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We're coming at you hot off last Friday's episode, rippin' and dippin' from a vat of fried chick'n. We've got another very special episode here with our favorite recurring sketch comic, Josh Opitz, @joshopitz who calls in as an Irish Poet Laureate in the second half of the show. TALK O'GRANDE 404 - 1/2 BLOCK BURRITO Jumping into the Top Picks, we've also got a whole new batch of topics ranging from the increasing size of Australian women's boobs, and Creativity is linked with mental illness. Things get up in your bitch when you're thinking too hard! Be careful folks. Artists be crazy. The ICAAN rules the internet. It's real. Here's the link. Over at Mike's Calm Down we take on a topic that gets Matt and Jeff all riled up like alley cats with jalapeños in their asses. That's some spicy shit. It all started when Mike brought up the recent celebrity Kickstarter of Zach Braff. He's starting a new project for a movie which will be the followup to Garden State. Matt and Mike both agree that celebrities shouldn't use Kickstarter. Jeff brings the contrary view and the argument unfolds. Then Jeff's volume gets turned down and he's loudly talked over so good luck making sense of both sides of this. He's not bitter. If you do hear the points we're making, and you've got something to add, leave us a comment here, on FB, on Twitter or our email. For a few more well written responses to this recent phenomenon, hit up this Wired article, this HuffPo blog, and lastly the BroBible who do a Funny or Die video making fun of the whole thing. We're hot and bothered, and we continued the back and forth rant offline through email, but don't worry, we're still friends. And despite all the shit we said, Jeff wants to say congrats to Zach Braff on a successful Kickstarter. As of the time I'm writing this post, he raised 2.4mil of the 2mil he said he needed and there's 17 days left to go so good work.  Now go make that movie and Jeff will review it on the show. Before the end of the segment we make a reference to the legal battle with The Oatmeal and an overzealous lawyer on behalf of FunnyJunk. Next up, we shift to Matt's Know Your Enemy, which this week is going to be Know Your Frenemy because Matt dug something. He recaps his experience of going to the Cannabis Cup on 4/20.  We get to talking about the food at the Cup and Matt mentions how there were Mexican dudes with coolers selling amazing burritos. Pound and a half of bean. It make it a half block of burrito. W

Welcome back, it's Monday and we've got a new Friday Telecast to unleash. Despite Matt's frustrations with our audio setup, we've got a good sounding episode for you. Matt’s putting together a whole new telecasting setup based on Skype for the studio. It's going to be cool. We’re giving you listeners something to look forward to. We’re now on Stitcher. Go get it where you want it, be it Stitcher, iTunes, or right here on the Talko Grande website. FRIDAY TELECAST 5 - WHEN MIKE CRIES We start out with Jeff's Top Picks on a discussion of the afterlife and heaven. Talko Grande is taking back "Heaven."  Jeff posits that if he were to go to heaven, there'd be multiple heavens to go to and he'd get to go to the cool Rock 'n Roll heaven, not the lame Sunday church-goer heaven where it's just people sitting around in God's glory and praying forever. Boring.  Basically, what we're saying is Talko Grande is now starting it's own religion full of comedians, musicians, writers and creative people who probably do drugs, and we have a separate heaven created for ourselves and our followers. You're welcome. Next we get to one of Mike's Calm Down segments on the top of Roller Derby Girls. In the discussion, Matt cracks the shit out of Mike in reference to what those Roller Derby Babes should be wearing as uniforms and he loses it. And it was good.  Who looks more like Jeff? Nick Mangold like Matt thinks or Zach Brown Band like Jeff's 2 y/o niece thinks? You decide. Leave us a comment below. Jeff gives us another Top Pick with the question: Are craft breweries the new cupcake shoppe? We hope not, and we discuss the implications and the way to do it right. Take notes brewmasters and local beer crafters. We have the solution: aim low.  Jeff recites the Cheers lyrics a little too lovingly. We all like Cheers. Speaking of Connecticut style pizza... wtf... we eventually define Connecticut style pizza, also known as New-Haven style. It brings us to a discussion on the origins and different styles of pizza. Greek style, Colorado style... Gangnam style. Shout out to Dave's pizza in Minnesota. Best stuff ever. It's a nice time for a segue. Mike brings us another Calm Down, this one about cheese. National Grilled Cheese day is April 12th. Mike says it's unnecessary. He's right. It's just like National White People Month. We don't need that. White people are always eating cheese! Then we get nerdy and discuss our various grilled cheese preparation methods.  Mike

