The last thing the Funk Doc saw before getting an eye full of snow.

It's the end of March and it's stil snowy here in the city of Weimar. Nothing better to do but sit around, drink beer, smoke cigarettes, build an occassional snowman, and make a podcast or two.

And this time the Funk Doc was a guest at the Old Man's place for the first time in a while. He showed up, we cracked open the first of many bottles of Sternburg Beer and made us a PODcast.

Let me tell you about Sternburg Beer and why it's an illustration of why life in Germany is great.

Sternburg and Oettinger (the Funk Doc's personal favorite brew christened O-Diddy) are two shamefully cheap German beers. You can get a bottle of the beer of your choice for 32 Euro cents, sometimes 27 if you know where to shop.

Understandably, these brands are not consumed by broad segments of the population. In some social circles they are shunned and deemed "Asi-Bier," which means something like "Beer for bums, punks and homeless people."

People who say such things are idiots and both Sternburg and Oettinger are beers of excellent quality, the likes of which would cost you $4.50 at any Bennigans in the US.

Microphone, American Spirit, and a coupla Sternburgs...

Casual Artscast ain't nothin' to fuck with.

0:00-1:00 - Dixie by the Doc

1:00-4:00 - High School Lives

4:00-7:00 - High School Media and Homogenization

7:00-11:00 - High Schools American Culture / Vonnegut

11:00-15:00 - Conformism, Education, and Work

15:00-18:00 - Exposure

18:00-21:00 - High School Media to American Bluegrass

21:00-25:00 - Doc Watson - Doc's Guitar / Walkin' Boss

25:00-28:00 - American music forms

28:00-34:00 - Cultural connections and American identity

34:00-40:00 - Reunions (Britain, Germany, and the States)

40:00-42:00 - Leo Kottke - My Feet Are Smiling

42:00-48:00 - Bill Monroe - On and On / Live And Let Live

48:00-51:00 - Bill Monroe, Bluegrass and Celts

51:00-56:00 - Funk Doc and Freedom of Speech (Anecdote)

56:00-59:00 - Americans and their Freedom

59:00-1:05:00 - American Enlightenment, European class

1:05:00-1:07:00 - Pride

1:07:00-1:09:00 - Doc Watson - Rose of Old Kentucky

1:09:00-1:09:00 - Plugging the web forum / Wearing the American flag

1:09:00-1:11:00 - Y'all listen again sometime, ya hear?

Don't mind the musical slections this time. We're trying something new.

Actually, we have been known to do a couple of live folk/bluegrass radio shows here at the college radio station in Weimar, but we hope the worldwide reach of the podcast will bring the twangy beauty of Doc Watson, Leo Kottke, and Bill Monroe to a broader audience.