Pete Brown Says

The Context Crisis

Episode  |  January 17th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  40 mins 18 secs

blood pressure, bon jovi, cardiologist, context, dead or alive, empathy, facebook, ferrets, instagram, snapchat, social media, spam accounts, stories, twitter

I explore the connection between social media, my teenagers and my blood pressure. Along the way, I discover what connects J. Alfred Prufock, Snapchat, Instagram, beastiality, cat-eating aliens, blue monkeys, spam and ferrets. Believe it or not, the answer is Bon Jovi.

Two Lies and a Truth

Episode  |  October 22nd, 2017  |  Season 1  |  25 mins 42 secs

baseball, bon jovi, bonjovi, chocolate beers, game ball, high school basketball, hit by pitch, hypnotism, jon bon jovi, k-mart, kiddie rides, lies, little league, lying, meijer, ponies, race car, sandy, sociopaths, why we lie

Why do we tell lies? And once you tell a lie, can you just move on with your life? Or does the canard haunt you?

In this episode, I explore lying by diving into a few corkers that I've told over the years. Plus, what it takes to get hit by a pitch in baseball, and listener stories about a basketball career that should have been and a man who may or may not have believed himself to be Jon Bon Jovi.