The Tom Barnard Show

Are the Oscars so white? The debate still rages. We know for sure that they're Gray, as Beverly has been chronicling them for years. Though modern awards are all politics, let's remember when they weren't for a while. 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 Grammys are back. If you guessed that it would be a long series of political statements, you guessed right. Speaking of things that suck, Tonya Harding's life did that. Watch the movie. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's Best Of is absolutely chalk skol of Vikings content.Featuring: Carl Eller, Matt BirkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you need to step up your pickpocketing game or avoid certain areas, Ali has the information for you. If you need to know where to buy some accentuating pants, Ali knows a brand. Don't try to get him to pay 40 dollars for an appetizer though. That one probably applies to most people.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's take a trip to Peru and drink some pisco. Those looking for political debate, come back soon. If you're not, you should probably stay there for an hour or so.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 Carl are from a different era: an era when people really cared about the Vikings. It's looking like we may be reliving the past sometime soon, if the Vikings can keep this year's performance up. Also, pancake breakfast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the Tom Barnard Travel Agency we offer two packages. You can either hike down into a gorge and live with the snow and the bears while you mine for gold, or you can go to South Saint Paul and get some meat straight off the animal. There are other things to do there but that's the only one we endorse.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 death in the air, or at least there is if you're reading this from late 1952\. If so, use your electricity on an air filter, not a computer. If you're from the present, you'll have to settle for reading about it in Kate'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

It's year two of the four to eight year long national panic. I hope you like it, because we're not getting one second off until the next president is elected.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We played things fast and loose in the 80s.  Before that, as you may have heard, Thomas Edison and Hollywood had a troubled relationship.  But what about even earlier?  As in 500 years earlier?  You might be surprised how much was going on at the time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephen Young isn't young, and that means young people find his views old. But is Young's thinking old, or are the young in the wrong? Our show has both the young and the old and we don't think Young is old.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 the return of Larry. You may remember him from his book of backstage shots of famous musicians. You may also be wondering what the logical next step is. The answer: peaceful nature. It's obvious, really.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

That whole California secession thing is starting to sound pretty good as they continue to be very bad at making fundamental decisions. Will the bubble burst, or will it simply evaporate when it runs out of water? Meanwhile, Kim Fields has had a life of success which she attributes to a blessed life. You could also write it Blessed Life, since it's the title of her book as well.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is your quiver full? If you don't know what that means, probably not. But if you do, you may also know the story of Mormonism, so much of this episode will be old news to you. What you may not know is that strychnine can put some pep in your step. It's much more likely to put some death in your step, so exercise caution.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you have a lot of money, you may be tempted to do some weird things, because apparently money makes you insane. For example, picking up hitchhikers. Don't do it. You've got money; call them an Uber.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Long ago, grace and civility were things you taught children in a fancy academy. Strangely, that practice seems to have been a vital part of our society, as civility levels are critically low.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now that we've generated our requisite negativity, we can finally celebrate the Vikings. And celebrate we do. Even Costaki.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 Vikings are getting closer to That One Game every day, with another surprise victory yesterday. We're happy about that for about ten minutes. Then it's back to lamentations.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Revenge is a dish best served cold, and these clips are a dish best served Best Of. Skol Vikings!Clips Featuring: Nick Swardson, and Costaki EconomopoulosSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether or not you're willing to read online comments seems to be generational. On an individual level, it always trends negatively. Speaking of trending negatively, have you noticed that the better America does, the more people complain about it?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices