Orlando Alonso & Patrick Dooley

Published: April 2, 2020, 4 a.m.

Episode #001

Say what you say but I’m back, baby! 

Thanks for listening. I’m Dre and I’m back with the next episode. 

Get a Grip!

Feels like a lifetime ago I was working through show notes with guests and cutting weekly shows focusing on tech topics. WordPress mostly. A couple of different shows, hundreds of hours of tech babble and drunken nights with an old pal. It was a good time. And still my favorite content creation channel.

Times have changed, man. Well, in some ways, and not in others. I still have 5 kids. Still addicted to Jiu-Jitsu - more so every day really. I did get my MBA. That wasn’t fun. the outcome is cool. I still love building shit for the internet and playing in my Jeep. Confinement of the masses is different. I have been thinking about getting back to broadcasting but the quarantine was the final trigger and also the ultimate schedule clearing event for many of us. 

I can’t train, but I can talk. So here we are.

Get a Grip w/ Dre Armeda  

It’s a simple premise:

It’s conversations. Open topics. About an hour. Can make it as thematic as we want, or not. We’ll mostly just shoot the shit.

And that’s literally what’s about to go down. I figured what a better way to kick off the first episode than hanging with two of my best friends in the world. 

Yup, kicking off with one of the funniest Cubans I know, Orlando Alonso. Carlson Gracie Blackbelt and owner/professor of Carlson Gracie Menifee. He’s a US Marine and entertainer by way of musical instruments and stand-up comedy. 

With us on this train wreck, today is another close friend, Judo Blackbelt (USA Judo Instructor, Carlson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu brown belt. He’s the English major of the group and all-around funny guy

Joining us to spit crazy Irish stories all in proper grammar. Patrick Dooley.