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This podcast is produced by fans of Veronica Mars, and is in no way affiliated with the UPN/CW network, Rob Thomas, or The Powers That Be, and does not reflect the views of any of the entities creating and producing the show. [Greeting of many greetings.] [OPENING THEME MUSIC: Vancefurd- Pirate Song] SANDY: Ahoy, Pirates! This is Sandy and we are here. You’re listening to Neptune Pirate Radio. I’m kind of mimicking my little intro shtick thing there. [Laughter] SANDY: Ahoy Pirates, this is Sandy! THEO: We are in fact here, just to clear things up ‘cause you sound a little in doubt there. We’re here, people. SANDY: Shut up. THEO: It is Sandy, Theo and Bailey coming at you. SANDY: Yes. THEO: And that is terrifying, isn’t it? BAILEY: It is quite terrifying. SANDY: Scarlett is taking finals because some people are still young enough to be in college. She’s not an old fogey like the rest of us. All right. So let’s talk about some big VM news this week. I think this is enormously huge and maybe most of you listeners know. THEO: I think this first bit of news is something I’ve been waiting for... for months and months and months. SANDY: I know, right? BAILEY: Yes. Definitely. THEO: Yes. SANDY: VM… on iTunes. THEO: With us! ‘Cause we’re on iTunes too. SANDY: I know! It’s like we’re buddies. Um. [Bailey laughter] THEO: We’re buddies know. We were like, come on to iTunes. Come on over, Veronica Mars. You know you want it. You know. And they were finally like, all right. BAILEY: We saved you a seat. THEO: That’s right. We saved you a seat. SANDY: Unlike Neptune Pirate Radio, VM is the number two ranked television show in the drama section, which means it’s the number two most subscribed show in the drama section. And it’s number six overall for television shows subscriptions. THEO: That is truly excellent. SANDY: Yes. BAILEY: Well the thing is, is that I’ve always said that they could get a better idea of how many people actually watch the show by doing something like this because there are so many international fans. SANDY: Well here’s the thing though; international fans, unless they have a United States billing address, can’t use iTunes. BAILEY: Really? SANDY: So this is strictly domestic downloads. THEO: Yeah. This is strictly the U.S. BAILEY: I didn’t know that. SANDY: Imagine how amazing it would be if it was actually international. And you know what’s so terrific about it too is The Office, it’s kind of widely known, but The Office was kind of DOA. The U.S. version of The Office. THEO: Yeah. Absolutely. The first season of The Office was not really popular at all. SANDY: Until iTunes. THEO: Until it hit iTunes. That’s right. SANDY: iTunes saved that show. I mean it just increased its popularity exponentially, which is awesome and hopefully this will have the same effect for VM. THEO: Absolutely. It’s a great way to catch up. Especially because I know, like me I have all kinds of television shows downloaded from iTunes. And I have watched entire series on iTunes where I have not been able to catch a single episode on television. And it is fantastic and it’s made me a fan of a lot of shows like that. SANDY: Yeah. BAILEY: And it’s legal! SANDY: It’s totally legal. THEO: Yes. It’s legal. SANDY: And you know I think that’s so true. I got into Grey’s Anatomy by starting to watch it on iTunes because I kept hearing about it and it had already been on for two seasons, and I thought I’m way too late to the ball game. And I started watching it on iTunes, and you could catch up on this season immediately. I mean I could get the DVDs for the first two seasons, but I was also able to catch up on the current season via iTunes, and the same thing with Psych. I got really into Psych over the summer and I could jump right in to watching it on network because I could catch up on that season. I think that’s so huge, is people are afraid to jump in mid-season and now that shouldn’t be an issue. THEO: Right. SANDY: It’s there. It’s on iTunes. You can catch up anytime. THEO: And the same thing with The Office and me. You can buy like, the season pass and if people aren’t- I’m sure you’re used to iTunes by now, but you can buy the season pass for the whole season, and usually the morning after the show airs live or for the first run, it’s on iTunes. So if I miss The Office on Thursday night, I just wake up Friday morning and download it and watch it, you know, on the subway or something like that. It’s perfect. And I can’t wait to be able to do the same thing with VM. Though I would never miss it, I must say. It’s sort of a weekly tradition. But I can do both. I can do both. SANDY: It means I can clean up my DVR, because I am afraid to delete any VM episode from my DVR because I go back and I rewatch them, and now I can actually clean up my DVR a little bit because I have all the episodes now on my computer. Unfortunately they only have season three available on iTunes right now. Um. Hopefully they’ll get both of the other seasons on there as well so people who are for whatever reason afraid to go buy the actual