Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / Monday Mini: SMNTY Team Revisit
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Hey, this is Danny and Samantha and welcome to Step
- 0:07Speaker 1: one Never told you a production of iHeartRadio, and welcome
- 0:19Speaker 1: to another edition of Monday Mini. This is going to
- 0:22Speaker 1: be a bit of a shorter one, I think, but
- 0:24Speaker 1: we just wanted to do it a check in on
- 0:27Speaker 1: our team, and plus we got a lot going on
- 0:29Speaker 1: right now. So I feel like we say that all
- 0:31Speaker 1: the time, but it is true, and we are going
- 0:32Speaker 1: to talk about that in a second. Also, as this
- 0:36Speaker 1: comes out, it is a March no. As we record,
- 0:39Speaker 1: it's March tenth, which is Mario Day, So Happy Mario Day.
- 0:43Speaker 1: We didn't really do anything for International Women's Day except
- 0:46Speaker 1: that the episode we published was perfect for International Women's Day,
- 0:50Speaker 1: but happy belated that as well. And today March thirteenth
- 0:55Speaker 1: is my and many people's Quarantine University. If that's something
- 0:58Speaker 1: you celebrate here I am. I'm with you, he is, y'all. Yes,
- 1:07Speaker 1: So we just wanted to run down kind of a
- 1:11Speaker 1: behind the scenes, a quick behind the scenes of this
- 1:14Speaker 1: podcast when it takes to make it, because we have
- 1:16Speaker 1: gotten a couple of questions about it. We have gotten
- 1:19Speaker 1: some kind of new editions or shifting in the team.
- 1:22Speaker 1: We are planning to do a not in person, but
- 1:26Speaker 1: a skype or a video call of sorts where they
- 1:31Speaker 1: come on and record and they can say themselves what
- 1:34Speaker 1: they do. But I did send out this email and
- 1:37Speaker 1: I was like, hey, can you give us a brief
- 1:39Speaker 1: description of what you do? But I also thought we
- 1:43Speaker 1: would talk before we get into that what we do,
- 1:47Speaker 1: so kind I would say, the process is kind of
- 1:51Speaker 1: Samantha and I just throw ideas out there. Sometimes there's
- 1:55Speaker 1: there's one that's very clear, if there's like a quote
- 1:57Speaker 1: tint poll as they call it, like a Hall to
- 2:00Speaker 1: Day or something a month or something, So we throw
- 2:04Speaker 1: out ideas around that, and then we have this. I
- 2:09Speaker 1: call it one of the loves of my life, and
- 2:11Speaker 1: I'm I'm being sarcastic, but it is something I check
- 2:13Speaker 1: every day, which is what I call the meta sheet, yes,
- 2:16Speaker 1: which is our calendar, and so we try to figure
- 2:20Speaker 1: out relevant topics. When can we bring in interviews, you know, technically,
- 2:26Speaker 1: when can those interviews get edited. We have several recurring
- 2:30Speaker 1: segments like our book club or feminist Movie Friday or
- 2:34Speaker 1: all those things, our interviews with Eves on Female First
- 2:39Speaker 1: Bridget with all the technical Internet stuff, and we have
- 2:44Speaker 1: been trying to do more interviews in the new year.
- 2:48Speaker 1: That was one of our goals, and I feel like
- 2:50Speaker 1: we've been, you know, achieving true. But basically that's like
- 2:56Speaker 1: the ideation of the topic, which might sound like easy,
- 3:00Speaker 1: the easy thing, it's not necessary, not after like thirteen
- 3:04Speaker 1: years of content. So trying to be original as well
- 3:07Speaker 1: as keeping relevant, as well as keeping it new and interesting,
- 3:13Speaker 1: it's a lot, and then being updated for everything it
- 3:17Speaker 1: is it is. And I feel like you're really good
- 3:21Speaker 1: at that part, Samantha, You're really good at the ideation part.
- 3:25Speaker 1: I am too, but I'm very bad about as you know,
- 3:28Speaker 1: like here are my fifteen ideas, which one shall we do?
