GCFL
By Good Clean Fun Life
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Podcast Description
Happy Hour Podcast-live from a venue near you with new guests everyweek. Todd Dehart (GCFL) and Tony Russo (Bayside Gazette)
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ExplicitGrammys, Grammys, Grammys | By Tony Russo Sometimes on Saturday night, I like to tune into Todd DeHart’s radio show on Ocean 98. If you are really not the go out Saturday night type, like me, you can actually watch the show on the station’s Webcam. Mostly what you would see if you bothered is Todd standing in front of a microphone waiting for his chance to speak. I’ve started cyberstalking him, though, and tweeting a critique of his every move and also of his playlist. As it turned out, it was kind of fun so we’ve made it a regular thing. The reason I even bother mentioning the fact is that we’ve added it as a kind of homework assignment for the Todcast. It’s a way to stay in touch with our Internet shenanigans through the week and on the weekend as well. The twitter handle for the Secret Live Meeting is @slmlivetweet. We made it separate from our personal accounts because, if you’ve ever accidentally followed a live tweet, you know it can be tedious if you’re not playing along. We don’t want to become invasive. As we discovered during the Todcast, there is more than one way to look at whether the Whitney Houston thing is important, but frankly, if you’re into that debate we’re not going to enlighten you. Again, we try and keep it local but the Grammys invaded our space and were dealt with and dispatched as quickly as possible. Also dealt with but not dispatched was Chris Ferron, the Salisbury University student who is making a documentary on the local arts scene. He was really there for Todd and the GCFL scenesters but had enough to add that he didn’t get all the way cut out. In Bryan Russo (still not related) news: he’s got a big show this weekend in Baltimore, in honor of Pirate Rob. I don’t really know who that is or why anyone would go, but Todd is emceeing, and since he never misses a chance to ask if Bryan and I are related we spoke at length about that. The first time Todd got involved with the project he was under the misimpression that it was a roast. Pirate Rob had to ask him to knock it off, which I think is awesome. Feel free to join us 6 p.m. each Tuesday for the Happy Hour Todcast at Burley Oak Brewery. If something tragic keeps you from coming out you can always check out the resulting recording Thursday afternoon by subscribing on iTunes. Just type GCFL into the search bar at the iTunes store to subscribe. It’s free, fun and only requires a half-hour listening investment. Fair warning before you listen: Put on your irony hats, kids. It’s all in good clean fun. | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitCriminal masterminds | Although we tend to forget occasionally, when my co-host Todd DeHart and I go through the police beat there’s always something that makes us glad we did. This week was no exception as we discussed the big arson bust (see page 23). In an effort to escape police, three alleged burglars snuck into a dark lot and attempted to destroy the evidence by setting it on fire. That the dark lot happened to be where the Natural Resources Police stored their boats must have escaped their notice. If what followed happened in a movie it would be dismissed as unrealistic. The thieves’ evidence fire got out of control and spread to the police boat causing $20,000 worth of damage and about a billion worth of hilarity/embarrassment. But there was another police beat note that got to Todd in a way that was a little surprising — the notice of the enhanced patrols in Pocomoke. Most people hear “enhanced patrols” and “Pocomoke” in the same sentence and say: “Sounds like a plan!” But what irked Todd was the number of people who were pulled over, issued “warnings” and sent on their way. As a man about town, Todd likes to get out a lot. As a responsible adult, he also likes to be the designated driver whenever possible which is why he feels it’s a little outrageous that he is nearly always pulled over, asked if he was drinking, given a warning and sent on his way. The DWI enforcement model that he proposes on the Todcast is both novel and intelligent which means it won’t get any traction. My model is superior to his, though, and involves bridges not being crossed which works fine for me. I have very little pity for people who drive through West Ocean City after 10 p.m. After I got Todd all calmed down we moved on to Varmint Fest which was fantastic but best left to your ears. I’m not certain whether it’s worth pointing out anymore but I am still not related to NPR radio newsman Bryan Russo. It doesn’t bother me