Me & The Bean

Well it’s really me that sucks.  The Bean had nothing to do with the delay of this post.  So where have we been?We recorded a show after the last one, but I thought it was way too negative.  It was the holidays, I went on a tirade about some of my family members and decided that I might have went too far.  Then the holidays came and everything got put on hold.

Now, the Bean is student teaching and looking for a permanent teaching position.  School officials are extremely particular about teacher’s extracurricular activities.  There’s all kinds of rules about using facebook and other things where teachers might come into contact with the students off of school grounds.  Suffice it to say, the Bean is wary of discussing anything to do with her students and/or fellow teachers.  That affects the show because that’s basically most of her day now.

We started Me & The Bean as a frank discussion of our life and hoped that others could relate.  With our current situation, we can’t be honest and talk about what’s going on, for fear of hurting our friends and/or hurting our careers.  There’s so many things we want to talk about, but we can’t and that’s not why we got into this.

Barely, from Barely Podcasting, had a good suggestion.  He said that we should change our names, do a little voice modulation and come out with a different show.  Unfortunately, I think that no matter how I modulate the Bean’s laugh it will be pretty apparent  who she is.

So you guys know, we are doing great.  The kids are doing great.  We hate to go out like this, but that’s the way it has to be.  Hopefully something will change to allow us to do it, but it won’t be anytime soon.

Thanks so much for listening to us and for anyone that ever sent feedback, thank you for keeping us going.

Me

This week, we talk about Halloween, child abduction, weird military wannabes in creek beds, hitting your friends with a bat, shooting at your friends with a gun and cookie monsters.
Click here to listen to matb065.

Show Notes:
00:00 MATB intro.
00:42 Halloween is always a big time at our house.
02:50 Evan chooses to be vampire Indiana Jones for Halloween.
04:09 Max was a reluctant Curious George for Halloween.
05:06 We lament about how much cooler it was when we were kids, or so we think.
07:24 Some guy tries to abduct Evan in Asheville.
09:10 Chad gets chased down by a speeding car and narrowly escapes.
11:38 Chad sees some shady-looking white guys in the neighborhood and talks to some giggling girls.
12:45 Nothing to see here.  Move along.
13:05 Chad and a childhood friend encounter a weird guy in military garb standing in a creek bed.
15:23 Running the streets at two in the morning.
16:06 Where can you hit someone with a bat and cause the least pain?
18:06 Friends of Chad mess with him by shooting a gun at him.  Haha real funny.
18:52 Evan gets out of bed again.
19:32 Our kids are cookie monsters.
21:57 Max tries to hide food to get the food he wants.
22:48 Wrap-up and contact information.
23:12 Evan tells a quick Clayface story.

This week we talk about Bean’s love of exercise, running into people that you’ve talked about on the show, even teachers have problems with grammar, vegan vs. cajun and Evan’s “imperial” introduction.

Click here to listen to matb064.

Show Notes
00:00 MATB Intro.
00:23 The Bean’s love/hate relationship with exercise.
02:00 The Bean looks to our female listeners for support.
03:12 We run into anti-German girl and wonder if she listens to the show.
04:15 Me & The Bean tease the listeners with a better story, but can’t divulge the information.
04:44 We attend our first parent/teacher meeting and listen to a teacher with grammar issues.
06:32 Teachers, computers are your friends.  Check your grammar before you send stuff home.
07:57 Chad get sucked in by the power of Trading Spouses. Vegan Cali mom vs. Cajun swamp mom.
14:30 Watch out for those that claim that they have the “ANSWER”.  Run away!
15:30 Evan was the ring bearer at a family wedding.
17:31 Chad’s problem with going vegetarian/vegan.
18:13 Evan gets an “imperial” introduction.
18:37 Evan and Max show their stuff on the dance floor.
20:00 The difference between political signs in Mount Airy vs. Asheville.
20:13 Dueling household.  Good find Steve!
22:15 Palin and Biden both need to keep the talking to a minimum.
24:20 Wrap-up and contact information.
24:39 “Voice mails & Promos”.  Thanks to the great Tom Shad on providing the music bed.
25:04 Raquel (aka Systris) calls in to welcome us back and let us know what she’s up to.
28:12 Final wrap-up and outro music.

This is the feedback show for matb063.

Click here to hear matb063. Feedback.

Detailed show notes to follow…

This week we talk about the difference in how the opposite sexes view a relationship, accepting giant inflatable balls from strangers, saying I love you to crickets and how we never want to be seventeen again.

Click here to hear matb063.

Show Notes
00:00 MATB intro.
00:26 Thanks once again to Nat (aka grey jasper) for starting up a Me & The Bean Facebook page.  If you have Facebook, join up.
01:01 Jon & Kate Plus 8 capture the interest of the women of Mount Airy and Chad spreads nasty rumors.
05:50 Len from Jawbone Radio started it with talk of online friends.  Then Redboy and Absolute Amy talked about all the people that attended their wedding that are now divorced.  We talk about the demise of GabberJaw and how men and women notice different things in relationships.
08:36 Stay strong Barely!
09:00 Beware of strangers giving gifts in Kmart and over-zealous cashiers.
14:43 The Bean delves into the Twilight phenomenon.
16:09 Chad says, “I love you!” to the sound of crickets.
18:03 The Bean offends all of our 17-year-old listeners.
18:55 Wrap-up and contact information.

This week we talk about our secret date, attending a concert with the NPR crowd, an Evanism that explains the title of the show and Max’s two-cookie requirement.

Click here to listen to matb062.
00:00 MATB Intro.
00:30 Chad takes Amanda on a surprise date.
01:48 We went to eat at Vivace in Raleigh, NC.
04:00 After that Chad took the Bean to see Michael Buble.
06:30 Naturally Seven was the opening act.
07:00 A stuffed-shirt takes comical offense at being touched my the Bean’s ba-donka-donk.
08:35 The Art of Being a Dad.  Chapter 1: How to keep your family in constant fear of your displeasure.
09:35 “Just Gimme Indie Rock!“  BTW, if this is your first introduction to Sebadoh, it shouldn’t be.  This is not the song to start off with.  There’s a lot of in-jokes that the casual listener will not appreciate/understand.  If you’re new to Sebadoh and want to see if you’d like them, try “Rebound” or “License to Confuse“.
09:38 Thanks to our friend, Misty, we got to meet the alto saxophonist.
10:15 Misty makes the NPR crowd uneasy.
12:20 Now the Bean wants to know what we’re doing THIS weekend.
12:50 Jens Lekman is an acquired taste.  He’s like the Magnetic Fields in some ways.  For the curious here’s the video for “Black Cab“. For those that are fans and don’t know that the backing riff is a sampled riff from a ’60’s song, you should check out the Left Banke.
13:13 Chad to cover his tracks to make sure the weekend is a success.
14:04 Evan and Max’s nonsense-filler words.
15:15 This week’s Evanism: “Truth is rich, but I like who I am.”
18:00 Max tries enforce the two-cookie rule to no avail.  No matter how cute he acts.
18:58 Wrap-up and contact info.