The Family Archives

Well Tevin forgot it was Monday....so Jaybee was his stand-in. Thou Tevin remembered we were just a phone call away. What better way to round off this duo with a novel about prize fighting in Vegas with David Albertyn Undercard (debut novel)Book- amzn.to/378IB0p See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choice...

Today we start off with out favorite Aussie, Brad Blanks! He comes from a land down under but her sure is above and beyond the best!. Then we head over to Greece with the very funny Angelo Tsarouchas See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tom and Doug are joined in studio by John Hines. Tom and John were room mates in the 70's at the start of their radio careers. Between the two of them they have over 90 years of broadcasting experience. It's a show devoted to radio stories and fun times in south Minneapolis. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about y...

A man has fallen into the river in LEGO City.  Unfortunately, he's doomed.  LEGO won't be marketing any kits for emergency services (among other things) for the foreseeable future because of corporate wokeness.  It's a small price to pay to make sure no children are offended by seeing a firefighter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...

Some places are quieting down.  Others are doing the opposite.  Loudening up?  The government has a special bunker where the sitting president can be safe no matter what happens.  Maybe it's time to go back to cold war era logic and start digging holes in our yards and filling them with cans of beans.  We're still blaming the Russians, so it won't require much effort to recreate the rest. See omny...

Let's have a conversation about conversations.  It's called being meta, and it's cool.  It's also helpful, because the definition of "conversation" has been blurred somewhat.  For example, tweeting that everyone who doesn't own the same brand of phone as you should die does not qualify as a conversation. Good Talk: How to Design Conversations that Matter- amzn.to/2yWJzQv See omnystudio.com/listene...

Kristyn is a Hollywood reporter.  She also lives in LA.  The latter descriptor is the significant one this week, because LA isn't doing so great.  At this point we'd like to be acknowledged for not making a remark about the phrase "LA isn't doing so great" because it would be too easy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn m...

Modern Family is one of those shows.  If you haven't seen it, you've heard of it, and you're also weird.  The good news is now's a better time than ever to start, on account of leaving your house being a bad idea.  Also because Marc just wrote a book on its history.  Yes, a television show has a history.  It was on the air for quite some time. Modern Family: The Untold Oral History of One of Telev...

We've added Greek to our group, thereby officially making our group diverse.  We're expecting the check within the week.  Until then, we're looking up country slogans, and they're nearly all very boring.  But they're boring in a way that they're easy to make fun of, so don't worry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more...

America has had a pretty bad week.  Riots, looting, and a complete lack of social distancing are tearing through the cities.  That's why we at The Family, Minnesota's unofficial peacemaker organization, decided to put a bunch of black people and white people in a room together to see what happens.  Spoiler: it turns out pretty good. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystud...

With Minneapolis under intense upheaval, we would like to shed a bright light in revisiting with VJ Smith, community leader of the Minneapolis MAD DADS. Also we revisit with Minneapolis Police Union President Lt. Bob Kroll.  Time to come together from both sides and get this solved peacfully. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

A rare episode where we discuss cars.  Tom and Doug are joined in studio by Rhett Dressel and Andy Swanson from Walser Hyundai. Rhett pulls into the top three first car stories relating the tale of a night time race without headlights that ends with a roll over. We discuss his transition from being a bar tender to selling cars and the ease of transitioning from being a server to sales professional...

It's a good thing we're not called The Tom Barnard Show any more, because it turns out Dana Carvey did it first.  Of course, we're 1815 episodes in and they only made it to seven, but we're still rooting for those kids.  They'll make it one day. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc...

Have you ever honked your horn instead of laughing?  Probably not, because for the average person a honk is not a joyous sound.  That's about to change as comedians have begun to do drive-in stand-up.  It takes an inventive mind to succeed in an epidemic that has reduced the world's population by a crushing .004%.  And speaking of succeeding against all odds, that's the basic gist behind the Wizen...

David's been around for a while.  In a good way, I mean.  The 40 years covering the Middle East and a dozen or so books way.  Like the rest of us he's had a lot of time at home lately, the result of which is The Paladin. The Paladin: A Spy Novel - amzn.to/2zqe41L See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choic...

We're moving up the chain of logical progression.  There are a lot fewer state slogans than there are city slogans, but that doesn't mean there aren't enough bad ones to make a bit out of. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The entertainment industry isn't happy right now.  Broadway's spending 35 million dollars a week doing absolutely nothing, which might get some people wondering.  Hollywood's right on their heels.  And who knows how many rupees Bollywood is losing?  It's times like these when you turn inward for entertainment.  Pets, children, in-laws.  All limitless sources of diversion. See omnystudio.com/listen...

Let's hit ya in the Friday Feels with John Tesh, a cancer survivor and how he is dedicated to help others overcome this obsticle and Bob Williams, who has dedicated his life to help unwanted horses...cue the tissues See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A rare two guest episode this week. First we interview Bogi Lateiner who, after graduating college, decided to pursue a career in automotive repair and worked for 7 years as a BMW tech before starting her own repair business staffed predominately by women. In addition, she hosts a show on Motor Trend called All Girl Garage. We have an interesting discussion about the difficulty of hiring service t...

Welcome to the future.  Movie theaters are gone, replaced by the internet.  TV is nearly gone, also replaced by the internet.  Radio?  Replaced by the internet.  You'd better hope your connection never goes down, because we're about three steps away from living inside a server somewhere. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn...

Travel is the name of the game, which is a little strange considering we're probably in the least-traveled time in the past 50 years.  Regardless, people like going places, and today those places are very small.  Mo goes to small towns to give a voice to the voiceless, and Jamie acts as Iceland's voice because nobody can understand them.  Considering that's probably the only bad thing you can say...

It's episode 1811, so let's go back to 1811.  And then let's go forward 70 years to 1881, when the fight at the OK Corral occurred.  You see, it all connects.  It certainly connected for Tom, who wrote a book about it.  It's the latest in his series about cowboys, a neglected topic these days. Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell amzn.to/3e8bJHr See omnystudi...

Today we tried and failed to get Jamie from Wandering Puffin Travel Agency on.  Don't worry, he'll be back.  Still, his absence didn't stop us from talking about Iceland half the time.  It's an interesting place, to say the least. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adch...

In what may or may not be a coincidence, after a week of Tom talking about early 20th century comedy, we interview someone who actually met Groucho.  Cue jealousy.  Also cue stories, many of which have survived only by word of mouth.  As it turns out, century old film doesn't hold up very well. Raised Eyebrows - My Years Inside Groucho's House: amzn.to/2Zh1wEo See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...

One of the few upsides to half the country being shuttered is lack of traffic.  Everybody hates it.  People get in fights over it.  It's coming back, so enjoy the lack of it while you can.  Maybe do some biking.  Or perhaps research horrible city slogans.  Even if you just pick out the worst .1%, that still leaves you with a few dozen at least.  You'd better hurry, because Costaki's already got a...