A program of rants, raves, faves, pet peeves, personal vendettas, celebrity interviews and anything else that author Tom Waters can fill the hour with. Oh, and occassionally, there will be some relentless promotional plugs.
12/8/09 Episode XXXXVI: 'Peepshow'
Tom and dual co-hosts Don (from Don's Atomic Comics) and Kyle Kaczmarczyk pick mythic writer artist Joe Matt's brain (Spent, The Poor Bastard, Fair Weather) about his next graphic novel project, the future of the comics industry, digital inking and Viewmaster Reels.
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10/22/09 Episode XXXXIV: 'Two Rooms At The End Of The World' Tom talks with Eisner-Award winning writer Mike Carey and Eisner-Award winning artist Peter Gross about their new best-selling DC/Vertigo series 'The Unwritten'. Co-host Jeff Schmithe shows up and fails terribly. to listen (53:05) or click here
8/27/09 Episode XXXXI: Sing, F%&#in' Sing!'
Tom and co-host Lindsay 2 talk to Buffalo legend John 'Dr.Dirty' Valby about marriage, politics, and an internship in boob autographs.
to listen (59:07) or click here
Episode XXXX: Septuagenarian Stew
With no celebrity guest in sight, Tom viciously attacks his good buddy Mike. Gun-nut Brendan returns as co-host emeritus to get a few cheap shots in while mourning the loss of Michael Jackson.
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5/13/09 Episode 38: 'Making It Big' Tom and co-host Mike 'ring a ding' Mariani talk to comics legend Harvey Pekar (American Splendor) regarding his life, his career, and the supposed sanity of 'close personal friend' Alan Moore.
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3/15/09 Episode 35: 'Mr. Potato Head & Other Foreign Objects' Tom and eleventh hour co-host Diabetes Dave cross swords and do their best to keep all hands on deck while world-renowned nymphomaniac and adult film star Sara Jay drives her Hibachi home for the extra point. to listen (59:53) or click here
2/20/09 Episode 34 Tom and Lenny meet each other for the first time, forge a heterosexual 'bromance' regarding their love for the music of Elton John (vs. Billy Joel), and discuss the predominance (as well as their mutual disgust) of the '97 Rock Mentality' on the Buffalo Music Scene.
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2/20/09 Episode 33a: Piano Man National virtuoso Lenny Revell regales Tom and his fans with a number of brilliant renditions while Tom's brain goes on tilt due to one glass of Knob Creek and a full work day.
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2/20/09 33b Bonus Round! Lenny goes for the extra point while Tom continues to heap praise and bourbon breath on one of the most gifted performers he's ever met in Buffalo.
to listen (38:32) or click here
2/25/09 Episode 32: A Word In Spanish With Alexis Amore! Tom and co-host Alie talk to busty Peruvian hottie Alexis Amore about the industry, simulated orgasms for the listener's enjoyment, and the amount of research everyone invested into this episode beforehand.
to listen (58:13) or click here
Episode 31: ‘The Large Verbiage We’ve Shared Through Rote Activity Podcast’
With a Democrat firmly entrenched in the White House, Thomas Waters and ’Full Head Of Luxurious Hair Michael’ attempt a show reformat that’s kindler, gentler, and a hell of a lot more liberal. Guest Lindsay Waters upsets the new world order of things by bringing the content rating of the show from PG to NC-17.
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Episode 30: ‘Tom’s Atomic Poetry Kegger Cliff-Hanger!’ (pt.II)
Tom throws his first official Poetry Kegger at Don’s Atomic Comics in Depew. Distilled spirits are consumed, comics are purchased, and a fight almost breaks out at the end of the clip. This episode concludes Part I, which can be found by clicking on the Monsters Of Verse pod-cast show (which can also be found on the Think Twice Site). This is what’s known as ’cross-promotion’.
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Episode 29: 'How Dare You Sit There And Drink All Our Beer' Dave 'The Real Deal' Waters regales Tom and an unsuspecting Clarence audience (his downstairs neighbor) with an impromptu concert in his outside stairwell. Highlights include 'Plastic Jesus', 'Texan Love Song' and 'The Man In Me'.
to listen (59:33) or click here
Episode 28: 'The Real Deal' The insanity and frivolity get kicked up a few notches higher when forces beyond our control pair Tom with little brother and mad troubadour Dave 'The Real Deal' Waters. During guzzles of Jim Beam, Tom and Dave discuss family values, music, pizza and their love lives.
