The Tom Barnard Show

Ditch weed is often considered undesirable. Rolling your car into a ditch, much moreso. Both are better than getting into radio, according to Tom. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One would think that 34 surgeries on one limb would necessarily mean that limb isn't very useful any more. If you're like Amberly, that is not the case. Her various trials by fire may have given her an edge though. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Regardless of your position on college professors, we'll give you a voice. We never asked Nicholas his opinion on the issue, but he wrote a book about his experience as a sniper which we decided was more interesting. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remember old movies? We do. We also remember funeral potatoes and other midwest food that amounts to potatoes with whatever on them. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There was a ripple in the banking industry, and it was called Ripple. It's a bit too late to make billions of dollars insider trading, but it didn't seem to do much good for the guy who did. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's a lot of history in the Burtt family. A lot of it seems to be gender wars. On the plus side she didn't have her workplace broken into and destroyed, unlike Tami. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been a snowy year no matter where you are, as long as you're sufficiently far north. The Boston Marathon was an icy hellscape, which explains why a white person finally won it. At the very end of our hour, we go from snow to rain; purple rain. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ten years ago, everyone was skeptical about the iPhone. That skepticism ended up being unwarranted. Most people aren't skeptical about whether or not a wild animal will attack you, but there's always someone out there who hasn't learned that lesson. Those people would benefit from Look Big, Rachel's book. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The witch from Bewitched was big into gay rights. So was a young man named Davey Buckel, who was actually 60 years old. Both are now dead. Lesson: activism kills. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The flakes keep dropping but fortunately so do the clips! Guaranteed to make you feel slightly less snowed in.Featuring: Erik Rivenes, Myq Kaplan, and Jumpin' Jim Brunzell See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Radio talk show hosts gave Charles the nickname "Dr. Knowledge"--an appropriate name for a man who has amassed one of the world's largest collections of interesting facts and stories in his more than 50 years as a journalist. Charles now presents the best of his formidable collection in this book of all-time fascinating facts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Acme Comedy Company headliner Myq Kaplan stops by on a Freaky Friday to give us his take on the superstitious world of comedy. Later, we are joined by Jonathan Barkan to debate the top thirteen horror movies to watch this Friday the 13th. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Friday the 13th and sitting in for Tom is Dave Schrader as we discuss The Ghost of Flight 401 with guest Mark Anthony. A jetliner crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing over 94 passengers along with the flight officer, Dom Cimoli. When engineers use pieces of the damaged plane to repair other jetliners, crew members and passengers experience haunting visions of the dead flight officer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every year the number of autism diagnoses increases, but that doesn't automatically mean the number of people who know how to deal with it increases.  That's why people like Jeanne write books like 7 Emotional Secrets. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom and Ian talk at length about nothing in particular, having agreed on the topic of fake news in the span of about ten minutes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Once every 6 months, Tom finds a new show he likes. It's five years old, but Silicon Valley is new to him. Rampage is even older, having come out in 1986, but this year we'll be seeing a movie adaptation of an ancient arcade game. Somehow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Deena lets her mind run, along with the rest of her. You don't have to run marathons, but the mind running thing is for everyone. Mind over matter isn't a popular phrase for no reason. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can you tell if someone's a drummer? They play the drums. There will be no anti-drummer rhetoric here, at least not while Jake and Nik, two of history's biggest drum fans, are on. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are many ways to get murdered, especially in Minneapolis. At least according to Nik. You might be familiar with his views on the downtown area. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ultimately, the bullet that killed Osama Bin Laden could have only come from one gun. That's just how bullets work. As fate had it, that bullet was fired by Robert. He and the rest of SEAL Team 6's mission has been showcased at length, but now we're getting a perhaps less Hollywood-ized account. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices