Sasha and her friend Colin went to see Amy Sedaris doing a question and answer and signing for her new book I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence at the Decatur Library.

Laura and Dwight originally tried to buy a house there or around there.

Sasha and her old boyfriend Brian were held up at gunpoint in East Atlanta when she was still in high school.

I'm Laura and I'm doing the show without Dwight or Sasha tonight.

I don't like Christmas. It's just a lot of pressure and I fail at Christmas traditions, besides I'm not religious. I do like other holidays though.

I play "Christmas Here on Mars" by the girl group Bubble from the EP Bubble & Black Halos Xmas 2001.

Even though this podcast is called The Coffee and Tea Show, it is more of a comedy discussion and indie music show. But we do drink coffee and/or tea during production. Tonight I am drinking Kroger store brand coffee. Why? Cuz I am broke. However, I did grind the beans, so nyah!

I play the great Texas blues piece "Coffee Man" by Calvin Owens from his album The House Is Burnin'.

We had a really good Thanksgiving with the inlaws. No problems. We're all fat and happy.

I play "Honey-Bee" from the Scottish singer Super 8 from his album Daysaver.

The music I played tonight comes from Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Coffee and Tea Show is a member of blubrry.com and gapodcastnetwork.com, so check them all out!

Tonight's show consists of our guest podcaster Daniel, Dwight and Laura.

We start out with a discussion of possible voter fraud due to electronic voting.

First song: "Liberty Jones" by The Shakes.

Our next topic of discussion is Fundamentalism. Also what is our favorite Thanksgiving food. We discuss our favorite Bible verses because we're wacky like that. Daniel points out that the Bible was polytheistic at first. Green bean casserole is pretty darn good. According to the Bible you shouldn't mix fabrics and you should have blue tassels. Who wants a vibrating shaver? Everyone must miss Sasha so much. Chestnuts are pretty nice.

Laura has been enjoying the Hellbound Alleee podcast lately. It's a smart pro-secular-thought show with quirky music in the Mondo Diablo episodes.

Suddenly a demon is summoned.

The Coffee and Tea Show is part of blubrry.com and gapodcastnetwork.com Podsafe Music Network supplied tonight's musical interludes.

Last song: "Coffee Shop" by Smallfish from their album What If.

But I feel pretty good though because right before that a lady came up to me and asked me what color my hair was because it was so beautiful.

We're going to be working on Podcamp Atlanta today at 9:00 Eastern with an online meetup. We wanted face-to-face at Java Monkey in Decatur, but that was nixed because so many of the organizers live way north of there. I think that some of us still plan to meet there next Sunday though.

I can hardly wait. We plan to have Podcamp in March, though details are still being worked out. Anyone in the south who either has a show or wants to start a podcast would do well to attend this free event.

Circumstances have been such that I haven't been able to get this show edited and online until now. I apologize. However, this is our 25th show! Who'da thunk?

This is a pets episode. Laura had two dogs and a bunch of rats (42) die recently.

Sasha tells about her pet dove Phineas Gage. She had a red claw crab named Crunchy Pete, who died fairly recently.

Laura's grandfather forced her family to have quails when they were kids. Laura isn't sure why.

Sasha had an aunt who would kill and eat pet chickens that had names. This reminds Laura and Sasha of how traumatic it is to pick out a live lobster to eat (Laura is glad to be a vegetarian.).

Laura's daughter Halley bit a small fish when she was little.

Laura's cat bothered everyone because she wanted to sleep on top of the monitor since the house was cold. She complained throughout the show.

Sasha's dad stepped on a goldfish once.

Laura used to play with baby turtles at a Kresge's dime store in East Tennessee in the early '60s when she was a little kid unless the clerks yelled at her.

Sasha liked to harass parakeets at Woolworth's.

Sasha doesn't like to pet potbelly pigs. Sturgeon are good to pet. Laura likes it when minnows nibble on you in mountain streams.

Canada geese and swans are intimidating.

A discussion about the children's section at Zoo Atlanta.

Coffee and Tea Show is a member of blubrry.com.

