B-Lo Zero

Adam recaps a week of news, politics, and sports... and also notices halfway through the episode that the microphone was facing the wrong way. Please visit www.patreon.com/blozeropodcast and sign up as a patron to our show for as little as a dollar a month, which will give you plenty of bonus content!

Adam plays with his new and improved recording set-up (thanks, Brandon!) while recapping a week of news and... the Bills are really good??? Please visit www.patreon.com/blozeropodcast and sign up as a patron to our show for as little as a dollar a month, which will give you plenty of bonus content!

Adam recaps a week's worth of housing news in Buffalo, including a couple op-eds that are... good?

Adam recaps the recent news stories - COVID-related spikes in WNY, new train stations - and then lets really bad political opinion pieces get too far under his skin.

Adam recaps the recent news stories: Dem wins, Cuomo losses, and COVID-related spikes in WNY.

Adam recaps the recent news stories from November 22, 2020.

Adam recaps the recent news stories on November 21, 2020.

The show is back! Kinda. Adam is going to fill that B-Lo Zero-sized hole in everyone's heart as best he can moving forward until the pandemic allows the return of the old show!

UNLOCKED BONUS CONTENT! Adam does a Chapo Trap House-style reading series with an editorial from The Buffalo News; unsurprisingly, it's really bad. To support our show and get more amazing bonus content, check out our Patreon here: www.patreon.com/blozeropodcast

UNLOCKED BONUS CHRISTMAS CONTENT! Adam covers the Bills/Patriots game and the Sabres final couple games before the holiday break, then takes a look at the recent news story about Mickey Kearns's latest challenge to the NY Green Light Law. To support our show and get more amazing bonus content, check out our Patreon here: www.patreon.com/blozeropodcast

Adam and Brandon wrap up the calendar year, and season two, by reviewing Buffalo sports happenings (how about those BILLS???) and taking a quick scan around recent local news stories. We'll be off for the holidays, but we'll see you in 2020! Please visit www.patreon.com/blozeropodcast and sign up as a patron to our show for as little as a dollar a month, which will give you plenty of bonus content!

Adam and Brandon are joined by Rob Galbraith (@RobGalbraithLS) from the Public Accountability Initiative (@twittlesis) to talk about an enormous issue facing Buffalo right now: the 485-a tax break. What is it? How is it being used by developers? And what do the answers to these questions mean for the rest of us, and our own taxes? Check out this episode to find out all that, and a whole lot more. Please visit https://www.patreon.com/blozeropodcast and sign up as a patron to our show for as little as a dollar a month, which will give you plenty of bonus content! Also, for more information about PAI and their stellar and irreplaceable reporting, please visit: https://public-accountability.org/

UNLOCKED BONUS CONTENT! Whoa, quite the news day here in Buffalo! First, Adam quickly recaps yesterday's elections (spoiler alert: there were no spoilers), then goes into the big ticket item THE FBI RAIDED CITY HALL FOR 8 HOURS WHAT. Yes, that happened. What does it mean? Listen and find out! Please join our Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/blozeropodcast!

Adam and Brandon start off with some thoughts about the shakiness of the Bills and Sabres, then fill out the rest of the episode with a bunch of quick hit takes on a variety of recent Buffalo news items. It was about time to get caught up!

Adam and Brandon are joined by their good friend and die-hard Buffalo sports fan Andy to talk about the 5-1 Bills and 7-1-1 Sabres. Who are these teams, and are they for real??? Maybe, maybe not - give us a listen for our hot takes! NOTE: The sports scene is so on fire right now that we didn't even get into any local news items in this episode. Keep your eyes on your feed for some bonus material coming later this week!

