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Betsy and her husband Kris Dec 14, 2007

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:07:23 -0600

Croncast - 2007-12-14.mp3
Show: #446
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Well guys, we're putting the wraps on 2007 and going on hiatus until January 7, 2008.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for listening to the show!!! Thank you for your support over the last few years, it has meant a great deal to us.

We'll be back in January all shiny and new. Have a great holiday season and happy new year!!

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Betsy and her husband Kris Nov 30, 2007

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:30:13 -0600

Croncast - 2007-11-30.mp3
Show: #440
Length: 25:32
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Short short notes today. If you listen you'll know why.
It's Tell a Friend Friday!
Get out there and tell somebody
Even my son points out that I am allergic to lady bugs
I have to stop saying the word seriously
Costco salmon with dill
I can't take it anymore
Shout out for support to Marisa and Jason!!
Check out Jason at NCN Podcast Thank you guys so much . . . you rock!
Betsy will be breeding goats and golden retrievers
Horned and it eats all your stuff
Goriever products to follow soon
Folicular drift

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Betsy and her husband Kris Nov 02, 2007

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:21:44 -0500

Croncast - 2007-11-02.mp3
Show: #428
Length: 30:52
Size: 22.2mb
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Betsy and her husband Kris Nov 02, 2007

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It's Tell a Friend Friday
Tell your people, people
Switched up the intro
Added Podcast.com as a place you might get your podcasts
Check them out
Happy early birthday to Mark
He needs a cold turkey quit smoking partner
You up for it Betsy?
Does he have someone in Atlanta?
My birthday is then seven days after
Right after our three year mark
We'll be doing this until the wheels fall off
I get worried about our archive
Yeah, can't you just burn it to disc
Final paycheck from the day job came in today
Today was the contract execution date
So many things had to fall into place
We talk money and situation for a bit
For those of you who don't like this stuff skip ahead to 14:08
Many people have been in our shoes
You better get a job Mr B
It's already not been nice
We said we weren't going to talk about this stuff anymore
However, it's all be got going on right now
It is what takes up our waking hours
That's your problem Mr B
It's stressful
Yeah, we could end up moving . . . highly likely
Very little is going on here in Chicago
Not a leading edge city
The coasts are full of rocking gigs
Looking for jobs that are in wrong category
I found 10 different ones put away like this
Next is to contact the recruiters on these sites
Newly revised resume in PDF format (Yes, I know address is missing in this version)
Check it out
Though it's the same as my Linkedin Profile
I've had lots of people on this resume
Everyone is telling me that this will take longer than
Every time we talk about money it makes people crazy
Don't bother sending the hate mail
What do you want for your birthday?
Don't even say
Health insurance?
I have health insurance for us through January
Could this be worse?
Yes
I have contracts, things I can't share
It's up to listeners to fill in blanks
Dating the show
Part of being smart is that you should hate TV
I love TV Mr B
When you say kerchief it sounds like crew chief when you say it
Your references are all 80's TV
I am breaking into a new garage sale area
Hinsdale, a swanky Chicago suburb
Betsy puts the stereotype lifestyle
Kris finally tells the breast feeding plate story
The mosquito fogger driving down the street and chasing it
Breast feeding was the best time of my life
If you have healthy children
I will buy you your own plates, Betsy
With correct hair, eye and nipple color
You're gonna get me a titty plate?
You just don't bust those out that awesome
Oh, man your mom, Kris
You have no more awesome stories
I watched Three's Company
You watched Titty Plates

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Kosso Rocks. Here's why . . .

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:26:05 -0500

Not just because he can pull off a black suit with white Puma's but because he is showing Croncast some love at Podcast.com.

During Gnomedex, Kosso added Croncast to the recommended list of podcasts on the home page at Podcast.com. Thus, making him the coolest British guy that I know. Prior to the addition he already held the title but this solidified his status in my British Friend Hall of Fame Museum (BFHFM).

If you know of a couple thousand square feet, or maybe a couple square feet, that would be available for me to start the physical version let me know.

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Tuesdays are a wash

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:51:20 -0600

Feeling good while feeling ill is my motto for the night. I have one more NFL podcast for Joe Jurevicius to produce tonight and then it is a wrap on them 'til next Tuesday.