to much that you ask. Nor does it bother me to deny my relation to Ocean City’s Pizza King, but seeing as Italians are no longer the rare birds here that they once were it still strikes me as odd. Feel free to join us 6 p.m. each Tuesday for the Happy Hour Todcast at Burley Oak Brewery. If something tragic keeps you from coming out, you can always check out the resulting recording Thursday afternoon by subscribing on iTunes. Just type GCFL into the search bar at the iTunes store to subscribe. We’re now also on the Stitcher app, which smart phone users can download free using the promo code ‘Todcast’ and have the show streamed directly to their phones. Fair warning before you listen: Put on your irony hats, kids. It’s all in good clean fun. | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGirl Talk | So there was an unexpected fill in at the Todcast recording last Tuesday night. It ended up working out well, Bill Todd was apparently still recovering from a great show at the Rams Head Live in Baltimore last Saturday night. Additionally, Jill Ferger of Six Eleven salon and Gallery, and Todcast fan, has an Alternative art show coming up on February 25th featuring Elvis Lewis. so why not give the girls - Kristi Kurger, Natalee Dehart, and Jill chat about the state of art in the area. | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitVarmintfest | By the time you read this the Todcast will have inaugurated Varmintfest. For those who missed the big announcement, my co-host Todd DeHart and I made the big Varmintfest announcement about a month ago when we pledged to stop our whining, sit down and enjoy, or at least attempt to enjoy, the Eastern Shore delicacy muskrat. The biggest challenge is to do so unironically and we committed to that because Varmintfest is about more than just trying the food, it is putting our mouths where our rhetoric was. Last year, both the folks at www.goodcleanfun.com and the Bayside Gazette made a significant effort to spread the word about sustainable food opportunities in the area. We called it the Buy Local Challenge. Actually that’s what they called it, I just covered it. Shameless promotional aside: Make sure to keep a lookout for next week’s Bayside Gazette because as planting season gets underway it is time to start thinking about the Local Challenge again. I predict that the paper will contain a feature story on how to join a CSA (Consumer Sponsored Agriculture) project to make sure you’re getting the best food from the best source. End promotional aside. The folks at Dave White’s Pittsville Dinette epitomize the Buy Local Challenge by single-sourcing their muskrat from a reliable hunter who takes care to make sure he traps and sells only the best. Dave told me it was likely that when his source retires, he will be finished selling the delicacy. In recognition of the inaugural (and possibly final) Varmintfest, Mark Huey, the Gazette’s graphic designer, provided Varmintfest cookies. A Punxsutawney, Pa. native, his mother sends him Groundhog Day cookies — happy Groundhog Day, by the way — which he was kind enough to repurpose for our similar-looking varmint. To add to the difficulty level, on next week’s Todcast we’ll describe the taste of muskrat without using the words “gamey” or relating the meat in any way to chicken. There are other words to describe food out there and as part of the Todcast, we’ve banned them as descriptors generally. The folks at the OED have yet to make a reply. Quick hits from this week: Thomas Melville made what will likely be his final appearance on the show before he makes his big cross country adventure. So for the three-or-so of you who have been following Bayside Gazette-produced podcasts for the last fiveish years, we revived our well considered critique of “Things I Like” which was always a crowd-pleaser. Feel free to join us 6 p.m. each Tuesday for the Happy Hour Todcast at Burley Oak Brewery. If something tragic keeps you from coming out, you can always check out the resulting recording Thursday afternoon by subscribing on iTunes. Just type GCFL into the search bar at the iTunes store to subscribe. Fair warning before you listen: Put on your irony hats, kids. It’s all in good clean fun. | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitHigh Road In Lower Class - Episode 9 | Bill Todd once again is joined by Big Al Reno for this weeks installment of the High Road in Lower Class- Recorded at and under the influence of Burley Oak Brewery in the small town or Berlin, MD | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitInexpert Analysis | As media professionals, my co-host Todd DeHart and I are kind of expected to have a working knowledge of a little bit of everything. In deference to that expectation we pretend that we do, even to