Milwaukee pop talk with a crooked grin.
Bait and Switch Podcast mixes Milwaukee-rooted hangout comedy with interviews, album chats, movie recaps, and sports previews. Chris Beyer and Jim Martin steer episodes with a deliberately shaggy rhythm, letting guests, family members, and local references pull the conversation sideways.
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Bait and Switch Podcast is a Milwaukee-made comedy conversation show with a restless sense of format. Chris Beyer and Jim Martin are the regular center of gravity, but the episodes work best when the table gets crowded. Friends return. Family members show up. Sports people, musicians, movie fans, and recurring guests all become part of the same loose clubhouse. The show may start as an album review, a movie recap, a Brewers preview, or an interview, then drift into jokes about fame, aging performers, radio scheduling, dental problems, and the strange dignity of doing multiple recordings in a night. It likes the detour. Music episodes cover artists such as Muse and Oasis, while also reaching into Milwaukee music history through figures like Sigmund Snopek. Movie episodes use Dumb and Dumber or Fletch as shared objects, mixing scene talk with casting trivia, pop-culture memory, and jokes that arrive sideways. Sports episodes carry a stronger local pulse, especially when the Brewers and Major League Baseball are on the board. Jim Martin can lead a baseball conversation with Theo Martin, Jeff Grayson, and Jerry Augustine, then turn the formality of a preview into another self-aware bit. The show's humor is conversational rather than performed at a distance. It is dry. It is teasing. It is often built from everyone acknowledging how odd the premise has become. Milwaukee is not just a location tag; it shapes the references, the radio station mentions, the sports loyalties, and the affection for local music scenes. The episodes do not chase polish. They preserve the pauses, greetings, callbacks, and small embarrassments that make a long-running friend group audible. That looseness is the point. Bait and Switch Podcast is for listeners who enjoy pop-culture talk when it comes with local texture, recurring guests, and jokes that treat the show itself as part of the joke.
Made for: Best for listeners who like casual comedy roundtables about albums, movies, baseball, and Milwaukee culture. It fits people who enjoy recurring guests, local references, and a relaxed pace more than rigid criticism.
What sets it apart: The show turns review formats into social comedy, using music, movies, and sports as prompts for tangents, callbacks, and self-aware bits. Its Milwaukee radio-adjacent feel gives even familiar pop-culture topics a specific local charge.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose Fletch check-in that keeps circling the movie's shape and the surrounding banter.
This episode tracks Jeff Grayson into movie territory with 1985's Fletch, and Chris Beyer and Jim Martin keep the focus on Chevy Chase's reporter, the first-person narration, and the odd craft of a comedy built around a newspaper expose.
A vaccine joke and an FCC complaint build into steadily escalating podcast absurdity.
Bait and Switch turns 2021 virus life into a comic back-and-forth, with Chris Beyer and Jim Martin working through vaccine timing and the odd charm of a clinic where a flight of vaccines comes with the table.
A Milwaukee-rooted MLB preview where Brewers broadcast history meets the debate over baseball's automated strike zone.
Bait and Switch Podcast's 2025 MLB preview is at its best when it leans into a Milwaukee reunion. Jim is joined by Jeff Grayson, who spent many years on Brewers pregame and postgame, and Jerry Augustine, Jeff's longtime broadcast partner and a former Brewer.
Random-year punk criticism with scene memory.
The Bait and Switch Podcast hosts a 2025 MLB preview with guests Jeff Grayson, Jerry Augustine, and Jim.
Hosts Chris Beyer and Jim Martin open with absurd vaccine humor before introducing employee Mike Sisko to answer listener questions.
This episode features an interview with Jeff Grayson discussing the Milwaukee Bucks' 2025 season preview on the Bait and Switch Podcast Sports.
This episode features an interview with NBA expert Jeff Grayson, previewing the 2025 NBA season and discussing his background and previous predictions.
Haji Outlaw tells Chris Beyer and Jim Martin that he skipped a Roots concert to attend an open mic at Riddles in Orland Park, a decision that began his stand-up career around 2003 or 2004.
Bait and Switch hosts Chris Beyer and Jim Martin interview Milwaukee Magazine executive editor Chris Drosner about local journalism, pandemic-era publishing, and Milwaukee neighborhoods.
Bait and Switch Podcast reviews XTC’s 1982 album English Settlement with hosts Jim Martin and Chris Beyer and guests Tom Shuler and Mitch Teich.
Bait and Switch Podcast hosts Mitch Teich and Brian Holm preview the 2026 Tour de France, arguing that Tadej Pogacar is the clear favorite unless he crashes, suffers mechanical problems, or loses significant time.
The hosts interview Milwaukee-based musician Sigmund Snopek, discussing his long career and the broader topic of whether musicians improve with age, using Mick Jagger as an example.
Chris Beyer and Jim Martin host a movie review episode of the Bait and Switch podcast, featuring guests ADL and Curt discussing the film Dumb and Dumber as part of their pop culture series.
Chris and Jim host a music episode where their sons, Will and Theo, each pick an album, starting with Theo's choice and moving to Will's selection from the band Muse.
This episode is a 2026 Milwaukee Brewers preview featuring host Jim Martin, his son Theo, sports analyst Jeff Grayson, and former Brewers pitcher Jerry Augustine, discussing the team's previous season and upcoming prospects.
This episode features a roundtable discussion with baseball experts, including a former MLB pitcher and Brewers broadcasters, previewing the 2026 MLB season and covering topics like teams, labor, and money.
Chris Beyer, Jim Martin, and Jeff Grayson break down Fletch as a 1985 Chevy Chase comedy built around disguises, narration, and fast one-liners like "I'm Chevy Chase and you're not." They compare it to Beverly Hills Cop and The Original Vacation, arguing that both films let a star from Saturday Night Live carry a simple plot through repeated comic set pieces.
The hosts of the Beat and Switch podcast introduce their fourth episode of the month, featuring frequent guest Mitch Teich for a Mitch-centric discussion.
The hosts and a guest discuss and review Oasis's album 'Be Here Now' in a music-focused podcast episode.
This is an emergency podcast previewing the Milwaukee Brewers' upcoming NLCS game after their win over the Chicago Cubs in the NLDS.