The Rants And Raves Podcast

Episode 39: Monster Energy vs Energy Vampires

Dana is double fisting caffeinated beverages while explaining her need to do some deep nesting.  Simmer down, she's not pregnant.  Jessica wants you to support your local farmers and be sure to try the Thanksgiving balls at Porto's bakery.  Rant #1 - strangers or people you aren't close with dumping their life problems on you, literally every time you see them.  Dana admits to recently letting Jessica drown in this exact scenario when they were out together. Rant #2 questions why every size bag is now available with wheels, even lunch bags.  Why does Dana have a thing with 13 suitcases or say she would still wear Bath and Body Works Apple if she could?  Why does Jessica have a Plant Nanny?  What the What Corner is a happy lottery accident and a new emotional corner about a woman who texts her late father's number for years to finally receive an unexpected reply.  A shared love for all prison themed shows, Jessica's dad sends her an article that became a rave.  Uzo Aduba partnered with Global Citizen to work towards getting her parents native country Nigeria up to par with clean water and sanitation by 2025.  After guesting on an episode of Take Me To Coffee Podcast, Dana shares the I'll Be There Project which inspires and commits acts of kindness after it's creator Chun Rosenkranz wanted to pay it forward after he was shown love while serving time in prison.  

Global Citizen - https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/water-and-sanitation-crisis-sub-saharan-africa/

ACTIVATE - The Global Citizen Movement - https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/connect/activate/episode6/

I'll Be There Project - https://www.facebook.com/illbethereproject/

Episode 38: Trick or Treat, Smell My...

A post Halloween late night recording session has Dana baffled by Jessica's fear of certain costumes and what she thinks has gone too far.  What did Jessica's husband present to Dana that made her act like she had won the lottery? An amazing day performing with Young Storytellers has Dana inspired by this upcoming generation's ideals and attitudes.  Rants this week span from scam phone calls for mortgages and student loans to fanciful language for food descriptions.  We learn where Jessica's own knack for fanciful language comes from when she explains what Wordly Wise is to Dana.  Hometown Hero corner features a cop who buys a mother in need the very thing he was going to ticket her for not having.  I Can't Corner features a woman who is confident in her own Scents-abilities.  Raves include a website with various modules on self help, anxiety and depression from a Norweigan clinical psychologist and Project Linus, a non profit making and providing new handmade blankets for children in need by volunteer blanketeers.  

Psykoloogisk Veiledning - https://psykologiskveiledning.com/english-1

Project Linus - https://www.projectlinus.org/

Episode 37: Get Your Motor Runnin' on Sound Waves, Your Life May Depend On It Muah, Hahahahahaha

If you don't have the energy to carve a pumpkin, Dana and Jessica agree it's cool to just paint them or draw a face with a sharpie. Dana went back to her "quiet place" and discovered a creature released from a home aquarium lurking in the pond. Jessica rants about people who rev their engines and wants to know if they think they are macho or a turn-on to women. Dana rants about how crazy Halloween Haunted Rides, Houses, etc, have gotten out of control with what happens in them and having to sign waivers so you can't sue them while Jessica reminisces the good and bad of the holiday tunes of yesteryear. Dana showed the power of kindness to a stranger who was hurt in an accident. Kids Are Amazing Corner features high school students in the Philippines who invented an inexpensive way to produce electricity from sound waves and the Weirdo of the Week made an engagement ring out of a year of "clippings." Our first rave is 82 year old Daphne Neville who raises rescued otters and has championed to bring back the population within England's rivers.  With fires raging across California, our second rave is the CSFA, California's oldest and largest firefighters association who has posted links on their site to help firefighters who have currently lost their homes in these recent wildfires. 

www.CSFA.net - https://www.csfa.net/CSFA/CalFF/articles/Donation_Funds_for_Firefighters_Who_Have_Lost_Their_Homes_During_the_Recent_and_Tragic_NorCal_Fires.aspx

Episode 36: Up And Away, Don't You Heat Up Those Leftovers Today

Dana takes Jessica to a wilderness reserve tucked in the outskirts of the city for an afternoon surprise and inspiration. Another unfortunate biological assault ensued when Dana violently sneezed into Jessica's face. Dana rants about elevator etiquette and not letting people off before you get on. Jessica rants about people who are oblivious to olfactory offenses when it comes to pungent food in close quarters with others. When it comes to deodorant, they know aluminum is bad, but are willing to take that risk so they don't smell putrid. OMG Corner is a woman who can't close her eyes after botched surgery. Weirdo of the Week is a woman who tried to pass off a baggie of meth as a bow clipped into her hair. Raves include a local Haunted House who asks for food donations as the price of admission and collected 600 meals last year. A little boy dresses as a police officer and goes around a nursing home handing out tickets to the residents for "being too cute" and offers them a hug. 

Episode 35: Smell Down and Shut Up

From Willy Wonka-esque adults booze tours to magic shows and castles is how Jessica and Dana spent their week. A rant about people who talk and or film while in any kind of theater, causes Dana to relive the night she just needed to escape at the movies and ended up putting her underwear somewhere else and when Jessica screamed at an entire theater to shut the F up. Rant #2 breaks down the reality of people wearing too much fragrance, and Dana knows someone who touts a "secret signature scent."  Jessica knows about perfume turning to powdery musk and the 80's classic Opium that you could taste.  Kids Are Amazing Corner is Joshua Beckford, a child prodigy who began attending Oxford at 6 years old. Hero Of The Week is a postal worker who found two missing children.  Rave #1 is the Appalachian Bee Collective, retraining out of work coal miners how to become beekeepers who can keep and tend to hives for a new career.  Rave #2 is DeAngelo Williams, a former NFL player who has paid for over 500 women to have mammograms. The first Rants and Raves live taping is Oct 18 and Dana is doing a charity benefit breast cancer Oct 19 for A Cause For Entertainment and they are auctioning her boob drawing! 

