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Radio Free DogpatchIdiocracy 2026: Older but no wiserWith having a drop taken and/or a mind wandering being common along both branches of the family tree it behooves a fella from time to time to test-drive what remains of his wits, if any. It struck me recently that for perfectly sound (har de har har) reasons I hadn't done an episode of Radio Free Dogpatch since February 2025. But times pass and things change and people clearly aren't getting any smarter, especially me. So here we are so, dusting off what few of the mad skills I possessed only in theory not so...
2026-02-1804 min
WAGMI Ventures PodcastCreating Blockchains of the Future, with Patrick O'Grady (Commonware)Patrick O'Grady is Founder and CEO of Commonware, (https://www.commonware.xyz), an open-source set of primitives that developers can use to build and reassemble their applications without resorting to a complicated fork. Patrick shares his journey into crypto, building in the early days at Coinbase and thereafter joining Ava Labs, where he left to pursue his passion for simplifying blockchain development with the founding of Commonware. He discusses the importance of application specific blockchains, the modularity of Commonware and how it is being designed to be "the best verticalized stack" for building blockchain applications.
2025-04-1736 min
Demise of the PodcastEpisode 286 - Grady Hendrix's Witchcraft for Wayward GirlsIf you like Grady Hendrix, maybe skip this episode.
2025-02-0854 minRadio Free DogpatchBurning Down the HouseYou think we're shipping the wrong people to Guantanamo? I'm old enough to remember a time when, if some civilian loudmouth waltzed through your front door barking orders, you could kick him in the plums, give him the old heave and also the ho, and get back to whatever it was you were doing before all the bad noise started. Yet somehow, in the Year of Our Lard 2025, we've allowed this porcelain pissant from South Africa to start rearranging the national furniture, to say nothing of the org chart, without so much as a "Just...
2025-02-0805 minRadio Free DogpatchOn Thin ICEThe ICE boyos have brought a chill to Chicago, Aurora, and even the desert Southwest as Jesus Hitler starts making good on his promise of mass deportations. Round up the usual suspects. A little song and war dance for the TV cameras. "Dr. Phil" even got in on the act in Chicago. Shock and awe, baby. It works, for a while. But some folks just don't take kindly to being shoved around. Soon even the fanboys will find the price of admission to the Dingaling Bros-Barnum & Beelzebozo Circus ("There's One Born Every Minute...
2025-01-2906 minRadio Free DogpatchHowling at an Orange MoonBlame the Wolf Moon. A vacationing wife. An acid flashback. Whatever. But when I blinked myself awake in the dark on Tuesday morning I had no idea where I was. If dementia runs in your family, as it does in mine, this can freak you right the hell out. But I found it oddly exhilarating. "Where am I? Who knows? Who cares? This is great!" And then I remembered. "Aw, shit. Trumpsylvania." We're just a few all-too-short days away from the sequel to a movie I never...
2025-01-1707 minRadio Free DogpatchHighway 666 RevisitedAnother Jan. 6 has come and gone. This time we managed to skip the armed-insurrection part of the program, so yay for us. Turns out that when they win a presidential election, The System works. Who knew? Watching Vice President Kamala Harris preside over the certification of the 2024 election results this week sent me careening down Memory Lane, revisiting a night in the sneezer in 1977, a Louis C.K. dramedy from 2016, and the last three pestilential erections. Background music comes from Danny O'Keefe, AC/DC, The Cars, and Billy Joe Shaver, all...
2025-01-0906 minRadio Free DogpatchDoing It Old School, or 'Yeah! Science (Fiction)!'I always liked science fiction. Science, not so much. Science always seemed rigid and impersonal. But science fiction, or speculative fiction, if you prefer — especially of the apocalyptic variety — spoke to the gloomy bog-trotter in my DNA. So I studied the fiction instead of the science, with predictable results. When it came time for me to go to college, there was only one in the state that would accept me with my miserable GPA. However, I was excused from freshman comp because I was a fool for words, as long as there were no equations to s...
2024-12-1907 minRadio Free DogpatchThe Nanofesto: Writing a WrongWhen the John Laws collared their suspect in the CEO assassination he was said to have had in his possession a ghost gun, some fake I.D., and a 262-word "manifesto." By the ghosts of Marx and Engels! That's what I call phoning it in. Except our man didn't use a phone to compose it. Or a laptop. It was handwritten. Whether on papyrus, stone tablets, or a shithouse wall was not made clear. What is abundantly clear, however, is that 262 words do not a manifesto make. And let me tell you why.
2024-12-1205 min
Bell CurveCommonware: Building the Anti-Framework | Patrick O’GradyIn this episode, we’re joined by Patrick O’Grady, Founder of Commonware! We discussed what inspired Commonware, what Commonware aims to solve, and the flexibility it offers to developers. Additionally, we unpacked Patrick’s time at Ava Labs, and the tech stack that Avalanche has built. Finally, we covered how crypto will move past the “TPS Era” and infighting about infrastructure.Thanks for tuning in!ResourcesUnveiling Commonware: https://x.com/_patrickogrady/status/1866866850107363582Commonware unveils "anti-framework": https://blockworks.co/news/commonware-optimized-blockchain-development/--Unisw...
2024-12-111h 11Radio Free DogpatchThe Winter of Our Dissed ContentAt The Atlantic magazine, Noah "Fargo" Hawley says too many reporters are writing fiction these days. Meanwhile, in a fund-raising email from Mother Jones magazine, David Corn warns that the legacy media's value-neutral, highly inaccurate reviews of the various hams auditioning for parts in the Pestilence-Erect's latest play constitutes a form of "sanewashing." Hey, our little purse pooch of a podcast may not lift the biggest leg on the journalistical block, but it dearly loves a good pissing contest. While the big dogs go high we'll squeak in a little squirt down low. T...
2024-12-0405 minRadio Free DogpatchBigger Even Than I Had FearedThe headline is an inside joke among family and friends, a line of dialogue lifted from the 1978 novel "Panama," by Thomas McGuane. And now it's the title of a Radio Free Dogpatch podcast, a unsubtle bit of misdirection concerning an oversized orange turd that has proven impossible for a confused and bilious nation to flush. My apologies to Mr. McGuane. Sly and The Family Stone contributed a few seconds of "Family Affair" from their YouTube channel. Freesound kicked in a dog whining, a power failure, an internet outage, a garbage truck, and an elephant trumpeting...
2024-11-2705 minRadio Free DogpatchOrange Julius SeizureWherever shalt thou see a man on horseback, there also shalt thou see a horse's ass. And sometimes more than one of them, too. That's Scripture, son! There would be less pearl-clutching in the national media over Orange Julius Caesar doing exactly what we all expected he would do had some button-down editors worn their family jewels to the Big Dance. Alas, they did not, and now they are shocked — shocked! — that a circus needs clowns. Fanfare and gibbons from Freesound. "Out of Step" from Zapsplat. Folding chair to the skull from YouTube. Ever...
2024-11-2005 minRadio Free DogpatchInfected, Neglected and ElectedThere's nothing like getting the old one-two, a bacterial sock to the snotlocker followed by an electoral blow to the breadbasket. For treatment we visit the witch doctors of The Firesign Theatre, SNL's "Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber," and that sniffling eejit behind the mic at Infernal Hound Sound. The background music, "Abandoned," comes from Zapsplat.
2024-11-1405 minRadio Free DogpatchRunning on EmptyI'm not running away to Canada. I'm just running away from the news. There's lots of bad noise out there on the day after Election Day 2024. So naturally I felt compelled to add to the cacophony. You're welcome. Gunfire by Freesound. The rest of the racket was homemade.
2024-11-0705 minRadio Free DogpatchBalloons and GasbagsThe Not-So-Great Pumpkin is floating into Albuquerque this morning, a bit late for the International Balloon Fiesta, but just in time for Halloween. Nobody knows just why he's visiting a blue town in a blue county in a blue state in the final days of his campaign for The Big Gig. Maybe it's just a pit stop to pick up a bunch of burgers to carry him through until Election Day. For sure he's not popping round to pay us the $200K he owes us for his last visit. If this crook is stiffing Rudy...
2024-10-3105 minRadio Free DogpatchNot Dead Yet"He is risen" is not a phrase we associate with Halloween. More of an Easter thing, actually. Unless we're discussing this podcast, which was last seen (heard) alive in Easter 2023. And now, with Halloween cackling on the horizon, the bloody thing has clawed its way out of its grave and is headed for your place with designs on your ears. Music is courtesy of Zapsplat. Crickets come to you from Freesound. All the rotten racket is the work of the moldering old stiff who ramrods this graveyard.
2024-10-2306 min
LightspeedThe Path To 100,000 Subnets | Patrick O'Grady, Aaron Buchwald & Stephen ButtolphGm! This week Patrick O'Grady, Aaron Buchwald & Stephen Buttolph join the show to discuss the path forward for the Avalanche ecosystem.--Follow Patrick: https://twitter.com/_patrickogradyFollow Aaron: https://twitter.com/AaronBuchwaldFollow Stephen: https://twitter.com/stephenbuttolphFollow Dan: https://twitter.com/smyyguy--Try 3 months FREE of Helium Mobile with the code LIGHTSPEEDMOBILE: hellohelium.com Experience a new phone service that uses the Helium Network – a decentralized wireless network built by the people – AND the nation’s larg...
2024-04-301h 08
EmpireAvalanche: What are Subnets and What's Wrong With Appchains | Kevin Sekniqi & Patrick O'GradyIn today's episode of Empire, Kevin Sekniqi, Co-Founder of Avalanche, and Patrick O'Grady, VP of Engineering at Avalanche, join the show to discuss the past, present, and future of Avalanche. They start by explaining the core thesis behind Avalanche - that the future will consist of thousands of highly optimized, specialized blockchains rather than one chain to rule them all. Kevin and Patrick provide an overview of Avalanche's architecture, clarifying common misconceptions around P-Chain, C-Chain, and subnets. They then do a deep dive into the rationale and economics behind subnets, contrasting them to solutions like rollups and how Warp...
2023-12-191h 17
(A)Theist PodcastEp. 16 - Meaning Part 2: A Conversation with Dr. Patrick HillDr. Patrick Hill is an Associate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. His current research is interested in how individuals explore options for and ultimately commit to a purpose for life. Dr. Hill runs the PATH Lab where he studies Purpose, Aging, Transitions, and Health. He also hosts his own podcast called Your Direction.
Dr. Patrick Hill’s PATH Lab: https://pathlab.wustl.edu/
Your Direction Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6X5uKnhlLGQZkwxNTLeiEU
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2023-12-181h 05
RAD Cast Outdoors Podcast | Hunting, Fishing, Angling, OutdoorRadCast Rewind - Pat O’Grady PK Lures Fishing Lure Design and Ice FishingPat O'Grady is known for designing some of the most successful ice fishing lures of all time according to In-Fisherman magazine. He's designed many other successful fishing products but he is also one of the best anglers alive. He knows how to catch fish in many different conditions and on this episode, he shares his knowledge of how to catch fish with you.
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2023-12-1853 minLightspeedLegacy vs Next-Gen: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Avalanche | Luigi DeMeo, Patrick O'GradyLuigi DeMeo and Patrick O'Grady join us to discuss Avalanche's core thesis and roadmap. We cover Avalanche's cored design, why projects will leverage subnets, what's holding Avalanche back, legacy vs next-gen chains, L2 rollups and appchains, the RWA use case and more!- -Timestamps:(00:00) Introduction(01:05) Avalanche’s Design and Core Thesis(10:34) Avalanche's Consensus Mechanism and Validator Requirements(18:54) AVAX and Value Accrual(24:45) Legacy vs Next-Gen Chains and Rune’s SVM Post(32:45) L2 Scaling and Appchains(40:39) Where Will Value Aggr...
2023-09-141h 14
Spatial RealitiesE044 - Alliance for OpenUSD announced, Metaverse Standards Forum celebrates 1st anniversary, Meta Connect 23 announced and Patrick Grady from Metaverse EU about the Communication for Virtual Worlds and Web 4.0
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In early July 2023 the European Commission published a Communication on virtual worlds and Web 4.0. And as publications by the EU are usually long, complicated and have a history of its own, it was good that Patrick Grady published a short summary on his blog Metaverse EU to explain how the Communication can be understood. In it the EU outlines a strategy about how to take leadership in the development of virtual worlds and what we would have called Metaverse in 2022. But the C...
