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From Sex is Fun to PediaCast. This is podcastJunky and I listen to it all.

 I share the best stuff on my ipod and ask you the question...What are you listening to?

And to answer that question, my call in line (714) 855-2639

On today's show if you like This American Life, Extreme sports or Disneyland than I have a show for you. Dirtbag Diaries.

Lately in our home my husband has been championing this show. He even called himself an advocate for the show. Finely on the way home from a family outing he knew I was trapped listening to whatever he wanted to play. He connected his ipod and played "Help Wanted" from Dirtbag Diaries . I have to admit, I was hooked.

What blew me away was the way it felt like an episode of This American Life. If you've never listened to This American Life you should give it a try, it was at the top of the itunes popularity since it was added to itunes until it was surpassed by Oprah.

It's primarily a journalistic show that uses essays, memoirs, found and field recordings to tell true stories in a unique way.

Dirtbag Diaries has a similar feel to TAL. But unlike TAL, Dirtbag Diaries focuses on Extreme Sports. Not so much on the sport itself but on the people involved and their stories. You Disney folks hold on, there's something in this for you too.

Lets listen to the opening of Help Wanted.

*Clip from beginning of  "Help Wanted" from Dirtbag Diaries  00:16 - 03:30*

Now some minor sound issues in this one episode aside that opening could easily pass for an episode of TAL. Like it's just a slightly less polished version. Now what could be the reason this show is not quite as polished? Oh wait, I know. TAL has a large staff of writers, editors and talent. Dirtbag Diaries has Fitz Cahall. That's it one guy. He's had some help from his wife and brother but for the most part this one guy puts together a show with quality rivals one of the most popular shows on public radio around.

Let's listen to some more.

*Clip from "Help Wanted" from Dirtbag Diaries  05:05 - 06:46*

Have I gotten you hooked yet? This show is so good I had trouble choosing from so many good clips. Now when you get a bunch of young climbers together in a relatively unsupervised situation, there's going to be trouble.


*Clip from beginning of  "Help Wanted" from Dirtbag Diaries 13:32 - 16:07

Boy that Tink, I knew she had an attitude but sheesh. There's more to that Tink story but you will have to listen to the episode to hear it. Dirtbag Diaries does more than this Micky Mouse stuff. Fitz's wife Becca Cahall brings does a story about getting older and skiing faster in the episode "All These Things" and in"One Golden Hour" we learn the survival story of survival after a fall that could have killed him if it were not for the work of first responders and "The Golden Hour" between life and death. And much more at Dirtbag Diaries. the link will be in the show notes.

Don't forget to send in your entry for a signed of Scott Sigler's INFECTED. The due date is May 28.

Because of shipping costs this offer is good only in the Continental United States. If you are outside the US you are more than welcome to enter the contest but I will ask you to cover the mailing costs if you win.

To enter send your name, mailing address, and a photo of your self with your copy of INFECTED to podcastjunkycontest@gmail.com by May 28, 2008. All I ask is that the winner gives their current copy to a library or friend who would appreciate this fine book.

Now for some Link Love:

In the show intro I mentioned Sex is Fun, they are an award winning podcast Dedicated to the rational discussion of human sexuality from the approach of fun, enjoyment and pleasure. This one is not for the kids but as long as you're an adult and not to sensitive the the topic of human sexuality being discussed with a little humor than this is a show to check out. 

And then if you're not careful, you might find yourself in need of PediaCast A pediatric podcast for parents. This one is very family and work safe. Everyone, parent or not has experienced going to the doctor and forgetting to ask a question or just not getting a full answer because the appointment goes so quick. On PediaCast Dr. Mike takes the time to fully answer all those questions. He also does episodes on current pediatric news and interviews specialists in the area of pediatrics. PediaCast is an excellent resource for parents.


Music on this show was now then soon by 3rd Man from the Podsafe Music Network, also the Village Haus Music Loop for which we have Paul Berrie from Window to the Magic to thank.  We can also thank Paul for the outro non-music music just called "Matterhorn". It's a bit  long, four minutes , but if you have fond Disney memories then you are in for a treat. If your one of those Disney haters and you're still listening, you might want to skip the next 4 minutes.

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From The The Geek Spin to Sundered. This is podcastJunky and I listen to it all.

 I share the best stuff on my ipod and ask you the question...What are you listening to?

