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 174: We're Gonna Get Ourselves Organized [1:04:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

SomaCow Media is proud to present SomaCow brought to you by A Space That Works.

In this, our finest hour, we had a special guest in the studio, Suzanna from A Space That Works. With her we discuss how she got into this business, what stereotypes come out in people she’s helped, and how she can help us.

Suzanna used to be a messy girl but has reformed and now helps others. Producer Ross won her doing Trivia on Game Show Radio. Well, he won us an hour of her time to help SomaCow get organized in the Martini Room. You see, this is no small task. While the room may be small (and entirely too warm), it has 6 shows worth of crap in there. I mean we have Say… Anything, Just Push Play, The Lunar Room, The Sports Buzz, The Aftermath, and of course, SomaCow. We all bring in our personal items in to make the space more… personal!

If you ever stop by the Ustream chat and you see myself or Jen in there, ask and we shall give you the most awesomest of tours.

We also talked about the difference in trying to organize women vs. men. Do women have more crap? Are they more emotional and attached to said crap? What have you seen? Are you a pack rat?

So Suzanna had some great ideas. Some include:

• One of those industrial mirrors they use to see around corners could help you see each other better during the show. Is there an industry that large? Do whales wear cosmetics?

• Use a lazy susan and/or a big basket in the middle of the desks to hold the crap we keep amassing (a big lazy susan will also help you pass things to each other easily) (We have been saying maybe we need a female in the studio…)

• Put a basketball hoop over the trash can to add fun to your trash J (yeah, J, throw away your trash!)

• Hang a shoe organizer (the one with pockets) on the door to store small items – helps keep them easy to access (I guess this one is for Debe of Say… Anything?)

• Cubbies for different shows is a great idea! You can even have fun painting them, etc. Make sure they are big enough to hold what you need them to. The Say Anything cubby is already overflowing with booze and handcuffs, and the Just Push Play cubby has apparently become Brian’s new apartment.

• Use the half flower pots or similar items on the walls near each chair to hold pens, etc. (oh good, something else Mickey can break instead of our chairs!)

We’re not going to give away ALL of her secrets but she did give some good ones. She is very open to discussion and even has a message board!

We also checked out this new band to the hopper:

• EndeverafteR – I Wanna Be Your Man

 

 162: See You Soon, Id. Id [1:02:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

SomaCow Media is proud to present SomaCow, brought to you in this hour by Jen from Say… Anything

Hi guys! So this was the first week without me, Jen, as the Producer. The guys decided that the pregnancy was making me a little too emotional and me crying in the talk back had proved too much for them to handle.

So they brought in Ross. I think he’ll do well. I had to remind him to write down the music played, and the studio has a bit more of a man smell on Sundays, but I think I pounded home how important it is to hit record! He seems to be doing well. Geoff wanted to give him my laptop so he could interact but then what would I do? So I cried, and they relented, and I still have my trusty laptop to hang out with you guys Sundays in Ustream :)

But hark! Ross is still in training and all of a sudden they are giving him the hopper (yeah, I’ve only been asking to do that since the old days) and letting him talk on the mic!?! I mean what the hell? See here’s the thing folks, it is very well documented that women can multi-task and guys can’t and Ross is a guy and I am a woman. See what I’m saying? Yeah, I thought so. Not bitter!

No, seriously, Ross is going to do an awesome job and I’m going to enjoy spending these last few weeks of my pregnancy sitting in a comfortable chair…or bed…and listening and laughing with all of you!

This year working with SomaCow has been fantastic. Not only because I got to work next to my best friend, Geoff, and my good friend, Mickey, and the lone voice of reason in this posse, J, but also because I love the show and I love to produce. I wanted more time to do things around the house, nest you could say, but I didn’t want to lose the producer position. Somewhere in my mind I pictured me being able to continue doing everything and just adding the SomaCalf into our lives, but I realize as the time draws nearer that this is not the case. So, with a slightly heavy heart but with all the confidence in the world, I have handed this trusty job over to Ross.

