Comments on: Talk hard.

Talk hard.

Afroblanco — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:27:31 -0800

Matt, Jess, and Cortex - would you all consider doing a live call-in show? Apparently it's really easy to do now.

The call-in format seems to work really well for the podcast, and I'd like to see what would happen if we took it live.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:31:52 -0800

don't listen to Afroblanco. he's a desperate man, he sells books on the street!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:35:18 -0800

I kind of like how the internet lets you do things asynchronously. It'd be tough to line up a time that all three of us could be ready to go at once, then on top of that members of the site could only call during that designated time.

Also, I don't really see what this gives us that the edited, recorded version lacks, aside from spontaneous jokery.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:47:54 -0800

I don't really see what this gives us that the edited, recorded version lacks, aside from spontaneous jokery.

In practice, generally about 50% more "um... dead air.... um."

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:53:46 -0800

he's a desperate man, he sells books on the street!

jonmc, on the other hand, is a desperate man who sells books in a bookstore!

By: The Deej

The Deej — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:54:14 -0800

They are too busy avoiding implementing email@metafilter.com to spend any time avoiding a call-in show.

By: Skygazer

Skygazer — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:57:00 -0800

"um... dead air.... um."

That's easy to fix. Just throw in some Looney Tunes sound effects.

By: Skygazer

Skygazer — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:07:37 -0800

Like this or this or of course this.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:08:14 -0800

Wouldn't Matt and Jess have to change their names to the Wild Man and the Cooter if they adopted this format?

Now on MeFi: the MORNING LIVE PODCAST WITH 50% MORE FART JOKES!!!

By: Skygazer

Skygazer — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:12:45 -0800

Or this is a good one which nicely sums up how how feel about the threads on MetaTalk..

Sorry these things are addictive...

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:24:09 -0800

Sorry, Afroblanco, but that is not on the new features list. Can I interest you in some mutual funds or a handjob?

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:30:29 -0800

HHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEHHHHH - aaahh - HHHHHHHHEEEEEEHHHHH - do you know what i have in my pants right now? - HHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEHHHHFFFFF - eh _FFFFFFHHHHEEEHHHHFFFF

a fish - HHHHHHHHEEEEEEFFFFFFF - ah - HHHHHHHHEEEEFFFFF

and do you know what i'm doing with that fish?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:30:44 -0800

I will change my name to Cooter when there are 30 days of "I'd hit it" free MeFi, in both non-irony and irony flavors.

By: found missing

found missing — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:33:08 -0800

If you change your name to Cooter, I'd hit it.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:40:24 -0800

Well then we're looking at January 29th at the earliest then....

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:43:11 -0800

Also, I don't really see what this gives us that the edited, recorded version lacks, aside from spontaneous jokery.

A live show has a certain air of excitement that is difficult to reproduce in an edited format. Plus, with a live show, you can have back-and-forth exchanges with the callers.

I understand that it would probably be a bit more of a pain logistically, but it would be fun to do just once to see how it turned out.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:53:16 -0800

i've decided that if i ever get a sockpuppet, i'm going to name it "i'd hit it"

By: hangashore

hangashore — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:59:06 -0800

jessamyn: I will change my name to Cooter when there are 30 days of "I'd hit it" free MeFi, in both non-irony and irony flavors.

Sidebar. STAT.

By: hangashore

hangashore — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:02:01 -0800

Never mind.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:21:13 -0800

actually jessamyn, I've been watching the Beverly Hillbillies all afternoon. If you change your name to Elly Mae, it's a deal.

By: jason's_planet

jason's_planet — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:43:55 -0800

Wouldn't Matt and Jess have to change their names to the Wild Man and the Cooter if they adopted this format?

Don't forget the dwarf tossing and the lesbian strippers.

They'd also have to crank-call random MeFites at work.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:07:36 -0800

"Don't forget the dwarf tossing and the lesbian strippers.

They'd also have to crank-call random MeFites at work."

Imagine the hilarity when the first MeFite they crank-call at work turns out to be a lesbian dwarf stripper.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:12:21 -0800

Wouldn't Matt and Jess have to change their names to the Wild Man and the Cooter if they adopted this format?

I think you meant DINGO AND THE BABY!

By: burnmp3s

burnmp3s — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:18:15 -0800

Doing a live call-in show is hell on earth.

If anyone does end up having one I'd be happy to call up and tell you to do a barrel roll.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:22:26 -0800

Wouldn't Matt and Jess have to change their names to the Wild Man and the Cooter if they adopted this format?

I actually stole that line from a David Cross bit from a few years ago, but I am informed now, late just this afternoon, that a "cooter" (which I had always come to think of as a turtle) is also slang for female genitalia. So, in the midst of the many fights over sexism we've been having on the blue and the gray lately, for whatever it's worth (and it might be worth very little), I need to declare that it was certainly not my intention to add fuel to the fire. So, I apologize for this thoughtless and careless use of the word "cooter".