hard copy DVDs can get the whole season. Um. I actually think it would be terrific if they offered the Pilot as a free download. THEO: That would be good. SANDY: You know? THEO: And they usually do that with uh, with whole seasons usually to get them hooked. SANDY: Yeah. To get people to sample it ‘cause I do that sometimes on the weekend. I’m really lame, I don’t know if people know that. I’m really boring and incredibly lame. [Theo laughter] THEO: Confession! Confessions from Sandy. SANDY: Confessions now. Um. But a lot of times on the weekends if I’m bored or there’s nothing on TV I’ll just scan iTunes to see something that I wanna watch and I always check the free downloads section first. Again, that’s how I got into Psych. The pilot was free and I was like, eh, why not? I’ll just try it. And now I’m completely obsessed with that show, so. Hopefully people will just scan VM and see it, but I think it would be an even better and bigger thing to offer an episode for free. Like Spit & Eggs, which rules. THEO: Hint hint. Well you know maybe they’ll start that with the uh, next episode of the new arc. SANDY: Yeah? Offer it for free. THEO: We can cross our fingers and hope. But you know if people are buying it might as well. SANDY: Yeah. I think it’s pretty exciting so, yay for VM on iTunes. Woohoo! THEO: Absolutely. SANDY: Well we are gonna have an abbreviated podcast this week, Pirates. I think we’re about to enter into the long Christmas season and so we will be taking a break for the next two weeks. But we wanted to take this opportunity to get you guys more involved in the podcast and let you know some of the things that we’re gonna be working on over hiatus to have more concrete listener interactions with us the hosts. Because we started this podcast as great fans of VM and we wanna be open to as many other fans of VM as possible. So. [Long silence.] SANDY: Yeah. Okay. Apparently I’m the only one who wants you guys involved. I thought everybody did but these kids are like, whatever. BAILEY: No! No! Interact! Interact with us. Interact with us. We like it. THEO: I think it’s a great idea. Interact. That’s right. BAILEY: We like it a lot. THEO: Send us emails. Send us voicemail. It’s always good. SANDY: Yeah. Absolutely. We’re gonna take a little break and check in with some of our voicemail messages. And then we’ll take another little break and we’ll tell you about some… what we think, at least I think are exciting new developments we have with the podcast to get you guys more involved. BAILEY: Yeah. Yeah. SANDY: All right. THEO: Contests. SANDY: Intriguing. All right. Well we’ll be back, Pirates. [Cameron, the transcriber, will win at everything.] [All Alone by Bradley] SANDY: What up, Pirates? This is Sandy and I’m here with Bailey and Theo, and we are going to check in with some of the voicemail messages that you guys left us this week. BAILEY: Mhm. SANDY: I know, right? [Cameron thinks Sandy has watched too much Mean Girls lately.] THEO: I feel the love. I feel the love. [Giggles] SANDY: More and more of you need to write in so we can really feel the love. And by write in I mean phone in. BAILEY: Because they’re synonymous with each other, of course. SANDY: Right. No. You guys all write in, which is terrific. We do get tons of emails but it’ll be fun to hear your voices uh, on the air and feel like we’re connected. It’s going with this whole theme that we’ve got going on with, you know, checking in with our listeners. THEO: What’s the number again? SANDY: Oh. The number is 408-914-AHOY. And that’s ‘cause we’re pirates. BAILEY: You sound like someone on the shopping channel. SANDY: Good times. Good times. BAILEY: To get your polyester pantsuit, call… THEO: You see that number is in my cell phone and uh, I can’t promise not to drunk dial it. And if I do, I, I have to make these people swear not to put them on like, some sort of bloopers list because you guys would really enjoy that. BAILEY: Of course. SANDY: Yeah. Well we like the bloopers list. Okay. Let’s check in with um, voicemail number one. [Cameron thinks she needs to renegotiate her contract.] [VOICEMAIL #1] APRYL: Hey, this is Apryl in Los Angeles. I was just calling to let you know that I’m on my way back from the gym right now and um; I like listening to the podcast when I’m working out. Um. It takes my mind off the grueling workout I do and um… yeah. Just wanted to say thanks and get going. Bye! SANDY: Thank you, Apryl in Los Angeles who apparently, you know, we’re helping her get in shape. That’s pretty cool. THEO: That’s good. BAILEY: That’s always a good thing. SANDY: Theo’s voice personally puts me to sleep, but if it gets you energized to work out then… THEO: Wow. Hey. How creepy would it be- we talked about Mercer listening to himself while being evil, like me listening to myself while at the gym? I don’t think I could do that. BAILEY: You’re in the mirror with your weights and you’re working out, and you’re listening to yourself on your iPod and you’re like, aw, you look so good. THEO: Oh God. [Laughter] BAILEY: I just got a really nice image in my head. THEO: Seriously. Well that’s good. [Lots of laughter] SANDY: All righty. Okay. Well thank you, Apryl, for calling in. I’m glad that, you know, we can make your gym time go by a little faster. All right. Let’s check in with voicemail number two. [VOICEMAIL #2] APRIL: Hey guys, this is April from Huntington, West Virginia. Um. I just wanted to leave you um, a message and tell you guys that um, I love the show. Keep up the good work. And also one thing that um, I think a lot of people missed – I know I missed it – was on um, the episode President Evil where everybody was dressed up for Halloween at the [mumble], that Mercer’s character um, was um, dressed up like Alex de Large who was a character in the movie A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick. Um. And I didn’t realize that until I went over to MarsInvestigations[dot]net. So that was kind of a big clue right there that he was the rapist. So I just wanted to pass that information along to you guys and just keep up the good work. Thanks. Bye! SANDY: Thank you, April number two! You know, I’ve never actually seen A Clockwork Orange. THEO: Yes. Which is sad. And if anyone out there hasn’t it’s uh, it’s a good movie. It’s really, really weird and the character- BAILEY: It’s disturbing. [CAMERON: Seriously ****ed up.] THEO: It is. And the character she was referring to is uh, is a rapist in the movie, and is punished and the movie’s all about his sort of… sins and punishment and whether the punishment fits the crime and everything like that. It’s a good movie but very trippy. BAILEY: Yeah. THEO: I can see the reference now. It’s a good reference. BAILEY: Definitely. THEO: It’s a good clue. But I have to also say, go thundering herd. Because she is from Huntington. [Laughter] SANDY: And also, you know. Anytime you have questions about an episode definitely do what she did and go check out MarsInvestigations[dot]net because they are the VM information superhighway and they have all the details covered. So. Thanks to our friends over at MarsInvestigations[dot]net. THEO: Yes. Thanks to everyone that called in too. That was amazing. I can’t wait to get more. Can’t wait to wake up on Christmas morning and check the voicemail and have hundreds and hundreds of loving messages. Or three. You know. Whatever happens. SANDY: Or none. That’s always possible too. Um. But we will do our best to play them on the air and it’ll be really exciting I think next season when… well, next season- in January when this season comes back. It seems like it’s a new season because of the finale, but uh- THEO: Yeah. I’ve caught myself saying that too. BAILEY: Me too. SANDY: Yeah. You know we can get more and more of your speculations and you know… theories about what’s going on and what happened to good old Dean O’Dell and whatnot. So. THEO: That’s right. And if it’s a great theory I might invite you to come on Theo Investigates with me and we’ll talk about your theory. How much fun would that be? I mean everyone at home listening; admit how much fun that would be. [CAMERON: So. Much. Fun.] BAILEY: And don’t think that you have to be serious either. You can call and make an ass of yourself and that we’ll probably play as well. THEO: That would be even better actually. [Laughter] BAILEY: Hey, we do it weekly. THEO: That’s right. SANDY: Exactly. There’s plenty of information on us acting like idiots all over the Internet. THEO: All over the information superhighway. SANDY: Right. Um. Okay. On that note we’re gonna take a break and we’ll be back to talk about more of our ideas for listener interactions. See you soon, Pirates. [MUSIC OF BEAUTY] [Beautiful Delusion by Cameron Ember] [This is not the same Cameron.] [Note from your friendly coder, Bailey: it so is the same Cameron. Don't let her fool you with her witty comments and snazzy brackets. ] THEO: Aargh! Welcome back, Pirates. And now it is my proud privilege, well, along with Bailey and Sandy here, to announce our big contest. BAILEY: Woo! THEO: Yes. Absolutely. That is the Stump Sandy Challenge. And we’re gonna do this in two parts. I’m very- this is very exciting. This has taken us quite a long time to figure out. SANDY: Clearly, because it definitely needs a better name than the Stump Sandy Challenge. THEO: I like that. BAILEY: No. I like it. THEO: How about the Sandy Smackdown? I like that better. The Sandy Smackdown. That’s it. And we’re going with that. All right. [Laughter} THEO: The Sandy Smackdown Challenge. Um. Basically what we’re gonna do is have- if you would, please submit questions about VM trivia. Anything that’s not too ridiculous. Let’s avoid the “What was the third letter of Lillian Mars’ license plate?” Um. [CAMERON: Lillian Mars?] THEO: Let’s avoid those. But please submit up to three questions each and send them to my email account. Submit those by January 5th, 2007. And on the podcast that goes live on January 7th, I’m gonna ask Sandy randomly drawn questions, and the first one to stump her, we are gonna invite the person that comes up with that question to the final round for the mega-ultimate Sandy Smackdown Challenger, which will be