Song from Podshow Podsafe Music Network is "Black Coffee" by Stephanie Harger.

Congratulations to our homegirl Leann from Tag In The Seam podcast for being picked as Guest Pickler on Podcast Pickle.

Short intro, due to having to pick up Maia. Don't worry folks, Sasha's still around. She's been really busy with work and finals.

Does anyone have any experience with editing really long sound pieces? We have a three-hour recording from Sasha that needs to be edited down and don't know if any of our software will even open it.

Our first song from music.podshow.com is "Greasy Coffee Beans" by Robert Morgan Fisher from his album Follow a Hunch.

Halley is going on a trip to Costa Rica possibly.

We discuss Project Runway. That show is full of outrageous product placement and nasty accusations.

Laura redyed her hair. It is now burgandy and purple.

Dwight is eating diabetic candy and is in danger of getting the trots.

Our friend Daniel calls. He discusses a book he's writing. We heard from our friend Ray in Eugene, Oregon who is planning to marry his latest prisoner girlfriend. Daniel is a prison nurse, so he knows a lot about it. Daniel now is trying out Linux because we all agree we hate Windows Genuine Advantage. We also diss Republicans. The call ends in a barrage of bad jokes.

We are members of blubrry.com, where you can find lots of great podcasts.

We end podcast with "Ragtop Cadillac" by George Fletcher and his band Bourbon Renewal from his album Ain't the Worst That You Could Find.

Poor Miss Polly can't pay the rent-- whatever shall she do?

It's really short. Enjoy.

Coffee and Tea Show is proud to be part of Blubrry.com where apparently E's do not exist. You can find plenty of great podcasts there.

Coffee and Tea Show is now a member of blubrry.com, the Mack Daddy of podcast sites.

The talented and uber-wonderful George Hrab, whose music we've played a couple of times before, created this promo for us. Enjoy!

We haven't been able to record too many episodes lately because nobody can get together at the same time. Also Laura's working on Rocky Horror Pod Show which has a far stricter release schedule.

Apache Cafe Art Mondays Green Space show info.

We're going to Clermont Lounge to celebrate Sasha's birthday tonight. If I can get a recording, I'll post it at the end (and indeed it is!).

Laura and Coffee and Tea Show got a great mention on Graham Holland's "It's a Frogs Life Acoustic Podcast" episode 6. Laura got a "Golden Graham" award. Heh heh.

Laura's old dog Shadow died on Friday. He had been getting old and sick and Laura waited until she was sure to take him to the vet to be put down and then it was too late. Laura tells stories about Shadow.

Tonight's music from music.podshow.com is "Diatomaceous Earth" from The Blue Vagrants on their album Some Kind of Paradise.

Finally, a clip from Sasha, Joe, James, Dwight, Kaitee, and Laura after we leave Clermont Lounge telling about all the great times we had with the strippers in there.

We are proud to announce that we are now listed in blubrry.com, a social podcast site. Please check it out--you'll find it easy to navigate and there are lots of great shows there. Remember, it's blubrry, without the "e"s.

Tonight, we have a visitor in the studio: Sasha's buddy Kaitee. The show is therefore totally out of control, you may notice.

Sasha's sunburn.

Backlit portraits are for sale on Buford Highway. Also, Twin Tower pictures with clouds that look like spaceships are available for purchase there as well.

"Hi, little cock!"

Sasha's desire to wear Kaitee's skin is brought up.

Sasha used to dress in My Size Barbie clothes.

Suddenly something large falls on the roof. What is going on out there? A storm is brewing!

Kaitee desires swing chairs at Renn Fest.

Spam emails are explained to Maia.

Nipples the size of dinner plates are brought up.

Kaitee played the oboe-hay. Sasha played the Chinese finger trap. Everyone was really good at playing demo keys.

Maia wants to move to Antartica.

A frozen mammoth is eaten.

KY jelly is nasty on toast.

In Kentucky, it's against the law to eat horses, we think.

Kaitee was in Laura's Girl Scout troop the last year Laura was a leader.

