The free form stories and songs of singer/songwriter and storyteller Ray Weaver
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Tune in every Friday! Awesome new music mixed live by RayZ
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Proud progenitor of #thegreatpodcastswindle. Since 2012, Jonah Ray, Neil Mahoney and Cash Hartzell have argued, laughed, loved and gradually cut back on their drinking all while loosely discussing and playing submitted music. The three man team, often with a guest, sometimes without, are constantly pushing boundaries in the medium of "music news" Not since Rolling Stone introduced us to the New Journalism of Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson has a medium given rise to an artistic movement mor ...
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Music Fashion and Politics...views from Chicago!
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Goodbye for now.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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An on the road episode recorded live in an old Swedish barn. Stories and a few songs on an old guitar--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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Radio Twenty Eight: Gordon Lightfoot is Dead and (with apologies to Lewis) I Don't Feel So Good Myself
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A ramble about Gordon Lightfoot, music, jobs and lazy listeners. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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I get back to my radio roots this time and fight back against 'experts' that try to tell me (and you) what is and is not 'country music'. some great songs by some great artists, and me ranting. What more could you want, really? Keep spreading the word about the podcast. Thanks to Wide Ass Open Internet Radio for adding it! And CPL Radio for being t…
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Raydio Twenty Six: Serial Songs and Murder Ballads
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OK, loyal listeners ... I rarely ask you to do any work when listening to the podcast, but this time, I need your help. I have an idea for a new podcast included in this week's show. If you could listen and leave a message as to whether it's something you'd be interested in hearing, I'd be most grateful. Cheers! --- Send in a voice message: https:/…
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This is a tough one. It mentions violence and suicide. Please listen with caution. It's real. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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A ramble about Easter, St. Patrick's Day and I actually sing a few tunes! Hope you enjoy! Tell your friends. Tell your enemies! Leave us a review. Let me know if I should sing more. Or less! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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Back in the saddle after some travelling weeks! I talk about the joy that is modern air travel and the horror of nekkid statuary! Don't forget to get my audiobook A Father's Heart on Amazon. It's good! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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A bonus edition of Raydio: Age and other isms.
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I am still cranky, so I did an extra edition of the Raydio podcast. Enjoy. Don’t forget to get my book, ‘A Father’s Heart’ at Amazon!--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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I’m not gonna lie. I almost didn’t upload this episode. Listenership has been low. But my son Justin said I should get on with it and my PD at the radio station called in t the best episode ever. So here ‘tis…--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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Raydio Twenty One - Beats from A Father's Heart
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Today's show contains three of my favorite stories from my book 'A Father's Heart' which is how this whole think started. You can check it out at Amazon. As always, I recommend the audio book so you can get the stories and the songs. Please rate and review the podcast where ever you find it. Tell your friends. Tell your dog! Let's get more folks li…
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A Ray Ramble through the honky tonks and trials and tribulations of 70s country bars. Max makes a debut! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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Raydio Nineteen: The Dirt Band and CB radios
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An on-the-road ramble about ... a lot of stuff. Newts, honky tonks, fern bars and the NGDB --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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A challenging opening story for me about nearly dying fades into high school, glam rock and hiding clothes in the woods behind my father's house. Enjoy! Rate, review and tell you friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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The first new edition of Raydio for 2023 looks at drive-in movies, especially the Shore Drive-In in Pasadena, Maryland. It also takes a look at losing a brother for too many years over politics. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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I am going to start doing my Raydio podcast again. And start syndicating it on a few actual radio stations. I'm already back on CPL Radio in the heart of Cedarburg, Wisconsin. I hope loyal listeners are glad I'm back and I collect new ones as we go along. I have new tales to tell and stories to sing. I'm rebooting the show by combining the first tw…
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Raydio Sixteen - Baptist Churches and Chicken Fat
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We're back! With some radio reflections and a little exercise music to chase away that chicken fat! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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Raydio fifteen - Ray ramblin' 'round Nashville, Part 2
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Part two of my Nashville musings. With a song or two! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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Radio fourteen - Ray goes (back) to Nashville (Part One)
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It's been a minute! A ramble about songwriting, Nashville and life --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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This week Raydio returns to, well, the radio. Rambles about indy artists, stuck records and Jiffy Pop. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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A live, into my iPhone recording as I walk through my old house and yard.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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Some tough tales about wild kids in a crazy time. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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Raydio Ten - The House of My Father (continued)
