Try this at home - party idea

Here’s an idea that requires a small group of friends and two PCs with microphones and speakers. Expect this project to last several hours.
Set the PCs up in opposite areas near where you will be sitting, set the first PC to record all the conversations in the room and play a podcast on the other PC. Then talk amongst yourselves as you listen to the podcast. After 30 minutes (keep track of the time) turn off the podcast on PC#2 and start recording the room as you simultaniously stop recording on PC#1 and play back the audio you just recorded.
Now talk amongst yourselves while you listen to your friends and yourself talking over the podcast, after 30 minutes stop recording on PC#2 and playback what you just recorded as you press record on PC#1. Repeat the process every half hour, talking over the previous 30 minutes conversation.
The more layers of conversations you are hearing simultaniously the weirder things will get, well, it was pretty trippy when my friends and I first tried this back in 1989.
We didn’t have PCs but we had two cassette decks and here’s the unedited recording of the final tape. Warning, this MP3 is for entertainment purposes only and in no way represents the people on the recording as they are today, fine upstanding citizens! Any references to things illegal and immoral are for historical reference and reflection and are not suggestions!
The Purple Mind Fungus Experiment recorded in 1989.
The people you are hearing include Freddy (the guy who says "but you were there!" all the time), Myself (the guy who says ‘man’ too many times), Jane (who left half an hour before this recording was made), Diamond Dave and then later, Lynn and Vik come in and we explain to them what we’re doing. It starts off a little slow but then gets pretty funny!

~* all art and audio by Darren Daz Cox - mutant artist*~
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August 2nd, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Hahaha fun stuff! I used to do the same thing with the two tape decks way back when… I actually used to make all kinds of odd audio experiments with those decks.