- 3:34Speaker 1: I think the differences because I actually am on social
- 3:37Speaker 1: media and so pay attention to a lot of pop
- 3:39Speaker 1: culture things while you're in your loves of things, so
- 3:44Speaker 1: you are up to date on the things that you love,
- 3:46Speaker 1: and they make sure you know because of course Google
- 3:49Speaker 1: and our phone is tracking us, so we get different information.
- 3:53Speaker 1: So it helps. That helps right a lot, as something
- 3:56Speaker 1: two very different feeds, literally, I think helps us keep
- 4:02Speaker 1: in trend. I think so, I mean, it's definitely we've
- 4:05Speaker 1: got a we've got a wide range of stuff we cover,
- 4:09Speaker 1: that is for sure, That is for sure. And I
- 4:14Speaker 1: sometimes you'll spend hours trying to come up with a
- 4:18Speaker 1: good idea, and so you get twenty and you're you're
- 4:23Speaker 1: so excited, like for a little while, and we still
- 4:26Speaker 1: kind of are ahead and like, oh no, we don't
- 4:28Speaker 1: have time to cram all these things in, and then
- 4:32Speaker 1: sometimes we are just dry and then nothing happens and
- 4:37Speaker 1: we kind of just sit there and like really really
- 4:40Speaker 1: really pushing the boundaries of like does this work? How
- 4:45Speaker 1: does this work? The challenges are being on point with
- 4:50Speaker 1: our brand, with the brand that was created for us
- 4:53Speaker 1: from the beginning, as well as keeping true to who
- 4:56Speaker 1: we are. That's a lot, and then making sure that
- 4:58Speaker 1: we are being honest and giving what you the listeners need. Yeah,
- 5:03Speaker 1: sometimes it can be anxiety written as well, trying to
- 5:08Speaker 1: try to figure that out. Yeah, And that's why we
- 5:11Speaker 1: really appreciate when you listeners send in suggestions, because then
- 5:13Speaker 1: we know at least somebody wants us to talk about
- 5:16Speaker 1: this thing. At least one person is going to listen
- 5:18Speaker 1: for this at least well hopefully, Yeah, but I think
- 5:23Speaker 1: that's kind of we've talked about that before. But sometimes
- 5:25Speaker 1: like we have a million ideas, but sometimes no idea
- 5:28Speaker 1: is just striking inspiration, and that could be I think
- 5:32Speaker 1: that's kind of the ups and downs of like mental health.
- 5:34Speaker 1: Also because sometimes nothing sounds good. Sometimes literally no idea
- 5:38Speaker 1: sound right one I want to do right now. It
- 5:41Speaker 1: sounds like we just want to go curl up on
- 5:43Speaker 1: the couch and do our whatever it is we do,
- 5:45Speaker 1: whether you're fan fiction sent view of something, twentieth thousandth
- 5:49Speaker 1: view of something for both of us, yeah, or just
- 5:53Speaker 1: napping that's me. Yeah. So I guess what I'm saying
- 5:58Speaker 1: is I don't want to dismiss the idea. Shouldn't part
- 6:00Speaker 1: because I think it gets dismissed. But there is actually,
- 6:03Speaker 1: especially if anyone who's in a related field of you know,
- 6:07Speaker 1: there's kind of all these topics that we are going
- 6:10Speaker 1: to talk about, we have talked about are important we
- 6:12Speaker 1: can't shy away from, but are kind of painful yea,
- 6:16Speaker 1: And so you can. You have to prepare yourself mentally
- 6:20Speaker 1: for those kinds of things and that day and that
- 6:22Speaker 1: research and all that stuff. And that's how we started
- 6:24Speaker 1: as a team. We had a really hard topic, came
- 6:28Speaker 1: in with a lot of check ins, and then trying
- 6:30Speaker 1: to make sure that we are putting ourselves in a
- 6:33Speaker 1: safe space is definitely a whole thing, and I think,
- 6:36Speaker 1: like people forget to different people do it differently. Yes,
- 6:39Speaker 1: So that's the one thing we found out, even in
- 6:41Speaker 1: our own company, even with our own network, everyone does
- 6:44Speaker 1: it differently, and it's shocking how different it is to
- 6:49Speaker 1: the level of Oh, our titles don't match. And I
- 6:52Speaker 1: think that's one of the big things in any big companies, like, wait,
- 6:55Speaker 1: what are your responsibilities? That's right, that's different from mine. Right.
