Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Mulberry LIVE!


This Week! Live on TalkRadioX is Nowhere in Mulberry LIVE! This week Mulberry Bill and I are filling in for a vacationing show and will be live on the air Thursday and Friday Nights August 23rd and 24th at 9pm Eastern/ 8pm Central time! Come and join us live!

While you're listening, come join us live in our Chat Room @ NIMChat.com!

These live shows are our first and could quite possibly lead to regular live Nowhere In Mulberry shows.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

We're Nominated!!!


That's right boys and girls we are nominated in the Podcast Awards!!! Nowhere in Mulberry the humble Weekly Podcast Commentary of Film, Television and Pop Culture is in contention for Best in Entertainment! With the help of our listeners we were nominated and I am very thankful and flattered. Thank you Everyone!

But...

It's not over, the only way to win is through daily votes and that my friends is where you come in. I need you to go to the Official Podcast Awards site and vote for us everyday if you can, If only once or twice I am thankful as well but We need lots of votes to win in the category! Let's make it happen!!! Voting starts on July 28th thru August 11th.

Will you help us? Help get Mulberry recognized to the rest of the world! Our show gets a few emails and voicemails every now and then but for us to get nominated in the awards means that our listeners took the time to go to the site and get use nominated and it's an incredible feeling that you feel we deserve something like that and I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. Sincerely, The Jastrom

Sunday, June 03, 2007

The Mulberry Archive


We're talking Old Skool Mulberry here folks, 81 shows and counting, too many to keep on the official Feed. Here you can find all of our old episodes all the waaaaay back to Episode 1 of NIM. All of our old episodes of Nowhere in Mulberry have been placed on their own feed called Mulberry Old Skool! Check it out, you will be suprised at how much the show has evovled and how much it is the same.

I think that we've just gotten better at what we do. Don't tell anyone but every once in awhile I'll pop in an old episode and listen just to see where we were and what we were doing at the point of time and it can be alot of fun. For someone just discovering the show it might be fun to go back and see the origin of a certain joke or sound drop that Foggy now plays with Regularity, Check it out!

Friday, June 01, 2007

Hiatus


Someone once said that; "Podcasting is a thankless fucking hobby with zero rewards." There have been times when I would tend to agree with that person. But there have also been times when it's been so much fun, such a joyful distraction that I didn't find it 'Thankless' with 'Zero rewards'.

I would say that you only get what you put into it, the work that you put into your show is what you hear when you play it back. When you upload that show that you've just finished editing and you stream it off of your site or listen to it or download it from iTunes, That's the rewarding part. Listening back to the show and you hear the fun you had while recording it. It's now been immortalized, it is forever. You've just left something that might not be memorable to other people but it's there, a sonic scrapbook for you to relive years later. The zombies, the drops, the clips, the news, the dvd's, the memories. It's all there. The time my home flooded is there in the show, the time i had a blow out on the freeway, those happy times after we'd just come home from a new movie. Re-living events of those fun Saturdays with 3 of my favorite people. That's is what it has been about.

Stephen, Bill and Vanessa have all brought something unique to the show, a unique kind of experience that sometimes is amplified upon playback. Mulberry is always best with the four of us together, all of us on our game.

Some of my favorite bits have been during the news and dvd's. That's the part of the show where I don't have to talk anymore and can just listen and I love it. Foggy's drops always make me laugh or offend me, that guy is quite a talent and enigma unto himself.

The people that enjoy that show that send us voicemails become characters on the show, they are accepted into loving welcoming arms, with us ready to devour them much like those weird dudes in beastmaster when they consume your flesh and there is nothing left but bones. But what a Tasty meal that was!

Those big shows are always the most fun, be it Zombies in a mall or in Bill's Historical Library or on a Time Travelling Train, our best of shows are always so much fun and always a big pain to edit but always worth it upon playback.

The part I always crave is to know what 'they' thought. What did our listeners think? Did they enjoy this crazy show? But alas I will never know for they do not let me know...

...sigh.

Podcasting is a thankless hobby with zero fucking rewards, indeed.