The Bitterest Pill

In response to the horrible tragedy recently in Aurora, Colorado, I am re-releasing The Bitterest Pill episode #102: Massive Murder, which details the events surrounding the untimely death of my uncle Mike.

He was then the age I am now.

It takes a long time to wrap your head around such an event, and so much loss.  My heart breaks for the recent victims and their families, and all the victims and families that don’t get mentions on the news.   We need to do better.

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I finally tell the story of July 1st, 1993.

I also nearly ran over an Oscar winner.

This is a free encore download of Premium Pill episode #129: Chutes and Ladders.  If you’d like the entire first year of The Premium Pill, just get PILLBOX.  It’s easier and you don’t have to wait so long between episodes… My bad.

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This time around I discuss a startling revelation about one of my listeners. Namely, his address. All because I killed my keyboard with one of those white “magic sponge” things.

I tell the story of Hudson going to the dentist and Cousin Ronny’s plan to make out with girls at the Westpost Playhouse.

It’s late. No picture with this post. Need to sleep. Please…

This episode was originally released as a Premium Pill in April of 2008.  This episode and the other episodes from the first year of The Premium Pill is available as PILLBOX.  

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Hudson sprained his ankle this week. Not to worry, only a Level One Sprain. Now, when he sprains his ankle at school, I was kind of hoping, if you’re all not too busy, you would consider calling me…

Earlier this week, a actually worked. Yes, I did a, how you say, job. But, the whole thing could have fallen through at any moment, at the exact moment that I reveal that I don’t really don’t know how to do a damned thing unless I can do it sitting here at my Mac.

Tim Coyne (The Hollywood Podcast) and I video taped and produced an “electronic press kit” for a baby/toddler fashion school. Luckily, it wasn’t as mind-numbing as I’d expected, thanks to the constant distraction:pairs and pairs of salt-water balloons.

Not to give away too much of the story, here’s a link to the resulting video. I’d wait and watch it after listening. It make a lot more sense.

Apparently, the word I butchered is spelled “shadenfraud”

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

This episode was recorded in front of a “live” internet audience. 

This is an encore presentation of episode #127: My Derailer Needs Adjusting, originally podcast in April 2008. If you’d like to see the original episode comments, go to the original post page.

ENJOY THE SHOW!

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Strange one.

Started out talking innocently enough about the Today Show segment, being a stay-at-home dad when the camera are not rolling, today being tax day, which means I’ve had to come head to head with just how little I make a year, and the one day I actually talked to another parent at the park and Princess T. almost breaks her back.

Hudson and I adjusted the front derailer on my hand-me-down bicycle. You know, every once in a while, you really need to adjust your derailers.

I also read a segment from my upcoming best seller.

Check out “7th Son: Obsidian” and the Comedy4Cast parody of The Bitterest Pill called “The Sourest Grape.” Excellent stuff, you’ll like it.

Check out the article about J.C. Hutchins and Scott Silger at Blogger and Podcaster audio player (look for the file called Fiction 2.0), or read it on-line.

This is a free re-podcast of Premium Pill episode #159: Christmas Time is Here Again.  Originally recorded and release in December 2008.  Don’t hold anything I might have said then against me.  It was a long time ago…  ENJOY!

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

I talk about The Winter Program and saving seats, and how a mail order company ruined Christmas, then I read “Oh, Christmas Tree.”

Thanks to Animal Rescue Force Friends for their great version of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”

Donate to UNICEF by buying If Everyday Were Christmas by Podsafe for Peace.

This is a free release of Premium Pill episode #126.  This and the entire first year of The Bitterest Pill Premium is available as PILLBOX.  Click the link to the right for more info. ENJOY!

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Apparently, I no longer am able to automatically get out of jury duty. Great…

Gotta work the system? Just slop on some Smiley Greeze! It works wonders!

I have got to stop guzzling caffiene, eating freezer pancakes and chocolate covered coffee beans, and get a night’s sleep. And, for some reason I have some sort of major bus-riding-anxiety. I would feel more comfortable hitchhiking than getting on a public bus.