recorded on the podcast on January 20th. And on the 20th we’re gonna have the person that writes the question that stumped Sandy come on the show. We’re gonna have them write 5 questions. We’re gonna have Sandy write 5 questions. And then we’re gonna have the biggest face off of VM trivia in recorded history. We’re gonna have them ask each other questions back and forth, back and forth, until someone wins or there is a tie. THEO: And if Sandy answers more questions correctly I have promised her I will admit that she is the goddess of all VM trivia in the known universe and is… you know. I will properly, you know, grovel and beg forgiveness for all of the evil things I’ve said to her over the past… oh what? Five years I think? SANDY: That’s right. THEO: That’s right. And if the challenger wins, Sandy has to put her money where her mouth is and she is going to buy the challenger his or her choice of a T-shirt from the Cloud Watchers Café Press Store. So a valuable gift, a very valuable reward I think. And so if they go back and forth, 5 questions each, and there’s a tie; we’re gonna have a sudden death challenge. And it’s so top secret that Bailey and I… we can’t even talk about it on the air. And we haven’t told Sandy. So um. Let’s just say it’ll be something to tune in for, I think. So everyone, I would like to invite you all to submit 3 questions for the first round to see who can submit- who can Stump Sandy first. Uh. And submit them to my email or- and Bailey is going to tell you more about this in a second- you can submit it through MySpace on my MySpace profile. And Bailey, why don’t you tell the people about that new development if you please? BAILEY: Yes. Neptune Pirate Radio has officially invaded MySpace. Um. As of right now all on-air personalities have a MySpace page in the format of www.myspace[dot]com/bailey_npr. Sandy is sandy_npr. Etc. And it’s just going back into another way for us to interact with people a little bit more. Um. There will be regular Neptune Pirate Radio updates on there as well as a little bit of a personal touch from each person. And it’s really exciting. THEO: Yes. [Cameron has her MySpace too. She only speaks in brackets.] SANDY: Yeah I think it’ll be um, I think it’ll be fun for our listeners to interact with one another, to get to know each other, as well as to get to know us a little bit better. BAILEY: Yes. SANDY: And I think there are a lot of times when for reasons too numerous to list that a podcast is delayed or a transcript goes live, and we can send you bulletins over MySpace to notify you of when those events take place. The contest details will be available on MySpace if you wanna see a written version. They will also obviously be on our regular website but this gives you an opportunity to sort of comment, to ask questions, to be more involved with what we’ve got going on because we love our listeners and we really want to get to know you better. THEO: Right. Everyone on the planet is on MySpace as I found out this week. So, um. [Laughter] SANDY: Yeah. THEO: It’s very funny. Everyone, I wish they could have seen me trying to, you know, get this MySpace profile right. It was so frustrating and I realize it’s like, there are so many people out there that have like, these elaborate, gorgeous MySpace profiles and I’m like, I wanna change my font! How do I change my font? [Laughter] SANDY: Exactly. So we hope that you guys check those out and leave us messages and give us feedback. You can tell us things that you like, ideas that you have about the podcast or things that we could do differently when the show starts back up. I think we really wanna take advantage of this time during hiatus to improve, to get your feedback and to make Neptune Pirate Radio the best podcast it can possibly be. THEO: Right. Plus, I wanna know that I have more friends than Sandy at the end of the day. Please help me prove that, everyone. BAILEY: Theo and I have a mini-contest for you. Everybody go to Sandy’s MySpace page and try to spot the insult. SANDY: Oh. THEO: That’s right. Yes, Sandy. Why don’t we talk about the insult next time we’re together again, shall we? SANDY: Yeah. Maybe so. Maybe I have a little editing to do. THEO: That’s right. MySpace[dot]com/sandy_npr. SANDY: All right. Well anyway, thanks Pirates! BAILEY: Don’t go now. THEO: Don’t friend her. SANDY: Thank you, Pirates, for tuning in and um, we will see you on the flip side. Have a Happy Holiday, Chanukah’s already started. Merry Christmas. Happy Kwanzaa. Happy New Year. And we’ll see you in ’07. Or sooner on MySpace. Woohoo! [Laughter] SANDY: Aargh! Bye, Pirates. THEO: Bye, Pirates. BAILEY: Bye! [CLOSING THEME! Brent Pocker- Neptune’s Water] BAILEY: If you enjoyed the music featured in this week’s podcast, find out more at www.neptunepirateradio.com or email me at bailey[at]neptunepirateradio.com. Additionally, some of the music you heard here tonight was provided by the Podshow Podsafe music network. Check it out at: http://music.podshow.com. [END BROADCAST] [Cameron wishes you all a wonderful holiday season. Send her presents.] [END TRANSCRIPT] |