And to answer that question, my call in line (714) 855-2639

On today's show Grammar Girl.

Grammar Girl is the Flagship show on The Quick and Dirty Tips Network Other shows on the network are:

• Money Girl
• Traveling Avatar
• Legal Lad
• Mighty Mommy
• Modern Manners Guy
• Get-It-Done Guy

All of the shows are just a few minutes long and their motto is "Fun, Friendly, Practical advise to help you do things better".

Since the shows are only a few minutes long, finding just a clip to play is a bit  challenging. So I'm going to play for you an entire episode entitled:Top Ten Grammar Myths,Episode 97

Please visit the above link for the text of Grammar Girls episode 97.

Now Grammar girl is not usually a top ten kind of show. I picked that episode because it gives you a flavor for the types of topics she covers. Normally she takes one topic a fleshes it out a bit more. She first gives the rule, with all the fancy words that, for me, fly in one ear and  right out the other side. But then she gives examples and easy ways to remember the rules. English class was never this quick or this much fun.

Don't forget her book Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing can be preordered at Amazon.com, BooksAMillion.com, and you can also preorder it from your local bookseller by searching Booksense.com. If its anything like her podcast it will be a handy reference guide, especially if you don't want to wade through hours of archived shows.

Speaking of books,don't forget to send in your entry for a signed of Scott Sigler's INFECTED. The date for this giveaway has been extended. I did not account enough for time shifting habits of the listeners and so entries are just now starting to role in. The new date is May 28.

Because of shipping costs this offer is good only in the Continental United States. If you are outside the US you are more than welcome to enter the contest but I will ask you to cover the mailing costs if you win.

To enter send your name, mailing address, and a photo of your self with your copy of INFECTED to podcastjunkycontest@gmail.com by May 28, 2008. All I ask is that the winner gives their current copy to a library or friend who would appreciate this fine book.

Now for some link love.

In toady's intro I used the same two shows mentioned in episode 16 because I completely to talk about link love last time.

The Geek Spin is a music show for us geeks. From the same crew that brings you PodCulture, Brad plays music with a fun and “geeky” spin.

Sundered is a science fiction podcast novel that is in pre-production. I ran across the first prelude episode and it blew me away.

The author Raphael Tehan is currently discovering just how much work it is to create a podcast. He probably thought he was done when he finished his novel. No no, not in a web 2.0 world. Now Raphael will be putting in countless hours to podcast it. He has 2 prelude episodes out now so if you like them, send him some email encouragement. It may help keep him going during the 2am editing sessions.


Music on this show was now then soon by 3rd Man and the outro music will be Exclamation by The FuMP. Thanks to the Podsafe Musc Network or whatever they are calling themselves now for making it legal for me to play them.

That's it for me.

oh wait that's not it for me. I recorded that last night and was ready to hit publish this morning when I exchanged emails with Jack Hosley, the wonderful @WNDRWolf on twitter. On his show Wonder Radio, Jack podcasts and blogs about books, audio dramas, music, funny commercials and parodies. He covers both his own work and others. He is also the person who turned me on to the song you are about to hear. This morning he educated me on the band. The Fump is actually the Funny Music Project. Which is a group of artists that specialize in novelty songs. The band playing Exclamation is actually called Brobdingnagian Bards here is Andrew from the Bards to pronounce the bands name properly.


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PodcastJunky's Quick Fix Show #002 Get Yourself INFECTED - call in #(714) 855-263

Hello and welcome to another edition of PodcastJunky's Quick Fix. I'm sitting here at the Train depo at Disneyland because today we have completded Project Disneyland INFECTED. That's right, me and my friends are here with our extra large sign, which is a blow up of the cover of Scott Siglers INFECTED. We took lots and lots of pictures so if you would like to see those pictures come on down to PodcastJunky.com where we have pictures of myself, Val and all the kids and here they come, hi guys. (Big E) what are you doing? (PodcastJunky) I'm doing a podcast, you want to say hi. (Big E) Hi Everybody. PodcastJunky) Can you say INFECTED? (Big E) INFECTED. Good job! can you say infected Tinker Bell? (Tinker Bell) INFECTED Tinker Bell. ha ha ha. Can you say INFECTED Mighty Mouse? Infected.