ourselves. In order to get grip on the flow of the conversation you’ll have to tune in to the Todcast — instructions are available in the closing paragraph — but from NASCAR we moved to a rather informed discussion about the inevitable demise of cable. It’s too easy to slam the horror that is the reality show, as well as the horror of their continued popularity and prevalence. But what is interesting is the likelihood that within my lifetime — absent a disease or lightning strike — we will have ala carte television. Reality television is ubiquitous because it is really cheap. But in an ala carte model, how much would you pay each week to keep up with the Kardashians or to laugh along with the Two-and-a-Half men laugh track. It’s kind of an exciting time in that way. Just as with real estate, we’re in an entertainment buyer’s market and that bodes well for people willing to pay for quality. As a few examples, we spoke about the relative success of the Kevin Smith movie Red State, the home run comedian Louis C.K. hit when he sold and produced his last stand up feature and Public Television’s near invulnerability as their Downton Abbey series gains more and wider attention. SOPA and PIPA were floated ostensibly because of piracy that costs the movie industry money. What really costs the movie and television industry money is the fact that people don’t want to pay for consistently substandard products. Billions of dollars or not, Transformers is going to come home to roost. Really, it already has. Feel free to join us 6 p.m. each Tuesday for the Happy Hour Todcast at Burley Oak Brewery. If something tragic keeps you from coming out, you can always check out the resulting recording Thursday afternoon by subscribing on iTunes. Just type GCFL into the search bar at the iTunes store to subscribe. Fair warning before you listen: Put on your irony hats, kids. It’s all in good clean fun. | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitHigh Road In Lower Class Ep 8 | Bill Todd is back | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe High Road In Lower Class - EP7 | The world of local news in lower class - The Dude and Big Al Reno sit for their weekly round table disdrunkin...... I mean discussion. | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitHere lies the Todcast | The lesson for this week is write your own obituary. Seriously and, like, soon. When I’m not Todcasting I’m a newspaper editor (let it pass for now, that’s what my business card says) and as a result get sent a number of obituaries. Most obits are very basic: This person is dead. The people they left behind will miss them. They will be buried at a certain place and time. Send a donation in their name someplace. Occasionally, though, I’ll get a more detailed one that is as much biographical sketch as obituary — and really, with the exception of the date of death what’s the difference? — and they are always an interesting read. It’s an open secret that newspapers rarely if ever “cut” obituaries. First, because it’s a little cruel and second because it’s probably bad luck. I normally just make it conform to AP Style very rarely changing anything except maybe to clean up the grammar. Point is: these are the last things most people will have written about them for public consumption. Make the most of it. | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBetter Todcasting through chemistry | Todd DeHart, my co-host on the Todcast has a friend who is a weatherman on the Western Shore and also happens to have a podcast. The man in question does his show with a longtime friend so Todd tuned in to see if he could pick up some pointers. What he learned (apparently) was that our show is better. The reason, I think, is because since Todd and I don’t know each other very well, we don’t know what questions to not bother asking and which questions will go well or poorly so we keep it fresh. So if we end up going to dinner together, as we discussed this week, the show could get a little worse. We apologize in advance. The occasion for us planning to dine together can be found on page 12. I’ve been on the Eastern Shore since 1993 and have decided that this is the year I try muskrat and if you don’t indulge, it should be the year you try it too. I discovered this when speaking with Dave White, who owns the Pittsville Dinette and also happens to have his own personal muskrat hunter as well as an expert muskrat cook. I passed up my first opportunity for the dish because — as Dave explained to me — it was prepared in the stew-y style instead of the right way. His way. More importantly for me, though, was that he gets his muskrat directly from the hunter, with whom he has worked with for decades. The dinette does fantastic business during muskrat eating season. People