Conrad Life Report: Recent Episodes
Conrad Life Report
Topics: Neighborhood report, Caputo's Bake Shop closing, Dad Rock game release, hanging out with Jonathan Richman, Jalopy Theatre gala, Yo La Tengo at Parish Hall at St. Ann's, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings 'Acoustic Reckoning' at the Capitol Theatre, Scooter Clifton at Littlefield, trip to Paris and Toulouse, Eiffel Tower, Paris metro, Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace at Le Bourget, Aeroscopia museum at Airbus, Odette, La Robe et la Mousse, French deadheads.
Topics: Bowling, Melody Lanes, Madison Bowl, Midtown Bowl, trip to Cincinnati, St. Francis Apizza, TWA Hotel, trip to Atlanta, Renaissance Concourse Hotel, Delta Flight Museum, The Varsity, hotel bars, Silicon Alley 30 'party,' Wall Street Hotel bar, Fresh Salt, Brooklyn Social, Bob Weir.
Space Museum, Queens Museum, Panorama of the City of New York, planespotting, Planeview Park, Hermon MacNeil Park, Paulie Gee's Slice Shop in Greenpoint, Andrew Bellucci's Pizza in Astoria, Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet at Littlefield, DJEAD NIGHT at Threes Brewing, No Kings march in Brooklyn, I GET WILD Fall Foliage 2025 Tour, Lizard Lounge in Cambridge MA, Cape Cod, West Dennis Beach, Lighthouse Inn, The Red Cottage restaurant, Myrtle in East Providence RI, Wickenden Street, Round Again Records, Colony in Woodstock, Small Talk, sitting in with Thank God For Science, Listener of the Week.
Topics: Neighborhood report, plane spotting, Planeview Park, LaGuardia Landing Lights, Hermon MacNeil Park, The Mounds, Idlewild Kayak Launch, North Woodmere Park, L&B Spumoni Gardens, Chrissy's Pizza, Andrew Bellucci's Pizza, Eric Bachmann in Chad's basement, Kimchee Kooks Kate's Kitchen, block party honky tonk stoop jams, Chappell Roan at Forest Hills Stadium.
Topics: Summertime, stoops hangs, roofs, backyards, beaches, pizza, L&B Spumoni Gardens, Brooklyn DOP Pizza, Rome to Brooklyn Pizza, Modern Apizza, Gui Steakhouse, Coney Island, Mr. Beet, Yerba Buena, Brooklyn Social, Dolce Brooklyn, tape night at Bar Great Harry, It's All Gonna Break at Nitehawk Cinema, The Invisible Dog on Bergen Street, 2A, Wussy at the Mercury Lounge, No Kings protest in Manhattan, trips to New Haven, 4th of July, Loose Lemons at King Tai Bar.
Topics: Neighborhood report, warmer weather, stoop hangs, Gowanus Yacht Club, running, Coney Island, Junior's Restaurant, Talea Brewing, the Red Caboose, Brado Pizza, Joe + Pat Pizzeria, Staten Island Railway, trip to Cincinnati, Reds vs Pirates, Badges Drum Shop, Cabinet of Wonders at City Winery, I Get Wild + Moral Kiosk at Littlefield, The Colorado Kid by Stephen King.
Topics: lost wedding ring, new subway map, The Airplane Shop in Fairfield, NJ, Colombo's Pharmacy in Middle Village, Queens, Oliver's first visit to Madison Square Garden, Knicks vs. Wizards, walks in Prospect Park and Central Park, subway adventures, New World Mall food court in Flushing, new open gangway G train cars, Great Jones Distilling, Rossi's Lounge, Insa, IT Adventures Ropes Course/Jordan's Furniture, Modern Apizza, Atticus Bookstore Cafe, Dogfish Head/Grateful Dead event, Bushwick's Dead at Brooklyn Bowl, Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy at Brooklyn Steel, The Bevis Frond at Baby's All Right and Night Club 101, +/- + Mark Robinson + Girl Scout Handbook at Littlefield, Father John Misty + Destroyer at Kings Theatre, I Get Wild at The Falcon, Royal American Social Aid and Pleasure Club at Mama Tried.
Topics: Toxic 2025 cont., Saturn Road, Record Shop, Cafe Volkan, Brooklyn Strategist, Bar Great Harry, Viva Mexico Tire Shop, Union Pizza Works, Relix Magazine 50th at Brooklyn Bowl, Taper's Choice, I Get Wild at Brooklyn Made, ENO, Burns Night, subway adventures, Boston, Pino's Pizza in Brookline, Green Line T, Stuart Murdoch at the Bell House, Dog Man.
Topics: social media, toxic 2025, optimism, trip to Hawaii, Zippy's, Hungry Ear Records, Kailua, Ko Olina, Yanagi Sushi, Million Restaurant, Ala Moana, Windward Mall, freeways, HNL airport gardens, Yo La Tengo at the Bowery Ballroom, New Year's Eve, A Complete Unknown.
Topics: Holiday season in New York City, visiting old haunts, Old Town Bar, Barcade, Tom and Jerry's, Jimmy's Corner, The Quays, Floyd, neighborhood closures, subway adventures, Holiday Nostalgia train, Mark Guiliana at Village Vanguard, Johnny Marr + JAMES at Brooklyn Paramount, Iron Maiden at Barclays Center, Stuart Bogie and Buck McDaniel at Church of Our Saviour, SML at Public Records, Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Vanderbeekers Ever After by Karina Yan Glaser, Conclave by Robert Harris, Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, ed. Sam V.H. Reese.
Topics: Neighborhood report, back to school, Nate's Detroit Pizza on Court St, Tarrytown House Estate, Goosefeather, Bar Bete, Strong Rope Brewery, Gowanus Waterfront Park, Keen's Steakhouse, Doobie Brothers and Steve Winwood at Madison Square Garden, Trip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, Eric Bachmann at Le Poisson Rouge, Jeff Rosenstock at Warsaw, Hamburger America, trip to Maine, Freeport, Old Orchard Beach, Biddeford, Yo La Tengo at Chad's house, Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr at Madison Square Garden, The National and the War on Drugs at Forest Hills, I Get Wild at the Falcon, the Mets.
Topics: Catching up, City Hall abandoned subway station tour, trip to Saratoga Springs, heatwaves, Bon Bon, One Girl Cookies, Cafe Volkan, Ace's Pizza, Daryl Hall + Elvis Costello and the Imposters at Radio City Music Hall, R-Cade/Barcade, Olympics watching, New Haven, Modern Apizza, IT! Adventures at Jordans Furniture, subway adventures, trip to St. Catharines/Niagara Falls, Beechwood Doughnuts, Oast Brewers, Wayne Gretzky Estates, Neil Peart Pavilion, Lakeside Park, Sunny's in Red Hook, There Was Nothing You Could Do by Steven Hyden, The Unreality of Memory by Elisa Gabbert, A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold.
Topics: Catching up, The Meat Hook, Automattic office, Lambchop and Sloppy Heads at Mama Tried, The Cyclone, Totonno's Pizzeria, Liam Gallagher John Squire at Brooklyn Paramount, Fastball at the Mercury Lounge, Neil Young and Crazy Horse at Forest Hills Stadium, Justin Vivian Bond at St. Ann's Warehouse, The Helm Family Midnight Ramble at Levon Helm Studios, Pixies and Modest Mouse at Forest Hills Stadium, Trans Canada Highwaymen at City Winery, Bonny Light Horseman at Music Hall of Williamsburg, Wilco at the Beacon Theater, The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow, Extremely Hardcore by Zoe Schiffer, Burn Book by Kara Swisher, Feel Free by Zadie Smith, The Vanderbeekers series, Filterworld by Kyle Chayka, Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
Topics: Neighborhood report, Harold Ickes Playground, running, subway adventures, Mardi Gras gig at Mama Tried, DJEAD Night at Broken Land, trip to Cincinnati, World Peace Bell in Newport, KY, trip to Austin, Diana Ross at ACL Moody Theater, Vikingur Olafsson at Carnegie Hall, Jonathan Richman at the Bell House, Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem, My Effin' Life by Geddy Lee, Sonic Life by Thurston Moore, The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser.
Topics: Poconos, Kalahari Water Park, Station Bar in Woodstock, Phish at Madison Square Garden NYE, dduk guk New Year's Day, University of Michigan football, NOTEM planners, Humbled by the Void practice, MTA adventures, birthday parties, upcoming Mardi Gras 2/10 gig at Mama Tried, Maine Beer Co., Oh Me Oh My by Lonnie Holley, The Hypos S/T, Little Rope by Sleater-Kinney, Hometown to Come by Minwhee Lee, Selected Jambient Works, Vol. 1 by Country Sadness, Explosive Hits Vol. 1 by Trans-Canada Highwaymen, Orange Head by Black Grape, Saviors by Green Day, Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, Ramona and her Father by Beverly Cleary, The Gospel of the Hold Steady by Michael Hann, The Six Day War by Michael B. Oren.