- 7:00Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that a little bit more in
- 7:01Speaker 1: a second, because that is a that is a whole thing.
- 7:04Speaker 1: So you get the idea, all right. Then, as we've
- 7:19Speaker 1: said before, normally Samantha and I split up the research
- 7:23Speaker 1: and you can generally tell who did which, just like
- 7:27Speaker 1: topic base. But also I think just in the way
- 7:30Speaker 1: the episode plays out, that part can very wildly of
- 7:36Speaker 1: how much time, based on the topic that you're going
- 7:38Speaker 1: to spend researching it. And sometimes even it's kind of
- 7:42Speaker 1: a paradoxical issue where where you would think something more
- 7:48Speaker 1: contained would be much quicker, but sometimes if there's no research,
- 7:51Speaker 1: then you spend so much time trying to find the
- 7:53Speaker 1: research that it takes just as long, right, So that's
- 7:56Speaker 1: something I've had to learn. Definitely. Yes, I think I'll
- 7:59Speaker 1: top of that. If you have too much, trying to
- 8:01Speaker 1: like dwindle down the list is just as hard because
- 8:04Speaker 1: it's like, if you keep spending time on it, you're
- 8:07Speaker 1: gonna find more things and it's gonna drive you pretty crazy,
- 8:12Speaker 1: pretty like it's gonna drive you a definitely panic mode level. Yeah, honestly. Yeah.
- 8:19Speaker 1: And that's one of the other things is that when
- 8:21Speaker 1: you're on an intersectional feminist show and you're trying to
- 8:24Speaker 1: do your best to be intersectional feminist, there's just so
- 8:29Speaker 1: many angles. So you're like, well, I gotta look at
- 8:31Speaker 1: it from this angle and this angle and this angle,
- 8:32Speaker 1: which is good. I don't think that's how it should be.
- 8:35Speaker 1: But that means that you can get really in your
- 8:37Speaker 1: head of like, well I didn't but if I didn't
- 8:40Speaker 1: talk about this correctly or this correctly or whatever it is.
- 8:44Speaker 1: So that's definitely a piece of it. I know, for example,
- 8:46Speaker 1: and the feminist around the world, there's also the struggle
- 8:49Speaker 1: of like finding the information at all and finding the
- 8:51Speaker 1: pronunciation at all. Pronunciation has been the hiccup, Like I know.
- 8:56Speaker 1: I think that's the constant apology that we give to
- 8:59Speaker 1: you the listener, as well as to our super producer Christina,
- 9:02Speaker 1: because we're like, yeah, we watched that one, real, real bad.
- 9:05Speaker 1: There's about twenty takes on that one. So our recording,
- 9:07Speaker 1: which is typically like nine to ten minutes, what Christina
- 9:11Speaker 1: receives as like twenty minutes long of our fumbling through
- 9:14Speaker 1: trying to stay like a long silence of us both
- 9:17Speaker 1: trying to find a video of the pronoutation somewhere because
- 9:20Speaker 1: we think we know it, and then we're like, nope,
- 9:21Speaker 1: we don't know it. That's true, you learned. That's one
- 9:24Speaker 1: of the biggest things I've learned through podcasting is you
- 9:26Speaker 1: don't know how to pronounce anything an everybody everything wrong,
- 9:31Speaker 1: everything wrong? Yes, So then yeah, we record. We usually
- 9:38Speaker 1: do big box of recording, We do it and over
- 9:41Speaker 1: video at our home studios, and then we send the
- 9:43Speaker 1: files to our amazing super producer Christina. So a lot
- 9:51Speaker 1: of times this is where there's kind of a mix
- 9:53Speaker 1: of Sometimes Samantha and I will find interviews. A lot
- 9:56Speaker 1: of times Christina will do it, or our sense of
- 10:00Speaker 1: are just handled the kind of logistics of it. Whoever
- 10:03Speaker 1: gets the whoever gets the sex in the city watch
- 10:09Speaker 1: with us. We'll get to experience Christina. Yeah, yeah, the process.
- 10:15Speaker 1: But some of you have written in before, why do
- 10:18Speaker 1: we call Christina's superproducer. One of the reasons is she
- 10:21Speaker 1: is amazing, right obviously. Another reason is, as you said, Sanantha,
- 10:27Speaker 1: at our company and a lot of companies, the job
- 10:29Speaker 1: titles are kind of murky, which is something we're trying
- 10:32Speaker 1: to work on and fix. But some produce the job
- 10:36Speaker 1: of the producer just varies. Oh my goodness, And that's
- 10:42Speaker 1: true for pretty much any entertainment. That producer title can
- 10:46Speaker 1: mean a lot of different things. But Christina I asked
- 10:50Speaker 1: everybody on the team to write in. Christina wrote about
- 10:53Speaker 1: what she does. I edit and publish a show, edit
- 10:56Speaker 1: your ads, do some booking, make weekly Instagram pro and
- 11:00Speaker 1: then some light administrative duties and that's you know, that's
- 11:04Speaker 1: another thing. Every job is kind of like that. But
- 11:05Speaker 1: there's a bunch of just like random things that come
- 11:08Speaker 1: in where it's like today, you have to go find
- 11:12Speaker 1: this picture and send it in to this person and
- 11:14Speaker 1: it has to happen now. And she's been leading our
- 11:18Speaker 1: monthly staff meetings. I guess our monthly production meetings and
- 11:23Speaker 1: then she yeah, because she brought that. And then today
- 11:25Speaker 1: she's been helping us become a better podcasters with upgrading
- 11:30Speaker 1: some equipment things, trying to figure that out, leading the
- 11:33Speaker 1: way on that. She also is yes in between for
- 11:36Speaker 1: our sponsorships a lot of the times and has to
- 11:39Speaker 1: answer a lot of questions yes, yes, yes, a lot
- 11:44Speaker 1: of fielding of the whole sponsorship you all. That would
- 11:47Speaker 1: be a whole episode. I could go in depth the
- 11:50Speaker 1: badest bananas it is. It is really time consuming actually,
- 11:55Speaker 1: but yes, Christina does handle. We'll get emails from Christina
- 11:58Speaker 1: that's like, hey, like five people away from me are
- 12:01Speaker 1: asking if you will do this ad and it ask
- 12:03Speaker 1: me done. Now. It's a stressful. It is a stressful thing,
- 12:09Speaker 1: but it does pay the bill, So thank you sponsor.
- 12:14Speaker 1: But yeah, so we send after we record, we'll send
- 12:16Speaker 1: this to Christina. Chrissina will edit it, amazing job, send
- 12:20Speaker 1: it back to us. We listen back to make sure
- 12:22Speaker 1: there's no things we want to take out or change.
- 12:25Speaker 1: Generally it's all good. And then she posts them and
- 12:28Speaker 1: does the social media on Instagram, especially, which brings us
- 12:33Speaker 1: to Joey, who is our newest edition of the Team Joey.
- 12:40Speaker 1: You may have heard on past episodes, just a recent
- 12:42Speaker 1: episode on the Newest Harry Potter Game and fandom Ethics.
- 12:47Speaker 1: It's been on a few Joey wrote. I research selected
- 12:52Speaker 1: episodes and occasionally pitch episodes. I also edit clips from
- 12:55Speaker 1: the show to post on TikTok, which is a new thing. Yes,
- 12:59Speaker 1: and as we said in that recent episode we did
- 13:02Speaker 1: with Joey, that has been we basically just send like
- 13:07Speaker 1: forty minute clips and they're like, hey, enjoy, try this
- 13:13Speaker 1: something in there. Maybe might work. Yes, And they do
- 13:17Speaker 1: an amazing job and keeping us relevant. I think they
- 13:20Speaker 1: are our gen Zer connection. Would you say that? Because
- 13:26Speaker 1: everybody is technically gen Z but Joey. Joey's the newest, newest,
- 13:30Speaker 1: like the graduate from their college, like not a couple
- 13:34Speaker 1: of years ago, a year ago. So I feel like
- 13:37Speaker 1: they are the most relevant to that, no fence to
- 13:39Speaker 1: Christina and Maya. They are definitely, but in this level
- 13:43Speaker 1: of I just got out of school, so I really
- 13:45Speaker 1: feel like they are the pulse for us. So hopefully
- 13:49Speaker 1: they'll keep us in track if we're not just being cool.
