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SomaCow Media is proud to present SomaCow, brought to you in this hour by Orlando Ichiban – If you want to taste some Succulent Tunas and Juicy Meats, swing on by here in Sunny Downtown Orlando for some of the better sushi available. Tell them SomaCow sent you, and they may blink expectantly before repeating “May we help you?”

In this hour, we discussed The New Deal, namely, a vulgarity clause we were asked to sign off on by the Powers that Be, or whatever. It seems that in order to gain access to millions of fans, we need to clean up our acts. I am shocked. I thought we ran a clean show. Sure, we have been guilty of dropping the occasional F bomb, but who hasn’t? We struggle to define what IS vulgar, exactly, and what makes a thing unmentionable to you.

Hot Topics aside, we were again joined by Iceman, who came to the studio wearing Jorts. I am not sure why I keep mentioning that. Hell, I have worn Jorts myself a hundred times. But not since 29. I think once you hit 30, your Jorts days are at an end. Time to get some chinos, or whatever the old folks wear. I’ll ask J.

I will leave you loyal members of The Heard with an assignment – What IS offensive? Try to craft the most offensive 30 words or less sentence in the comments to this post, and I will award the nastiest as judged by SomaCow with $20.00 from Bath and Body Works (or a store of your choosing) to wash your foul, foul mind clean.

Mickey’s Life Coaching (near the :50, holy crap I suck at time management) centers on finding a job. SomaCow knows that you are pounding the pavement, emailing your resume, calling your friends and bitching about it – There just doesn’t seem to be ANYWHERE that is hiring!!!

Well listen in, chumpypants, and you may discover a way to get that damned job.

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SomaCow Media is proud to present SomaCow, brought to you this week by Etan on Tech. In a rapidly dissolving world of “Old Media” he is staying relevant and engaging his audience every day, and we salute him for that. If you are local, come meet Etan (and us, and a bunch of neat twitterfolk) at Scruffy Murphy’s on Thursday, Feb 19,2009. It’ll be dope!

We talked quite a bit about our sushi charitywater.org tweetup, dubbed the Unofficial Twestival. For those of you that do not use Twitter, basically a bunch of short-winded creative-types got together and drank and ate. It’s what humans do best. Mickey and I had a blast meeting cool people, and J is more than a little miffed that he “wasn’t invited”. Since I have now spent two whole paragraphs vaguely referring to our NEXT meetup, let’s see what he Eeyores about next week.

So, we talked about our new Twitter friends (seriously, Peakarts.com, people), and took a call from Etan as he boarded a flight to stand best man for his brother in Atlanta. By the end of our show, He had messaged that Atlanta lost their luggage. Like, the whole plane? What the hell is going on these days with the airlines? No cash, no maintenance, shoddy customer service, paying for baggage that they then lose… If you aren’t leaping continents, next time, consider driving. I did the math, and if Etan spent 1 hour in traffic to the airport, 1 hour getting through baggage claim, 30 minutes taxiing, 2 hours flying (cause the damned airlines ALWAYS fly slow now), 1 hour claiming false-baggage, 1 hour standing in line trying to find out why his stuff was lost, and then 1 hour assumed getting from the airport to where he was heading?

That’s like 47 hours. It only takes 8 to drive to Hotlanta from Jamlando. Look it up, money.

We also enjoy the company of Iceman in studio. He’s overcome with our twitter nerdocity, and saves his chances for ever getting laid by a member of the opposite sex by remaining quiet for now.

If anyone has been to the Ravenous Pig, do let me know more, would you? Thanks!

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SomaCow Media is proud to present SomaCow, brought to you by Capp’s “Your Neighborhood Barber” Shop.

In this, their earliest hour, the guys discuss Mickey’s contagions, hair growth and de-growth, and being positive (not in the ‘we tested positive thanks to Mickey’ sense).

Last week SomaCow focused on Mickey and his sickness. This week was no different. Why, you might ask, would they revisit the same topic? Well, it’s because Mickey shared his germs with us all and we, in turn, with our families. J was so sick that he knew 2 days before the live show that he would not make it in. We’d like to take this time to thank Mickey for giving us all time to spend with our families and reflect on the lovely things that can come out of our bodies, find the blankets that had been in storage, and play rock, paper, scissors on who gets to run out for more Kleenex and NyQuil. You’re the best!

In J’s place, we welcomed Kevin into the studio. Kevin came in about a year ago and did predictions for the whole SomaCow crew including the gender of our little one to be. So maybe he’s not always right, but he did bring cake! Kevin fit in well, taking over for J in these first 2 hours and we thank him for it. You can always chat it up with Kevin in the chatroom when we do the live show Friday nights.

One of Kevin’s trademarks is his long beard. Geoff was in awe. Kevin gave the guys tips on how to grow such a fabulous collection of strands. This week, however, Geoff decided instead of growing his hair longer, he’d pamper himself. He went to Capp’s Barber and got himself a professional haircut. He usually takes care of this grooming himself (he won’t let me help after the botching of the back line of his hair early in our relationship. Hey, I had never used clippers before!) but after the jeers last week about his beautiful bouffant, he decided it was time. He enjoyed the experience so much, he decided to give the rest of the show a gift for a cut and shave. Kevin turned his down and left it for J. He wants you to think that he was being selfless, but we all know he just doesn’t let anyone touch that beard! If you stop into Capp’s, tell them SomaCow sent you in to be pampered.

Kevin’s calm nature did have an affect on the guys, though. They decided that 2009 is going to be the year of positivity for SomaCow. Yes, that’s right, just like how last year they said they would be more inclusive and not say racist-sounding things on the show, this year they will make another…um…commitment to better themselves. So, dear members of The Heard, look forward to a year of positivity from SomaCow. Think they can do it? Yeah, me neither I do!

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