022_Bull_Rob_Robbins
04/30/16 • 29 min
More Norwegians head south seeking whales. A kerfuffle over who's on first marks the start of the Heroic Age. In 2005 I recorded an interview with Rob Robbins, head of the USAP diving programme. This was slated for a New Zealand radio programme that never came about, itself a rip off of RRR's "Radio Marinara" in Australia, and was captured using a badly battered Mini-Disc unit. It's not the best audio but I could have been using sticky tape and iron filings as a recording medium, for all I cared. Rob Robbins is legend among my circle and I was stoked to have his time and attention. With "Radio Tuna" failing to launch, this is the material's first outing.
More Norwegians head south seeking whales. A kerfuffle over who's on first marks the start of the Heroic Age. In 2005 I recorded an interview with Rob Robbins, head of the USAP diving programme. This was slated for a New Zealand radio programme that never came about, itself a rip off of RRR's "Radio Marinara" in Australia, and was captured using a badly battered Mini-Disc unit. It's not the best audio but I could have been using sticky tape and iron filings as a recording medium, for all I cared. Rob Robbins is legend among my circle and I was stoked to have his time and attention. With "Radio Tuna" failing to launch, this is the material's first outing.
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