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 8: The zombies, UFOs and naked pumpkin ...
This week we discuss Denver’s readiness in the event of a zombie attack with the Onion‘s A.V. Club editor certified zombologist Cory Casciato. In other freaking news, did you even know there’s a proposition on the ballot in Denver to establish a commit...
23 min
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Episode 7: The dick jokes, dog parks and dead b...
This week on the twice-recorded Denver Diatribe we discuss: Amendment 62 – constitutional rights for zygotes? East Colfax’s 11 million dollar dog park, and… A guided tour through the dick-joke jungle that is the Denver stand up comedy scene from none o...
27 min
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Episode 6: A Requiem for Loveland’s avant garde...
This week on the Diatribe: Stan Garnett, Colorado’s first pro-marijuana Attorney General and Bill Paxton impersonator. For more on Garnett, here’s Joel’s piece on his pot politics; more Westword coverage of Garnett’s opponent John Suthers’s anti-pot po...
21 min
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Episode 5: For the love of Cranks edition
This week on the Diatribe: The Ugly Three;  Ballot measures 60, 61 and Prop 101: The tyranny of the pitchfork mob? Can Denver really be a film-making capital or can The Denver Post  really just write a damn profile of a local crank and screw the so-cal...
26 min
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Episode 4: Way Down in the Hole in Liberal, Kan...
We take a trip to Crazy Town this week, counting down our favorite instances of Dan Maes-associated insanity. We also ponder the class-warfare skirmishes that have erupted thanks to Bon Appétit naming Boulder the “foodiest town” in America,
23 min
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Episode 3: Philistines on Art and Beer Edition
This week on the Denver Diatribe we discuss: Christo’s “Over The River” project in Southern Colorado. Read the Wall Street Journal Piece here; if you’re hardcore, put the Maysles Brothers documentary in your Netflix queue.
24 min
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Episode 2: The Second Acts and Provisional High...
Just because we open up by discussing Merton the piano chatroulette phenom – please don’t take it as an excuse not to listen. An interview with Merton here. Also on the show, we discuss the second third? act of Pastor Ted Haggard and the proposed zippe...
25 min
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Episode 1: The Crime, Punishment and Donut Edition
And so it begins: The inaugural edition of the Denver Diatribe, a weekly podcast in which three dudes you may have vaguely heard of — John Dicker, Jared Jacang Maher and Joel Warner — discuss, mock and rant about all things Denver. First up,
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