Granny’s Got a Brand New Bag.
It wasn’t an easy decision. It wasn’t a happy decision. But it came to pass that it was the only possible decision.
I know. Dramatic.
Listen to MamaCat Chews Through the Leash for Good! by Granny Has A Podcast on Audible.
https://www.audible.com/pd/B0FMT3837W?source_code=ASSOR150021921000O
Or on Spotify:
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Or, show me you love me the good old-fashioned way, with tips:
Hey, are you following me on LinkedIn? I wish you would! Let’s connect.
Among other things, you’ll be able to follow my very businessy adventures in the voiceover universe. To bring you up to speed: everything is Bonzer. The entire VO Jeremy Bearamy is being eaten by AI, as is everything else, EXCEPT for the numerous victories and breakthroughs.
And if you got that “The Good Place” reference, you may be ready for Granny Has A Podcast.
That’s what I’ve been doing in lieu of paid bookings. I’d rather do both! But in the meantime, I’m developing a great podcast with comedy, pathos, stories, radical production values, and of course, time travel.
So here’s a little Throwback Thursday as posted on my LinkedIn. For the latest (MamaCat’s Never-Ending Festival of Spring Cleaning), go to Spotify, Audible, Apple Podcasts, etc., and hear how much it’s grown since this one.
And if you like it, give me a nice high rating, won’t you?
Please and thank you.
Said every voiceover artist in the known world.
But I promise, mine doesn’t sound like the other Grannies’ podcasts. Because I’m not like the other Grannies.
Most podcasts are some sort of interview format. Mine is a little more like if Pinky and the Brain broke into RadioLab after hours. But what would Jad Abumrad say?
And if you got those references… you may ready for Granny Has A Podcast. 😎
https://grannyhasapodcast.com/
Go ahead. You know you want to.
The boldest coffee of all.
The next episode of my little podcast is called “MamaCat and the Chain of Foolishness,” and it is in progress. The one after that is going to be called “MamaCat and the Three Little Words,” and they’re not, “I love you” — although those are pretty good words. And contrary to all known Star Trek logic, I am not citing, “let me help,” from the glorious Higo-award winning ST: TOS episode, “City on the Edge of Forever.”
Focus. Clarity. Routine.
There’s a story.
And I’ll be telling it.
But first, the coffee.
Or, Why Wouldn’t You Buy the Old Girl A Coffee? She’s Always Been Nice And Snarky And That Deserves Reward, Doesn’t It? ☕
Last Friday was the 54th anniversary of Neil Armstrong taking his “one small step,” that is, humankind’s first steps onto the lunar surface. Last Thursday was the anniversary of the lunar landing. And last Wednesday was a REAL cultural and historical milestone: the very exciting first anniversary of “Granny Has A Podcast,” which is obviously the real triumph of intellect here.
According to buzzsprout.com, 46% of the U.S. population listens to spoken-word audio on the daily. And this from podcastpage.io, “There are currently around 3 to 4 million podcasts out there, according to ListenNotes. According to Amplifi and Podnews, 44% of the podcasts have less than 3 episodes! Only 720k podcasts have more than 10 episodes.” Today, “Granny Has A Podcast,” sporting a whimsically misnumbered actual 12 audio episodes & 2 YouTube videos, is celebrating the old girl’s first anniversary. I’m one of the 720k. Some of the 46% is listening to me. Are you? Might make you smile.
So now I’ve launched me a wishlist, and a BuyMeACoffee, because like every other journeyman content creator online, I have arrived at the place where it’s time to ask for your support. I am currently in month 15 of a three-year plan to re-launch myself back into the wacky world of voiceover. The delightfully quirky little podcast portion of that exists as three things in one:
One and three aren’t the same thing exactly.
As a proof-of-concept suite, #1, the existing collection is there so that I can demonstrate that such a thing as a humor-based, slice-of-life, entertainment-purposes-only, fully produced podcast by an older woman for older women, could be a viable product.
As for #3 there, something for older women to listen to, PLEASE! I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: there are many fine podcasts for our demographic, and while they can be very entertaining, they usually have a more fact-based, serious agenda. But if you just want to unplug for 9 to 22 minutes and listen to someone like you… someone who’s reflecting back to you that you’re not the only one going through the fabulous traumas and fabulous rewards unique to life as a woman of a certain age, but with a few laughs… someone who’s a combination of meandering old-school long phone calls and your mom’s old Erma Bombeck column she loved… it’s fewer and further between.
So who is this Erma Bombeck? If you follow that link there to the Wikipedia page, you’ll learn, among other things, that she was:
“an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper humor column describing suburban home life, syndicated from 1965 to 1996… Bombeck wrote over 4,000 newspaper columns, using broad and sometimes eloquent humor, chronicling the ordinary life of a Midwestern suburban housewife… read semi-weekly by 30 million readers of the 900 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. Her work stands as a humorous chronicle of middle-class life in America after World War II, among the generation of parents who produced the Baby Boomers.”
If her existence and her body of work is news to you, due perhaps to not having been born back in the day, sit down comfortably, MamaCat’s got another flash for ya. We used to read our moms’ and grandmothers’ newspapers growing up too. We were the girls who thought Bombeck’s “At Wit’s End” column was the funniest thing in the paper besides Doonesbury. (And if you got those references, you may be ready for #GrannyHasAPodcast.)
And lo it came to pass that as I was developing the idea of, and creating the first season of, Granny Has A Podcast, I was reminded of dearest Erma. I have, in spite of my best efforts not to do so over the course of a Wilde lifetime Wildely lived, become a suburbanite. It really does drive you to your wit’s end. And then once you get there, there’s no place to park the car you absolutely have to own whether you like it or not.
So that’s where the laughs come from, kids. I was a cul-de-sac resident in the Very Brady 1970s, and apparently karma has seen fit to return me to the streams from whence I was spawned. The punk rocker early 80s rad chick in me is astonished, as is my inner New Yorker, still shopping for that very sexy pre-war Classic Six on the Upper West. But the adolescent Erma Bombeck reader in me has collaborated with the comedy-record fan in me to create a super fun podcast about real life ups and downs. Relatable, y’all.
So that’s why MamaCat has a Wish List, and that’s why Granny Has A Podcast has a Buy Me A Coffee. It’s important that we build a tiny little media empire for groovy chicks and grown-ass women, and I mean all of us. If inclusion is to matter, then include us, MamaCat! We’re awesome and hilarious and we deal with things! So if you can dig that, and you’re in the mood and the position to offer, your support will be as welcome as the flowers in Springtime and as low as $5.
In case you’d like to hear it from John Laroquette, click into that link (his name). My idea makes good business sense even years after this epic scene from Boston Legal. SOMEBODY has to step up and create the programming we’d like to enjoy. So I am. Thanks for your interest and your help. You rock.
😎😽 #HattitudeOfGratitude🎩💖
(Granny Has A Podcast is a SAG-AFTRA microbudget podcast. This contract is NOT struck work and therefore may be promoted. I will not cross a picket line and I urge you likewise.)
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This just in from Buy Me A Coffee. In the words of Bartles & Jaymes, “We thank you for your support.” And if you’re old enough to get that reference, you’re probably ready for #GrannyHasAPodcast 🤣
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/grannyhasaA/why-coffee-mamacat
