LexMedia Podcasts

E67 The Pop-Up Pod 11.21.21 Dan and Dave fly in for a quick hitter with a brand-new podcast recorder as they enter Thanksgiving week. Is a Flu-Covid double-headed monster in the cards? What new volunteer position did Dan just agree to (hint: it’s a deep townie position)? How big is Dan’s Thanksgiving turkey? Do kids know who Patrick Ewing is? Plus, Fenway Sports Group buys the Penguins, Dave preps...

E66: Adam Hoffman- Never Pay The First Bill 11.8.21 Dan and Dave are joined this week by Adam Hoffman, a 2013 graduate of Lexington High School and current Vice President of ClaimInformatics, a company that detects medical billing fraud. Adam talks about his path from LHS, to Washington University in Saint Louis, and his current life in Pittsburgh, all while riffing on sports, transportation infra...

E65: King Salmon 11.1.21 On a crisp fall morning, Dan and Dave bite into some leftover Halloween candy and talk about the week that was. Dave gets into it with some rowdy adolescents in the neighborhood, Dan talks about his new training regimen, and we celebrate a somewhat-surprising Pats victory in LA. Not to be missed- booster updates, Dave gives a shot, Dan preps for Bedford Special Town Meetin...

E64: Mix & Match 10.25.21 Dan and Dave are back with a special pod drop after a sparkling fall week bookended by their trip to Fenway on Tuesday and Dan’s follow-up trip to Gillette on Sunday. We reflect on the good parts about getting older (and the bad parts), the updated guidance on Covid boosters, and the kickoff to school budget season around the corner. We also chat about toll increases on t...

October is in full swing and we’ve got all the feels over here on the pod. We reflect on our trip to Lewiston-Auburn earlier this month, including the driving tour of Dave’s old stomping grounds, the condo-ficaton of Dave’s old synagogue, and the beautiful European cathedral in the middle of Lewiston. More importantly, we discuss the retrieval of a dormant Torah from storage, the discovery of a go...

E61: The Allegory Of The Pod 9.27.21 Dan and Dave quickly brush aside a catastrophic weekend for the Red Sox and Patriots and engage in some earnest Q &A about things like: 1) How long do you have to wait between getting Flu and Covid vaccines?, 2) How do we feel about the MCAS?, and 3) What are our thoughts on fake holidays? Also, Dave finally goes apple picking, Dan does not successfully use the...

E62: The Halftime Show 10.3.21 Dan and Dave squeeze in a pod during the Patriots game on location in Poland, Maine. We address important issues surrounding waterfalls (big and small), hiking the Grand Canyon, Dave’s deck demolition, and prepare for a long-awaited heritage tour of Lewiston-Auburn. Also: Dave is seeing a lot of patients, Dan has no need for longer meetings, Sox/Yanks in the playoffs...

E60: The Scarlet Letter 9.20.21 After a long, hot, and relentless summer, Dan and Dave are back and in good spirits on a spectacular fall morning. We recap Bedford Day in all of its glory, Dave chimes in on the breaking news about vaccines, Dan reviews the (rapid) timeline of child Covid vaccination acceptance in Bedford and then recaps the end of summer baseball and the start of college for his o...

E59: A Hazy Outlook 7.26.2021 As wildfire smoke and swarms of mosquitoes descend on Middlesex County, Dan and Dave kick off the week with a quick check-in on Delta, mosquito control, takeout options, and Dave’s questionable Top 5 list for college dorm purchases. Dan tells a tale about transcontinental soft pretzel delivery from St. Louis, we find a tall chestnut tree in Hebron (Maine), and somehow...

E58: Brenda Kenahan 7.19.2021 Brenda Kenahan, mother of dragons, joins the pod this week to talk about her Lexington-to-Bedford life journey, raising boys, being married to a food scientist, and a gutsy performance at her junior prom. We talk about her online sleuthing, Dan reflects on his umpiring and ejecting a player from a game on Friday, Dave and Brenda talk about “Sixteen Candles”, and we al...

Dan and Dave are back with a review of the summer so far, with congratulations being offered to friend-of-the-pod Sal Frelick, who was selected 15th overall in the MLB draft, consolations being offered to friend-of-the-pod Marc Bornstein, who saw England lose the Euros live at Wembley, and memories being shared of a recent errand to pick up a treatment table that ended up going a little bit sidewa...