Still, though... I'd eat it.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:53:42 -0800

psmealey: you've lived in like, 20 different places and you didn't know cooter was slang for a vagina? Dude, you've been hanging with the wrong people.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:55:36 -0800

That's okay, I broke my own rule today too.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:12:46 -0800

you've lived in like, 20 different places and you didn't know cooter was slang for a vagina? Dude, you've been hanging with the wrong people.

Dude, I AM the wrong people. But, cooter? Yeah... I dunno. I just never came across it.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:21:41 -0800

you should call up jonson and maybe have a little chat, psmealey.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:34:37 -0800

Cooter? I hardly know 'er.

By: jeffamaphone

jeffamaphone — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:01:10 -0800

Goddamnit if you want a call in show make your own goddamn call in show. I'd call.

By: wendell

wendell — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:34:43 -0800

I've mentioned this before, but a million years ago, I worked as Associate Producer/Phone Screener/Sidekick for a Morning Radio Show. I got the job because I had been a regular caller for months, was also doing College radio and was willing to work for minimum wage, in semi-violation of AFTRA union rules. At the time, it was my Dream Job, but it was where I first lost my mind. I don't recommend it to anyone I like.

And speaking of questionable radio names, I worked for a Radio Personality who called himself "Sweet Dick" back in the 1970s... rather daring at the time. You could say he was the grandfather of shock jocks since he made prank phone calls, staged 'un-marriage' ceremonies for couples who wanted to live in sin and did a live on-air invasion of Catalina Island... Don Imus stole a lot of his schtick back then (which was a different schtick than he's doing now), and Reagan stole the idea for the Invasion of Granada. (If you want to hear what he did, get the DVD of Speilberg's "Duel"... he's the voice on the radio for a few minutes doing a prank call to the Census and interviewing a guy who makes music with meat).

But seriously, take my advice, don't do a live podcast and NEVER take live calls from people like me.

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:19:04 -0800

This will only work if Perez Hilton does an entertainment segment.

By: pjern

pjern — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:48:32 -0800

It's been what? a month since the last podcast and you're trying to get them to do another whole kind? I think they're busty enough as is.

By: pjern

pjern — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:49:03 -0800

*sigh*

busy enough

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:51:02 -0800

Has there been like a contest going on for the WORST feature request of the month? Because there has been no shortage of questionable suggestions in MeTa lately. And, as solopsist CLEARLY shows, the only good idea pending is the one for allowing editing of comments for a few moments after you post them.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:45:01 -0800

busty enough

Best Freudian slip EVAR!

By: psmealey

psmealey — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:37:05 -0800

Is anyone truly busty enough?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:59:03 -0800

Is anyone truly busty enough?

Actually, I am. I think mathowie is going the other direction though.

By: quin

quin — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:11:25 -0800

Is anyone truly busty enough?

You just can't find anyone bustier than this.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:21:46 -0800

I'm busty enough.

I'd hit me.

By: Skygazer

Skygazer — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:23:24 -0800

*Hits Afroblanco*

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:03:01 -0800

*busts skygazer for hitting Afroblanco*

By: scarabic

scarabic — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:53:27 -0800

I couldn't hear any of the callers on the one call in show I tried to listen to. On a really great stero cranked up I'm sure I would have been able to, but in the car using the iPhone through the car stereo I could barely hear the hosts. This works okay for other podcasts, like TAL and Fresh Air. Can you guys pump up the volume? Especially for callers.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:55:56 -0800

scarabic, I think we got the most recent one right -- we recorded both sides and then mathowie combined tham and from the feedback we got, it fixed the low volume problem we were having. Do you know/remember which podcast you were listening to?

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:00:03 -0800

Matt, did you end up using those normalized versions of the call-ins on the most recent show, or did you just run with what you had? I know you mentioned a work-destroying crash at one point.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:44:39 -0800

Cool Jess - I will try one of the more recent ones. I don't actually remember which I tried.

By: pjern

pjern — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:02:58 -0800

Speaking of podcasts, is there one on the table anytime soon?

(reads post five times)

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:07:17 -0800

Yes. Holidaytime has been nuts for us, but I think we're hoping to get together and chat on Friday and mush it together with an interview mathowie did with the Sounds of Young America guy.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:13:10 -0800

I heard a rumor that there wasn't any SoYA guy and that Matt just disguised his voice to interview himself in a bid to promote Metafi—

Ow! I'm sorry! Leggo my ear, I'll stop!

By: Skygazer

Skygazer — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:33:31 -0800

*busts skygazer for hitting Afroblanco*

Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!