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You want it, you got it – another lively episode of The Because Show! Enjoy xxoo

Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Did you have a good one?

Come along on a sleepover at Amy’s place as we talk about the simple pleasures in life. Like:

Kate Somerville DermalQuench Liquid Lift. It has it’s own nozzle! 

 

…and the remake of the movie Footloose! We said we were going to watch it and we watched it.

 

And also Curtis Sittenfeld’s book American Wife. A good read! Have you read her other book Prep? Amy recommends it.

 

…and those are just a few of the things we’ve talked about on this episode. To chime in with your thoughts and opinions, lead us a comment or email us at [email protected]. Or say ‘Hello’  on our facebook page. Or call 818-643-1565 and leave a message on our voicemail. Clearly, there are plenty of ways to get in touch with us. If you like what you’re hearing on The Because Show, do us a favor and tell a podcast-lovin’ friend about our show. They can subscribe on iTunes or on Stitcher for automatic downloads. See you on the next episode!

In our celebratory intro, I pulled some audio clips from a few of the other podcasts that have shown us some love since we started over two years ago. If you are looking for more podcasts for your ears, you may want to get into:

Lipgloss and Laptops (although sadly no longer in production), Naptime Radio, Hey Girl Hey, Breaking Good (done by the Bald Move guys, they produce a bunch of ‘casts), Grits to Glitz, The Table Set, The Nerd Out, Raising Playful Tots and Two Fit Chicks and a Microphone (on a long term recording hiatus now).

There are actually MORE shows that have given us friendly high fives and shout-outs over the years, I just couldn’t pinpoint the audio clips within their vast sound universes. Shows like Books On The Nightstand, Podcast Answer Man, Musing Mommies, The Joy The Baker podcast as well as Cooking With The Moms, Hellmouth Podcast, For Whatever Reason and Are We There Yet? What podcasts are your go-to listening faves? Did you find our show from a shout-out on one of these? Is there a great podcast you love that no one has discovered?

 

 

Also, thank you to listeners Lori and Tricia for the acrostic poem:

 

T hose crazy girlfriends, whom we’ve never met,

H ave a knack for providing the podcast therapy

E very woman, mom or even teenager needs for a weekly escape.

 

B ased on the random things in your lives,

E specially with stories about great thrift store finds and the infamous Hot Pad episode.

C an you hear us laughing, because we are!

A my’s got a knack for telling good stories.

U sually Jerilyn shares the latest trends in beauty and books

S usan, oh to be a fly on the wall of your past.

E ach episode has something for everyone,

 

S ome even remind us to check our gas gauge.

H ere’s to your next 100 episodes!

O h and don’t forget,

W e love you ladies!!

 

So, we did a little bit of self-congratulatory celebrating and a whole lot of conversing on this episode. Want to say hi?  Call the voicemail at 818-643-1565. Thanks for listening! And as I said in the episode – whether you have been subscribing since Day One or just found us last week, we appreciate you. Yes, YOU!  Also let’s give a loud round of applause for Joyand Michael here on HomeFries for letting The Because Show reach a whole new batch of awesome fun peeps. Thank you!

Oh! It’s been a busy week in preparation for EPISODE 100 of The Because Show! So busy, in fact, that I’m combining show notes for Episode 28 and 29 (or 98 and 99 if you are including all our old archived shows since before we joined Homefries). We barely had time to scarf down some dinner before we recorded.

Show Notes Episode 28

Amy and I chew the fat and dish the dirt on this Episode. Much time was spent talking about new fragrances. Nine West has a perfume? Yup. ‘Love Fury’. Gwyneth’s GOOP site has good tips? Yes, flower arranging. Striped sailor shirts for summer? Sure, why not?

And let’s think about eating this cheesecake  called The Chocolate Dilemma Cheesecake. That’s a good kind of dilemma.

 

Show Notes Episode 29!