make plans to go, which says to me that those who know the difference choose to go there for the regional dish, which is available only for three-ish months per year. On the Todcast, we decide that this is a put your “buy local” money where your “buy local” mouth is situation if ever one existed. Also on the show this week we go over the spectacular New Year’s Eve party Berlin had last week and hear war stories from attendees. Zach, during the State of the Beer, said the brewery emptied out completely at about 10 as everyone except him made their way to what is quickly becoming the Eastern Shore’s answer to Times Square. I vote Bayside Square, but to be honest, I’m a little partial. Feel free to join us 6 p.m. each Tuesday for the Happy Hour Todcast at Burley Oak Brewery. If something tragic keeps you from coming out, you can always check out the resulting recording Thursday afternoon by subscribing on iTunes. Just type GCFL into the search bar at the iTunes store to subscribe. We’re now also on the Stitcher app, which smart phone users can download free using the promo code ‘Todcast’ and have the show streamed directly to their phones. Fair warning before you listen: Put on your irony hats, kids. It’s all in good clean fun. | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe High Road In Lower Class - EP6 | The dude back at it after the new year | 1/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitIt was huge | Mark Huey made a terrible mistake. The Bayside Gazette graphic designer was in the office this week while I was preparing for the big “Year in Review” Todcast and told me he thought it was canceled since Todd DeHart, my co-host, had been out of town. The next thing he knew, he was co-hosting the Todcast at Burley Oak, sipping his root beer and giving one word answers to my leading questions. Example: Me: “I know you’re kind of into the extreme sport scene, what was it like to get the opportunity to shoot the Dew Tour?” Him: “It was huge.” Me:…. Him:… By now I’ve edited out all the dead air but since he wasn’t prepared to be the co-host and since he doesn’t do a podcast every week, the first few minutes were a little awkward until he found his feet. After that, it was actually a pretty good show. Since it was a Year in Review, though and since the paper is already filled with a Year in Review, rather than break down the highlights as I usually do here, I’ll give the State of the Todcast. The State of the Todcast is returning to normal. It’s been a wobbly month for us and we’re still working on the live streaming aspect of it but we should be back to our old selves again by Tuesday and have new site, format and all sorts of cool stuff to speak about by February. When we started in April, there was a lot of dead air and “ums” and disorganization but over the ensuing months — and especially since finding a home at Burley Oak Brewery, we’ve really hit our stride and can be counted upon to produce a listenable show every week. We’ve grown to just about 300 listeners per week and a lot of them are regulars and listen to the show the whole way through. In this week’s State of the Beer, Bryan Brushmiller said he’s got a lot of plans for their big New Years Eve party. He said he doesn’t expect to have a ton of people until after the Ball Drop but insists he’ll be open as late (early?) as legally possible and looks forward to kicking off the New Year in a big way. As for us, we’ll keep plugging along and hope to be more interactive as the year goes on. We might even have a party for our 53rd show in April, so stay tuned and have a happy and safe new year. | 12/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPublish Envy | Todd DeHart, my co-host, was among the most disappointed people this week when blogger and semi-professional crank Joe Albero got a ton of attention for one of his posts. It was a bit of an education for me because I didn’t know there was such a thing as iCNN or CNNi or whatever the site was that promoted the blog in question. This is old territory for us, so I’ll just touch lightly on it here — the difference between a blogger and an actual journalist is accountability. There was actually a national news story about a blogger who lost the bid to protect a source because blogging isn’t journalism. It’s not my fault. To pay the bills, Kurt Vonnegut would occasionally speak at writer’s conferences. He wrote that he wondered why there were never any medical conferences where people stayed the weekend at a hotel pretending to be doctors or legal conferences where people spent three intensive days pretending to be lawyers. We gave the matter way more attention than we should have but at the end of the day Todd’s main source of jealousy was that his blog site www.goodcleanfunlife.com never