Thanks to you, our dedicated listeners who nominated us, Five Hundy by Midnight is a finalist for the Podcast Awards in the Travel category. We were surprised, excited and extremely honored by the news. Thank you all! Congratulations to fellow podcasters (and Five Hundy listeners) at My Marilyn and The Big Show, which are nominated in other categories.

Final voting begins on July 28 and ends on Aug. 11. Please throw us a vote each day during the voting period. It would be really fun to win. We appreciate all of your support.

Five Hundy by Midnight has signed up to participate in the Podcast Poker Challenge, a free Texas Hold Em tournament at 7 p.m. (EDT) on Saturday, April 22. Podcasters and their listeners (this means you!) are invited to play. So sign up, join the Five Hundy by Midnight team, and help me prove that Five Hundy’s listeners are better than Coverville’s listeners.

The tournament is free, and you have the opportunity to win cash—including a $50 bounty for each podcaster. Signing up is easy. Just complete these steps:

• Register for a free account at PokerRoom.com.
• Sign up for the tournament at PodcastPokerChallenge.com.

PokerRoom works on both Mac and PC platforms, so you have no excuses! See you at the table on April 22.

Much to our surprise, Five Hundy by Midnight was mentioned in a travel column in Sunday’s Boston Globe. Welcome to our new listeners. We’ll be recording a new show as soon as we both recover from the nasty cold/flu thing that has taken up residence here.

We’re back home after several fun days in the greatest city on Earth. Sorry we didn’t get around to recording a full show over the weekend. You know the story—too hard to take a break from all the Vegasness to podcast. However, we recorded a bunch of great stuff and had several new experiences, so there’s lots to talk about. We’ll have an action-packed show this weekend (including exclusive, scandalous details about a certain poker legend’s bathroom habits). Stay subscribed.

I’ve been under the weather for most of the past week and won’t be recording a podcast this weekend. Hang tough—more Vegasy fun will come your way next weekend.

The next show is coming on Friday. Sorry for the delay. In the meantime, give some money to Red Cross.

I’m just checking in with a quick update. I’m glad everyone enjoyed the crickets on the last podcast. Not exactly the typical Vegas Strip sounds. It’s hard to pull myself away from the machines to record and upload a podcast, so this will have to do for now. The video poker gods continue to smile upon me so I’m still up for the trip, which is nice. Michele isn’t doing quite so well, but she seems happy with her shopping jackpots instead. We spent Thursday night downtown and had a decent time. We stayed away from the deep fried twinkies this time around, which was a smart move. We’ll have lots more details whenever we might take some time to record. I’m not sure whether it will be tonight, tomorrow or Tuesday, but it’ll happen eventually. Stay subscribed and thanks for listening.

Well, life got in the way this weekend, so I didn’t have time to record the next show. I was planning to do another celebrity sighting show, but I’m going to hold off on that one. Next stop: Las Vegas. I’ll be reporting in from sin city later this week, so stay subscribed! Las Vegas is Waiting.

I just found out that my voice mail line has been reassigned to someone else, so that sucks. I guess that’s what I get for using a free service. My new number is 702-866-9494. I know, I know—it doesn’t have the word “Vegas” in it. True, but it’s a Las Vegas area code, so that’s a nice touch. If you’ve left a voice mail message for me on the old 206 line anytime in the last several weeks, I didn’t get it. Sorry.

Thanks!

I’ll be recording the next action-packed installment of Five Hundy by Midnight in the next couple days, so don’t spend your entire Sunday checking the site for show #24. It’s not going to happen today.