Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / Monday Mini: This is SMNTY
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stefan
- 0:07Speaker 1: Never Told You Predictions.
- 0:08Speaker 2: iHeartRadio, and we are doing another interesting Monday Mini. We
- 0:23Speaker 2: were kind of going away from the typical because we
- 0:26Speaker 2: like to make the money many a variety of things. Correct,
- 0:31Speaker 2: we'll just say it that way. But we thought, since
- 0:34Speaker 2: it's been over four years since we've become a unit,
- 0:37Speaker 2: the perfect unit, if I say so myself, Annie, I
- 0:41Speaker 2: feel like we've fit each other so well, that we
- 0:45Speaker 2: would come and reintroduce ourselves and our how our show works,
- 0:50Speaker 2: just in case you are new or maybe unfamiliar as
- 0:53Speaker 2: to what we do or the new ish way of
- 0:57Speaker 2: doing the podcast. Because even still I will say, hey,
- 1:01Speaker 2: I have done the silly thing and I found some reviews.
- 1:05Speaker 2: People are still confused that we are the hosts, and
- 1:11Speaker 2: that's fair.
- 1:12Speaker 1: That's fair.
- 1:13Speaker 2: Although it's been four years now, over four years now,
- 1:15Speaker 2: people are still confused. Hey, people in our industry don't even.
- 1:19Speaker 1: Know that we are the hosts.
- 1:21Speaker 2: We get called everybody else's name and replaced by everybody else,
- 1:26Speaker 2: so not too out of the ordinary and that it
- 1:28Speaker 2: could happen. So we thought you would take this time
- 1:31Speaker 2: to be like, hey, this is who we are. And
- 1:33Speaker 2: if you're just not joining us or you just found.
- 1:35Speaker 1: Us, welcome.
- 1:37Speaker 2: We're glad you're here. We hope you stay. Yeah, if
- 1:40Speaker 2: you don't, we get it. There's a lot of other options.
- 1:43Speaker 2: We get it. So first, I'm Samantha. I am a
- 1:47Speaker 2: Korean adoptee, transracial adoptee that lives in Georgia. I am awkward,
- 1:53Speaker 2: more introverted than not, and I've discovered I'm truly probably
- 1:57Speaker 2: more introverted because I thought I was an ambi avert
- 1:59Speaker 2: as we had before.
- 2:01Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think.
- 2:01Speaker 2: I don't think I fall on that line anymore any
- 2:04Speaker 2: I think I am now truly introverted. Okay, interesting, Yeah, yeah,
- 2:09Speaker 2: so we'll have to talk about that spectrum later. I'm
- 2:12Speaker 2: currently caught up in the world of k dramas. Yes
- 2:15Speaker 2: that's all I watch now, K pop and Korean food
- 2:18Speaker 2: in hopes of discovering my identity as many of you
- 2:22Speaker 2: know if you've listened to any personal bits from us,
- 2:26Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm hoping that the world doesn't collapse, but
- 2:29Speaker 2: I'm really excited to see the younger generations taking over
- 2:33Speaker 2: because they'd give me hope. Today is June fifteenth, and
- 2:36Speaker 2: the Supreme Court has done some things that have been good.
- 2:40Speaker 2: So I'm going to take a minute to celebrate that.
- 2:42Speaker 2: And I'm very shocked by that they actually upheld the
- 2:46Speaker 2: VRA against Alabama. I was shocked. I assumed it would
- 2:52Speaker 2: be dismantled, but that that's huge. Kavanaugh did something.
- 2:59Speaker 1: There.
- 3:00Speaker 2: Philly Kevanaugh also with Cony Barrett, did something also with
- 3:05Speaker 2: the ICWA, the Indian Child Welfare Act. They kept it intact.
- 3:10Speaker 2: They actually said that it needs to remain in place.
- 3:13Speaker 2: Of course, Thomas and Alito were the dissents on that,
- 3:16Speaker 2: no surprise, but many people are celebrating as they should be.
