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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Episode 33: The PR of Love and Jailhouse Death ...
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,
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Episode 32: Homeless Hip-Hop edition
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,
25 min
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Episode 31: Grocery Store Gone Wild edition
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 r...
26 min
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Episode 30: Creepy ticklers are not funny edition
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...
38 min
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Episode 29: living in the suburbs at the point ...
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,
28 min
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Episode 28: Extortion in wine country and other...
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...
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Episode 27: The Best of “The Best of” edition
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.
29 min
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Episode 26: Metro State of Denver University ed...
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...
28 min
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Episode 25: Close encounters of the politically...
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.
29 min
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Episode 24: I’m whispering right in your ear ed...
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,
32 min
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Episode 23: The sex lives of bed bugs, elephant...
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 ce...
32 min
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Episode 22: The down with brunch edition
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.
27 min
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Episode 21: The local music with Eryc Eyl edition.
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 hi...
55 min
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Episode 20: The freaks we love to hate edition
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,
25 min
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Episode 19, the beer and disgruntled journalist...
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.
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Episode 18: The Games Hipsters Play edition wit...
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,
32 min
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Episode 17: The John Hickenlooper Brutalizes Cu...
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 ...
27 min
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Episode 16: The Freedom for Chimney Sweeps Edition
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.
29 min
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Episode 15: The “We Make Wonky Sexy” Edition
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 se...
39 min
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Episode 14: The Holiday music edition. We’re no...
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,
33 min
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Episode 13: Hip Hop anthologized, creativity in...
This week on the diatribe we discus the new Anthology of Rap co-edited by CU Boulder’s own Adam Bradley, Denver’s need to perpetually flatter its “creative” jobs sector with a Creative Vitality Index and, finally,
23 min
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Episode 12: The Food-atribe edition
This week, the food-atribe: Special guest Laura Shunk, food critic for Westword, joins Joel Warner and Jared Jacang Maher to discuss the following: Being a food writer in the age of Yelp; If everyone’s a critic, what does it mean to be, um,
22 min
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Episode 11: The scary technology edition
This week we discuss technology, everything from the wheel to 8-track tapes to TiVo. But seriously, we start with a recent California case that may or may not be heard by the Supreme Court having to do with banning the sale of violent video games to mi...
30 min
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Episode 10: The unfriending edition
This week on the Diatribe, our obligatory “what does it all mean?” post-election roundup. Also, we discuss a study by CU Denver professors on the sociology of unfriending on Facebook (because it apparently takes a couple of PhDs to prove that posts abo...
30 min
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Episode 9: We watch local news so you don’t hav...
This week Jared, John and our special guest, 5280‘s online editor Vanessa Martinez, assess the carnage of the Denver media landscape. First, the physical challenge: Each of us made a point of sitting through as many broadcasts as possible of local TV n...
32 min