We decide to close down because a violent storm is on its way.

Tonight's music is Psykosoul -"Dirty Stank Hell" which can be found on music.podshow.com.

Check out Maia's webpage Muffinbread and Kaitee's LJ blog Emmlaar

In traffic, we talk about how hungry we are, the state of grocery stores in Atlanta, point out sex shops and other stores, look for places to eat (we eventually eat at Taco Bell), and sing.

Finally we get back and talk about bikes we had as kids and what our bikes looked like. Laura tells about her mom's WWII-era burning desire for a bike and how she couldn't get one due to steel rationing.

This leads us to 9/11/01. Dwight was working server support at that time and the folks at the World Trade Center were big customers. Sasha tells about freaky 9/11 commemorative coins she saw on TV. Right after 9/11, many patriotic Americans hung flags on their cars but left them there so long the flags were faded and shredded, which IMHO is disrespectful. Sasha brings up flags on clothing and Laura tells about the Reuters photos of George and Laura Bush stepping on the flag carpet, apparently grinding the flag under their heels. Ahem, Mr. President.

We then admire a statuette of a Canadian mountie we have in the studio. We are all about the awesomeness of Jodhpur pants.

Music tonight: George Hrab-"Brainsbodyboth" from Coelacanth. This can be found on music.podshow.com.

How many words must I look up the spelling for? Just kidding-- we love you George!

In this episode, we discuss childhood games--mostly dangerous games. Floor lava/floor sharks/floor sucking you into outer space, baseball-lawndarts, flicking matches, jumping off roofs onto trampolines and into pool, dangerous wrestling moves, karate chops to the neck, Red Rover, make me laugh, ping pong and superballs, sticky hands on ceiling, throwing fire crackers at each other, HORSE, punch buggie...woo! It's a wonder we reached adulthood!

Sasha found a book on Victorian games by Patrick Beaver called The Victorian Parlor Game Book which you can find on Amazon. We have a section called Victorians Play the Darndest Games. Two games Sasha found particularly hilarious: Poor Pussy and Guessing Blind Man.

More discussion on the original Volkswagon Beetle and then we play "Emma's Urban Friend" from 50 Dollar Fine, which was Chris Hoover's old band.

This show was originally recorded before Dragon*con.

In this episode, a kitchen mishap forces us to venture out to eat dinner and podcast at the same time. We choose to eat at Elwood's Pizza in Brookhaven, a neighborhood in Atlanta a little north of Buckhead on Peachtree. Fantastic 'za! Check out their website. Go.

It's kind of noisy there and you hear us chewing and talking at the same time. What a great show! Hee hee!

We discuss what we did over the weekend, which was Dragon*con, of course. Sasha went as a hugging pirate and became famous for that. She went to a pirate party and hung out with her pirate homies. Yar!

Laura worked security operations and when she was off, she went to podcasting panels and saw the first annual Parsec awards. She took in panels on women podcasters, podcasting fiction and tools of the trade as well. Derek and Swoopy of Skepticality did a great job.

Sasha had a great time with the exception of creepy guys who bothered her on Sunday night. They made her nervous. Why do these guys think that girls enjoy feeling threatened? Are they stupid?

Bleah.

Mad props and give a listen to these fine podcasts: Tag in the Seam, Georgia Podcast Network: Mostly ITP, Four Minute Warning, Skepticality, Mikeypod, Geek Fu Action Grip...oh, that's enough for now. Also listen to Rocky Horror Pod Show, Laura's other podcast.

Sasha's email is wrinkledhermit -at- gmail.com and Laura's is luara.mom -at- gmail.com (you know how to fix the address so it works). Keep in touch!

And eat more pizza.

Tonight, with Sasha absent yet again, Laura and Dwight decide to give the dirt on how they first met. Prepare to be astounded at how cutesy-pie sentimental the two of them can get. Prepare to hurl!

Afterwards, enjoy a refreshing techno mix by DJ Bunnyboy, who created "Javaman" especially for this podcast as a gift to Laura. You can find him on MySpace! Check him out, especially if you like electronica, new wave and techno.

For those of you who miss Sasha, she'll probably be recording the next episode. And check out Rocky Horror Pod Show the other podcast Laura's on with her friend Sean.

Quick show tonight. Sasha's schedule is wonky due to her going back to school. Laura will probably be using guest podcasters and odd scheduling. Also Laura, with her friend Sean, just started a new podcast called Rocky Horror Pod Show, which as far as we can tell, just may be the very first Rocky Horror Picture Show-oriented podcast ever! Give RHPS podcast a call at (206) DEW TOOT, aka (206) 339-8668 to give AP lines, news from your cast, or anything else you might want to contribute. The email address for that show is rockypod@aim.com.

Check out Madge Weinstein at Yeast Radio. She's been very kind to us lately by pimping our tiny little show on her wildly popular podcast. Thanks Madge!

Also, our new friend Graham Holland, whose song "Never Trust A Panda" was played on our last show, tells us he now has his own podcast: It's A Frog's Life. Check it out for great acoustic music from the other side of the pond.

Finally, a while back Maia was playing with voice effects in Garageband and came up with a little story she called "The Princess and the Prince." Check it out.

Tonight's topic is nature.

Sasha, Dwight and Laura come up with a strange performance, where each writes separately and then they put it all together. Then we all argue about who did the worst job on the play.

By the way, you should never trust pandas.

Graham Holland, who agrees with us, sings "Never Trust A Panda" from his album It's a Frog's Life. If you like his music, you can find out more about him here. Laura likes bald men. :P

You can find music to purchase from this artist and more like him on the Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Help support independent music today!

We also play music from a local Atlanta band on this show, Eclectic Roots Ensemble (ERE) who perform "Original Flatbush Don from their album Roots and Grass. Laura friended them on MySpace and we think they are fantastic.

Thanks for listening!

Dwight is not present for this show.

Halley, Sasha and Laura really like to go to Art Mondays at Apache Cafe. However, last time we went a guy asked Sasha to pose nude.

Does it sound like a line to you? It did to us too.

We give examples of guys acting the fool.

Music: Dave from Chub Creek "Gary Has Big Nipples" from Living In Oblivion

Dragon*con

Music: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "Bring It On" from Nocturama

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Like the first Muffinbread, this episode is family-friendly. Maia came up with the story and wrote it all, though she and Sasha improvised quite a bit.

In this episode, Muffinbread falls asleep and has a strange dream, in which the monkey Blueberry can talk-- with a British accent. Well, at least as much of an accent as Madonna. Blueberry's voice is a lot like Sasha's after a bender.

Muffinbread is unable to fly in her dream.

In a musical sequence, Maia leads Sasha and Halley on a musical journey exploring her eyebrow. The song is dirgelike and mournful. You may become depressed. I know I did.

We were asked by a guy on MySpace to post more pictures of ourselves. Sasha came over and we took at lot of photos in the emo teen MySpace style. I posted them on our MySpace Pics if you want to go look at them. http://www.myspace.com/coffeeandteashow. You have to be a member to see them. I don't make the rules!

Last Saturday, after Rocky Horror, we all went to IHOP, as is our habit. I brought the iRiver and this is the result. On this you'll hear mostly Sasha and Jevocas, with Hoover, Matt, Connie the waitress and me. Please excuse the poor sound quality.

We have a winner of the sound effects contest. Let me know who you are so you can get your prize.

Tonight's music is "Woolly Mammoth" by Robert Farrell, from his album Sun House Fury. This can be found at http://music.podshow.com.

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Tonight's topic is brother-in-laws and other folks you can count on to use their skills to help you out of a jam.

Sasha needs a brother-in-law who's a hitman. Another handy one would be a lawyer, one who runs a handy meth lab and would let you buy your meth at cost, and one who is a movie producer.

Topic changes to Laura, Dwight, Halley and Maia's trip to Alaska, where Laura suffered a case of mistaken identity.

Laura tells a dirty joke.

Laura and Sasha are going to Dragon*con this year and ho