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The Element of Surprise
Radio Free Dogpatch - February 27, 2019 17:43 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPatrick O'Grady nearly bought a Honda Element. Twice. The second time he had the book thrown at him. The Kelley Blue Book, that is.
Crossing a Line: From Frown to Tan and Back Again
Radio Free Dogpatch - February 20, 2019 21:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn this special Shut-Ins Edition of Radio Free Dogpatch, a snowbound Patrick O'Grady revisits a February 2004 escape to McDowell Mountain Regional Park in sunny Arizona.
Can't Find My Way Home
Radio Free Dogpatch - February 11, 2019 13:34 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhere's the bike business headed? Anyone seen magnetic north lately? Maybe it's going south like everything else. Patrick O'Grady swaps his GPS for a Magic 8-Ball, but it keeps telling him "Reply hazy, try again."
Let Them Eat Loans?
Radio Free Dogpatch - January 25, 2019 19:18 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWilbur Ross, the Man in the $600 Embroidered Slippers, doesn't understand why furloughed federal workers visit food banks instead of the other sort. Maybe it's because they're pretty certain they won't see him there anytime soon. Recorded using a Zoom H5 Handy Recorder and Shure SM58 mic. Edit...
A Hard Reign in Swamptown
Radio Free Dogpatch - January 12, 2019 12:48 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe pestilence of the Benighted States, Wally O'Steele, a.k.a. Art O. DeDeal, wants a Big, Beautiful Wall at the nation's southern borders to keep brown people from crossing the border to work anywhere other than at his hotels or golf courses. Unable to pry loose funding for same, he has walled ...
DT, Phone Home
Radio Free Dogpatch - January 05, 2019 19:42 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe're off on another lap around the sun, but we're flying blind — the big yellow ball is nowhere to be seen, though we seem to have plenty of ice and snow for anyone who likes that sort of thing. Our winter weather is a mouse fart compared to the shit monsoon swamping the nation's capital, tho...
Cyclo-Crust
Radio Free Dogpatch - December 16, 2018 00:19 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWith the 2018 cyclocross nats going on in Louisville and some very un-’crosslike weather going on in Albuquerque, Patrick O'Grady is reminded of one dusty pre-season in 2002 when it seemed that both sides of the street were sunny, and a little too much so. Recorded using a Shure SM-58 mic, a F...
Cold Blow and the Rainy Night
Radio Free Dogpatch - December 07, 2018 15:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings“Science finds, industry applies, man conforms.” That was the subtitle to the guidebook for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, and 85 years later it seems to hold up. It brings to mind change, my reflexive resistance to same, and a 2013 "Mad Dog Unleashed" column from Bicycle Retailer and Industry ...
Putting the 'Can' in 'Cannabis'
Radio Free Dogpatch - November 24, 2018 00:28 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt's probably not what Anheuser-Busch had in mind with the tagline, "This Bud's for you." But nevertheless, craft breweries — and a few bigger outfits, too — are finding creative ways of working weed into their beverages, which could bring a whole new meaning to the term "skunky beer." These k...
Of Wheels and Wilderness
Radio Free Dogpatch - November 16, 2018 22:35 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMarc Sani's "Through the Grapevine" column about legislation to permit mountain bikes in wilderness, and the Republicans who support it, squeezed the grapes of many a reader of the trade magazine Bicycle Retailer and Industry News. Patrick O'Grady never could resist kicking someone who's down...
Winning
Radio Free Dogpatch - November 09, 2018 22:48 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsRemember how it feels to lose? Keep that in mind when you win. A mediation on the midterms. Recorded using an Audio-Technica AT2100-USB microphone and a Zoom H5 Handy Recorder. Edited in Apple's GarageBand. The National Emblem March, composed in 1902 by Edwin Eugene Bagley, was performed b...
Fathers and Sons
Radio Free Dogpatch - November 02, 2018 13:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPatrick O'Grady chats with his old friend and colleague Hal Walter about the running career of Hal's son, Harrison. Patrick's father was a ball-sports kind of guy, and the two never connected on that level. But Harrison has grown up sharing his father's love of running, and he just completed h...
There Is No Slow Lane on the Road to Hell
Radio Free Dogpatch - October 26, 2018 13:45 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAfter reading a New Yorker essay about aging, complacency and a risk-management program gone all pear-shaped, Patrick O'Grady recalls a few painful damage-control miscues of his own, and argues that an overabundance of caution can be as perilous as throwing it to the wind. Recorded with an Au...
Running Dog, or What a Kick in the Nuts
Radio Free Dogpatch - October 19, 2018 19:42 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPatrick O'Grady used to hate running, and some days he still does. But it helps keep his inner fat bastard too winded to scream for seconds from the dessert cart.
Mister Boo: He's not Pluto, he's Goofy
Radio Free Dogpatch - January 19, 2018 00:48 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMister Boo, God's gift to veterinary medicine, is trying on canine cognitive dysfunction on for size in his Golden Years. But he rediscovers his inner puppy from time to time. George Carlin clip lifted from "40 Years of Comedy." Flute from kerri at freesound.org via a Creative Commons licens...
Walk Like a Man
Radio Free Dogpatch - May 01, 2016 01:40 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMister Boo goes under the knife, but it's the Mad Dog who feels stuck.
Hal, Harrison & Haggard
Radio Free Dogpatch - April 08, 2016 20:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPatrick O'Grady and his old friend Hal Walter team up for an impromptu Two Dudes Mystery Theatre podcast, discussing a pair of late poets — Jim Harrison and Merle Haggard — as well as journalism, cooking and a couple of pet projects. For more information on the topics discussed, see www.maddogme...
The Wash, Rinse, Spin & Repair Cycle
Radio Free Dogpatch - March 27, 2016 16:56 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOur Samsung top-loading washer has just enjoyed its seventh service call in slightly more than a year of light use.
Soccer To Me?
Radio Free Dogpatch - December 06, 2013 22:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBibleburg is getting its own bush-league pro soccer franchise, and all it asks is a million-dollar public kiss on its private lips.
Black Friday or Blue Christmas?
Radio Free Dogpatch - November 29, 2013 22:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt's OK to sleep on the sidewalk in the Land of the Free, as long as you're planning to buy something. And in recent years, that "something" is likely to be for yourself. But is a Scrooge-like change a-coming? Depends upon whom you ask.
Off Of My Lawn, Junior Birdmen
Radio Free Dogpatch - November 13, 2013 22:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe U.S. Air Force Academy's neighbors complain about (wait for it) the sound of aircraft.
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