Beer:30 Live

Ep 49: Eastern Bloc Warmth

It’s all medical, all the time. Mark-o is back with a new baby story. Pete is going under the knife. Curt’s working to get those voices out of his head, and Matt is just trying to keep the choppers out of the classroom.


Ep 48: Same Old Swill

New Voices. New Bar. Same old swill. Beer:30 Live is back! First new episode in over six months, and we still don’t have anything smart to talk about. This week on the docket: Matt nearly looses his head in his first bike race of the season, Mark-o levels with us about his wife’s white hot [...]


Beer:30 Live! for 9/21/2007

This week, mean ol’ Uncle Curt Siffert from curtsiffert.com joins Shane and me to talk up the week of oddities. A man gets struck by lightning. In the penis. A University of Florida student is tazered on YouTube. The New York Times prints a story on how the Iranian President will not be allowed to [...]

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Ep 47: When Lightning Strikes

This week, mean ol’ Uncle Curt Siffert from curtsiffert.com joins Shane and Pete to talk up the week of oddities. A man gets struck by lightning. In the penis. A University of Florida student is tazered on YouTube. The New York Times prints a story on how the Iranian President will not be allowed to [...]

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Ep 46: How to Win at Sports – By Bill Belichick

This week, we catch up. We catch up on news, on the good Senator Taps-a-lot. And then we cry like girls over Greg Oden. It’s all made a little better as we muse rhapsodic over Bill Belichick and his progressive coaching tactics. All that and more this week on Beer:30 Live! Ep 46: How to [...]

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Ep 45: The Mortgage Crisis and You

This week on Beer:30 Live!, Jason Seibel from Greater NW Mortgage joins us to talk about the current mortgage crisis in the US. He fills us in on the loans to avoid, the loans to covet, and how to get out from under the weight of a heavy market. There’s light at the end of [...]

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Ep 44: Tap, Tap, Tap…

It’s the Senator Craig show! Not to mention a full hour of unverified assertions and loosely annotated syllogisms that make up one of the most wholly uninformed shows on the Internet! Special thanks to McMenemin’s, John Barleycorn’s, in Tigard, Oregon for letting us take up a booth of the place, with beer and tater tots, [...]

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Ep 43: Sponsored by a New Global Economy!

This week on Beer:30 Live!, still weather the summer vacation schedule, Pete and Jamie show up to have a fantastic talk with university instructor and Frenchman, Alain Gracianette. Alain is working on his doctoral research on China’s growing prominence in the global arena, and brings us up to speed on all the reasons we should [...]

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Ep 42: Evolutionarily Speaking…

This week on Beer:30 Live!, the crew the crew is still stuck in a rift in the space-time continuum. Joining Pete, Jamie and Mary this week is Mary’s super smart husband/scientist Phil Jones (hauntavirus hunter) to talk about evolution versus creation. He has a textbook — “science” textbook, that attempts to take on science from [...]

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Ep 41: Frank’s Brain

This week on Beer:30 Live!, the crew ditches Pete, to spite him for his long vacation. Joining Pete and Shane for a beer, Frank Bender sits down to talk about the recent discovery of a benign tumor resting close to his brain, and the process he and his family have gone through in recent weeks [...]

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Ep 40: The Show Goes Metaphysical

This week on Beer:30 Live!, the crew is finally adjusting to Pete being gone, riding out the phantom pains and learning to live again. Joining them for a beer, Merrill Watts graciously sits down to talk about his journey from strict Mormonism, to angry observer of organized religion, to spiritualist, and back to Mormon over [...]

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Ep 39: Jamie Burns for his Global Warming Insolence

This week on Beer:30 Live!, Shane is emotionally distressed about running the mixing board again, Mary openly disses the dead by slamming Pete’s equipment while he’s away, and Jamie serves his duty as the last man standing while the globe burns yelling a la Howard Beale, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to [...]

