Brad's Cactus Shack

This past weekend I've been reorganizing my hard drive IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN and trying to make more sense of the kajillions of files I've collected over the years, and I've decided that the best thing to do is permanently delete them all. But not before playing them for you guys to hear in everyone's favorite new show - Brad's Cactus Shack.

This is just an experimental thing and there's a good chance I won't make it past 3 episodes, but I've got a ton of audio scattered throughout my hard drives. It's stuff that wouldn't make a lot of sense to put on the Snow Plow Show and only slightly more sense to put on a Hobosode. So hopefully ya'll will enjoy this new show before I completely forget about it just like I did with The Big Beef Bueno Show.

I can't remember if I ever played the original What's Your Bid files from the 1980's. The sound quality on them is terrible and the calls are barely funny, but I was pranking that same radio station from the What's Your Bid phone mob back in middle school and I recorded the calls. Have I ever played those anywhere? If not, I plan to play them in the next episode.

In our special Christmas edition of HMB, we discuss The Buzz In Lebanon, time traveling Jesus, we depress our listeners with the sounds of a miserable dog, Alex gets pulled over for walking, and we talk about the haunted houses we visited.

Here’s an episode where we talk a little about the bizarre marijuana ban in Linn County. This episode includes interviews with city councilman Ray Kopczynski, and the owner of a marijuana dispensary, Brock Binder. In this episode, we completely solve our local marijuana issues. You’re welcome, Linn County.

In episode #3, we insult our listeners by telling them to learn how to drive, we complain about businesses closing early, and we discuss recent helicopter hijackings in Lebanon.

In the second episode of Heritage Mall Blues, Roxanne and Alex talk about Lebanon’s new “good deed” tickets and there is approximately 83% less talk about the Albany carousel project.

The premiere episode of The Heritage Mall Blues Podcast, where Roxanne and Alex discuss important issues such as why Albany needs a carousel and which part of a basketball is the side.

I discovered a lot of awesome new music last year, but one artist has really stood out among my favorites and the more I listen to his music the more I like him. That artist is Rappy McRapperson. I think my love for Rappy has gone far beyond just a passing phase at this point. I originally found just 2 tracks of his on some compilation torrent - the Lick Your Own Butthole Party Dance and I'm A Gangster.

Months after being thoroughly amused by those two songs and giving them plenty of airplay on Cacti Radio, I began to crave more. I listened to all of the clips of his music on Amazon, but I was too cheap to pay for them. More months passed, and I eventually found a download link for 8 of his albums. This is when discovered the true brilliance of Rappy McRapperson.

Sure, his songs are funny and they make me laugh, but his music goes way beyond that. His musical style is truly unique and some of the lyrics are amazing. His latest album, For The Kids In Juvenile Detention is a masterpiece from beginning to end and it's easily my favorite album by Rappy. (That's his latest solo work, but he's done an album since then with the frontman for Emergency Pizza Party.) That's another great thing about Rappy - he's good friends with all the members of Emergency Pizza Party, which is another band that I happen to really like and I'd discovered them completely separate from Rappy.

Last week I suckered Rappy into giving me his phone number, and after he realized what a huge mistake that was, we made a deal that if he did an interview with me, I would stop screwing with his Sprint wireless account. So here it is! After a 3.5 year hiatus, the Big Beef Bueno podcast is back! And to make up for those 3.5 years that I abandoned my listeners, I've made this episode 3 times as long as any of the previous episodes! And as an extra added bonus, the entire episode is filled with Rappy McRapperson's music and our interview! You can't go wrong, listening to this...

Click here to listen to BBB Episode 007

Eight of his previous albums are available to download for free by clicking on this link. If you like them, you should send no less than $300 to Rappy's PayPal at mcrapperson AT gmail.com. If you're not into paying for music, though, consider this amazing investment opportunity... Rappy will draw you blueprints for a spaceship for a mere $10!

Click the Buy Now button to take advantage of that amazing offer!

Rappy writes regularly in his blog at mcrapperson.blogspot.com and occasionally updates his website at rappymcrapperson.com. He also has a YouTube page with lots of homemade videos to his songs and a Facebook. If you've ever watched Captain Underpants, you might recognize Rappy's voice in the theme song:

And here's one more video of Rappy's. Go to his YouTube page and watch them all, though.

I'm done with this post for now, but I'm sure I'll come back and add a little more to it soon. If you want to subscribe to Big Beef Bueno on iTunes, the RSS feed is still notla.com/rss.xml. Subscribe!

Click here to listen to BBB Episode 007

Mrs. Swastika, April The Slut, Brad Pitt and April Fools. The show runs about 13 minutes and 45 seconds.

Some tribute type stuff to The Bastardcast, Nate and Di, and The RBPC Show. A call to an auto repair shop about urine, some voicemails and Beat The Geeks in Detroit. Music in this episode is mostly by Nerf Herder. The show runs about 14 minutes and 48 seconds.

BastardCast

Nate & Di

Nerf Herder on Wikipedia

nerfherder.net

Nerf Herder Myspace

This show contains a few miscellaneous calls that have happened in the past few months, including bill collectors, calling Dad on Father's Day, tricking an Applebees guy, Internet, and the Sick Whispering Doctor Lady. And a voicemail. There's lots of Lemon Demon music too. The show runs about 16 minutes and 40 seconds.