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NATIONAL PUBSPRAWL RADIO
Enjoy bite-sized podcasts of NPR, the popular listener-supported radio program "for the PubSprawl, by the PubSprawl." 
The 2006 PubCast
NPR (National PubSprawl Radio) is an internationally acclaimed producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk, music, and entertainment programming specifically about the PubSprawl.
With original online content and audio streaming, pubsprawl.com offers PubSprawl newscasts, music, and special features "for the PubSprawl, by the PubSprawl."
The 2006 NPR PubCast
Format: MP3
Total time: 33m35s
In honor of the tenth anniversary of the PubSprawl, National PubSprawl Radio has compiled this half-hour collection of news stories, interviews, and songs about and for the PubSprawl.
Features:  | Chicago's very own "Eight Forty-Nine" News Program coverage of issues facing the PubSprawl
| | An interview with the PubSprawl Founder, Peggy Mahoney
| | A special "Drinking Games" BoardGameSpeak segment with Derk & Aldie of BoardGameGeek.
| | In-depth interviews with experts about binge drinking and the history of St. Patrick's Day.
| | Tim & Andy's Beer School
| | Two updated takes on traditional Irish songs by Beatnik Turtle - "Beer, Beer, Beer" and "All For Me Grog."
| | And a few other surprises... |
2006 PubCast Segments
Below are some of the "bite-sized" segments of the 2006 PubSprawl PubCast. The PubCast contains additional material not found below, so listeners are encouraged to download the full program.
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An interview with PubSprawl Founder Peggy Mahoney
Format: MP3
Time: 3m16s
Eight Forty-Nine got a chance to catch up with the busy PubSprawl Founder, Peggy Mahoney while in town for a pubcrawl sponsorship committee meeting.
Peggy relays the story of the first PubSprawl and how it began, reminisences about past PubSprawl events such as the time when the 'Sprawlers drank an entire bar out of its liqour back in aught one, and discusses the upcoming 10th Annual PubSprawl.
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BoardGameSpeak - Special "Drinking Game" Episode
Format: MP3
Total time: 4m33s
Derk & Aldie are back! And they're talking games...drinking games! Hear a special episode of BoardGameSpeak from Boardgamegeek.com made especially for the PubSprawl.
Recorded in Chicago while in town for a convention, Derk & Aldie reprise their popular Boardgamegeek.com podcast to discuss the rules and strategy behind the popular party game, "Quarters."
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"Binge Drinking: An American Epidemic"
An interview with Dr. Claudia...Gefunden
Format: MP3
Total time: 1m41s
Dr. Claudia...Gefunden discusses her research in binge drinking and discovers it's an American epidemic. Tune in and learn the sad truth behind the results of her latest study.
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Tim & Andy's Beer School
Format: MP3
Total time: 5m17s
Tim & Andy (or T&A as they are sometimes called) have been hosting National Public Radio's popular "Tim & Andy's Beer School" show for over ten years now.
Certified Public Beer Connoisseurs (CPBCs), each week Tim & Andy discuss "Quality Beer" - what to drink, what to buy, and how its made. And, if you've been listening through the years, that means: NO CIDER!
Tim & Andy have been attending the PubSprawl for years now and have schooled many a fine PubSprawler in the ways and art of beer. We're honored to have them take time out of their hectic schedules to record a special Beer School for the 10th Annual PubSprawl.
Enjoy some "quality" T&A, because class is in session...
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"Not the Only 'Sprawl in Town: The 10th Annual 'BarSprawl' overshadowed by PubSprawl Once Again."
An Interview with the angry BarSprawl Founders
Format: MP3
Time: 2m43s
Eight Forty-Nine reporter Gary Thompson interviews the founders of a competing PubSprawl "bar crawl" called BarSprawl. The two founders are not pleased that, once again, the PubSprawl has scheduled it's event on the same day as theirs.
The two founders relay their troubles and complains that no one shows up to their "American" BarSprawl ("in America there's bars" not pubs).
Gary Thompson gets to the heart of the problem and analyzes the ten year rivalry with the two founders.
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The History of St. Patrick's Day
An interview with Professor Ira Lander of the Floating University of the Pacific
Format: MP3
Total time:2m27s
Eight Forty-Nine caught up with Professor Lander just outside its studios at Navy Pier in Chicago promoting his book, "The Neoteric Patrick." With the Floating University of the Pacific docked for only a few hours to restock up on supplies, Profesor Lander was able to share the true history of St. Patrick and the how the holiday became what it is known today.
Professor Lander's book is available at Amazon Books and finer sports & fishing stores. |
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