First Crack Podcast with Garrick Van Buren

Would your boss loan his car out to you for the weekend?

In the finale of the 6 part series on the life passions of Parsinen Kaplan Rosberg & Gotlieb’s partners and staff, Shellie Gonzales talks about borrowing David Gotlieb’s Porsche Boxter for the weekend.

Listen to Shellie Gonzales on Borrowing a Porsche Boxster for the Weekend [17 min]

In part 5 of a 6 part series on the life passions of Parsinen Kaplan Rosberg & Gotlieb’s partners and staff, Bill Forsberg discusses throwing out the first pitch at a St. Paul Saints game.

Listen to Bill Forsberg Throwing Out the First Pitch [10 min]

In part 4 of a 6 part series on the life passions of Parsinen Kaplan Rosberg & Gotlieb’s partners and staff, David Gotlieb discusses St. Paul’s history as a safe haven for gangsters and how he met the expert on the subject - Paul Maccabee.

Listen to David Gotlieb, Paul Maccabee, and St. Paul’s Gangster History [15 min]

This summer, Rebecca McDaniel partnered with winemaker and client Domaine Serene to promote Pinot Noir as a summer beverage alternative in Surdyks’ Drinks magazine.

In part 3 of a 6 part series on the life passions of Parsinen Kaplan Rosberg & Gotlieb’s partners and staff, she provides background on this series and discusses the value of a personal connection in a professional relationship.

Listen to Rebecca McDaniel on Enhancing the Client Relationship [12 min]

Bill Lofy, Wellstone Action’s Communications Director, and I talked about his two new books; Paul Wellstone - A Passion for Politics and Politics the Wellstone Way just as they hit the shelves.

Be sure to catch Bill on his national tour promoting his Wellstone biography.

If Camp Wellstone comes to your neighborhood, I highly recommend it- no matter your political affiliation.

Listen to Bill Lofy on Paul Wellstone and Politics [20 min]

Get your Trading Spaces and HGTV fix in the first First Craft video-cast.

Jen walks you through how to make your walls more interesting with a few inexpensive, blank, pre-stretched canvases and some stylish wrapping papers.

Watch the Wall Art Demo with Jen [17 min]

“File this under unconfirmed but curious factoids. I heard, in a Toronto coffee shop, that mild coffee actually has more caffeine than the strong stuff” - Dave Winer

“A dark roast increases body and decreases both acidity and caffeine. A light roast has less body, but higher acidity and caffeine.”

While you’re patiently waiting for the next First Crack podcast, you can listen to me on the other side of the interview table answering the big ‘why are we here’ questions in Sue Grandys’ Uncomfortable Questions.

My goal with the First Crack podcast is to average one conversation a week. I know it’s been quiet here, I’m stilll going to make that average.

The comments feed of the First Crack Podcast is now a podcast. This is part of the new version of my WP-iPodCatter plugin.

To add your audio comment to the feed, just add a link to the mp3 file in the comments form.

Yep, that’s it.

Long ago, broadcast radio gave up with introducing their audience to new music. I first became aware of it sometime during the summer of 1996 [1] , I’m sure the tipping point occured long before then.

Between Cumulus Media president/CEO Lew Dickey, Jr. promoting the talk radio proliferation on the FM dial, my conversation about Broadcast Radio and Podcasting with Noah Lamson, and the frequency of MTV actually showing a music videos, musicians are in a pickle.

Their traditional distributors aren’t interested in distributing music anymore - let alone new music.

This is unfortunate because I’m more reliant on and interested in new music in the past 6 months than the 6 years before.

[1] My first full-time job in UW-Stout’s tech department. The same radio station was on in the office throughout the day. Because radio listenership is measured by the quarter-hour, after an hour in the shop, you knew the playlist for the next hour - and every 15 minutes thereafter. A painful way to spent 8 hours in a college town