gets the attention sties that “report” on conspiracies and potential scandals do. It’s the same reason no one ever slows down to watch someone not being in a car accident. On the lighter side of the Todcast, and for the Twitter savvy, Mark Huey, this paper’s graphic designer and I have started documenting what goes on outside that great big bay window at 11 South Main Street, the Gazette’s new offices. If you have ever been in a high school play it is likely you’ve heard the theatrical warning, “If you can see the audience, they can see you.” It’s often an attempt to keep kids from poking their faces out of the wings. It also happens to be a lesson we learn here daily and, as we discuss at length in the Todcast, it goes a long way to making one a more conscious eater. Also, we do a lot of waving, so if you find yourself Downtown, make sure to look in and wave. Mark is the skinny one. I’m, well, less so. Thanks to everyone who keeps up with the Todcast “What did Todd say?” challenge. This week we’re taking it up a notch and you’ll have to listen to the show in order to get the clue. The first one who answers it gets a draft beer or root beer, your choice, on the Todcast. Feel free to join us 6 p.m. each Tuesday for the Happy Hour Todcast at Burley Oak Brewery. If something tragic keeps you from coming out, you can always check out the resulting recording Thursday afternoon by subscribing on iTunes. Just type GCFL into the search bar at the iTunes store to subscribe. We’re now also on the Stitcher app, which smart phone users can download free using the promo code ‘Todcast’ and have the show streamed directly to their phones. Fair warning before you listen: Put on your irony hats, kids. It’s all in good clean fun. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe High Road In Lower Class - Episode 4 | Dude and Big Al are at it again. Todd DeHart sits in to join in the fun as we decide on the Christmas Party for next week at the brewery starting at 530 with a meet and great and special contest to get some FREE BEER Listen to find out details. Also, if any one brings the new weather girl from WBOC the boys would be very pleased. Find out who the dude predicts will be next years nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. | 12/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTodd Loves a Parade | This week Todd DeHart proposed possibly the single most awful Christmas parade idea that anyone has had in a very long time, but it wasn’t his fault, really. He just gets excited. For the first time since he’s lived here he was able to see the parade from his front porch and his newly-found access to the Downtown area has kind of gone to his head. He’s never (apparently) noticed before, so this year he was just a tad disappointed that there were no adults-only presents thrown from the floats or spiked hot chocolate available for sale anywhere along the parade route. His mission, he said, was to change all that. My mission was to distract him, so we contemplated a less aggressive entry into the parade — possibly a Todcast float — or maybe the sale of hot dogs and hamburgers on an outdoor grill. After all, we wouldn’t want him arrested for being a rogue. Yes, if you take a look at the Police Beat (Page 6) you’ll note the gentleman charged with being a rogue had more charges filed against him this week. The reason I bring him up again is that this week’s drinkable prize contest involves him in a way. The first of our readers to visit the Todcast and define for us (OK, for him, he doesn’t believe my definition) the word “rogue” can have a drink on the house. During the State of the Beer we learned that the root beer is still on tap so non-drinkers can totally play along as well. The other story we discussed at length was the new Berlin Walking Tour (See Page 16) which is getting a complete redo including professional actors playing some of the parts. The story about Rex Hailey’s tree is expanded upon in the Todcast and is more amusing that was really appropriate for the bigger story, which was the Tour. Other items of interest include my experience at a biker party and a grownups party along with Todd’s fear that Ocean City is preparing to ban people who are wearing tattoos. While he is all for banning what he calls, “skin mullets” he suggested an outright ban would be a bummer. It’s his phobia and we should probably just let him have it. It’ll keep him honest if nothing else. Feel free to join us 6 p.m. each Tuesday for the Happy Hour Todcast at Burley Oak Brewery. If something tragic keeps you from coming out, you can always check out the resulting recording Thursday afternoon by subscribing on iTunes. Just type GCFL into the search bar at the iTunes store to subscribe. We’re now also on the Stitcher app, which