First Crack Podcast with Garrick Van Buren

I’ve been a fan of Tim Quirk’s music for 20 years – easy. The playful melancholy in throughout his songwriting continually resonates with me. When he announced the new Wonderlick album was in the works and available for ‘name-your-price’ pre-order – I jumped on the opportunity.

When I started hearing about how successful the campaign was – I asked Tim if he’d talk about the album and the campaign for the podcast.

As he mentions in our conversation, the common theme through the 16 tracks is the exploration of an experience he first wrote about in 2002:

“I wondered what she said the next day when friends asked her how the concert was. I wondered whether the crowd had been applauding her breasts or her daring. I wondered if maybe she was a plant and had actually gotten paid for her performance. That last one was just a specific way of asking a more general question, I guess—mostly I was wondering exactly what she got out of it.” – Tim Quirk

In the 16 Topless at the Arco Arena tracks, Tim, with Jay Blumenfield, ask everyone involved what they got out of the experience.

My top 5 Wonderlick – Topless at the Arco Arena tracks:

1. The Case Against Tattoos
2. A Different Kind of Love
3. We Run the World
4. This Song is a Commerical
5. Fear of Chicago

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Listen to Wonderlick’s Tim Quirk on Truth Through Music [36 minutes]

I have a hypothesis that mobile VOIP over WiFi will replace mobile carriers for the majority of phone conversations within 5 years. For a reality check, I called up Justin Grammens of Localtone Interactive and Mobile Twin Cities.

From the picture he paints, I think we’ll see this well within 5 years. Maybe 2.

Projects and people we reference:
• Asterisk
• TrixBox
• Adhearsion
• Captain Crunch
• FreeSWITCH
• Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group
• Fring
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America by Thomas Friedman

I also share with you my strategy for developing in this new mobile, web-based application world.

Listen to Justin Grammens on Mobile, VOIP, and Ruby [51 min].

Shef Otis grabs the mic from Garrick and asks him about podcasting, Cullect, coffee roasting, and parenting.

Listen to Shef Turning the Tables on Garrick [43 min].

A couple years back Scott Davis and Paul Werni founded 45th Parallel Spirits, a distillery in New Richmond, WI – just a quick 45 minute drive from northeast Minneapolis. While there are number of craft brewers in the region, 45th Parallel is the only still I know of. Paul, Scott, and I talk about the distilling process and the benefits of sourcing locally.

Listen to Paul Werni and Scott Davis from 45th Parallel Spirits [33 min].

It’s a new year, with a new president. An ideal time to clear the ground for a new America.

To start the chopping, Garrick reviews Legends of Paul Bunyan by Harold W. Felton touching on a boyhood trip to Paul Bunyan Land and the story of Sport the Reversible Dog.

Listen to Garrick talk about the Legends of Paul Bunyan [9 min].

Chad Gillard lives a few houses down from me – and little did I know that his side project is making and selling tasty, tasty Danish apple treats under the Aunt Else’s Organic Aebleskiver brand (Aunt Elsies on Twitter)

It started with a goal so many Minnesotans have: sell food at the Minnesota State Fair.

While he’s still on his way to reaching that goal, we cover the conflicting aebleskiver recipes and the local food producers he’s met while selling at farmers markets and town festivals.

Listen to Chad Gillard on Aunt Elsies Aebleskivers [35 min].

Twenty years ago, while BMX freestyle was a favorite hobby of mind, Kurt Schmidt rode for Haro Bikes. Then he co-founded the infamous Standard Bike Manufacturing.

He retells the story of:

• breaking his ribs on his first big pro contest
• stalking photographers to get in magazines
• Rad – starring Bill Allen
• starting a high-end BMX bike company, not in California, but a house in Iowa.
• starting Props video magazine
• Riding backwards.

Here’s a great timeline of Kurt’s BMX career.

Listen to Kurt Schmidt on Old School BMX Freestyle [49 min].

Long time podcast friend Kris Smith and I dig into RSS in the Enterprise over at BlogTalkRadio.

Yes, we cover Cullect, relevance vs. timeliness, and trusted curators.

Listen to Kris Smith and Garrick Van Buren on Enterprise RSS [60 min]

I was interested in how Hollywood actors promote themselves, find work, and generally build a career. So, I called up Tim Coyne of The Hollywood Podcast for the break down.

We cover auditions, agents, reels, and the side jobs that keep the bills paid.

Listen to Tim Coyne on How Hollywood Works [40 min].

Shef Otis talks about moving from actor in LA to dad of 7 kids under 8 (SevenSidekicks.com) in suburban Minneapolis, and his Dadiator Workout program to keep dads as fit as their kids.

Listen to Shef Otis, The Dadiator [51 min].