Carnival of Randomness

Hello Randomers and Randomites. On June 4, 1944, U.S. Naval Task Group 22.3 made sonar contact with German submarine U-505 off the coast of western Africa. After the group opened fire on the submarine, it was damaged and surfaced. The sub, its crew, documents and an Enigma Machine were captured by the Allied Forces and the sub was taken to Bermuda and now resides in the Museum of Science and Indus...

Hello Randomers and Randomites.   With yet another week of quarantine and isolation in the books, my brain has begun to take some pretty weird turns. And it got me to thinking about things you you may have never thought about, or noticed but never really considered deeply. So I put some of those thoughts out into the ether for people to listen to and think about. Enjoy this strange little glimpse...

Hello Randomers and Randomites. Lately it's been a lot of my opinions on things, and I've often wondered just what the public opinion is. Well as luck would have it, I was contacted by a member of the public. Today we're joined by Stanley F. Public, brother of John Q. Public, to voice his opinions on the world today and what's going on. When given an open forum, he definitely grabbed the ball and...

Hello Randomers and Randomites. This week, let's take a walk down literary memory lane shall we? I got to thinking about the old tall tales that I read and heard about when I was a kid and I thought, hell take everyone on the journey with you to think about some of America's most notable folklore. Hopefully it brings back some good memories and lights the fire of reading in our audience. Carnival...

Hello Randomers and Randomites. Today we finally join the world of modern day podcasters with the premier recording of someone calling in through the power of the interweb. And we have a brand new guest. Joining us today is my dear friend Rye, a fellow horror movie fan and lover of all things weird and odd. And we get right into some of our favorite horror movie franchises and talk many things......

Hello Randomers and Randomites. Well the world has gone completely upside down and everything is changing, but just letting you know that the Carnival is still here with you, for better or worse. With social distancing being the way of the world now, we're going to have to make some changes in the future. So this is just a short episode letting you know our plans and just venting to get a little b...

Hello Randomers and Randomites. Gentle listeners... it's never safe to go back to the internet. We have the return of Bauman and Dave for yet another long awaited episode of Rage-Onomics. This time, we get a bit techincal. We delve into social media, technology, the modern world and even address an elephant in the room in regards to goings on here in Rochester. The rage rolls on, and we're so bitt...

Salutations, Randomers and Randomites. We've made mention of those kinds of bands that we simply don't have the capability to classify if you remember our past ramblings. Well today we're joined by a member of one of those bands. Direct from Rochester, NY we have Sean McVay, vocalist and guitarist for King Buffalo. We're talking some interesting music and a trio that has traveled all over the worl...

Zdravstvuyte Randomers and Randomites. Live from some old opera house, we're joined by Patrick and Greg to talk more shit. This time, we talk about some movie tropes. You know those things. The themes we seem to see in every movie that never want to change or can't change at all. But naturally, we diverge from that rather quickly and talk about mixed genre films, reboots and touch a bit on Joker....

Hallo, Randomers and Randomites. Rochester doesn't just keep its musical talent to itself you know. Case in point, today we're joined in studio by a Rochester native who back in 2016 moved down to Nashville to join the country music scene and has already made a splash in a very short time. Alyssa Trahan sits down with us to talk shop about her beginnings, music career, the genre of country music a...

Bonjour, Randomers and Randomites. We're joined this week by two members of Anonymous Willpower, drumming legend to the stars Greg Andrews and singer, songwriter and all around fantabulous person Suzi Willpower. They join us to talk shop about pretty much everything, literally everything mind you, including the upcoming release of their yet-to-be-named brand new album and upcoming shows. Their new...

Good day, Randomers and Randomites. For those of you who don't think Rochester has much to offer, we're continuing our line of talented people from here with our latest guest and newest friend, the very talented Amanda Stone. And in a special twist, we are joined by co-interviewer Greg Andrews, drumming legend and host-in-training. We talk many things; beginnings, inspirations, Blonde Over Blue, c...

Greetings, Randomers and Randomites. Joining us in studio is a brand new friend, the very talented singer-songwriter, pianist and composer in the film and gaming genres, Sarah Eide. We all sit down to shoot the breeze about her background, how she ended up coming to Rochester, some of her projects, both already happened and new things that are coming up in the future and about the variety of thing...