Next up is a Croncast for tomorrow but it might be a short show . . . Gigi woke up and daddy is still dragging (see feeling ill from the first sentence).

I think this was supposed to be a yipee/jump for joy post. Yes, yes it was . . . I mean it is.

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Betsy and her husband Kris Sep 18, 2006

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:02:35 -0500

Croncast - 2006-09-18.mp3

Show: #275
Length: 36:28
Size: 25.0 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris September 18, 2006

0% September 11th drama around here
Kris says I'm not dealing with it
His usual process it takes him a week to ge it
Last week was the NFL podcast launch
Special Note: You will only be able to see the podcast pages not the other areas of the sites.
Larry Fitzgerald
Joe Jurevicius
Joe Horn
Steve Smith
Betsy could hold it down
Except when she sees money coming in and then slows her ebay stuff
Betsy's Hebrew Green Eggs and Ham
Kris thinks it is the score of the century . . . better than 1st edition Torah
Where's Waldo in French
Things not to do: Tree trimming 9:30 at night in the dark
The family is oout doin it up
Trimming the night before dries out the branches
The dog is even with us
Zeus starts to spaz out
Running in loops
He starts a run at Gigi like a crazed horse
He hits her and she does a flip and lands on her head and back
Betsy saves her dog with a shout
Kris gets to Gigi and her mouth is bleeding
She made out great with only the little cut
Kris goes on about his lack of responisibility when it comes to safety from the dog
I had to restrain myself
Betsy got the lecture about "Next Time"
Please let me finish
For some reason Betsy doesn't understand Elliot's lack of love for the dog . . . hmmm
Betsy tried to leave her sister for hobos
The chili cook-off and Kris telling the neighbor he is not social
Betsy came to my rescue as usual
My new 14 ft saw
Not replacing Slowsky . . . supplementing
6 years, 1 month worth of ebay stuff still in Betsy's stash

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Betsy and her husband Kris Sep 06, 2006

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:39:39 -0500

Croncast - 2006-09-06.mp3

Show: #271
Length: 37:06
Size: 25.4 mb
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Betsy and her husband Kris September 6, 2006

The second show of the night . . . forgot to hit record
We've had a rough couple of days
You know crazy shit happens to us
When people tell you that you need to call your senator you have had a bad ass
Want to know what our lives are like . . . listen to this show
It all begins by working on labor day for Kris
Getting good for the family
I got into an arguement with chick at KFC
I should have went home
Karma has it out for me, it skewers me
Don's say stuff like that I'm a Unitarian
Nobody drives everyone walks
The area is heavily police patrolled
The family on bikes is spotted from far away
Here comes the forest preserve cop
They are half-way in between real cop and mall cop
The woman waves at me to say thanks for letting us through the crosswalk
Where did these cops come from?
I'm minding the speed limit
Two police cars driving really fast
Well, I am starting to think it has something to do with me . . .
I came to a complete stop, the real stop at a stop sign
About 1 mile from home I get pulled over
3 cop cars with lights sitting behind me
Windows down and moon roof open I hear the forest preserve cop start yapping (lying)
"He almost hit a family in a cross-walk"
Are there any problems with your driver's license Mr. Smith
No
Seems that your license has been suspended
I start thinking of Betsy immediately
I can arrest you here or arrest you at home?
Those are some sweet options
The forest preserve officer is asked, "Why didn't you radio this in?"
"I wanted to keep this off the radio", he replies
Why would it not need to be on the radio?????
Then he is treated like the mall cop that he is and leaves
Arrest me here or at home?
I have to yell out the window and ask him if I'm going to be arrested to do it here and not at my house
So let me tell you about the solid that the officer did for me
THANK YOU OFFICER WHO'S NAME I DON"T KNOW
I was saved by a bucket of chicken!!!!!!!
Now we get Betsy's side of the story
The bottom line is both our licenses are suspended and we can't drive
Thanks for the ride to work this morning Henry
We talk about NCN Podcast . . . thanks for the plug Jason! Check him out.
Betsy's eBay Barbie Locker thingy from the 50's or 60's
Wrap it up

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Alltel Racing Podcast Gets It Right

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:23:09 -0500

Steve Kaminski from the Grand Rapids Press has a review of the Alltel Racing Podast that shouldn't be missed by anyone interested in business podcasting, "Alltel's NASCAR podcast proves insightful". Kaminski comes to the podcast as a skeptic and leaves a believer in the power of podcasting.

