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Roof Garden Pop Break

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:37:07 -0500

the kids setting up with a soda and licorice.

Grimey Hot, Genetically Modified, Sandbox Sweet Corn

Mon, 03 May 2010 22:58:23 -0500

Episode: #622
Length: 27:47
Format: mp3

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Hawt in the city
Gotta keep your shirt on
Grimey in the NYC
Holding your breath outdoors
Replace all 's' with 'z'
Detasseling . . . Betsy never did it
Like a mummy in flannel
Setting you and America straight
Machine? What?
Nubile fingers of 11 year olds
I'd go back in that time machine
Growing sweet corn in my old sandbox
Taking it down with a chainsaw
What you know and don't
Wanted to win my mom a car
Address I would get stumped
The play shanty
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Tags: grimey hot sweet corn detasseling chainsaw sandbox

Season 24 Episode 22: The Croncast Shorty

Mon, 03 May 2010 22:55:14 -0500

Episode: #622 The Croncast Shorty
Length: 4:58
Format: mp3

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Tags: grimey hot sweet corn detasseling chainsaw sandbox

Partner Whiplash, Full Facemask, Psychic Dominance

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:22:35 -0600

Show: #555
Length: 27:56
Format: mp3

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Being married to your best friend
You gave me whiplash!
I would charge $20 for that
The memory was priceless
Betsy gots paid to blog
She grabbed my hands
Told me she was a psychic
She was setting up the dominance
First you must be mind raped
You have to cooperate
He should chew on my hair to know more about me
I wore a pant suit
He tells me, "You're the type of woman that takes a lot of time with her appearance."
My job was wiping developmentally delayed kids
Not professional
I wore splatter resistance cotton to work
Success in a box
So why do I need to go see one, now?
You can't wear a full face mask in NYC
The bus driver wouldn't even let the dude on the bus
Tell me how I was freaking out?
He was wearing a rubber fucking suit
Maybe it was skeevey subway dude?
You win
You would prefer that I not work and pursue a comedy career
Why does that bother you?
My friends are jealous because you are letting me do what I want
But you're not
You, my lady, are comedian
You have this opportunity, you should take it!
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Tags: psychic connections rubber suit professional blogger comedian face mask

Season 23 Ep 20: Croncast Sampler

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:10:43 -0600

Show: #555-Sampler
Length: 4:58
Format: mp3

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The New York Days Begin, Feral Las Vegas Cats, Costco Lust

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:45:58 -0600

Show: #536
Length: 40:05
Format: mp3

Thank you!
To all those that are cool . . . you rock!
If you're not cool, you can get cool
Why start on the 13th?
I can't avoid the number - I should embrace it
It's always in my address
Homeless guy that sleeps in front of only that address
Working on the streaming version player
Will be ready by Friday
How should I know that 3XL in gay is in XL?
I thought things were fancy in Naperville
Until I experienced Elliot's public school
Can anyone ring the bell at NYSE or NASDAQ?
Grammy tickets?
Where is this place and who are these people?
Having a nice car in New York
She has a huge Range Rover
What are we?
We're the Walking Class
Party at the wine bar for the parents
I don't have a baby sitter
No worries, my nanny can watch your kids too
Thanks but I can't get there
Don't worry my husband has a car service
I was just at Costco, you bitch
No idea how I would even get there
The suburban delights are missing here
No alone time here
What kind of hell is to be in Las Vegas for a week
You would sleep with a girl named Debra
I did leave Miss Debra to do her thing
My hotel turned out to be a motel
And yes it had feral cats
I could hear water dripping
Sure, that was the dead hooker in the wall
Fresh sponge paint on everything
If you had been raised with a vagina
You never would have accepted that room
Setting me for slaughter
I thought I was dead
You have a story to tell me Mr B
Friday, baby
It is too long
You went to a penthouse party in Las Vegas
No, a Penthouse party in the VIP
I've got no idea how to describe it

Tags: Get Cool NYSE The New York Days Miss Debra No tell motel

Twitter background guidelines

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:21:12 -0600

Ever wanted to make an interesting Twitter background? Here's how I did it.

