Easytown Radio

EasytownRadio R.I.P. (Mar 2006 - Jan 2008)

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:40:00 -0700

To all of our listeners, and to everyone who ever appeared in an episode with us, I say THANK YOU, and I hope that you enjoyed your time with the Easytown Radio show.

This epitaph has been a long time coming.

In January of 2008, we launched what was to become our final episode #26 (Pink Floyd). It was our best episode, and we really went out with a bang. I don't think any of us knew it'd be our last episode when we were producing it. At the time, other ideas for forthcoming episodes were still piling up, but I knew that I needed a break. Episode #27 (Umphrees McGee) was hosted by Balls Deep, but was never launched, and I think it still sits on the launchpad today; just waiting for a countdown to a launch that will never happen. In my mind's eye, it stands frozen on the launchpad for all time; as a reminder of what once was (and what might have become). The nonlaunch of Episode #27 signaled the end of Easytown Radio for me.

Will I help produce another podcast again someday? Time will tell. None could ever be as creatively satisfying for me as Easytown Radio was. Then again, perhaps Easytown Radio was just the beginning. Like many artists do, I tend to believe that my best work is AHEAD of me (not behind me). I'll continue being creative for as long as I live.

And so, if we never meet again this side of heaven, I leave you with some good advice. Always look ahead to the next great thing, while never forgetting where you came from. You can have anything you want in life, but first you have to dream it.

Thank you and goodnite.
~Tim Easy
Co-producer / Writer / Host

What A Year!

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:25:00 -0800

Hi fans!
Wow, what a year its been here at EasytownRadio! I think we published a whopping ONE podcast in all of 2008, haha :-)
I think that's a new record for us, for "Fewest Podcasts In A Year". Now, I know some of you might be asking yourselves the question, "can EasytownRadio still call itself a podcast anymore?". The answer to that little question is a simple one. Yes, not only are we still a podcasting entity, but we are also still a pioneering force to be reckoned with in the podcast game. Perhaps the phrase "underachieving pioneers" suits us better at the moment, but we'll be back in 2009. We'll also be bigger, better, and badder than ever!

In the meantime, why not visit us at The Suck It Easy Band Dot Com, and see what we've been up to with our band on the Long Island music scene!

http://www.thesuckiteasyband.com

Confetti!
~Tim Easy
E a s y t o w n R a d i o
Co-producer/Writer/Host

Halloween Hangover!

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Sat, 1 Nov 2008 09:30:00 -0700

Did you know it's almost time for Long Island's most hotly anticipated costume ball?

H A L L O W E E N H A N G O V E R

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2

The Nutty Irishman
60 East Main Street
Bay Shore, NY
Doors open at 2:00 PM
Admission $10
21 and older

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2

Live music by The Easy Brothers Family Band / Playing Dead / Rid Of
Me / Suck It Easy / Jeff Regan Band / Bottoms Up / Blind Robbery /
Roast Beef Curtains

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2

Enter the EasytownRadio Costume Contest and win Cash Prizes!
~ Best Male Costume
~ Best Female Costume
~ Funniest Costume
~ Dumbest Costume
~ Naughtiest Costume

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2

Halloween Hangover is made possible by EasytownRadio and The Groove
Shack!

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2

For more information, visit these helpful links:
http://www.thesuckiteasyband.com
http://suckiteasy.tumblr.com
http://www.myspace.com/thesuckiteasyband

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2

And for the ultimate variety podcast experience, click here:
http://www.easytownradio.com
Episode #27 coming soon, saluting the music of Umphrey's McGee!

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2

The Suck It Easy Band Dot Com

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:16:00 -0700

The Suck It Easy Band has a new website currently under construction, and everyone can view it by visiting http://www.thesuckiteasyband.com

Beergut Beer

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:23:00 -0700

Easytown Radio is brought to you by, BEERGUT BEER!

More stars, better mountains, and meaner eagles than ANY other beer! Go for the gutso! Are you tired of counting carbs? Count the rolls in your belly! Let freedom drink! A flag pin on every cap! There's Beergut Sluts EVERYWHERE! On your marks, get set, gut!

BEERGUT BEER may not be available in all areas, some restrictions apply, side-effects may include amnesia, and...amnesia...

(Artwork by Easytown Radio's very own Frank Powers! We be Frankenstylin', mon!)