 

SBSK Video- https://youtu.be/1nKqG908r2chttps://youtu.be/1nKqG908r2c

Appalachian Bee Keeping Collective - https://appheadwaters.org/beekeeping/

DeAngelo Williams Foundation - https://deangelowilliams34.org/

Cause For Entertainment - https://causeforentertainment.com/

Episode 34: Phone Tap and Temperature Snap

Why did Dana leave Jessica hanging during their opening jingle?  Jessica loves tap dancing so much but Dana blames big boobs on not wanting to take adult classes with her.  Dana  rants about calling any customer service line for support only to be put on hold when leaving your number for a return call during peak hours.  Why are Jessica and Dana so enamored with prison shows?  Who does Dana picture in her mind when reading historical fiction novels? Jessica rants about why she has such an issue saying no to people, especially strangers.  Weirdo of the Week involves roadkill cuisine and Celebrity Corner is one celeb giving another a tattoo.  Raves include a 92 year old who volunteers at a nursing home and Greta Thunberg, a young woman challenging the world in regards to climate change.   

Episode 33: Super Glued Lips and Ride Share Tips

Jessica bought a cheeky sign for a gift exchange at an improv festival and Dana approached a man holding a pen because she thought it was a lizard.  Dana demonstrates how to "yell" at someone by motioning to them through hand movements in the rear view mirror.  A listener from La Belle Provence provides a rant close to Jessica's heart, bar soap in a powder room for guests.  Dana rants over a listener's intense hatred for Fanny packs and the fact that hipsters are wearing them across their chests instead.  Travel back to jolly old England with talks of chastity belts and how they were locked.  Find out how Jessica really feels about celebrity children taking over their deceased parents' acts.  What is Gordon Ramsey's favorite food that Dana has never heard of?  A listener provides a follow up with tips to prevent unpleasant ride share experiences.  Raves include a single dad who has worked with disabled and special needs people since he was 14 and adopted a toddler with Down Syndrome who was passed over by 20 families.  Rave #2 is Paws of Honor, providing veterinary care and products to retired military and law enforcement dogs in the D.C. area so the burden is not on the officers/handlers/owners once the dogs hae been decommissioned.  

Paws of Honor - https://www.pawsofhonor.org/

Episode 32: Pawsitively Boobtiful

Dana's obsession with scatting is getting more refined and Jessica looks through the valu-pak of weekly coupons hoping something will surprise her.  Rants include people who take their pets everywhere treating them like living dolls, and people who put their entire wallet into their cleavage during the dead of summer.  What did Jessica do with her wallet when she went to the Rose Bowl and how does it make Dana feel? Corrections Corner and Mr. Young Corner is the comic relief to the new Villains Corner Dana tried to make up in place of Weirdo of the Week. A message in a bottle made its way into a police officer's heart and an astronaut peeped her ex's bank account from space.  Raves include Sleep in Heavenly Peace, an organization building beds for kids in need and the city of Dublin training the homeless community to be paid city tour guides. 

Sleep in Heavenly Peace - https://www.shpbeds.org/

Episode 31: Here Come the Pot Lucker

Jessica offends Dana by "insulting her skatabilities," and the girls go down the musical well dropping hits by 90's rappers from the Islands.  A double edged rant from a listener has them contending with loud chewing and people who insist on sitting right next to you when there are plenty of open seats elsewhere.  Dana schools Jessica on how to remove sticky situations with pine resin salve. Jessica admits that she is one of the people Dana is referring to in another listener's rant regarding slow drivers in the fast lane.  What better pot luck dish is there than homemade baked beans?? A teacher asks for help when one of her students is bullied and never expected the outpouring from a community in another state.  Did you know Frances Perkins was responsible for labor laws as we know them today?  Raves this week include a Malawi female chief who is using her newly elected position to save and empower young girls and a school that gives PE credit to students who do yard work for elderly and disabled members of their community.  

 

Episode 30: Balls To The Wall, What's A Food Hall?

Dana and Jessica have had a lot of balls thrown at them and they have had enough.  Right away Dana is proud to discuss her love of all things Sasquatch and Jessica wants to know why they have become this season's owl or octopus.  Dana is convinced her house is cursed and Jessica explains to her the magic of a gourmet food hall.  Ride Shares are the main source of grief in this week's rant and Dana had plenty, with the exception of a private jet.  Weirdo of the Week and What the What Corners will leave you spinning, while Kids Are Amazing will melt your heart as a seventh grader donated his county fair earnings to a children's hospital.   Raves this week include Shoes For The Homeless and a listener who started an ongoing shoe drive for them in LA. Also, Cultivate Culinary, a food rescue that repurposes and repackages food into take home meals for children.  

Shoes For the Homeless - https://www.shoesforthehomeless.net/

Cultivate Culinary - https://cultivateculinary.com/food-rescue/