- 3:20Speaker 2: I'm so so glad that that has happened, and it
- 3:23Speaker 2: happened today. Was loved seeing that, loved seeing the people
- 3:26Speaker 2: who are celebrating that as they should. Obviously, that doesn't
- 3:31Speaker 2: mean it's the end all, because you know, things come
- 3:33Speaker 2: back around, unfortunately, but we do want to take the
- 3:37Speaker 2: good news. And if you don't know what I'm talking about,
- 3:40Speaker 2: we did a previous Monday mini As we say, this
- 3:43Speaker 2: is kind of a grab bag of episodes that you
- 3:45Speaker 2: should go back and listen to, and we do talk
- 3:46Speaker 2: about what the Indian Child Welfare Act is and why
- 3:50Speaker 2: it's important.
- 3:51Speaker 1: Yeah, and that is also and good look at our
- 3:57Speaker 1: politics and what we talked about on this show. Yes,
- 4:01Speaker 1: because we are an intersectional feminist podcast and we talk
- 4:04Speaker 1: about all kinds of things. So I am Annie. I
- 4:09Speaker 1: also am in Georgia. Samantha is one of my best friends.
- 4:13Speaker 1: We're actually friends.
- 4:15Speaker 2: We keep having to tell people because people get shocked
- 4:17Speaker 2: by that.
- 4:18Speaker 1: It's true. They do also interesting. Yeah, we are really
- 4:26Speaker 1: friends everybody. I am definitely the nerdier aspect of this show.
- 4:33Speaker 1: Samantha got a very excited text for me about the
- 4:35Speaker 1: Last of Us Haunted Haunted House that is happening at
- 4:41Speaker 1: Universal Studios. I'm so excited.
- 4:44Speaker 2: It's my nightmare.
- 4:46Speaker 1: I know. That's why I didn't ask you to go,
- 4:48Speaker 1: because we're fro with you.
- 4:50Speaker 2: I would go with you, but I would be like,
- 4:51Speaker 2: you owe me so many things after the fact.
- 4:54Speaker 1: I don't know if I can afford it. We'll negotiate
- 4:57Speaker 1: it later. I love fanfic. I am also queer. I
- 5:03Speaker 1: identify as a sexual and bi romantic. And yeah, I've
- 5:08Speaker 1: been working on this show over ten years now, various capacities.
- 5:12Speaker 2: Yeah, you're at the beginning. You were og even if
- 5:16Speaker 2: you weren't in front of the mic. You were og all, yeah, there,
- 5:21Speaker 2: I love it. Yes, and that is a great conversation.
- 5:25Speaker 2: We if you are saddened by the fact that you
- 5:29Speaker 2: thought this program from its originality was more neutral and
- 5:35Speaker 2: a political I hate to tell you this, but the
- 5:38Speaker 2: former hosts that you're talking about, which we are friends with,
- 5:41Speaker 2: never were that. No, never heard, So I really for
- 5:47Speaker 2: those who were like they used to, sure, probably that
- 5:50Speaker 2: at that point in time politically it didn't feel as
- 5:55Speaker 2: heated as it is as it does today. Although I
- 5:57Speaker 2: still remember Kristen and Carroll lines episode and when the
- 6:01Speaker 2: day Trump was elected that they cried on Mike and
- 6:06Speaker 2: people were kind of shocked, which still surprises me because
- 6:10Speaker 2: I really cannot understand the word feminist is so polarizing,
- 6:15Speaker 2: and it obviously has a connotation that people who are
- 6:17Speaker 2: shocked right, that these women who call themselves feminists are
- 6:22Speaker 2: left leaning shocks right baffles me as well. But yes,
- 6:30Speaker 2: we are going to be those people who think intersectional
- 6:33Speaker 2: feminism is important. We believe that anti racist work is
- 6:37Speaker 2: important as well. We think that queer allyship and queer
- 6:42Speaker 2: rights are important, and that does include trans rights, and
- 6:45Speaker 2: we believe that they should be allotted all of the
- 6:48Speaker 2: freedoms as everyone else. We don't believe in banning books.
- 6:53Speaker 2: I don't know if that means to be said. We
- 6:55Speaker 2: believe in the separation of church and state. I say
- 6:58Speaker 2: I'm saying we, Annie you can correct because you do
- 7:01Speaker 2: have that close. I hope I can say we because
- 7:03Speaker 2: I do know you are that way aflow.