Side note: This post comes to you straight from an email reply to fellow long-time podcaster Michael Geoghegan in regards to my Twitter background.

Also of note, this layout works best on higher res monitor settings. I imagine that most active Twitter users that are going to be viewing the site as opposed to sms or mobile versions are on high res settings. That said, let's roll.

Creating your background
-----------------------------

File Dimensions: 2048 px by 1707 px (no clue why i used these dimensions but I am sure I knew what I was doing at the time)
Branding Dimensions: 80 px by 587 px
Coordinates: X=20, Y=14
Horizontal position: 20 px from the left (give yourself some padding)
Vertical position: 14 px from the top (will line up your graphic with the top of the twitter logo. our eyes like symmetry) File size and type according to Twitter: "Images must be smaller than 800k. GIF, JPG, PNG."

Aesthetics
------------

Color palette: Pick colors that match that with default Twitter stylesheet colors. If they contrast too much follow the Change Background directions above and change the colors for Text, Name, Link, Sidebar fill and Sidebar border as needed.
Recommendation: Choose colors that work with the default and save yourself the headache of matching the CSS to your image. Follow Twitter's lead.

Uploading your background
------------------------------

Change Default Background: Login and click 'Settings' >> click 'Design' >> Select 'Use my custom style below' radio button >> Upload your image

It took me quite a bit of time to get a background image that I was happy with. There was a lot of editing and uploading again, and again until I got it right. I would suspect if you're like me your experience will be much the same. So have patience when getting it just right. And remember that you are working within someone else's website and can't control all the features.

Update: This is the background that I based this tutorial on - Croncast background all by itself if you want to use it as a guide.

Here's my current background at work (note: it is now free-form) - http://twitter.com/croncast.

Tags: template size twitter background Michael Geoghegan twitter

Apple TV, don't go Factory, go Restore

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:11:37 -0600

Had some problems with my Apple TV today causing iTunes 7.5 and 7.4.3 to freeze. The Apple TV would still connect the internet fine and stream movie previews but not load a not of music or minute of the Tom Green Show.

I tried everything - reboots, uninstalls, reinstalls, reboot Apple TV, check Apple support message boards and a little jig with some horse hair and eye of newt. Nothing.

Solution:

1) Throw all hope to the wind and surmise that your Apple TV is broken
2) As a final resort go to Settings -> Restore defaults -> Restore(will save your network settings like SSID and WEP key)
3) Return to Sources and choose your iTunes library

I have no clue what caused it or why this fixed the problem. My hope is that if someone finds this from a search that it night solve your problem too.

Tags: Apple TV iTunes freeze connection Apple forums eye of newt

GigaOm setting up to shoot

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:18:53 -0500

Om sits down with Marc Andreessen to make a red shirted lady sandwich.

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Betsy and her husband Kris Aug 27, 2007

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:06:37 -0500

Croncast - 2007-08-27.mp3
Show: #402
Length: 26:33
Size: 18.4mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris Aug 27, 2007

This podcast is brought to you by Palegroove Studios
This is a cantankerous show
Betsy goes away for the weekend as another person
She returns crazed
No I had an urge Mr B
It has nothing to do with you
"I hung out at Jeanies"
"Well, I went to the beer garden"
That isn't what you said
Who are you and where did you go this weekend?
That perfect moment
During that awkward pause it was time to stumble down to the tattoo joint
Jeanie said a tattoo on your face is stupid
You mean like the Kat Von D chick?
I like it when you like ladies on TV
It takes the pressure off of me
I don't know what the direction of today's show is
It is in your brain Mr B
No it isn't
You switch out of mommy mode when you go to see Jeanie
You become "that" Betsy
Calling why the kids are screaming
Elliot be nice to your sister
Betsy blows this way out of proportion
Maggie burned her hand on a hot dish
Mommy is drinking guys . . . let me put the buzz kill on speaker phone
The buzz kill? I had $200 in my bank account
I look before taking the kids to the zoo
Negative $150
It was your fault Betsy . . . I was calling to verify you made the payment
I didn't even call you one time to complain
Booba is pulling no punches
The picture you paint for people, baby
It is a good thing you didn't go running around
I really haven't told you the extent of what is going on two floors up
You need to be down here drumming up cash
The handy-men have been here en mass
Sometimes it does feel like I'm living with my mother
Zues pees on the Corvette driving bathroom tile guy . . . You're hired
All I see is Grizzly Adams making love to my dog
Kris's broken arm setting story
Betsy gets it all wrong
People never related to your small town stories, Kris
I know it is hard, but that is the way that most people live
You mean Kris Smith the basketball player
I swore a lot during this show
Keep it down . . . Grandpa's listening
Show us some love and leave us a review at iTunes
Betsy says go an see Super Bad