Topics: holiday parties, Christmas carol singing, Cobble Hill Ballet's The Nutcracker at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Serafina Tribeca, Mates of State + Versus + Girl Scout Handbook + The Aislers Set at Littlefield, Yo La Tengo + The Aislers Set at the Bowery Ballroom, Madonna + Honey Dijon at Barclays Center, Jon Langford + Sally Timms at the Good Fork Pub, I Get Wild shows at Reservoir Studios, Littlefield, Colony Woodstock, John and Peter's New Hope, Gutenberg! The Musical at the James Earl Jones Theatre, birthday parties, Garcia Peoples at Bacaro, Bob Dylan at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Baltimore, Untable, Le Rock, Five Acres, Good Night in Woodstock, Gus's Chop House, Depeche Mode at Madison Square Garden.
Topics: Neighborhood report, Tacos El Brother 3 truck, new places, Travel Bar, alternate side parking, living in NYC, Pavement at Brooklyn Steel, trip to Cincinnati, Zip's Cafe, Madtree Brewing, Rhinegeist, The National: Homecoming, Bartees Strange, The Walkmen, Patti Smith, Weyes Blood, Pavement, The National, making new friends, Peter Gabriel at Madison Square Garden, I Get Wild at the Falcon in Marlboro + The Cutting Room NYC, Velocity Girl at the Bowery Ballroom, Thai Diner, Epistrophy, Antler, Stop Making Sense at Cobble Hill Cinemas, 68 Jay Street Bar, Brooklyn Social, out of town friends, Manet/Degas at Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Walkmen at Kings Theatre, Rockefeller Center concourse, Goldberg Variations by Vikingur Olafsson, Mellencamp by Paul Rees, Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland, All That Man Is by David Szalay.
Topics: I Get Wild at Positive Jam in Accord, NY, The Hold Steady, Guided By Voices, New Paltz, tech offices, Automattic, friends in from out of town, The National + Patti Smith at Madison Square Garden, vacation, Montreal, Sutton, Quebec, Schilling Beer Co., New Hampshire, Maine, Old Orchard Beach, Maine Mall, Eventide, Boston, first day of school.
Topics: summer stoop and roof hangs, Shipwrecked Golf in Red Hook, lunchtime walks in Central Park, Silverball Retro Arcade in Asbury Park, Jon Bon Jovi rest stop, Savak at Mama Tried, Balthazar, Milady's, Rose City Band at Union Pool, Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, CT, Phish at Madison Square Garden, Evenings at the Village Gate by John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy, The Ballad of Darren by Blur, Welshpool Frillies by Guided By Voices, I Inside the Old I Dying by PJ Harvey, My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross by ANOHNI and the Johnsons, Lost Son - An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars by Brett Forrest.
Topics: Memorial Day, I Get Wild at Littlefield, Humbled by the Void gig, Luna Park/Coney Island, out of town friends, school happy hour, Black Mountain Wine House, Bryan Adams + Joan Jett at Madison Square Garden, end of school, Dolce Brooklyn, Keens Steakhouse, Barcade, The Cure at Madison Square Garden, Dead and Company at Citi Field, birthday party, Tears For Fears at Madison Square Garden, last day of school, Henry Public, The Disappearance of Josef Mengele by Olivier Guez, Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams, The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J. Crew by Maggie Bullock, Judy Blume books.
Topics: Neighborhood report, Esposito's closing, electronic recycling event, trip to Philadelphia, Adventure Aquarium, Citizens Bank Park, Monk's Cafe, Ed Sheeran at Kings Theatre, O'Keefe's Bar on Court Street, trip to Baltimore, National Aquarium, Camden Yards, Baltimore Light RailLink, I Get Wild shows, John and Peter's in New Hope, The Falcon in Marlboro, Dream House Quartet at Town Hall, The Walkmen at Webster Hall, Bono at the Beacon Theatre, The Hold Steady, The New Pornographers, Scott McMicken and the Ever Expanding, Deerhoof, Kevin Rowland, Feist, Kara Jackson, Xylouris White, Dream House Quartet, Tim Hecker, William Tyler, Ed Sheeran, Gord Downie, Fred Again and Brian Eno, Rose City Band, The National, Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, Numbers Don't Lie by Vaclav Smil, Stay True by Hua Hsu.
100! Topics: 100 episodes, The National at Bearsville Theatre, Tinker Street Tavern, Bread Alone, The Mud Club, Best Pizza in New Paltz, I Get Wild at Littlefield 3/10, The Zolephants, Oliver 10th birthday, Titanic party, out of town guests, Orphan Guitars, Black Gold, Bar Great Harry, Ruthie's, Barely Disfigured, Brooklyn Social, non-alcoholic beer, 1973 Dead, Essays 1 by Lydia Davis, Screaming on the Inside by Jessica Grose, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick.
99! Topics: I Get Wild upcoming shows at Littlefield (3/10) and John and Peter's New Hope (3/24), new Substack/newsletter, neighborhood report, Sal's closing, Salt's Cure opening, Bob Weir and Wolf Bros at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, Metro North, Nick Paumgarten, Mardi Gras party at Mama Tried in Sunset Park, trip to Cincinnati, LaRosa's Pizza, Hyde Park hangs, Voice of America Museum, National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Huffman Prairie Flying Field, Flaggs USA in Oakley Square, King Arthur's Court, Aglamesis Brothers, Workin' On A World by Iris DeMent, This Stupid World by Yo La Tengo, The Vivian Line by Ron Sexsmith, A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre, Stepping Back From The Ledge by Laura Trujillo.
Topics: Neighborhood report, Ban Be Bakery, Cafe Cotton Bean, Threes Brewing, new Barnes & Noble, Edward Hopper's New York at the Whitney, Titanic: The Exhibition, Stout on East 41st St, Red Hook Tavern, Dry Cleaning at Pioneer Works, La La Land by Guided By Voices, Seafaring Strangers: Private Yacht by Various Artists, Patter Theme by Patter, 12 by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Prize by Rozi Plain, Complete Mountain Almanac S/T, Mercy by John Cale, One Day by Fucked Up, Turn the Car Around by Gaz Coombes, When We Disappear by the Mother Hips, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami.
Topics: holiday parties, Peter McManus in Chelsea, Bear Cafe in Bearsville, Cucina in Woodstock, 2022 running stats, COVID, Phish at Madison Square Garden, Yo La Tengo Hanukkah at Bowery Ballroom, Mali Obamsawin, Leyenda, Travel Bar, Skippy in town, Jeff Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy, My Life in the Sunshine by Nabil Ayers, This is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
Topics: days off, Bobbi's Italian Beef, Haven, The Dutch, Spring Lounge, Wingbar, L'Industrie Pizzeria, holiday parties, I Get Wild + Balthrop Alabama at Littlefield, Bonny Light Horseman + Cassandra Jenkins at Music Hall of Williamsburg, The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy, When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus, new glasses.
Topics: Neighborhood report, Wingbar on Smith Street, new smoke shops, Sociale, Shelsky's of Brooklyn, Black Gold, NYC Marathon, Election Day, Dhamaka, The Grand Delancey, ProductCon, S&P/Eisenberg's, Arturo's, 787 Coffee on East 10th Street, H-Mart on 2nd Avenue, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Suede + Manic Street Preachers at King's Theatre, Isomonstrosity s/t, Quiet By Your Side by Jude Flannery, Use Your Illusion (Super Deluxe) by Guns n' Roses, Rebels Without Applause by Morrissey, how/whether to separate art from the artist, Five Decembers by James Kestrel, Surrender by Bono.
Topics: Neighborhood report, Poetica Coffee on Smith Street, Black Mountain Wine House, Villager on Classon Avenue, I Get Wild at Colony in Woodstock, The Mud Club in Woodstock, Greenpoint Loft, stoop hangs, Bonnie Prince Billy at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, Halloween, Bound For Hell: On The Sunset Strip by Various Artists, Reason In Decline by Archers of Loaf, Garcia Live Vol 19: October 31, 1992 by Jerry Garcia Band, In and Out of the Garden: MSG '81, '82, '83 by the Grateful Dead, The Frow Show on WFMU, Rolling Golden Holy by Bonny Light Horseman, Estella Jane by Steve Salett, Nothing Special by Will Sheff, Stumpwork by Dry Cleaning, Reality by Bill Callahan, Midnights by Taylor Swift, FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE by Brian Eno, Stars At Noon (Soundtrack) by Tindersticks, Steady by Sloan, Live in Cuxhaven 1976 by Can, See You in the Stars by Lightning Seeds, Hysteria by Indigo Sparke, Kings Theatre 10/2/22 by Pavement, God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert, Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records by Jim Ruland, White Noise by Don DeLillo.
