Requiescat in Pace
Nursing a broken ankle and crazed on antihistamines, Patrick O'Grady tries to make sense of Super Tuesday a day late and a peso short, and as usual, fails utterly. Lo siento mucho.
Mar 05, 2020•6 min•Ep. 34
Radio Free Dogpatch
Patrick O'Grady was bad enough with pen and ink. He got worse with a keyboard. Now he has a microphone. God help us all.
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Rolled Another One
Patrick O'Grady has a bad habit of rolling ... ankles. He gave up rolling the other stuff ages ago. Which is too bad, really, because if he'd been rolling a blunt last Friday morning he wouldn't have been rolling an ankle during a trail run. And some other poor sap would have gotten this low-tech pair of crutches, and this podcast wouldn't be two days late and more than a dollar short. Just say no, kids.
Feb 27, 2020•7 min•Ep. 33
Random Acts of Radio
You got your AM, and over here, you also got your FM. And over there, you got your fat boys wanting to take it away from you. Longtime listener-member Patrick O'Grady deejays a brief, one-man pledge drive for NPR.
Feb 19, 2020•8 min•Ep. 32
The Monitor in the Merrimack
A discussion at maddogmedia.com about distraction-packed land yachts causes Patrick O'Grady to recall (and resurrect) a 2014 Bicycle Retailer and Industry News column about the auto industry's drive to make cars smarter than their drivers.
Feb 11, 2020•7 min•Ep. 31
The Royal Flush
Republicans want a king. Democrats want a messiah. And Patrick O'Grady just wants to get through his 30th podcast without being struck by lightning (or Lee Trevino).
Feb 04, 2020•7 min•Ep. 30
Happy Trails
Riding trails when they're muddy, like encountering an unguided SUV drifting into the bike lane, is gonna leave a mark. Just ask Patrick O'Grady, who will tell you all about it even if you don't ask.
Jan 28, 2020•5 min•Ep. 29
Peach Mint Lollipop
"Comparisons are odorous," as Dogberry declares in "Much Ado About Nothing." Small wonder, then, that a Mad Dog is stinking up the Innertubes with his comparisons of Il Douche's impeachment trial to a Christmas gone wrong, school "pep" assemblies, and the nuance- and nutrition-free nothingburgers pitched at us by Mickey D and Mickey M.
Jan 22, 2020•7 min•Ep. 28
Riding On the Rims
For a cyclist, fixing a flat is part of the price of admission to the game. And a garrulous potato-eater like Patrick O'Grady occasionally finds a tale in the travail. Or a podcast. ...
Jan 13, 2020•9 min•Ep. 27
Dear Diary
Patrick O'Grady still keeps a training diary, though he's not training for anything other than being Patrick O'Grady. You'd think he'd have that down by now.
Jan 07, 2020•7 min•Ep. 26
The Mad Dog in Winter
Winter seems colder than usual this year. We've already seen a White Walker in Albuquerque, and he's looking for his Social Security check.
Dec 24, 2019•8 min•Ep. 25
The IT Guy
The trouble with being your own IT guy is that you're being your own IT guy when you should be being whatever the hell it is that you really are. Just ask Patrick O'Grady. Then move over.
Dec 16, 2019•6 min•Ep. 24
Stock Options
What can society do to punish some well-heeled, ne'er-do-well swell deemed too big to fail into jail? How about a stint in the stocks? To paraphrase Marsellus Wallace from "Pulp Fiction," let's get medieval on their ass. Patrick O'Grady is already pitching.
May 04, 2019•8 min•Ep. 23
The Right Side of the Lawn
Patrick O'Grady muses on a few close calls en route to turning 65, including one right before The Big Day.
Mar 27, 2019•7 min•Ep. 22
The Element of Surprise
Patrick O'Grady nearly bought a Honda Element. Twice. The second time he had the book thrown at him. The Kelley Blue Book, that is.
Feb 27, 2019•8 min•Ep. 21
Crossing a Line: From Frown to Tan and Back Again
In this special Shut-Ins Edition of Radio Free Dogpatch, a snowbound Patrick O'Grady revisits a February 2004 escape to McDowell Mountain Regional Park in sunny Arizona.
Feb 20, 2019•7 min•Ep. 20
Can't Find My Way Home
Where's the bike business headed? Anyone seen magnetic north lately? Maybe it's going south like everything else. Patrick O'Grady swaps his GPS for a Magic 8-Ball, but it keeps telling him "Reply hazy, try again."
Feb 11, 2019•8 min•Ep. 19
Let Them Eat Loans?
Wilbur Ross, the Man in the $600 Embroidered Slippers, doesn't understand why furloughed federal workers visit food banks instead of the other sort. Maybe it's because they're pretty certain they won't see him there anytime soon. Recorded using a Zoom H5 Handy Recorder and Shure SM58 mic. Edited on a 2014 MacBook Pro using Apple's Garageband. "Ahoy, polloi," lifted from "Caddyshack" using Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack. The background music, "Stay Away," comes from www.zapsplat.com . Dog eating fro...
Jan 25, 2019•5 min•Ep. 18
A Hard Reign in Swamptown
The pestilence of the Benighted States, Wally O'Steele, a.k.a. Art O. DeDeal, wants a Big, Beautiful Wall at the nation's southern borders to keep brown people from crossing the border to work anywhere other than at his hotels or golf courses. Unable to pry loose funding for same, he has walled off the feddle gummint from its own citizens, idling more than a few of them in the process and forcing others to work without pay. It's a hard reign, and the water — if that's what it is — just keeps ris...
