On the road.

Show 008 is up and accessible from the link above. A short bit of silliness from Zoe and myself while traveling back together from a tournament.

I am off to the Oregon coast this next week so the podcast will be taking a bit of a vacation as well. While I was hoping to get several episodes in the can, with the summer all up on us, I've had a bit more difficulty getting people to swing by the studio. Something about being busy with family and summery things. Fall should provide a turnaround as people will be around more. Although I imagine as I will be doing games almost every day (in one form or another), most of the shows will have to start on the iRiver.

I don't mind too much, although the interface with Windows Media Player doesn't actually allow me to copy the files directly onto my hard drive (yet another reason I don't use Media Player unless I have to...which I do to delete the files on the iRiver). And the sound quality suffers some (ok, a lot, but I may be the only one whose panties bunch at this).

Still would love to hear stories from any of ya (and I can certainly not use names or any other identifying information if you are concerned about political things...I've heard rumors of someone in Washington not wanting to come on the show because of their position in the state...but I know this person has plenty of great stories).

I will be posting a short lil' podcast before I scamper off on holiday begging y'all for stories to make my life easier. The podcast wasn't meant as a platform for just my idiocy. It was meant as a conduit for everyone's idiocy.

Please email me at refereepov@gmail.com with stories about things.

Show 007 is up and running.

Well, I tried something different this go and have a couple ideas to move in a bit of a different direction involving the fall season (which begins August 28, in case you didn't ask).

If you haven't downloaded Show 007 yet, it's just me babbling on my own about a few matches at the last tournament here in Bellingham, Baker Blast.

Show 008 could very well be of the same ilk (not Baker Blast, but my stupid self talking up stuff), as I am not sure I can drag any of the local referees over to the Studio de la Ref this week. I have been making efforts to secure a body or two, but to no avail. I may be able to relate a couple of entertaining stories from my ventures to the Open Cup the past couple of weeks as I spoke with a former local referee who had a couple amusing bits to tell me. I didn't bring the iRiver as I knew it would be far too loud at Qwest Field to get a good story anyone could hear.

Always appreciate your feedback, refereepov@gmail.com.

Thanks,

Tournament good times.

The iRiver found its way to Northwest Soccer Park last weekend (I managed not to forget -- an accomplishment in itself) and I managed to mix it into something almost audible.

My apologies for the sound quality...there's no way to monitor the levels while recording so you kinda have to hope for the best and give it some love in post. But as I was home with two sick kids yesterday (July 1) and battling the yuck myself, I was quite rushed and the result is well, somewhat disappointing (to me anyway).

I do have a question for all y'all who are listening to the podcast -- have you noticed a lack of high end? When I play back the mp3 version of the show, I am quite sure there is some drop off from the original wav file.

Let me know.

Jonathon

Comedy is on the way.

Well, I have a few stories from the tourney this last weekend, not the most of which is the sick I've managed to incubate to full-grown.

As a result, Show 006 will contain both the sick and not-so-sick voice of mine.

I blame the youngest of my kids as he too is currently under the weather.

And a side-note here, I only managed to bug two people into sitting down with me and recording stuff for the show and both will be presented on Show 006. A thanks to both Arwen and Ruth for taking a bit of time to join in the frivolity. Not that other referees at the tourney wouldn't have talked with me, just it was uncommonly warm and during any breaks we had, we mostly wanted to sit and drink water.

The show should be up tomorrow, Tuesday, July 1, 2008.

Call and leave us a message or email us at refereepov@gmail.com.

Jonathon

Delays, delays, delays.

I'll be stuck out at the soccer park most of the weekend with the Baker Blast tournament, reffing, clinicing and mentoring. And while I should be getting a decent amount of material for the podcast (as I am taking the iRiver with me and plan on sitting down with a couple several referees), I don't imagine I'll have the time to edit all of it and get a new show up by end of day on Sunday.

Speaking of clinics, I'll be instructing a piece of the bridge clinic and another segment where I'll be taking the class out to watch a match, all of us will write down the things we'd like the official to work on (positioning, mechanics, foul selection) as specifically as possible and then we'll leave the pitch and share our findings. I will then speak to the official we watched one on one. This is a new one for me, so I'll let you know how it goes.


With any luck, I'll have the next podcast up on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.

If you haven't already, let your friends and neighbors know about the show.

Thanks,

Jonathon

Finally with the Show 005.

And there you have it. Just a couple days past the typical Sunday release date and the next and most recent podcast can now be delivered unto you, faithful listener.

If you haven't started spreading the word that the podcast doesn't completely suck, please let your friends know to check us on out.

Hoping to get a couple more new bodies in the studio in the next few weeks and may even have a remote show at the Baker Blast Tournament this weekend (where I'll be spending the entirety of my Saturday). Bound to be a couple amusing stories from that fiasco...there always are.

I sincerely appreciate you stopping by and checking out the blog. With any luck, I'll have a bit more time to scribe something interesting in the not too distant future.

You rock.

Jonathon

Show 004 is up!

The good news is Show 004 posted as planned.

The bad news is Show 005 will be a bit delayed.

Why you ask? Well, before I go and blame it on my leaving town on vacation this past week (a handy excuse I know), the real problem is libsyn.com. Or me. Let's call me cheap and let that be the end of it.

As I am only willing to pay for 100/mb a month from libsyn.com and releasing the show every week with sizes just over 26 mb, well, the 30 days in the month and the 28 days in the every Sunday release schedule...well, there's gonna be problems here.

The final result: as I mentioned, I am cheap and will not be springing for more storage space, so the show will post just as soon as I have some available room (should be the 26th).

Thanks for your support.

Jonathon