Denver Diatribe Podcast
The Denver Diatribe is a podcast about culture, politics and stuff as it pertains to the Mile High City and the rest of Colorado.
We love and hate on all types of local topics: political dust-ups, medical marijuana, foody wars, the tech industry, police brutality, the art scene, media scandals, bad public policy, good eats, etc. The Denver Diatribe was named the city’s Best Podcast in the 2010 Westword Web Awards. Visit our website, DenverDiatribe.com, for past episodes and additional info. You can also subscribe via iTunes, Stitcher, or the podcatcher of your choice. Our rotating cast of co-host are Ron Doyle, Josh Johnson, Jared Jacang Maher, Vanessa Martinez and Joel Warner. We’re always looking for interesting topics, events, guests or good stuff to rant about. Ready to rant? Drop us a line at info@denverdiatribe.com.
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84: Fire and Demons with Ben Roy
Josh, Ron and Jared are joined by Denver comedian Ben Roy. Together, we discuss the rumored deletion of The Onion AV Club‘s Denver/Boulder archives, where best in Denver to build an Olympic village, whether the weather is making people bat-shit crazy,...
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83: Pop Fly Edition with John Reidy
Ron, Vanessa and Joel talk Colorado Rockies ridiculousness, summer movies and pop culture with fellow Denver podcaster and writer John Reidy, host of the South Stands Denver Fancast and Pop Autopsy. We discuss the recent CU-Denver study that show no co...
59 min
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82: Denver Cruisers Circle of Death Edition
Ron, Josh and Jared (via a Yemeni satellite) are joined this week by Bradferd K. Evans and Damon the Demon from the Denver Cruiser Ride, talking about cruiser bicycle subculture, mob mentality, and Colorado’s bike-friendliness (or lack thereof).
55 min
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81: Denver Porn Stars Edition with Sabina Leign
Episode 81: Sex in the Mile High City
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80: Political Corruption and Summer Fun Edition
We discuss the Denver Police Dept’s fancy new forensics lab and whether it’s a good thing that all of our DNA will probably soon be housed in Orwellian anti-crime databases.
44 min
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79: Nix Bros, Laugh Track, and Denver Dares Edi...
Special guests Nix Bros join us to talk about film, comedy, Laugh Track Comedy Festival, odd Denver news and the #DenverDares hashtag.
53 min
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78: Blackface Bees & Rally Squirrels Edition
Cory Casciato of the soon extinct Denver/Boulder AV Club joins us to discuss the rally squirrel & bees, cheating schools, & MLK blackface.
54 min
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77: Geeks Are the New Water
Episode 77: Geeks Are the New Water
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76: Sex, Death and Ski Jumps
Joel and Jared have a very illustrious guest this week: State Historian Bill Convery, who’s in the studio to talk about the grand opening of the brand new History Colorado Center. In honor of the special occasion,
44 min
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75: The Lost Episode
Regular listeners will notice that our last podcast was episode #73 and this one is #75. Where is #74? It got lost on 4/20. We hope decades from now collectors will spin tales about what happened but have a firm enough grasp of reality to know that wil...
47 min
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Episode 73: Our mysterious neighbor to the south
Ron, Jared and Josh look at the unexpectedly awesome underbelly of Colorado Springs with guest Kristy Milligan, executive director of Citizens Project. We discuss progressive Catholics United pushing back against anti-homosexuality policies affecting p...
45 min
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72: Den-Mex, Birth Control, Denver Cruisers
Josh and Ron are joined by Mary Bogus and Monica McCafferty of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains to find out if Colorado will lose access to birth control — Please, God, no! — and if the “War on Women” has Centennial battles. Also,
42 min
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71: Fun with Manning puns, homelessness
Episode 71: Fun with Manning puns, homelessness
42 min
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70: Irresponsible Bracketeering
We talk about food and tournament brackets, and how we've resorted to making tournament brackets about food.
42 min
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69: Fail
This week on the Diatribe, we discuss the fallibility of Colorado’s direct file law, the selection of Frontier’s new mascot (will it stink?), and Mayor Hancock’s “welcome to Denver” messages for the DIA train.
41 min
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Episode 68: This One Goes to 11
In this episode, we take a look at Denver through the eyes of an eleven year old, then and now.
41 min
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Episode 67: Killing the Cow Town LIVE
Depictions of Denver in Music, Literature & Film
81 min
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Episode 66: Jury Duty, School Choice, and the F...
On this week’s episode, we ask Joel how to get out of jury duty, express bewilderment over Denver Public Schools’ new school-choice program, and plug the shit out of our upcoming live event, Killing the Cow Town.
33 min
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Episode 65: Indentured Slurpitude with Novo Coffee
On this week’s episode, we talk briefly about NIMBYism good and bad as it relates to the latest Highlands development hullabaloo as well as Christo’s now-greenlit “Over the River” project on the Arkansas. More importantly,
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Episode 64: Red Lights and White Wines
On this week’s episode, we talk about Colorado Representative Laura Bradford’s legislative immunity (and briefs), the questionable motivations behind photo radar traffic enforcement, and Colorado wine’s coming of age. Special guest Jacob Harkins,
43 min
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Episode 63: Lady Wu and Big Babies
We talk about the true third rail of Denver politics — free trash pick-up — and Rep. Doug Lamborn’s recent big baby antics over Obama’s State of the Union speech. Then, Ru Johnson, Westword hip hop writer and poetic late night Tweeter,
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Episode 62: Funny Republicans, Trader Joe’s and...
[powerpress https://denverdiatribe.com/denverdiatribe62.mp3] This week, Vanessa, Ron and Josh push the barriers of bantering. “Are Republicans funny?” Perhaps we’ve beaten the question to death, or perhaps this episode is only Round 3 in a twelve round...
28 min
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Episode 61: Recovering (from war and unfunny po...
This week, Vanessa and Josh talk with award-winning journalist Michael de Yoanna about his latest project, and humor (or the lack of it) in politics on the heels of Stephen Colbert launching his presidential exploratory committee and the convening of t...
29 min
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Episode 60: Requiem for Denver’s sports hooligans
This week, Joel and Ron talk about sports, something they know absolutely nothing about, so for a special guest they bring in Colin Daniels of the South Stands Denver Fancast. When Joel and Ron aren’t jealously admiring South Stands’ snazzy business ca...
32 min
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Episode 59: 2011 Asshole of the Year
In this week’s episode we review the wide-open field of nominees for Asshole of the Year and reveal our pick the esteemed award. By democratic necessity, we also announce our Listener’s Choice Asshole of the Year.
35 min