donor would sound a lot like a Medieval friar trying sell an indulgence to a merchant.

Weird. Friendsinyourhead.com scores perfectly clean across the board. Zarban.com scores poorly, for adult content, alcohol, and offensive language!