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:05:00 -0700

Dee Jurgens is the recipient of today's SoOpErDoOpEr SHOUT-OUT!

A hale and hearty veteran of the Easytown Radio programme, and the driving force behind many of our female characters, Dee has proven she's got it what takes to be the next big radio star!

From the OTB Breakfast Cereal ad, to the Piss Off The Neighbor promo, Dee has entertained untold millions of our happy podcast listeners!

Easytown Radio diehard fans will always treasure her popular performances with such groundbreaking roles as Wendy Uts, Taco Bella, DJ Angel, Angel (from Angel's Charlies), The announcer from Mission: Irascible, Connie and Candii Lingus and Herc Oxbigg's wife (in Dysfunctional Family Feud), Trisha Applebumgblebee (foreign exchange student attending Easytown High), Betty or Patricia - I forget which (from Friday The Squirteenth), the pitchwoman for the makers of Go Fuck Yourself, and many more!

Frank Powers is the MAN!

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:23:00 -0700

Hello fans! Tim Easy here!

If you've been enjoying the recent cartoony action on our Easytown Radio website, you're not alone! All rise, and put your damn hands together, party people! The legendary Frank Powers has joined our Easytown radio staff, and Frank's dishing out generous helpings of cartoony fun! To learn more about Frank and his wild cartoony goodness, visit him at frankenstylin dot com and/or email him at frank@frankenstylin.com

www.frankenstylin.com (!applause crescendo!) www.frankenstylin.com (!standing ovation!)

Also catch Frank Powers in Royal Flush magazine!

www.royalflushmagazine.com (!sweet!) www.royalflushmagazine.com (!omg!)

Got questions? Just write to our trusty mailbag watchdog, Sonny Calzone. Sonny answers all questions in a timely manner...or is it a stately wayne manner? Ah well, I forget. Anyway, yeah, ask Sonny.

sonnycalzone@gmail.com

Arriverderci Easytown,
~T

Ted Kennedy: Drunk Detective!

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:10:00 -0700

This looks like another case (of Cutty Sark?) for Ted Kennedy: Drunk Detective! Only on Easytown Radio!

Hey kids! It's Don Uts! Badadadadababoom!

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:06:00 -0700

Enjoy a midnight snack with America's favorite deadbeat dad, Don Uts! Only on Easytown Radio!

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Wed, 9 Jul 2008 20:30:00 -0700

Get ready to laugh your pants off! It's G*A*S*H! Only on Easytown Radio :-)

With stars, Balls Deep as Lapper John! Tim Easy as Nurse Baloniponi! Kevin Pritchard as Browneye Pierced! Ken Horgan as Major Bigchester! Chris Kling as Colonel Pot Her! Spring Palser as Hot Lips O'Houlahandjob! Richard Zimmerman as Colonel Henry Blake! Hank Porter as Radar O'Verticalsmiley! Ricky Woods as Frank Burnswhenipee! Spring Palser again, as Nurse Hidasalami! Kevin Pritchard again, as Flinger! Tim Easy again, as Jizzo! And a cast of thousands!

Big Summer Contest!

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:37:00 -0700

Hello fans! This contest comes in the form of a two-part question. Answer both parts with a written response right here, for your chance to be the winner of our big summer contest!
Part One:Guess that song!(...and here's a clue, in the form of the song's lyrics)
Hello?Is there anybody in there?Just nod if you can hear me.Is there anyone at home?Come on, now,I hear you're feeling down.Well I can ease your painGet you on your feet again.Relax.I'll need some information first.Just the basic facts.Can you show me where it hurts?
There is no pain you are recedingA distant ship, smoke on the horizon.You are only coming through in waves.Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.When I was a child I had a feverMy hands felt just like two balloons.Now I've got that feeling once againI can't explain you would not understandThis is not how I am.I have become comfortably numb.
O.K.Just a little pinprick.There'll be no more aaaaaaaaah!But you may feel a little sick.Can you stand up?I do believe it's working, good.That'll keep you going through the showCome on it's time to go.
There is no pain you are recedingA distant ship, smoke on the horizon.You are only coming through in waves.Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpseOut of the corner of my eye.I turned to look but it was goneI cannot put my finger on it nowThe child is grown, The dream is gone.I have become comfortably numb.

