Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha. I'm welcome to stephone.
Speaker 1: Never told you but actually have iHeart radio and welcome
Speaker 1: to another addition of Happy Hour. As always, if you're
Speaker 1: choosing to imbibe, whatever you're choosing to do, please do
Speaker 1: so responsibly. Samantha, are you sipping on anything?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: It's been an odd morning full of stress, so I'm
Speaker 3: keeping it with my water, but I'm also drinking a
Speaker 3: little bit of coffee that I have left over because
Speaker 3: I'm gonna need it.
Speaker 2: No, but that's it from me. What about you?
Speaker 1: I have my red wine. I have my red wine.
Speaker 1: I'm also having a very stressful day. I'm having a
Speaker 1: stressful light a couple of weeks. And today I was
Speaker 1: thinking of all the topics I wanted to do, and
Speaker 1: so many of them are sad, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I cannot have that right now. Even my Star Wars
Speaker 1: one bummed me out. I'm going to come back and
Speaker 1: talk about that. It's like cool, but it's sad because
Speaker 1: like the scripts of what would have been without Disney
Speaker 1: kind of came out and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that was so good. Anyway, I will come back and
Speaker 1: talk about that later today. What I want to talk
Speaker 1: about is something of a strange confluence is happening, Samantha.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this. We have a
Speaker 1: Monday mini coming up where we're going to be talking
Speaker 1: about our anniversary of starting together as a host on
Speaker 1: the show, even though that's not what we knew was
Speaker 1: going to happen at the time. Turns out that happened
Speaker 1: on March twenty seconds, twenty nineteen. That's when our first
Speaker 1: episode came out. The first episode I did of Savor,
Speaker 1: the other show I do, came out on March twenty seconds, wow,
Speaker 1: seven years ago. So I thought, if you all will
Speaker 1: go with me on this probably shorter trip, but I
Speaker 1: was gonna look back at kind of me being a
Speaker 1: host and Saver and Sminty, just a fond look back
Speaker 1: seven years. So. I know I've told this story before,
Speaker 1: but I started as a producer editor twenty ten. I
Speaker 1: was hired full time twenty eleven. Our company is very
Speaker 1: confusing in that I think we've gone through seven companies,
Speaker 1: not exaggerating, I'm pretty sure at seven. So at the
Speaker 1: time the company was how stuff works. A lot of
Speaker 1: stuff has changed that since, but I've essentially held the
Speaker 1: same job ish since twenty ten, and I was the
Speaker 1: editor producer of Sminty and then we kind of moved
Speaker 1: hands again, the company did and we became very video
Speaker 1: focused and then I was like the video producer force Minty,
Speaker 1: which those videos are still up on YouTube and still
Speaker 1: find them. Those were all me. Those are all me.
Speaker 1: But then when Kristen and Caroline announced they were gonna leave,
Speaker 1: they told me in person, I was like, well, I
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm gonna do then, And unfortunately, I
Speaker 1: feel like a lot of jobs are like this, but
Speaker 1: unfortunately in this job, there's always that insecurity of like,
Speaker 1: well that's the end for me. I guess there's nothing
Speaker 1: else for me to do. So I thought I might
Speaker 1: like lose my job. And then I went to I'm
Speaker 1: still not sure why, but I went to south By
Speaker 1: Southwest as part of our whole company. That was like
Speaker 1: a team of ten of us went and I was
Speaker 1: making video editing video. It was a really busy experience,
Speaker 1: and because I like planning things, I had planned like
Speaker 1: months in advance all of these like We've got to
Speaker 1: get this barbecue here and this here and do this
Speaker 1: and this and this, and everybody wanted to go with
Speaker 1: me because I made the plans. You can't just go
Speaker 1: to Franklin's barbecue fools. So after that friend of the
Speaker 1: show who's been on here, friend in real life, Lauren Vogelbaum,
Speaker 1: she sat me down and was like, I think you
Speaker 1: should be on a show. I've been thinking about starting
Speaker 1: this food show, and I think you would be great
Speaker 1: on it. And I really deliberated about it because I
Speaker 1: was nervous. I'd seen the hate people got, I'd had
Speaker 1: to deal with it as an intern, I had to
Speaker 1: answer listener mail as an intern, and so I was
Speaker 1: really nervous about it and I wasn't sure. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not really qualified. But the more Lauren talked to
Speaker 1: me about what she was seeing, I was like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I could do that, and so I agreed to do it.