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Betsy and her husband Kris May 21, 2007

Mon, 21 May 2007 07:09:50 -0500

Croncast - 2007-05-21.mp3
Show: #365
Length: 33:43
Size: 23.1mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris May 21, 2007

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New intro/outro music . . . something from 2005 that I never used
Think of it as looking into a pool of water
I'll ask the audience to do the intro with me at the live show
You are pure saccharine Mr B
I'm the guy that the ladies date and I tell them I'm gonna marry them
Was Elliot born when I was making pizzas at the gas station?
What was that timeline?
Then you started making pizzas
Wasn't even in a place where I could get a job at a gas station
You want me clap for you because you are making pizzas at a gas station?
Motivation for really moving on . . . being called a loser
"I just want a job working with computers"
And look at me now!
Yeah, your forehead has burn in
That was one crazy time in our lives
I like how you set me up tonight
Oh, yeah the cell phone message
The IRS is finally coming?
Nope it's an invite to hang with Kris's family
Oh, you are such a drama . . .
I didn't say it . . . you are putting words in my mouth
That makes you a bad person Betsy
That is really unfair
I was expecting you to just hang not even listen
But yet the social worker in you piqued it's interest and you had to listen
If you want to go, Kris, it is fine with me
Asked the man if he wanted to see where his dad grew up
I know how this plays out
"We can take pictures"
The corvette will rumble out of the garage
The part of Kris that wants to trust them will come out
The Sopranos and my life
You are talking about your mother
Oh, god . . . somebody fast forward
If you need help . . . go and get it!
Setting boundaries is a good thing
Yeah, I have "sucker" written all over me
And second, if you family wasn't the way that it was we wouldn't be together
The muted male point of view of what happened in his life
I was born, I had sex for the first time at 13, I graduated from high school
The start of the first time I touched something
I had the skateboard from Sears
It was a fat one, not that thin shit
So you were now riding that around in the gravel
Interesting happening on your Route 34 45 mile long garage sale
We lived at the Lake Holiday not Sandwhich
That is a long way for garage sales
I do have to think ahead
The don't have anything post-WWF
Everything is so cheap
Mark those free and put them at the end of the driveway
You are going to attend event
My cellphone is at the bottom of my purse under dirty diapers and crackers
OK daddy I'm not going off the path
ADHD under control through bugs
Our grill that caught fire is taken for salvage by brother-in-law's pops
Oh will I miss last summer's fiasco reminder to clean our grill
Kris will get rid of it
Taking pictures of ourselves . . . shit, we are fat
It was that point of looking at them and realizing that those people are us
We can't take pictures of ourselves at any angle
I look like a grizzly bear trying to hump a rabbit
My stomach doesn't stick out that far . . . no, it's real . . . it does
In that photo she's lifting up my shirt
There is no plus that can come of it

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Hella code day

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:59:08 -0500

I spent the bulk of my free time today knocking out code on the site.

Things were just clicking today for some reason and I couldn't let it go. I think it is easier than ever to get to all the content in the site.

