Dissecting Dallas

Shutting down

2009-12-30T17:54:00.000-08:00

It was a hoot back in the day, but I am sorry to say that I have to shut the website, and the podcast feed down. We had a great time putting it together, and I still love Dallas...but the cost and lack of time to do new episodes leaves me to the conclusion that I must end it all.

Thank you very much to all our fans...and I'll keep watching and loving the crap out of the greatest show ever created....Dallas!

-Bradley

2008-03-13T18:35:00.001-07:00

I'm thinking about bringing my podcast back online after the long hiatus.

Unfortunately, Justin will not be able to return....it would be just me...rambling on about Dallas..

Look for a return of sorts sometime at the beginning of April, now that I have more time, I think it's time to bring the old girl back!

-Bradley

Long lapse in podcast

2007-08-06T18:08:00.001-07:00

I'm so sorry for the lapse in podcasts since April. Me and Justin have a big inspection at work we've been preparing all this time.

We haven't had anything to talk about since we ended the Complete sixth season DVD because nothing else has come out.

We will try and get a podcast up around September...since our inspection will be gone by then.

Thanks for all the great comments, and I appreciate you listening.

-Bradley

Podcast 9 up

2007-04-19T18:56:00.000-07:00

Well, I finally wrangled Justin back, and this time we brought some friends.

Basically me, Justin, Jake and Dave all work together and watch Dallas every day at lunch. Me and Justin thought it would be a good idea to include them in a podcast to see how it goes.

Mainly we covered the Complete fifth season DVD set, but we really didn't have much form to the show, we just babbled on about the greatest show on earth....Dallas!

As always, you can download the podcast in the iTunes Music Store...just search for "Dissecting Dallas", then subscribe.

To download episode, you can go to http://www.dissectingdallas.com/, and direct download all the episodes so far.

The RSS feed is http://www.dissectingdallas.com/DD_feed.xml You can also subscribe to it via iTunes....just go to the iTunes music store and search for "Dissecting Dallas. You can also direct download it here: Episode 9

-Bradley

Sorry it's taking me so long

2007-04-08T09:42:00.000-07:00

Sorry it's taking me so long between podcasts. I'm gonna try and get Justin in for another session, and we'll try and cover some later episodes, characters, and money!

-Bradley

Episode 8---part 2 of the Southeast Asian Oil Deal is posted

2007-02-25T19:01:00.000-08:00

I posted part 2 of the Southeast Asian Oil Deal coverage today.

Same info goes:

You can download it by right clicking on this and selecting save as....Episode 8 direct download link
If you want it on the old iPod, you can search the iTunes Music Store podcasts for "Dissecting Dallas" Subscribe, and you won't have to wonder if there are downloads, all you'll have to do is press "refresh"
You can also go to the RSS feed here: www.dissectingdallas.com/DD_feed.xml
The best podcast website to listen to it is here at Podshow streamingIf you have any comments or requests, please email us at dissectingdallas@gmail.com
-Bradley

Episode 7 Part 1 is up!!!!!

2007-02-23T17:45:00.000-08:00

I have finished posting episode 7 of the podcast.

Like I was talking about, what I've done is make a 2 part podcast about JR's southeast Asian oil deal in Seasons 2 and 3. After recording this one, I realized I should have just made it into one large part...but hind sight is always 20/20 I guess....

Anyways, it's ready for download. You can download it by right clicking on this and selecting save as....Episode 7 direct download link

If you want it on the old iPod, you can search the iTunes Music Store podcasts for "Dissecting Dallas" Subscribe, and you won't have to wonder if there are downloads, all you'll have to do is press "refresh"

You can also go to the RSS feed here: www.dissectingdallas.com/DD_feed.xml

The best podcast website to listen to it is here at Podshow streamingIf you have any comments or requests, please email us at dissectingdallas@gmail.com

-Bradley

New Podcast coming this Friday....I promise!

2007-02-20T14:46:00.000-08:00

I have recorded the bulk of a 2 part podcast in which I discuss in detail the SouthEast Asian oil deal that spans Seasons 2 and 3.

