What the heck is going on?

by Joe on January 30, 2011 · 0 comments

We’re taking a hiatus from our streaming on Cascadia.fm. We want to be perfectly clear to everyone who might read this post: We loved being streamed on Cascadia.fm every Monday afternoon. Besides putting us in the company of many other finely produced shows, it brought in many new listeners who started downloading the show from iTunes, Zune and our website.

We also are grateful to Robert Wagner and Sabrina Miller of Cascadia.fm who welcomed us so openly and trustingly when we first approached them about the show more than a year ago. We are forever in their debt and hopefully we’ll find a way to work together again someday. It was quite a rewarding experience. They are good people.

But when it all came down to it, we found out that making a podcast that had to be a certain length every week and had a certain deadline every week was a bigger strain on our personal and professional lives than we ever expected. Call it beginner’s hubris, but we bit off more than we could chew.

So what happens now? Soon, maybe even this week, we’re going to start the show back up again as a podcast only — no streaming. We’re not going to make any promises about how often we’ll issue each new episode, but we will promise it won’t be so long between shows that you think we stopped doing them. Sometimes we’ll go a couple weeks between episodes and sometimes we’ll do more than one show per week.

The other thing that is a massive change for our format is length. While streaming, we always had to shoot for each episode to be 58 minutes long. Now without those understandable constraints of streaming on an internet radio station, our shows will vary in length widely. We promise not to go much more than an hour at time, but there may be some shows that only last as little as 10 minutes if there’s just one subject we’re talking about that day and we’d rather share it with you sooner than waiting for the next longer episode.

Everything will be variable except for the fact that we’ll continue doing the show with some regularity.

We think that both the listeners and we will enjoy this format more. If you think we’re making a terrible mistake or you think this is a great idea or if you think somewhere in between, please let us know. We value your input. If you don’t give a crap, we’ll understand that too.

Thanks for continuing to listen, thanks for your loyalty and thanks for reading this longish blog post.

Becky and Joe
Jan. 30, 2011
Portland, Oregon

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Dec. 27, 2010 show | Episode 026

December 30, 2010

And we’re back … again. Hopefully life won’t get in the way of our show as much going forward as it did in the recent past. On this week’s show Joe interviews his friend John about John’s recent trip to India. Becky and Joe discuss misbehaving Santas and all the strange news you can fit into an hour.

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Running time: About 57 minutes

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Nov. 15, 2010 show | Episode 025

December 30, 2010

Becky and Joe discuss time. Yes, time. Joe explains the unfairness of his last speeding ticket and how cats drink. Yes, this is an exciting show. Becky says something when Joe takes a breath at some point. And of course, there’s a lot of crazy people in the news.

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Running time: About 57 minutes

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Nov. 1, 2010 show | Episode 024

November 1, 2010

This is our first episode back after our wedding and we’re glad to be back. We hope you’re glad to hear us. In our return episode, Becky tells the listeners what she dressed as for Halloween (you don’t want to know what Joe was).

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Running time: About 57 minutes

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Oct. 18, 2010 show | Episode 023

October 23, 2010

We’re back! And we’re happy about that and hope you will be too. Now that we’ve got hitched and are all legal and such, we’re back on the internet radio with our come-back episode #23.

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Running time: About one hour

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What happened to the show, people? Are you guys getting married or something?

August 8, 2010

Everyone’s been asking us what’s going on with the show and we don’t blame them for wondering. We’ve done more than 20 episodes since January and have only skipped a few weeks so far so this is out of the ordinary.

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July 20, 2010 show | Episode 022

July 20, 2010

What do make-believe clowns with guns, actor Rip Torn, our executive producer’s addition to catnip and Superman going to jail have in common? Listen to our July 20 show and find out.

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Running time: About 58 minutes

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July 12, 2010 show | Episode 021

July 13, 2010

What happens when Joe and Becky watch an old movie they both like? Well they talk about it on their weekly radio show. Learning more than you ever wanted to about the 1991 movie Defending Your Life. Of course, Becky and Joe also share a large load of strange news and unique observations about this, that and the other thing. What else would you be doing with this hour. Go ahead. Listen. It won’t hurt — or at least we don’t think it will, but we’ve been wrong before.

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Running time: About 58 minutes

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No show on July 5 – back July 12

July 3, 2010

The good people at our internet radio station PDX.fm and PDX.am are taking Monday, July 5 off to celebrate Independence Day. Without having a way to reach our full audience, we are taking the day off as well. There will be no show on Monday, July 5. We’ll be back with a show on the [...]

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June 28, 2010 show | Episode 020

June 28, 2010

Becky and Joe celebrate the first full week of warm summer weather in Portland by taking a look at wacky summer festivals across the nation. Joe shares some news from opposite world. Becky shares a story about a new “mega-creature” movie in production in Hollywood. Joe breaks one of his toes — but not for the show — it just happened. Becky introduces the listeners to the Naked Cowboy in NYC who seems to be having some legal problems. And Joe talked about the show’s iPhone/iPad app in development.

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Running time: About 58 minutes

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The cost of technology

June 24, 2010
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We’ve had some issues recently with our hosting service and that has delayed the show posting to iTunes, Zune, other podcast directories and our website. I think they were changing our account so we could launch our iPhone-iPad app in the Apple App Store. We seem to be up and running again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. ~ Joe

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June 21, 2010 show | Episode 019

June 24, 2010

Besides containing all the wacky news about strange people and other observations you’ve come to expect from Becky and Joe, this episode also features another interview with friend of the show, Chris Miller, in Ukraine. When Joe interviewed him, Chris was getting ready to ship off to his two-year assignment as a full-fledged and sworn-in Peace Corps volunteer.

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Running time: About 58 minutes

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Like the show? We’ve got an app for that

June 19, 2010
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We’re working on an iPhone app for the show. Soon you’ll be able to stream The Becky and Joe Show wherever you are on your iPhone or iPad. More details coming very soon!

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June 14, 2010 show | Episode 018

June 15, 2010

“Goonies never say die,” and neither does The Becky and Joe Show. After a two week absence – some might call it a hiatus – we’re back with an episode devoted to the 25th Anniversary of the 1985 cult classic, “The Goonies” from Warner Bros. Studios. Becky and Joe traveled – mic in hand – to Astoria, Oregon on June 5 to join thousands of other fans in celebrating the locations, cast and storyline of the well-known movie.

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Running time: About 55 minutes

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Joe has an apology to make

June 13, 2010

Dear listeners, This is Joe Wilson, co-host of The Becky and Joe Show, and I have some apologizing to do. Becky does not as she did what she was supposed to do. I alone am responsible for a lack of shows the last two weeks and the lack of communication to you, the listeners, about [...]

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