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Today’s show starts before the show even starts.  The world famous Bean overheard me podcasting last night and takes offense to me calling her a “podcast nag.”  So she called my voice mail with a response.  I am a fair person, so I play her response before the show so all of you can make up your mind if she is a nag or not.

I start the official show by playing a clip from FDR.

Remember Chico and the Man?  Remember Jose Feliciano?

A give a HUGE HUGE Shout Out to Tigger. He made me some fantastic and thoughtful podcast cover-up.  He did not have to do that, but he did.

I am smitten with Lynette of PB& J Podcast. It makes me lament on how the Bean is a podcast nag. (Bean claims she is not a podcast nag)

I hate the greed of ABC with their Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

George Eastman charity story.

I am a hypocrite and I admit it.

I hate charity balls.

People need to volunteer more.

Try not to give people bad news — or good news.

Going to Paris soon!

Give some good mojo to the Bean — who is scheduled for surgery on December 6.

From the Podsafe Music Network:

They Feed on Greed by Undercover Hippie.

Colonial Williamsburg by Tris McCall

If you did not know, today was election day in the United States.

Today, the Sun rose in the east and it set in the west.

The Earth revolved around the Sun.

Some people were born while others died.

Some of us were laid off from work, while others won the lottery.

You know what tomorrow will be?

The same.

As you watch some candidates give concession speeches, and others gush in the public adoration of victory, remember this:

The only person that can change the quality of your life is you. No one else. Period.

There is no one “perfect candidate” that will fix your woes.

There is no one “evil candidate” that you can blame all your problems on.

Candidates do not run for office to change the world. They do it out of ego.

Yes, some do end up making a difference but that is only a happy accident.

Please remember this as you sit glued to your tv watching the returns or spending all day in the rain passionately handing out your favorite candidate’s palm cards.

At the end of the day the only person you can count on is yourself.

Everything else is just entertainment while you wait for the Earth to continue its rotation. . .

Hear Rings of Saturn #13 here.

and. . .

have your heard the HALLOcast yet?

I start the show with some very good news:

I was honored to be invited to be a member of the The Freak Network.  Support the Freak Network.  Support independent podcasters.  Don’t let the corporate media dictate what you should think about.

While, I am honored that the PizzaBabe has asked me to join The Freak Network, it in no way changes the fact that she will have her SATURNcast Ticker Tape Parade (sponsored by Depends Underpants) on November 12.

I then begin to pour my heart out to you.

The Bean may have cancer. It was discovered in the very early, early pre-stages. (Thank God) but it means our chances of having biological children are very,very slim.  She is scheduled for surgery on December 6th.

I ramble about my feelings and throw a pity party.

I discuss how that whore Madonna is allowed to adopt without going through any of the normal procedures.

I discuss, how ironic that Apple, censors the word “sperm” to “s***m” on  Itunes.  Aren’t they selling red iPods to promote HIV/AIDS awareness?  Doesn’t it send a wrong message to censor words that need to be discussed in order to educate people about HIV/AIDS?

Bill O’Reilly, Wolf Blitzer, and the “Cheney girls“ Lynn and Mary drive me crazy.

I appluad Richard Bluestein and his podcast,Yeast Radio for interviewing a person of internatonial importance, Cindy Sheehan.  If more independent podcasters and bloggers did things like this, we could make a real dent on the corporate media.

While Richard Bluestein gave an excellent interview, and I admire Cindy Sheehan, I was very concerened over her answers.

Urging people to support irrelevant third party candidates is dangerous and irresponsible. Just ask Al Gore.

Even our good friend, Teddy Roosevelt found forming a viable third party impossible.

From the Podsafe Music Network

Fuck the RIAA by dotCommunist

Support the Truth by Jim’s Big Ego 

Here is the story, Morning Glory:

As loyal listeners and readers know, I am a big fan of Richard Bluestein’s Yeast Radio.

I disagree with Richard’s take about 75% of the time, which is why I like his work so much. He is an independent filmmaker and podcaster from Chicago. He is like Howard Stern, meets Democracy Now, meets Andy Wahol, meets, Orson Welles, meets you type of situation.

Now here is why I am discussing this:

On Monday, October 30th, he will have an interview on his podcast with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan. I would like you to listen.

You may be asking, but why Christiaan? I hate Cindy Sheehan (or don’t care) and I care even less about this Richard Bluestein business.

That is not my point.

As you know, I hate the corporate media. Somewhere along the way we all started to believe that the only people that can interview “newsmakers” is someone that has been issued a press credential from a corporate news organization. If the corporate news isn’t doing it, then all have to just sit there and listen to what they are covering.

This gives the corporate media way too much power. Or, as Veronica Mars, from the hit televison show “Veronica Mars” says, “Oh look! This article was printed with a color graphic, so it must be true!”
Richard is good at thinking outside the box. He asked Cindy Sheehan for an interview. She granted it, and she will be on his show on October 30th.

If more of us started doing things like that, we could change how people get their information. People would have more avenues to get information and we would not have to rely on the corporate media as much.

All you need to do is start a free blog, or buy a cheap microphone and start your own show. Ask someone you think is newsworthy for an interview. They might say no, but who knows, they might say yes.

And if that is not your style — well listen and read and support those who try to do it. It is important.

So listen to the October 30, 2006 Yeast Radio podcast. Even if it is not your issue or your politics. Do it for the sake of lessening the importance of corporate media. Which, if I haven’t told you, I can not stand.

So you want to be a rock and roll star
Then listen now to what I say
Just get an electric guitar
Then take some time and learn how to play

Nice going Ralph. You were so brilliant, so “cutting edge” and just so uncompromisng, that it would have been a motral sin and an act against nature for you not to run for President in 2000.

Thanks. George Bush thanks you. The Republicans thank you. I am sure people dying now in a war thank you.

Now I am not giving a pass to Al Gore. He should have run a better campaign. I mean, he couldn’t even win his home state of Tennessee. The 2000 election should not have even come down to a nail-biting vote count in Florida.

But it did.

Al Gore would have become president had Ralph Nader used common sense rather than ego to run as the irrelevant Green Party president.

Ralph Nader likes to remind everyone that he is brilliant. He issues enough press releases and goes to enough book signings to remind us of that.

So, my loyal readers, he was smart enough to know he would never win the office of President of the United States as the Green Party candidate.

So why did he do it? Ego.

Well why did the Greens pick him? Whores. Wanted a big name to get their ideas and name across and to have enough people vote “Green” to get on ballots easier in the future. If they picked a normal “Jane or John” Smith person they never would have gotten the attention.

They got what they wanted, and now look who is in office. Their agenda (if they really cared about it at all) is back in stone ages under the Bush administration. So they hurt there own cause. Nice.

This is the problem with radical idealism. It is impractical. If you are a purist left wing liberal, or a purist right wing fundamental, you are impractical. You are simplistic and self-defeating.

And ego whores feed off impractical people.

Politics and policy is all about compromise and finding a middle ground that works for all and does not offend.

Yes, in the perfect world this should not be. But this is not a perfect world.

If you insist on being pure this is what happens. No middle ground. One side wins. And if your side loses you are stuck with nothing.

And we all suffer as a result.

And the cynical side of me thinks the Green Party likes this. A radical “enemy” in power, empowers them to be the “anti-enemy” and raises their media availablity. With a middle ground everyone can live with they are just a voice, one of many, urging a more radical agenda.

And if you disagree with me. That is fine. But next time something like this happens, and I am on the losing side of a “purist” fight; I blame you.

Thanks Ralph.

Learn how to run a campaign Al.