This Is Big Green!

This is Big Green - April Breakout 2013. Features: 1) Ned Trek IX: The Ultimate Emergency Manager; 2) Put the phone down: Matt and Joe bring up the news like a cheap hotdog; 3) The rejected theme song; 4) Song: You're Edward Teller, by Big Green; 5) How we used to record: the ugly truth; 6) Song: Do it every time (demo version), by Big Green; 7) On John King and other great journalists; 8) Remembering Margaret Thatcher, for real; 9) Song: Jit Jaguar, by Big Green; 10) Richie Havens and his thumb; 11) Ending with the immortal

This is Big Green - March Fiendraiser 2013. Features: 1) Ned Trek VIII: The Corn of Ozark Five; 2) Put the phone down: Matt and Joe shake the tin cup for freedom; 3) Happy birthday, universe; 4) Departures and arrivals: Chavez, Achebe, Pearle, and others; 5) Song: Quality Lincoln (lame live version), by Big Green; 6) Song: Come Back Home (demo version), by Big Green; 7) More bogus fundraising; 8) Song: Round Up (demo version), by Big Green; 9) Conversations at the seed store; 10) Song: The Milkman Lives, by Big Green; 11) Over and ...over

This is Big Green - Asteroid Flyover - Feb. 2013. Features: 1) Ned Trek VII: The Last Moon of Frutoonius; 2) Put the phone down: Talk of asteroids and meteors; 3) Song: Asteroid, by Big Green; 4) The poetry of automatic closed-captioning; 5) Song: Say You Will (demo version), by Big Green; 6) News from Spring Farm: the Beaver colony; 7) Song: Beautiful Grid, by Big Green; 8) Talk of sequester; 9) Shotgun exit

This is Big Green - Hangover Edition 2013. Features: 1) Song: Volcano Man, by Big Green; 2) Ned Trek VI: The further adventures of Romney's talking horse; 3) Song: Johnny's Gun (demo version), by Big Green; 4) Put the phone down: Our sucky science fiction future, and other topics; 5) Song: Oh, Larry, by Big Green; 6) Turn it down, the radio; 7) Talk of language; 8) Ignominious implosion

This is Big Green - Holidaze 2012. Features: 1) Ned Trek V, starring Mr. Ned, Romney's Dancing Horse; 2) Skit: Charlie in the Box and the first semi-automatic Christmas; 3) Put the phone down: Holidays and the recently departed remembered; 4) Song: Merry Christmas, Children, by Big Green; 5) Song: Father Christmas, by Big Green; 6) Song: Martha's Christmas, by Big Green; 7) Song: Christmas Spirit, by Big Green; 8) Matt's encounter with an invasive species; 9) Song: Head Cheese Log, by Big Green; 10) We collapse in festive exhaustion

This is Big Green - Thanksgaffing 2012. Features: 1) Song: My Bed, by Big Green; 2) Mr. Ned, Romney's Dancing Horse, Episode 4; 3) Put the phone down: Election post-mortem with Matt; 4) Excoriating, John McCain; 5) Song: Box of Crackers, by Big Green; 6) Matt lectures at Gander Mountain, looks ahead to hunting season; 7) Remembering George McGovern; 8) Song: It should've been me, by Rick Perry and the Dapper Dudes; 9) Time for us to go

This is Big Green - Octobercast 2012. Features: 1) Mr. Ned, Romney's Dancing Horse, Episode 3; 2) Put the phone down: Matt gives his account of playing spaceman with Dr. Waleed Abdalati; 3) Remembering Andy Williams, Barry Commoner, and Sen. Arlen Spector; 4) More madness assorted; 5) Song: Paradise, by Big Green; 6) Song: Kublai Khan, by Big Green; 7) Graceless exit.

This is Big Green - September 2012 Narrowcast. Features: 1) Song: One Small Step (in remembrance of Neil Armstrong); 2) Romney's Dancing Horse, Episode 2; 3) Put the phone down: Matt's trunk rooster incident; 4) Song: Flying Up Ricky, by Cousin Rick; 5) Random observations on random things; 7) Song: North Camp Pasture, by Cousin Rick; 8) Shotgun exit.

This is Big Green - First Anniversary Special. Features: 1) Mr. Ned, the Dancing Horse; 2) Put the phone down: Who's dead this month; 3) Talk of Hansen and strip mining; 4) Song: She Caught The Katy, recorded by Big Green in 1986; 5) Song: Fed Up, by Cousin Rick; 6) Pondering the plot of Kung Fu; 7) Comments on fracking by Jack Ossont, Coalition to Protect New York State; 8) Song: Lone Star, by Cousin Rick; 9) Opening a surprise package from Dave Thompson; 10) Closing ceremonies.

This is Big Green - the July not-so-special. Features: 1) Song: Pagan Christmas; 2) A public service announcement from Crossroads GPS; 3) Matt's news from the field and a brief anectdote about vultures; 4) Talk of folksong commies; 5) Song: Awesome Hair, by Cousin Rick; 6) Dead celebrities, part three; 7) The Captain Pike chair; 8) Song: Cracker in Paradise, by Cousin Rick; 9) Impromptu songs and outback parodies; 10) The merciful end.