Rambling On #1: Seriously Fun Commentary on Music, Sports, Culture, and More

Erik and Peter discuss winter beers, the Vikings 2014 issues, the Twins' signing of Paul Molitor as manager, and recent Minnesota Wild news. - 0:00-3:50 Introduction, alcohol talk including: Jim Beam, New Belgium Accumulation, Jameson, Blue Moon, and gutter hooch. - 3:50- 13:25 Vikings in 2014, sports commentator talk (Moss, Irving, etc.),in defense of Teddy Bridgewater (and against damn near the rest of the team) - 13:25- 23:35 Twins talk: Molitor the right choice as manager?, Ron Gant and Kent Hrbek story, how the Twins way will be changing, Molitor as good guy. - 23:35- end: Wild talk, the mumps, the curious case of delinquency Josh Harding, is it time to panic? Thanks as always for listening!

In his first solo podcast Erik covers (times of chapters in parentheses): - 0:00-6:30 Introduction and information on Rambling On's Fall/October mixtape All Souls - 6:30-12:30 U2 gave their last album Songs of Innocence away on iTunes. And they got ridiculed for it. Insane. - 12:30-16:00 Commentary on this quote from American Chesterton Society president Dale Ahlquist that begins: "The attraction of state education is that it is free even if it is not good. It creates a passive society that wants to be taken care of and entertained..." - 16:00-25:00/end On the Vikings loss to the Bills, not giving up on Teddy Bridgewater, the surging Packers, the possibly Super Bowl bound Detroit Lions, and Brandon Marhsall calling out some teammates after their loss to Miami. Thanks as always for listening!

There are a lot of question marks for the Vikings in 2014. How will the new coaching staff do? Will Cordarrell Patterson have his breakout year? Will the Vikings defense improve under Zimmer? In the podcast Erik and Peter explore the positives and negatives of the 2014 team.

In episode three of Rambling On, seriously fun commentary on music, sports, culture, and more, Erik and Peter discuss possible off-season moves for the Wild and the Twins' recent slump. Thanks for listening!

Erik and Peter analyze the Twins signing of Kendrys Morales and discuss the Minnesota Wild in 2013-2014 and beyond. Includes conversation about goalies, injuries, and the teams young talent.

Rambling On is seriously fun commentary on sports, music, culture, and more from east St. Paul, Minnesota. Your hosts are journalist and musician Erik Ritland (http://www.erikritland.com) and sports analyst Peter Ripka. In the inaugural episode Erik and Peter explain the different perspective they bring to our world that is over-saturated with opinions. They discuss the importance of taking yourself and your views seriously but not too seriously, avoiding being too positive or too negative, not having an "us vs. them" attitude about people who disagree with you, and not giving in to the bullshit of extremists on all sides that seem to be taking over how we dialog. Please let us know what you think! Visit http://www.ramblingon.net or email erik@ramblingon.net. Thanks for listening!