#50: Behind The Scenes – Regrets, Bloopers, &

We are celebrating fifty episodes and one year of podcasting (!!!) with a special episode that takes you behind the scenes and unearths some of our weirdest moments, cringiest sound bites, and even an email we got from Beyonce’s dad (for real). We share the stuff that we enjoy about podcasting (sometimes even more than blogging) along with what parts we loathe, and how a pizza got this whole thing off to a rocky start. Plus we introduce you to the crew of people who work on this show behind the scenes. Spoiler alert: they are all weird.

You can download this episode from iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and TuneIn Radio – or listen to it below! Then use this page to check out any links, notes, or photos that we referenced. Note: If you are reading in a feed reader, you might have to click through to the post to see the player.

Podiversary

Here are some of those blogiversary posts of yore that we referenced:
- Our annual Q&A video from our 6th blogiversary
- Looking back at our blogging firsts, fails, and facepalms from our first five years
- What a day in the life of a blogger looked like in 2012
- The hilarious results of our 2013 reader survey (likely the only place you will find a pie chart with Chris Farley in it)

And speaking of surveys… if you are a podcast listener, please PLEASE take a couple of minutes to fill out our listener survey. It will be a big assist in getting a sense of who you folks are and what you like, so we can serve up more of that in year #2!

Podiversary Quiz

If you missed our most downloaded episode, you can catch it here (trying not to spoil the answer for those who have not listened)
Or you can show some enjoy to our least downloaded episode. It did start off a little weird, that is for sure…
And although none of our “special episodes” took either title, here they are if you were not sure what we were talking about when we referenced those:

Podcasting Set-Up

We will put together a more thorough post about the technical side of our podcast, but you can peek at our especially high-end, totally professional looking recording set-up in the picture above.
And real swift, here is the microphone we use, the pop filters we picked up (to soften any hard P sounds), and the program we use to edit (it is free!).

Homeslice Logos

Before our first-choice podcast name was dead in the water, here are some of the logos we played around with. As you can see by their rough state, we did not get quite far with them… but why did not we check iTunes before messing around with logos?!?!
Oh, and the Home Slice podcast is not on iTunes anymore, but all you pizza enthusiasts can still catch their 3 episode run on Soundcloud.

We are Digging

If you are looking to get in on the Ms. Meyer’s candle shortcut, here is Sherry’s go-to scent, Lemon Verbena (which matches the all-purpose cleaner we use on our counters).
It also comes in Geranium, Lavender, and Basil (Basil sounds weird but it is truly pleasant too).
And if you are looking instead to add a little messy lively to your counters, here is the kinetic sand that has kept our kids entertained for hours lately.

Also, if you are looking for something we have dug in a past episode, but do not remember which show notes to click into, here is a master list of everything we have been digging from all of our past episodes.

And lastly, a big thank you to DAP for sponsoring this episode. Hit up DAP.com/YHL to learn more about DAP Products or call 1-888-DAP-Pointers to get expert advice on your next project or product purchase (and if Jason answers, tell him we say “Hi!”).