to listen (56:25) or click here
Big Words One Man Mobile Unit Episode 27: A Suckerpunch To The Nuts! (pt.I of II) Tom makes the grave error of a) inviting Buffalo Music Award winning hard rock band Suckerpunch into his home and his heart, b) letting co-host Alie (Desiderio's) bartend with only Wild Turkey as a hard liquor and c) trying to host a cohesive interview show throughout. Total bedlam ensues as Tom, Alie and the band gear up for a 'parter of two' that will rock your f-ing socks off! PART ONE to listen (55:49) or click here PART TWO to listen (58:49) or click here
Episode 26: The Big Words Xmas/Chanakuh/Kwanza/Boxing Day Extravaganza Happy Fun Time Hour! Tom slurs through the phone after seven drunken hours with his little brother and an opening day viewing of Benjamin Button to talk movies, the Jewish tradition of seeing movies on Christmas Day, and to discern (and re-discern) the reason why Greg Sterlace fled from Buffalo, the city that made him a worldwide icon. to listen (59:58) or click here Bonus Round: Wherein our humble host blacks out and somehow manages to keep attacking the Honorable Gregory Sterlace, his comely girlfriend Paula and any race, creed or color his pickled brain can lock on to for more than thirty seconds. to listen (20:24) or click here
Episode 25: A Voice Made For Television Tom speaks with last-minute yuletide guest Greg Sterlace and his Ventroliquist Yoko Paula to discuss their About Schmidt-esque road-trip sojourn between massive gaps of dead air. Author, poet and performer Josh Smith (co-hosts) on Christmas Eve as he typically only celebrates Boxing Day and Kwanza.
to listen (59:45) or click here
Big Words One Man Mobile Unit Episode 24: ‘The Only Sober Irishman In Buffalo’ (Pt. II): The Big Words Poltergeist strikes again when Tom fucks up the first show he produces (11/08), loses a good fifteen minutes due largely to his burgeoning incompetence as his own producer, and what was intended to be the first show of two turns into the second show out of two. As for the show itself, Tom interviews award-winning musical great Kevin McCarthy.
to listen (38:12) or click here
Big Words One Man Mobile Unit Episode 23: Kevin McCarthy-'The Only Sober Irishman In Buffalo' Tom chillaxes with his home-boy Kevin McCarthy while they talk music industry, traditional Irish drinking music, and the inadvertent 3-way musical love when session drummer Tom Brown pops in for a 'stop and chat' and some musical genius occurs. to listen (60:00) or click here
Episode 22: 'Two Roads Diverged In A Wood' Tom sits down at his penthouse apartment for a full hour show along with a 'Bonus Round' with Jon Elston (one of the head scribes with Road Less Traveled Theater at the Market Arcade) about their new hit play 'Triangles' as well as redheads, the Cohen Bros., tenured hack David Lynch and their painfully traumatic (and tremendously successful) high school years..
to listen (59:27) or click here
to listen to the bonus round (32:25) or click here
Big Words One Man Mobile Unit Episode 21: What About Bob?
Tom 'flips the script' with modelling/acting/singing Buffalo legend Bob 'Ernie' Insana, co-host Nick Jacobowski (sp?) & a two-person studio audience at Tom's Lancaster Bungalow. Bob sets it off on acting coaches, his tail-chasing days with Jack Nicholson & Warren Beatty, and the art of 'a cappella', a form of musical enchantment.
to listen (59:54) or click here
Episode XX: 'Swallow Meeghan Whole'
Tom hunkers down with dual-wielding co-hosts Zombie Chris & screen and stage prodigy Jon Elston to interview right-on-the-cusp mastermind Nate Powell about his latest graphic novel, Swallow Me Whole, another amazing masterpiece from Top Shelf Productions!.
to listen (59:59) or click here
Episode XIX: Crossroads
In this 'parter of two', Tom sits down with Buffalo Hall Of Fame Musician Tommy Z to hear some axe-grinding mad blues licks between discussions about autograph hounds and the classic 1980's motion picture masterpiece 'Crossroads' starring teen heart-throb Ralph Maccio. This episode was recorded live at 'close, personal friend' Z's gold-sheathed recording studio/compound.
part 1 (9:39) or click here
part 2 (29:35) or click here
part 3 (15:31) or click here
part 4 (8:54) or click here
part 5 (21:43) or click here
part 6 (10:10) or click here
part 7 (9:23) or click here
Episode XVIII: Bly Comes Alive! (Recorded in 'Dubly')
Mr. Bly performs live from the Hidden Shamrock, where he and Tom began the start of a beautiful relationship that only 5 Time Grammy-Winning Best Artists and Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times Bestselling authors can enjoy while chartering private jets together and vacationing in Jamaica to get away from their respective paparazzi crowds. (58:11)
1. 'If You Only Knew', Michael Bly, Cliche'
2. 'Cliche', Michael Bly, Title Track to his 5 billion sold album of the same name.
3. 'You & I Both', Jason Mraz
4. 'This Love', Maroon 5
5. 'She Will Be Loved', Maroon 5
6. 'Chiara', Michael Bly, (forthcoming album, previously unreleased)
7. Medley:
a. 'Champagne Supernova', Oasis
b. 'Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard', Paul Simon
8. 'Badlands', Bruce Springsteen
9. 'Standing Ovation', Michael Bly, (forthcoming album, previously unreleased)
10. 'Stay True', Michael Bly, (forthcoming album) to listen
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Episode XVII: 'Cockstar'
Michael Bly discusses how he's huge in Japan, the multiple barely legal Buffalonian girls he has administered the anniversary butt sex to, and talks briefly about his multi-platinum career as a musician. (59:14) to listen
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Episode XVI: Absolutely Fabulous At Salon On The Avenue!
