
PDX Sucks
Recorded in one take on an irregular schedule comes Portland, Oregon's 4th longest-running podcast, in which our hero struggles to make sense, play nice, or use proper grammar. Enjoy!
Episodes
53 episodes
One Last Hurrah, Featuring Post-Inaugural Bliss
This is it. This is the last one. There will be no more. Well, there'll be others, but there won't be any more like this one. Does that not make sense? Hmmm. Ok. Well, give me 30 minutes and I'll try my best to explain it to y...
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31:50

A Happy New Year, Featuring Mindless Blathering
2025 is here, whether you or I like it or not. So, join me as I continue to experience increasingly deepening levels of existential dread, disprove the myth the death in your dreams causes death in real life, and fight the good fight against ar...
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30:37

On the 13th Day...
Yeah, so THAT happened, and here we are, almost two weeks later and if you're like me, you're still processing what it all means, how we got here, and what happens next. Quite frankly I'd rather just sleep through the next 4 years but that's no...
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30:55

A Gunfight Survived, Featuring Trevor Lawrence of Arabia
Gun violence hits a little too close to the Wagner homestead last week, casting a bit of a shadow over almost everything else, but that doesn't stop the damn cat from yelling at me throughout the recording.
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33:26

I Fathered Dave Grohl's Illegitimate Love Child, Featuring a House Pet Buffet
In which our hero endeavors to make sense of celebrity excuses, acquire a chicken sandwich slathered with hot mayonnaise, defends the right of every entrepreneur to create their creations, and laughs at what a loser the loser of last night's Pr...
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40:00

A Fred Meyer Without Employees, Featuring Ungrateful Podcasters
It's back to school day! And what better way to celebrate than to learn all about how bicyclists don't have to stop at stop signs anymore (except for when they do), how Fred Meyer employees dare ask for more and better, how the Supreme Court do...
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49:42

A Fanclub Without Teenagers, Featuring Mario & Luigi
My quest for a mostly analog existence continues but that would mean a dramatic reduction in stupid social media arguments over whether or not Nintendo is making worthwhile video games in 2024. Why this matters I do not know but fanboys are goi...
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34:16

A Criminal Released, Featuring the Ultimate in Shmexy!
Frustrated with a) people's inability to hold themselves (or others) accountable and b) the ever-growing problem of drug-fueled crime in our fair city, our hero decides to go for a walk, clear his head, and try to make sense out of the world. S...
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44:40

An Electric Scooter, Hipsterized, Featuring the Number 11
Health scares, dog scares, future scares, and maybe a few other random scares. Scares are the topic of this one. Bottom line: I don't want to die, I don't want to talk about my scooter, and I don't want the guy at the food cart to give a woman ...
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33:29

Someone is at the Front Door, Featuring THE COPS!
What began as a simple Happy Holidays episodes turns into a complete trainwreck thanks to Gary the Cat, the Portland Police Department, and the DLZ Creator Super Duper Podcast Recorder by Mackie.
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34:34

Matthew Perry is Dead, Featuring Lady Gaga's Migraine Journey
Chandler's passing and Lady Gaga's really, really bad headaches have nothing on my disappointment in missing Halloween after buying my first costume in years. Fortunately, I'll get an extra hour to think about it this weekend. Yay?
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21:15

Shorter of Breath and One Day Closer to Death, featuring Road Rash
This would be a return to form if I ever had form to begin with. Instead, it's a quick check-in to reveal my (mostly) legitimate excuses for staying away from microphones for a while. Topics include: 31st Ave W and Fecal Street, Happy Birthday ...
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33:28

A Creation Best Left Uncreated, If That's Even a Word
Tales of fire, rock'n'roll, travel, jet lag, corporate radio shmucks, and more! But really, this one is all about answering the question: "What does it really mean to create?"
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35:21

Dancing in the Darkness on the Edge of Lucky Town
More infuriating than anonymous emails, new social platforms, and voice acting failures is the public gushing over Bruce Springsteen & the Michelle Obama Vocal Choir - a new film by Steven Spielberg.
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34:42

