Michael and Evo: Wingin’ It!

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Bear with me.

-E

Hey gang. New home for Michael and Evo’s Wingin’ It!. Bear with us as we get things cleared up. For those of you subscribed to the show via iTunes, no changes will be made. And we’ll even make accomocations for others. We’re super nice that way.

E.

This Week’s Voicemail Show!

This show is for you! We’re receiving so much voicemail and email feedback commentary that it just won’t fit in one show anymore. Plus there are all those extra long drinking game cues from commenters…

On the mics are: Michael, Evo, Jack Mangan, TD-0013 and Eliza the pastry chef. No Ninjas this time.

Hungry for even more fun? Check out Jack Mangan’s Deadpan Podcast, and keep an eye out for A Different Point of View, the latest additions to the FarPoint Media stable.

• Evo describes the weirdness of the day
• Dani in NC on Evo’s sticky member, and geeks in NC
• Michael from Nashville wants to know why 1-900-Summer isn’t working
• Enormous from Australia on cable company PVR storage
• Luci is preparing Evo’s special hell
• Darryl from Austin with chocolate stout, wondering about fireflies, and apologizes for his botched live call last time
• John Boze from Blue Sun Marketing has a new name pitch for Joe
• Jeremy from Seattle: Sex Call!
• Alvie from Boulder with sexcapades updates
• Darryl from Austin got hit by a car while walking
• Jeremy from Seattle plans the sex call
• Karen from Kalifornia calls from the La Paloma Restaurant/Bar
• Ari from Boston wants info on when we start the live recording
• Andrea calls in drunk off her ass, and wants to start cinema dick sightings
• Andrea follows up, still totally drunk
• Trea shows Michael the love
• Darryl from Austin stumbles home drunk after seeing a “Monster Squad” special screening
• Wingin’ It Drinking Game Rules update
• Doug revels in confusing Doug Kress and the rest of us
• Everyone naked?
• Mark from Louisville wonders why there are so many fans of the show named Mark
• Darryl from Austin with a world news update (still drunk)
• Alvie in Boulder has concerns about the parents of our youngest listeners
• Richard from Macon with shout-outs to the crew and fans
• Tim has a Cancun “Snakes on a Plane” story
• Paul from Des Moines comments on the Wingin’ It music
• Phil Rossi from VA with a pub update, and a show release request
• Mondo Feed Update: Get off of it!
• Brad from PodCulture Podcast wants a beer recommendation
• Jessie from St Louis listened to a Wingin’ It marathon, and realizes how much she loves Evo
• Phil Rossi from VA with Andrea, virtually drinking cocktails
• Jonathan from Cape Town comments on the scifi shows they have available

Submitting Listener comments: If you have any suggestions or comments, please let us know. You can call our Voicemail Number, 206-600-GEEK, or email Michael with a comment you’ve recorded yourself!

 

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The Mission

Now listen. None of this was our idea. We thought that it might be mildly entertaining to record ourselves hanging out after a hard day of recording many other shows for FarPoint Media. We got the “entertaining” part right, but sorely misjudged the appeal it would have.

Welcome to Michael and Evo’s Wingin’ It!. It’s often a silly place, and we hope to the gods you don’t take anything we say too seriously. Remember, we’ve been drinking.

The Bodies

Michael R Mennenga

Often the butt of less-sensitive cast members insensitive jokes, Mike is the guy doing double duty on the show. He’s not only the co-host of the show, but also the guy responsible for making everyone sound so damned good. And that’s an awful big board with lots of pots, dials and buttons for someone who’s been drinking to play with. But what the heck. Liver dangerously, you know?

Find out more about Mike at his official website.

Evo Terra

The above mentioned asshole. But hey, you’d be an asshole too if you had to do what this guy deals with every week. Beyond a simple co-host, he’s responsible for keeping the conversation on track and coming up with various asinine statements to throw the rest of the crew off before anyone thinks the conversation turns too serious. After all, this is Wingin’ It!

Evo has his hands in too many pies, but you can check out his MySpace profile for now. He also seems to over use the word “too” in descriptions

Summer Broooks

“When I took this job, no one told me these guys had a drinking problem.” 1.5 years later, Summer still manages to find time for these slobs, filling the role of Producer for them more meaningful projects. On this show, she’s the sexy voice of rationality when the testosterone gets pumping. Brave, brave woman.