" 'Yippee' is what I thought when I opened up my e-mail and read that Alltel has introduced the Alltel Racing Podcast this season.

Can you say "infomercial?"

On second thought, don't say it.

You would be wrong.

This is not scripted and rehearsed. With Borland, you get shoot-from-the-hip, no holds barred, opinionated talk.

I talked to Alltel executives last week, and they said they wanted to give fans a behind-the-scene look at their race team. That they deliver."

What Alltel has done is simply to follow rule one in podcasting to have successful show. What is that rule? Honesty. Just be honest. Be human.

Take a listen at www.alltelracingpodcast.com.

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Viva Cron for Apr. 12, 2006

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:34:02 -0500

Croncast - 2006-04-12.mp3

Show: #214
Length: 1:00:52
Size: 41.9 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris Apr. 12, 2006

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Show Notes

We did a show with our friends Greg and Lisa of Viva Podcast! You can listen to Greg and Lisa at www.vivapodcast.com. Never have we done anything like this and thought it would be fun to hook up with our podcasting homies from New Mexico.

It is a podcast mashup of epic proportions . . . maybe.

The show turned out really well, however there are audio quality and sync issues on our end due to equipment flaking out. I worked for a long time to get it back to a level of quality that you would be able to palette.

Thanks also to Greg for putting together the awesome album art for this conjunctive event.

Full show notes will be in the future.

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Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris Ep. 89

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:11:32 -0500

Croncast - 2005-06-15.mp3

Show: #130
Length: 32:34
Format: mp3
Bit rate: 64 kbs
Size: 14.9 mb

Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris Ep. 89

Today's show(s) is a special!

It is broken down into two parts. But first a shout out to Greg and Lisa from Viva Podcast for their comments about the show. We really appreciated it!! Hopefully the part where we mention you in the interview sticks.

In part one, or;

Act I: (to steal from Ira Glass)

We interview two guests, NBC5 reporter Charlie Wojciechowski and cameraman/lapel mic wizard Vince Munion. Like Betsy and I these two have worked together for years. Charlie and Vince's audio is a bit quite because they were sharing a mic.

We discuss the new NBC5 podcast(s) "Weekend Web Guys", Vince busts us out about Legos on the studio floor, their work together in the Quad Cities, Charlie also explains a really cool thing NBC5 will be doing during Wimbledon to get their news casts out like . . . stream them, Vince's BTK connection, Charlie's father's prophetic words; "Charlie you are going to end up working someplace like Fargo, North Dakota", how they both ended up in Chicago, legalized big media and in the future Vince promised share his story about growing up in the town that brought the world purple ketchup

From left: Vince Munion, Charlie Wojciechowski and Kris with a "k".

From left(sorry couldn't help it): Betsy grinning in a way that frightens me.

Kris' pre-interview meal of frozen peas.

Act II:

The show no one was ever supposed to hear, the show we recorded during the taping of some b-roll. It is unedited so that you can get a sense of what it was like in the basement for this interview. You have probably heard a couple of these pieces before but they have renewed freshness.

The interview should air on NBC5 this Friday. What time? I have no idea I need to make some phone calls.

If anyone in the Chicago area can tape this for us I would really appreciate it because we are supposed to be out of town for Elliot's birthday.

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Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris Ep. 66

Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:14:17 -0500

Croncast - 2005-04-22.mp3

Show: #107
Length: 27:17
Format: mp3
Bit rate: 64 kbs
Size: 12.5 mb

Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris Ep. 66

Late late late! Sorry everyone . . . had a super busy day and had to take man to get blood done for the second day in a row for his doctor. Taking the kid in for two days of blood work sucks.

Yesterday wasn't so bad because I wasn't there but today I had to go. He's a trooper and we don't call him the "man" for nothing! He won't be getting engagement pictures taken. Heh.

Today's show cranks through some of the stuff going on around here and head into how horribly wrong things go as we age and gravity works it's magic on us.

We get into a bit about a new arrangment for Croncast T's and other merchandise will be comign in May and if you would liek to save 25% on Propaganda $49.99 from MixMeister send me an email and I will send out a promo code to you.

Have a good weekend!

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