As they prepare to pack and ship limited edition vinyl orders, Patrick and Chad tell the TRUE story behind two of the more enigmatic numbers on BLAGMATIC: "Wagon Wheel" and "Sweet 16". ALSO: some background info on how "PLFM" was written.

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This week on #SlapperCast, Mark Kavanaugh returns with his friend Flint Bhaltair to talk about their company, Catch My Carbon, which aims to offset carbon emissions by reforesting Ireland with native Irish trees.

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This week we're joined by Chris Knauf, Chief Development Officer of Siena Francis House, a homeless shelter in Omaha, Nebraska, and the beneficiary of our Blaggards Brew Coffee sales.

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Recorded in the van shortly after leaving our Thursday night gig in Beaumont, ECH recounts his experiences at PASIC 2021.

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This week on SlapperCast, Paddy and Chad talk about this weekend's reunion show with drummer Mike McAloon and fiddler Chris Buckley.

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An update from the van: Eric talks about preparing for Percussive Arts Society International Convention 2021.

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This week on SlapperCast: Trunk or treating, musicians & humor, and Christmas music we don't hate.

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This week on #SlapperCast, as we leave a rowdy gig in the Texas Rennaissance Faire campgrounds, we continue our discussion of music biopics. What would it take to make a good one, what makes them bad, and a few ideas we have for good ones.

(CORRECTION from Chad: "Bowie was kicking a cocaine addiction during his Berlin Trilogy period, not heroin. My bad.")

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The story behind BLAGMATIC's "hidden" track, the audiobook of Bruce Springsteen's autobiography, why music biopics are often bad, and what makes them good when they're good.

NOTE: Stevie Van Vandt does indeed read the audiobook of his memoir, and it pretty much sounds exactly as ECH envisioned it (see link below).

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Recorded on the road to Weston, MO, AND on the road home from Hesston, KS, with longtime Blaggards fiddler Chris Buckley.

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