Topics: care package from British Columbia, Bee's Knees Provisions, Central Park, running, Ray Rizzo with Bridget St. John and Michael Shannon at Rockwood Music Hall, The National at Capitol Theatre, Pet Shop Boys and New Order at Madison Square Garden, Pavement and Horesegirl at Kings Theatre, trip to Baltimore, Camden Yards, trip to Ontario, high school reunion, Autofiction by Suede, In These Times by Makaya McCraven, Midnight Scorchers by Horace Andy, Gamelatron Bidadari by Zemi17, Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie by Gary Weiss, No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood.
Topics: neighborhood report, stoop hangs, watering the school garden, Dolce Brooklyn, Nicky's Unisex, Roger Waters at Madison Square Garden, trip to New Haven, Old Heidelberg, Ordinary, Modern Apizza, Norwalk Cove Mini Golf, first day of school, Sunny's, Strong Rope Red Hook, Live at Gilley's by Kris Kristofferson, Eight Freedoms by New Freedom Sound, How Do You Burn? by Afghan Whigs, I'm So Free: The 1971 RCA Demos by Lou Reed, Back On The Road To You by Freedy Johnston, The Individualist: Digressions, Dreams, and Dissertations by Todd Rundgren.
Topics: Neighborhood report, Ruthie's, pizza at Lee's Tavern on Staten Island, F&F Pizza, Baby Luc's Pizza, Staten Island FunPark, Shipwrecked mini golf, Elvis Costello and the Imposters at Pier 17, Rage Against the Machine and Run the Jewels at Madison Square Garden, Jacob Riis Park/Rockaway Beach, Crown Heights Armory, Crown Heights Cafe, Bourbon Bros meetup, stoop hangs, Success by Oneida, Freakout/Release by Hot Chip, Heartmind by Cass McCombs, Chopper by Kiwi Jr, Saturday Night in San Francisco by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, and Paco de Lucia, The Music Never Stops by Peter Shapiro.
Topics: Smith Street Pizza, trip to Rhode Island, Fox Farm Brewery, Little Narragansett Bay boat ride, illness in house, I Get Wild + Stuart Bogie at Littlefield 7/29/22, trip to Maine, Marlborough, MA hotel, Biddeford Mills Museum, Back Cove Trail, The Holy Donut, Crescent Beach, Kennebunkport, Old Orchard Beach, Palace Playland, Bissell Brothers Brewing, spreading ashes, Maine Beer Company, LL Bean, Scales, Tree House Brewing, Barker Character, Comic, and Cartoon Museum in Cheshire, CT, Modern Apizza in New Haven, Holy Diver by DIO, Logger Hero by Wu-Lu, From the New World by Alan Parsons, The Other Side of Make-Believe by Interpol, Earl's Closet: The Lost Archive of Earl McGrath 1970-1980, Birds in the Ceiling by John Moreland, Waiting For Columbus by Little Feat, Into the Groove by Mickey Hart/Planet Drum, Old-Time Folks by Lee Bains and the Glory Fires, Build by Tony Fadell, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty, The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman.
Topics: Neighborhood report, backyard hangs, 33 1/3 The National: Boxer at Rough Trade, City Island, 239 Play, Turtle Cove Mini Golf, Rockaway Beach, Flower + Martha's Vineyard Ferries at Mama Tried, David Lemieux, Dead and Company at Citi Field, out of town visitors, dehydration, Bar Bruno, Bar Great Harry, stoop hangs, F&F Pizza, Voice of Chunk by the Lounge Lizards, Tremblers and Goggles By Rank by Guided By Voices, The Rules Have Changed by 3.2, Giant Palm by Naima Bock, Rachel@Fairyland by Rae Morris, Household Name by Momma, Toast by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The History of Bones by John Lurie, Build by Tony Fadell.
Topics: Dobbs, neighborhood report, backyard and stoop hangs, Oliver annual checkup, new Delta headhouse/terminal at LaGuardia, trip to Boulder, Dead and Company at Folsom Field, altitude effects, Uber/Lyft prices, last day of school, American Museum of Natural History, Hayden Planetarium, Woodstock, Saugerties Lighthouse, C'mon C'mon, The Kids in the Hall, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Steve Reich: Reich/Richter by Ensemble Contemporain, The Resurrection of Rust by Elvis Costello, Farm to Table by Bartees Strange, The Spur by Joan Shelley, 'Carolina' by Taylor Swift, Home Before and After by Regina Spektor.
Topics: Trip to Philadelphia, Franklin Institute, Liberty Bell, Princeton, Princeton Record Exchange, Golden Touch, stoop visits, roof hangs, Fragole on Court Street, Walter's in Fort Greene, The History of Bones by John Lurie, Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+, 'Flicted by Bruce Hornsby, Harry's House by Harry Styles, Sitting Off the Edge of the World by The Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Big Time by Angel Olsen, Versions of Modern Performance by Horse Girl, From Capelton Hill by Stars, We've Been Going About This All Wrong by Sharon Van Etten, Roscoe's Dream by Mapache, Old and in the Way, Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello.
Topics: Uvalde, friends in the hood, Threes Brewing, F&F Pizzeria, solo parenting weekend, stoop hangs, canceled I GET WILD shows, school fundraiser, Commonwealth, Other Half Rockefeller Center, Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+, Palomino by Miranda Lambert, Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar, This is a Photograph by Kevin Morby, Blood Orange by Poster Paints, Cruel Country by Wilco, Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Topics: Neighborhood report, recital, Black Forest Brooklyn, Tacos Casamigas, Alamo Drafthouse, Golden Touch Car Wash, Coney Island, The Cyclone, twenty-five years in NYC, Swift Hibernian Lounge, B Bar, Morningside Heights, Finback Brewery, WingBar, Kentucky Derby, (watch my moves) by Kurt Vile, A Bit Of Previous by Belle & Sebastian, WE by Arcade Fire, 33 1/3: Boxer by Ryan Pinkard.
Topics: Liberty Science Center, Blue & Black on Court Street, Wilco at the United Palace Theater, Uptown Garrison, Le Cheile, West 181st Street, trip to Austin, running trails, Veracruz All Natural, Jo's Coffee, South Congress, pool party, The Meteor, Electric Six + Volk at the Continental Club, Guero's Taco Bar, Kalahari Resort in Round Rock, Lazarus Brewing, Zilker Brewing, Latchkey, Meanwhile Brewing, End of an Ear, The ABGB, Golden Goose, The Carpenter, masks at airports and on airplanes, Hot Tuna at Carnegie Hall, Phish at Madison Square Garden, Good and Green Again by Jake Xerxes Fussell, Everything Was Beautiful by Spiritualized.
Topics: Neighborhood report, COVID numbers, Commonwealth in Park Slope, Wingbar on Smith Street, Henry Public, out of town visitors, continued return to office, Rough Trade, Other Half Rockefeller Center, Savak at Littlefield, Bob Weir at Radio City Music Hall, Wet Leg by Wet Leg, Live In New York City February 8 1975 by Alan Braufman, Terror Twilight by Pavement, The Bear by Walter Martin.
Topics: I Get Wild shows at Littlefield and Colony, Balthrop Alabama, The Ukrainians, Lucky 13 Saloon, Kingston, Rough Draft Bar and Books, Rocket Number Nine Records, Woodstock Pub, Ultraam, Oliver birthday, return to office, Other Half Rockefeller Center, How Does One Begin by Mary Simich, It's A Shame About Ray by The Lemonheads.
Topics: Neighborhood report, masks in schools, The Shimmies play Mardi Gras at Threes Brewing, upcoming 3/5 I Get Wild show at Littlefield, Cincinnati trip, LGA terminal construction, Cincinnati vs Temple Men's Basketball game, Esoteric Brewing, Mt. Echo Park, Hyde Park, Joseph Beth Booksellers, Oakley, old Rolling Stone magazines, Resist by Midnight Oil, The Tipping Point by Tears For Fears, Wild Loneliness by Superchunk, Garcia Songbook by Joe Craven and the Sometimers, Live in Colorado by Bobby Weir and Wolf Bros.
Topics: Neighborhood vibe report, COVID numbers, East One Coffee, Baby Luc's Pizza, Super Bowl, Grippo's potato chips, new running shoes, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You by Big Thief, Lucifer On The Sofa by Spoon, One Day by Cactus Blossoms, Pompeii by Cate le Bon, Time Skiffs by Animal Collective, Lighten Up by Erin Rae, Ants From Up There by Black Country New Road, Unstrung by Marc Ribot.
