Denver Diatribe Podcast

This week we discuss how the City of Denver handled the release of the controversial Marvin Booker jailhouse death video. It’s much more complicated than you think. And, PR extraordinaire Ryan Peacock as our special guest, we talk about how small businesses can build off of Create Denver Week  last week and better reach out […] Episode 33: The PR of Love and Jailhouse Death editionDenver Diatribe

This week on the Denver Diatribe: Is hip-hop homeless in Denver? Despite other musical genres finding a home with a congregation, hip-hop seems to have trouble keeping a place to call its own. We discuss. Also, we enjoy the company of Westword hip-hop writer Ru Johnson. She’s organizing LollipaRUza, a celebration of music featuring 27 […] Episode 32: Homeless Hip-Hop editionDenver Diatribe

This week on an intimate Denver Diatribe, Jared and John discuss the proposed grocery store for downtown – 20th and Chestnut — and what that might mean for development. We also discuss the noisy, yet somehow ambiguous demise of Denver Magazine and we recommend some of our favorite local tweets. Like: @jimhickox @ariarmstrong @brofax Some […] Episode 31: Grocery Store Gone Wild editionDenver Diatribe

This week on the Diatribe: We get serious about funny with Peter McGraw, the CU humor prof that Joel wrote about in this month’s Wired Magazine. Then we give the TSA a pat-down–a rhetorical pat down!–for the agency’s baffling security priorities at DIA. Also: Things that Boulder Bubble-ites like Professor McGraw should check out when […] Episode 30: Creepy ticklers are not funny editionDenver Diatribe

This week on the Diatribe: A belated postmortem on Colorado’s civil union bill; the religious right’s last gasp? Or a last gasp that’s going lat another five years? Also, RTD fare increases and ridership decreases and, if a gun was at your head, which Denver suburb would you live in and why? Join Joel Warner […] Episode 29: living in the suburbs at the point of a gun, among other topics editionDenver Diatribe

So you know how Colbert used to do that segment on The Daily Show called “Interviews We Could Get?” Well, it’s like that this week at the Diatribe, ’cause we somehow managed to hoodwink 5280‘s executive editor Max Potter to come on the show and discuss his piece in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. […] Episode 28: Extortion in wine country and other things Max Potter wants to talk about editionDenver Diatribe

This week on the Diatribe John, Jared, and special guest Kazia Jankowski discuss the best and worst of Westword’s Best Of Denver 2011. The panel also assesses the state of local patio watering holes. Here’s that drink recipe from Kazia. And here’s the venomous NY Press issue John wishes Westword might somehow emulate. Episode 27: The Best of “The Best of” editionDenver Diatribe

This week: Metro State College’s decision to re-brand itself Denver State University spurs head scratching and hullabaloo, a nation of freeloading creative types turn coffee shops into “coffices,” and the Diatribers each offer one practical improvement that would make Denver a billion times better (reversing gravity was not allowed). This week’s episode also ushers in […] Episode 26: Metro State of Denver University editionDenver Diatribe

This week: Denver Mayoral candidates Michael Hancock and Doug Linkhart confound the political peanut gallery with their vote for city council pay hikes. Fallout in Pueblo over a proposed nuclear power plant in wake of Japan’s crisis. Alien-luvin’ Conspiracy theorists have found a link between DIA and…Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind? Jared is way late […] Episode 25: Close encounters of the politically-nuclear kind editionDenver Diatribe

The escalating debate over fracking, the implosion of CU’s J-school, and a how-to on how to talk like you’re on NPR. (Here’s a hint: talk very softly and right into the mike.) Special guests: Grace Hood, reporter for KUNC, Northern Colorado’s public radio station, and award-winning author and journalist Vince Darcangelo. Episode 24: I’m whispering right in your ear editionDenver Diatribe

Denver’s bed bug infestation, exotic mating rituals of the Denver Zoo’s elephant herd and the loss of Denver faux celebrity La La Vazquez. (Sure, we lost Carmelo Anthony, too, but Melo actually has real skills we here at the Diatribe only care about celebrities who don’t provide anything of actual value.) Special guest Melanie Asmar […] Episode 23: The sex lives of bed bugs, elephants and faux celebrities editionDenver Diatribe

This week on the Diatribe our esteemed panel discusses Highlands Ranch CIA operative Raymond Davis who is being held in Pakistan on murder charges and, in less globally significant news, the 5280 6-pack and the case against brunch. Special guest this week included 5280’s senior editor Patrick Doyle. Episode 22: The down with brunch editionDenver Diatribe

So the Diatribe episode is a bit more lengthy this week, but only because local music critic Eryc Eyl brought some great new songs from Denver-area bands for us to listen to. Eyl writes for the Denver Post music website Reverb and these were some of his favorite recent MP3s from his regular feature Steal […] Episode 21: The local music with Eryc Eyl edition.Denver Diatribe

While trying to come up with discussion topics each week, one us usually suggests a news story about some local asshole who has committed some recent act of asshole-ish-ness. John calls these folks “freaks,” but in many newsrooms they also go by “jerks”, “shmucks” and “knuckleheads.” So for this edition we decided to bundle all […] Episode 20: The freaks we love to hate editionDenver Diatribe

This week on the diatribe we discuss the recent tantrum piece by ex Denver Post columnist Susan Greene on Colorado’s paper of record and its alleged withering. We also discuss beer, specifically the battle over who can sell what in Colorado: 3.2 % in restaurants? Will convenience stores be able to sell “regular” brew? It’s […] Episode 19, the beer and disgruntled journalist editionDenver Diatribe

This week on a self-serving, very advertorial Diatribe we discuss: Geek Bowl, the largest pub trivia quiz in the United States happening in Denver this Saturday by Denver’s own Geeks Who Drink—the entrepreneurial spawn of our host John Dicker. Also, games hipsters play. What will be the next kickball? Our acceptably inebriated guest Adam Cayton-Holland […] Episode 18: The Games Hipsters Play edition with special half-drunk guest, Adam Cayton-HollandDenver Diatribe

This week on the Diatribe, Joel, Jared and John discuss the recent positioning of geek governor John Hickenlooper as a pol of national consequence. Also, we discuss Joel’s recent story of yet another allegation of police brutality involving the Denver PD. And, on a lighter note, we end with the bourgeois unrest over the fate […] Episode 17: The John Hickenlooper Brutalizes Cupcakes EditionDenver Diatribe

This week on the Diatribe we have local printer, artist and impresario Rick Griffith in to discourse upon the business of art in (and beyond) Denver. Also, writing Focus on The Family’s epitaph before its time. And, the TED and Tedx phenomenon. Watch guest diatriber Rick Griffith’s TEDx talk: Episode 16: The Freedom for Chimney Sweeps EditionDenver Diatribe

The first diatribe of 2011 welcomes special guest Ken Schroeppel of the well-trafficked development blogs www.denverinfill.com and www.denverurbanism.com. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Denver Mayoral race …what do we want to see from the next Mile High hizzoner? FasTracks light rail expansion is $2 Billion over budget. How can we pay […] Episode 15: The “We Make Wonky Sexy” EditionDenver Diatribe

This week on the Diatribe we get totally experimental and play music! Holy SHIT: using a podcast to play music. We’re going to be rich. Especially cause guiding us through the landscape of the Denver music scene, or rather, through four songs, is special guest, Westword music critic Kiernan Maletsky. Here’s the bands/songs featured, click […] Episode 14: The Holiday music edition. We’re not kidding.Denver Diatribe