Speaker 1: And the first episode we did was on Sparkling Wine,
Speaker 1: and I still remember what I wore because I'm so nervous,
Speaker 1: Like it's not like you could see me. I was
Speaker 1: so nervous. I remember exactly what I wore. I was like,
Speaker 1: audibly nervous. I will never listen to that episode again.
Speaker 1: Like I it wasn't bad, but it was just clear.
Speaker 1: I was so nervous and I used to edit them
Speaker 1: at the time, and when you edit yourself, it's not fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I really liked it, like I liked because I
Speaker 1: if you've never listened to Savor, which I would recommend,
Speaker 1: it's a very I liked the history part. It's so
Speaker 1: it's structured in that Lauren does like the science basics
Speaker 1: of it is, and I do the history, and there's
Speaker 1: some like it's not super strict, so sometimes she'll put
Speaker 1: in history notes. But I liked that I got to
Speaker 1: research history. Even though a lot of times people will
Speaker 1: joke with me and they'll be like, I bet that
Speaker 1: show is so much easier than Sminty is, and a
Speaker 1: lot in a lot of ways it is. But food
Speaker 1: is political and there's some dark stuff with food. You
Speaker 1: don't want to leave that out. And that's you know,
Speaker 1: looking back over, how I think I've improved from when
Speaker 1: I started. Those are some of my biggest regrets is
Speaker 1: I don't think I was the best at like really
Speaker 1: searching for that stuff when I first started. But it
Speaker 1: was really scared, Like I was scared. I used to
Speaker 1: joke that I would it was like I was on
Speaker 1: a plane in turbulence when I would record, and in
Speaker 1: the first few episodes, if you listen to Stuff you
Speaker 1: Should Know, Jerry, who's like one of our big bosses,
Speaker 1: she sat in on them like right there, like in
Speaker 1: the small studio Savampa where she was sitting right there,
Speaker 1: and I just she was the one who hired me,
Speaker 1: so I knew her, like I was so nervous, and
Speaker 1: it's been a huge learning curve. And Lauren was very
Speaker 1: helpful with that. She would send me kind of kind
Speaker 1: but clear, Okay, we don't really do this, we don't
Speaker 1: do it this way notes. That was really useful, and
Speaker 1: especially in the beginning when I felt so like inadequate
Speaker 1: and incompetent. And one of the things our company often
Speaker 1: does are used to do. I'm not sure how much
Speaker 1: they do it now, but what used to do is
Speaker 1: when a new show starts, they get shows other shows
Speaker 1: that are established to do ads for them to get
Speaker 1: like attention to know that it exists. So a lot
Speaker 1: of those ran for the show at the time it
Speaker 1: was called food Stuff. I'll get more into that in
Speaker 1: a second, but a lot of those ran on Stuff
Speaker 1: You Should Know, which is our biggest podcast in what
Speaker 1: we call the stuff brands, like the first kind of
Speaker 1: how stuff works podcasts, and we got so many you
Speaker 1: know what, I have never proven this is where they
Speaker 1: came from, but we got a lot of sexist comments
Speaker 1: from people that I think we're expecting stuff you should
Speaker 1: know and then listened to us and like the one
Speaker 1: that I remember most wasn't even that mean. I just
Speaker 1: remember it was that you giggle like two girls who
Speaker 1: got into their dad's like our cabinet. Well damn yeah,
Speaker 1: And I do giggle a lot, Like I know I
Speaker 1: do that. I do that in real life. It's not
Speaker 1: something but it made me really anxious about it, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I shouldn't laugh at all, and
Speaker 1: you know we're going to talk about this. I'm sure
Speaker 1: when we do our kind of look back, but when
Speaker 1: you're sometimes it becomes when you're trying to hold back
Speaker 1: so much that it's obvious too. Like sometimes like if
Speaker 1: I just giggle naturally, but I'm trying so hard not
Speaker 1: to giggle, that becomes something that we will consense as well. Right,
Speaker 1: Food Stuff is one of the last Stuff shows, and
Speaker 1: I think we benefited from that because it's really hard
Speaker 1: to launch a podcast, especially now when there are so many,
Speaker 1: and I think we did benefit from that, and we
Speaker 1: were pretty we were successful, but it was it was
Speaker 1: like trying to find a completely new formula. Stuff I've
Speaker 1: never told you. Spenty was a different problem, and that
Speaker 1: there had been other hosts, and then it was finding
Speaker 1: your voice within that right savor was sort of like
Speaker 1: make this thing to something people like, it's just interesting.
