LexMedia Podcasts

November 25th, 2020

With the election behind us and Thanksgiving around the corner, we’re back this week with a pod full of important questions and answers. Was the coronavirus lurking in Italy last fall? Will there be high school basketball and hockey this winter? Did the CDC quietly change its view on the risk of in-person school? Will Yam Madar make the Celtics roster? Probably, probably, yes, and no. Dan also qui...

November 5th, 2020

The first pod of November drops and we are back with Dave talking about the benefits and negatives of changing the clocks and the latest guidance on when to send kids to school, or not, when they have siblings who might be sick. Dan chimes in with updates from the State hearing on K-12 education and the closure of local high schools due to Covid, and the challenges of budgetary planning for FY22....

Under gray skies and with both of us still recovering from a crazy week, Dave makes some predictions about flu and colors in some detail about peanut allergies, Dan speculates on the likelihood of winter sports and his concern for the amount of Covid at Deer Island, and we celebrate Israeli-Sudanese peace. Stick around for another installment of “Times We Were Wrong”, the return of Florida Man, an...

October 22nd, 2020

Three weeks is a long time between pods, but we did it. We’re back today with some remote learning reflections, viral updates on strep, flu, and Covid, and how the 6-foot distancing guideline is sparing classrooms from quarantining. Dave talks about the Tappan Zee Bridge, Dan dreams of an Emirati vacation, and we introduce a new segment called “Times We Were Wrong This Week.” And don’t miss the bi...

October 15th, 2020

September 30th, 2020

David Landis returns to the pod this week for a quarterly check-in on the culinary arts, Covid, and the political moment. The guys cover a lot of ground in this episode, including how to prepare and enjoy smoked watermelon, how to weigh the various risks involved with school re-opening, the death of RBG, and the tenuousness of American democracy as we head towards November. Also- fleshpots, reflec...

September 23rd, 2020

September 17th, 2020

Dave and Dan are joined by Dave’s old friend Dave Sassano, and the Mainers walk down memory lane about the good old days on the Androscoggin, including the time they wore white jeans to a driving range and incurred the derision of some cooler guys. Sassano talks about his work in the water treatment industry at Idexx Laboratories, Dan does a roll-call with some districts going through school reope...

September 9th, 2020

Dan and Dave are back from a late-summer break with 60 minutes about the flu vaccine, school re-opening, rule changes in soccer, and trying to stay positive as we hit the 6-month mark of the pandemic. Dan reflects on taking a step back from Facebook and trying to read more, Dave talks on crossing the picket line at a movie in the 80s in Auburn, and they both publicly call out people who have been...

September 2nd, 2020

August 20th. 2020

Friend of the pod Marc Bornstein returns for a second time, this time with his daughter, as Dan and Dave do some quick hits on Israeli-Emirati relations and get whiplash from policy changes on schools. Then we are off on another 20/20 with a deep dive on bathtub gin, Julius Erving, the perplexities of hard seltzer, and avocado toast. Marc talks about domestic labor, Dave acknowledges that he did n...

Listen carefully and you'll hear the fire pit crackling on this podcast as Dan and Dave sat out by the lake burning the midnight embers and enjoying a quiet night without the usual distractions. Settle in for this fireside chat about common lake injuries, re-opening schools, lead poisoning, and Dan's close encounter with lightning in 1993. Dave acknowledges that he still hasn't seen "Heat", Dan ad...

Dan and Dave are back with a rapid-fire pod on news of the week and then a third edition of 20/20 in which we reminisce about old restaurants and Dan fishes for artichoke suggestions. Also: credit card fraud and identity theft, dock spiders, and berries.

July 30th, 2020

In this episode Dan and Dave hit the road for a visit with Jillian McDonough and Lorraine Shedoudi of Lexington Power Yoga. In a far-ranging conversation, they learn about the yoga sutras and hypermobility while also gaining and understanding of what “getting better at yoga” can really mean. Enjoy Jillian and Lorraine’s backstories, Dave’s questionable claim that he was once a hip-hop dancer, and...

The school re-opening discussion continues, Dan becomes a target of irrational rage at supermarkets, and Dave gets feisty at the gas station. Will there be enough flu vaccines this year? What’s up with the aluminum can shortage? We have these discussions, and others, in this heat wave edition of the podcast.

July 16th, 2020

Will schools open until the fall? Should they? How do we get there with what we know now? What about sports? Dan and Dave dive down this rabbit hole and also review the outcome of Bedford’s outdoor town meeting, Dave talks about some of his boat problems, and Dan reflects on baseball and softball getting started again. Not to be missed: Dan’s surprisingly-delayed Brandeis graduation, pronouncing “...