Sorry it has taken so long, but this podcast was so detailed and in depth that it took me awhile to do all the research. Also, the way it stands today I will be doing it alone without Justin. I hope everyone can still pay attention with just one person doing it...I think it will turn out ok.

Like I said...Friday is the day, so it should be ready for listening this weekend for ya.

Thanks for everyone who has been emailing me asking when we're coming back up...I promise it will be worth the wait!

-Bradley

Late on the podcast....again

2007-02-07T18:02:00.000-08:00

Sorry again, Justin basically stood me up this last weekend. He said he just forgot and apologized, but I still think he's a big jerk!

Well, anyways, he promised we'd do it this weekend. I'm not going to hold my breath, but we'll see.

If all goes well, I should have a podcast posted by 11 Feb.

Sorry again, I know this is the longest wait ever, but hate on Justin, because I wanted to do it.

-Bradley

Podcast postponed until 4 February.

2007-01-29T16:12:00.000-08:00

I got back a little late from San Antonio, so the podcast is going to be a little late. We decided to basically skip ahead of most of season 1 and go to the last 2 episodes of season 1.

The episodes were just too episodic, and we like the continuing storylines better!

We hope you can hold out just a little longer for us, and we'll give you the best show we can next week.

-Bradley

Podcast delayed a week

2007-01-19T16:50:00.000-08:00

I got a short notice business trip I have to take to San Antonio, so me and Justin have postponed taping the podcast until 28 January. Sorry for the long wait, but duty calls.

I can't think of anything Dallas related I can do while in San Antonio, but if anyone has any ideas, send an email to dissectingdallas@gmail.com.

I did read on the soapchat forums that someone is planning a Dallas convention of sorts, that would be cool if it were done in the right way.

Maybe we'll have that to look forward to in the year to come.

Bradley

War of the Ewings: the screenshot train keeps coming (choo choo)

2007-01-16T17:32:00.000-08:00

I have uploaded screenshots from the 1998 TV Movie War of the Ewings.

Not the best of movies, and certainly the lamest last entry in a series...but what are you going to do?

I also redid some of the categories, so it should be easier to go through now...please review our whole album...it's getting pretty big.

To get there, click on JR's pic.....or here

Please give us comments on iTunes!!!

2007-01-16T16:42:00.000-08:00

This is an APB, we need all Dallas fans to go onto the iTunes music store, search for our podcast, and give us some customer reviews....the only one we have isn't exactly flattering, and we'd like some more on there.

Please take some time and hook us up with some reviews...good or bad, it would be nice to have more than just the one.

Just search iTunes music store podcasts for "Dissecting Dallas"

Thanks!!!!

Podcast back in a big way....Episode 6 up

2007-01-15T13:38:00.000-08:00

Episode 6 of the podcast has been posted. Sorry it took so long for us to record a new one....but we gotta take holidays too :-)

Covered in this episode is the first 2 episodes of Season 1, the two parter "Reunion" Gary returns and JR gets him the hell out...can't have another brother getting in on my inheritance!

To download, you can search the iTunes Music Store podcasts for "Dissecting Dallas" Subscribe, and you won't have to wonder if there are downloads, all you'll have to do is press "refresh"

You can also go to the RSS feed here: www.dissectingdallas.com/DD_feed.xml

Or you can direct download here: Episode 6 mp3

The best podcast website to listen to it is here at Podshow streaming

If you have any comments or requests, please email us at dissectingdallas@gmail.com

Enjoy!

Justin & Bradley

Dallas the Early Years screenshots

2007-01-13T17:12:00.000-08:00

I recently got a copy of Dallas: The Early Years from Ebay, and I took some screenshots.

You can get to them here: screenshots at photobucket

This was a great movie, and if you haven't seen it you should. It really illustrated in a great way the origin of the Dallas universe.

I might be persuaded to mail some people a copy, just send me an email at dissectingdallas@gmail.com

You can also read more about it here: Dallas Early Years link

-Bradley

Back from vacation.....in Dallas!

