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The Beer:30 Live Show!

by TruStory FM

Home of the original Beer:30 Live podcast from Portland, Oregon. The show ran from 2006 to 2009.

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Episodes

  1. Quarantine!

    Quarantine!

  2. A Chicken in Every Pot

    A Chicken in Every Pot

  3. Vampire Stories

    Vampire Stories

  4. Does Karl Rove Eat Hummus?

    Does Karl Rove Eat Hummus?

  5. Tea for Two

    Tea for Two

  6. The Healthcare Debate: Now New and Explicit!

    The Healthcare Debate: Now New and Explicit!

  7. Swine Flu and You!

    Swine Flu and You!

  8. Eastern Bloc Warmth

    It's all medical, all the time. Mark-o is back with a new baby story. Pete is going under the knife. Curt's working to get those voices out of his head, and Matt is just trying to keep the choppers out of the classroom.

  9. Same Old Swill

    New Voices. New Bar. Same old swill. Beer:30 Live is back! First new episode in over six months, and we still don't have anything smart to talk about. This week on the docket: Matt nearly looses his head in his first bike race of the season, Mark-o levels with us about his wife's white hot rage,...

  10. When Lightning Strikes

    This week, mean ol' Uncle Curt Siffert from curtsiffert.com joins Shane and Pete to talk up the week of oddities. A man gets struck by lightning. In the penis. A University of Florida student is tazered on YouTube. The New York Times prints a story on how the Iranian President will not be allowed...

  11. How to Win at Sports - By Bill Belichick

    This week, we catch up. We catch up on news, on the good Senator Taps-a-lot. And then we cry like girls over Greg Oden. It's all made a little better as we muse rhapsodic over Bill Belichick and his progressive coaching tactics. All that and more this week on Beer:30 Live!

  12. The Mortgage Crisis and You

    This week on Beer:30 Live!, Jason Seibel from Greater NW Mortgage joins us to talk about the current mortgage crisis in the US. He fills us in on the loans to avoid, the loans to covet, and how to get out from under the weight of a heavy market. There's light at the end of the tunnel, so says the...

  13. Tap, Tap, Tap...

    It's the Senator Craig show! Not to mention a full hour of unverified assertions and loosely annotated syllogisms that make up one of the most wholly uninformed shows on the Internet! Special thanks to McMenemin's, John Barleycorn's, in Tigard, Oregon for letting us take up a booth of the place,...

  14. Sponsored by a New Global Economy!

    This week on Beer:30 Live!, still weather the summer vacation schedule, Pete and Jamie show up to have a fantastic talk with university instructor and Frenchman, Alain Gracianette. Alain is working on his doctoral research on China's growing prominence in the global arena, and brings us up to…

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  15. Evolutionarily Speaking...

    This week on Beer:30 Live!, the crew the crew is still stuck in a rift in the space-time continuum. Joining Pete, Jamie and Mary this week is Mary's super smart husband/scientist Phil Jones (hauntavirus hunter) to talk about evolution versus creation. He has a textbook -- "science" textbook, that...

  16. Frank's Brain

    This week on Beer:30 Live!, the crew ditches Pete, to spite him for his long vacation. Joining Pete and Shane for a beer, Frank Bender sits down to talk about the recent discovery of a benign tumor resting close to his brain, and the process he and his family have gone through in recent weeks to...

  17. The Show Goes Metaphysical

    This week on Beer:30 Live!, the crew is finally adjusting to Pete being gone, riding out the phantom pains and learning to live again. Joining them for a beer, Merrill Watts graciously sits down to talk about his journey from strict Mormonism, to angry observer of organized religion, to...

  18. Jamie Burns for his Global Warming Insolence

    This week on Beer:30 Live!, Shane is emotionally distressed about running the mixing board again, Mary openly disses the dead by slamming Pete's equipment while he's away, and Jamie serves his duty as the last man standing while the globe burns yelling a la Howard Beale, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm...

