In which Spring has sprung and it's gettin inappropriate so we're gonna get into it about Bradford pear trees and it's gonna get musty. Then, on a very special episode of Out of Character with Josh Zagoren, my roommate reveals his secret double life as he interviews the immaculate Luke Dimyan from The Chosen. 

GET TO CLASS AT C2E2

WATCH LUKE IN THE CHOSEN

And BUY SOME STUFF 

Recorded LIVE at the Paper Machete 03/22/25 at Chicago's Historic Green Mill Cocktail Lounge  courtesy of Jeppson’s Malört: The Official Drink of the Apocalypse and then in the Birdhouse courtesy of WKQX (101.1 FM) 

Come find me in all your favorite places including my Discord 

Featuring “Promises” by the Barrerracudas, a snippy of “The Wasteland” courtesy of Ross Bugden Twitter: Instagram For commissions/scores: [email protected]

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In which I go all in on Southwest airlines dropping the freebags whilst surviving a contact drunk cuz it was St Paddy's Day in Chicago and then my roommate kicks off the newest segment OUT OF CHARACTER and he interviews the great and sweet-smelling Andrew Marchetti (Puppeteer/Puppet Maker/Producer). 

Go see Andrew Marchetti in anything by Dead Reckoning HERE in Chicago 

COME TO BLUE ISLAND! 

And BUY SOME STUFF 

Recorded LIVE at the Paper Machete 03/15/25 at Chicago's Historic Green Mill Cocktail Lounge  courtesy of Jeppson’s Malört: The Official Drink of the Apocalypse and then in the Birdhouse courtesy of WKQX (101.1 FM) 

Come find me in all your favorite places including my Discord 

Featuring “Promises” by the Barrerracudas, a snippy of “The Wasteland” courtesy of Ross Bugden Twitter: Instagram For commissions/scores: [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's THAT time of the year again, humans: The river is green and so am I! I talk about Monopoly and then pull a classic from the St Paddy's Days of Yore. The Before Times. The Old Days. Back in good ol 2017. 

GET TO CLASS! 

COME TO BLUE ISLAND! 

And BUY SOME STUFF 

Recorded LIVE at the Paper Machete 03/08/25 and 03/18/17 at Chicago's Historic Green Mill Cocktail Lounge  courtesy of Jeppson’s Malört: The Official Drink of the Apocalypse

Come find me in all your favorite places including my Discord 

Featuring “Promises” by the Barrerracudas, a snippy of “The Wasteland” courtesy of Ross Bugden Twitter: Instagram For commissions/scores: [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's SMARCH and our 40th Birdcast since joining up with Q101 so pop some champers and come on a journey with me all about my jealousy of your human parts. Are you nervous? Does it feel weird? Good! Know your privilege. 

GET TO CLASS! 

And BUY SOME STUFF 

Recorded LIVE at the Paper Machete 03/01/25 at Chicago's Historic Green Mill Cocktail Lounge and then from CLASS! 02/15/25 at Lincoln Lodge courtesy of Jeppson’s Malört: The Official Drink of the Apocalypse

Come find me in all your favorite places including my Discord 

Featuring “Promises” by the Barrerracudas, a snippy of “The Wasteland” courtesy of Ross Bugden Twitter: Instagram For commissions/scores: [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's February and that means we're stayin in, grabbin sips and flippin through the ol vinyl collection of ME! To close out the month, here's the Chad Classic Finale and it's allll about MUMMIES! 

GET TO CLASS! 

And BUY SOME STUFF 

Recorded LIVE at the Paper Machete 02/22/25 and then from back in the day 07/21/18 at Chicago's Historic Green Mill Cocktail Lounge courtesy of Jeppson’s Malört: The Official Drink of the Apocalypse

Come find me in all your favorite places including my Discord 

Featuring “Promises” by the Barrerracudas, a snippy of “The Wasteland” courtesy of Ross Bugden Twitter: Instagram For commissions/scores: [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's February and that means we're stayin in, grabbin sips and flippin through the ol vinyl collection of ME! This week I went all-in on my favorite thing you humans have ever done (besides mozzerella sticks and Tubi): SCIENCE! Not one but two reports of my hypin up the greatest of disciplines, one from this week about Asteroid 2024 YR4 (you're not gonna wanna miss a thing, there) and then some classic science news from September 2018 so hydrate cuz it'll get nostalgic. 