2007-01-08T18:49:00.000-08:00

After I took the wife and kid to see the family in Northwest Texas, we decided to hit up Dallas on the way back....and I saw some sites!

Here is a pic of Brinkmann Ranch, the original Southfork ranch used in the mini-series pilot episodes in Frisco, Texas. Apparently it burned down...but going against some rumors, it was not bulldozed to the ground, the frame still stands today:

Then we went on the tour of the main Southfork Ranch (Formerly Duncan Acres) in Parker, Texas.

Here's me and the family there...(I even took the opportunity to hold up Larry Hagman's autobiography! That's my daughter in the back ground (she hurt her leg on the steps(just a scrape...no big deal.)

Just click on the pics to enlarge. Remember, we're still planning to do a podcast this weekend...new year, new ideas...same Dallas!

-Bradley

Larry Hagman's Autobiography

2006-12-27T18:52:00.000-08:00

I gave Justin Larry Hagman's Autobiography as a Christmas present......he read it so quick that he told me I needed to read it, so I'm reading it now. I'm about a 3rd of the way through it, it's a quick read, and I gotta tell you, it's great!

I think we pretty much reached a consensus that we are going to cover this book at some point in the podcast. Something about the most famous character's actor writing about himself begs to be talked about in the podcast.

We'll probably write a book review as well to post on the main website.

Remember, we'll be back with new podcasts sometime around 14 January. I know this is a long wait, but we've got holiday vacations to go on yet.

-Bradley

Podcast # 5: Barbeque has been uploaded

2006-12-23T05:54:00.000-08:00

Episode 5, the final episode of the mini-series, has been uploaded.

For this episode, we basically decided to just focus on the episode. In our opinion, this episode really sets up the entire series that followed. I attempted some audio wizardry (or not) and tried to do this commentary style and talk during the clips...not sure how well it worked, but we did it. Consequently, this is the shortest episode we've ever done. I know some people wanted it shorter, but I think we may have gone too far now....but this is stuff we can always tweak.

Episode 5 covers the origin of the Barnes-Ewing feud, the heir issue between JR and Bobby, JR and Sue Ellen's love/hate relationship, and the family issue of staying together on the ranch.....all very basic issues that permeate throughout the Dallas's 13 seasons.

To download, you can search the iTunes Music Store podcasts for "Dissecting Dallas" Subscribe, and you won't have to wonder if there are downloads, all you'll have to do is press "refresh"

You can also go to the RSS feed here: www.dissectingdallas.com/DD_feed.xml

Or you can direct download here: Episode 5 mp3

The best podcast website to listen to it is here at Podshow streaming

Hope you like it!

-Justin & Bradley

1000 downloads!!!!!

2006-12-23T05:42:00.000-08:00

We reached a milestone yesterday.

The Dissecting Dallas Podcast has officially been downloaded 1000 times. This is the greatest news we could hope for. We would like to thank everyone for their support, and we look forward to starting in on Season 1 in the new year. As we have discussed in the podcast, we will begin to go over more than one episode at a time.....more of a story arc review.

This new year can only get bigger, and we appreciate everyone who downloads.

-Justin & Bradley

Podcast # 4 has been posted

2006-12-17T17:04:00.000-08:00

We posted podcast # 4 today. In this episode we cover the parallels between the 1956 movie Giant and Dallas.

I heard that Giant was the basis for the show....far removed but a basis none the less. We also cover episode 4 of the Dallas mini-series: Winds of Vengeance.

To download episode, you can go to www.dissectingdallas.com, and direct download all the episodes so far.

The RSS feed is http://www.dissectingdallas.com/DD_feed.xml

You can also subscribe to it via iTunes....just go to the iTunes music store and search for "Dissecting Dallas.

You can also direct download it here: Episode 4

-Justin & Bradley

DVD screen captures

2006-12-14T20:39:00.000-08:00

For every episode we do podcasts on, I will upload screenshots from the DVD onto the Dissecting Dallas account at Photobucket.

To access them, go here to the DVD screen captures photobucket page

This should be a growing file week by week.

