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Opening Up The Masocast

So I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of the Masocast….ok I’m always thinking of the future of the Masocast.

I have a love-hate relationship with the podcast. I love doing interviews, meeting new people, making new friends and hearing different perspectives. In fact, if I had a dream job, it would be to be able to interview people for a living. Maybe in another life I’ll come back as Charlie Rose.

Anyway that’s the love part.

The hate part of the podcast is that it sucks up so much of my time and resources. Thankfully people help by donating so it’s not a total financial suck but it’s really not sustainable in it’s current form. I hate needing to beg people for money, I feel like an ass and the fact that I need to do it often and really push it hard means I feel like an even bigger ass. In an ideal world, some eccentric billionaire would give me a grant to keep doing the show for the rest of my life…actually in an ideal world, I’d be an eccentric billionaire.

I’ve debated ending the podcast a number of times, in fact if it wasn’t for Sade’s encouragement…ok very very strong encouragement, I probably would have ended it years ago.

So that brings me to the whole reason I’m writing this. I’m opening up the podcast to allow anyone to submit an interview.

It’s never really been closed but I just didn’t explicitly say people could submit their own interviews. Ok…i did say it a number of times..but now I’m typing it.

So what does this mean? It means anyone can sit down and record an interview with someone, send me the interview to edit and if it’s good enough it goes on the show.

I’m sure someone will say ‘But if you need to approve and edit it, it doesn’t mean it’s actually 100% open”. You’re right but I still need to maintain some creative control otherwise if I approved everything that came in the Masocast would probably be just episodes of some guy talking about how he loves to dip his balls in white out and pretend he’s the ghost of elvis.

Hmm that last line sounded funnier in my head…typed out it doesn’t even make sense.

Ok anyway I’ll be talking about it more often in the future here and on the podcast. If you’d like to participate you can shoot me an email and ask any questions you may have, you can always use the comments on this post…or you can just start interviewing.

Submission or Love?

Last night I was making Sade and I our lunches for today.  Her’s is on the left mine is on the right.

 

heels

That’s right, I took the heel.

I hate the heel, always have and I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because it’s less bread or because the texture feels blah.

But I took it and I don’t even know if Sade cares about the heel or not.

It was then that it occurred to me. Wait..was I taking the heel out of love or out of submission?

It then dawned on me that I can’t tell the difference between the two in the everyday things.  Cleaning the tub out of submission or out of love?

Is it both or is is more of one or the other?

I don’t even know where I’m going with this post. It’s still something I need to get my head around.

Maybe when it’s good, there is no way to tell between submission and love.

Anyway I hate the heel, but it feels good to take it.

Hey Sade

Hey Sade,

So I know you’re sitting there waiting for someone to arrive for your meeting and you’ve been waiting for a while now, over an hour and he still hasn’t arrived.  What an asshat. Remind me to put some voodoo spell on him.

You just texted me mentioning how bored you are, it’s been over an hour  and you’ve got nothing to do while you wait.  Well…here…I’ll give you something to read.

I’m really fucking excited we’re in 2014.  I mean think about everything we can expect this year.

1: We’re getting married!!! 

Now don’t think about how it’ll cost us a ton to get married and then if we’re lucky we’ll be able to have enough left over for a honeymoon. (Wait, did I just do a “Don’t think of an elephant” thing?).  Please don’t think about money, just think about how we’ll be married and how awesome it will be.   Sure our living situation won’t change but we’ll finally get to file a joint tax return.  Woohooo!  Plus I’ll be able to add “Wife” to the list of things you are to me.  Best friend, owner, and now wife!

2: We’ll most likely get to go on an awesome honeymoon in Europe!

Look times are tight right now but our honeymoon fund grows a bit more every month, we have 6 more months to make it and I think we can do it. I’ve got a few more websites I’ll be building for some new clients in the coming months, fingers crossed I’ll get a couple more and we’ll hit our goal.    Just think, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Paris, London, Rome.  While I’d love to go to Normandy, if our honeymoon fund isn’t enough we can always go another time.  I mean, it’s not like Normandy is going anywhere.   Plus if we make it we can go to a ton of kink clubs where nobody will know us and we can play anonymously.  Think of all the crazy shit we can do at those Euro kink parties we can’t do in the states!

3: I’m working out more often!

I bought an app called “Six Pack Abs”.  I won’t tell you what it does, I’ll keep it a surprise but I think you’ll be pretty happy with the result. It should kick in any moment now.

4: Did I mention we’re getting married?

Fuck yeah we are!  I haven’t been this excited to wear a new piece of jewelry since you collared me!

5: I’m learning more nerd stuff every day.

Yeah I know this sounds like a bad thing because it means I’ll be boring you with that cool new CSS trick I learned or some php code that will “blow your mind” but never does, but shit it’s expanding my skill set and that means I’ll be able to pick up even more freelance work. Weeeee!  #buildingourfuture

Well that’s just a small start. 2014 is going to be the best year of our lives together so far (and that’s saying something).

I’m going to go clean out the fridge now.

Love you!  Hope the dude shows up for your meeting soon!

Ask A Gay Guy

In a couple of days I’ll be sitting down to interview one of my favorite people on the podcast, Nayland Blake.

Nayland has been on the show a couple of times before and if you’ve heard those episodes then you know it’s going to be another great conversation.

We’ve been kicking around an idea for a while, a no holds-barred Q&A from people who want to ask a gay guy anything.   The thought is that everyone has questions they’d like to ask their friends but it may be considered rude or maybe just uncomfortable to ask.

Say you have a politician friend and you would really like to ask them if most politicians really are asshats but you can’t because then it may make things uncomfortable between the two of you.  Well now imagine if you knew a politician that would answer any question you had honestly and…ok maybe politician is a bad example.

Lawyers maybe?

Or a gay guy who’s also a switch!

So perhaps you’ve had a burning question you wanted to ask that switch friend of yours or that gay friend of yours but you thought it would show your ignorance by asking it, well now you can.

I’ll be sitting down with him on Thursday, January 2nd to pass along your questions and it will be live a month or so later.

Feel free to leave me a message in the comments or shoot me an email masocast@gmail.com

 

Sade loves me despite my decor-ignorance

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