Natali Del Conte

I posted the final episode of TeXtra today. Well, to be honest, I’m not sure it is the final episode. Someone else may eventually take over the reigns of this beast but it is at least my final episode.

I won’t gush about how I feel about this show again. I did enough of that yesterday. Instead I’ll just say thank you for watching! Thank you for reading. And stay tuned! Starting tomorrow, Cnet TV will start to air some promotional videos for my new show that we shot recently. Be sure to check that out!

Happy holidays!!!

I am writing my last episode of TeXtra. I just uploaded Tuesday’s episode and it is finally hitting me that I am letting go of the reigns very soon. Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 19, is the last day that I will film a TeXtra show. Wow.

TeXtra has been such a blast. I cut my teeth in video here in this stinky basement. Despite the smell of mold and the constant need to wait between takes for the toilet to flush upstairs, I will miss this place. It is raw. We built a great product out of nothing and I am proud of that.

Also, I will miss working with my sister even though she always complains about how early it is when she comes in every morning and she burned my ear with a curling iron because she was mad at me today. I will miss my director Jon Wank, who I affectionately call Douche. I will miss Lukasz Pason, who also works on the TeXtra set and who is about to hit it big on the DJ scene. I will miss sitting next to my BFF Ryan Berkey while TeXtra is in the editing stage. I will our “Jew mom”/producer Lisa Ahrons.

I am really excited for the next step in my career. We are 99% sure that we have a name for my new show on Cnet but I will wait to announce it until that number hits 100. Still, I will always be proud of pioneering TeXtra. It is my baby, no matter what becomes of it.

This is a Photoshop gift from my good friend Ryan. Unfortunately, it is not a real proposal. He’s already married. Too bad for me!

The news of my departure from Podshow broke this morning. It is true, I am moving to New York City in January to work for Cnet TV. TechCrunch reported on the story late Sunday night before Adam Curry could make his own announcement. Nevertheless, I am relieved not to have to keep this secret anymore. I’m lousy at keeping secrets. I’ll never work for the CIA. I became a journalist to tell the world what I know, not keep it to myself. Journalists do not like to keep secrets. Words to live by.

I am really excited about this move but I want to make it clear that my departure from Podshow is not an indication of the state of things at Podshow. This is just the next logical step for me and I owe a lot of it to Podshow. I was not a proven success story when Adam “discovered” me on an episode of Cranky Geeks. He took a huge chance and made a huge investment in me and I will never forget that. Adam took me to Spruce in Lauren Heights last week and he offered to continue to be a mentor to me and I am surely going to take him up on that offer. Podshow will continue to do big things, with or without TeXtra.

I am not nervous about leaving San Francisco. My heart is here and always will be. It is my home. I am not nervous about the job. I am not nervous about high rents in New York or being away from my friends. I am mostly nervous about freezing my Californian butt off!