Summer can usually be found hanging around with other Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas.

Joe Murphy

Sweet little Joe from Illinoise awoke to the horrid sound of a twister one morning. After the storm passed, he was deposited in the alien landscape of Arizona and a vague feeling of homesickness. That quickly vanished when we offered him piles and piles of free books. And killer desert when he hits the studio.

When he’s not peering into auditory canals, he’s Kicking Ass like a Mystic Ninja.

Mur Lafferty

Mur is the sheer brilliance behind Geek Fu Action Grip, a regular segment on Wingin’ It! which covers the world of geekdom from a more elevated point of view. If it’s pissing you off, it’s probably pissing off Mur as well, and she’ll be writing an essay about it soon. If she can pull her self away from her toddler for that long.

Find Mur at Geek Fu Action Grip and other places.

TD-0013

All the way from the desert world of Tatooine comes TD-0013, bringing regular reports to the listeners of Wingin’ It! in order to try to give everyone the real truth about Stormtroopers , the Empire, and everything else in the Star Wars universe people seem to be so damned confused about.

He’s got his own digs you should check out.

Jack Mangan

Humor is in the eye of the holder. Or would that be ear? What about the brain? At any rate, Jack’s the brains behind Duel of the Fates, the author of Spherical Tomi (the only book which is a drink cue) and the host of his own show, Jack Mangan’s Dead Pan.

Assorted Characters

The above list consists of folks who, more often than not, make it to the studio at least a few times a month. But honestly, the show would not be what it is without the contribution of so many others like:

• Charlie the Beer Guy
• Robert G. Parent
• Mark from Memphis
• Karen from Kalifornia
• Andrea
• Jimmy from Denver
• Others I’m forgetting
• … and all you crazy assed fans!

The Wingin’ It! beer openers have arrived!

Thanks to those of you who took 92 of them off the market before they even arrived. For those of you who were deciding to wait, you now have to fight among the eight which are left over.

Or… we could do a new batch. In fact, we will do a new batch, but we’ll wait to see how many more of you freaks our loyal fans would like to order one. And you can do that here.

What’s on this week: DJ your asses off!

Michael, Evo, Summer, Joe, and Eliza the budding pastry chef are all alone in studio, because of the earlier-than-usual start.

• Eliza can’t perform on command
• Summer displays ADD behaviors
• First Drink of the Day: Radik sent us Cascazilla Red Ale, and Evo likes it… he really really likes it. Mike on the Ithaca Apricot Wheat? Not so much. Ithaca Nut Brown: better
• The Dragon Page R&D Team: This Week’s Best
• Wingin’ It Drink Recipe Book Call for Submissions: send to crowe @ geeklectic.com
• Snakes on a Tardis!
• Candy from NZ courtesy Dave Hill: Cadbury Eggs great, Squiggles great, Pineapple Lumps not so much
• Pool Party :: June 10: be sure to RSVP to get your space!
• Dragon Page Pool Temperature Check: 70 degrees
• Donate to the Party Fund!
• iPod DJ Unit: So Rocks!
• Haiku Moment: Surrender
• VM: Andrew from R&D sez go to Trek Passions
• Mike and Evo want to recruit Dragon Page Babes for a 2007 Calendar
• SciFi Poetry Slam: A Spider’s Journey
• Chatroom update: 42 people in attendance
• Shoutcast server possibilities for the Live Studio Feed
• Eliza thinks Evo in a chainmail thong is hot
• VM: The Special Dragon Page Alphabet from Paul Fischer
• Mike deleted 60 voicemails, and there’s still a loaded VM show
• Evo asks that your iPod screen be legible enough to prove that you’re listening to Wingin’ It
• Andrea sent us Godiva Chocolate Liquer
• Re-Beer!
• Evo Genius: Dragon Page Trading Cards and Card Game
• Mike slept asking for a live caller
• Wingin’ It now has Voicemail Rules: Be Funny, people!

Listen to the Wingin’ It Voicemail show later this week! That’s right… double the Wingin’ It fun, because you asked!