Maybe it's the Grinderman?

comments RSS feed and respective page
cleaned up all feeds and urls to make them more human readable - for example www.croncast.com/all.rss instead of www.croncast.com/feedbuffet/all/feed.php
setting feeds that are indexed by search engines to redirect to the internal Croncast search page if they are clicked from google, yahoo, aol and others (this is a big deal since many of the people clicking these links have no clue what rss is especially porno seekers. example page 3 of these google results search for "spice channel" resullt 21 is a keyword feed . . . copy the url and add it to your reader and it works no problem, click it and it will take you to the same results as the feed but only at the website, nice)
added the unique feed to the internal search results for those who have been referred by a search engine
added the unique feed to the internal search results for regular users button looks like this - example Kris Smith
created new includes for blog, podcast, news and all content archives so they can plug and play on any page
re-ordered the navigation
created a two new archive pages - one for navigation of all content with pseudo categories and the other as a master archive of shows by month
edited internal search results page to recognize when referrer is a search engine to display a message that explains what Croncast
added another adwords box to the search results after item 7 in the returned results
tons of other mundane stuff for tracking keyword feeds and referrers

Up for tomorrow

new rss page
moderated media rss (mmrss) creation tool, for listeners (it's going to be sick)
new contact page
new "people say" section for listeners to leave reviews
new db table to hold mobile browsers to redirect for rss

Tags: croncast mmRSS rss archives keyword rss feed rss seo rss redirect

Ron asks, 'What Equipment Do You Use?'

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:27:57 -0600

It's been a while since I talked about the equipment that I use and no time seems better than now thanks to this question:

"Can you tell me what microphones and mixer you use to record Croncast? (I heard the "expensive" microphone show recently and I had to laugh--I'm more interested in two microphones that are in the $100-$125 price range [each]).
Thanks!," Ron

Here's what currently makes up my audio signal path, hardware and software for Croncast.

2 - Marshall MXL 2003 microphones (Ron, for an extra $25 you won't be disappointed) [link]
2 - Universal Audio 6176 channel strips w/ preamp and compressor [link]
1 - PreSonus Firepod [link]
1 - Sony VGC-RB62G computer [link]
1 - Sony Sound Forge 8 audio editor [link]
1 - Waves L2 Ultramaximizer mastering compressor [link]
1 - Sony Vegas 6 multitrack for putting show together [link]
1 - Xing MP3 encoder (included in Vegas) encoded to Joint Stereo, 96 Kbps at 44.1 KHz
1 - MP3 Tag Tools to edit ID3 tags [link]
1 - iTunes to add more meta-data specific to iTunes (I can explain way below this)

This is what takes a Croncast from nothing to something.

Here's the breakdown.

Marshall Electronics MXL 2003 [link] microphones . . . I recommend these mics to everyone that asks. And after recently cheating on them with a Neumann U87ai I like them even more. With a price tag of $149 at most dealers you can't go wrong. We've used them now for two years and I own five of them. The sound is clear, they knock a lot of ambient noise down and their pick up pattern is second to none with a great low end and limited high end. The mic comes with a bass cut and a -10dB pad switch that can help when finding the right sound for your voice and recording space. These are phantom power microphones so I need a preamp.

Universal Audio 6176 [link] analog channel strip with 610 Tube Microphone preamp and 1176LN compressor. These two units are a new piece to the puzzle. They've replace the dbx 166XL that I was using for some limiting. The 6176's bring a nice warm sound to the shows that the 166XL didn't have. Most studios use them for recording bass tracks or heating up/distorting some vocals but I prefer them on a little lower setting to add a level bass and compression to our voices that would take me a couple of hours to create in post production through eq and other plug-ins.

PreSonus Firepod [link] is a 24-bit/96K FireWire recording interface with 8 preamplifiers (8 XLR/line inputs with phantom power). I originally bought this to replace an M-Audio MobilePre that was flaking out and causing intermittent popping in tracks. The reason that I chose the Firepod was primarily the 8 XLR inputs with phantom power to multitrack instead of force output to a single stereo track . . . a huge plus when recording more than 4 voices for a show. Also, if the UA 6176 wasn't part of the signal chain anymore I could live with the sound, I did for five months.