smart phone users can download free using the promo code ‘Todcast’ and have the show streamed directly to their phones. with no individual show downloads required. Fair warning before you listen: Put on your irony hats, kids. It’s all in good clean fun. | 12/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe High Road in Lower Class | The Dude and Big Al Reno Sit Down with Hometown hero Cheyne Truitt | 12/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitRogues and Vagabonds | The Tuesday before Thanksgiving Michael Day was sitting in the Atlantic Hotel courtyard tying up Christmas ornaments that would eventually adorn the Town Christmas Tree, chatting with the Town staffer who was helping him. We got to talking and he made me assure him that the Todcast he was scheduled to be the guest for later that day wouldn’t run past 7 p.m. I promised and let him know not to worry if I was a little late. The notion of being stuck alone with Todd DeHart, my co-host terrified Michael and he made me promise I wouldn’t make him sit there alone with him. It was a promise I made but failed to live up to. In the end it didn’t matter, because he was a fantastic guest — in case you haven’t gotten around to listening to last week’s Todcast yet — and I took my shots for missing the show on tape. This will have to suffice as a public apology. With any luck he’ll return my dog any day now. The point is that since I bailed last week it was tough to convince anyone to come on this week but we had plenty to talk about. You’ll have to listen to get all of it but it’s probably the most politically cutting edge show out this week that also includes extensive discussion on turkey basting and wet brining methods. Of course we also got into how much anticipation was wrapped up in tonight’s Berlin Christmas Parade and our various plans for watching it. The Todcast as well as this week’s paper heralds the return of the rogue and the vagabond (see Page 6). As you’ll hear during the ‘Police Beat’ portion of the show we explored the fact that the Ocean Pines Police charged a man with being a rogue and a vagabond among other things. I’m not certain the last time someone was charged with being a vagabond in their home town but the rogue thing… how do you explain that to your cellmates, given that it’s not 1835? Last but not least, as a little gift for one of our lucky readers who might also be available at Todcast time, the first person to come up to Todd during the show each week will get a special drinkable present. Now that the Burley Oak Brewery has its own root beer you don’t even have to be a drinker to come by. So... Feel free to join us 6 p.m. each Tuesday for the Happy Hour Todcast at Burley Oak Brewery. If something tragic keeps you from coming out, you can always check out the resulting recording Thursday afternoon by subscribing on iTunes. Just type GCFL into the search bar at the iTunes store to subscribe. We’re now also on the Stitcher app, which smart phone users can download free using the promo code ‘Todcast’ and have the show streamed directly to their phones. with no individual show downloads required. Fair warning before you listen: Put on your irony hats, kids. It’s all in good clean fun. | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPsychic-osis | It was a short week at the Bayside Gazette this week and as a result the Todcast involves a different kind of time travel than we are used to doing. The show, like the paper, comes out Thursday morning. Unlike the paper, however, it is finished Tuesday rather than Wednesday night. A regular trope is to use the phrase “Todcast time” when we refer to things that haven’t happened yet as if they already have. Usually it is minor. During the State of the Beer, for example, we ask what the special keg will be “tonight” even though the tapping party happens Thursday night. It’s a conceit we don’t take too seriously but it makes us feel better to think that all of our listeners jump out of bed like kids on Christmas morning each Thursday and listen to the Todcast while flipping through the Bayside Gazette. And, let’s be honest, you totally know you do. Because the paper is going out early, I’ll have to tell you what happened on this week’s Todcast before it actually does. Since I’m generally the one who directs the show and its topics, it isn’t too much of a challenge. For example, I know that our guest — Berlin Director of Community and Economic Development Michael Day — was dry and charming if the littlest bit confused about what he was actually doing there. Michael has never been a guest on any of the Bayside Gazette podcasts or Todcast that have been recorded over the last four or so years but has always promised to be. Rather than commit to an actual date, he’s always told me