- 13:51Speaker 1: Can we blame Joey? No, I know it's just it's
- 13:56Speaker 1: just we were just tea beforehand. Is yeah, but it's
- 14:04Speaker 1: been really it's been really fun working with Joey because
- 14:07Speaker 1: Joey will send these great ideas and does keep us
- 14:11Speaker 1: up to date at me, especially because you are on
- 14:13Speaker 1: TikTok but I am not on, like maybe you should
- 14:15Speaker 1: talk about this or maybe you should talk about this.
- 14:19Speaker 1: And they've been great every time they've come on the show,
- 14:21Speaker 1: so that has been really fun. And then Maya Maya
- 14:25Speaker 1: is our executive producer. Maya wrote, I managed the team
- 14:28Speaker 1: that handles day to day production. I also work directly
- 14:30Speaker 1: with our marketing, sales, operations, and publishing teammates to maintain
- 14:34Speaker 1: the broader function of the show. So Maya he's the
- 14:37Speaker 1: person we go to about like merchandising questions or kind
- 14:42Speaker 1: of these bigger like budgetary questions, perhaps marketing things, what's
- 14:47Speaker 1: going on in that whole realm. Maya is everybody on
- 14:50Speaker 1: this team is super busy, but Maya's definitely got a
- 14:53Speaker 1: lot of things going on, Like everybody here, I just
- 14:56Speaker 1: want to say, this is what they do for our team,
- 14:58Speaker 1: is the right thing that they do. And then they
- 15:00Speaker 1: do that for several other shows, and then some so
- 15:03Speaker 1: it's not like this is just the one thing. No,
- 15:06Speaker 1: they have many responsibilities spread across our network. And if
- 15:09Speaker 1: you know about our network, you know we have a
- 15:12Speaker 1: lot of shows, um and a very finite amount of
- 15:16Speaker 1: producers and what I mean like very very so they
- 15:21Speaker 1: are busy to say the least. And yeah, I think
- 15:23Speaker 1: Maya would also take the title of being the lead
- 15:27Speaker 1: and then and a lot of things, especially when it
- 15:28Speaker 1: comes to production things behind the scenes, as in like
- 15:32Speaker 1: if we need permission for things, she would be the
- 15:34Speaker 1: person we have to go to. She probably was the
- 15:39Speaker 1: first one to be like, hey, hey, yeah, this is
- 15:41Speaker 1: a problem, don't do this. Yeah, just like there, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 16:02Speaker 1: I mean, I guess one of the reasons I wanted
- 16:04Speaker 1: to talk about this one. They're all amazing and they
- 16:07Speaker 1: should get all of the highlights and flowers. But just recently,
- 16:12Speaker 1: I know we talked about it when one of our
- 16:15Speaker 1: guests came on the show of like, you know, the
- 16:16Speaker 1: people behind the scenes that are making all of this happen,
- 16:20Speaker 1: because sometimes it can look easy because they make it
- 16:26Speaker 1: look easy, but there's a lot going on behind this.
- 16:29Speaker 1: In terms of the social media, in terms of the finances,
- 16:32Speaker 1: in terms of the equipment, in terms of editing, like
- 16:35Speaker 1: all of those things, I don't know. I just want
- 16:38Speaker 1: to make sure people realize we got a whole team
- 16:41Speaker 1: that's supporting us, because sometimes I feel like people will
- 16:43Speaker 1: write in there like I don't understand what my podcast
- 16:45Speaker 1: isn't taking off, right. And that's not to say that
- 16:47Speaker 1: your podcast can't take off without this amazing team, but
- 16:50Speaker 1: I just want to be clear like we do have that.
- 16:53Speaker 1: I mean they are part of the privilege that we have.
- 16:55Speaker 1: I've recently got a dam asking me to do something,
- 17:00Speaker 1: to do an interview to help other podcasters, and I
- 17:03Speaker 1: feel like very underqualified because all I can say is
- 17:06Speaker 1: it is because I had new people, and that is
- 17:09Speaker 1: my privilege. It is that I had the networking and
- 17:11Speaker 1: connections to do this. I had a lot to say.