  19. When the Cat's Away...

    This week on Beer:30 Live!, Shane is emotionally distressed about running the mixing board, Mary shamelessly spoils the series finale of "The Sopranos" for all us DVD-only viewers, and Jamie ruthlessly insults all international listeners, by country, all while enjoying the political partnership…

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  20. It's Good to be Blue

    This week on Beer:30 Live!, gracing the table is very special guest Kari Chisholm, co-founder of BlueOregon.com, one of the most prominent progressive political blogs in the nation. Kari is a wildly well-informed political strategist specializing in building grassroots support online through his...

  21. The Ghost Hunters

    Direct from Barleycorn's in Tigard, Oregon, on this week's show, we sit down with Todd and Martina: Ghost Hunters. These paranormal investigators have searched the country to document the specters around us, and today, they let us in on all the secrets. Number one: Crossing the Streams doesn't...

  22. Immigration and stuff...

    Direct from Barleycorn's in Tigard, Oregon, on this week's show, we spend some quality time with Hector Ariceaga, Mexican immigrant turned professional technologist and banker. We had these great intentions about getting Hector's opinions on the state of the immigration debate, and then promptly...

  23. Iran II

    Direct from Barleycorn's in Tigard, Oregon, on this week's show, we hang out with our old friend Mike Mostafavi and talk about Iran. Again. Remember the good old days when all we had to talk about was the HauntaVirus and good music? We do, too. But this whole build up to another war has us...

  24. Phil Jones Hunts Hantavirus

    Direct from Barleycorn's in Tigard, Oregon, on this week's show, we hang out with Phil Jones and talk about his research on Hantavirus. You know, that virus that makes your lungs melt from the inside out so that you drown in your own cellular fluid? Oh, THAT Hantavirus, you say? That's right, all...

  25. Alex James

    Direct from the Big Horn Brewery in Lake Oswego, Oregon. On this week's show, Yep-Rock recording artist Al James from the band Dolorean joins us to talk about his music, shunning the Internet, dismissing piracy, and records... all his glorious records! Plus, hear three live solo acoustic tracks…

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  26. Stood-Up

    Direct from the Big Horn Brewery in Lake Oswego, Oregon. On this week's show, we were stood up! That's right, our scheduled guest aced us. But don't fear, we had a good old chat with Michael, a prospective med student, about his trials and tribulations and fantasies of saving the world, one virus...

  27. WarMedia

    Direct from the Big Horn Brewery in Lake Oswego, Oregon. On this week's show, Gary Mortensen from the National Combat History Archive joins us to talk about his group's collection of thousands of hours of historical battlefield film and the changing tide of war as soldiers in Iraq upload their...

  28. The Holiday Show

    This week, no guests. Just us, the news, the year in review, and the long-awaited introduction of Bar Boy!

  29. Iran

    This week, our most popular guest from the old show joins us to school us on Iran. It's the great Mike Mostafavi, everyone! He's back and brilliant as ever!

  30. Life as a Comedian

    Direct from the Big Horn Brewery in Lake Oswego, Oregon. On this week's show, Rob Lewis regales us with tales from the road, his Chris Rock impression, and his thoughts about working in the Bunny Suit at Intel. Apparently, it's not that cool.

  31. It's Big Pharma

    Direct from the Big Horn Brewery in Lake Oswego, Oregon. On this week's show, "Dick" and "Jim" join us to give us their perspective on big pharma marketing and the pharmaceutical mafia industrial complex.

  32. Tim Philips on Emergency Services, Military, and the War

    Tim Philips joins the roundtable today to discuss the war machine, his perspective coming from a military family, and the role of emergency services in our communities.

  33. Nancy Mac Issac on her book, "Healing the Hole in a Heart"

    Nan Mac Issac gave her daughter up for adoption in 1966. She was 16 at the time, her child born out of wedlock, and she picked her daughter's new family out of a line up of photographs. Her book, "Healing the Hole in a Heart", chronicles her nearly two-decade drive to reunite with her child…

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  34. Shabbir Karim and Socialists, Communists, and Brigands

    This is the first of a series of Tuesday, Noon shows that never aired on their original air dates. The project had been canceled the prior week and our hosting space had been locked up. We're pleased to be able to bring the show to you now. Shabbir Karim is in the import/export business. While…

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  35. The World According to Nathan Kositsky

    Nate Kositsky is an activist. He's a revolutionary. And he has branded some of the most notable products and companies on the airwaves in his years as a marketer. He's called "The Experience" by those who know him, and today, we get to find out why. Marketing legend Nate Kositsky on Tuesday, Noon...