Want to send us comments? Feel free to call us at 206-600-GEEK (600-4335) and let ‘er rip, or send some bloody emails!

Promos:

• PSA: SciFi Spousal Abuse
• The Gmail Podcast
• Podculture Podcast
• Mennegasia diagnoses and cures

 

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Relax, all is right with the world. We’ve decided to add a “splash” page to break up the three shows. For the record, I hate splash pages. But since “the Dragon Page” means something very different to potential listeners of With Class to those of Wingin’ It!, we had to make adjusments.

(Note for those reading via RSS feed: Check out the new index page. http://dragonpage.com/index.html if you wanna see what all the hubub is about.)

Love it? Hate it? Whatever. Got a better idea that doesn’t rely on rebranding one or all three shows? Comments are great.

I’ve been half-heartedly following social networkings rise in popularity over the last six months or so. About five weeks ago, some really smart people I listen to (yes, I do think there are smart people out there, perhaps even smarter than I) lifted the conversation to a new level. So now I’m paying attention. And just playing in general.

The coolest thing I’ve seen in the last five minutes is Eventful, a social network for gatherings, events and (as I’ve recently made it) pool parties! Wil Wheaton (biggest one in four counties) turned me on to the site today, and I’ve been playing. Set up my own Performer profile (Evo = Evo, remember) and added a few things to the list.

If you are an event coordinator or involved with any cons, get your arses over to Eventful and sign up. It’s got auto-updating to a bunch of other sites and the interface is pretty intuitive.

This Week’s Voicemail Show!

This show is for you! We’re receiving so much voicemail and email feedback commentary that it just won’t fit in one show anymore. Plus there are all those extra long drinking game cues from commenters…

On the mics are: Michael, Evo, Summer, Joe, Jack Mangan, Charlie the Beer Guy, TD-0013 and Eliza the pastry chef. Also, go check out Jack Mangan’s Deadpan Podcast, and keep an eye out for A Different Point of View, the latest additions to the Farpoint Media stable.

• Andrea wants a Slice of SciFi t-shirt
• Someone in Alberta is drinking something Red
• Big Mack calls from a nudie bar to let us know about the Beer Festival
• Wingin’ it Seminars to help women appreciate strip joints
• Evo wants to arrange a Vancouver drink hookup while he’s there
• Andrea is curious about Evo’s sticky chocolate dick
• Big Mack is still at the same bar
• Jason in Oregon corrects Summer about Cour d’Alene
• Live Caller: Andrea from Chicago
• Darryl from Austin missed a date because he wanted to be in the Skype daisy chain audio feed
• Chris from Indianapolis with a new name for Joe
• More new names for Joe
• Ben from Chapel Hill substitutes milk for beer in the drinking game
• Eliza explains asswater
• Dean from Idaho on the Cour d’Alene Brewing Company
• Darryl from Austin stumbling home with a partial screenplay and MREs
• Scott from Winston-Salem says it’s near beer, not NA beer
• Tom with the OB wants to know why the phone number isn’t on the website
• Live Caller: Paul from Des Moines
• Douglas from Denver with a weather update from his pants
• Phil from Australia wants his Killer Bunnies card
• Phil Rossi from VA wants a house call with his birthday wish from Summer
• Ben from Chapel Hill has concerns about Karen from Kalifornia’s flaunting
• Brad from Podculture knows someone who consumes Bud and Oreos at the same time
• Darryl from Austin wants to know if other people who walk home drunk with a lean
• Drinking Game comments, and Rum inquiries
• Paul from Des Moines on limiting voicemails lengths
• Michigander Jim on NPR
• Live Caller: Karen from Kalifornia
• Suzy from Maine with another news sighting of Snakes on a Plane
• TD-0013 checks in with a new name for Joe
• Maz from Bisbane on Japanese beer
• TOM BAKER SAYS SNAKES ON A TARDIS! (courtesy of Johnny from London)
• Wingin’ It Sobriety Test

Hey, Don’t Forget! Check out Jack Mangans’s new show, the Deadpan Podcast!

Submitting Listener comments: If you have any suggestions or comments, please let us know. You can call our Voicemail Number, 206-600-GEEK, or email Michael with a comment you’ve recorded yourself!

 

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