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As I clean out my father's shed, memories of baseball bats, fly wheels and automatic transmissions tumble like candy from a jar. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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My mother passed in September, so I will be spending the next few weeks cleaning out my childhood home, getting ready for sale. The next few episodes of Raydio will be rambles and memories as I go through the rooms --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message…
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A long ramble about shooting wash machines, not shooting deer, eating squirrel and a tribute to my mom. More stuff available at 'A Father's Heart'. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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A lot has happened in the Raydio world! We have become an official radio show at CPL Radio Online! That means there will be two hour-ish episodes per week, as opposed to the kind of random schedule I was following before. Longer rambles. More music. More tales, tall and small! Please rate and review wherever you are listening! Don't forget to check…
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A ramble about music, diners, country stores, cheeseburgers and stealing food. And I sing a song with some of the worst rhymes in history ... and I wrote it! It's Raydio! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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A story requested by my friend Cory. Moving off of the radio for a bit and into the cowboy bars and alleys of Washington D.C. back during the Urban Cowboy daze! Don't forget to tell your friends about Raydio. Leave a nice review. And get the 'A Father's Heart' book at Amazon! Thanks so much! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.c…
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Yet another new episode of radio, and this one includes sex! Well, sort of. Just a quick one today. Hope you enjoy it. Listen to all of 'em and tell your friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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Raydio Three: The 'Blue' Bird of Happiness
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Another ramble about small town radio in which I learn it is better to pay small debts to big pals in a timely fashion! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message
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Another ramble about small town radio. Suzi Quatro and flaming news copy, Coca Cola trucks and not-quite-boiled eggs. Please rate and review where ever you hear the show. Tell your friends! And get a copy of 'A Father's Heart'! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ray-weaver2/message…
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OK, I'm either trying something new, or something completely old. In a kind of outgrowth of 'A Father's Heart', I'm wanting to tell some different kinds of stories. Most the stories in 'A Father's Heart' were written for family magazines and books, and that required them to have sort of a specific kind of tone and quality. I see Raydio as, well, an…
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A Father's Heart: Live, 30 minute YouTube broadcast for Solid Grounds Coffee House, St. Stephen's United Methodist Church
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Something special to get everything rebooted! This is a full 30 minutes of the audio of a YouTube broadcast I did for the Solid Grounds Coffee House at St. Stephen's United Methodist Church. John Vengrouskie did an amazing job capturing the audio. As soon as I can figure out how to share the video with ya, I will. For right now, let's get on with t…
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INCLUDES CLIPS FROM #1 Episode 2 #42 Exploded Episode #43 Crooked Episode, Crooked Episode #54 The Bed is in The Episode #75 You're Episoding All Over Me #86 King of the Episode #100 The Hundredth #109 Jonah and The Solos #124 Emily V. Gordon in "Good Old Friendly Time" #134 Chris Farren and Christina Johns #156 Chris Holmes & Drew Pearce #212 Rayd…
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Our friend and brother Neil Mahoney passed away on Friday, January 8. Search for #NeiledIt on Instagram and Twitter to see many, many tributes from those who loved him. BrooklynVegan published a nice article about Neil. So did mxdwn Television. Music: "Disappear" by Off With Their Heads Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Hey everybody. This week, a local checks in from far away as comic and actor Steve Agee helps us try to find a new song for Neil! You may have noticed Neil owns like 25 albums from when he was in high school and 3 from college and then nothing else from the last, I dunno, 45 years. So this week, our game is to pitch Neil new music to see how he lik…
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This week, it's all our favorite submitted music from 2020. Playlist below! "Don't Tell A Soul" by Alex Jonestown Massacre "Hurts to Be Alive" by Whitmer Thomas "Too Rich to Die" by Somerset Thrower "Crawling Out of My Skin" by George Bailey Music "Good Sons Rock to The Beat" by Danny Carney Chainsaw Symphony "Boston Shitter" by Bashful "ARSONIST" …
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Hey all. This week, we present our Christmas show! And just like the manger before the 25th, somebody is missing. Depite the glaring absence of Neil, we invite writer, podcaster, roustabout and past guest Elliott Kalan on to brighten our lives with his take on life. Elliott plugs his books, talks the Music Neüs that we love so much, and is there fo…
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Hey everybody! This week returning guest, author, musician and comic Allie Goertz joins us. We Music Neüs, we do bits, and we talk about our favorite novelty songs. What else is in the teaches of Peaches? Check it the F out. SONGS "Little Bit Stranger" by Allie Goertz "will i get cancelled if i write a song called, 'if you were a man you'd be so ca…
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Sup? This week we keep it slim with just the three of us breaking down our favorite songs from twenty twenty as well as pitching Primus Christmas Music, reading Reddit reviews of a Metallica cover, and Cash refers to the desert-based music venue as “Happy and Parriot’s”. It’s a hell of a thing. SONGS "Cloud Nein" by Man Man "Normalization Blues" by…
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Hey buddies! This week, writer, producer, improviser, and good dude Matt Price joins us. Keen-eared listeners might remember Matt for his great podcast Whale Cave or from the Sklartactuar year end “Pass The Cord” episodes. We talk with Matt about his lockdown listens, his time on the seminal show The TV Set, and we grate his precious face on the bl…
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Hey all! This week, musician, actor, and podcaster Chris Candy joins us for our tribute to ska. We play ska, we talk ska, and we live ska for an hour or so. Music Neüs is there for those who love neüs, This Week in Music History makes a small appearance, and we riff on the best real and fictional ska band names. PLUS Jonah has a revelation about a …
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