Minisode: Take the "Show Your Mom What a Podcast Is" Challenge

In this minisode, Grammy award-winning electronic music producer Jamie Loftus shares a Pulitzer Prize-winning song teaching your mom how to access a podcast. Aack Cast will be back next week to kick off the second half of our series!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi, everyone. Jamie loftus here of ac Cast and whatever
else at Cast is taking the week off because we
are at our halfway point in the series. So now
that you've got the context for who Kathy guys White is,
who her contemporaries were, and the fact that the content
of the comic itself was serving far more satire and

(00:27):
commentary on boomer women than anyone ever gave it credit for.
In the second half of this series, which begins next week,
we'll see how Kathy's strips nailed the culture that they
became so popular, and we'll be talking about her insights
on the boomer generation at large. We'll talk about how
the character both condemned and profited from diet culture, and

(00:47):
we'll take a look at how Kathy Guys White's work
and legacy continues to have an impact with women and
non binary comic creators today. But this week, I want
to make a request to you. Now, maybe you are
someone from the boomer generation listening to this podcast, and
that's amazing. Please tell your friends. But if you're like
me and you have boomer parents, I'm asking you to

(01:10):
take the challenge and tell your boomers about this show.
I'm very grateful to everyone who's been listening, and I
would love to get more people from the Kathy Strips
original audience to listen to the show, because here's the thing,
a lot of them don't know how to access podcasts.
Some of them don't know what podcasts are. I've been

(01:30):
doing this job for almost five years and my mom
cracked it like last year. So the show will be
back with new episodes next week. But this week I
wanted to give you a helpful, incredible song that I
wrote that clearly I took a lot of time and
care in that includes instructions on how to show your
mom what a podcast is. I'm going to win a

(01:51):
Grammy for this, so enjoy. Hey, my name is Jamie.
I'm making a podcast about the Kathy comics. Let's call
that cast, and I want your mom to hear it.
Here's what you should do. My mom was afraid of
the concept of a podcast. What is it you get

(02:11):
my computer virus? No, Mom, it's radio on demand from
an unqualified person nobody's heard of. I can't get podcasts.
I have an Android. It's true, my mom has a
five foot tall Android phone. It talked to me when
I was a child. But I sent to the link
to my podcast, and she clicked it, open up right there,

(02:34):
and then she listened to my Little Hotio five And
my mom never looked back again. It's not hard for
your mom to listen to a podcast. And she could
listen to the podcast. Just click at link. Fuck right, sorry,

(02:54):
just clicking link. I texted to your mom the episode
already on your phone. You can listen to it is
how your Car, It's just in a P three file. Mom,
you've learned how to use Facebook in it ruined your life?
Why not just listen to a podcast, and there's a
time and explaining it once you're gonna want to give up.

(03:15):
She'll say, oh, I'm no good with this stuff. I
have your brother show me. You'll say, Mom, that's pretty sexist,
because don't you know OPRA as a podcast. Julianna Margaret
Lise was a guest. You love that, Lady. Michelle Obama
has a podcast. You love the Obama's but I encourage
you to be more critical of centrist policy. I don't

(03:36):
know who Glenn and Doyle is, but you like her.
She has a podcast. Alec Balswan has a podcast, but
you should skip that one. A lot of comedians that
your mom liked in her twenties have podcasts now, but
many of them are fascists, so you have to be careful.
Be very careful. Do not listen to Bed Shapiro on

(03:56):
Around the circumstances. Just listen to my Pie podcast. It's
called ad Cast's friendly for moms. Please listen to it.
It's not hard for your mom to listen to a podcast,
and she could listen to the podcast. Just click the
link I texted your mom. The app is already on

(04:17):
your phone. You can listen to it is how your
Car c r V. It's just an f B three file. Mom,
you learned how to use Facebook and it ruined your life?
Why not just listen to a podcast? Check it out
on the bluetooth and you're hand a c r V.
It's just n n B three file. Mom, you learn
how do you Facebook? And it split up our family.

(04:38):
You sort of just listen to the podcast.