Topics: Neighborhood vibe report, snowstorm, parking the car, The War On Drugs at Madison Square Garden, Cincinnati Bengals, Bar Great Harry, fire pit, COVID numbers, new position at work, Hell On Church Street by Punch Brothers, Covers by Cat Power, The Zealot Gene by Jethro Tull, Anais Mitchell by Anais Mitchell, Strictly A One-Eyed Jack by John Mellencamp, Bloor Street by Kiefer Sutherland.
Welcome to Episode 78! Topics: Cold weather running gear, neighborhood vibe report, COVID testing, new prescription sunglasses, Duo Plus Coffee, Measure Twice, Gian Piero Bakery in Astoria, Oliver doctor visit, Vineapple in Brooklyn Heights, stoop hangs, listening to CDs, Dawn FM by The Weeknd, Radio KAOS by Roger Waters, The Boy Named If by Elvis Costello, How To With John Wilson, The Tragedy Of Macbeth, El Deafo.
Welcome to Episode 77! Topics: Back to school, canceled shows, going away parties, Circa Brewing, holidays, trip to Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Capitol Hill, Ben's Chili Bowl, Other Half DC, shoe lace shoes for Oliver, Federal Hill, Fell's Point, Hampden, Baltimore In A Box ice cream, Union Craft Brewing, stoop beers, Bar Great Harry, New Year's Eve, mild weather, rooftop hang, Phish free webcast, Unstrung by Marc Ribot, The Alpinist, Encanto.
Welcome to Episode 76! Topics: neighborhood report, friends in town, Hiss Golden Messenger at Webster Hall, McSorley's Ale House in the East Village, annual eye checkup, I GET WILD at with The Hold Steady at Brooklyn Bowl, Genesis at Madison Square Garden, Tom and Jerry's bar in Nolita, dentist visit, office visit, Bilt Bar in Prospect Heights, F&F Pizza, Taqueria Al Pastor in Brooklyn Heights, Drew's Fender P-bass, East One Coffee Shop, stoop find cassettes, No Medium by Rosali, Leftovers by Le Ren, Chart For The Solution by Writhing Squares, Windless Day by Scott Hirsch, Barn by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Live In Brighton 1975 by Can, Far In by Helado Negro, 3 by Mapache, Tiddly by Fox Farm Brewery.
Welcome to Episode 75! Topics: neighborhood report, Vekslers, Sociale, La Cigogne, Campbell Cheese and Grocery, Thanksgiving, Ashokan Reservoir, Inquiring Minds Books in Saugerties, Not Fade Away and Bread Alone in Woodstock, Michigan/Ohio State game, CityPoint NYC COVID hub, Barclays Center/Modells NYC pop-up, Wild East Brewing, 30 by Adele, The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts by Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles: Get Back.
Welcome to Episode 74! Topics: neighborhood report, CityPoint vaccine hub, NYC Marathon, Garden of the Ark practice, day off, F&F Pizza, Black Gold Brooklyn, cassettes, St. Gambrinus Beer Shoppe, Persian Style Lager by Back Home Beer, Pioneer V-7400 player, Bourbon Brothers meetup, Travel Bar, Things Take Time Take Time by Courtney Barnett, The Nearer The Fountain More Pure The Stream Flows by Damon Albarn, C'mon C'mon OST by Bryce and Aaron Dessner, upcoming I GET WILD shows in Brooklyn (12/17) and Woodstock (12/18).
Welcome to Episode 73! Topics: cool weather, The Shimmies at B61/Alma, trip to Baltimore, B.C. Brewery in Hunt Valley, Cinghiale in Inner Harbor, Halloween, Election Day, child vaccinations, iPhone acquisition, I Don't Live Here Anymore by The War On Drugs, The Million Things That Never Happened by Billy Bragg, Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert, Schilling Beer Co. Georg, Threes Brewing/Fox Farm Stasis.
Welcome to Episode 72! Topics: fall vibes in the neighborhood, Queens County Farm Museum, iPhone backlog, L'Industrie Pizza in Williamsburg, Congress Bar, Pound Ridge, Virtual Dead Night, Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert, Can't Slow Down by Michaelangelo Matos, In These Silent Days by Brandi Carlile, Carnegie Hall 1970 by Neil Young, Let It Be (Super Deluxe) by The Beatles, 1971 on AppleTV+, Bad Sport on Netflix.
Welcome to Episode 71! Topics: day off, autumn, coffee with Kara, flu shot, Bar Great Harry, two-a-day's, Liberty Science Center, The Wrens breakup, Queens by Aeon Station, Late Style by Wesley Stace, Springtime In New York by Bob Dylan, The Lost Concert by Miles Davis, Universal Process by Nelson Patton, Foundation on Apple TV+, Schumacher on Netflix, If I Leave Here Tomorrow on Netflix, This Is Your Mind On Plants by Michael Pollan, TennÅ Dry by Schilling Beer Co., MO by Maine Beer Company, Grodziskie by Fox Farm Brewery.
Welcome to Episode 70! Topics: Other Half on Centre Street, Woodbury Commons, West Saugerties, Woodstock, Bread Alone, Big Pink, running on Stoll Road, Woodstock Music Shop, Visit to Annie and Josh, Kingston, oil change, Bay Ridge, Coffee Rx, 9/11 anniversary, Red Hook Park, Astoria, Gian Piero Bakery, first day of school, Rememberings by Sinead O'Connor, HEY WHAT by Low, The Coast Is Never Clear by Beulah.
Welcome to Episode 69! Topics: Carroll Gardens library reopening, neighborhood mask report, visit from Sam, visit from Laura, Clint Conner for mayor of Minneapolis, Boston, Fenway Park, visit to Karl, Hurricane Henri, Maine, Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park, Portland, Old Orchard Beach, Biddeford, A Sky Record by Damon and Naomi, My City Of Starlings by Charles Spearin, How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last by Big Red Machine.
Welcome to Episode 68! Topics: Congrats to Chris, neighborhood mask report, Nate going away, Erin and Stefanie going away, Garden of the Ark hang, Lake George, tubing on the Hudson, Minne Ha-Ha boat ride, baja pullovers, mini golf, go-karts, Oliver camps, I GET WILD @ The Sultan Room, Scott D in town at Threes, Fulfillment by Alec MacGillis, Diary Of A Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty.
Welcome to Episode 67! Topics: Delta variant, neighborhood mask report, Terhune Orchards, Princeton Record Exchange, Baby Luc's Pizza, Westerly, Rhode Island, boating, Beer'd, Fox Farm Brewery, WTF James Murphy interview, Spiral by Darkside, Mayan Space Station by William Parker, Can't Slow Down by Michaelangelo Matos.
Welcome to Episode 66! Topics: Live Aid, Jacob Riis beach, parks in Red Hook, Oliver learning how to ride a bike, TWA Hotel at JFK, school year ending, road trip to Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, Putz's Creamy Whip, Cincinnati Art Museum, Metamodern Music, Madtree Brewing, Reds game at Great American Ballpark, birthday party, Pirates game at PNC Park, Klavon's Ice Cream, Grist House Brewery, Heinz History Center, running in Pittsburgh, I GET WILD at the Good Life Garden in Bushwick, Skippy at Henry Public, Euro final at Pig Beach, Can Live In Stuttgart 1975, The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, Nothin' But A Good Time by Richard Bienstock and Tom Beajour.
Welcome to Episode 65! Topics: neighborhood mask update, society reopening, I GET WILD at Littlefield 5/21/21, concert tickets on sale, City Island, Tacos El Bronco in Sunset Park, Afrique Victime by Mdor Moctar, Watchmen by Alan Moore, How To Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price, The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, upcoming road trips.
Welcome to Episode 64! Topics: neighborhood mask report, CDC guidelines, schools, kid vaccinations, Bar Great Harry, running, longest run, Williamsburg Bridge, new TV, The Red Caboose, Superwolves, Endless Arcade by Teenage Fanclub, Tenet, The Mitchells vs. The Machines.
Welcome to Episode 63! Topics: Second vaccine shot, Denino's Pizza on Staten Island, I GET WILD upcoming 5/21 show at Littlefield, concerts returning, DEAD NIGHT 4/20 on Twitch, The Red Caboose in Midtown, Coney Island, Luna Park, The Cyclone, New Long Leg by Dry Cleaning, Course In Fable by Ryley Walker, Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast Skull and Roses season, FUTUREPROOF: 9 Rules For Humans In The Age Of Automation by Kevin Roose, The Financial Lives Of The Poets by Jess Walter, A Promised Land by Barack Obama.
Welcome to Episode 62! Topics: First vaccine shot, Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, Four Freedoms Park, Roosevelt Island, Koreatown, Holy Ground NYC, Leyenda, Other Half outdoor seating, DJEAD Night, West Saugerties, Big Pink, Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Roger Higley, Thoughts on the Dead, Green To Gold by the Antlers, A-Z of Phil Collins, Alan Cross, Toronto Mike'd, CFNY Toronto 'The Spirit of Radio,' Guilt By Association by Threes Brewing/Creature Comforts.
