Posted on | September 10, 2005 | Comments Off on

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.

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