2023-08-041h 16
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed TechnologiesPatrick O'Grady: Avalanche – Building High Performance VMs With HyperSDKThe recent history of L2s has shown that there doesn’t need to be ‘one chain to rule them all’ or an ‘ETH killer’. Instead, a healthier approach would be to find the best solution for a specific need, taking into consideration any potential tradeoffs. Avalanche has done just that, focusing from the get-go on delivering high transaction throughput, using their unique subnet architecture, consensus protocol and warp messaging. HyperSDK continues this conviction, offering a framework for developers to spin up customisable, high performance virtual machines.We were joined by Patrick O’Grady, VP of Engineering at Ava Labs...
2023-07-281h 17
Logan Jastremski PodcastPatrick O'Grady | Ava Labs VP of Engineering | Avalanche Ecosystem | Logan Jastremski Podcast #25Patrick O'Grady's Twitter: @_patrickogrady
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2023-05-221h 19
Rise Above Your BestThe Power Of Mind Over Moment With Anne Grady Resilience is not just something that's nice to have. In this day and age, it is a requirement to thrive, especially for leaders. Resilience is a muscle, and adversity is what builds it. How do we gain mastery over our circumstances and emerge victorious every time? In this episode, Patrick Veroneau sits down with Anne Grady, author of Mind Over Moment, a book that talks precisely about these things. Join the conversation and learn how Anne's mindset-skillset-reset model can set you up for success as a resilient leader. Learn how resilience works from a neuroscientific and biochemical standpoint and...
2023-05-0137 minRise Above Your BestThe Power Of Mind Over Moment With Anne Grady Resilience is not just something that’s nice to have. In this day and age, it is a requirement to thrive, especially for leaders. Resilience is a muscle, and adversity is what builds it. How do we gain mastery over our circumstances and emerge victorious every time? In this episode, Patrick Veroneau sits down with Anne Grady, author of Mind Over Moment, a book that talks precisely about these things. Join the conversation and learn how Anne’s mindset-skillset-reset model can set you up for success as a resilient leader. Learn how resilience works from a neuroscientific and biochemical stan...
2023-05-0137 minRadio Free DogpatchEaster Service: Making a Joyful NoiseSpring 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. By that reckoning, spring arrived in The Duck! City on April 9, Easter Sunday. It was a few degrees short of ideal — I like to think of spring as that time when I can unsheath the arms an...
2023-04-1606 minRadio Free DogpatchMarching Forward, Looking Backward: Happy Birthday to Who?Birthdays. 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 the run o' the place. Herself is back east with family and friends to raise a belated parting glass to a lifelong friend felled by COVID last fall. I'm right here, having charge of the cat. But recently I spoke...
2023-03-2607 min
Dead HeadspaceGrady Hendrix & Erika T. WurthGrady Hendrix is an American journalist, public speaker, screenwriter, and author. His latest book is How to Sell a Haunted House. Erik T. Wurth is an urban Native of Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent. Her latest novel is White Horse.
2023-03-131h 13Dead HeadspaceGrady Hendrix & Erika T. WurthGrady Hendrix is an American journalist, public speaker, screenwriter, and author. His latest book is How to Sell a Haunted House. Erik T. Wurth is an urban Native of Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent. Her latest novel is White Horse.
2023-03-131h 13Radio Free DogpatchWelcome to the Feed Zone: TANSTAAFL, TifosiThe 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 subscriptions can only take you so far. Old pros lose the wheel; newcomers hope to find some form. Above the course floats the vulture capitalist, riding the ill wind, never missing a musette. It's all feed zone for that scavenger, from the...
2023-03-1107 minDead HeadspaceDH Preview: Ep. 190 - Grady Hendrix & Erika T. WurthGrady Hendrix is an American journalist, public speaker, screenwriter, and author. His latest book is How to Sell a Haunted House. Erik T. Wurth is an urban Native of Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent. Her latest novel is White Horse. Episode airs 3.13.23
2023-03-1001 minDead HeadspaceDH Preview: Ep. 190 - Grady Hendrix & Erika T. WurthGrady Hendrix is an American journalist, public speaker, screenwriter, and author. His latest book is How to Sell a Haunted House. Erik T. Wurth is an urban Native of Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent. Her latest novel is White Horse. Episode airs 3.13.23
2023-03-1001 minRadio Free DogpatchSounding it Out: The Air's Not Dead, But It's Not At All WellThe 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 Voices. And they all have their own microphones because somebody around here got a little acquisitive a couple years back. If we don't pipe them into your heads, they'll keep hanging around in ours. Sorry about that.