Sony VGC-RB62G [link] Intel Dual Core 2.8GHz with 2GB RAM. I've done little modification of this box other than adding a new video card, an extra FireWire card, a gig of RAM and a second hard drive. Usually, I prefer to build my own computer but was in the middle of the Alltel Racing Podcast when the old one died and I needed something right away. I went to Fry's and this box was best thing that they had in stock that met my requirements. It is or was sold as a Media PC and came with remote, surround speaker set up and more software than I could care to have (primarily the shit that just gums up the system). The only complaint that I have had so far with this computer is that every input in the back of it USB, FireWire or 1/8' has a ton of electrical noise in it when used for recording. I am forced to use the front 4 pin FireWire input for what should normally be a transparent sound recording.

Sony Sound Forge 8 [link] audio editor. This is the software that I record the shows into. I have been using Sound Forge for the last 7 years. When I got my first computer in 1999 at age 25 I learned how to use it by working with Steinberg's WaveLab (another great audio editor) but late in that year switched to Sound Forge. WaveLab had a lot of great features but they never compared the bundle of plug-ins that came with or for Sound Forge. WaveLab relied on the VST model and Sound Forge on Direct-X which meant that there were also more plug-ins to choose from. The killer plug-in was the Noise Reduction tool that prior to version 7 (maybe 6) wasn't bundled with the license. It is the best noise reduction tool on the market. I've heard most of the rest first hand, even the ones used in million dollar studios and would still choose the one in Sound Forge. I don't use Noise Reduction on our show but when doing post on audio recorded out of the studio I use it about 90% of the time.

Waves L2 Ultramaximizer [link] mastering compressor. Yep, I already ran the audio signal through an amazing compressor in the 6176 but the L2 puts the finishing touches on the wav file before I close out Sound Forge. This plug-in is the secret in my sauce. I have used it for about four years and find it's sound brighter, more open and louder than any other including Ozone 2 or 3 (which is an attempt to recreate the sound at a lower cost).

Sony Vegas 6 [link] multitrack video editor. Video? Did Kris just say, video? I sure did. When this product was first developed by Sonic Foundry it started out as a multitrack audio mastering suite that was supposed to be an upgrade from their Acid line of software. That didn't quite work out and they released a second version for video. With two competing versions on the market they made the wise decision to morph them together into Vegas Video, Sonic Foundry was bought by Sony and the rest is history. I use Vegas basically the same way that I use Dreamweaver for coding pages, as a template. All i have to do for Croncast is plug in each new recording on the timeline and poof there is a fully mastered show.

Xing MP3 encoder (included in Vegas) all shows are encoded to Joint Stereo, 96 Kbps at 44.1. This lowest quality that I will encode my own work to or for that of a client. This range is somewhat higher than many podcasters will recommend for a speech driven show but I find that anything less sound hollow and purely focuses on midrange sounds. Blah. At a bit rate lower than 96 Kbps most audio encoders, like this one, won't allow for a sample rate of 44.1 KHz. I used to encode the shows to a lower value two years ago when we first started but then iTunes came to town and studios started cranking out CD quality audio files. Once that bar was raised I figured it was okay for me to join that party.

MP3 Tag Tools [link] to edit ID3 tags. It is open source and the best ID3 tag editor that I have found. It will allow you to make changes to version 1 and 2 tags that will cover most of the popular media players like WinAmp, Windows Media Player and iTunes. It'll even let you add up to 18 images per file in the album art that can be displayed in iTunes.

iTunes for adding iTunes specific data to the ID3 tag. Didn't you already do this? Sort of. iTunes uses on the variances of the ID3 V2 tag standard to display meta data that is included with the MP3.

That is it friends. Once all that crap has happened it is time to upload the show to the server, fire up Castlock, start adding show notes and then make the show available for download.

