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Easter Service: Making a Joyful Noise
Radio Free Dogpatch - April 16, 2023 16:11 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSpring isn't a date on the calendar. It's more of a feeling. A warm one, if you're lucky. For me, the vernal equinox is rarely the starter's pistol. I don't hear that big bang until Herself asks whether her Soma Double Cross is ready to ride after a long winter's nap on its hook in the garage....
Marching Forward, Looking Backward: Happy Birthday to Who?
Radio Free Dogpatch - March 26, 2023 13:20 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBirthdays. Some of us get overserved, others get 86'd with the cork barely out of the bottle. Whoever's in charge of this party seems a bit random. Can't tell the top shelf from the well, the class from the dross. Proper ladies and gents given the shove while the most appalling tossers have th...
Welcome to the Feed Zone: TANSTAAFL, Tifosi
Radio Free Dogpatch - March 11, 2023 22:48 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe bitter economic headwinds prove too much for some in the peloton of cycling journalism. It's a rough old road, especially when you ride it on the rivet in the bloody gutter of vulture capitalism. The sport is pricey to do, and to cover. Advertising is a hard sell. Memberships and subscri...
Sounding it Out: The Air's Not Dead, It's Just Not At All Well
Radio Free Dogpatch - February 26, 2023 19:42 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe Voices and I have been having a meeting of the minds as to exactly why we want to belly-flop back into this sonic kiddie pool, a shallow backwater that drains feebly and sporadically into the Great Audio River. But apparently we're at least one mind short. However, we do not lack for Voi...
Truly Awful Ain't So bad
Radio Free Dogpatch - February 16, 2023 15:59 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe zombie podcast Radio Free Dogpatch awakens after a two-year dirt nap, scuttles out from beneath its filthy blanket of mulch, litter, and snow, and shambles about looking for something (or someone) to eat. Or at least listen.
Spring Broken
Radio Free Dogpatch - March 01, 2021 23:24 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPatrick O'Grady used to wheelsuck the bike magazines to spring break in Arizona or California. Then the biz wised up and he had to stick his own snoot into the breeze. Until last year, when like many of us, he enjoyed all the travel of a rigid aluminum fork. And now, in Year Two of the Plagu...
Warmed Twice
Radio Free Dogpatch - February 22, 2021 19:33 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen Texas sank back into the Ice Age, Patrick O'Grady was reminded of the good old days on a wind-scoured rockpile outside Weirdcliffe, Colorado, where the power shut off whenever it was most inconvenient, the candle lanterns and Coleman two-burner were close at hand, and a Lopi fireplace inser...
Road Hard
Radio Free Dogpatch - February 15, 2021 22:05 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsTrucks with beds and friends with couches saw Patrick O'Grady through his rambling, gambling years, as he rolled the dice with one newspaper after another. He eventually came up winners by leaving the business altogether. Marrying well didn't hurt, either. The citizens of "Nomadland" have trav...
Have Mercy, Been Waitin' on the E-Bus All Day
Radio Free Dogpatch - February 08, 2021 22:42 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThere's something about February that's guaranteed to set a Mad Dog to howling. This time it's Impeachy the Clown as the opening act for our local bozos and their buses. Did everyone forget to lock their wigs before their moment of simulated exhilaration, or what?
Up in the Air or Down in the Dumps?
Radio Free Dogpatch - February 01, 2021 19:01 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLockup got you down? Fortress of Solitude starting to smell like feet, fast food, and farts? Well, Clark, turn off that Zoom cam, take off the glasses, and see if you can still clear your top tube in a single bound.
Bleach Blankety-Blanket Bingo
Radio Free Dogpatch - April 27, 2020 23:28 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBeing on lockdown is like watching a bad movie. Sure, it sucks, but if you bail early, you might miss something. Or catch something. Why not just lean back, put your feet up, and enjoy (hating) the show? The credits will roll soon enough. And we know who's not getting a best-director Oscar for...
The New Abnormal
Radio Free Dogpatch - April 18, 2020 23:57 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPatience, like yeast, beans, and toilet paper, is just one more thing that people are running short of as the lockdown drags on. Patrick O'Grady tapped his supply to get through eight weeks with a broken ankle, but thinks he has a little bit left over to deal with The Bug.
Hello In There
Radio Free Dogpatch - April 11, 2020 15:56 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt's tough to take baby steps with 66-year-old feet. Especially when one of ’em doesn't work all that well. But jolly old Doc O'Grady feels it's prudent to hobble out to check society's temperature now and then, especially when cabin fever is starting to feel as deadly as any other bug.
