It’s been a long time, we shouldn’t have left you…yeah, we’ve been there before, haven’t we? Well, we were gone for two whole months-encompassing most of the holiday season. But we’re back and we don’t intend on leaving you again anytime soon. In this episode, Mike and Jesse atone for their absence (again) but hit the ground running. There’s some Super Bowl news, some Oscar nominations news. We defend Nickelback (sort of), anticipate the new Van Halen album, watch Elton [...]
Blerd Radio Episode 11: The Triumphant Return
“It’s been a long time…we shouldn’t have left you…” Yeah, yeah, I’m sure you’ve heard those words coming out of our collective mouth before, but this time we MEAN it. After a two-month hiatus, we are back with the 11th episode of our award-winning, highly anticipated podcast. Things are going a mile a minute on this one, so hang on to your seats. In this episode, Mike and Jesse discuss…(inhale) the Penn State scandal, the deaths of Heavy D., Andy [...]
Blerd Radio – X Factor Top 12 Preview Podcast
The day before the X Factor show takes off with the top 12, we give you a preview podcast talking about the show thus far, what to expect this season, and a little bit of X Factor UK history from my main man Aaron Hobart, aka Aaron Dammit. Aaron is a fan of the UK version of X Factor and he drops some knowledge about the last two seasons, which plays as a mini-preview of what we can expect for [...]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Baseball Podcast
Rather than try to be eloquent in my sorrow (the Giants won’t get to defend their World Series title), I decided to take this show on the road. Actually, I decided to take it to the air. After the St. Louis Cardinals officially caught and surpassed the Atlanta Braves to win the NL Wild Card on Wednesday night, I thought it would be a good time to chat with Daniel Shoptaw, writer and editor of the Cardinals blog C70 At The Bat . We [...]
Blerd Radio Episode 10: The Idiot Box
Guess what? We’re in double figures!! Welcome to Blerd Radio Episode 10. We had a wee bit of trouble with this one, hopefully you’re able to get through the slight audio glitches. In this episode, we discuss everything from our new comics column to our dinner with Mike Doughty. We mourn the 10th anniversary of 9/11, check in on the status of hurricane victims, criticize this year’s VMAs, try to understand how Lil Wayne sold almost a million copies in [...]
Blerd Radio Episode 9: Holy Crap! The Summer’s Over
And here’s the latest podcast from the lovable Mike and Jesse in which we discuss….what did we discuss again? There was a lot of Sesion Dark Lager consumed. Oh yeah! We talked (Ok, Mrs. Jesse talked about) about the UK’s Special Needs invading NYC on Labor Day as well as 8.24 new releases, a preview of the upcoming RHCP album, and some more debating on the always infuriating Big Box exclusives argument (We’re looking at you, Hov). We also gave [...]
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Blerd Radio Episode 8: MTV in Middle Age
Welcome to yet another episode of Blerd Radio! In this episode, your hosts Mike & Jesse pay tribute to a cultural phenomenon by acknowledging the thirtieth (!) anniversary of MTV. Whether you love it or hate it, you can’t deny that the advent of Music Television changed the industry as well as pop culture. Over the course of this episode, we discuss our favorite classic videos, shout out some iconic VJs, and bemoan the constant “16 & Pregnant” marathon the [...]
Moonlighting: Michaels on Michael (Popdose Podcast Extra)
Get four supreme music nerds to do a podcast, and how long do you think they’re gonna talk? Well, when I, fellow PBs Mike Duquette and Dr. Gonzo (Zack Stiegler) got together with Popdose’s Michael Parr for an in-depth discussion about the life and music of Michael Jackson, we emerged dazed and sweaty over three hours later. My condition would be exacerbated by a case of food poisoning just a couple short hours after the podcast wrapped, but that’s another story. Our delightful conversation touched on [...]
Blerd Radio Episode 7: Solstice Edition
Welcome to the lucky seventh episode of Blerd Radio, in which the special guest floodgates open. The episode starts as per usual-with Mike and Jesse talking about…death. We tribute Clarence Clemons and (somewhat less so) “Jackass”‘s Ryan Dunn. Then, we jump into this week’s new releases-a little (well, a lot) of metal for Jesse, a little Jill Scott and Liam Finn for Mike. We are intermittently joined by Regina A.K.A. Mrs. Jesse (she has finally decided to lift her veil [...]
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The New Blerd Radio-Episode 3: May Flowers (Almost)
Episode 3 is in the books and on our latest podcast, Mike and Jesse discuss pop culture events including the new Beastie Boys album and video, Lady GaGa’s continued stranglehold on pop culture, and the debut of “The Voice”. Also discussed: “Fast 5″ (which is out today) and it’s pretty cast, May’s potpourri of album releases, why no one should ever watch the first 10 minutes of “Up” , the rumored follow-up to “Garden State”, and Jesse gets the package [...]
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