A tad bit different sound quality here as we tried out a new recording set up. I think we will return to our normal three microphone deal. So on this episode, we talked:

Clarisonic Opal!

Michael Kors Leg Shine?

The Name That Tune Game! (I’ll make it harder next time, for sure.) Some one tweeted us that we mixed up ‘Hungry Like The Wolf’ with the song ‘Rio’. Did we? Next time, I will pay closer attention as well as making it harder for everyone.

Susan’s take on Starbucks Chocolate Cookie Crumble Frappucino: Meh.

Thanks for listening and thanks for popping over to our Show Notes! Leave us a commentor call us at our voicemail at 818-643-1565. See you next week!

Fury Kiss? Or Furry Kiss? Either way, Amy and Jerilyn are on board. Welcome to Episode 28 where we talk striped sailor shirts, eBay snooping and perfumes du celebrity. We love to hear from you whether it is on Homefries, twitter, fb, email, voicemail or iTunes- there are loads of ways to get in touch […]

Amy’s back! It’s been quite awhile since we’ve recorded together – so we are happy to have all three of us back together again on this episode. We had updates and topics and subjects and anecdotes galore! We talked about sooo many things including some reunions and re-releases that are out in the world:

Good ol’ Soundgarden released a new song  ‘Live To Rise’ from The Avengers movie, released. Welcome back, Chris Cornell!

Yup. 1997 epic romantic disaster film Titanic remastered in 3-D re-release.

Oh! Black Sabbath has reunited, originally formed in 1970, last album recorded in 1995, set to play this August at Lollapalooza.

AND…SWV (Sisters With Voices), first seen on the scene in 1992 with triple platinum ‘Right Here’, reunites to release ‘I Missed Us’.

p.s. Total Recall is being remade and coming out this summer!  ”When a simple recall session goes awry, Colin Farrel’s character must find a way to recover his memory while running away from the government trying to eliminate him.” Whoah.

Our kids were together again too! These boys so look forward to ‘podcast night’ every week & count the days until it arrives! It adds a teensy little bit of pressure to make sure we stay on a regular recording schedule.  Did you know so much cuteness is happening while we record?

As we like to say here on The Because Show, ‘Keep it cute’! Anyhoo, thanks for popping over to check out the Show Notes.  Would you like to get in contact with us? There are plenty of ways to make this happen. You can follow us on twitter @thebecauseshow, find us on facebook or leave us a comment here at HomeFries! We like hearing from our listeners and knowing more about our audience. Really! Do you have an idea for a topic or a question to ask? Have you spotted a new trend in your area? Don’t be shy. We also have avoicemail where you could call and leave us a message: 818-643-1565.

Yup, bounce houses and birthday parties are just some of the things we’ve been up to in the past few weeks. The Because Show was delayed a bit from our usual weekly recording schedule, but now we’re back with Episode 26! In this show, one of us admits to having read 50 Shades Of Grey, the controversial best-selling book that has swept the nation. It’s kinda like a Lifetime Movie…but with a X-rating!

 

This is SIMON TRICKSTER: if you hear the sound of this game within an episode henceforth, it is signaling that we have no idea what we are talking about.  Why didn’t we think of this sooner? Note: Special thanks to Matt, who wrote in to tell us of the hot spring trends in the Raleigh, NC area. Neon pops of color are all the rage here in LA too…Do you have a trend we should know about? Call us, write us or just leave a comment – we like to know what’s in the hearts and minds of listeners.

Don’t forget to subscribe on iTunes for automatic downloads and you can like us on facebook or follow us on twitter @thebecauseshow. See ya next week!

Susan and I were joined by Ritzy P. and Lisa B., the hosts of ‘The Nerd Out‘ podcast this past Thursday. Steampunk, designer con, bent con, zapocalypse, cosplay…these ladies know it all.

 

Do you like to nerd out? Everybody likes to nerd out about something, right? If you want to congregate with like minded nerds, you might want to go to one of these:

* Bent con

* Comic con

* Designer Con

Susan has been a longtime lover of Comic Con, she likes the stormtroopers!