2023-02-2607 min
OnChain W/ SirerAll Access Introducing HyperSDK with Patrick O'Grady - Ep. 50Emin Gün Sirer, Founder of Avalanche and CEO of Ava Labs, sits down with Patrick O'Grady, Head of Engineering at Ava Labs, to talk about the release of HyperSDK. HyperSDK is the first framework for developers to build high performance Virtual Machines on Avalanche, out-of-the-box. This toolkit is designed to accelerate custom VM development, creating the foundation to build the fastest blockchains.
2023-02-261h 15Radio Free DogpatchTruly Awful Ain't So Bad: It's the Little Things That SuckThe 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.
2023-02-1604 min
Power Your Parenting: Moms With TeensGetting Dad More InvolvedMany moms feel the burden of parenting teens is on their shoulders and wish that dad would be more involved in their teens life. Today we are going to talk about why the fathers role is so important. Todays guest Patrick Cummings talks about his obsession with work as an entrepreneur. And how this took him away from his family and negatively impacted his teens. In this episode Patrick tells us how he turned that around.Patrick Cummings is an entrepreneur, business coach, and wealth management advisor who—after giving his all for twelve years to the co...
2022-11-1434 minDead HeadspaceGrady HendrixGrady Hendrix is an American journalist, public speaker, screenwriter, and author. His upcoming book is How to Sell a Haunted House. Cina Pelayo is an American poet and author. Her latest book, a poetry collection, is Crime Scene.
2022-10-171h 16Dead HeadspaceGrady HendrixGrady Hendrix is an American journalist, public speaker, screenwriter, and author. His upcoming book is How to Sell a Haunted House. Cina Pelayo is an American poet and author. Her latest book, a poetry collection, is Crime Scene.
2022-10-171h 16Dead HeadspaceDH Preview: Ep. 166 - Grady HendrixGrady Hendrix is an American journalist, public speaker, screenwriter, and author. His upcoming book is How to Sell a Haunted House. Cina Pelayo is an American poet and author. Her latest book, a poetry collection, is Crime Scene. Episode releases on 10.17.2022
2022-10-1401 minDead HeadspaceDH Preview: Ep. 166 - Grady HendrixGrady Hendrix is an American journalist, public speaker, screenwriter, and author. His upcoming book is How to Sell a Haunted House. Cina Pelayo is an American poet and author. Her latest book, a poetry collection, is Crime Scene. Episode releases on 10.17.2022
2022-10-1401 min
The Environmental Transformation Podcast with Sean GradyLoyalty Point Leadership with Patrick NelsonLoyalty Point Leadership with Patrick Nelson, Veteran and Safety Leadership Consultant. Learn how Patrick is leveraging his battle tested experience providing Safety Leadership strategies that have resulted in 57% reductions in the TRIR (Total Recordable Incident Rate) for Fortune 500 Organizations. Hear how he makes safety personal and trains operational leaders by giving them a playbook to utilize while making lasting changes to a company's safety culture.
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2022-07-2650 min
City on a Hill: Kansas City#044 Patrick & Marilu GradyPatrick and Marilu Grady are living in Kansas City, as Patrick attends UMKC with hopes to own orthodontic practice in the future! Patrick & Marilu have had separate, yet both beautiful, conversions to the heart of Jesus! Both raised Catholic, but had radically different journeys to embracing their own faith... which they say has been a beautiful aspect to the merging of their lives, through dating and marriage!
In marriage, Patrick is still in school at UMKC and they just welcomed their second daughter into the world. Patrick & Marilu share of how they discern as a couple, how t...
2021-10-0653 min
Domus Search - The European BioTech, Pharma & MedTech C-Suite Leadership PodcastEpisode 4 - Patrick Michaels - Managing Director - AKA West PalmOn today's episode, I am joined by Founder & CEO of R3PRESENT, Patrick Michaels.