As all parent podcasters know the podcsting stops or at least gets more difficult when the kid show up so I think I'll stop the live portion of the show right there. But I did have one more announcement to make. Along with the pictures of Erin, Valerie, myself and our kids you can also find a picture of the signature page on the copy of INFECTED that I am giving away for free, That's right FREE.

*FREE signed copy of INFECTED offer is good only in the continental US Listen to this episode for details. If a winner is outside the US and willing to pay for shipping that works for me too*

Now I know you all have your very own copy already so to get a chance for a free signed copy of INFECTED Send a photo of yourself with your copy of INFECTED to PodcastJunkyContest@gmail.com. On May 8, 2008 I will draw a name from a hat and someone will be able to replace their copy with a shiny new signed copy of INFECTED. All I ask is that the winner passes their current copy to a library or a friend who would appreciate this fine book.

Now before I get emails saying that I'm running an illegal raffle or lottery I would like to remind you that I don't have any rights to the book. I don't make a dime when you buy INFECTION. Also, I'm not asking for a copy of the receipt. If you want to go into a book store and take a picture with the book and not leave with it that's up to you. Just know that you will be one of the first to be taken out when The Future Dark Overlord^TM takes over the world.

Here is the email address again. podcastjunkycontest@gmail.com. and if you want to see pictures of Valerie Erin Myself and our tots getting Disneyland and especially Fantasyland INFECTED then go to PodcastJunky.com

That's all for me, Bye now. Go Subscribe to something

I Remember Joe: A 2008 Tribute

These are the reflections, the memories, and the considerations of people from across the country and around the world that called Joe Murphy “friend”…

• Chris Lester (Detroit, Michigan)
• Brad Bowyer (Louisville, Ketuckey)
• Valerie Griswold-Ford (Conchord, New Hampshire)
• Kevin Bachelder (Boston, Massachusetts)
• Megan Enloe (Orange County, California)
• Cat a/k/a The SciFi Ranter Girl (Houston, Texas)
• Zac Ricks (Rexburg, Idaho)
• Nathan Lowell (Greeley, Colorado)
• Paul Fischer (Dunn Loring, Virginia)
• Tony Mast (Ofallon, Missouri)
• Just a J0e (Podosphere, The Internet)
• Robin Hudson (Seoul, Korea)
• Philippa Ballantine (Wellington, New Zealand)
• Tee Morris (Manassas, Virginia)
• TD-0013 (Dune Sea, Tattoine)
• Debbie Walker (Mesa, Arizona)
• Jack Mangan (Phoenix, Arizona)
• Sheila Unwin (Chandler, Arizona)
• Evo Terra (Chandler, Arizona)

These are only a few of the lives this one single voice in the podosphere touched. This is a show that may make you laugh, may make you cry, and will give you a look at the soul we all knew for far too brief a time. For those of you contributing to this audio tribute, we at the Joe Murphy Memorial Fund thank you.

Jared Axelrod and The Voice of Free Planet X:

 

Main Show Site:

http://planetx.libsyn.com/

 

Episode 81: Amelia Effective, Young Girl Detective

http://planetx.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=315400

 

Episode 79: The Timeless

http://planetx.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=314452

 

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 Link Love:

Onthepodcast:

http://www.onthepodcast.net

 

Technorama:

http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama

From Slice of SciFi  To the Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas. This is podcastJunky and I listen to it all

I share the best stuff on my ipod and ask you the question...What are you listening to?

And to answer that question, my call in line (714) 855-2639

On today's show, blatant promotion for my future dark over lord in desperate hope that he will spare my life when he takes over the world. If you don't know who I'm referring to yet than how big is the rock you've been living under? I am talking about the deliciously twisted Scott Sigler.

His Novel Infected is coming out in bookstores this April 1 but our dark overlord has a unique twist on selling his book. He is giving it away for free.

Well not the random house hard back version with the very cool cover Check the cover art for this episode. but the PDF is available for 3 days and he is encouraging all of us faithful followers to download it and email it to all our friend. So if you're hearing this after April first. email me Podcastjunky@gmail.com and I'll make sure you get a copy. As long as you promise to pass it along to a few friends...or perhaps enemy's if you want to give them nightmare's. Click here to download the free PDF of INFECTED

But wait...that's not all. Scott is also podcasting Infected for the second time. He podcasted it under the name Infection two years ago but dew to another project of the same name he had to change it slightly to Infected.

