Bait And Switch Podcast

We bring Jeff Grayson back again this week, but this time we take a look at the rest of the NFL. Our esteemed panel analyzes things like will the Kansas City Chiefs three-peat? Is San Francisco still the team to beat in the NFC? What kind of year are Aaron Rodgers and the Jets going to have? What are the top teams in the AFC? How will the NFC North stack up? Of course, we'll throw out our predictions for the big game and much, much more! Enjoy!

This week we welcome back our sports expert, Jeff Grayson to preview the upcoming season for our beloved Green Bay Packers! In addition to Jeff, we've added a new member to our football panel, Theo Marten! Along with our panel, we discuss important Packer topics like Jordan Love's new contract, the expectations for the team this year, offseason gains and losses, biggest strengths and biggest weaknesses of the team and much, much more! Enjoy!

This week is the second installment of the new "Musical Arts Arm" of the Bait and Switch Podcast! Our panel of local music experts, Joe Kay (of the play that Rock n' Roll podcast - https://www.youtube.com/@PlayThatPodcast) and Scott Cvecko (founder of the band, "The Weary World" - https://thewearyworld.com/) comes together again to give us their expert opinions (along with our own of course) on the second album from The Smithereens, Green Thoughts. You'll hear what we loved about this album, along with what we didn't like and a teaser- there were some heated discussions this week! "Musicologist" Joe Kay tells us all about what was going on in the music scene the year Green Thoughts was released and he also somehow manages to mix in a well known, yet completely unrelated Pop icon's name into our discussion. You'll get that, along with our top 3 picks for the album and much, much more! Enjoy!

It's time for our annual Tour of Spain Preview Podcast! This year our esteemed panel consists of Bait and Switch Podcast co-host, Chris Beyer, Jerry Kegel of Wheel and Sprocket fame and, after a hiatus due to injury, Mitch Teich returns! After a quick wrap up of the Tour de France and the Olympics, our panel tackles the upcoming Tour of Spain. They discuss things like, there's only one sprint stage in this year's race, should there be a mandatory number of sprint stages in a Tour? Does more mountain stages translate into more excitement? Is Primoz Roglic ready to come back and win this race after 2 big crashes in the last couple of months? Will Sepp Kuss defend his title? With a wide open field, will there be any surprises? Of course, they wrap things up with their podium picks and much, much more! Enjoy!

This weeks episode is a compilation of highlights of mid part of Season 3.

This week we introduce the new "Musical Arts Arm" of the Bait and Switch Podcast! We've gathered local music experts, Joe Kay (of the Play that Rock n' Roll podcast - https://www.youtube.com/@PlayThatPodcast) and Scott Cvecko (founder of the band, "The Weary World" - https://thewearyworld.com/) to give us their expert opinions (along with our own of course) on selected artists and albums. The inaugral series will be devoted to the band The Smithereens and this week we start off with their first album "Especially For You". Each month we'll be reviewing another album from the band, and each album will have to run the gauntlet of our opinions. You'll get our no holds barred, insider perspective on what's great, what's terrible and everything in between. If you've never heard The Smithereens before, check out their first album, Especially For You and let us know what you think! Enjoy!

For the last couple of months, in collaboration with Riverwest Radio, previous episodes of our podcast have been broadcast Wednesday nights at 9:30 on WXRW 104.1 in Milwaukee. In a Bait and Switch Podcast first, on 6/19/2024 we broadcast our show live on the radio at 104.1 This is a recoding of that historic broadcast, where we talk about the evolution of our podcast and what the WXRW listeners will hear as we move forward. We also talk with WXRW station manager, Xav Laplae about the incorporation of podcasts into their programming. Be sure to tune in to 104.1 or go to their website https://www.riverwestradio.com/ every Wednesday night at 9:30 to catch another exciting episode of the Bait and Switch Podcast. Enjoy!

July's highlight clip features the guys with guest Chad in far flung locations trying to make a difference. Some times we care too much.

July's consolidated release features 2 of our favorite skits from Season 3. One features an Outdoor Adventures author and the other features a dust up with our Audio Streaming Service provider.

In the second half of our interview with the Mayor of Wauwatosa, Dennis McBride, we focus on the development at Mayfair Mall. We talk about what the development plans are for Mayfair Mall, why Mayfair is such an attractive site, the benefits of the new development, the high housing demand in Wauwatosa and much, much more! Enjoy!

It's time for our annual state of the city podcast as we sit down with the mayor of Wauwatosa, Dennis McBride. The first thing on the agenda this year is the future of our public school system. We talk about open enrollment, school funding, the big proposal to shutdown the middle schools and much, much more! Enjoy!

It's time for our annual Tour de France Preview Podcast! We've once again assembled our panel of experts, including long-time cycling enthusiasts, Chris and Will Beyer along with former professional cyclist and organizer of the Tour of America's Dairyland, Tom Schuler. Notably absent this year is Mitch Teich- we wish Mitch a speedy recovery after suffering a nasty ankle injury the night before our podcast. This year, our panel tackles topics like, what do they think about the tour visiting countries other than France? Does the tour need to do more innovation to stay relevant? How do they feel about this year's final day time trial? How ready are the riders affected by the crash in the Tour of Basque Country? Who are the strongest teams? Of course, as always, there's much, much more!

Most of you probably don't know that our guest, Chris Schmidt has a passionate interest in global politics. So, in the second half of our interview with him, we discuss political races around the world. As most of us know, there are several important elections going on around the world this year and the three of us give our thoughts on where things stand and who we would support if we lived in these countries. Remember, we're not here to teach you anything. Enjoy!

This week we talk with Milwaukee comedian, Chris Schmidt. We talk with Chris about the interesting way he got started in stand-up comedy, the way the stand-up comedy landscape has changed in Milwaukee in the last decade, what it takes to really make a career out of comedy, how comedy routines are fine-tuned through open-mics and much, much more! Enjoy!

The 3 minute highlight package for June features our interview with a disgruntled Imperial Storm Trooper who joins us from the Enteron Sector.

Our June 2024 Consolidated release features 3 interviews from 2020. It was the first summer of covid and interviewing people who got the novel virus seemed like a novel idea. The first interview is a covid skit and the other 2 interviews are people that got covid early when it was a little mysterious. The last interview features my co-host Jim Marten himself and his early covid experience.

For the second half of our interview with comedian and producer, Alan Salazar, we play a little game called Guess the Top Ten. We take a look at several top ten lists and (surprise, surprise) see how many we can guess. We also gripe about the rankings, gloat about the extent of our irrelevant knowledge or sometimes both. Being right or wrong doesn't really make a difference, as long as we all have fun (but of course being right is better!). Enjoy!

Today we talk with local comedian and producer, Alan Salazar. Alan talks to us about how he got started in stand-up, how he got started producing shows, some of the best open mics to go to in Milwaukee, the trials and tribulations of stand-up comedy and much, much more! Enjoy!

This week we talk with Dungeons and Dragons historical expert, Ben Riggs! We talk with Ben about how Dungeons and Dragons got it's start, what contributed to the game's recent renaissance, how Ben stumbled into the D&D expert historian role, what he thinks the future might look like, what he said on X (formerly Twitter) that made waves in the D&D community and much, much more! Join us for this fascinating look into the history of a world-wide phenomenon that started right in our own backyard here in Wisconsin! Enjoy!

May's 3 minute highlight package features former Milwaukee Brewer, Jerry Augustine. Since this interview "Augie" has become a regular on our Milwaukee Brewer / MLB yearly previews. Thanks as always goes out to our Sports Director, Jeff Grayson for setting up this interview.