- 7:05Speaker 1: But all those things.
- 7:06Speaker 2: So if that's a shocker to you, you're probably not
- 7:10Speaker 2: going to like.
- 7:10Speaker 1: Us, probably, but you might be open to expanding your worldview.
- 7:16Speaker 2: And that's the other part to that is we want
- 7:20Speaker 2: if you are here to learn. We hope that we can.
- 7:22Speaker 2: We hope that we give you an environment that is open.
- 7:25Speaker 2: We do make jokes, and we do take things into
- 7:28Speaker 2: a way that we can cope, and you know, we
- 7:31Speaker 2: try our best to come away from that. So you
- 7:35Speaker 2: know you are welcome here no matter what you believe.
- 7:39Speaker 2: But these are these are how we are, and this
- 7:41Speaker 2: is probably what perspective that you're going to get from us. Yes,
- 7:55Speaker 2: And just as a technicality and overall, look at our show.
- 7:58Speaker 2: We record five episodes a week and have what we
- 8:01Speaker 2: call two full length episodes with the usual more educational
- 8:05Speaker 2: research content, uh, such as our Trauma series, which is
- 8:09Speaker 2: how we started. We talked about trauma and triggering and
- 8:13Speaker 2: the me too movement, So you know, if you want
- 8:16Speaker 2: an introduction to who we are, that's how that's how
- 8:19Speaker 2: that started. We as a unit again again as a unit,
- 8:22Speaker 2: not Annie, because Annie's been around, She's been hosting for
- 8:24Speaker 2: a minute. She hosted by herself for a full year.
- 8:27Speaker 2: It's delightful. It was delightful. Don't don't say that. And
- 8:32Speaker 2: then we also have two more relaxed, shorter and typically
- 8:36Speaker 2: personal series like this Monday Mini, which may also include
- 8:41Speaker 2: current affairs lest we talked about with the ic W
- 8:44Speaker 2: a uh. And then we also have our Happy Hour,
- 8:47Speaker 2: which now includes our sex and the City Watch parties.
- 8:51Speaker 2: And then Annie sometimes has an Unhappy Hour or any update.
- 8:57Speaker 1: That's how we like to do it.
- 8:58Speaker 2: We do do that, and sometimes we feature women in
- 9:01Speaker 2: the industry. When we talk about the industry, you're talking
- 9:03Speaker 2: about like typically those who are a mixologist or those
- 9:06Speaker 2: who have created delicious drinks, which is like my favorite whiskey,
- 9:09Speaker 2: Uncle Nearest. We did a whole episode about them, so
- 9:13Speaker 2: that can be encompassed in our Happy Hour. We feature
- 9:17Speaker 2: feminists and fictional characters from all over the world or
- 9:22Speaker 2: the universes. When it comes to the fictional side, we
- 9:26Speaker 2: love to highlight and want to learn more about them.
- 9:29Speaker 2: And then we typically have a classic or an older episode,
- 9:32Speaker 2: a previously aired episode released on Saturdays. I will say,
- 9:36Speaker 2: sometimes we switch that up and we'll replace it with
- 9:41Speaker 2: maybe a spoiled Saturday where we talk about a recent
- 9:43Speaker 2: movie that we love to have a feeling. Spider Verse
- 9:46Speaker 2: may be a part of this soon enough. Yeah, And
- 9:54Speaker 2: then we also have Annie's fiction, which is an amazing
- 9:58Speaker 2: delight which I read a review about how they loved
- 10:01Speaker 2: Terminus Oh shut Out. I believe the review came from
- 10:04Speaker 2: a person named Karen, Thank you so much to talk
- 10:06Speaker 2: about how I have her grandma heart. I think she
- 10:10Speaker 2: called me a grandma and I appreciate that. I go, Oh,
- 10:12Speaker 2: I like it. I like it. And of course, because
- 10:18Speaker 2: we are an all year long show, it is not
- 10:22Speaker 2: a seasonal show. We don't do breaks. We may vary
- 10:25Speaker 2: and add things or switch things up because we are
- 10:28Speaker 2: human and doing this many episodes can be a lot.
