Ask the MADers

Bells are ringing and choirs are singing, there's a brand new bonus feature coming to this Behind-the-Scenes Blog!!

I'm introducing the 'Ask the MADers' feature to this blog. If you have a question for the MADers - any question at all (within reason and appropriate, obviously) - just post it in the comments and we'll all give you our answer. Favorite color? Favorite movie? Want our opinion on something? Ask away.

Comments are enabled so that anyone, even if they don't have a blog, can post, so don't worry if you're not a blogger.

Also, we'd really love to see a MAD Podcast community out there on blogger - so if you do have a blog and you're a MAD Podcast fan, answer the questions right along with us.

You can ask a question for a specific MADer, or to all of us.

Start asking those questions!

Pitiful attempt to make up for delays

What with all the horrendous delays and mishaps going on around the MAD Podcast studios, I thought I'd post a little bit of bonus content to help tide you over. The following is a Skype chat between Deborah and myself about the show. Keeping in with the oh-crap-delays theme, we're trying to figure out when to record:


Deborah: do you know if we're recording today?

Staci C: i hope not b/c if so i probably can't

Deborah: I don't think anyone can...
I *might* be able to, Sarita probably can't, and I haven't heard from Sarah or Marshall
so...another delay

Staci C: yay

Deborah: whooooo
*cough*

Staci C: sigh. oh well

Deborah: yeah
maybe we could do like, a really quick recording during a school day?
that wouldn't be great quality, though
and, you know, homework

Staci C: ermmm... maybe. i doubt it. this week i'm doing two HUGE lab write-ups

Deborah: ick
I have writer's block for my research paper, hence my availability to talk
and I can't find any legit sources with enough information

Staci C: im trying to do calculus

Deborah: ew
okay, let's aim for this friday to record, and we'll split up the editing and try to have it out by Sunday
and put emphasis on "try"

Staci C: good luck on friday, sarah's got marching band

Deborah: GAH
is it like, every single friday?

Staci C: for like ages yeah

Deborah: gahhhhhhhh
okay, i have to go back to writing
we'll discuss this with the group tomorrow


See what I mean? Loooooadds of delays.

We've been working VERY hard

I was rummaging through my inbox and a bunch of old Skype chats recently. The idea was that I would find a bunch of examples of us trying to plan the podcast, and make a post showing some of those so that you would really appreciate us. Unfortunately I was sidetracked by a lot of OTHER Skype chats, mostly between Deborah and myself, which are extremely strange and hillarious. We'd be talking about the podcast, and then suddenly... Well, the stress gets to us all. Here's a sampler of some of our more random comments (all taken from Skype chats between Deborah and I), out of context and for your reading pleasure.


Staci: i meean, do you even FOLD a washcloth?
Deborah: small dishes are usually folded in half once
Staci: really? or are you making this up?
Staci: i just fold at random
Staci: im gonna try and make like, a paper crane out of this next one

Deborah: my sister was dating Remus Lupin
Deborah: teenage lupin
Deborah: but my mom's car also had this funky sheild thing
Staci: werewolf protectors
Staci: is that an optional feature on cars or does it come with?

Deborah: but then she said "if you really want to make me feel better, you can draw me a picture of a rabbit and a wolf"

Staci: were there zombies?

Staci: you laugh, then you make a discovery
Staci: ha-ah!
Staci: its like, ha, that's funny - but ah! i forgot to turn the stove off!
Deborah: it's a double sided laugh
Staci: it's a laugh in a parallel universe

Deborah: no, i was dressed up sort of like a princess

Deborah: and I say "well, I was offered a modeling job, but I turned it down because it was the same day as my cousin's birthday party"

Deborah: "hello Staci, you would make a great Walmart sales person!"

Staci: I think i may have claimed him as my ninja

Deborah: Oh yeah?
Deborah: well my guy will...
Deborah: ...get drunk

Staci: so I'll be able to work in rocket powered unicycles

Deborah: UNICORNS
Staci: YES

Deborah: okay, so moving off the topic of sprinklers momentarily...

Staci: I find it amazing that you can get addicted to VIRTUAL margaritas
Deborah: don't make me put you into virtual AAA
Deborah: *AA, I mean
Staci: ha, i looked at that and i immediately thought, batteries!
Staci: which is clearly a sign of my impending insanity


I wonder if this kind of thing is the reason why it's taken us so long to get the show out.