GET TO CLASS! 

And BUY SOME STUFF 

Recorded LIVE at the Lincoln Lodge  01/16/25 and then from the Paper Machete 9/22/18 at Chicago's Historic Green Mill Cocktail Lounge courtesy of Jeppson’s Malört: The Official Drink of the Apocalypse

Come find me in all your favorite places including my Discord 

Featuring a lil bit of "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" by Diane Warren with the great Bill Larkin, “Promises” by the Barrerracudas, a snippy of “The Wasteland” courtesy of Ross Bugden Twitter: Instagram For commissions/scores: [email protected]

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Yup it's cold, it's snowing and I'm going through some old memories from the vault. This week I bring you my history of Malört from last CLASS! live from the Lincoln Lodge and then I pull a post-Superbowl (GO BIRDS!) Chad Classic from February 2018! 

GET TO CLASS! 

And BUY SOME STUFF 

Recorded LIVE at the Lincoln Lodge  01/16/25 and then from the Paper Machete 2/10/18 at Chicago's Historic Green Mill Cocktail Lounge courtesy of Jeppson’s Malört: The Official Drink of the Apocalypse

Come find me in all your favorite places including my Discord 

Featuring “Promises” by the Barrerracudas, a snippy of “The Wasteland” courtesy of Ross Bugden Twitter: Instagram For commissions/scores: [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In which I go out to SEA!!! Join me, lads, to the open waters whereabouts the rumblings be dark and beefy and the lungfish grow to a ripe old age. I talk pings and nuclear threats and then pop on a five year old (almost to the DAY) Chad Classic from the vault, perfect for any voyage. 

GET TO CLASS! 

And BUY SOME STUFF 

Recorded LIVE The Paper Machete 02/01/25 and 2/11/17 at Chicago's Historic Green Mill Cocktail Lounge courtesy of Jeppson’s Malört: The Official Drink of the Apocalypse

Come find me in all your favorite places including my Discord 

Featuring “Promises” by the Barrerracudas, a snippy of “The Wasteland” courtesy of Ross Bugden Twitter: Instagram For commissions/scores: [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Get up, it's 2025 and we're plungin in. You're not in the Birdcast anymore, the news is too bleak, it's too freaky out there so we decided to portal to Pinball City and totally took you with us, sorry. I'm goin all in on my love and allegiance to the silver ball with an entire month of pinball madness, hijacking your usual programming with my favorite thing you humans have ever done and also figure out what Irony actually is. Then we go back in time to April of last year when I dropped some hard history about Chicago and Pinball and decided that Chicago should henceforth be known as "Pinball City". 

GET TO CLASS! 

Check out the stream from this week, it was LIT!

And BUY SOME STUFF 

Recorded LIVE The Paper Machete 01/25/25 and 4/27/24 at Chicago's Historic Green Mill Cocktail Lounge courtesy of Jeppson’s Malört: The Official Drink of the Apocalypse

Come find me in all your favorite places including my Discord 

Featuring “Promises” by the Barrerracudas, a snippy of “The Wasteland” courtesy of Ross Bugden Twitter: Instagram For commissions/scores: [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Get up, it's 2025 and we're plungin in. You're not in the Birdcast anymore, the news is too bleak, it's too freaky out there so we decided to portal to Pinball City and totally took you with us, sorry. I'm goin all in on my love and allegiance to the silver ball with an entire month of pinball madness, hijacking your usual programming with my favorite thing you humans have ever done and also take a moment for David Lynch. This week I climbed Pinball Mountain to the summit, to Stern Pinball HQ itself, humbled and honored, to hang out with the legends themselves: Brian Eddy, Dwight Sullivan and Chuck Ernst 

Links to Help the LA Wildfires: 

SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition

LA Family Housing

MPTF

Entertainment Community Fund 

GET TO CLASS! 

Check out Dungeons and Dragons: The Tyrant's Eye from our buds at Stern! 

And BUY SOME STUFF 

Recorded LIVE The Paper Machete 01/18/25 at Chicago's Historic Green Mill Cocktail Lounge and at Stern Pinball courtesy of Jeppson’s Malört: The Official Drink of the Apocalypse

Come find me in all your favorite places including my Discord 

Featuring “Promises” by the Barrerracudas, a snippy of “The Wasteland” courtesy of Ross Bugden Twitter: Instagram For commissions/scores: [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.