- 10:33Speaker 1: Yep sure can it is. I know we've talked about
- 10:41Speaker 1: it before, but it's very difficult for us to take
- 10:43Speaker 1: a break, and not in terms of getting the time off,
- 10:47Speaker 1: but because the show never stops, you're working extra hard
- 10:51Speaker 1: to cover for that break. And then when you get back,
- 10:54Speaker 1: we have so much to do that it almost doesn't
- 10:56Speaker 1: feel like you took a break.
- 10:57Speaker 2: Roll right, And because we're constant seeing current affairs or
- 11:01Speaker 2: new things or new trends, we're always on the lookout
- 11:06Speaker 2: for what we need to talk about. And because Adie
- 11:10Speaker 2: and I have two different interests, we do have a
- 11:13Speaker 2: varying amount of episodes and information.
- 11:17Speaker 1: I like that I do too. It's always funny to
- 11:21Speaker 1: me where You're like, here's my idea and I was like, well,
- 11:23Speaker 1: here's mine, and they're completely offside.
- 11:27Speaker 2: Or we may have the same idea, but then the
- 11:29Speaker 2: take is so different, which is delightful. Okay. And one
- 11:36Speaker 2: of the more recent complaints we have gotten, so we
- 11:38Speaker 2: do acknowledge, is that there are way too many ads,
- 11:41Speaker 2: and we wanted to take a minute to address that.
- 11:44Speaker 2: We want to be completely open with you and kind
- 11:47Speaker 2: of give you a behind the scenes look about these ads.
- 11:51Speaker 2: We do not control the amount of ads you hear
- 11:54Speaker 2: on the show. As in fact, all podcasts produced by
- 12:00Speaker 2: Heart have the same rules and have no control on
- 12:03Speaker 2: how many ads are placed during our show. So there's
- 12:08Speaker 2: that ads are how the network makes money and to
- 12:12Speaker 2: be a company that pays salaries and all the business
- 12:15Speaker 2: expenses and make sure that they stay in business by
- 12:17Speaker 2: making sure all the execs and shareholders get a piece
- 12:20Speaker 2: of that money, they're going to do those ads. We
- 12:25Speaker 2: worried when we heard how many ads there were going
- 12:28Speaker 2: to be, because we agree they can be overwhelming, but
- 12:31Speaker 2: again we have no control over that.
- 12:36Speaker 1: Unfortunately, no, and occasionally we don't even realize they've increased
- 12:40Speaker 1: how many ads are playing.
- 12:41Speaker 2: Yes, that's happened a few times, actually happened. We did know.
- 12:44Speaker 2: We don't know. Also, outside of the ads we actually voice,
- 12:48Speaker 2: as in you hear us talking in them, we do
- 12:51Speaker 2: not always know what is going to be advertised and
- 12:55Speaker 2: are sometimes just as surprised by them as you are.
- 12:59Speaker 2: So for those of you who gives us a hess
- 13:01Speaker 2: up to the ones that are not in line with
- 13:03Speaker 2: our show, thank you, thank you, thank you. We don't
- 13:06Speaker 2: typically listen to our own podcast after they're published, Like,
- 13:09Speaker 2: that's not a thing. I don't like listening to myself
- 13:11Speaker 2: more than I have to.
- 13:12Speaker 1: No, we do it what we call a QA, which
- 13:16Speaker 1: is quality assessment. It's mostly to make sure there are
- 13:18Speaker 1: no unbleeped curse words, because that is a hefty fine,
- 13:21Speaker 1: but also to make sure like, yeah, you didn't misspeak
- 13:23Speaker 1: or say something you didn't want to say, and then
- 13:26Speaker 1: after that that's it. I'm not listening to it ever again,
- 13:30Speaker 1: ever again. Yes. Also, there is such a thing as
- 13:35Speaker 1: dynamic advertising, which I know I've brought up before, and
- 13:38Speaker 1: I actually do want to explain a little bit more
- 13:39Speaker 1: in depth because I realized to some of you that
- 13:43Speaker 1: was probably obvious. But there's a reason that I explained
- 13:46Speaker 1: it because, okay, so dynamic advertising, if you don't know,
- 13:49Speaker 1: means like you could listen to an episode from ten
- 13:54Speaker 1: years ago and it will have the same ads that
- 13:56Speaker 1: we're running right now on an episode we just made,
- 14:00Speaker 1: and then those ads will change a week from now
- 14:02Speaker 1: on those same episodes. It just means you can replace ads.