Part Two:What should your prize be?

Send your answers right now, right here, and let's see what ya got
The grooviest response will be the winner of our big summer contest!

Yours
~Tim Easy
Co-producer, Writer, Host
Easytown Radio
Big swinging dicks since 2006

From The Desk Of Tim Easy

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Thu, 8 May 2008 09:54:00 -0700

Hi fans!
I return from sabbatical next week, and I'll get right back to work, bringing you the best in variety podcast entertainment! It's been a a very much needed break for me, while I catch my breath. Humble apologies to all who've been (im)patiently awaiting the arrival of episode #27. Thank you for not hunting me down and flogging me in the meantime. After all, if there's one thing a man can't stand, it's being hunted down and flogged! Unless that person was a masochist, I suppose, ...which I clearly am NOT.
Anyway, ahem! In honor of this year being the 25th anniversary of Quiet Riot's Metal Health LP, you can expect my return to the host's chair with a rockin' Quiet Riot episode #28! Horns up!

SUCK IT EASY CAUGHT ON TAPE!!!

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:54:00 -0700

Suck It Easy had a great time celebrating 4/20 at the Crazy Donkey!
Check out these Two Links!!! :
PHOTO GALLERY
SUCK IT EASY FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON VIDEO!!

Duck Season/ Bocce Season

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:54:00 -0700

Bocce season opened and we had a blast!

Click the pic for more

Easyboat 08 Tickets Available Now!

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:06:00 -0700

Buy Easyboat 08 tickets online!

The FIRST EASYTOWNRADIO GAME!

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:56:00 -0800

A Four Hour Tour

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:34:00 -0800

Tim and i found this while re-arranging the loft in the Farmingdale estate.

I apologize for the bad photo with the incorrect date.... how did that happen?!!

Episode Twenty Six - The Pink Floyd

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:20:00 -0800

If there's one thing you must know about classic rock music, it's The Pink Floyd. They exhaled a creative vision unlike no other band before them, or since. Easytown Radio is proud to present Episode 26, for your listening pleasure.

Dramatis Personae:
~ Mike Belmonte . . . as Dick Dawson Jr
~ Dee Jurgens . . . as Connie Linguss, Candii Linguss, and York Oxbigg's wife (whatever her name is)
~ Russ Rogers . . . as Don The Announcer, and Duke Oxbigg
~ Balls Deep . . . as Herc Oxbigg, and other assorted roles
~ Dustin Scalfani . . . as Connor "Cunny" Linguss and Mike Oxbigg Jr
~ Tim Easy . . . as York Oxbigg
~ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? . . . as Mailman Glenn!

CONTEST RULES:
The first lucky listener to correctly identify our Easytown Radio actor who voiced the character Mailman Glenn will win a fabulous prize! Yes, we're awarding a sooperDOOPER shoutOUT to be played in our next episode, and the winner could be you! So, listen closely, and send your guesses by email to us at timeasy@easytownradio.com
The contest expires on February 1st and the winner's name will be posted here in big bright lights!

DISCLAIMER:
Easytown Radio is made by adults for adults. And, if it were a motion picture, it would be rated R by the motion picture association of America. Thusly, parental discretion is advised.

ENGINEER'S NOTE:
Easytown Radio itself is a work of love. An inspiration. Let it be known that this particular episode is the podcast equivalent of the classic "Rock Opera" in my eyes, and a production on a new level for Easytown! Good things will happen in 2008.

Episode Twenty Five _ Herbie Hancock

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:27:00 -0700

Are you ready to get down with the sweet sounds of Herbie Hancock?

Welcome to episode 25 :-)

This episode is dedicated to our brother Russ Rogers.

For the uninitiated, Herbie Hancock singlehandedly redefined the rhythm section in jazz music. From his nights performing with Miles Davis in the 60's, to his experimental funkjazz fusion voyages in the 70's, to his electronic flights of fancy in the 80's, to his Grammy-winning ways in the 90's, right on up 'til today...Herbie remains a musical hero and a national treasure, who's legacy will foverer burn bright, like a shining star in the night.

Now...
Just lean back and enjoy the ride...

This one's for Russ

~T

Episode Twenty Four - The Doors

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:07:00 -0700

Ladies and gentlemen, from Los Angeles California, the DOORS! We picked FIVE songs from the Aquarius Theater concerts of 1969, so you can get down all night long! Alright Alright Alright!

