Midwest Real
A podcast & blog with an unquenchable lust for rabbit holes, novelty and open-minded inquiry. Join us as we dig beyond the status quo! Hosted by Michael Phillip EST. 12/21/2012 in Milwaukee.

Steve Volk, senior writer at Philadelphia Magazine, 2013 National City and Regional Magazine Award finalist, and author of Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable - And Couldn’t, joined us for an hour this week. We almost immediately found a sort of kinship with Mr. Volk, and by halfway through the conversation we were discussing the questionable writing decisions of certain Marvel Comics’ characters.

The conversation is as captivating as it is endearing, which is precisely how we’d describe Mr. Volk.

We ran into a few technical hiccups throughout the conversation - as is the nature of cross-country communication - but we were able to fix almost all of the issues in post-production.

Enjoy. See you next week.

Direct download: MwReal_-_011.mp3
Category:society and culture -- posted at: 12:35pm EDT

This week the guys welcome Milwaukee's own stand-up comedian, Adam Loeding. Adam began his career as a professional comedian this past year and immediately struck a chord with audiences around town. He is now one of the prominent stand-ups in the city, and he shared his story with guys on a cool March evening in Milwaukee. The conversation branches off into a discussion about the newest Pope as well as this latest season of The Walking Dead. At the end of the episode, a note is made regarding an interview with The Onion's AV Club Milwaukee. That article is now live on the AV Club's website here: http://www.avclub.com/milwaukee/articles/podcast-for-the-people-the-strange-and-wonderful-w,83612/

Direct download: MwReal_-_009_-_Adam_Loeding.m4a
Category:society and culture -- posted at: 8:17am EDT

Welcome back around, dear Realers. Part two of our utterly fascinating interview with Sacred Geometry International's Randall Carlson is here. We continue our discussion on lost civilzations, catyclisms, and how humanity can move forward from the precarious state we find ourselves in. Its a fantastic conversation you aren't going to find from many other outlets.

Direct download: MWR.007PART2FINAL.mp3
Category:society and culture -- posted at: 1:31am EDT

Randall Carlson is a master builder and architectural designer, teacher, geometrician, geomythologist, geological explorer and renegade scholar. He has four decades of study, research and exploration into the interface between ancient mysteries and modern science. Carlson has been an active Freemason for 30 years and is Past Master at one of the oldest and largest Masonic lodges in Georgia.

Randall spoke with the guys frankly and openly about his expieriences within Masonry, his research into ancient cultures and cataclysms, sacred texts and numerology and much, much more. Get ready to go into the deep end with this one.

Direct download: MWR_09_part_1Final.mp3
Category:society and culture -- posted at: 11:49am EDT

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