Oh, I’ll still be around (you can always catch me on Say… Anything LIVE Tuesdays 7-8 PM Eastern). I have a feeling a proud dad will want to show off his daughter once or a million times so we’ll be close by. Maybe by the pool, but we’ll be listening. Hmm, how old can she be until she shouldn’t listen anymore? Eh, we’ll worry about that later. I’m seriously excited about being a mom. I talked about it some on a recent episode of Say… Anything but I love being a podcaster, producer, my-other-job-worker, wife and I didn’t know how mom fit in as it seemed some of those were being taken away. What I’ve come to realize, is that being a mom is a damn cool thing, and I can still love and support the show, just from another room.

I think my favorite part of producing for SomaCow was being “silent”. It’s kind of like when you’re having sex and someone else is in the next room over so you have to be quiet…it SO intensifies the experience. Do you know how hard it is to try to be professional, and keep levels in check, and write notes for the blog, while also stifling your laughter every 2 minutes? Yeah, it’s hard.

This wouldn’t be a Jen blog without me throwing in a question for you guys. See, I do this when I help out and write the blogs so you’ll comment so… comment! *ahem* What is your favorite SomaCow memory from the last year? What made you laugh the most?

A brief synopsis of this episode…the guys love trivia (listen this Sunday to find out how they did!), there is a guy in the Army being picked on for being an Atheist (and he made a pretty good comment, if I may say so), J said a really funny line about tang and I cracked up (would have been hard to keep silent for that one), The Bible’s in a bunch of languages, religion vs science is discussed, Geoff does his Weekly Constitutional on a classic-Jelly Belly, bowling for boobs rocks as does fat guy olympics.

Check out this music played (thanks Ross for the notes!):

• NOFX – The Separation of Church & Skate
• NOFX – Franco Unamerican

See you all on Sunday! (click on that highlighted word “Sunday” to see where we all meet 2-5 PM Eastern every Sunday)

 

 161: Endust [1:03:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

SomaCow Media, Inc. is proud to present SomaCow, brought to you in this hour by Game Show Radio! Check out Ross and I and a guest to be named later when we take to the airwaves at 1190AM here in Orlando, laying waste to the triviascape and frightening Curtis Earth and his team.

In this, our finest hour, we discussed The Pledge of Allegiance, the need for versatility in post-modern America, and G4’s Ninja Warrior and Unbeatable Banzuke.

The full text of what I read at the beginning of the episode, as penned by Matt Groening, is as follows:

I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow,
and to the Republicans, for which they scam
one nacho
underpants
(invisible)
with licorice
and jugs of wine
for owls

God Bless America. Even you bastards that have hijacked it and run it aground with your petty monkey in the middle style politics.

Truly, if we are ever going to succeed as a country, we will need citizens armed with a wealth of knowledge, and the ability to communicate on multiple levels. That is why the SomaCalf Jen and I raise will be well versed in Japanese, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Afrikaans, Pig-Latin, and 3 kinds of sign language. Poor thing will be drowning in flash cards.

I actually did have the idea that we would do food nights as a theme, like, on take-out noodle night, we only speak Mandarin around the table. Mickey and J just laughed at me, and winked knowingly. I think they are plotting something.

Mickey gave us some Life Coaching at the :40 which is always nice, and centered this week on being patient, moving forward, and a really cool idea involving dry erase markers and mirrors. Get up on it!

We closed out the show with a brief discussion of my new obsession, namely, Ninja Warrior and any other show featuring incredibly gifted Asian folks leaping over stuffs. It is amazing to see the difference in culture, as these various fishmongers, ballet dancers, and various government clerks somehow transform into supreme badasses, pushing their bodies beyond endurance without, from a precursory inspection, the benefit of steroids. I find our own American Gladiators pales in comparison, and beseech the makers of said show to step up the game considerably before subjecting us to additional airings.

I cannot stand the Fraggles. I will warn you one time. If you call about the Fraggles, I will hang up on you. If you email about the Fraggles, I will delete you. If you babble in our chat room about the Fraggles, I will ban you. If you sit on the show with me and mention ANYTHING to do with the Fraggles, I will force you to eat vienna sausages. This ends now.

You know who ISN’T pale, gelatinous, and comprised of unknowable meats? These great bands, which we featured in this hour of the show:

• Gran Ronde – Say Say Say
• The Doilies – Lake Wasood