Hello Randomers and Randomites. It was recently everyone's favorite season. No, not that one. Oscar season. The one where a bunch of people that no one has ever heard of sit in a room, look at all the people that have kicked them money over the year and then arbitrarily decide what the best movies of the previous year were. Spoiler alert? Anyway, we couldn't talk movies with our good friend Patric...

Greeting Randomers and Randomites! Love is in the air, isn't it? At least that's what we think it is. It could be ribs. Valentine's Day was not that long ago, so we decided to talk about some of the things that we love. So it's a random smattering of all things this week. We talk about Valentine's traditions, hats, TV, Saturday Morning Cartoons, spicy food, weird stores in even weirder strip malls...

Hello Randomers and Randomites. Rage on, our loyal listeners. Bauman and Dave are here and we're talking about a myriad of stuff that grinds our gears. We start talking some football, then move on to music and records, followed by live shows and our feelings about cover charges. Remember, we're not bitter... we're just too sweet for words. Stay tuned after the podcast for some music from another n...

With the hectic start to 2020, things sometimes get a little strange and discombobulated. And even we here at The Carnival are not immune to such insanity. With that, we would like to present a bit of an older episode. It was right during the big flu plague of 2019, so many people around the area were down with illness, but thankfully our buddy Dave from The False Positive braved the germ infested...

Hello Randomers and Randomites. We wouldn't let them leave, so Steve and Patrick are back to talk more about movies and underground comics and more random sophomoric humor because, let's admit it, we're children. This one's a little bit scatological, but that's damn funny and if you don't think poop and farts are funny, then you may need to rethink your priorities. This time we talk about some rea...

Greetings, Randomers & Randomites. It's time to get weird. Weird Al style. Everyone knows Weird Al Yanokic and everyone loves him and his work, even if they don't want to admit it. Well we do folks, and we're joined by two more people that do. Our friend and DM Patrick is here along with returning guest from Fox 45 Vicky. We're here to talk Weird Al and musicianship in the parody genre. But it...

Happy New Year & Merry Orthodox Christmas, Randomers and Randomites. So we decided to ring in 2020 and celebrate Orthodox Christmas by talking films and filmmaking. We're going way back with some of them too, talking about "classics", Oscar winners and even the movie theater experience. Joining us is drummer to many bands Greg Andrews and filmmaker Greg Smith, known professionally as G. Gotham...

Episode 62 - Sayonara 2019 Happy (almost) New Year, Randomers and Randomites. As 2020 approaches (and no, we're not making the hindsight joke), we thought to ourselves what would be the best way to close out the year 2019. One filled with many goings on and more advancements in humanity every year. Then the answer hit us. Star Wars. So yes, we're going to talk about Star Wars and also talking abou...

Merry Christmas Randomers and Randomites. Stranded on Christmas Island, we are bound by the universe to put out a Christmas-type episode. So here we go. Patrick joins us and we're going to talk about Christmas movies. You know the ones we're referring to. We talk the supposed classics, our favorite, some Christmas memories and we even tackle the age old question as to whether or not Die Hard is a...

Hello Randomers and Randomites. Live from the Dandy Mini Mart in Ithaca, NY, we're back with a completely random episode involving wrestling, football and some World's Strongest Man stuff, along with other sports talk and movies because, as you probably can tell, we never have a damn plan when we come in to make this stuff. Sometimes it's just where our mind takes us or what we were talking about...

Hello Randomers and Randomites. Today is the Renaissance podcast, because we are certainly joined by some talented people today. The ever popular Suzi Willpower, of Anonymous Willpower and The Carnival fame, is here along with two new guests. Rasta Von (dancer, musician, drummer, director, artist, martial artist, seeker of change and designer among other things) and Knuckles Sullivan (keyboardist,...

Hello Randomers and Randomites. We're taking it in a new direction this week, with some very interesting guests. Coming to us from Bewitched Burlesque Sideshow right here in Rochester, we're happy to be joined by Head Mistress Pout Provocateur and the Mistress of Ceremonies and performer Sin O'Nymph. We talk burlesque, performing arts, entertainment, movies, horror, a little bit of everything. Hav...