Look at things to come

2006-12-14T14:49:00.000-08:00

We were looking at doing episode 4 this weekend. We generally feel that this episode, winds of vengeance, is one of the weaker episodes. Since this is the case, we decided to take this opportunity to look at the parallels between Dallas and the 1956 movie Giant.

We're basically going to cut all the regular stuff, and just go with the Giant/Dallas parallels, then a short episode commentary for the 4th episode in the series.

Hit us back with an email at dissectingdallas@gmail.com if you have anything you would like talked about.

-Bradley

Pam's bad perm

2006-12-09T19:55:00.001-08:00

This is the worst hairdo ever!@!

But I guess it's better than this:

Maybe hind site is 20/20, but you know Victoria doesn't keep copies of these in frames around the house!

Podcast Episode 3: Spy in the House

2006-12-08T18:39:00.000-08:00

Podcast Episode # 3: Spy in the House, has been posted.

We talk about a lot of things, namely the 3rd episode in Dallas, and the possible upcoming Dallas movie.

Also how much Dr. Elby looks like Lady Elaine Fairchild from the land of make believe in Mr. Rogers:

Of course, as always, you can get the podcast from searching for "Dissecting Dallas" in iTunes.

The RSS feed is https://www.dissectingdallas.com/DD_feed.xml

The direct download link is here: Episode 3: Spy in the House

Hit us up with some feedback at dissectingdallas@gmail.com

-Justin & Bradley

Dallas on MySpace

2006-12-07T19:33:00.000-08:00

I've created a Group on MySpace for Dallas.

http://groups.myspace.com/dallastv

Check it out, join up....we need to show the 40 quadrillion strong MySpace community that Dallas fans are a force to be reckoned with.

Ol' JR joins cyberspace!!!!

-Bradley

Podcast news

2006-12-05T19:43:00.000-08:00

Thanks to everyone for the great comments! We have received a flood of email letting us know that the podcast is really appreciated.

Keep it coming! We love praise...we're glory hounds :-)

We believe we have corrected the volume issues, and the future podcasts should all be good quality audio.

The way it looks now, we're going to tape the podcast on Friday, for a Saturday release. We might get it done Friday night, but I anticipate Saturday for the time do to our work scheduled.

Something to look forward to:

Dallas news: Whatever comes up?

Character discussion: Jock Ewing

Money Money Money: How much money do the Ewings have anyway?

Cars of Southfork: Discuss the vehicles of the characters at Southfork and how it matches their personality.

Episode overview/commentary: Episode 3 - Spy in the House - Original airdate: 16 Apr 1978

We would like to take this opportunity to again thank everyone, and invite fans of the show to send us an email which we can read during the podcast, and if anyone sends us an audio file, we can put that in as well.

-Justin & Bradley

Dissecting Dallas photobucket

2006-12-03T19:03:00.000-08:00

Dissecting Dallas now has an account with photobucket.

Go to: Dallas at photobucket

I have uploaded pics from my Dallas trips. As we get more pics, we will upload.

These pics are free and clear for anyone to steal and use.

-Bradley

Episode 2: Lessons has been posted

2006-12-03T16:34:00.000-08:00

We've posted Episode 2, and without tooting our own horn a little, we think it turned out great.

In this episode we talk a little about the DVDs. I LOVE having DVDs, I just wish they weren't flipper discs, I hate those!

We talk a little about this Dallas movie being a comedy thing, and how incredibly wrong that is. If anyone knows what kind of focus group came up with the comedy idea, let us know because we think that's a bunch of hooey.

We also added something we are really proud of. We call it "Money, Money, Money". In this section we talk about the value of Ewing Enterprises; Southfork cattle and Ranch and Ewing Oil respectively. We go over inflation rates and tell you the value in 1978...and what that would be today....that's U.S. dollars for you other nationals out there...you're going to have to do the math for your country :-)

We talk about John Ross, and discuss whether or not he would end up running Ewing Oil when he got older, and a little about my trip to Southfork.

Here are some links from the show today:

www.southfork.com
www.tv.com
www.westegg.com/inflation
www.ultimatedallas.com - (OF COURSE!)