E56: “Podcasts Are Good Things” with Bronson Terry 6/7/2021 Live from a undisclosed location, Dan and Dave are back with and brimming with optimism in the aftermath of high school graduations, a waning pandemic, and an honest-to-goodness heat wave. Joining them on this pod is Dr. Bronson Terry, pediatrician and soccer aficionado, and the banter ensues about soccer fandom, kit reviews, and predicti...

E55: I Guess We’re Sitting Around In Starbucks Again 5.24.2021 With all signs pointing towards a waning pandemic and with Memorial Day around the corner, Dan pesters Dave about post-Covid anxiety, the future of masking, and the almost complete absence of flu this past winter. Dan wraps up a fabulous final weekend of European soccer and Bedford High School baseball, Dave learns where ELHS graduatio...

E54: One Pod At A Time 5.17.21 Dan and Dave are back with breaking news on the masking front and ruminations about pollen and the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. Dan provides updates on his meniscus rehab and kid accomplishments, Dave reflects on an upcoming month without any children at home, and there’s also some good pontoon boat content. Come for the mask mandates, stay for the parental pride.

We're back with Dan’s torn meniscus, Dave’s take on vaccine approvals and changes in outdoor mask guidance, and a tour of Maine high school mascots. Dan looks forward to outdoor Town Meeting and high school graduation on the turf, Dave reminisces about fake IDs in the 1980s, and Dan discusses his preference to keep his face (and emotions) hidden behind a mask. Dan also laments the ongoing bad beha...

Often name-dropped, Dana Bureau swoops in to the virtual studio for an hour-long pod full of Easter eggs for those thirsty for insight into Dave’s formative years. This week’s triumvirate explores investment opportunities in Androscoggin bowling, tales from the road from Dana’s career in teaching and sales (La Jolla, South Korea, and beyond), and memories from Edward Little High School in the mid-...

Hope springs eternal and Dan and Dave kick off April with a blistering pod as the world creeps back towards normalcy. The guys reflect on an outdoor seder, tick bites, blood types, and Covid variants while also grappling with the discography of The Violent Femmes and The Lemonheads. Dave gets quizzed on Lewiston-Auburn eateries, Dan talks about a reflexive flex at his vaccination, and stories abou...

Episode 50 arrives on the one-year anniversary of lockdown and Dan and Dave check in after a significant few weeks. We chat about vaccine distribution, schools reopening, and the fact that better days seem to be coming quickly. We also look at Sal Frelick’s draft projection and run through a rapid-fire 20/20 featuring the classic falcon-vs-dolphin debate, perfect albums (might the answer be the Vi...

Dan and Dave reconnect with Millie Landis and have an absolute blast this week on the pod. Dave chats about the latest with the vaccine, Dan reflects on the vote for a full K-5 return in Bedford, and Millie reports on the life of a college student during the pandemic. Dan and Millie share stories from their 2018 Israel trip, Dave and Millie remember "Mud Day" circa 2006, and we all share some laug...

With just a week to go until their birthdays, Dan and Dave are back for an up-tempo pod on a snowy Sunday afternoon. Dave chimes in with updates on the flu- and ear infection-free winter, the lack of a pandemic baby boom, and signing for vaccines, Dan reflects on school budgeting, the 4-day Kindergarten return in Bedford, and the runup to the Town election in March, and more importantly, we discus...

At long last, our old friend Lori Alper joins the pod for a conversation about her path from the tree-lines streets of Madison, Wisconsin, to the life and celebrity of parenting three children, leaving the legal profession, and becoming an environmental activist. Listen as Dan nerds out about isthmuses, we consider double-masking, and Lori owns up to secret dates at Whole Foods, while also weighin...

Jeremy Bleich was a 2008 first-round pick by the New York Yankees whose playing career has taken him all over the country, including a stint with the Oakland A’s in MLB. Jeremy now plays for Team Israel and is ramping up for the 2021 Olympics while also working for the Pittsburgh Pirates on data analytics. Jeremy swung by the virtual studio to talk about his playing days, his now-famous high schoo...

January 5th, 2021

Dan and Dave close out the year talking about the vaccine rollout, assessing the numerous calamities of the past year, and of course reflecting on recent times they were wrong. We also address important questions such as “Did HydroFlasks win 2020?” (yes), “should Dave be planning for any travel to Florida?” (no), and “was there any good news in the last twelve months?” (of course). See you back in...

As the sun sets on 2020, old friend Brian Cutler hops on the pod with tales from his days in the military and helps us understand the actual uses of satellite imaging that might be a little less exciting than what we see in the movies. Stick around for other stories about barefoot running, space jumping, and two incredible examples of “times we were wrong”, including Dave almost burning his house...