Jan 12, 2019•6 min•Ep. 17
DT, Phone Home
We're off on another lap around the sun, but we're flying blind — the big yellow ball is nowhere to be seen, though we seem to have plenty of ice and snow for anyone who likes that sort of thing. Our winter weather is a mouse fart compared to the shit monsoon swamping the nation's capital, though, and with the Chinese more interested in exploring the moon than the wowie-zowies of Apple's latest and greatest black monolith, Patrick O'Grady wonders how much longer it'll be before we're all clubbin...
Jan 05, 2019•7 min•Ep. 16
Cyclo-Crust
With the 2018 cyclocross nats going on in Louisville and some very un-’crosslike weather going on in Albuquerque, Patrick O'Grady is reminded of one dusty pre-season in 2002 when it seemed that both sides of the street were sunny, and a little too much so. Recorded using a Shure SM-58 mic, a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack and a 2009 iMac. Background music is "Newborn," a jingle lifted from Apple's iMovie, which also supplied the "Medal Ceremony" opener.
Dec 16, 2018•7 min•Ep. 15
Cold Blow and the Rainy Night
“Science finds, industry applies, man conforms.” That was the subtitle to the guidebook for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, and 85 years later it seems to hold up. It brings to mind change, my reflexive resistance to same, and a 2013 "Mad Dog Unleashed" column from Bicycle Retailer and Industry News. This episode was recorded with a Shure SM58 microphone, Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack , and the old 2009 iMac. Cap'n Whitebeard used an Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB mic. I edited the audio using Apple's ...
Dec 07, 2018•8 min•Ep. 14
Putting the 'Can' in 'Cannabis'
It's probably not what Anheuser-Busch had in mind with the tagline, "This Bud's for you." But nevertheless, craft breweries — and a few bigger outfits, too — are finding creative ways of working weed into their beverages, which could bring a whole new meaning to the term "skunky beer." These kids today. Before long nobody under 65 will know how to roll a joint. Recorded using an Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB mic and Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack. Edited using Apple's GarageBand on a 2014 MacBook Pro....
Nov 24, 2018•6 min•Ep. 13
Of Wheels and Wilderness
Marc Sani's "Through the Grapevine" column about legislation to permit mountain bikes in wilderness, and the Republicans who support it, squeezed the grapes of many a reader of the trade magazine Bicycle Retailer and Industry News. Patrick O'Grady never could resist kicking someone who's down, especially if someone else did the hard work of actually putting them down, so he jumps in with his latest edition of Radio Free Dogpatch. Recorded using an Audio-Technica AT2100-USB microphone and a Zoom ...
Nov 16, 2018•10 min•Ep. 12
Winning
Remember how it feels to lose? Keep that in mind when you win. A mediation on the midterms. Recorded using an Audio-Technica AT2100-USB microphone and a Zoom H5 Handy Recorder. Edited in Apple's GarageBand. The National Emblem March, composed in 1902 by Edwin Eugene Bagley, was performed by the U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Band. "Tiny Town" from ZapSplat.com. "You lose it, buddy," lifted from the fabulous "Caddyshack." No neighbors were harmed in the making of this podcast....
Nov 09, 2018•4 min•Ep. 11
Fathers and Sons
Patrick O'Grady chats with his old friend and colleague Hal Walter about the running career of Hal's son, Harrison. Patrick's father was a ball-sports kind of guy, and the two never connected on that level. But Harrison has grown up sharing his father's love of running, and he just completed his first season with the high-school cross-country team. This might be unremarkable if Harrison were not autistic. But he is, and it adds what gymnasts, divers and equestrians call "a degree of difficulty" ...
Nov 02, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 10
There Is No Slow Lane on the Road to Hell
After reading a New Yorker essay about aging, complacency and a risk-management program gone all pear-shaped, Patrick O'Grady recalls a few painful damage-control miscues of his own, and argues that an overabundance of caution can be as perilous as throwing it to the wind. Recorded with an Audio-Technica ATR2100 USB microphone and a Zoom H5 Handy Recorder. Edited in Apple's GarageBand. Sound effects from Freesound. Blues loop from fredsonic at Freesound. Read the essay by Daniel J. Levitin at Th...
Oct 26, 2018•5 min•Ep. 9
Running Dog, or What a Kick in the Nuts
Patrick O'Grady used to hate running, and some days he still does. But it helps keep his inner fat bastard too winded to scream for seconds from the dessert cart.
Oct 19, 2018•6 min•Ep. 8
Mister Boo: He's not Pluto, he's Goofy
Mister Boo, God's gift to veterinary medicine, is trying on canine cognitive dysfunction on for size in his Golden Years. But he rediscovers his inner puppy from time to time. George Carlin clip lifted from "40 Years of Comedy." Flute from kerri at freesound.org via a Creative Commons license. All the other bad noise comes from Patrick O'Grady | Mad Dog Media.
Jan 19, 2018•7 min•Ep. 7
Walk Like a Man
Mister Boo goes under the knife, but it's the Mad Dog who feels stuck.
May 01, 2016•4 min•Ep. 6
Hal, Harrison & Haggard
Patrick O'Grady and his old friend Hal Walter team up for an impromptu Two Dudes Mystery Theatre podcast, discussing a pair of late poets — Jim Harrison and Merle Haggard — as well as journalism, cooking and a couple of pet projects. For more information on the topics discussed, see www.maddogmedia.com.
Apr 08, 2016•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 5
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