Welcome to Episode 61! Topics: fake spring, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Roll n Roaster, friends on stoops, parking the car, happy hour zooms, weekend in Westchester, New Canaan, Merritt Parkway, Oliver birthday, "Wish Me Well" by Jules Shear, "Latest Record Project" by Van Morrison, "Pay Your Way In Pain" by St. Vincent, "All The Colours Of You" by James, "Lonely Places" by Rose City Band, Way Down In The Rust Bucket by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The Pet Parade by Fruit Bats, Lifeworld by Threes Brewing, Super Mantis by Nod Hill.
Welcome to Episode 60! Topics: First day of March, pandemic anniversary, the great melt, blank tape project, making Manhattans, Nerd Be Cool coffee, backyards, Nomadland, Flora and Ulysses, An Overview On Phenomenal Nature by Cassandra Jenkins, Open Door Policy by The Hold Steady, 'I Ran Away' by Dinosaur Jr, The Koln Concert by Keith Jarrett, 'Rang Dizzy' by Ryley Walker, We Feel Safer At Night by Takka Takka, The Rockonteurs podcast, Roland Orzabal, Tears For Fears, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, Free Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Lee.
Welcome to Episode 59! Topics: snowstorms, running, digging out car, Zooms, Rand McNally Road Atlas, F&F Pizza, COVID vaccinations, Rose Wolf Coffee, Threes Brewing, Sean Casey Animal Shelter, Barnes & Noble, The Truth by D.R. Hooker, Ignorance by The Weather Station, Chick Corea, Return To Forever, The National Road by Tom Zoellner, Dune.
Welcome to Episode 58! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 58 topics: new microphone, the High Bridge, Common Ground Harlem, Jackie Robinson Park, LaGuardia Landing Lights Park, mom COVID vaccine, Threes Brewing 6th anniversary, Other Half 7th anniversary, Ugly Baby on Smith Street, II by LNZNDRF, UFO by Jim Sullivan, Vertigo Days by The Notwist, Collapsed In Sunbeams by Arlo Parks, Maquishti by Patricia Brennan, Cooler Returns by Kiwi Jr, 'Chemtrails Over The Country Club' by Lana Del Rey, Now And Zen by Robert Plant, Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener, The National Road by Tom Zoellner.
Welcome to Episode 57! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 57 topics: January 6, Christmas, Chinatown, Mei Lai Wah Bakery, Unisphere, Queens Museum, Rockefeller Lookout, Rough Draft Books, Kingston, NJ Turnpike, Guggenheim Museum, The Pizza Tapes by Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Tony Rice, Solid State Logik 1 by The KLF, Bill Callahan + Will Oldham, You Could Smell It From Hell by Pancreas, JT by Steve Earle and the Dukes, Landwerk by Nathan Salsburg, "Weeping In The Promised Land" by John Fogerty, Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener, "The American Abyss" by Timothy Snyder.
Welcome to Episode 56! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 56 topics: Sunday errands, Burger King Impossible Whopper, The Grinch (2018), snowstorm, in-person school, dentist appointment, eye doctor, new glasses, Seasonal Shift by Calexico, Tomato Sessions by Garcia Peoples, Styles We Paid For by Guided By Voices, Tripping With... by Nils Frahm, Evermore by Taylor Swift, McCartney III by Paul McCartney, We Will Always Love You by The Avalanches, This Isn't Happening by Steven Hyden, Live at Tubby's by 75 Dollar Bill, Gavotte by Finback, I Hate Myself by Threes Brewing.
Welcome to Episode 55! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 55 topics: moving the car, new car Dead stickers, Thursday routine, Saugerties, Woodstock, Kaaterskill Falls, Prospect Park, Thanksgiving in Brooklyn, old tapes, new desk, The Rub Of Time by Martin Amis, Cincinnati Magazine, This Isn't Happening by Steven Hyden, Folklore: The Long Pond Sessions, Ted Lasso, The Mandalorian, A Holly Dolly Christmas by Dolly Parton, Live Drugs by The War On Drugs, Idiot Prayer by Nick Cave, Delicate Sound Of Thunder by Pink Floyd, 'Chinatown' by Bleachers, Letter To You by Bruce Springsteen, A Sip Of Positivitea, Threes Brewing Sound Of Exclamation barleywine.
Welcome to Episode 54! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 54 topics: The election, early voting, the Saturday celebrations, poll training, text banking, Vanderbilt open streets, Roosevelt Island, Green-Wood Cemetery, Vanderbilt Playground, Lookout Hill, shooting hoops, COVID testing, Live Forever by Bartees Strange, Van Halen, Silver Ladders by Mary Lattimore, Wheels Roll Home by the Antlers, Cuttin' Grass by Sturgill Simpson, Serpentine Prison by Matt Berninger, Pleased To Meet Me and Dead Man's Pop by the Replacements, Sam Amidon, Off Off On by This Is The Kit, New York by Lou Reed, Good Morning Midnight by Lily Brooks Dalton, The Rub Of Time by Martin Amis, Threes Brewing, Finback Brewery, A For Alone by Curtis Sittenfeld, loneliness in 2020.
Welcome to Episode 53! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 53 topics: Driving our car, street parking, neighborhood errands, FaceTime, DJEAD NIGHT, Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility, Peter Pan Donuts in Greenpoint, The Ascension by Sufjan Stevens, By The Fire by Thurston Moore, Sign 'O' The Times by Prince, Blue Hearts by Bob Mould, 'Isabella' by Hamilton Leithauser and Lucy Dacus, Martha and the Muffins, Jonsi, Entropy Reigns Supreme and The Things We All Do by Threes Brewing.
Welcome to Episode 52! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 52 topics: new car, Fire Island, Davina Semo art installation in Brooklyn Bridge Park, running, Royal Green, LNZNDRF, The Fire Still Burns by Alan Braufman, The Dirt and The Stars by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Good Luck Seeker by the Waterboys, All That Emotion by Hannah Georgas, Nice White Parents, Reply All, Any Night Of The Week by Jonny Dovercourt, Elvis Costello, Gowanus Gold and Far Between by Threes Brewing, Summer by Tree House, Letters From Zelda by Brick and Feather, Nothing Gold by Bissell Brothers, looking for parking spots in the neighborhood, John Was Trying To Contact Aliens, High Score, An American Pickle.
Welcome to Episode 51! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 51 topics: Governors Island, limited capacity, Squibb Park Bridge, running over the Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge, Bill Frisell Trio at St. Ann's Warehouse, Non-Secure Connection by Bruce Hornsby, Valentine by Bill Frisell, Fugazi Gulf War Protest Concert 1991 on YouTube, Dune by Frank Herbert, Wired Magazine, Hill Farmstead Farmer Wave, Threes Brewing Public Property and Temporary Identity, Mast Landing Wavy Days, Rising Tide Great Diamond Island, Bissell Brothers Here's To Feeling Good All The Time.
Welcome to Episode 50! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 50 topics: the subway, midtown, the office, neighborhood mask report, neighborhood restaurants, Wild East Brewing, schools opening, remote leaning, college football, unionizing athletes, virtual DJEAD NIGHT Aug 20, Unwound, Rabbit Remembered by John Updike, Dune by Frank Herbert.
Welcome to Episode 49! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 49 topics: trip to Rhode Island, Pepe's pizza in New Haven, Other Half tie dye session, Greenbelt Nature Preserve, Staten Island beaches, Folklore by Taylor Swift, Recumbent Speech by Ezra Feinberg, Anthem + 3 by Father John Misty, Women In Music Pt 3 by Haim, Shelter by Thomas Bartlett, Wild East Brewing in Gowanus, Bissell Brothers, Dogs & Boats by Beer'd, Tiddly by Fox Farm, In Absentia Luci by Other Half.
Welcome to Episode 48! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 48 topics: stoop hangs, birthday, Bar Great Harry, building collapse in the neighborhood, new dog, Jacob Riis beach, neighborhood report, buying a car, general mood, 'America' by Sufjan Stevens, The Waterfall II by My Morning Jacket, All The Good Times by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, That's How Rumors Get Started by Margo Price, 'For Sure' by Future Islands, Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast, Alchemist, Great Notion, Trillium, Other Half, Five Boroughs, Folksbier, Tree House.
Welcome to Episode 47! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 47 topics: my dad, COVID-19 air travel, Cincinnati, life and end of life logistics, socially distanced funerals, black lives matter, running, Blues With Friends by Dion, Trummors, Strange To Explain by Woods, Both by Bill Nace, RTJ4 by Run The Jewels, Rough and Rowdy Ways by Bob Dylan, Inlet by Hum, Graeter's Black Cherry Chocolate Chip White Stout by Braxton Brewery, Rhinegeist, Listermann, Karrikin, 3Floyds, Threes, Grimm, Folksbier, Other Half.
