Ericast.com Podcast - DWEEB THOUGHTS

Where'd February go?!? Or, more accurately, where'd I go in February? It was kinda a big deal. Curious? Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742) and comment Welcome to the Ericast: The weekly podcast that comes out once a month if I'm lucky. (Half-ki...

2016 is one twelfth of the way finished already. I'm such a failure as a podcaster! But wait... is that bad? I have the answer. Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742) and comment On the heels of a trip to Texas for the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative...

I'm really tired.  And that's not an excuse; it's just a fact... Because I just got in from a 3.5 mile walk, in Minnesota, in December.  Want to know what I've been up to the past couple months?  Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742...

I've talked off an on for a long time about a how a thing worth doing is worth doing badly (that's Chesterton) and how you just need to get up and act.  Looking for more detail on what that actually means? Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742...

If you've ever had one of those moments where someone tells you something that radically snaps your brain around into a different way of thinking.. here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742) and comment   "So, Eric, what have you learned from this...

I didn’t expect this past weekend to have as much activity as it did… but thanks to one little re-tweet, I found myself in the middle of a protest I wasn’t at and a controversy I didn’t start thanks to a media that doesn’t understand how Twitter works. Looking for what’s probably my most controversial episode ever?   Here’s your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's epis...

It's not really "podfading" if you come back, right? Let's see what I can publish tonight. Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742) and comment! I love Mark Mason and his Late Night Internet Marketing ... but I don't want to be him.  His last ep...

I was on vacation - a good old fashioned American roadtrip. So this podcast episode is basically a travelog of the random highlights. Curious? Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742) and comment! Growing up, I didn't travel outside of Minnesota and...

Is there a difference between recognition that you did something, and recognition that you're equipped to do something?  Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742) and comment! Yes, I realize I have lots of "vs" episodes, but "differentiation is g...

"My purpose is to provide for my family!"  That sounds good.  But I'm not sure it's right. Intrigued?  Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742) and comment! Yes, I'm way behind each week, but I'm putting this in last week's queue, unde...

Have you ever run in to a situation where you know something really important, and you're trying to convince someone - boss, family member, whatever -- that they really need to step up and pay attention to that issue?  Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC...

There's living in the past. Then there's living for the future. Somewhere between those is living in the moment.  But I think they all weave together. Wonder how?  So do I.  Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742) and comment! Part of...

"I wanna know what you're thinking."  That's not just a reminder that we're doing a collaborative podcast here. For a certain generation - mine - that's a kind of anthem.  And 30 years later it's just as real as it was in the 1980s.  Recognize it? Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show no...

I'm back!  Where'd I go? I was fulfilling a near-lifelong dream. Wonder what it was? Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742) and comment! So much for the good regular show-habit... but there's a good reason. When I was a kid I was a huge Road R...

Have you ever misheard a song lyric? Sure you have. Can you turn that into an entire podcast episode? Let's find out.  Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742) and comment! When is our birthday?  The first Ericast episode was March 7, 2005....

Reminiscing is fine... but how 'bout we bring the next generation along for the ride down memory lane? In a modern way?  Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742) and comment! Featuring The Choosatron , which I fell in love with at the August 201...

You know those "iPad-on-a-stick" robots like the one Sheldon was driving in "The Big Bang Theory"? Ever wonder what it would be like to drive one of those?  I did.  Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742) and comment! This past week has be...

If you don't say anything to anyone, you won't hear many complaints. But is that a good way to live? Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742) and comment! This week: A week-in-the-life. (And, my studio chair squeaks. FYI) Years ago we asked a post-ev...

What happens when your friends lose, and then find, someone they love? Find out. Here's your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742) and comment! Coming in under the wire for this week, but still on the calendar! Full disclosure:  I don't like this episode...

Whether this is your first episode or you’ve been listening through the ups and downs of the past 10 years, you’ll like this recap on what’s new and what’s changing in the Ericast’s tenth year. Here’s your show. Website viewers : Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners : Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone : Call 206-339-ERIC (206-339-3742) and comment! Ye...

Are you looking for some new podcasts to try in a new year, or you’re just curious about what I’m listening to while you’re listening to me?  Here's your show! Website viewers: Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners: Click here for a link to the show notes page! The " Tradition and Tweaks " Ericast is coming up next week.  And, yes, I’m promising an episode next w...

Click here to listen to this week's podcast! Wrapping up 2014 with the question of "what is 'faith' and when is it okay for 'people of faith' to act confidently with their fellow humans rather than 'relying on God' for direct intervention with a solution?" I'm not sure if it's as deep as that makes it sound... but, check it out, then let me know what you think by calling 206-339-3742 (a.k.a. 206-3...

Click here to listen to this week's episode! I spend a lot of time in this episode apologizing for it sounding depressing.  It's really not.  At least, I don't think so.  That said, we'll see if my rant about the fact that the "Rodney King Trial" wasn't a trial of Rodney King (but, instead, was a trial of the police officers who beat him) gets me in any trouble. I include a brief qu...

Click here to listen to this week's episode! Every so often I come across a podcast where I think, "My 'tribe' needs to hear that!"  And then I realize that I've begun to use social media buzzwords like 'tribe' and then I go repent and then I come back and do what I had originally planned to do.  So, courtesy of Billy Murphy and the Forever Jobless podcast , this week's episode features...

Click here to listen to this week's episode! This week we take a look at the loss of the historic Peace Lutheran Church building in Baldwin, Wisconsin .  But we look at it in the context of iconoclasm , which is the kind of atypical take that you've come to expect from the Ericast! There's also a highlight from the Dweeb Thoughts feed ("meeting people where they're at" vs. "build it and they...