B-Lo Zero

Adam and Brandon wrap up the calendar year, and season two, by reviewing Buffalo sports happenings (how about those BILLS???) and taking a quick scan around recent local news stories. We'll be off for the holidays, but we'll see you in 2020!

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Adam and Brandon are joined by Rob Galbraith (@RobGalbraithLS) from the Public Accountability Initiative (@twittlesis) to talk about an enormous issue facing Buffalo right now: the 485-a tax break. What is it? How is it being used by developers? And what do the answers to these questions mean for the rest of us, and our own taxes? Check out this episode to find out all that, and a whole lot more.

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UNLOCKED BONUS CONTENT! Whoa, quite the news day here in Buffalo! First, Adam quickly recaps yesterday's elections (spoiler alert: there were no spoilers), then goes into the big ticket item THE FBI RAIDED CITY HALL FOR 8 HOURS WHAT. Yes, that happened. What does it mean? Listen and find out!

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Adam and Brandon start off with some thoughts about the shakiness of the Bills and Sabres, then fill out the rest of the episode with a bunch of quick hit takes on a variety of recent Buffalo news items. It was about time to get caught up!

Adam and Brandon are joined by their good friend and die-hard Buffalo sports fan Andy to talk about the 5-1 Bills and 7-1-1 Sabres. Who are these teams, and are they for real??? Maybe, maybe not - give us a listen for our hot takes!

NOTE: The sports scene is so on fire right now that we didn't even get into any local news items in this episode. Keep your eyes on your feed for some bonus material coming later this week!

UNLOCKED BONUS CONTENT! Adam gives his hot takes on the Sabres and Bills, then addresses the surprising recent news of Chris Collins's change to a guilty plea and resignation from Congress.

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Adam and Brandon are joined by Jack Kavanaugh and Vanessa Glushefski, hosts of the "Buffalo Politics: Uncensored" podcast, to talk about all things related to running for office, including the lay of the land currently and where they see things going in the future. This was a very fun podcast cross-over special, and we look forward to doing way more of these in the future!

Note: childcare can be complicated, so please enjoy the occasional appearances by Vanessa's children!

Adam and Brandon are joined by Chris Hawley, a local labor history enthusiast, to talk about unions and their struggles here in Buffalo throughout the years. This one is CHOCK full of amazing and interesting tidbits (for instance: did you know THE Mother Jones visited Buffalo?), so please celebrate Labor Day belatedly by giving this one a listen!

Adam and Brandon are joined by not one, but TWO live public school teachers - Josh and Sarah! After a chat recapping a little bit of sports, the conversation moves into talking about public schools, and the narratives surrounding both them and their teachers/employees. Listen to this one to learn a bunch of things you never knew you needed to know!

NOTE: Please excuse the sound quality - we didn't have enough microphones for everybody, so we rigged up a special system to record the conversation. Please consider contributing on Patreon so that, one day, we can go super professional with our set-up!