Speaker 1: I both were hard, but it was going on well,
Speaker 1: and then I believe it was I don't know, dates
Speaker 1: of meaningless. We were told we were told to rebrand,
Speaker 1: basically because they wanted us to be cooler, I think,
Speaker 1: which I'm like, why did you have you ever listen
Speaker 1: to the show We're big nerds.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they wanted us to be cooler, so they wanted
Speaker 1: us to travel, which was great, but it was really
Speaker 1: stressful to travel. I don't want to make it sound
Speaker 1: like I was so lucky. I got to go to Hawaii,
Speaker 1: I got to go to New Orleans, I got to
Speaker 1: go to Ashville, I got to go to all these places.
Speaker 1: It was great, but it was very stressful and it
Speaker 1: was something we were kind of told you have to do,
Speaker 1: and that was another changing of Okay. Well, then what
Speaker 1: is the formula of the show now then? And so
Speaker 1: many great experiences about it, but there's so many times
Speaker 1: I'm like, I wish we had like one more day
Speaker 1: we spent that city, where we could have done a
Speaker 1: better job if we'd had more time. I'm really proud
Speaker 1: of what we did, don't get me wrong, but it's
Speaker 1: just one of those things where like, if you're taking
Speaker 1: other people's time for interviews, which is what those shows
Speaker 1: mostly are, I would have loved to have given them
Speaker 1: more space. But that was a huge learning curve to
Speaker 1: you because I did most of the producing on that,
Speaker 1: and like finding the who we were going to interview,
Speaker 1: which was great because everyone we've interviewed has been really
Speaker 1: kind and really giving. And also it's cool because a
Speaker 1: lot of times they would call other friends while we
Speaker 1: were there and be like, you should talk to them.
Speaker 1: They're good, which is great. That's a great side when
Speaker 1: people are like okay, because you know, sometimes like the
Speaker 1: media comes in and you're expecting some kind of gotcha
Speaker 1: interview or something, but we're just really curious. And then
Speaker 1: I believe at the same time, that's when I was
Speaker 1: asked to be a host on Spin Team, and that
Speaker 1: that was a really that was also something I deliberated
Speaker 1: on for a long time. And when I did that,
Speaker 1: you get a balance, you know, two shows and figure
Speaker 1: all that out. And then after a Bridget left, there
Speaker 1: was only me and that was a real stressful chress
Speaker 1: full time. But then you came to Samantha.
Speaker 2: And I made.
Speaker 3: Which I love going back over the outlines because I
Speaker 3: want to talk about it.
Speaker 2: But I was like, oh, yeah, I just kept saying,
Speaker 2: I'm staying.
Speaker 1: Yes you did, and look, I'm glad you did, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I'm I'm I'm excited to for a mondayment.