Tags: MXL 2003 Universal Audio 6176 PreSonus Firepod Waves L2 Ultramaximizer Sony VGC-RB62G

Betsy and her husband Kris Oct 09, 2006

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:56:31 -0500

Croncast - 2006-10-09.mp3

Show: #282
Length: 38:15
Size: 26.2 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris October 09, 2006

The usual intro goes down like . . . usual
Kris points out his neglect of email this week, many apologies
Clipped fingernails and buttoning a shirt
Betsy gets right into why stress was permeating our day
Seeing people that you haven't seen in 5 years . . . like your parents can do it
The death of a brother's brother-in-law can make you do stuff
They are not inherintly evil people, just not good for us
How can you not talk to your parents? Easy
Let's move on and live our lives
It was awful
Where we left them five years ago they haven't moved from that spot
Socially every boundry we put they ignored
No more interventions, rehab or other visits for us . . . thank you
As soon as we walked through the door all gone
All they heard was . . . Betsy is an evil bitch and she is making me do this
The Don style
Setting the stage for this . . . maintaining my own life
What you share with kid
Putting my self in 6 year old shoes
This isn't a situation where you have to put your kids through this
How do you manage the situation
Betsy called her own get-up 'fag-hag' and my shirts gay . . . we're made for each other
Pre-setting boundries
Watching Elliot put up his own boundries with my momma
"You need to stop right now. I don't know you. I never see you. Don't kiss me."
Now we have prime example of "bubble"
Feeling like you are the adult when you are the kid
There was an out but I didn't think that it would float after more information
Back in our lives with nostalgia
The door opened to our lives the second we saw them
Siblings in the middle
It isn't 34 years of new stuff . . . 34 years of the same stuff from the beginning
Running off with that guy from rehab
Betsy isn't making that up
Betsy recounts her reasons for Slowsky love when compared to wanted a new ride
Escalade at garage sales versus Slowsky and UU's on Sunday

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Betsy and her husband Kris Sep 08, 2006

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:37:28 -0500

Croncast - 2006-09-08.mp3

Show: #272
Length: 29:07
Size: 20.0 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris September 8, 2006

No full intro today
Betsy starts making funny hand gestures
Her dog looks like the BBK
He looks like a spooky eyeless doll
His brain is like a wire that goes from his eyes to the back of his brain
Though he is the bright spot in our lives this week
Fancy stripper pole? I wish!
Betsy talks about the non-painted basement
The saddest daddy story of my daddy career
It's like selling junk . . . I love it
We all sit in the same spots
No switching sides of the bed
How can setting the table be bad?
Sometimes I enjoy the fact that you aren't around a lot
Maggie takes the plate for me and she put it by the basement door
Elliot set table and put martini glass out for grandma
Betsy is worried about Gigi not speaking enough
We'll clap for Googie, but she won't say anything that we want her to
Our collective hard-headedness is magnified in our children
"I'm not gonna do it unless I want to do it"
"The rules don't apply to me if you haven't noticed"
"That's OK I don't care"
Betsy cuts me off
Starts messing with me
Ahhhhh, he is a little boy
What is your deal?
Betsy meets with Elliot's teacher to explain petit mal seizures
They say the man is smart they say, we know this
His issue is organic
"He doesn't show right or left hand dominance," teacher. Really, of course we notice
Parental conferences
I'm a scumbag who lost their driver's license
This license is suspended business is out of line, makes us feel dirty
No Slowsky on the driveway
Betsy's sister is not appreciative
Iron shoes? You can walk on water with those?
The DPV at the resale shop
The Goodwill move
Kris is the funny and Betsy is my crutch
Walking into Henry's life . . . thanks for the rides to work cause my driver's license is (illegally) suspended holmes
What does he say?
Two great things about Henry . . . great driver and awesome story teller

Tags: DPV epilepsy driver's license Goodwill Slowsky

Betsy and her husband Kris Aug 09, 2006

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:04:46 -0500

Croncast - 2006-08-09.mp3

Show: #260
Length: 29:40
Size: 20.3 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris August 09, 2006

