Niagara's Watercooler Podcast

The Dads Must Be Crazy Ep. 17: Bar Mitzvahs and Burning Barrows

In this week's podcast, we discuss Howie's son's Bar Mitzvah. It was the first time Craig had been to a Jewish ceremony in a temple, and Bobby has never been. We talk about some of the questions we had about the ceremony. And then we move on to the BBQ afterwards and Howie's propensity for making the unintended happen. He always has the best of intentions, though.

Cast: Craig, Howie, Bobby

Running time: 53 Minutes

Sponsored by:

Thanks to Scott Leffler for the intro. 

Intro and outro music provided by incompetech.com Our theme music is “Retro Future Clean” by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons: by Attribution 3.0 license

The Balagang Ep.1: The Rise of the Balagang

Introducing the Balagang. Think of this as Shenanigans Lite, featuring some of us from Shenanigans and Howie's brother, Marc. We talk mostly about Howie things and growing up in the Balaban family. We trade eyebrow stories, and we are formally requesting a picture of Marc as Tevye in High School. There's a little discussion about LeBron James trying to trademark "Taco Tuesday." He shall lose. And we talk about practical jokes at work. There are still some NSFW moments, but it's all in good fun. This will not be a regular podcast, but will show up as time permits.

Cast: Craig, Howie, Mat, Marc

Running Time: 75 Minutes

Intro Music: Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Guts and Bourbon" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Shenanigans Episode 97: Never Go Full Journey

In this week's podcast, Walden brings us PBR Coffee. It was really good. It's too bad they don't sell it anywhere near here. Vinnie gives us some military tales about promotions. Farts killed a debate in Africa, and zombie Skittles are coming your way. Rich gets to talk about old video games, and Snow White's grave has been found. Or at least her gravestone. While Red Bull doesn't give you wings, they should give you chicken wings. That would make it so much better. And always be careful when doing Karaoke. You don't want a Karaoke injury. As always, this episode is NSFW.

Cast: Craig, Rich, Walden, Vinnie, Mat

Running Time: 69 minutes

Logs designed by Amanda Hodge

The Dads Must Be Crazy Ep. 16: It's Back to School!

The dads are rejoicing. The kids are back to school. That should be cause for celebration, right? Maybe. It definitely means there will be more of the Dad & Mom Taxi Service happening, and everything we did during a full day now has to be shoved into the evening hours. It is good the kids are back in school. And no, we won't make you stare at an endless litany of back to school pictures of our kids. 

Cast: Craig, Howie, Bobby

Running Time: 46 minutes

Sponsored by:

Thanks to Scott Leffler for the intro. 

Intro and outro music provided by incompetech.com Our theme music is “Retro Future Clean” by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons: by Attribution 3.0 license

Shenanigans Episode 96: An Ove-Glove For the Bum

We start this week's show debating whether ranch is supposed to be dressing on chicken wings. We think it's pretty clear that it's NOT. Vinnie's favorite vertically challenged bagel connoisseur found himself in a little trouble this week. We found out that Butt-Con exists for all you posterior admirers. There was a special game of Pokemon Go near an historic waterwheel. Again, this episode is totally NSFW.

Cast: Craig, Rich, Walden, Vinnie, Mat

Running Time: 56 minutes

 

Logos designed by Amanda Hodge

The Dads Must Be Crazy Ep. 15: Nostalgia & Grandma's House

In this week's episode, we talk a little about nostalgia. We reminisce about our grandparents' houses and some of the great memories of family and tradition at each. Of course Howie hosts the tangent portion of the show and we talk about baseball cards for a little bit, too. Bobby still has the baseball cards his grandparents gave him. Craig was obsessed with Tinkertoys and space.

Cast: Craig, Howie, Bobby

Running Time: 50 minutes

 

Sponsored by:

Thanks to Scott Leffler for the intro. 

Intro and outro music provided by incompetech.com Our theme music is “Retro Future Clean” by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons: by Attribution 3.0 license

Shenanigans Episode 95: Groping For Trout in a Peculiar River

This week after subjecting Rich to a litany of sports talk, he and Vinnie debate the properties of blackholes. Because Science! There is definitely a split opinion over fondness of tapioca and Spam. Getting back to sports we discuss THE dumbest trademark application and the return of Lake Effect to the NWS lexicon. Vinnie does the worst Andrew Dice Clay impression and he doesn't quite get the use of the Website of the Week. We introduced a new guy who really had no idea what he was getting himself into.

Cast: Craig, Rich, Vinnie, Mat

Running time: 106 Minutes

Logos designed by Amanda Hodge

The Dads Must Be Crazy Ep. 14: School Supplies & Reading Lists

In this week's episode, we talk about those school supply lists and what our kids are reading at various ages throughout the year. What were some of the supplies that you absolutely had to have when you were back in school? Did you have a real metal lunchbox? Or did you have one of those plastic things or purse things? When it comes to reading, we wonder if there's a way to include contemporary fiction to juxtapose against the classics?

Cast: Craig, Howie, Bobby

Running Time: 56 minutes

Sponsored by:

Thanks to Scott Leffler for the intro. 

Intro and outro music provided by incompetech.com Our theme music is “Retro Future Clean” by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons: by Attribution 3.0 license

Shenanigans Episode 94: I Can't Handle the Stupid

This week's episode starts off talking about the Antonio Brown circus and whatever the heck Dak Prescott is thinking. Whataburger is 69 years old. I wonder if Gronk celebrated? Our infamous flat earther rocketman failed once again to blast off, and toilets are exploding during thunderstorms. Walden and Rich talk about visiting the house from A Christmas Story and we lose it over Victorian era sex toys. Jimmy Kimmel is totally riding the Shenanigans coattails with his new mayoral bid. This episode is very much NSFW.

Cast: Craig, Rich, Walden, Vinnie

Running Time: 107 Minutes

Logos designed by Amanda Hodge

The Dads Must Be Crazy Ep. 13: Those Family Vacations

Welcome to episode 13 of The Dads Must Be Crazy. This week we talk about family vacations. From the time we were kids, to taking our own kids on vacation, how have things changed? The Disney Conundrum arises. Do we take our kids to Disney, and at what age? Howie wants to plan a trip to Iowa next August for the Yankees-White Sox game at the Field of Dreams. And we all seem pretty focused on a guy trip to New York City.

Cast: Craig, Howie, Bobby

Running Time: 56 Minutes

Sponsored by:

Thanks to Scott Leffler for the intro. 

Intro and outro music provided by incompetech.com Our theme music is “Retro Future Clean” by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons: by Attribution 3.0 license