Welcome to the Friday Telecast, where we deliberately phone it in.  This is another freshly time-stamped release, recorded 3 days before being published. Wow, internet. Matt held down the heavily fortified bunker in Denver, Mike stayed on target in Austin, and Jeff was on vacation to see family in Chicago, who he rudely excused himself from to record this show in a nearby park where he sat at a picnic table in a quiet suburban gazebo in Romeoville or Bollingbrook or Naperville... who knows at this point? Jeff finds the Chicago-land suburbs are one huge multi-leveled, cluster knuckle of cars and sub-divisions spotted with water towers, Portillo's Hot Dogs, and Panera Bread stores. Your local grocery store is the Jewel-Osco, where they sell real beer. The late-night White Castle run gave Jeff night terrors about his Reddit Cake Day, but the Revolution Brewing Anti-Hero saved the entire metropolitan region with it's lovely floral, grape-fruity, IPA flavor. As always, beer saves us all. FRIDAY TELECAST 4 - SUBURBAN HOBO We kick it off with Jeff's link to a science article about the magnetic fields around bees, and how they can be influenced, causing antenna to react. We get into some deep talk about human perception, what we really know about the universe around us from our own senses, and how drugs open us to them.  The conversation shifted to aliens and audiowaves traveling in space. It was good. Bacon condoms exist ... they look like meat, smell like meat, and they come with lube that tastes like meat. We discuss this at length. Hide your pets because they’ll eat your dong.  They come in Magnums Beggin’ Strips, and bikini size Bacos.
  Woman willing to let you fuck them with bacon condom have had far worse things in their sneeze. Somehow, another Kevin Smith reference finds it's way in, but we do our best to keep the peace and segue into a discussion on hockey. Mike wants online journalism featuring animated gifs to stop. (not Amanda Knox, it's just an example.)  
He says they're a dumbing down of society and Facebook activism is a huge waste of time, but bridges us to marriage equality. Marriage equality is a topic we mostly all agree on. Most think it’s fine or don’t care. The swing is some people think it’s gross.
 Most sex is gross, relax. Mike likes people who protest gay marriage because they waste time that they could be using to concentrate on abortion rights. Hawaii, DC, LA...AUSTIN? *sigh* ...  Kim Jong Un wants

Welcome to Season 4 of Talko Grande, The Denver Colorado Podcast. We would like to formally welcome Mike Frizzell as a co-host of our little show, as he is now officially on the host roster. He brings with him a swath of followers from his twitter @drewmcfrizz and previous appearances on other podcasts such as TBTL. I've gotten to know him over the phone the last couple weeks and think you'll find he's addition to the crew in terms of his comedic wit, interestingly written segments, and a compliment to both Matt and myself. TALKO GRANDE #401 - THE MIC DROP DUMP First up is Jeff’s Talko Top Picks where we discuss the topic of injection molding instead of 3d printing and figure out how we can use them for cyborg implants. We quickly come to the realization that it would be mostly douche bags using this technology. Telescoping dicks.  Also check out my uncle's band who play all over Minnesota and the world. They are the Singing Slovenes and they make some awesome accordion music. Buy their CDs. Next is Die Hard 6 - after the current A Good Day to Die Hard.  Double trilogy. We segue quickly to discussing the shirt sizes of Kevin Smith and what you can take from the bible. Mike thinks the next Die Hard movie will be subtitled Dead Inside. Stallone tore a pectoral muscle? gross. Not sure if it's true. Can anyone fact check this? And then we move on to Customer Service - Do you have good customer service? Do you? We discuss customer service as a thing that matters to folks like us in a first world, middle-class economic bracket and how much we appreciate when companies or people offer great customer service. Mike Frizzell introduces his first “Calm Down” segment. People or things that need to calm down. This weeks show includes Survivalists, Distance runners and Concert picture posters.  Matt's segment, Know Your Enemy, takes on people who wear pajamas in public.  Last we pull out a Tweet Hug, where each host picks a couple tweets from the other two hosts or someone else they follow and give praise and discuss where applicable.  And, that's the show. Hope you enjoy it. Send us a voicemail and an email and let us know if we were wrong about anything or if you have anything to add to the conversation. 303-ZAP-DEKU or talkogrande@gmail.com.  Or leave us a comment on the blog and like us on Facebook and follow each of us on twitter.  @jeffjagunich @mattbfromdenver @drewmcfrizz We all need more followers so that the empty hole in our