Happy anniversary, though it really isn't today
Betsy's sister has ruined the magic by telling us when it really is
"We can have a lovefest for days, right?"
"Are you kidding . . . we have kids"
Betsy and her sister having snacks
We are going to pretend that it is the 20th
Figuring out what day it is by using a calendar online
Computers have taken the mystery out of almost everything
No excuse for blissful ignorance
Betsy kidnapped me and car jacked me
On way to Verizon store and Betsy detours
Time to get Booba a new phone
Kris: manipulated again into letting Betsy take charge
Kris has a great day today
Sean says I have right to bew grumpy and Betsy should put up with it
I'm a bear that has to hibernate
Anniversary is coming I have no clue where Betsy is takin me
I thought it would be something nice
It turns out that God spelled backwards and put Patch after it and that is where I ended up
See the image above
They don't sell puppy mill dogs . . . sure
The internet has taken joy out of looking for a dog
Betsy extolls the great virtue of Petfinder.com
Is it owned by FriendFinder (notice no link)
Betsy is way to into this dog thing . . . I am having hard time fighting it
Giving up good dogs to keep the bad ones because they will get dirt nap
Taking the kids on her doggie rebound trip
I don't think it is fair to the kids
10 years of marriage
Deployed in WI for 3 years writing wills for soldiers
I really question Betsy taking the kids with her
It is shopping . . . not just lookinig at dogs
Am I alright? You are not going to turn this around on me
She's setting up the kids with the dog business
They understand more than she thinks and gives him credit for
This is shopping for a dog, not looking period
He knows when you go to stores you buy things
Kris is not a dog hater, Zeus is a good dog, however I have rationalized not needing a new dog
The old ass cats as old as Abe Lincoln's bones
Betsy's need to bring havoc into our lives
Doggy proofing already . . . I can't win
So what does it mean to be married for 10 years at our ages 31 and 30?
Obviously, it could have been very bad
You got married young
At older age you have way of running your own life and set in your way
We have the same ways
"That is really annoying about Kris I can't believe that you put up with that"
"Who says that"
That doesn't gel with my life
I don't care your ticks don't bother
It doesn't feel like 10 years to me it feels like a year
Our marriage has gotten better in the last 10 years
Ball and chain? Not really
Kris goes off on some bizarre tangent that makes no sense at all
All I can say is thanks Mr. B for giving me room to do what I want to do
In the basement like a pile of pudding
Kris is keeping secrets
Betsy could have gotten the dog tonight if she had done one thing . . .

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Betsy and her husband Kris Jul 07, 2006

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:11:07 -0500

Croncast - 2006-07-07.mp3

Show: #246
Length: 36:58
Size: 25.4 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris July 07, 2006

Betsy will have gifts from Maggies guacamole love
All she says is momma
Betsy and Maggie had lunch with me
The guacamole caked her dress
Betsy fed her some more guacamole at home
Eating food off the floor, she has standards
Off setting the guacamole with cheese
If they sold milk at garage sales
My jeans were $80
When you're listening to this I will be wearing the same clothes
What you and your wife do is cute
Jeans were not that much money for ones that fit right
Knock-off ketchup will set Kris off
Betsy says I spend too much money on stuff
"Do you know how many pairs of jeans I could have bought you for $80 at Goodwill?"
Betsy is trying for the senior discount
Garage sale booty
The secret to Betsy shopping speeds
Possible fake Coach purse
Hanging at the Tech Cockatil mixer
Being able to buy things makes me feel good
It's the nicest gift besides giving her grand-children
Doctor asks if Betsy and I are related . . . nice
Our fly farm and my fly paper business
More anniversary talk
Slowsky is coming home!!!

Tags: guacamole tooth paste Goodwill TECH Cocktail Coach

Betsy and her husband Kris Apr. 28, 2006

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:23:36 -0500

Croncast - 2006-04-28.mp3

Show: #221
Length: 38:35
Size: 26.5 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris Apr. 28, 2006

Hey, my people, this is one of our best shows since we began. We think so, maybe we just had a lot of fun doing and that is skewing our view. It starts off a bit slow with Betsy psycho-analyzing me but it picks up quick.