Patrick is a leader in global sales and marketing and has operated across the globe. Building his career from the ground up, he was able to progress to the role of Managing Director and Global VP of Sales. Patrick established R3PRESENT in November 2020 in the midst of a pandemic, and continues to act as a trusted partner and extension of his client's organisation to help them realise sales potential, brand visibility and build international collaborations to enhance their service offering.
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2021-07-1539 min
Nebraska Beer:30#92 Melanie Phelan | Site-1 BrewingMelanie Phelan was probably party involved in the creation of Site-1 Brewing (you'll get it once you listen to the episode). Melanie and her crew at Site-1 Brewing have taken off as one of the newest breweries in Nebraska! Based out of Omaha, Site-1's unique business plan allows them to expand their craft to infinity and beyond! Melanie and Grady cover a lot this episode. They talk about how Site-1 came to be, how their "launch pad" business structure works, what St. Patrick actually did, how Site-1 was originally going to be named Left Hand Brewing (just kidding), and...
2021-03-1932 minRadio Free DogpatchSpring Broken, or Not Being Stuck Means You're StuckPatrick 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 Plague, he's stuck — because he hasn't been stuck.
2021-03-0207 minRadio Free DogpatchWarmed Twice, or Getting Wood in WeirdcliffeWhen 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 insert and a tall woodpile kept the toilets from exploding like a bottle of beer left overlong in the freezer.
2021-02-2206 minRadio Free DogpatchRoad HardTrucks 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 traveled a rougher road. And they're still on it. This stray dog was struck by Jessica Bruder's book, and he can't wait to see Chloé Zhao's film.
2021-02-1507 minRadio Free DogpatchHave Mercy, Been Waitin' on the E-Bus All DayThere'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?
2021-02-0805 minRadio Free DogpatchUp in the Air or Down in the Dumps?Lockup 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.
2021-02-0106 min
Nebraska Beer:30#77 Craig Beougher | All Knowing McGillNebraska Beer:30 Hotline: 402 370-9900. Craig Beougher is a singer-songwriter and the face of the Lincoln-based Americana band, All Knowing McGill. Craig and Grady talk about raising kids, writing music, Craig's many guitars and songwriting process, Grady gets tips on raising a girl, which beers they drink before playing shows, and the death of Eddie Van Halen (Big Up to Patrick Stehlik for leaving a voicemail!). Beers had: Weldwerks (Greeley, CO) Double Orange Creamsicle Milkshake, Founders Brewing's (Grand Rapids, MI) Oktoberfest, Empyrean Brewing Co.'s (Lincoln, NE) ESB, and Cosmic Eye Brewing's (Lincoln, NE) Everything Has Eyes IPA. Find...
2020-10-1132 min
Agent Talk Podcast With Joshua GradyAgent Talk - Discussing Patrick Mahomes' 10 Year, $503 Million ContractWhat's good! We are back on Agent Talk and today I give my thoughts on the massive contract extension executed by the Kansas City Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes, and his representatives. Back in 2019, I was fortunate enough to be able to meet Leigh Steinberg + Chris Cabott at the NFL Combine, and let's just say I am not surprised at all that they were able to negotiate such an incredible deal for Mahomes. Leigh + Chris are two of the best in the business, and this contract is nothing more than proof in the pudding. --- Support this podcast: ht...
2020-07-1309 min
Nebraska Beer:30#66 The Great PizzabateA Coronavirus update directly from China, a local pizza debate (the "Pizzabate"), a degrading voicemail from Triple B Screenprinting, and much more are talked about in this solo-sode! Shout out to Patrick Stehlick, Charley Morris, Josh Batt, Lauren Becwar, and Tom Osborne (Connor Happer) for the voicemails! Grady sips on Saro Cider's (Lincoln, NE) Valencia Cider and White Elm Brewing Co's (Lincoln, NE) Inverted Citra Double IPA- Leave a voicemail on the Nebraska Beer:30 Hotline: 402 370-9900 - Support our sponsor, Steel Pig Forge.https://www.steelpigforge.comhttps://www.facebook.com/steelpigforge
2020-06-2934 minRadio Free DogpatchBleach Blankety-Blank BingoBeing 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 this hot mess. Say, is it just me, or does this soda taste like bleach?
2020-04-2806 minRadio Free DogpatchThe New AbnormalPatience, 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.
2020-04-1906 minRadio Free DogpatchHello In ThereIt'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.
