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The Complete Disaster Podcast

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We're a Minnesota-based podcast running since 2012!

Tom Barnard has been in the radio business for decades and hosted the extremely popular KQRS Morning Show from 1986 through 2022.

Andy is Tom's son and the one running things. He'll be the one responding to you on social media, emails, and however else you let your opinions be known.

Also appearing regularly will be Kathryn and Alex, Tom's wife and daughter respectively and podcast regulars since the very beginning.

We're live Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 1-3. We structure the show as 30 minute segments. Some of those segments include:

-Kristyn Burtt, entertainment reporter
-Tim Lammers, movie reviewer
-Costaki Economopoulos, sports comedian and the biggest name in comedy
-Weekend update/family chat, where we talk about what's going on in and outside of our lives
-Plenty of random guests from anywhere we can find them

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Saturday · 23 min
Calvin Mattson and Parker William are bringing magic back
(Part 4) Calvin and Parker are doing a show called "What is Even Happening", which you're not allowed to see. Well, you can, but only if you already have tickets. It's sold out, you see. Regardless, they're here in studio to tell you about how magic is cool again.
Saturday · 31 min
Cats and horses
(Part 3) There are two animal-related movies out now: Cat in the Hat and Wild Horse Nine. The former is apparently just an hour and a half of insane nonsense, if you're into that. The latter is an "arthouse film". From what I understand, that means you'll either love it or hate it.
Saturday · 30 min
Creepy weirdos and Christmas movies
(Part 2) Russell Brand and Meghan Markle's dad have both been determined to be, at best, gross. But Diego Pasillas has been determined to be cool. We can't focus on unpleasant things forever. Especially now that we're in the season of fifty Christmas movies per day.
Friday · 32 min
Lordy lordy look who's 75
(Part 1) Tom's turning 75 tomorrow. You may recall a year or two back that he said that today would be his last day on air. Rest assured, that is not true. What is true is that today we got a surprise call-in to wish Tom a happy birthday. Someone from our past. Who? I'll never tell.
Thursday · 27 min
Joe Anderson reps the Frost
(Part 4) You know how Minnesota sports are kind of...not good? That's only half true. It's the men's sports that aren't good. Women's sports range from adequate to great. The Frost exists on the "great" end of that scale, being two time PWHL champions. And you haven't heard of them before, you have now. Keep an eye on them. Check out https://www.thepwhl.com/en/teams/minnesota-frost for more information!
Thursday · 23 min
Anyone need an Italian clown?
(Part 3) Half the country feels like the midterms were an unprecedented success. The other feels like it's the biggest loss since the meteor wiped out the dinosaurs. But what if I told you they were actually just about average? That's right, this happens basically every four years. What doesn't happen every four years is an Italian sculptor mysteriously appearing, making a bunch of clowns, then vanishing without a trace. It happened at least once though.
Thursday · 34 min
Change of name, change of face
(Part 2) You know how it's not Twitter anymore, it's X? And how it's not PBI, it's DJT? Yes, seriously. Well, people don't just change the names of things these days. Now they change their faces too. Usually by turning into emaciated ghouls. We're not super sure about the reasoning behind that one.
Wednesday · 28 min
Hail to the chief
(Part 1) It's official: Dan is royalty. Or whatever you call someone on the Three Rivers Park District Board of Commissioners. Nobility, at the very least. But what do you call someone who parks their car in front of a gas pump and goes shopping? Are we allowed to put that word here?
Tuesday · 35 min
Zero completions
(Part 4) The Falcons have done it again. They managed to lose a game against an opponent without a single complete pass. Well, that's not strictly true: they did get four interceptions. That's a kind of completion. And hey, even if your franchise never wins, it's still worth upwards of 8 billion dollars, so the owners don't care.
Tuesday · 28 min
Podcassie has a hotel and lyme disease
(Part 3) Cassie, also known as Winnie, is on her way to pick up Dave from his trip to Wales. Then it's back to their haunted hotel they call home, where they repair doors that dogs ate and replace kitchen appliances. Such is the life of a business owner. Usually business ownership doesn't involve months of antibiotics to treat chronic Lyme. But Cassie isn't a usual business owner, is she? Check out the Palmer House Hotel at https://www.thepalmerhousehotel.com/!
