No Soap Radio

This time we’re podcasting from the dining room with a mixer and multiple inputs and cables and headphones and all kinds of other crap we don’t really need that keeps us from doing this from bed. But we’re using a better microphone, so maybe it sounds better?

Tonight’s topics include:

A few entries from the growing list of reasons why Chuck hates Macintosh
Listener mail from the Soap Line
Multiple calls to the Soap Line from our first stalker, GraceDavis
Beth gives Lainie Kazan major stink-eye over raw fish
Jeffrey Dahmer sings from beyond the grave
Advice from the Magic Date Ball
Fondue sucks
Bubble wrap as an aphrodisiac

Check it out, GraceDavis is on the phone!

 

 Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We’re back to podcasting from bed again. Is it the outstanding acoustics or just the fact that we can do it lying down?

Topics tonight include:

El Guapo’s review of No Soap Radio
Kenney Chesney and Renee Zellweger
A shout-out to Chuck for outstanding PC service
An empty promise of sex from Beth
Chuck’s family’s computer ineptitude
The Hank Williams barometer of country
The new No Soap Radio call-in number: (206) 339-SOAP
Chuck farting
Big Country or Rush? Beth has no idea
Brylcreme and “gel de hair”
We need a sign-off

Check it out: Back in bed again.

 

 Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Chuck is on the road this week and posts this episode from Vancouver, B.C. Don’t miss the amazing balcony sequence, where he records “the sounds of the city” for your listening pleasure.

Take off to the Great White North.

 

 Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Come with us to our bedroom as we bring the laptop to bed and record what happens! But bear in mind that we’re married with a kid — all that really happens is just a lot of talking.

Stick it in your ear: The Between-the-sheets podcast.

Get to know our daughter Zoe as Chuck interviews her about what she did on her summer vacation, starting 5th grade, her newly pierced ears, and where’s the best place to go for summer camp.

Stick it in your ears: The Zoe Interview.

Somebody pull the bandwagon over, we’re jumping on! We fine folks here at deadpan have started a podcast called “No Soap Radio.” Readers of our blogs Diary of a SubUrban Housewife and There’s Pie in the Lunchroom already know us, but for you deadpan newbies, we’re Beth and Chuck. Hi there.

“No Soap Radio” is the latest and we hope final title for the thing. We went through several possibilities (The Beth or Chuck Show, The Chuck or Beth Show, The Chuck and Beth Show, etc…) before we settled on NSR as being … well, different from the other names we were considering. So that’s what we’re calling it and, no, we’re not going to explain what it means. But trust us, it’s funny.

We did more than go through several names before going live with this thing; we also went through several recording attempts. There were quite a few technical difficulties starting out that necessitated multiple trips to multiple computer and/or electronics stores to buy various pieces of hardware and software and mixers and… Well, not really. All we really needed was this old piece of shit microphone we already had lying around the house and GarageBand that came pre-loaded on my work Mac laptop. But where’s the fun in that? So many shopping trips and about $200 later, here we are. (And tomorrow the returns begin — all that equipment we didn’t really need after all.)

Once we got the technical crap straightened out, then we had the requisite operator error. There were several abortive recording attempts, and then finally one podcast that was actually recorded in full and even edited down a bit … and then we decided not to post it. Ernest Hemingway’s advice to new writers was to throw the first manuscript away, so we took that to heart here. That first episode will never be heard by human ears and shall forever be known as “The Lost Episode (..sode …sode …sode …sode).”

So here’s the first Second First Episode of No Soap Radio. Enjoy.