Doing Time
Radio Free Dogpatch - April 01, 2020 20:41 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsStaying at home, social distancing — these practices aren't jailin', but they're not exactly living' large, either. Sure, your cell is a little bigger, the guards a little less present, the food better. It's just that you'd rather be on the streets. But listen to an old con — let that time do it...
Beans, Buttwipe and Bullets
Radio Free Dogpatch - March 24, 2020 21:04 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAnyone who says "three's a crowd" didn't see the antisocially undistant hordes infesting some Duke City's trailheads on Sunday, a day before New Mexico's governor went on TV to holler, "Don't make me stop this state and come back there!" As a consequence we must endure Potrick calling various ke...
Antisocial Distancing
Radio Free Dogpatch - March 22, 2020 00:17 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWorking from home isn't for everyone. But weirdos like Patrick O'Grady wouldn't be remotely employable if they couldn't be employed remotely. Sure, he takes a lot of really loud meetings with the voices in his head. But they never complain to HR, so it's all good.
We're In the Soup
Radio Free Dogpatch - March 12, 2020 02:57 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe Plague is upon us, we're quaking under the comforter, and someone is bringing us a plastic bowl of industrial soup and some dried-up old white crackers. Say, who is that wearing Mom's apron, anyway?
Requiescat in Pace
Radio Free Dogpatch - March 05, 2020 15:29 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsNursing a broken ankle and crazed on antihistamines, Patrick O'Grady tries to make sense of Super Tuesday a day late and a peso short, and as usual, fails utterly. Lo siento mucho.
Rolled Another One
Radio Free Dogpatch - February 27, 2020 18:33 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPatrick O'Grady has a bad habit of rolling ... ankles. He gave up rolling the other stuff ages ago. Which is too bad, really, because if he'd been rolling a blunt last Friday morning he wouldn't have been rolling an ankle during a trail run. And some other poor sap would have gotten this low-tec...
Random Acts of Radio
Radio Free Dogpatch - February 19, 2020 02:54 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsYou got your AM, and over here, you also got your FM. And over there, you got your fat boys wanting to take it away from you. Longtime listener-member Patrick O'Grady deejays a brief, one-man pledge drive for NPR.
The Monitor in the Merrimack
Radio Free Dogpatch - February 11, 2020 19:41 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsA discussion at maddogmedia.com about distraction-packed land yachts causes Patrick O'Grady to recall (and resurrect) a 2014 Bicycle Retailer and Industry News column about the auto industry's drive to make cars smarter than their drivers.
The Royal Flush
Radio Free Dogpatch - February 04, 2020 22:57 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsRepublicans want a king. Democrats want a messiah. And Patrick O'Grady just wants to get through his 30th podcast without being struck by lightning (or Lee Trevino).
Happy Trails
Radio Free Dogpatch - January 28, 2020 14:50 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsRiding trails when they're muddy, like encountering an unguided SUV drifting into the bike lane, is gonna leave a mark. Just ask Patrick O'Grady, who will tell you all about it even if you don't ask.
Peach Mint Lollipop
Radio Free Dogpatch - January 22, 2020 21:18 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings"Comparisons are odorous," as Dogberry declares in "Much Ado About Nothing." Small wonder, then, that a Mad Dog is stinking up the Innertubes with his comparisons of Il Douche's impeachment trial to a Christmas gone wrong, school "pep" assemblies, and the nuance- and nutrition-free nothingburger...
Riding On the Rims
Radio Free Dogpatch - January 13, 2020 14:34 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsFor a cyclist, fixing a flat is part of the price of admission to the game. And a garrulous potato-eater like Patrick O'Grady occasionally finds a tale in the travail. Or a podcast. ...
Dear Diary
Radio Free Dogpatch - January 07, 2020 15:51 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPatrick O'Grady still keeps a training diary, though he's not training for anything other than being Patrick O'Grady. You'd think he'd have that down by now.
The Mad Dog in Winter
Radio Free Dogpatch - December 24, 2019 21:52 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWinter seems colder than usual this year. We've already seen a White Walker in Albuquerque, and he's looking for his Social Security check.
The IT Guy
Radio Free Dogpatch - December 16, 2019 19:06 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe trouble with being your own IT guy is that you're being your own IT guy when you should be being whatever the hell it is that you really are. Just ask Patrick O'Grady. Then move over.
Stock Options
Radio Free Dogpatch - May 04, 2019 15:48 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhat can society do to punish some well-heeled, ne'er-do-well swell deemed too big to fail into jail? How about a stint in the stocks? To paraphrase Marsellus Wallace from "Pulp Fiction," let's get medieval on their ass. Patrick O'Grady is already pitching.
The Right Side of the Lawn
Radio Free Dogpatch - March 27, 2019 23:56 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPatrick O'Grady muses on a few close calls en route to turning 65, including one right before The Big Day.
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