- 14:06Speaker 1: We have ad markers and the technology, the systems just
- 14:12Speaker 1: replace the ads with whatever is currently running on our show.
- 14:15Speaker 1: The reason I always bring that up and I realized,
- 14:17Speaker 1: like almost everything does that now, and probably everyone was like,
- 14:21Speaker 1: of course, But when I first started in twenty ten,
- 14:26Speaker 1: there was this program that one of our other coworkers
- 14:30Speaker 1: made casey that you had to run every podcast through
- 14:35Speaker 1: and you had to put in it was like kind
- 14:39Speaker 1: of a command prompt and you had to put in
- 14:41Speaker 1: the audio and it would go in and encode it.
- 14:44Speaker 1: Because Apple Podcasts slash iTunes what it was at the time,
- 14:50Speaker 1: could only handle a certain level of audio quality, so
- 14:54Speaker 1: everything got compressed. Oh yes, it's one of the reasons
- 14:58Speaker 1: people complained about like the quality of music is that
- 15:01Speaker 1: it would get compressed so that Apple could host it,
- 15:04Speaker 1: and so we'd have to run it through there and
- 15:07Speaker 1: you had to It was so complicated. I wish I
- 15:09Speaker 1: had like thirty minutes to describe it, because this is
- 15:11Speaker 1: the thing I used to do every day and now
- 15:13Speaker 1: it's totally obsolete. But the ads were hard coded, which
- 15:16Speaker 1: meant that whatever ad was in there, that was the ad,
- 15:21Speaker 1: like it was never going to change because that's what
- 15:24Speaker 1: the program did. So when we switched to dynamic advertising
- 15:29Speaker 1: probably like seven eight years ago, we had to go
- 15:32Speaker 1: in as producers, find the ads, cut them out, mark
- 15:37Speaker 1: them every podcast, every episode. It was a huge deal.
- 15:42Speaker 1: It still gives me like anxiety just thinking about it.
- 15:45Speaker 1: So that's why the reason I'm always like, we're dynamic
- 15:49Speaker 1: advertising is because I remember when we weren't, and I
- 15:51Speaker 1: remember how difficult the switch was.
- 15:55Speaker 2: Doesn't that feel like it's kind of aged when like
- 15:58Speaker 2: the younger producers have no idea what you're talking about.
- 16:01Speaker 1: Yes, I think I brought it up to somebody the
- 16:04Speaker 1: other day and they're like, you used to do what?
- 16:08Speaker 2: Yeah, that's amazing. I love feeling old like I was younger.
- 16:11Speaker 2: We didn't have the internet. You're young as don't know.
- 16:16Speaker 1: I'm just like, you don't know, you don't know.
- 16:29Speaker 2: Yeah. And with that, we do try to vet the
- 16:32Speaker 2: ads we personally voice. We do, actually we do vet
- 16:34Speaker 2: all of them. We vet this as much as we can.
- 16:37Speaker 2: But as you know, sometimes iffy and concerning things that
- 16:41Speaker 2: companies do don't always come out until well after the fact.
- 16:46Speaker 2: So if you hear his voice something and you're like,
- 16:49Speaker 2: did you not know, and we're like, well, like we
- 16:51Speaker 2: research as much as we can, we didn't realize until
- 16:54Speaker 2: this came out or whatever this came out. So we
- 16:57Speaker 2: try our best with that with what we've got, and
- 17:00Speaker 2: sometimes we have already voiced for them once and then
- 17:03Speaker 2: the bad days come out and we say no the
- 17:05Speaker 2: second time round. Believe me, there have been several products
- 17:08Speaker 2: I'm like, I liked it, I want it.
- 17:11Speaker 1: It's so upsetting.