Speaker 1: I mean, we did start with a fair very tough topic,
Speaker 1: but I am excited to revisit that in Monday many
Speaker 1: But I just thought, how interesting that these two things
Speaker 1: happened on the same date, kind of a couple of
Speaker 1: years apart. New Beginnings for you twenty two is my
Speaker 1: favorite number.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't I didn't plan it, obviously, but hey,
Speaker 1: look at that. The universe new, the universe new. And
Speaker 1: I have been feeling weirdly, nostalgicallyly. I'm not sure why,
Speaker 1: but so I've been thinking about this and yeah, if
Speaker 1: if you haven't listened to Savor, you can't. We do
Speaker 1: talk about a lot of feminist stuff over on there.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of crossover there, there really is. And
Speaker 1: you've been on Savers.
Speaker 2: And Lauren's been on here for a few a few times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always a fun, fun crossover.
Speaker 3: We still haven't done our supernatural one.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is hilarious to me that both you and
Speaker 1: Lauren during the pandemic.
Speaker 2: We found ourselves.
Speaker 1: You went on a supernatural journey my friends, which we
Speaker 1: did talk about odd Smitty a lot when you and
Speaker 1: I first started, Yes, but yeah, yeah, And we just
Speaker 1: recorded our Savior anniversary episode with super producers Dylan and
Speaker 1: Andrew who used to be producers of Sminty, and we
Speaker 1: talked about that for a little bit. But that was
Speaker 1: one of the things I was thinking about too, is
Speaker 1: sometimes we'll get questions from people just you know, asking
Speaker 1: curious about why.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Sometimes people ask me like why do you do it
Speaker 1: this way and Savor and this way and Spinte. One
Speaker 1: of the things that I find kind of humorous is
Speaker 1: that on Savor, Lauren does the big thing at the end,
Speaker 1: the social media thing, and then on Spinty I do
Speaker 1: it and it's sort of because I was so like,
Speaker 1: I was the newbie when I was on Saver, so
Speaker 1: I was like too afraid to do it, and then
Speaker 1: when you started.
Speaker 2: It right.
Speaker 3: The very few episodes that I've ever been by myself
Speaker 3: and I've done it, I make sure to have your
Speaker 3: script up because it makes me so nervous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just funny because it's sort of like these
Speaker 1: artifacts of things that I'm sure a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't understand, but to us, it's just like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: because I was doing it when Samantha wasn't there, so
Speaker 1: I just kept going. But yeah, I'm so glad that
Speaker 1: you and I found each other for this show, and
Speaker 1: you helped me out both on this show and on
Speaker 1: the Savor by having some support. So thank you well.
Speaker 3: Happy anniversary to both ye, Happy anniversary podcast aniversary.
Speaker 1: I'll take it. I'll take it, yes, And happy podcast
Speaker 1: aversary to you too, well. Listeners. I hope that this
Speaker 1: was in any way relatable enjoyable, but I appreciate you
Speaker 1: letting me go down memory lane. Yes for seconds.
Speaker 2: I love it. Thank you for sharing.
Speaker 1: I still have so many things from that south By
Speaker 1: Southwest trip because they give out so many free things
Speaker 1: there you know that. I just I'm looking around like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I remember when I wrote that faris feel
Speaker 1: and they gave me this. South By Southwest is a scene.
Speaker 2: It is a scene.
Speaker 1: It is It's like a theme park at one section. Wow,
Speaker 1: one day we should go.
Speaker 2: I want to go.
Speaker 3: Well, I kind of there's a whole lot of uh
Speaker 3: controversy right now.
Speaker 2: But then also like, yeah, poor Texas.
Speaker 3: I know Texas is trying though, are people in Texas
Speaker 3: are trying?
Speaker 2: Yes, we support you.
Speaker 1: Know, we do. We do support you. We do absolutely well.
Speaker 1: Cheers to you, listeners, Cheers to you, and I to us.
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Speaker 1: as always to our super producer Christina, our executive producer Maya,
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