2020-04-1106 minRadio Free DogpatchDoing TimeStaying 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 itself.
2020-04-0107 minRadio Free DogpatchBeans, Buttwipe, and Bullets (Hold the Brains)Anyone 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 kettles black.
2020-03-2405 minRadio Free DogpatchAntisocial DistancingWorking 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.
2020-03-2206 minRadio Free DogpatchWe're In the SoupThe 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?
2020-03-1207 minRadio Free DogpatchRequiescat in PaceNursing 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.
2020-03-0506 minRadio Free DogpatchRolled Another OnePatrick 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-tech pair of crutches, and this podcast wouldn't be two days late and more than a dollar short. Just say no, kids.
2020-02-2707 minRadio Free DogpatchRandom Acts of RadioYou 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.
2020-02-1908 minRadio Free DogpatchThe Monitor in the MerrimackA 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.
2020-02-1106 minRadio Free DogpatchThe Royal FlushRepublicans 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).
2020-02-0406 minRadio Free DogpatchHappy TrailsRiding 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.
2020-01-2805 minRadio Free DogpatchPeach Mint Sucker"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 nothingburgers pitched at us by Mickey D and Mickey M.
2020-01-2207 minRadio Free DogpatchRiding On the RimsFor 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. ...
2020-01-1309 minRadio Free DogpatchDear DiaryPatrick 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.
2020-01-0707 minRadio Free DogpatchThe Mad Dog in WinterWinter seems colder than usual this year. We've already seen a White Walker in Albuquerque, and he's looking for his Social Security check.
2019-12-2407 min
RAD Cast Outdoors Podcast | Hunting, Fishing, Angling, OutdoorPat O’Grady, PK Lures Fishing Tips for Walleye and TroutPat O’Grady from fishing tackle company, PK Lures, joins the RADCast Outdoors Podcast. Hosts David Merrill and Patrick Edwards chat about his business, connection to Wyoming, and lots of fishing. Pat O‘Grady, is the founder and designer for PK Lures Inc. Pat O‘Grady talks about fishing in Wyoming, how to start a fishing lure company and much more. Some of the topics include:
Fishing in Wyoming
Seminole Reservoir
Walleye Fishing
Trout Fishing
Fishing Tips and Tricks
Starting a business
Pat O‘Grady is a legend in Wyoming Fishing. Pat has fished his whole life and is one of the mo...
2019-12-211h 05Radio Free DogpatchThe IT GuyThe 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.
2019-12-1606 min
Angus GradyWaitrose Coffee with PatrickPatrick is amazing, MS champion who despite suffering from the disease is the funniest cherry irrevent person I know. Great bloke with a ton of funny stories, his one on my dog ate my knob still makes me laugh.
2019-06-0902 minRadio Free DogpatchStock Options: General Principles on Corporal PunishmentWhat 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.
2019-05-0407 minRadio Free DogpatchThe Right Side of the LawnPatrick O'Grady muses on a few close calls en route to turning 65, including one right before The Big Day.
2019-03-2806 minRadio Free DogpatchThe Element of SurprisePatrick O'Grady nearly bought a Honda Element. Twice. The second time he had the book thrown at him. The Kelley Blue Book, that is.
2019-02-2707 minRadio Free DogpatchCrossing a Line: From Frown to Tan and Back AgainIn 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.
2019-02-2007 minRadio Free DogpatchCan't Find My Way HomeWhere'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."
2019-02-1107 minRadio Free DogpatchLet Them Eat Loans?Wilbur 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. Edited on a 2014 MacBook Pro using Apple's Garageband. "Ahoy, polloi," lifted from "Caddyshack" using Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack. The background music, "Stay Away," comes from www.zapsplat.com. Dog eating from peridactyloptrix via www.freesound.org. Remember, Wilbur, the Big Dog always eats last.
2019-01-2505 minRadio Free DogpatchA Hard Reign in SwamptownThe 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 off the feddle gummint from its own citizens, idling more than a few of them in the process and forcing others to work without pay. It's a hard reign, and the water — if that's what it is — just keeps rising.
2019-01-1206 minRadio Free DogpatchDT, Phone HomeWe'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, though, and with the Chinese more interested in exploring the moon than the wowie-zowies of Apple's latest and greatest black monolith, Patrick O'Grady wonders how much longer it'll be before we're all clubbing each other around the water hole again. Ook ook oo...