What's shakin baby
The voice over guy, Alan
The Don LaFontaine our of generation
15 minutes of work
You've heard his voice this week
What teh hell is a Dutailier
Dutailier Glider
My mom's crazy prep for baby setting up an entire room with baby furniture (that would be used as gifts) and lost pieces on disassembly
It's normal to go to the Motel 6 to stay the weekend with pop
Documenting our lives we're in an up
You can't say what you paid and then mark it up 600%
Cure the gout
Betsy's first eBay sale and how she got hooked
Quantum physics lessons through garage sailing
A new reality show Texas Ranch House 1867 or something
Frontier House wanna be
Tony Snow was he, is he the dealer
Who was Geoff Ganon's lover at the Whitehouse
Tommy Jerky would supply me
Kris's love of jerky and Jack Link's beef nuggets
It's probably horse meat but I don't care
No more progeny

Tags: Don LaFontaine Dutailier Glider eBay garage sale Tony Snow

Betsy and her husband Kris Apr. 19, 2006

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:48:39 -0500

Croncast - 2006-04-19.mp3

Show: #217
Length: 42:19
Size: 29.0 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris Apr. 19, 2006

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Show Notes

Changing all of Betsy's intro's to "I'm the decider."
Kris now owns imthedecider.com
I own 50 domains
Betsy wants to spend that money on a lawnmower
Geroge Bush said it - the I'm the decider
"I hear the voices"
Combating Bill Maher
Talking to America like children
Presidential speak should be colloquial
He just wants me to open the Igloo and pass him one
Unscripted speeches
She gets shot in the face all the time
Reality show we missed in our list - Deadliest Catch on A&E
The USDA is in charge
Betsy says the water is -60 F - what?
You're hoping deep down inside to see an accident
Kris is a keeper
The crabs arms are torn off - "what just happened? what just happened?"
Flip This House again
Betsy lands the sooners analogy
Betsy's first social worker job
Once your kids poop on you 50 times they look less cute
The car breaks down when Kris was out of town . . . 10 years ago
Betsy starts throwing them back at 7 a.m.
We didn't spend that much time together
Kris was a basket case
No more cheap wagoneers and social work
The chicks are on the prowl - lol
Make it a magic 8 ball kind of thing
How to get on the Daily Show
Betsy and I should do the show live on stage
Reporters said fake it and we cracked them up and they thanked us
The Mrs. Coach story
Strip mall comedy clubs
Live to Hard Drive
Setting it up like a radio live event is not cool
I could do this
Hanging out with Betsy and Elliot
Tell Kris that your 5 year old is crazy too
Consolidated school districts
Thanks to Scott Burnett

Tags: I'm the decider Deadliest Catch colloquial Jeep Wagoneer Consolidated

Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris 148

Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:28:48 -0600

Croncast - 2005-11-25.mp3

Show: #190
Length: 28:13
Size: 19.4 mb
Format: mp3

Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris 148

Show Notes

Post Thanksgiving release
Again with the Kris doesn't get it
Having a vagina makes holidays completely different
Hiding in the basement
Kris is "delightful and charming", words from the lips of Betsy
Playing board games at holidays
Put some Play-Doh in the game
Who are these people, strangers . . . relatives
Kris is so much fun
A support system for Betsy at the holidays
We're going to see the Rockettes on tour
Middle class education on party hosting
Setting a table is not it Betsy's future
Mother is stressing out
It is time to learn
Parental modeling crammed into one meal
What side do the forks go on?
When it is important to you it will matter
Horrendous pain with no cartilage
Dementia and labor pain
Stop your baby from screaming
No "black friday" shopping at this house
Begging Betsy for money to buy her gifts
On top of the kitchen sink
The Oprah 200 calorie work out
We can't even stick to that
Tuning out or throwing up
When Oprah says something it makes perfect sense to Betsy
It is all estrogen related
Why don't we eat out of tinfoil
Not even the same category
I could never be in Betsy's category
Maggie dressing up
Betsy . . . iron?
Pretending not having to
The weight of Betsy's domestic plate
The DVD
Von Maur again
Rich people smell nice . . . like there house
The blessings of American Girl dolls
Betsy's good karma leads her to the sales
Betsy tips her hand and can't ask for a discount
Resale
Punk rock daughter hooks Betsy up with a doll that has a soul
Making dolls in your trailer and then a billionaire
Before doll making
Mommy says I spent $130 on that
Elliot is daddy through and through

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