Episode 9.2 - John’s Inferiority Complex
Jeff and John discuss why John has an inferiority complex vis-a-vis Jeff; Breakdown of primaries in KY, PA, and AR; intense debate over how much (if at all) to blame the Obama admin for the response to the Gulf oil spill; In wake of scientists creating a living cell artificially, J&J theorize and moralize about the future; Iran signs an agreement over nuclear fuel with Turkey and Brazil - should this be welcomed?; Devil’s Advocate - John must defend the Bush Doctrine; Financial regulation passes! (the Senate, at least…); Rants - Jeff on drawing Mohammed, John on the US War on Drugs; Breaking news from Colorado party assemblies
Episode 8.13 - A Dreamy Jeff & John Anniversary
That’s right, your hosts celebrate the three year anniversary of their show; John has a Glenn Beck dream; health care passes, finally; student loan reform too!; some talk on financial regulation (including philosophical debate between Jeff and John); how worried should we be about violence by anti-government types?; Devil’s Advocate - Jeff has to defend Obama’s offshore drilling decision; Suicide bombings in Moscow - what does this mean for Russia, and what broader lessons can we draw about the nature of ‘terrorism?’; US and Russia agree on a new START treaty; Rants - John on Obama and state secrets, Jeff on Jon Stewart and Glenn Beck, and both discuss their 3 year anniversary; stay tuned through the end to find out what song John dedicates to Jeff on this special occasion.
John will be tweeting his way through the State of the Union tonight. So, if you like sarcasm and (hopefully) wit with your political analysis, head on over to his Twitter feed at 7PM MT.
New show coming this weekend.
Dear Friends,
Big announcement, especially amidst the hullabaloo of the Ritter news. John and friend of the show Dillon Doyle have launched a new project that has been in the work for a couple of months: the Colorado Political Institute. The project will provide in-depth analysis and commentary on Colorado politics. We have a report on the role of natural gas in state politics on the (brand new) website, with commentary on Ritter’s resignation coming soon. Jeff will be helping out with the project as well. Check out the CPI site, and follow it on Twitter!
In other (related news), John will be on the Mario Solis-Marich Show today at 4:40 PM MT to talk about Ritter fallout. Listen on AM760 in Denver/Boulder area, or online here.
In other other news, we’re recording a new show tonight so be on the look out for it late tonight or tomorrow.
Indeed, it has been a while since your favorite internet radio show has been online. We owe you an explanation.
We assure you that John didn’t drive 45 minutes to record with Jeff, only to have forgotten all of the recording gear 45 minutes away. Promise. No, really.
There was also that matter of the large snowstorm.
John has a surgery coming up soon that will also impede the podcast-making enterprise.
There was also that matter of your two favorite internet radio-ists being 45 minutes away and both in grad schools.
We promise a new audio episode as soon as we have some time. In the meantime, be on the lookout for some non-audio content. You can also catch John on the Mario Solis-Marich show on Friday afternoons in the 4PM hour (mountain time). You can follow John on Twitter as well - everything you love about him, condensed into bursts of 140 characters.
Hello our best-est friends,
Quick note - due to living an hour away, Jeff in law school, and John in grad school, we’ll be moving the show so that it comes out once every other week. We know, sad news, but it just means you’ll have to savor every episode twice as much.
P.S. New episode coming out this weekend - get excited.
Dearest listeners,
Unfortunately, the CPV will be taking a (short-lived) break from the land of podcasts. Jeff starts law school in a couple days and John is writing a term paper and finishing up his thesis. We’ll be back in late August/early September with more of the goodness you crave.
In the meantime, you can always check out our archives here.
The Colorado Progressive Voice begin in the spring of 2007 at the University of Denver as the brain child of Jeffrey Graves, then President of the DU Dems. He recruited John McMahon, then Editor of the [dis]claimer, DU’s alternative paper/so-called hippie rag. Thus began the synergy of two great minds ready to take the youth progressive media scene by storm.
Starting as the Colorado Progressive Pulse out of KVDU, DU’s student radio station, Jeff and John quickly established the show on two main ideas: the exploration of differences within those broadly defined as ‘progressive’ and bringing the youth voice into the political conversation. With these thoughts in mind, the two built a rapport and started making their mark on the Denver scene, interviewing local activists and major figures, including then-Speaker of the Colorado House, Andrew Romanoff. When John left to study in Russia in the fall of 2007, the show took a short hiatus.
Upon John’s return, the intrepid young journalists relaunched the show as the Progressive Student Voice and struck out on their own, moving out of KVDU and using their own studio to get the show out through podcasting and internet streaming. They expanded their interview reach, talking with presidential candidate Mike Gravel, Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com, and Think Progress’ Matt Yglesias (to name a few). As Jeff moved out for the 2008 campaign season, working for Mark Udall in Colorado, Reggie Perrin filled in as John’s counterpart. Also during the campaign, John became a regular guest on the Mario Solis-Marich show on Denver’s AM760, bringing his thoughts and conversations with other young people to a wider audience.
After the historic election of Barack Obama, Jeff came back and the two relaunched the show in its current form as the Colorado Progressive Voice. With new dreams, new experience, and the new situation of having an administration in office they both voted for, the two set out to situate themselves as both thoughtful critics and analytical defenders of Obama.
Jeffrey Graves is a first-year law student at the University of Colorado in Boulder. A graduate of the University of Denver, where he studied Political Science and Theater, Jeff, a self-described ‘practical progressive,’ evaluates the political scene with inside experience, thoughtful analysis, and a dose of folksy humor.
John McMahon is a grad student working on his MA in International Studies at the University of Denver, where he majored in International Studies and Russian as an undergraduate. A self-avowed ‘postmodernist quasi-socialist,’ John is the ultimate skeptic of Obama and the Dems, and brings a critical eye, sarcasm, and a little bit of anger to the CPV.