When you’re doing your radio show, and you bring in some cameras and start broadcasting video, you are no longer doing a radio show. You are doing television. Fill the box, idiot!

Do we really need to watch Jason Calacanis walk his dog, or Chris Pirillo read his e-mail? But guess what, the joke’s on us because we’re the ones who are watching.

My daughter was accepted into H’s school. Can she please start kindergarten now, please? RIGHT NOW? I’m begging you!

In part two, I discuss the explosion that almost took out my local Quizno’s and did take out one of Westchester’s finest. I also admit why I keep the back gate locked up tight.

I talk about getting Studio VW fixed, the round and around with the dryer that won’t shut up, and can’t seem to broadcast on UStream, even though even an idiot can do it. (This image here has NO resemblance to the actual UStream video).

Did Easter used to have something to do with Jesus or something? When did the candy come into it?

Well, I’m off the Paxil (I think) and back from “The Big Island.” I’m sure it has an actual name, but that what I call it because it’s easier than remembering Wahalamakaluaiu (or whatever it is).

Yes, back from Paradise on Earth (a.k.a. The Four Seasons Resort, Kona), back from hanging out with the excellent BMW dealers of the western U.S. of A., and back from being in yet another setting where I end up feeling like a unicorn or three headed toad or some other strange and unimaginable creature.

Yes, the full grown adult male who actually wants to spend serious play time with his own children in an upper-middle class setting is somewhat of an anomaly…

I might feel differently if I actually made enough money to hire a nanny and play golf all day and wear a dive watch in the hot tub, but I really don’t think so. I think I would still just snorkel with the kids. Does that make me strange? Good, bring it on!

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This is a free repodcasting of Premium Pill episode #124: Aloha, Unicorn Goat Boy!, originally released on March 14th, 2008.  This, and all forty-some-odd episodes from the first year of the Bitterest Pill Premium are available as PILLBOX.  You can wait and slowly get it over the course of the next 10 months, or get it right now.  The choice is yours.  ENJOY!

I hate having people in the house. I admit it. The moment they arrive, I want them to get the hell out. Not friends, but workers, cleaners, co-workers, etc. I am reduced to fetching toilet paper and cleaning products.

I woke up at midnight to the sounds of someone nearly choking to death, and found a kindred spirit in the writings of Dostoyevsky.

Check out: Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

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This is a free release of episode #122: Please Don’t Break, originally released on Feb. 26, 2008 as a Premium Pill.  This is the second of a series of weekly releases of the original premium shows, FREE.  Enjoy!

This and the 44 or so other episodes from the first year of The Bitterest Pill Premium are available as PILLBOX: THE BITTEREST PILL PREMIUM YEAR ONE. So, you can wait and get each episode for free for the next forty-some-odd weeks, or just get them all right now.

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

I don’t like talking about money, but I do like listening about money, and if I listen too much about money, eventually I’m gonna have to talk about it, right?

I reveal my no-longer-secret desire to be a wealthy man, we discuss neighborhood safety, the University of Texas in Austin findings about stay-at-home dads (SHOCKING!), and I read two passages from my former (future?) book project: “How to Meet Any Woman You Want” and “A Letter from Another Father about His Einstein Baby.”

LINKS: Art of Money Getting | Rich Dad, Poor Dad | The Millionaire Next Door | Rebel Dad

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This is a free release of episode #121: I Wanna Be a Car Wash Mogul, originally released on Feb. 21, 2008 as a Premium Pill.  This is the first of a series of weekly releases of the original premium shows, FREE.  Enjoy!

This and the 44 other episodes from the first year of The Bitterest Pill Premium are available as PILLBOX: THE BITTEREST PILL PREMIUM YEAR ONE. So, you can wait and get each episode for free for the next forty-some-odd weeks, or just get them all right now.

THANKS FOR LISTENING!