Tom amps up his metrosexuality after an openly gay Emo dye job at Salon On The Avenue by paying 'lip service' to the lovely ladies internally at the shop. Electrolysis Burt Reynolds chest removal is discussed while Tom woos the Cougars and talks about Hollywood trade-up wives and making money in front of fast food dumpsters. (53:22) to listen
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11/5/08 Episode XV: Listen in to the Superhero team up of the century as Tom and podcasting legend Uncle Hal (from The Pissed Off World Of Uncle Hal show) combine forces to sharpen their wits regarding politics, podcasting, and of course, big boobs.. to listen
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Episode XV: The Bonus Round!
Tom and Uncle Hal cross their swords verbally for another ten minutes before Hal is called away to be analyzed by a crack team of psychotherapists who have their work cut out for them. to listen
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10/29/08 Episode XIV: Tom and Charismatic Co-Host Soco Mike 'bring the heat' while discussing advances, more free books for Tom from Top Shelf Productions, and the concept of 'keeping it warm' with Ignatz Award winning writer/Artist Jeff Brown (the author of Be A Man, Clumsy, Unlikely, AEIOU and Every Girl Is The End Of The Word For Me, and the soon-to-be released Funny Misshapen Body from Simon & Schuster. to listen
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10/18/08 Episode XIII: The Intentionally Bald Mike Show! I.B.M takes the reins as guest host and winds Waters up and sets him loose! If you think the envelope has been pushed before, there is NO envelope after this one. Buckle up.. to listen
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10/5/08 Episode XII: The Honeymooners! Mr. & Mrs. Tom & Lindsay Waters podcast live during their honeymoon from an outside tempest-torn patio at Root Five restaurant in Hamburg, NY. to listen
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9/17/08 Episode XI: 'Get your stinkin' hands off me, you damn dirty apes' Tom partners with radical gun nut co-host Brendan Hanlon to discuss gun rights, the replicant future for Ronald Reagan, and the dissappointing absence of adult film whore Brandy Dean. to listen
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9/13/08 Episode X Tom records on location at the luxurious Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in sunny and sin-soaked Las Vegas, Nevada. Co-host Curt Kusckowski (a.k.a DJ Soma) and Tom discuss douche chips, redheads, implants & duck-walking convention crowd mob mentalities over cocktails and one armed bandits. to listen
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8/25/08 Episode 9 Tom sits down an pounds out the magic with Buffalo Wonder Boy and ArtVoice's Managing Editor in Chief Geoff Kelly. Mayhem ensues, stout is purchased on Jamie Moses' corporate credit card. (57:39) . to listen
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8/23/08 Episode 8.5 Tom commemorates his bachelor party with the drunkest podcast yet, strange boobs in the face, Mighty Taco, and projectile vomiting. to listen
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8/16/08 Episode 8 The 'Monster Of Verse' perform in Tom's dust-caked basement hell-hole by way of rehearsal for a slate of fall/winter bookings: Carrie Gardner end JR Finlayson top the bill in this prosiacal, Voltron-esque Algonquian think-tank. to listen
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8/16/08 Episode 7 Tom sits down with 'Monsters of Verse' team member and slightly less controversial poet Carrie Gardner. Ron 'wet blanket' Gardner (a.k.a. : 'McDreamy') sits in as co-host and teaches Tom the art of the 'aside'. to listen
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8/12/08 Big Words Mobile One Man Unit Episode 6 'The Monsters Of Verse' Saddle Up! JR Finlayson & host Tom Waters work on their rhythm, timing & delivery for a Fall/Winter slate of poetry bookings. This episode was recorded at a Lancaster restaurant that begins with the letter 'D'. Special guest Lindsay (Tom's 'future wife' performs some of Tom's more maudlin poems for the third portion of this tripod of incantation! to listen
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8/09/08 Big Words Mobile One Man Unit Episode 5 (Part two of a two part series) Uncle Dick Live @ Club Lobdell on 'This Lake Of Rushford'
Concert List (in order):
1. 'Oh Lord, It's Hard To Be Humble' (Dick's Theme Song)
2. 'Fulsom Prison Blues'
3. 'Holding On'
4. 'Always On My Mind'
5. 'Colijah'
6. 'Dead Skunk In The Middle Of The Road'
7. 'Wind Beneath My Wings'
8. 'Sunday Morning Coming Down'
9. 'Margueritaville' to listen
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8/09/08 Big Words Mobile One Man Unit Episode 4 "I bought you roses and gave you my hard salami" (In part one of a two part series, Tom attacks his Auntie Linda). to listen
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8/6/08 A proctology exam for your brain Tom phones it in with Eisner & Harvey Award winning comic book writer / artist Alex Robinson. Guest co-host Intentionally Bald Mike dogpiles all up in this mug. to listen
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7/30/08 Scenes from an Italian Restaurant Restauranteur Jay Desiderio talks with Tom about Desiderio's on Broadway. Tom also introduces a new segment "The Question", a man on the street interview. to listen
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