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Flyswatter Show 11-05-11

Voicemail: 678-368-4935. This has been a very difficult day for me to podcast and I don’t know why. It’s a Saturday!

Dog Whistle

Dwight showed me that he had downloaded an App for his tablet that makes a dog whistle sound. He played it and our dog Copernicus perked right up, but then again . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-05-11

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Flyswatter Show 11-04-11

I neglected to take a photo of the pizza as we ate it fast, so this is the best I can do!

Voicemail: 678-368-4935. Excuse the sound quality, but my husband Dwight and I recorded this in a Mellow Mushroom pizza, because he came home as I was preparing to record and said he . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-04-11

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Flyswatter Show 11-03-11

The dude in my backyard was probably a surveyor.

Voicemail: 678-368-4935. A new day, a new podcast. I didn’t get started on this very early due to a paying gig. I had to make some charts for a client. I could have done them in Microsoft Excel except I don’t know how, so I . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-03-11

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Flyswatter Show 11-02-11

Podcast artwork

Voicemail (678) 368-4935. Yesterday I had a lot of trouble uploading the finished MP3 to the server, and as nothing I did helped, all I could do is wait for my husband Dwight to lend his mighty brains to the project. In the meantime I drew a self portrait as I didn’t . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-02-11

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Flyswatter Show Nov. 1, ’11 – (678) 368-4935

First show of NaPodPoMo (National Podcasting Post Month), where participants post a show each day during the month of November! I’ve been doing this since the first year, which was 2007. Loads of fun, but it’s a killer, which is why I pretty much stop podcasting each year right afterwards!

My oldest daughter moved . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show Nov. 1, ’11 – (678) 368-4935

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Flyswatter Show 11-30-2010

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I was just herp-derping on Facebook when I looked at the time and realized that I had better get cracking if I was going to get the last NaPodPoMo show up on time today!

I don’t know whether I’ll keep this up throughout the year. I’ll try, but my past performances haven’t been . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-30-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-29-2010

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I had my colonoscopy today. The prep solution I had to drink, MoviPrep, was nasty. It tasted like 7-up fountain syrup mixed with salt and a little bleach. But it worked to clean me out very well. When they say stay near the toilet, they aren’t kidding!

My colon turned out to be . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-29-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-28-2010

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I have a window of opportunity to record the show, now that my neighbors stopped with using leaf blowers right outside.

There may not be a show done tomorrow–I am having my routine colonoscopy and after the procedure, I may not feel up to doing it. I’ll try very hard though–it will be . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-28-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-27-2010

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We are coming up on the end of National Podcast Post Month and it’s making me a little sad. I am putting out a heads up that I may or may not have a show up on Monday, as I am supposed to get a (routine) colonoscopy that day.

Today I am drinking . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-27-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-26-2010

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Just hanging around the house, not doing the Black Friday sales, even though I really need to run to the grocery store. I am torn, because there is the movement to avoid shopping on Black Friday, but then again, we really need a few things like bananas, flax seed, kale. How bad can . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-26-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-25-2010

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In this episode I talk about animals I’ve lived with–dogs, cats, rabbits, rats, hissing cockroaches, a pony, quails, chickens, ducks, a mouse, hamsters, gerbils, Guinea pigs, fish, canaries, and a squirrel.

Happy Thanksgiving, by the way. I’m recording this at home instead of at my sister-in-law’s, due to the fact that it’s really . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-25-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-24-2010

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It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and I don’t know whether to go ahead and cook the Tofurkey tonight or get up super early in the morning–we are going out of town to my sister-in-law’s to eat and if I don’t bring something vegan for the main course, I’ll be eating mostly raw . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-24-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-2010

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I play some voicemail from Shawn of Shawnogram, and he noted that I said “crawdad.” He also likes it when people say “polecat” and he keeps being stung by bees. They say “crayfish” in New Orleans, but we grew up saying that or “crawdaddy.”

Shawn’s wife Jen, from Inside . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-22-2010

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For lack of anything better to talk about, I tell four stories about when I was a dumb little girl. Unfortunately for you! The stories are 1. White Butterfly Glasses, 2. Virgin Mary, 3. Camp Hairless Legs 4. Nancy Sinatra Barbie and the Serial Killer. I also make an attempt at a British . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-22-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-21-2010

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Yesterday, my husband and I went to a lecture at Atlanta Freethought Hall. The speaker was Dr. Hector Avalos, a professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University, who spoke on “Can Science Prove that Prayer Works?”

Dr. Avalos has a Doctor of Philosophy in Hebrew Bible and Near Eastern Studies from Harvard . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-21-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-20-2010

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Short podcast. I am stressed because I am under pressure. I also overslept.

I am playing a Phoenix, Arizona-based band called Blame It On Society. Their song is “Heavenly Hearse” from their album Dead Weeds And Tin Cans. Very good song for a Saturday! It’s available from Music Alley from Mevio. The lead . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-20-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-19-10

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Short show here. I am doing some typing for a neighbor–anything to make money.

Jen Thorpe from Inside My Head left me some nice messages on Facebook and Anji Bee from Chillcast left some nice comments on the blog. Thanks! I really appreciate it!

I talk about what I did in the summer . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-19-10

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Flyswatter 11-18-2010

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My cold is much worse. Bear with me.

Yesterday’s Big Foot podcast got me thinking about scary campfire stories, and I remembered one that used to gave me the creeps, so I’ll tell it to you. I’ll call it “The Last Panther.” I believe it was originally an old Appalachian folktale.

To finish . . . → Read More: Flyswatter 11-18-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-17-2010

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I am catching a cold. Joy.

Back in the 1970s, I went to a movie theater and saw a “documentary” which you can see here on YouTube, about Big Foot, Yeti, Sasquatch, The Big BF. It was so scary–probably due to the mysterious Indian flute. I was so afraid . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-17-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-16-2010

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I’ve been arguing about the merits of Keith Olbermann on Facebook lately. A lot of people seem to think he is almost (but not quite) as bad as the talking heads on Fox News, but I think it’s only because he comes across as angry, adorably angry.

I love me some Keith Olbermann. . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-16-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-15-2010

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Not much happened today. I woke up late, had a hard time waking my daughter for school because she had a sinus attack and had taken a couple of allergy pills and was therefore drowsy. Got back. Got a call from her to come pick her up because she was falling asleep in . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-15-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-14-2010

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Today’s episode consists of a speech given at Atlanta Freethought Society earlier today by the President of American Atheists, David Silverman. His topic was “Getting the Movement Going.” Introducing him was former President Ed Buckner, who is also a member of AFS. This is a very important speech for those who are interested . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-14-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-13-2010

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Today I went to Benjamin Radford’s workshop on Scientific Paranormal Investigation, as I said I was going to do in yesterday’s podcast. It was quite informative and I am even more excited that soon Atlanta will have their own arm of the Independent Investigations Group (IIG).

Ben Radford is a contributor to Monster . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-13-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-12-2010

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Tonight, my husband and I went to a meetup with Atlanta Skeptics at Manuel’s Tavern, which is a famous political bar in the Virginia-Highlands area in Atlanta. The reason for the meeting was that the Independent Investigations Group (IIG) from Los Angeles, CA, is setting up a branch of their skeptical investigation team . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-12-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-11-2010

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I recorded this late because my younger daughter had homework, then my husband was watching a ballgame very loudly on the TV, and then older daughter and her friend were running up and down the stairs, slamming doors, so it took a little while to get a quiet house.

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