2019-01-0507 minRadio Free DogpatchCyclo-crust: Getting Dusted in DecemberWith 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 Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack and a 2009 iMac. Background music is "Newborn," a jingle lifted from Apple's iMovie, which also supplied the "Medal Ceremony" opener.
2018-12-1607 minRadio Free DogpatchCold Blow & the Rainy Night"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 News. This episode was recorded with a Shure SM58 microphone, Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack, and the old 2009 iMac. Cap'n Whitebeard used an Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB mic. I edited the audio using Apple's GarageBand on a 2014 MacBook Pro. The background music is "Into the Sunset" from Audio Hero via ZapSplat.com, and the s...
2018-12-0708 minRadio Free DogpatchPutting the 'Can' in 'Cannabis'It'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 kids today. Before long nobody under 65 will know how to roll a joint. Recorded using an Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB mic and Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack. Edited using Apple's GarageBand on a 2014 MacBook Pro. The opener is a few bars from "Don't Bogart That Joint," by the Fraternity of Ma...
2018-11-2406 minRadio Free DogpatchOf Wheels & WIldernessMarc 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, especially if someone else did the hard work of actually putting them down, so he jumps in with his latest edition of Radio Free Dogpatch. Recorded using an Audio-Technica AT2100-USB microphone and a Zoom H5 Handy Recorder. Edited in Apple's GarageBand on a 2014 MacBook Pro. Background music is "Looking B...
2018-11-1610 minRadio Free DogpatchWinning: The Comity of the Cul-de-SacRemember 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 by the U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Band. "Tiny Town" from ZapSplat.com. "You lose it, buddy," lifted from the fabulous "Caddyshack." No neighbors were harmed in the making of this podcast.
2018-11-0904 minRadio Free DogpatchFathers and Sons: Going the DistancePatrick 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 his first season with the high-school cross-country team. This might be unremarkable if Harrison were not autistic. But he is, and it adds what gymnasts, divers and equestrians call "a degree of difficulty" to the basic activity. After some ups and downs during...
2018-11-021h 04Radio Free DogpatchThere Is No Slow Lane on the Road to HellAfter 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 Audio-Technica ATR2100 USB microphone and a Zoom H5 Handy Recorder. Edited in Apple's GarageBand. Sound effects from Freesound. Blues loop from fredsonic at Freesound. Read the essay by Daniel J. Levitin at The New Yorker.
2018-10-2605 minRadio Free DogpatchRunning Dog, or What a Kick in the NutsPatrick 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.
2018-10-1906 min
Patrick Lalley ShowKathy Grady on DakotaMan; Scott Hudson on Cracker concert; Cory Heidelberger of DakotaFreePress.comThe Patrick Lalley Show on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Guests include Kathy Grady of Sanford Wellness previewing the DakotaMan Triathlon on Saturday; Scott Hudson previews tonight's Cracker concert during Weird Friends; Blogger Cory Heidelberger of DakotaFreePress.com recaps the state Democrat Convention. I talk about the public input compromise at City Council meetings.
2018-06-201h 08Radio Free DogpatchMister Boo: He's Not Pluto, He's GoofyMister 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 license. All the other bad noise comes from Patrick O'Grady | Mad Dog Media.
2018-01-1906 minRadio Free DogpatchWalk Like a ManMister Boo goes under the knife, but it's the Mad Dog who feels
stuck.
2016-05-0103 minRadio Free DogpatchHal, Harrison & HaggardPatrick 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.maddogmedia.com.
2016-04-081h 05Radio Free DogpatchThe Wash, Rinse, Spin & Repair CycleOur Samsung top-loading washer has just enjoyed its seventh service call in slightly more than a year of light use.
2016-03-2703 minRadio Free DogpatchSoccer To Me?Bibleburg is getting its own bush-league pro soccer franchise, and all it asks is a million-dollar public kiss on its private lips.
2013-12-0604 minRadio Free DogpatchBlack Friday or Blue Christmas?It'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.
2013-11-2902 minRadio Free DogpatchOff of My Lawn, Junior BirdmenThe U.S. Air Force Academy's neighbors complain about (wait for it) the sound of aircraft.
2013-11-1302 min