Special Episode: "(Facebook) Diary of a Mad Man"
Backstory: I found a former friend's Facebook page and quickly realized two things: 1. My former friend has lost his mind, and 2. His Facebook posts (when read like poetry and word for word) made for an interesting audio experiment. This is tha...
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4:44

An All-New Addiction, Featuring Facebook
What did you do last weekend? I sold gently used unwanted items on Facebook Marketplace - and it was equal parts entertaining and exhausting.
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34:01

A Career Unwanted, Featuring (Not) Terry Gross from NPR
As a wise man named Popeye once said, "I've had all I can stands, I can't stands no more!" That's about where I'm at with what is probably a lot of people's dream jobs.
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30:00

A Hurricane Rocked, Featuring a Whopper Junior with Cheese
Banks collapsing, experts pontificating, podcasters traveling, and an incredibly childish analogy are the "topics" this week. Apologies in advance to vegans and vegetarians, as there is a lot of discussion about meat. Well, not really ABOUT mea...
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34:00

A Worthless Sack of Skin, Featuring Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler
I realized that almost all of my Portland friends are now long-distance friends, to varying degrees. It made me sad. Who is to blame? Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and his ongoing inability to do even the slightest positive thing while in office.
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31:27

A Podcast for Lovers, featuring Jeff Beck and the Cycling Community
Let's get this out of the way, this episode is anti-cyclist, anti-podcaster, anti-couple, and anti-dead guitarist. If you have issues with any of that then you probably shouldn't listen. If you don't, HEY! SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON, BABY!
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36:58

A Reaction to Reaction Videos, Featuring YouTube Algorithms
In which our hero outs himself as a retro arcade game nerd, confused and troubled by the Internet's relentless efforts to 1up itself in the realm of useless opinions by people posing as so-called "creators."
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39:52

How the Last of Us Can Make Money in Podcasting featuring Jack Ryan
I quit Twitter to have more time, but that didn't lead to a regular podcast schedule. Instead, I've been watching television, arguing with my dad, and contemplating a new podcast format in which I become an Uber Wise Podcast Monetizing MegaMind...
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39:30

A Holiday Tradition Broken, Featuring Bone Marrow Ice Cream
The Black Friday deals might have been fantastic, but that doesn't excuse the lack of idiot-on-idiot violence this year. Fortunately, sportscasters are still angry, the World Cup is still nap-inducing, and great podcasters still need great podc...
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Season 9
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Episode 2
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45:18

A Blue Bird Dying, featuring Mastodon
It's been a minute but rather than wait for this feed to die like an Elon Musk platform investment I decided to go ahead and make an episode. Sorry, not sorry? Topics today include: Catching COVID (finally), Mastodon is stupid unless we're talk...
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Season 9
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Episode 1
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41:09

An Endless Corporate Meeting, featuring Denzel
Gone are the days when you can rely on your government to get anything done, but can you honestly rely on Corporate America to save your heatstroked bacon? No. No you cannot.
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Season 8
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Episode 12
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30:35

A World of Hopelessness, featuring the Supreme Court
Positivity is difficult to find unless you're at the 2022 Portland Blues Festival. Think about that for a moment. We've reached a place where the effing BLUES are the most positive thing going on in the lives of the average Portlander. That's s...
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Season 8
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Episode 11
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46:05

A Fender-less eBike, featuring Russell Wilson and the White House Easter Bunnies
A post-Easter, rainy day podcast for my 16 Twitter friends, er, followers. Topics include: eBike regrets, a cardboard box full of dinner, the evils of candy and Russell Wilson, and buying miniaturized versions of almost anything.
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Season 8
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Episode 10
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35:44

A Country Without Metal, featuring Vlad Putin
Plague, racism, and now war...and nary a single shred of purposeful art or music to be found. What's wrong with this place?
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Season 8
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Episode 9
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22:24