just to call him if we have a guest cancel and he will pinch-hit. No matter how far in advance a guest has cancelled so far, he’s been “out of town” every time and we were beginning to take it a little personally, so we blackmailed him a bit. In his position, missing the opportunity to plug this weekend’s Holiday Arts night (we told him) would be a dereliction of duty. The fact that he had a 7 p.m. appointment in Berlin Tuesday and therefore had an hour to kill as the Todcast was being recorded had nothing to do with his presence. He caved in to the pressure Todd and I brought to bear and don’t let him tell you otherwise. But back to the prognosticating. Zach, the blonde behind the bar, will pinch hit for me in the beginning of the show, as I will arrive late and a little disoriented. If forced to do the news, he will discuss prevailing surf conditions. Crowd participation will be up from last week both because of increased numbers and enthusiasm. At least one person will compliment Zach on his weight loss and new hair color thinking he is me. This person will have been drinking for a while. The State of the Beer will be “good” rather than “strong” because neither Zach nor Bryan Brushmiller, the brewery owner, recalls the State of the Union reference. All of my predictions, as it turns out, weren't what you'd call spot on. | 11/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe High Road with a Lower Class | A very Dude Thanksgiving | 11/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitHow Strong is Too Strong? | By Tony Russo This week’s guest on the Todcast was Amy Unger, one of the public relations folks from Atlantic General hospital and the woman charged with coordinating the annual Penguin Swim to benefit the hospital. For those who aren’t aware, the Penguin Swim takes place New Year’s Day an involves running — usually while screaming — into the Atlantic Ocean’s cool 40-degree waves. For those of you who haven’t done it, let me assure you that 40-degree water is way colder than 40-degree air. If you want to know way and can’t recall your high school chemistry course you’ll have to check in to hear the story. Amy is a tough salesperson when it comes to the Penguin Swim, likely because it is a cause she supports and one that is easy to tout. She got Todd’s commitment to participate right there and then. I, tragically, will be away for the weekend but she told me I could just make the donation and get in the water nearest me. To give you an idea how pitiless she is when it comes to the event, even when I pointed out that participating would require me to get into the water in New Jersey she told me to man up. Needles or no she wanted my commitment. I distracted her by “accidentally” drinking her beer instead of mine and we changed the subject. Speaking of beer, Burley Oak owner Bryan Brushmiller was stone cold excited to be getting in new fermenters for his beer. On one hand it will help him make more, but more importantly, when he says the state of the beer is strong during the state of the beer segment, he means it in a kind of literal way. His current tanks, when pressurized, cannot hold all the beer down, so he or a member of his crew have to literally sit on the top and hold the beer in. The first time he tried this he was unsuccessful and the lid popped and sent him tumbling off the tank. So while there’s nothing wring with strong beer, less aggressive beer is better for his health. If you want more details about the Tough Mudder event Paul Suplee participated in than is provided on page 9, you should also check out the Todcast. I happened to be in the neighborhood this weekend and stopped by for a firsthand view of the potential carnage. Simply put I saw four ambulances during the two hours I was there and Paul told me later that as the sun went down and the chill came on there were a significant number of casualties. Warriors wounded for Wounded Warriors would have been a great headline but Paul and his crew escaped with mainly aching muscles and the resolve to try and get in better shape before the next one. Feel free to join us 6 p.m. each Tuesday for the Happy Hour Todcast at Burley Oak Brewery. If something tragic keeps you from coming out, you can always check out the resulting recording Thursday afternoon by subscribing on iTunes. Just type GCFL into the search bar at the iTunes store to subscribe. We’re now also on the Stitcher app, which smartphone users can download free using the promo code “Todcast” and have the show streamed directly to their phones with no individual show downloads required. Fair warning before you listen: Put on your irony hats, kids. It’s all in good clean fun. | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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