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TBM-2208.10 – MermaidMinute – Music

11 August 2022 by Melissa

Mermaid Minute

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#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

We have some great musician-fish under the water

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TBM-2208.09 – Mermaid Minute – Fishnets

9 August 2022 by Melissa

Mermaid Minute

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Description:

#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

Why would you want to glorify a torture device?

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  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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TBM-2208.08 – Mermaid Minute – Drifting and Fishtailing

8 August 2022 by Melissa

Mermaid Minute

 

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#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

I think you call it twerking.

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  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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TBM-2208.07 – Mermaid Minute – Alligators and Crocodiles

8 August 2022 by Melissa

Mermaid Minute

 

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Description:

#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

I do not want to see you later.

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  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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TBM-2208.06 – Mermaid Minute – Monkeys

8 August 2022 by Melissa

Mermaid Minute

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Description:

#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

They are teeny teeny shrimp. Shrimpy shrimp.

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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TBM-2208.05 – Mermaid Minute – SeaShell Media

8 August 2022 by Melissa

Mermaid Minute

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Description:

#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

We don’t have YouTube; instead we have YouTide

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

Contact:

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TBM-2208.04 – Mermaid Minute – Telling Time

7 August 2022 by Melissa

Mermaid Minute

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Description:

#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

We do not use the tick-tock clocks.

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

Contact:

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  • Instagram: @Melysse
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  • Or, leave a comment on this page.
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TBM-2208.03 – Mermaid Minute – Cannibals!

4 August 2022 by Melissa

Mermaid Minute

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Description:

#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

I did not know landwalkers ate their young…

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  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

Contact:

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TBM-2208.02 – Mermaid Minute – Soup?

2 August 2022 by Melissa

Mermaid Minute

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Description:

#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

Here in the water soup is something you eat… apparently for landwalkers it’s something else?

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Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

Contact:

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  • Or, leave a comment on this page.
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TBM-2208.01 – Finding Antares (for Nichelle Nichols)

1 August 2022 by Melissa

Nichelle - Uhura

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Description:

#audio #memorial #flashfic #flashfiction #nichellenichols #spacesirens

Excerpt:

Every so often, there is a mortal being inducted into the siren’s sisterhood. Our linear, finite lifetimes necessitate that this happens only when such a person has finished her last song. When that happens, the sirens come to guide her past their mother-heart to a place where time has no meaning.

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  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Image Credit for this piece: e online
  • Song Credit for this piece: “Beyond Antares,” by Wilbur Hatch and Gene L. Coon, performed by Nichelle Nichols

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