The Illinois Valley Alternative Podcast, Episode 37 is alive and taking over the web. Look out. After another summer recording slump, John and Clayton bounce back with one of the longest shows ever (sorry about that). So many things this week, but the most important of all is this show includes both a guest and some local Illinois Valley music.
We send a big thanks to Ric Soens of The Ric Soens Band who allowed us to play one of his songs on our show. Check it out around the 15 minute mark. For more on Ric’s music, check out his stuff on iTunes, Spotify, or head over to his Reverbnation page (link). (he is also on Amazon and YouTube) (15:00)
Before we played some local music, the show hit up a couple quick local events including a talk on the summer heat wave, some 4th of July fireworks talk, and the IV Flyers event. (00:00 – 15:00)
After that, for only the third time ever, we had a guest! This week, Nick (@revlo1983) from the Illinois Valley Gaming Society (@IVGamingSociety) joined us in the booth to talk about a bunch of nerdy things. Nick gave us a tutorial on Magic the Gathering, plus an update from a recent local movie premier in Princeton, IL – Power by Adam Agushi. He also gave us some background on the IV Gamers new podcast, The Nerdy Directive, produced by Simply Wicked Radio. Plenty of nerdy rambling to fill in the cracks, plus some Dreamwave Wrestling talk which eventually spilled into a discussion of Ravishing Rick Rude’s abs. A big thanks to Nick for joining us! (19:00 – 57:00)
After a little pickleball talk, the final chunk of the show gets back to normal with our favorite segment, the ReTweets of the Week! This included some Disc Golf talk, Cubs baseball, and Beer. The show takes a little turn with some words for a new local Illinois Valley Twitter hit (IV Jokes), and finally our usual apps and podcasts. (58:00 – End)
Yeah, it’s a long one…
