Wheatley makes the cut

Thanks to you, the listener, and especially to me, the podcast nominator, Dalecast is one of 10 finalists for best Podsafe Music Podcast in The People’s Choice Podcast Awards.

Only a few brief weeks ago, this blog encouraged its vast readership to vote for Dalecast during the fourth annual Podcast Awards. More than 281,000 people responded, according to awards sponsors.

Need I offer any further defense of the power of the Turetzky Syndrome brand? If I did, my argument would fall apart, so I’m not going to. Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 10:36 pm Mon, Oct 20, 2008.

Purple asses imperil nation

Big Phil has been taking some hard shots lately at GOP presidential candidate John McCain, in what I view as a noble but naive campaign to avert yet another Republican “victory” during the November “elections.”

Sure, I could have knocked on doors and campaigned for Obama, but I’m hip to the game, and felt my time would be better served in enlightening my very, very good friend Phil per the modern realities of our political system.

Dead fucking serious

So, I took one of Phil’s impassioned rants — creeping fascism bad, Obama the last hope for democracy, blah, blah, blah — and with a few practiced edits, transformed the host of the Love Parade into a voice made for talk radio, a card-carrying white man who’d be welcome at your neighborhood Palin rally. Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 11:51 pm Fri, Oct 17, 2008.

Dave drives the 405

David Tanny plays my songs on his podcast and various streaming radio programs and that’s all great, but lots of other shows play my songs.

What I like instead about David’s shows are the vast, seemingly interminable segments (aka D.T. Rants) where he explains the rules for his complicated David’s Top 10 ballot, or even better, when Dave introduces a concert review and then spends 10 minutes blithely describing his highway routes to and from the venue. Continue reading

Posted in: Dementia at 1:44 am Mon, Sep 29, 2008.

Vote Wheatley in 2008!

Steve Wheatley really sells the product in his role as Dalecast deejay. And that’s what I like about Steve’s show, other than the fact that he plays my songs and bumpers again and again and again.

To summarize Steve’s introductions from 22 recent episodes:

“That was of course the great…the unmistakeable…from Texas…impersonating Jerry Lewis…the one and only sound there of Ken Turetzky and Today Was A Very Good Day, If They Found Me Dead, The Ballad Of Morris The Cat, Big Black Barn, Why Don’t You Get A Job, I Feel Bad, Fly Me To The Moon, People I Know and My Fat Ass Itches!” Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 4:10 pm Mon, Sep 22, 2008.

Pay no attention to your music player!

Did you know that some 6,000 people download the Big Phil’s Love Parade podcast each and every month?

These numbers bestow a certain power on a man — the power to build up, or destroy, to change minds, change the course of history, or maybe just change his pants; I don’t know.

And so when Phil slashes with his scathing wit, his blade cuts deep and wide. But that blade also cuts two ways. Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 1:43 pm Thu, Sep 18, 2008.