 

Or you may just enjoy flying solo and nerding out to ‘Game Of Thrones’ or ‘Dirty Dancing’, whatever your thing might be. It’s all good! As long as it’s not a remake of ‘Steel Magnolias’. To follow the ladies of ‘The Nerd Out’, you can subscribe in iTunes, follow them on twitter or visit them on facebook.  Ritzy even has another podcast you can listen to called ‘Ya Heard’. Catch y’all on the next episode!

Such a fun time when Nathan Hazard joined us as our guest this past Thursday to record. He even made drinks for us! He poured glasses of IPA (india pale ale) and added a shot of Campari to each one. Absolutely scrumptious, not too sweet, not too bitter!

 

He had stopped by a local brewery not too far from my house to pick up a ‘growler’. I never even knew this was a thing, but it is. And it was really good.

After drinks were poured, we got down to podcasting and picking Nathan’s brain about new music. And having him explain ‘A&R’ to us. He also made some savvy recommendations for bands that we might like, including:

* Iron and Wine

* Kimbra

* The Shins  

* Jasmine Ash

* Geographer

The day after we recorded, I realized that Kimbra is the singer on the Gotye song ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ that I LOVE and has been ALL OVER the airwaves lately! Do yourself a favor and listen here, if you haven’t already heard it (you may remember that I used that song in some intros in a few Because Show episodes last fall).

Anyhoo, we also chatted about the Momofuku Milk Bar cookbook, the gluten-free Babycakes cookbook and even my old 1970?s Playboy Host and Bar Book that has about 59,000 obscure drink recipes in it.

We had a lot of fun and thanks again to Nathan for joining us! Now I think I will wrap it up and mix myself a ‘Foggy Day’.

If you like our show and haven’t already, please take a minute to leave us a nice iTunes review. We appreciate it!

ALSO: for our 100th episode (we include our 1st 70 shows in our archiveand all of our newer shows with HomeFries) we are putting a call-out for listener voicemails ( 818-643-1565) and listener emails to read on the air. You may have been too shy or too busy in the past to reach out and say ‘Hey!’ but NOW IS THE TIME. Tell us anything you want about yourself and your favorite obsessions and we will read it over on our 100th episode.

xo,

jerilyn

It’s all about random acts of kindness and senseless beauty this week!

Well, maybe it turned out a little more random and senseless than I had expected. It’s okay though, we recorded a nice long Episode 23 for you, despite everything. Some of the things mentioned in this episode:

Andy from The Table Set podcast threw a party last Saturday night and it was super fun.

Around town, it’s evident that ‘The Hunger Games’ marketing mania has begun! Have you read the books? Will you see the movie? But more importantly…

…will you buy the cookbook? Believe it or not, it’s supposed to be good, groosling and all. What else did we talk about on this show? The debate over whether we should continue reading our iTunes reviews at the end of each show surfaced. We’ve got two ‘Yays’ and one ‘Meh’ at this point, so we wonder if the listeners will weigh in on one side or the other.  We always like to hear feedback from our audience: what your favorite topics are and which ones are less appealing to your ears. Oh, and there were a few more things discussed:

Illamasqua. Fancy British cult makeup for your alter ego!

Ooh! Nameless artisan nail polish from strangebeautiful.

De-cluttering? See Tracy’s High Straightenance column for inspiration!

Susan has done gone gluten-free. And finished her book, complete with illustrations:

If you like what you’re hearing on The Because Show, do us a favor and tell a podcast-lovin’ friend about our show. We love when the word is spread. Leave us a comment, question or feedback here or on our facebook page. Clearly, there are plenty of ways to get in touch with us – you can always shoot us an email at [email protected] if you like. See you on the next episode!

p.s. I didn’t win the Megamillions lotto. But it is fun being in charge of the lotto pool at work.

xo,

jerilyn