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Ep 38: When the Cat’s Away…

This week on Beer:30 Live!, Shane is emotionally distressed about running the mixing board, Mary shamelessly spoils the series finale of “The Sopranos” for all us DVD-only viewers, and Jamie ruthlessly insults all international listeners, by country, all while enjoying the political partnership of both Ron Paul and Mit Romney. The Beer:30 Live! curse is [...]

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Ep 37: It’s Good to be Blue

This week on Beer:30 Live!, gracing the table is very special guest Kari Chisholm, co-founder of BlueOregon.com, one of the most prominent progressive political blogs in the nation. Kari is a wildly well-informed political strategist specializing in building grassroots support online through his company, MandateMedia. He’s a guru of political process and shares his thoughts [...]

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Ep 36: The Emperor

This week on Beer:30 Live!, two of the four of us regulars have to bow out, so we grab guest host Curt Siffert (http://www.curtsiffert.com) to sit in and an review the week. Pac-Man gets skin-stripped, Emperor Palpatine teaches the Dems a few tricks from space, and our own little Emperor declares himself a dictator, all [...]


Ep 35: “Homage”

This week, a show about nothing. Our guest of the week had a last minute conflict so we were left to our own devices. But we still had plenty to talk about: Martian Climate, the Fart Car, the network TV lineup and more, all this week on Beer:30 Live! Ep 35: “Homage”


Ep 34: Entrepreneur

Direct from Barleycorn’s in Tigard, Oregon, it’s Entrepreneur Day! Our guest isn’t even thirty and is already responsible for a handful of technical start-up companies. We talk to him about what it means to start a business, to take responsibility for others’ welfare, and to shepherd a product to market, all this week on Beer:30 [...]


Ep 33: Jamie and the Angry Spartans

Direct from Barleycorn’s in Tigard, Oregon, on this week’s show, we talk to one of our own: James has a new book! “Duty, Honor. & Glory: Leadership Secrets of the 300″ sets modern leadership to the tune of the film “300″, and takes on modern guffaws of corporate leaders as lessons that should have been [...]


Ep 32: The Ghost Hunters

Direct from Barleycorn’s in Tigard, Oregon, on this week’s show, we sit down with Todd and Martina: Ghost Hunters. These paranormal investigators have searched the country to document the spectors around us, and today, they let us in on all the secrets. Number one: Crossing the Streams doesn’t matter all that much, as it turns [...]

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Ep 31: Immigration and stuff…

Direct from Barleycorn’s in Tigard, Oregon, on this week’s show, we spend some quality time with Hector Ariceaga, Mexican immagrant turned professional technologist and banker. We had these great intentions about getting Hector’s opinions on the state of the immigration debate, and then promptly sidetracked ourselves and got his opinions on a whole bunch of [...]

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Ep 30: Iran II

Direct from Barleycorn’s in Tigard, Oregon, on this week’s show, we hang out with our old friend Mike Mostafavi and talk about Iran. Again. Remember the good old days when all we had to talk about was the HauntaVirus and good music? We do, too. But this whole build up to another war has us [...]

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Ep 29: Phil Jones Hunts Hantavirus

Direct from Barleycorn’s in Tigard, Oregon, on this week’s show, we hang out with Phil Jones and talk about his research on Hantavirus. You know, that virus that makes your lungs melt from the inside out so that you drown in your own cellular fluid? Oh, THAT Hantavirus, you say? That’s right, all that and [...]

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Ep 28: Alex James

Direct from the Big Horn Brewery in Lake Oswego, Oregon. On this week’s show, Yep-Rock recording artist Al James from the band Dolorean joins us to talk about his music, shunning the Internet, dismissing piracy, and records… all his glorious records! Plus, hear three live solo acoustic tracks of the new CD, “You Can’t Win”, [...]

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Ep 27: Stood-Up

Direct from the Big Horn Brewery in Lake Oswego, Oregon. On this week’s show, we were stood up! That’s right, our scheduled guest aced us. But don’t fear, we had a good old chat with Michael, a prospective med student, about his trials and tribulations and fantasies of saving the world, one virus at a [...]

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