Here is a picture of the writer of the episode Lessons, Virginia Aldridge, when she played Lt Karen Tracy on an Original Series episode of Star Trek: Wolf in the fold:

The podcast is now on iTunes, but for some reason I can't search for it. If you have iTunes open, click on this link in your browser, and it makes iTunes go to the podcast page:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207597378

You can also do it by clicking the advanced tab in iTunes, and adding this RSS feed:
http://www.dissectingdallas.com/DD_feed.xml

And finally, if you just want to listen to the mp3 file, here is the direct download link:
http://www.dissectingdallas.com/DDepisode_2.mp3

If you have any feedback, we would appreciate it. Email us at dissectingdallas@gmail.com

We would appreciate any thing you have to say...next week we will be covering the 3rd episode: Spy in the House

-Justin and Bradley

Podcast episode 2 coming sooner than expected!

2006-12-02T13:17:00.000-08:00

All right I just got with my friend Justin. Due to the enormous response we got, we're going to record the next podcast tomorrow. We'll be going over the 2nd episode Lessons.

I have some ideas for the podcast, and I would appreciate feedback, positive or negative, being in it's infancy it can always stand some improvement.

For continuing podcast sections

1. Total estimated value of Ewing Oil (Ewing Enterprises) at the beginning of the episode

2. Character profiles - (choose one character at random and talk about their motivations

3. Future speculation - if the characters had continued passed War of the Ewings, where might they be, and what might they be doing now.

4. Recent Dallas news

For the next podcast:

1. Commentary on "Lessons"

2. Talk about my trip to Southfork Ranch

3. The cars of Southfork - (what each character drove, and how that spoke to the character themselves.)

If anyone would like to send us a clip, shout out, or whatever via mp3 that we can weave into the show, email it to us at dissectingdallas@gmail.com. Hit us up if you have any ideas to make it better too.

I have a rumor in hand that this podcast may soon be featured on Ultimate Dallas, so that's something we can all look forward to. Don't know if I can take this kinda pressure!

-Bradley

First Dallas podcast has been posted!!

2006-12-01T14:43:00.000-08:00

I have posted the first Dissecting Dallas podcast. The audio still needs work, but all in all I think it's pretty good.

Please give it a listen when you have the chance.

Here is the RSS feed:

http://www.dissectingdallas.com/DD_feed.xml

Here is the direct download link:

http://www.dissectingdallas.com/DDepisode_1.mp3

I have put it in iTunes, but that will take a few days. I will post on blog when that's complete. I am working hard to get the main page up as well. Just give me a little more time.

In this podcast Justin and Bradley discuss the first episode of the series, Digger's Daughter.

Please note, that this is the only Dallas podcast that we are aware of, and it's a long time coming.

Podcast brainstorming

2006-11-28T19:37:00.000-08:00

Me and my friend Justin worked out some ideas for the podcast today. This podcast is going to be the cheese!

We're going to begin by going over the mini-series that started it all.

I hope you're looking forward to it as much as I am!

We're still not sure if we're going to be able to do it weekly, but we'll try out best.

Dallas the movie a comedy?!!

2006-11-27T14:03:00.000-08:00

What a bunch of crap!

When I heard they were making a Dallas movie a couple of years ago, I was totally stoked...an update my favorite movie series.

Alas Hollywood has successfully made this a flying piece just like all the rest of the crap I've seen lately.

As reported at http://www.darkhorizons.com/, the Dallas movie is now going to be a comedy.

They have scrapped the original script, along with most of the cast. Shirley MacLaine and Jennifer Lopez and John Travolta is still in. I was never happy about the casting of John Travolta, but if he makes this, it is downright sacriligious.

I'll stick with the original series. Dallas only works as a drama. J.R.'s smile has to be evil, not comedic!

Podcast coming soon!!!

2006-11-27T07:11:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone. My name is Bradley, and I am working on producing the only existing Dallas podcast...devoted entirely to the most awesome show of all time!!!!

I think I can have it up and going by the end of December, until then I will post some things here on the blog. Thank you for your patience...and waiting for the only Dallas podcast.

-Bradley