Other highlights include the return of Ted Kennedy: Drunk Detective, and Wikipedia Brown, and Spoiler Stan, and the debut of Taco Bella, and Family Hour!

Hey its Easytown Radio! Tell a friend and get with the program!

Spotted on the HIGHWAY

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:40:00 -0700

Episode TWENTY THREE - Rush the Middle Years

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:10:00 -0700

It's an Easytown Radio salute to the middle years of RUSH!

Featured guests:
Ham It Up Guy, from the pork store!
Drunkle Joe, fresh from the bar!
Trisha Apple Bumblebee, foreign exchange student!

Written by:
Tim Easy
Greg Frisina

Engineered by:
Mike Sin

Recorded at:
Easytown Loft

Songs:
A Passage To Bangkok
Freewill
Closer To The Heart
Bastille Day
The Trees

Listener Mail:
Johnny Styne
Matt Kelly
Alan Semerdjian

Easybox:
McCartney Jayne Weiss

Sooperdooper Shout-Out:
Balls Deep

Special Thanks:
Terry Brown
Ricky Woods
Russ Rogers
Kevin Pritchard
Greg Frisina
Dee Jurgens
Johnny Styne
Matt Kelly
Alan Semerdjian
McCartney Jayne
Wings Over Farmingdale (best chicken wings on Long Island)

Produced by:
Tim Easy
Mike Sin

"American Pirate" notes:
Ricky Woods, as the voices of Captain Plank and Elvis Presley
Russ Rogers, as the voices of Captain Clambeard and Swab The Deck
Kevin Pritchard, as the voices of The Tooth, and Johnnie LovesChachiRodriguez
Balls Deep, as the voices of One Eyed Peter, and Fred
Mike Sin, as the voice of Captain Aaarrrdanlong
Tim Easy, as the voices of Captain Bent Gently, and Ivan The

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Drink-Off
Drunkle Joe challenged Slappy Nads to a Drink-Off! There's been no word, if Slappy has accepted the challenge yet. We remain hopeful that this Clash Of The Beer Titans will truly come to pass

Herbie Goes Easytown
Fans of jazz legend Herbie Hancock are in for a treat! That's right, episode 25 will be another fabulous foray, and we're spinning essential Herbie Hancock grooves. And, ...wait, what about episode 24?

Episode 24 Preview
We've got music from The Doors, recorded live in the summer of '69, at the Aquarius Theater in Hollywood CA! These live cuts were recorded onto four 3M M56 solid state 1" 8 tracks and Ampex model 351 tube 2 track Analog recorders. The console was a Langevin 18 X 8. Tickets were $2 dollars. Scalpers were selling them for as much as $5 dollars. The concerts were sold out. Jim Morrison was 25 years young, on top of his game, and swinging Tarzan-style from a rope across the stage (it's true, just ask Robbie)

EPISODE TWENTYTWO - fIREHOSE

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:19:00 -0700

fIREHOSE packs a punch, and so do Mike Sin, Mr Lovinspoonful, KJW, DJ Angel, Friendly The Hippo, and you the listeners! Yes, the Easytown hotness continues, as the summer heats up here in the Northern hemisphere! Listener Mail is back in a big way, and another delicious Easybox awaits you! Enjoy!

~Tim Easy
President of the Mike Sin Booster Club

EPISODE TWENTY ONE -MARVIN GAYE

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:30:00 -0700

My favorite moment in this epsiode is Tim Easy's rendition of 'Let's Get it on'.
It represents so many things to me about Marvin Gaye's music, Tim Easy Himself, Easytown Radio and of course the undescribable force that is Suck It Easy.
Music is something means so much to many and even more to each one of those many.
Enjoy this episode and the love that is easytownradio.
- Mike Sin, Producer/Engineer, EasytownRadio

EPISODE TWENTY -THE LED ZEPISODE

mrzee1@aol.com (Tim Easy and Mike Sin) — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:28:00 -0700

Welcome to our new favorite episode!

The first listener to correctly identify each song in our LedZepisode will be awarded a factory-sealed 6mm handgun, courtesy of Heywood Jablomi and the Easytown Chamber of Commerce! (ammo included)