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DDOP-1508.29: Musings on Stories and Nostalgia

29 August 2015 by Melissa

Dog Days of Podcasting

http://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DDOP-150829.mp3

Show Notes

Musings on Stories and Nostalgia

Late night ramblings on nostalgia, stories and why everyone should tell theirs.

Credits

Music

Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom

Production

Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.

Links

Dog Days of Podcasting

http://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DDOP-150829.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:32 — 8.7MB)

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DDOP-1508.28: A Conversation with Becca

28 August 2015 by Melissa

Dog Days of Podcasting

http://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DDOP-150828.mp3

Show Notes

A Conversation with Becca Rowan

I’ve known Becca online for over a decade, and worked with her on All Things Girl, but this is the first time we’ve ever actually spoken to each other.

Credits

Music

Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom

Production

Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.

Links

Becca Rowan
Life in General
Dog Days of Podcasting

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DDOP-1508.27 – Theories of Everything: Dog Hair

27 August 2015 by Melissa

Dog Days of Podcasting

http://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DDOP-150827.mp3

Show Notes

Theories of Everything: Dog Hair

It’s taking over the planet…one pair of black pants at a time.

Credits

Music

Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom

Production

Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.

Links

Dog Days of Podcasting

http://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DDOP-150827.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:56 — 5.4MB)

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DDOP-1508.24 – A Conversation with Jancis & Tierra

24 August 2015 by Melissa

Dog Days of Podcasting

http://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DDOP-150824.mp3

Show Notes

A Conversation with Thomas Jancis & Tierra Bonser

He’s British; she’s from Colorado, and they’re both nearly done with being grad students in theatre, talking to me from her kitchen in London.
Accompaniment provided by the rail line just outside.

Credits

Music

Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom

Production

Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.

Links

Thomas Jancis on Twitter
Broken Bird Theatre
Broken Bird on Facebook
Bark Theatre
Bark Theatre on Twitter
Dog Days of Podcasting

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DDOP-1508.23: The Hottest Blood of All

23 August 2015 by Melissa

Dog Days of Podcasting

http://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DDOP-150823.mp3

Show Notes

The Hottest Blood of All

In March, 2014, my husband and I joined my parents on a whale watching expedition. I wrote about it for All Things Girl, when I got home, and meant to post it to this podcast then. A year and a half later, I’m finally doing so.

Excerpt

I also know that something deep inside me has been profoundly affected by this experience. Whales, when you’re close to them, when you look them in the eye, radiate this ages-old preternatural wisdom that you can’t quite grasp, except by the edges. The calf and I locked gazes, and it felt, for those precious seconds, like I was in the center of the universe and made of starlight and whalesong.

Credits

Music

Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom

Production

Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.
Special thanks to Clay Robeson for recording bits of D.H. Laurence’s poem, “Whales Weep Not!”

Links

Clay Robeson
Eduardo’s Tours
Dog Days of Podcasting

http://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DDOP-150823.mp3

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DDOP-1508.22 – Theories of Everything: Coffee, Tea, or Me?

22 August 2015 by Melissa

Dog Days of Podcasting

http://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DDOP-150822.mp3

Show Notes

Theories of Everything: Coffee, Tea, or Me?

Coffee is my higher power, but tea is life. Or at least, that’s my theory.

Credits

Music

Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom

Production

Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.

Links

The 100 Day Project
Dog Days of Podcasting

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DDOP-1508.21: A Conversation With Chuck Tomasi

21 August 2015 by Melissa

Dog Days of Podcasting

http://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DDOP-150821.mp3

Show Notes

A Conversation with Chuck Tomasi

He’s one of my favorite podcasters, and a genuinely nice guy. He’ll make you melt when he talks about a particularly meaningful song, and we insult the French.

Credits

Music

Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom

Production

Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.

Links

Chuck Tomasi
Dog Days of Podcasting

http://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DDOP-150821.mp3

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DDOP-1508.20: Throwback Thursday: Blood Sisters

20 August 2015 by Melissa

Dog Days of Podcasting

http://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DDOP-150820.mp3

Show Notes

Throwback Thursday: Bloodsisters

A reading of a piece of creative non-fiction, from 2005 (I think): “Blood Sisters”

Excerpt

In truth, I don’t remember my mother pricking our thumbs (because, she says, we were too afraid to do it ourselves), or the act of us jamming our bleeding digits togther, letting our blood comingle, but I remember that we had heard the story of our own mothers taking a blood oath, and we insisted that we needed to do so as well. I’m told we both cried but I don’t think it was from physical pain, as much as the unconscious realization that we wouldn’t always be together.

Credits

Music

Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom

Production

Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.

Links

Dog Days of Podcasting

http://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DDOP-150820.mp3

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DDOP-1508.19: Tastes Like Nostalgia, Smells Like Rice Pudding

19 August 2015 by Melissa

Dog Days of Podcasting

http://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DDOP-150819.mp3

Show Notes

Tastes Like Nostalgia, Smells Like Rice Pudding

I talk about my great-aunt Molly (Carmella Natale) who died earlier this year at the age of 105, kitchen improv, and aglio e olio.

Credits

Music

Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom

Production

Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.

Links

Holiday Food
The Flavor Bible
Dog Days of Podcasting

http://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DDOP-150819.mp3

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DDOP-1508.18 – A Conversation with Debra Smouse

18 August 2015 by Melissa

Dog Days of Podcasting

http://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DDOP-150818.mp3

Show Notes

A Conversation with Debra Smouse

Debra Smouse: Writer, life coach, detangler, and one of my first friends in Texas, Debra and I talk about writing, and how everything comes back to STORY. What’s your story?

(This interview is rambly and unedited. May contain adult language. You’ve been warned.)

Credits

Music

Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom

Production

Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.

Links

Debra Smouse
Twitter
Facebook
Dog Days of Podcasting

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