Tuesday · 32 min
The one with all the overdoses
(Part 2) Kristyn saw the Matthew Perry documentary, fittingly called The One About Matthew Perry. It's also a story you've heard a million times, because overdoses seem to be increasingly common as of late. At least we have Heidi Klum's bizarre severed hand costume to take our mind off of things.
November 2 · 29 min
Tragedy or treat
(Part 1) Tom and Kathryn are rolling into West Palm Beach as we speak. Maybe not the best timing, because a 2 million dollar jet just crashed a few miles away. Then, while Andy was on his way into the studio, he had to detour around a giant swarm of EMS vehicles. Who knows what that was about. But hey, at least the kids had fun on Halloween, right? Check out some of the products on Amazon that Andy mentioned today at https://a.co/d/09gzqFa7!
October 31 · 29 min
Steve Windels and Nate Hood are the degree-holders of comedy
(Part 4) You probably remember Steve. You know, the beaver doctor? Yeah, him. He did his Doctors of Comedy show a few months ago, and now he's doing another. Joining him is Nate, who is not a doctor of anything, but he does have a masters. That makes him a Master of Comedy. Personally, I think that sounds a lot cooler. For more information about the Doctors of Comedy tour, check out https://www.doctorsofcomedy.com/!
October 31 · 30 min
Wicker is not for internal use
(Part 3) Halloween is the season for scary things. But scary doesn't have to mean werewolves and vampires. It can mean whatever could possess someone to make something like Wicker. Wildwood is a more traditionally Halloween-esque movie, but apparently it's not doing so great. Maybe because it looks like a movie for 8 year olds but, according to Tim, it is not. Kind of like Clayface. Maybe don't bring your kids to see anything we talk about today.
October 30 · 32 min
Patrick Stewart, dancing, and trees
(Part 2) Patrick Stewart died just a few days ago. Whether you knew him as Professor X, Jean-Luc Picard, or that gay guy in Frasier, he was probably in something you liked. I don't think he was ever in Dancing With the Stars, though. He also never grew a Christmas tree for Rockefeller Center. So much life left to live, that one.
October 30 · 28 min
This episode does not constitute medical advice
(Part1) Alex is dressed as a doctor (not a nurse), so we take the opportunity to diagnose Jude's numerous medical issues and talk about the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Apparently it employs like 20% of the entire city's population. We also talk a little about Xavier Riddle. Can you guess why?
October 29 · 34 min
Rory Paquette has two functional lungs
(Part 4) Rory Paquette has been through a lot. Nearly dying from pneumonia, floods that knocked out his internet for a month and a half, losing his business, and even more stuff we didn't even mention. So what did he do? Started a bunch of podcasts. Naturally. You can find Andy's appearance on THE Podcaster Nation here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6xg7gVZk7vJpdweyaymh9J To learn about his other projects, or to learn about his coaching and affiliate programs, follow Rory on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/rory.paquette or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/rorypaquette! This guest was booked using PodMatch! Interested in being a guest on the show? Sign up for PodMatch at https://www.joinpodmatch.com/completedisaster and get in touch!
October 29 · 26 min
Al Isaacs is back, and has a whole half hour this time
(Part 3) Remember Al? The guy who learned he was adopted in his 50s? He was on not very long ago, nor did he have very long on the show. Today we rectify that. This time we get the whole story, plus a little extra. As always, you can find his book, Finding Mary Smith, at https://www.alisaacs.com/! This guest was booked using PodMatch! Interested in being a guest on the show? Sign up for PodMatch at https://www.joinpodmatch.com/completedisaster and get in touch!
October 28 · 31 min
The good old days of more than one camera
(Part 2) Single cam has been dominating for over 20 years. Audiences just expect film-like quality from their TV shows these days. Shows with massive budgets like Stranger Things, Loki, and Andor certainly haven't helped make low budget shows look better in comparison. But are people getting sick of it? Could the age of pulp return? Kristyn hopes so.
October 28 · 31 min
Adamantium claws are checked, not carry-on
(Part 1) When you're bringing home your brass knuckles with giant blades welded to them, make sure TSA knows about them. Otherwise they might find them alarming, for whatever reason. We didn't ask Mike Bryant what the legal ramifications of trying to sneak such an item onto a plane could be, but we can guess that they're probably not great.

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