  36. Mary Fine on People Management Part 2

    Mary Fine joins us to talk about her business as a headhunter for lawyers. She's been holding the line as an HR specialist in the legal field and has a special bent for the ethical woes plaguing our working world.

  37. Linda Croner on People Management

    Human resources, a department lauded in most organizations as cops on the block. What's it like to work in the field? On today's show, the delightful Linda Kroner joins us to talk about life as an HR professional, the sometimes fine line between employee and employer balance, and what it takes to...

  38. Arnold Candray and the International Marketplace

    On today's show, Arnold Candray joins us to take on globalization and international trade. Candray's years of military service have taken him around the world, giving him a distinct expertise in the military's role in commercialization of developing markets to trade in a global economy.

  39. Clay and Cindy Cooper on Speakshop.com

    Clay and Cindy Cooper join us to introduce us to their new company and website, Speakshop.com. They've been partnering Spanish language students with instructors in Guatemala through their site and walk us through the perils and pitfalls of new product development, start-ups, and being do-gooder…

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  40. Fernando Casafranca and Latin America

    With so much focus on the Middle East in the media today, it's easy to minimize the political, geographical, social, and economic turmoil that's happening right across our boarder to the south. How do we step up as good neighbors in the politically charged, economically driven hornet's nest in...

  41. Mark Alexander on Teaching Gen Y

    What is it about the "Echo Boomers" that we don't understand? How do demands on time, work, education, and technology define this generation, and what are we doing to help? This week, Mark Alexander of University of Phoenix joins us to take on the next generation and the fantastic challenge this...

  42. Charlita Shelton and Race and Diversity in America

    Threats of terror and cultural bifurcation in our country call to question just how diverse a nation we really are. Are We The People really able to understand one another for our differences and move forward together, or are we embroiled in a demographic quagmire at home, work, and in the media?

  43. Dr. Stephen Kahn and Dissecting the Sociopath

    Dr. Steven Kahn joins us to talk about his life's work with child molesters, sociopaths, and serial criminals. These are the characters that come together in his new book, and we’ll invite them to the round table this week.

  44. Michael Leifer and Tim Mantz on the Changing Face of Marketing

    We're inundated with images, brands, signals, pitches – thousands of them every day. Today, we talk to two experts in the field about how marketers are finding new ways to find and push your buttons.

  45. Linda Fischer Lewis, Crime, Cops, and Politics

    On today's show, Linda Fischer Lewis joins the roundtable to talk about law enforcement, the role of policing in our communities, the politics of rehabilitation, and being the bearer of bad news. An officer for 19 years, Lewis is recently retired from the force and now works in education, an...

  46. The Mysterious "Dr. Ernest" and a Schooling on Cuba

    On today's show, Dr. Ernest joins the roundtable to educate us on the state of affairs in Cuba. The propaganda machine today on Tuesday, Noon.

  47. Bob Hamm and the State of Education

    On today’s show, Bob Hamm joins us to talk up the state of education. What is No Child Left Behind doing to our kids in the classroom? How do the bad seeds of violence, drugs, and bad teachers influence the common perception of today's classroom teacher? What's a community to do with under-funded...

  48. Mike Mostafavi, Iran, and World War III

    On today’s show, author and Iranian media expert Mike Mostafavi joins the roundtable to take on the current crisis, Iran’s role in it, and the hybrid vehicle. Curious? Stay with us for Tuesday, Noon for July 18, 2006.

  49. Dan Denorch and the Civics Machine

    This week on Tuesday, Noon, part two of our conversation with attorney and political scientist Dan DeNorch who shares his experience running for county commissioner and weathers the politically cynical firestorm from the roundtable.

  50. Dan Denorch and the Politics of Tech

    This week on Tuesday, Noon, part one of our conversation with attorney and political scientist Dan DeNorch who joins us to take on patents, copyright, the Internet and other things used for good and evil.

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Home of the original Beer:30 Live podcast from Portland, Oregon. The show ran from 2006 to 2009.

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