- 17:13Speaker 2: But we try to hold to a standards, and I
- 17:17Speaker 2: know that our listeners hold a standard for us, and
- 17:19Speaker 2: we get it. So when it comes to our content,
- 17:23Speaker 2: we are always trying to discuss issues that affect the
- 17:26Speaker 2: folks in our community. But just being honest, we're limited
- 17:30Speaker 2: with some of the information. As I said, my Google
- 17:34Speaker 2: algorithm is all all kinds of messed up, and now
- 17:36Speaker 2: it's full of K pop and you'll see why later
- 17:39Speaker 2: this week if you're listening chronologically. But like when we
- 17:43Speaker 2: talk about the religious stuff, I was like getting a
- 17:44Speaker 2: lot of church ads and that was really unfortunate for me.
- 17:48Speaker 2: But with that, when you when you all send us
- 17:53Speaker 2: things about yourself or interesting or concerning things that's happening
- 17:56Speaker 2: in your community that relates to what we're talking about,
- 17:59Speaker 2: or letting it know of issues regarding feminism we might
- 18:02Speaker 2: not know about or haven't talked about, or even just
- 18:05Speaker 2: relating to us in our content, we love, love, love it.
- 18:12Speaker 2: Please know, even if we don't always answer back right away,
- 18:16Speaker 2: we are reading them again. And He's in charge of
- 18:19Speaker 2: the emails. I'm in charge of the social media, so
- 18:21Speaker 2: oftentimes you might see that it takes us the opposite,
- 18:24Speaker 2: Like we send each other the messages like hey, you
- 18:26Speaker 2: got this, that's how it works, but we are reading
- 18:29Speaker 2: them and are so grateful that you are even thinking
- 18:32Speaker 2: of us.
- 18:34Speaker 1: M Yeah, and like connecting in any way. Or because
- 18:39Speaker 1: the experience of podcasting, especially during the pandemic, which is
- 18:44Speaker 1: most of what you've done, Samantha, it can be very isolating,
- 18:49Speaker 1: like you don't know, it's just you and me talking
- 18:51Speaker 1: and then Christina edits it and we have no idea,
- 18:54Speaker 1: like once it goes out, who knows. But so when
- 18:57Speaker 1: we hear from you, it's like, oh, we did something
- 19:00Speaker 1: and people relate to it or can add to it,
- 19:03Speaker 1: or and just having this community that's so vibrant and
- 19:08Speaker 1: so important and it has so many different experiences that
- 19:11Speaker 1: are really important to having these conversations exactly exactly.
- 19:15Speaker 2: So keep sending things in, keep updating us, let us
- 19:18Speaker 2: know what's going on, let us know what we should
- 19:21Speaker 2: do next. I know we've gotten a few suggestions and
- 19:23Speaker 2: movies and bugs. We need those. Like we said, this
- 19:26Speaker 2: is a constant, constant thing. So giving us ideas is amazing.
- 19:31Speaker 2: As always, We'll end with we love you and we
- 19:35Speaker 2: hope you are taking care of yourself.
- 19:38Speaker 1: Yes, we do, we do, and we're God, We're here,
- 19:41Speaker 1: You're here. And yeah. If this is you're listening to
- 19:45Speaker 1: this and you're like, hi, I know this already, glad
- 19:47Speaker 1: to still have you. If you're listening to this and
- 19:48Speaker 1: you're like, ah, makes more sense, Welcome, Welcome. If you
- 19:54Speaker 1: have any questions about dynamic advertising, please let me know.
- 19:58Speaker 1: I will talk and talk and talk you will. Oh
- 20:02Speaker 1: my gosh, I can go on. I still have the program.
- 20:05Speaker 1: It's called Encode Podcasts. I should test it out and
- 20:07Speaker 1: see what happens. Okay, Well, you can email us at
- 20:14Speaker 1: stephmediamoms Stuff at iHeartMedia dot com. You can find us
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- 20:31Speaker 1: hear you can pre order it and thanks as always too,
- 20:38Speaker 1: our super producer Christina, our executive producer Maya, and our
- 20:41Speaker 1: contributor Joey BT Duves.
- 20:43Speaker 2: These are the people that make the magic happen and
- 20:45Speaker 2: make us sound coherent. We love them.
- 20:47Speaker 1: Thank you, Yes, magicians, amazing and thanks to you for listening.
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