UNLOCKED BONUS CONTENT! Adam gives his hot takes on the Sabres and Bills, then addresses the surprising recent news of Chris Collins's change to a guilty plea and resignation from Congress. To support our show and get more amazing bonus content, check out our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/blozeropodcast

There is a patrons-only track available - you can listen to it for as little as $1! https://www.patreon.com/posts/30202266

Adam and Brandon are joined by Jack Kavanaugh and Vanessa Glushefski, hosts of the "Buffalo Politics: Uncensored" podcast, to talk about all things related to running for office, including the lay of the land currently and where they see things going in the future. This was a very fun podcast cross-over special, and we look forward to doing way more of these in the future! Note: childcare can be complicated, so please enjoy the occasional appearances by Vanessa's children!

Adam and Brandon are joined by Chris Hawley, a local labor history enthusiast, to talk about unions and their struggles here in Buffalo throughout the years. This one is CHOCK full of amazing and interesting tidbits (for instance: did you know THE Mother Jones visited Buffalo?), so please celebrate Labor Day belatedly by giving this one a listen!

Adam and Brandon are joined by not one, but TWO live public school teachers - Josh and Sarah! After a chat recapping a little bit of sports, the conversation moves into talking about public schools, and the narratives surrounding both them and their teachers/employees. Listen to this one to learn a bunch of things you never knew you needed to know! NOTE: Please excuse the sound quality - we didn't have enough microphones for everybody, so we rigged up a special system to record the conversation. Please consider contributing on Patreon so that, one day, we can go super professional with our set-up!

Adam and Brandon are back! If you're wondering what took so long in between episodes, they explain back in Part One. Then, because it's been half a year since the last episode, they recap all the recent news happenings (that they could think of at the moment). As a matter of fact, they had so much to recap that the episode had to be split into two parts: one dedicated to sports, and the other dedicated to news stories. (This makes it easy for those of you who only care about one or the other to skip the part you don't like!) NOTE: Please excuse the sound quality - Brandon, our producer, had to fight with a program with which he is unfamiliar and only now learning. Things should iron themselves out over time. Thanks!

Adam and Brandon are back! If you're wondering what took so long in between episodes, they explain all that here. Then, because it's been half a year since the last episode, they recap all the sports happenings since January and try to take a look forward at the same time. As a matter of fact, they had so much to recap that the episode had to be split into two parts: one dedicated to sports, and the other dedicated to news stories. (This makes it easy for those of you who only care about one or the other to skip the part you don't like!) NOTE: Please excuse the sound quality - Brandon, our producer, had to fight with a program with which he is unfamiliar and only now learning. Things should iron themselves out over time. Thanks!

Adam speaks with Josh Bunting from Justice For Migrant Families about the Green Light (Luz Verde) bill that recently passed in the NY legislature and was signed into law. We hope to be back to our regular episodes extremely soon, but please enjoy this in the meantime (and pretend it's a normal episode). Brandon is the one who knows how to record things properly, so please accept the lower quality of us chatting in my kitchen!

Adam and Brandon take a glance back at the Bills season, followed by one forward to next year. After the sports recap, they go over recent news since the previous episode: some politics, a new Convention Center, and other topics. NOTE: Please excuse the sound quality - Brandon, our producer, had to fight with a program that was trying to keep our audio away from us, so he had to make do with what he could manage. We'll have these issues ironed out next time. Thanks!

Adam and Brandon welcome their first guest - @seanmcd15! Sean joins the guys to give an in-depth look at UB basketball and football, as well as the rest of Buffalo sports. Then, because their second guest was unable to come on the show for the latter segment, the guys take a quick look around the city at a few current news topics.

Adam and Brandon review all the exciting things happening recently in Buffalo sports (Sabres winning streak!?!?), and then tackle the issue of gentrification and how it affects people and communities locally. Our featured artist this week is Jillian Hanesworth performing "An Apple On A Pear Tree". Look her up on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube for more of her art!

Adam is a bit of a lefty wonk. If you're any sort of right-winger, you should probably just skip this one.

We went pretty heavy on the sports here because that's how the conversation went. Also, we fought off some technical difficulties and we don't have a theme song yet, but... a solid start I'd say, all in all.