Welcome to Episode 46! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 46 topics: Intro theme: none, neighborhood report, Oliver new scooter, Memorial Day service canceled, restaurants reopening, mask report, Bar Great Harry questions, distanced stoop visits, DJEAD Night, In Weird Cities podcast interview with Bill Berry, Before The Stream podcast, "Serpentine Prison" by Matt Berninger, Folksbier Harbinger Of Spring, Hill Farmstead Brother Soigne, Suarez Family Whistlin', outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 45! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 45 topics: Intro theme: none, Popeye's chicken, running routes, Brooklyn mask report, F&F Pizza, Summerlong by Rose City band, Reunions by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately by Perfume Genius, "False Prophet" by Bob Dylan, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart [film], 5/21 DJead Night presented by Relix/Threes Brewing/Fans.com, Bob Weir/The National 'The Bridge Session,' A Little History Of The World by Ernst Gombrich, El Tren by KCBC, All Together by Other Half, What Might Have Been + Forevermore + Kicking & Screaming + Edge of Consciousness by Threes Brewing, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 44! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 44 topics: Intro theme: none, mask-wearing in Brooklyn Bridge Park, exercise with masks, recording Cumberland Blues for the Barton Hills Choir, possible car buying, virtual DJEAD NIGHT 5/14, NYT The Daily podcast, JGB 9/16/89, Oliver remote schooling, art class, Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 43! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 43 topics: Intro theme: none, COVID-19, mail fails, Groundhog Day syndrome, societal anxiety, neighborhood mask-wearing report, Dad update, Webb Chatham Report, 'Quarantine Boogie' by Walter Martin, Last Year's Sunlight by Nelson Patton, The Ochre World by Million Lands, 'Living In A Ghost Town' by the Rolling Stones, Garden Of The Ark, Barton Hills Choir, Gabe/Takka, Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple, Grateful Dead 6/11/93, Constant Disappointment by Threes Brewing, Heady Topper by The Alchemist, niece birthday, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 42! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 42 topics: Intro theme: none, COVID-19, running with a mask, early morning routes, midday social distancing, crowded sidewalks, going to the fruit stand, Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple, I Contain Multitudes by Bob Dylan, music livestreams and special releases, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 41! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 41 topics: Intro theme: none, COVID-19, remote school + spring break, daily routine, Dad hospice care, quarantined birthdays, present-buying in lockdown, running, cleaner air in NYC, 7pm cheers for essential workers, Unreliable Narrator by Threes Brewing, Brian Greene, The Tree Of Forgiveness by John Prine, The Loves Of Your Life by Hamilton Leithauser, Song For Our Daughter by Laura Marling, Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village In The Sixties, 36 From The Vault, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 40! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 40 topics: Intro theme: none, COVID-19, remote school routine, NYC spring break canceled, playing in the backyard, mask-making, running to Brooklyn Bridge Park piers, Garden Of The Ark album released, remote recording "Ripple" with the Barton Hills Choir, Trick Mirror, Kingsley Amis, Murder Most Foul by Bob Dylan, Sigma Oasis by Phish, Guided By Voices, Adam Schlesinger, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 39! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 39 topics: Intro theme: none, COVID-19, quarantine amorphous start dates, quarantine daily life, new routines, remote schooling, zoom meetings, social life in the basement, Mom and Dad in Cincinnati, Dad nursing home, health workers, Roth McCue, Bar Great Harry, Threes Brewing direct delivery, Until The End Of Time by Brian Greene, Reveries In The Rift by Joe Westerlund, We're New Here by Makaya McCraven, Dokken, David Lee Roth, S.O.D., R.E.M., Ozzy Osbourne, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 38! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 38 topics: Intro theme: none, Kevin in town, new glasses, JGB tapes, Dead Night at Threes Fifth Anniversary, Esperanza NY, Spaghetti Cincinnati at The Hi Hi Room, The Little Death at Barely Disfigured, The Log Of The S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford, 'The Soldier' by Walter Martin, 'Dance of the Clairvoyants' by Pearl Jam, Miss Anthropocene by Grimes, Million Lands, Music Exists podcast by Chuck Klosterman and Chris Ryan, Magnetic Compass by Grimm Artisinal Ales, Suarez Family River, Suarez Family Domain #2, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 37! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 37 topics: Intro theme: none, Cincinnati trip, Dad health update, flying from Newark, Kroger Marketplace bar, The Party Source + Braxton Labs in Bellevue, Kentucky, The Hi-Mark in the East End of Cincinnati, Super Bowl LIV at Bryan's house, listening to football on the radio, Pinhook bourbon, Travel Bar in Carroll Gardens, 'Living Proof' article in the New Yorker, Huey Lewis article in Esquire, Freak Flag Flying podcast, Bonny Light Horseman, New Petal Instants by Arbor Labor Union, Esperanza NY, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 36! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 36 topics: Intro theme: none, Meg's bday party, forthcoming Nabil Ayers memoir, paella party at Erik and Debbie's, MoMA visit, school art show, bourbon night, I Get Wild @ FM Bar in Jersey City, dumplings for the new year, Christine and Micah's housewarming, Almost Ready Records, F&F Pizza, And Then We Grew Up by Rachel Friedman, N.K. Jemisin in the New Yorker, podcast report, 36 From The Vault, Water and Music, Business Dad, Webb Chatham Report ep 58, Beyond The Pond ep 87, Xian Man by Stephen Malkmus, Va Piano by Cimiotti, Wealthy Catholics, Monkey Business by Pet Shop Boys, Making A New World by Field Music, Radiohead Public Library, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 35! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 35 topics: Intro theme: none, snow in NYC, Oliver at school, Neil Peart, St. Catharines, Dead Night at Threes Brewing, live drawing by Michael Arthur (@inklines), Threes 5th birthday party, update on my dad, Bob Dylan Performing Artist by Paul Williams, Fisherman's Blues by The Waterboys, Bar Bete, new beers by Threes, Drew + Jenn and meeting Eva, Hill Farmstead Society and Solitude #6, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 34! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 34 topics: Intro theme: none, holiday parties, Oliver's return to school after break, Erik + Debbie meatball party, Dave Surowiecki visit, Baltimore, Hampden Christmas Lights, car rental, Yo La Tengo Hanukkah show at Bowery Ballroom, Sun Ra Arkestra, Phish at Madison Square Garden, Chase Bridges at MSG, Garden Of The Ark at Threes Brewing, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 33! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 33 topics: Intro theme: none, end of the decade, Thanksgiving in Cincinnati, family update, Kroger Marketplace, One Lytle Place, Ford dealership, Riverside Korean Restaurant in Covington, Cincinnati Airport Marriott, Corner Bistro, Union Grounds, holiday parties, Dear Life by Alice Munro, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, new kiosks at the library, Bob Dylan at the Beacon Theatre, Ready Or Not by the Grateful Dead, Space Diamonds and Double Enigma by Other Half, Suarez Palatine Pils, Rhinegeist Schmoke and a Pancake, MadTree PSA, You People by Threes Brewing, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 32! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 32 topics: Intro theme: none, day off, Oliver half day, Drew + Jenn + Eva, The HiHi Room, Sam visit, Bar Great Harry, tech meetup at MediaMath, Hiss Golden Messenger at Webster Hall, Robert Forster of the Go-Betweens at the Bell House, Three Chords and the Truth by Van Morrison, Permanent Record by Edward Snowden, Dear Life by Alice Munro, digital holds at the library, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 31! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 31 topics: Intro theme: none, long layoff, new recording options, Halloween, Oliver as Buzz Lightyear, F&F Pizzeria, Threes Brewing, upcoming I GET WILD shows, GD Night 11/20, The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Hard To Handle by Steve Gorman and Steven Hyden, Dear Life by Alice Munro, Permanent Record by Edward Snowden, Bonny Light Horseman, Walter Martin, Jesus Is King by Kanye West, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 30! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 30 topics: Intro theme: none, Phil Collins at Madison Square Garden, Leland Sklar, Genesis, Stephanie Sanders at Rockwood Music Hall, Blue World by John Coltrane, Dead Man's Pop by The Replacements, In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights by the New Pornographers, She Sings They Play by Skeeter Davis and NRBQ, Terms Of Surrender by Hiss Golden Messenger, Long Pond studio, The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin, Exhalation by Ted Chiang, Amir Bar-Lev, Dogfish Head American Beauty, Evil Twin Michigan Maple Jesus, Other Half x 3 Stars Get Busy Livin', Suarez Family, Blaze Brewing outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 29! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 29 topics: Intro theme: none, email writing, my dad, gratitude, Letting Go Of Gravity by Meg Leder, Shake It Records in Cincinnati, Brassland Records, D&D Three Ring Bender at Threes Brewing, Oliver new school year, The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin, "At The Back Of The Pit" and When We Are Inhuman by Bonnie Prince Billy, "The Amputees" by Tindersticks, KCBC/Bar Great Harry Thunder Cage, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 28! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 28 topics: Intro theme: none, taking August off, Rolling Stones at MetLife Stadium, family vacation in Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, Whittier, Hubbard Glacier, Glacier Bay, Skagway, Klondike Highway, British Columbia, Yukon Territory, Yukon Suspension Bridge, Juneau, Mendenhall Glacier, Mount Roberts, Ketchikan, Misty Fjords, Vancouver, flying Westjet, Cincinnati trip, Bon Iver, Garcia Peoples, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, Skyfaring by Mark Vanhoenacker, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 27! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 27 topics: Intro theme: none, watering Gabe's plants again, Peter Meehan cookbook, Grateful Dead Night at Threes Brewing, Time Out Market in Dumbo, Dire Wolves + Garcia Peoples + Chris Forsyth at Market Hotel, Coney Island, Chance The Rapper, Randy Newman, The Sundays, Mother American Night by John Perry Barlow, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 26! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 26 topics: Intro theme: none, watering plants, Gabe's apartment, Zadie Smith, Willesden London, How The Internet Happened by Brian McCullough, Leaving The Witness by Amber Scorah, Red Hook, Toy Story 4, Alamo Drafthouse, Dead Man's Pop by The Replacements, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 25! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 25 topics: Intro theme: none, Liz Phair at Prospect Park, Commonwealth bar, Bar Great Harry birthday, trip to Cincinnati, mom surgery, the bar at Kroger, flying Frontier, Toy Story 4, Forky, Three Ring Bender show at Threes Brewing, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, How The Internet Happened by Brian McCullough, hello from Oliver, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 24! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 24 topics: Intro theme: none, The National and Courtney Barnett in Prospect Park, Pete Shadix visit, school Field Day, Other Half Brewing, I GET WILD show at Threes Brewing, Matt Tyson's neighborhood bourbon meet up, kindergarten graduation, Grateful Dead Night, Gabe's wedding in Philadelphia, the Barnes Foundation, Crime and Punishment brewing in Philly, Dead and Company at Citi Field, Spectre Folk at Threes Brewing, Peter Meehan, Mark Ibold, Grant & I by Robert Forster, the Go-Betweens, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, Western Stars by Bruce Springsteen, Woyaya by Anais Mitchell/Josh Kaufman/Kate Stables, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 23! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 23 topics: Intro theme: none, Graeter's Ice Cream at Whole Foods, in-store bar at Whole Foods Gowanus, Osaka on Court Street, Timehop, working remote benefits, Prospect Park, Bar Great Harry, having friends over, Knuffle Bunny tour of Park Slope and Prospect Park, I GET WILD rehearsal, Grant & I by Robert Forster, U, Man Like by Bon Iver, I Need A Teacher by Hiss Golden Messenger, Broadway The Hard Way by Frank Zappa, Walk Don't Run and Hecto by Suarez Family, Big Brekkie Sando by Other Half, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 22! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 22 topics: Intro theme: none, The National at I Heart Radio Theatre, Nathan Walker, Threes Brewing, Lowe's, John Wick 3, Times Square Dave and Buster's, Grateful Dead Night at Threes Brewing, Gowanus Yacht Club, Governor's Island, Fleet Week, USS Hue City, Memorial Day, Brandy Library, Garden of the Ark at The Kingsland, Sticky Fingers by Joe Hagan, Rolling Stones, Send Aid by Chuck Cleaver, pher-boney by Joe Russo, Mac DeMarco, Atom Heart Mother and Ummagumma by Pink Floyd, Other Half DDH Space Daydream, Dip-A-Roos, Hill Farmstead Foster, NBA Finals, Toronto Raptors vs Toronto Hogs, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 21! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 21 topics: Intro theme: none, An American Tail, Faun Restaurant in Prospect Heights, Evan Dando at Brooklyn Bowl, Tommy Stinson, Guns n' Roses party at Bar Niagara in December 2003, Richard Fortus, Dizzy Reed, 37d03d (People) + Big Red Machine at Pioneer Works, Oliver tough week, Bar Great Harry, Father of the Bride by Vampire Weekend, U.F.O.F. by Big Thief, Purse EP by Elvis Costello, Not In Kansas by The National, Noble Experiment by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, reserving books at the library, Sticky Fingers by Joe Hagan, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 20! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 20 topics: Intro theme: none, The Ginger Man on 36th Street, Randolph Beer in DUMBO, 68 Jay Street, trip to Cincinnati, Reds game at Great American Ballpark, meeting my first cousin once removed, Newark Airport, Folksbier, trip to Alaska this summer, Bar Great Harry, Bruce Hornsby at National Sawdust, Oh My God by Kevin Morby, I Need A New War by Craig Finn, Josh Ritter, Cast McCombs, Every Song Ever by Ben Ratliff, Wired Magazine, Cincinnati Magazine, Rhinegeist, Madtree, Braxton, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 19! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 19 topics: Intro theme: none, recording/technical difficulties, springtime, Garden Of The Ark, GARK show at the Kingsland 5/29, Complete Music Studios, Boxer performance at Complete 2007, facial recognition technology, Rex Sorgatz Recs newsletter, newsletter data metrics, podcasting and podcasting metrics, Ichiba Kitchen on Smith Street, Samwon Garden BBQ in Koreatown, H-Mart, First Sunday 'quiet' morning at Chuck E. Cheese, St. Mary's Playground on Smith Street, Three Ring Bender 'Phil's n' Fills' show at Threes Brewing, Half A Million Strong by Gina Arnold, All Time Present by Chris Forsyth, Deserted by Mekons, Absolute Zero by Bruce Hornsby, Ghosts of the Forest by Trey Anastasio, Raconteurs, Sinkane, Tame Impala, Baby Dayliner, GoFundMe.com/TeamGustavo, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 18! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 18 topics: Intro theme: none, microphone technical difficulties, recording on Garageband mobile app, Oliver skipping and running, morning walk routine, running, improving weather, running, school auction at BRIC, Brooklyn Conservatory Of Music concert at Roulette, Other Half, Becoming by Michelle Obama, Disintegration by The Cure, Garcia Peoples 'Natural Facts' release show at Nublu, Chris Forsyth, NYC heads, Alphabet City Beer Company, 2A, Grateful Dead Night at Threes Brewing, The National crew members, Threes The Divided Line, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 17! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 17 topics: Intro theme: none, Oliver birthday party, Carmelo the Science Fellow, Other Half, Traveler Bar, Sharon Van Etten, Books Are Magic, Svendale Tasting Room, Bar Great Harry, I GET WILD show at Littlefield, Ewan Bremner, Michael Shannon, Corporal, Dirty Cosmos, NYC Half Marathon, Pig Beach, Rab Noakes, Garden Of The Ark, Becoming by Michelle Obama, KCBC Superhero Sidekicks, Singlecut Prog! DDH IIPA, first Grateful Dead show 3/21/90, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 16! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 16 topics: Intro theme: none, Mugs Ale House in Williamsburg, Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records, Garcia Peoples and Grateful Shred at Brooklyn Bowl, WFMU, KC Arts in Cobble Hill, bells, Oliver birthday, giving away furniture, EverybodySay.com, Gabe, Takka Takka, Bar Great Harry, Gris Gris show at Threes Brewing, 2019 Cincinnati Reds, Marty Brennamen, The Athletic, Zibetto Espresso Bar, The National new music, Girl, 20 by Kingsley Amis, Becoming by Michelle Obama, Beastie Boys Book, Hill Farmstead, Suarez Family, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 15! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 15 topics: Intro theme: none, snow dusting, stereo project update, Grateful Dead tapes, Panasonic 8-track, The Beatles Blue Album, Beach Boys Live In London '69, Doug Sahm and Band, Roaring 20's hits, Toppling Goliath beer, Krups beer sub, Michigan basketball, deadheads at Bar Great Harry, Dekalb Food Hall, Voting for NYC Public Advocate, Girl, 20 by Kingsley Amis, The Verge article on Facebook moderation, New York Times working series, Talk Talk, Spirit Of Eden, Laughing Stock, Richard Fortus, The Turtles Present The Battle Of The Bands, Gris Gris by Dr. John, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 14! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 14 topics: Intro theme: none, a full rich day, school evacuation, new Decider offices, parental health, Grateful Dead DJ night at Threes Brewing, Dan from Oxford Collapse, Trouble, NYC Ferry, Whole Foods Gowanus, Beirut at Music Hall Of Williamsburg 2/16/19, Disintegration by The Cure, Summerteeth by Wilco, Jules Shear, Suzanne Vega, Against Everything by Mark Greif, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) by Jeff Tweedy, Girl, 20 by Kingsley Amis, lack of snow in NYC this winter, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 13! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 13 topics: Intro theme: none, recording in the early evening, trip to Cincinnati, working from my parents' house, University of Cincinnati, Rhinegeist Brewery, jamming with Bryan Devendorf and Curt Kiser/Carriers, Three Floyds beer, stereo project, Realistic 80s portable CD player, Sidewinder Coffee, Chuck Cleaver from Wussy, Northside, Landlocked Social House in Walnut Hills, Jolly Pumpkin, Monkish, Urban Artifact Brewing in Northside, Busken Bakery in Hyde Park, Madison Road, new Kroger Marketplace, Against Everything by Mark Greif, Jeff Tweedy, Dan Mallory article in the New Yorker, gust spot on Beyond The Pond podcast, Dave Harrington at Threes Brewing, Garcia Peoples, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 12! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 12 topics: Intro theme: none. waking up at 4am, trip to Cincinnati, Technics stereo system project, The Power Of Habit by Charles Duhigg, 'On Food' by Mark Greif, Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared by Deerhunter, The Kinks, The Unseen In Between by Steve Gunn, Remind Me Tomorrow by Sharon Van Etten, William Tyler, Public Enemy, Threes Brewing, accidental coat switch at Grateful Dead Night, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 11! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 11 topics: Intro theme: none. Christmas in New York City, The Palm restaurant, Philip Larkin, Required Writing, The Movement, Robert Conquest, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, poetry, art as a career vs art as a pure artistic pursuit, Kingsley Amis, meeting at Oxford, Three Body Problem, Interstellar, 'The Rally Boys' by Guided By Voices, 'Feel So Great' by Garcia Peoples, Phish 12/29/18 @ Madison Square Garden, Gulliver's Gate on West 44th Street, Suarez Family Ms. Frank, Other Half Triple Nelson Daydream, Listermann Imperial Marshmallow Fluff Nutcase, Singlecut Mellifluous Life, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 10! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 10 topics: Intro theme: none. days off, using days before expiration, Amtrak in the Hudson Valley, bridges, town of Hudson, Hudson Opera House, The National, Gail Van Dorsey, Kaki King, Long Pond, Threes Brewing, Rivertown Lodge, Hudson Valley Planned Parenthood, waking up in the country, Bob's Restaurant, traffic in NYC, new Kosciuszko bridge/span, holiday parties, How Music Works by David Byrne, art vs commerce, day jobs vs art, Charles Ives, T.S. Eliot, Miles Davis and John Coltrane The Bootleg Series Vol. 6, outdo music: none.
Welcome to Episode 9! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 9 topics: Intro theme: The Takers by Takka Takka, How Music Works by David Byrne, Half Price Books, trip to Cincinnati, Treasure Island, The Red Badge Of Courage, Bryan and Beth's house, 3 Floyds, Threes Brewing, La Rosa's, Rhinegeist, Madtree, Bruce Bowdon, Gavin Tabone, CVG airport hotels, watching Michigan/Ohio State, Mark Graham, Mark Albers, Union Grounds, Prime Meats, Henry Public, Suarez Family, Mikkeller/The National Reality Based Pils, Christmas tree, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 8! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 8 topics: Intro theme: The Takers by Takka Takka, fading in music in GarageBand, My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard, length of the My Struggle series, Julian Barnes, art, abstract art, John Turner, parameters and context in art, parameters within artist setlists, U2, "Dirty Day," Bruce Springsteen, Grateful Dead, Joseph Campbell, the hero's journey, Bob Weir, Garden Of The Ark at Saint Vitus 11/8/18, Barton Hills Choir at Brooklyn Bowl 11/11/18, Grateful Dead Night at Threes Brewing 11/14/18, ninja class, kindergarten drop-offs, parent/teacher conferences, report cards, Thanksgiving, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 7! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 7 topics: Intro theme: The Optimists Were Wrong by Takka Takka, improving the audio of the intro music, My Struggle Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard, memoir as narrative prose, the effect of the senses on memory recall, the riveting and the mundane, lifelogging as a concept, lifelogging as media topic, tools of lifelogging, notebooks, Foursquare, Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn Queens Expressway rehabilitation project, Save The Promenade campaign, running before daylight, the end of Daylight Saving Time, 2018 NYC Marathon, midterm elections, voting at the Carroll Gardens Public Library, Tom Hayden, Students for a Democratic Society, Bowlmor Lanes, the worth of work outings, Garden Of The Ark at Saint Vitus, Grateful Dead kids show at Brooklyn Bowl, Five Boroughs Tiny Juicy IPA, Kelso CarrollGaarden Wit beer, 4/4 time, Cmaj, outro music: none.
Welcome to Episode 6! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 6 topics: Intro theme: How To Eat A Wolf by Takka Takka, reason for week off last week, Halloween, Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens on Halloween, Oliver's Empire State Building costume, trick or treating with nieces, completing the Three Body trilogy, Death's End, Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking, My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Prime Meats, Frankies 457, Henry Brill aka John Joseph Brill, Shepherd's Bush, SF 49ers, Union Grounds, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at Barclays Center 10/26/18, Alec Bemis, Songs of Love and Horror by Will Oldham, "Gallipoli" by Beirut, outro music: Grave Song by Takka Takka
Welcome to Episode 5! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 5 topics: Intro theme: Where We Stand by Garden Of The Ark, Worldwide Organization Of Metalheads Against Nazis benefit compilation, blackeneddeath.bandcamp.com, Garden Of The Ark band members, Baxter Holland, Craig Montoro, Seaside Lounge, Charles Burst, Garden Of The Ark at Saint Vitus 11/8/18, The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, Stephen Hawking, the meaning of life, podcast motivation, NYC Ferry, routes/lines, Corlear's Hook, Greenwich Village, Generation Records, Bottle It Up by Kurt Vile, Peter Katis, Look Up by Elvis Costello, Grateful Dead Night at Threes Brewing, Rushing Duck Baby Elephant, Threes Brewing Smiling Politely, outro music: Where We Stand by Garden Of The Ark
Welcome to Episode 4! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 3 topics: Intro theme: Monkey Forest Road by Takka Takka, changing the marquee on cover art, Dreaming The Beatles by Rob Sheffield, The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, If I Could Only Remember My Name by David Crosby, Three Ring Bender performance at Threes Brewing, Ray Rizzo, Annie Nero, Josh Kaufman, Steve Shelley, Bonnie Prince Billy at Murmrr in Prospect Heights, Will Oldham, Ruben & Cherise, Day Of The Dead, Eaux Claires 2016, NYC Ferry, Oliver walking to school, Far Between by Threes Brewing, Louder Than A Fruit Bomb by Interboro, outro music: Homebreaker by Takka Takka.
Welcome to Episode 3! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 3 topics: Intro theme: These Broken Chairs by Takka Takka, Going' Down The Road by Blair Jackson, Mickey Hart, the role of drums in eastern religions vs. the role of drums in Western militarism, trance-inducement, Dreaming The Beatles by Rob Sheffield, Ringo Starr, Geoff Emerick, Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello, Paul McCartney's drums on Dear Prudence, Sleep Well Beast by The National, performing at Forest Hills Stadium, percussion role/parts/performance when playing with The National, set preparation, Remo rototoms, percussion 'bag of tricks,' Fake Empire, Wasp Nest, family and friends, more Mad Fat Fluff, Strawberry Milkshake IPA by Untitled Art, walking Oliver to school in the mornings, outro music: When You Leave by Takka Takka.
Welcome to Episode 2! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 2 topics: intro theme: A Bad Sign (Highs and Lows) by Takka Takka, alternate podcast name, cover image background, soft rock, Huey Lewis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Jesus Christ Superstar, "Everything's Alright," Bob Dylan, Air Supply, Three Ring Bender shows, Threes Brewing, Tyrone Cotton, Joe Russo, Differently Wired by Deborah Reber, neurodiversity, 'differently wired' people, The Beatles, new White Album reissue, Dreaming The Beatles by Rob Sheffield, Beatles phases, curriculum night at school, Smiling Politely beer by Threes Brewing/Other Half, Mad Fat Fluff by Interboro, outro theme: Little Child by Takka Takka.
Welcome to the first episode! Conrad Life Report is a podcast about life, including digital media, music, books, food, drink, New York City, and more. Episode 1 topics: Rick Webb's Webb Chatham Report, theme music by Takka Takka, Grateful Dead Pacific Northwest '73 - '74, David Byrne at Forest Hills, VIP experience at Forest Hills Stadium, Shellac at the Bell House, Leigh Brackett, The Three Body Problem, So Many Roads by David Browne, Oliver in kindergarten, first PTA meeting, fellow parents, Vermont beer, Heady Topper by The Alchemist, Sip of Sunshine, Upper Pass, naming the podcast, outro music by Takka Takka.