- 17:14Speaker 1: They allowed me to come on, You allowed me to
- 17:16Speaker 1: come on and do it. But this platform has already
- 17:20Speaker 1: been here, literally specifically the stuff Mom never told you.
- 17:24Speaker 1: Platform has been here and has been a big part
- 17:28Speaker 1: of podcasting in general, especially for women. And then this
- 17:32Speaker 1: team is what makes it sound as good as it does.
- 17:36Speaker 1: Like I do not know how to do this on
- 17:38Speaker 1: my own. If I were to be like, Hey, I'm
- 17:41Speaker 1: gonna go do my own podcast. I would fail miserably
- 17:43Speaker 1: because I don't know what that takes. Honestly, when it
- 17:46Speaker 1: comes down to someone had to teach me all of
- 17:48Speaker 1: these things. I cannot tell you how to edit. I
- 17:52Speaker 1: would not tell you how you do because you actually
- 17:55Speaker 1: did the behind the scenes. I did not. So this
- 17:57Speaker 1: is definitely one of those things. I'm like, I really
- 17:59Speaker 1: wish I could plain to you that there was this
- 18:01Speaker 1: magic solution with the work, hard ideas and you'll get there.
- 18:06Speaker 1: That's not necessarily true. Unfortunately, the American dream is a lie.
- 18:09Speaker 1: I'm sorry. It has a lot to do with connection
- 18:11Speaker 1: and privilege, and that's unfortunately the basis of that. But again,
- 18:17Speaker 1: on my own, this would be nothing. On our own,
- 18:20Speaker 1: this would be nothing. We would be voices echoing into
- 18:24Speaker 1: the recording stuffs. But it is because of teams like
- 18:29Speaker 1: this that really get it done, and that makes this
- 18:31Speaker 1: job a career, right right right right? Yeah, Like, once
- 18:35Speaker 1: you can learn kind of the process and function of
- 18:38Speaker 1: the you know who does what and how to make
- 18:41Speaker 1: that work, it's been really really great. Or we have
- 18:45Speaker 1: an amazing team. BT does you're questioning we have amazing
- 18:49Speaker 1: teams and I would include Eves and Bridget as part
- 18:51Speaker 1: of that. They come out monthly with us to share
- 18:54Speaker 1: their knowledge. Like we have an amazing group people who
- 18:58Speaker 1: come in to speak about intersexual feminism in such an
- 19:02Speaker 1: amazing way that we have different perspectives that it also
- 19:05Speaker 1: makes this team even better the show. This is what
- 19:08Speaker 1: creates the show and it has as as great as
- 19:11Speaker 1: it was way back at the beginning. But I think
- 19:13Speaker 1: it's grown exponentially in whose voices are being represented. Yes,
- 19:18Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. So if any anyone has any
- 19:23Speaker 1: questions because we didn't even talk about writing the meta data,
- 19:27Speaker 1: am I goodness or answering the list of emails, yeah,
- 19:32Speaker 1: please feel free to let us know. But also we
- 19:35Speaker 1: just want to introduce our amazing team, yes, the people
- 19:38Speaker 1: behind this. Hopefully you'll hear their voices talking about it soon.
- 19:42Speaker 1: In the meantime, if you would like to reach out
- 19:45Speaker 1: to us that you can. Our email is Stephanie Momsteff
- 19:47Speaker 1: at iHeartMedia dot com. You can follow us on Twitter
- 19:50Speaker 1: at momsa Podcast, or on Instagram and TikTok at stuff
- 19:54Speaker 1: bomb Never told You. We're also on YouTube if you'd
- 19:57Speaker 1: like to listen to us that way. I know some
- 19:58Speaker 1: people who prefer it like that. Thanks as always too,
- 20:03Speaker 1: our super producer Christina, our executive producer Maya, and our
- 20:08Speaker 1: contributor Joey Hey. Yes, thank you the whole team you
- 20:13Speaker 1: make this happen. We love you, yes, and we also
- 20:16Speaker 1: love you listeners. We couldn't do this without you either,
- 20:19Speaker 1: so not thank you. Stefan Never told you is protection
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