I didn't have to look up that two year date because I remember what I was doing exactly two years ago. I was in my third trimester with my son and I was not listening to Infection. I was saving up episodes.

You see I knew from my daughter's birth that I would likely spend a long time in labor. Not the horrible pain, give me drugs now kind of labor, that came later. I figured I would be ramping up slowly with many hours of, "well that was uncomfortable" followed by 10-15 minutes of feeling fine. I was right, I woke up that day in may at 7am and didn't head off to the hospital until 10 pm. They just would have sent me home before that anyway so why bother with the trip in.

Since no one would let me do anything that day, being in labor and all, I would have to take control of my own entertainment. I also knew it would have to be something intense and interesting enough to distract me from the tiny creature trying to escape from my belly. So I spent much of that day having Scott Sigler tell me all about one parasite while I was finishing up with my own parasite.

now don't go sending me letters, I love the kid besides, that's a paraphrase from my Doctor. Technically a baby in the whom is living off of mom completely and therefore is a parasite.


Now lets listen to Scott's opening and his very strong warning about violence. Now I want to keep the explicit tag off my show so I have chosen my clips VERY carefully. It wasn't easy. In fact I am only going to play two. I had some others picked out from later in the first chapter but don't want to spoil anything for you. I'm trying to give you a sense of how intense his work is and it is a horror novel so you might want to send the kiddies away now.

Now a tiny taste from the prologue to Infected

Why is he giving all of this away for free? Because this is how new media works. Because he has shown that he has an audience, an audience that will buy a book we already have in audio form. So get down to your book store on April first and prove to Random house that they backed the right horse. And prove to all the big publishers that podcasting and new media is the future and it is the right direction for them.

Now naturally I couldn't end this without playing the Infected promo.

Show Name: Infected
Host: Scott Sigler

 
Now on to the Link Love

In the show opening I mentioned Slice of Scifi   a Scifi fantasy fancast it's also an online magazine that became so popular they were not only taken on by XM radio but also generated so much buzz that they had to break off their voicemail into it's own show.

I also mentioned the Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas They focus on older science fiction and fantasy books, television, and movies.

Now I usually choose  shows for the opening that are opposite or at least different in some way. These are two sifi shows, in fact one is a break off show from the other. So why did  I choose these two? Well they have something else in common. Joe Murphy. Joe was on both shows. I have to say was because he passed away April First.

As the anniversary of his death approaches many podcasters are remembering Joe. Stay tuned to this feed for more on that.

I never met Joe personally but I know him in a way. I know him through the podcasters who knew and loved him. Their reaction, as often happens when a loved one passes away, was to cling on to each other. The podcasting world, or at least this corner of it became one big podcasting hug. I have been fortunate to get a taste of that community when I became a podcaster and even as a listener.
 
You ask someone in podcasting for help with something and most likely if they can't help you themselves they will point you in the direction of someone who can. And they don't even point and laugh a little at me for my silly questions, well most of them don't anyway.

This is an amazing community and I feel proud and lucky to be a part of it.

You will be hearing more about the Joe Murphy Memorial fund and the related podcast "Give Us a Minute" in a few days on this feed. But if you want to check it out before then there will be a link in the show notes.

I want to thank 3rd man for putting their song Now then Soon onto the Podsafe music network so I could use it. Also the Beatnik Turtle's for giving me permission to play the song you are about to hear. Mason Rocket.

And to Joe Murphy, wherever you are. I'll be drinking a toast to you and to your not so secret alter ego, Spy extraordinaire Mason Rocket.

Go subscribe to Give us a minute http://www.joemurphymemorialfund.org/

Show Name: Quackcast
Host: Mark A Crislip

A podcast review of Quacks, Frauds and Charlatans. Oops. Thats not right. That should be Supplements, Complementary and Alternative Medicine i.e. SCAM.

Link Love:
Skepticality
Skeptics Guide to the Universe
A Troubled Teen and his Parents
Tucker tales

Music Played thanks to the Podsafe Music Network

Now than Soon by 3rd Man

Skeptic by George Hrab

Barenaked Hurley can be found on iTunes or at:

http://barenakedhurley.blogspot.com/

If I Had a Million Dollars - I'd be Lost

To the tune of If I Had a Million Dollars by Barenaked Ladies.

Sitting on Chair

To the tune of Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi