To commemorate the 600th Sox Populi Podcast, we had podcasting mainstays Chrystal O’Keefe (Visiting Dugout, Soxy Chicks, Estrogen Power Hour, et. al), Joe Resis (Sox Pop on the Farm) and Melissa Sage-Bollenbach (Ladies’ Night) on to discuss the past four-five years of podcasting at Sox Populi and South Side Sox.

Brief acknowledgement was made for Sharing Sox (the subject of podcast 601) and Tommy Barbee, our Father Soxivus and co-host of Killer B’s, but then we dug into some talk with each host/guest about their respective programs. We bridged our break discussing the connection between our two most revolutionary podcasts, Estrogen Power Hour and Ladies’ Night. And in the end, we wound up talking about the “mothership podcast,” the catch-all program you’re listening to right now. Throughout, host Brett Ballantini got his teeth kicked in, playfully (maybe).

• A special and enigmatic voice kicks off the podcast!
• The strange accounting that actually lands this podcast as somewhere around 608 or 610
• Brett’s habit of bullying (? gulp) some hosts into doing even more for Sox Populi
• The original name of the pirate radio broadcast, Estrogen Power Hour
• The most satisfying mothership podcast ever

In a longer podcast post than usual, we’ll roll the credits for all our podcasts:

1. Mothership Podcast (Brett Ballantini, host) 190 programs beginning Jan. 28, 2020
2. Sharing Sox (Will and Leigh Allan) 143 programs beginning Sept. 9, 2020
3. Visiting Dugout (Chrystal O’Keefe, host) 82 programs beginning March 20, 2023
4. Sox Pop on the Farm (Brett Ballantini, host) 60 programs beginning May 4, 2021
5. North Side Sox (Sam Sherman and Janice Valenzuela), 23 programs beginning October 2020
6. Sox Pop Postgame Podcast (Brett Ballantini, host) 20 programs beginning April 13, 2021
7. Ladies’ Night (Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, host) 13 programs beginning March 20, 2024
8. Killer B’s (Tommy Barbee and Keelin Billue) 12 programs beginning Oct. 30, 2020
9. Sox Pop Pregame Podcast (Brett Ballantini, host) 10 programs beginning Oct. 7, 2021
10. Dugout Metrics (Brett Ballantini, Luke Smailes, Trevor Lines) 10 programs beginning Dec. 10, 2020
11. The Big Blurt (Rob Colletti and Bill Meincke) eight programs beginning Jan. 29, 2021
12. Soxy Chicks (Chrystal O’Keefe and Bayleigh Von Schneider) seven programs beginning March 30, 2024
13. DISH Deluxe (Brett Ballantini, host) six programs beginning July 17, 2023
14. Estrogen Power Hour (Keelin Billue, Janice Valenzuela, Colleen Sullivan, Chrystal O’Keefe) five programs beginning May 16, 2021
15. Live! three programs
16. Time Out! (Di Billick, host) two programs beginning Aug. 1, 2024
17. Planet White Sox (Brett Ballantini and Trooper Galactus) two programs beginning Sept. 15, 2022
18. Group Therapy (Sam Sherman, host) two programs beginning April 26, 2022
19. Explain it to Me Like I’m 5 (Keelin Billue, host) two programs beginning March 8, 2022
20. Second Hand Embarrassment (Jacki Krestel, host) one program on Jan. 12, 2024

(Don’t add them up, the math is a little fuzzy.)

Also, the milestone podcasts, at least per our Megaphone player:

Podcast 1 Mothership Podcast 1: Janice Valenzuela at Sox Fest, Jan. 28, 2020
Podcast 100 Mothership Podcast 42: A Sweep, a Six Pack, and the Power of Strawberry Cheesecake Cannolis, April 26, 2021
Podcast 200 Postgame Podcast 8: Goodbye 2021 season, Oct. 12, 2021
Podcast 300 Sharing Sox 83: Is That a Rotund Female We Hear Warbling?, Aug. 27, 2022
Podcast 400 Visiting Dugout 17: Detroit Tigers, May 25, 2023
Podcast 500 Visiting Dugout 45: Minnesota Twins, April 29, 2024

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