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ENB #36 Popcorn Lung, Bush’s Latest Moronic Press Conference, Passive Aggressive Tazing, Bush’s New Math, Dan Rather Artwork by Roger Smalls direct link to small ipod version of show transcript: HELLO I’M RICHARD BLUESTEIN AND THIS IS THE ECLECTIC NEWS BRIEF FOR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2007. THIS PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY PODSHOW AND GODADDY. CHOOSE GODADDY TO RELIABLY HOST ALL OF YOUR DOMAN NAMES. ENTER CODES INSANE1, INSANE2, OR INSANE 3 WHEN YOU CHECK OUT AT GODADDY.COM. PODSHOW.COM IS THE THE BEST WAY TO HOST YOUR AUDIO AND VIDEO PODCASTS. UNLIKE YOUTUBE, PODSHOW ALLOWS FOR LONG-FORM CONTENT AT VERY HIGH QUALITY. THIS PODCAST FOR EXAMPLE, IS OFFERED IN A 720P HD FORMAT IF YOU GO TO INSANEFILMS720.PODSHOW.COM. ### THERE IS A NEW DISORDER EMERGING FROM THE MURKY DEPTHS OF CORPORATE GREED. IT’S CALLED POPCORN LUNG. ACCORDING TO THE SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM, THE EPA, LAST YEAR, *BURIED* A REPORT ON THE HEALTH RISKS FROM THE BUTTERY FLAVORING CALLED DIACETYL. THE MICROWAVE POPCORN FLAVORING PRODUCES AN INCURABLE AND ULTIMATELY FATAL LUNG DISEASE IN WORKERS EXPOSED TO IT OCCUPATIONALLY. WORSE YET, A DOCTOR CAME FORTH WITH THE CASE OF A CONSUMER OF MICROWAVE POPCORN WHO CONTRACTED THE DISEASE. THE EPA TO THIS DAY HAS *NOT RELEASED* THE REPORT TO THE PUBLIC. THE EPA HAS, HOWEVER, GIVEN THE REPORT TO THE POPCORN INDUSTRY. THIS FROM THE SAME EPA WHICH CAUSED THOUSANDS TO GET LUNG DISEASES BY NOT WARNING THEM OF THE DANGERS OF WORKING AT GROUND ZERO. ### DURING HIS PRESS CONFERENCE, THE IDIOT AND CHEAT WAS ASKED IF THERE IS A RISK OF RECESSION. YOU WOULD THINK THAT HE *MIGHT* TAKE THIS QUESTION SERIOUSLY SINCE ONE MILLION AMERICANS LOST THEIR HOMES DUE TO FORECLOSURE IN THE PAST YEAR. INSTEAD THE MORON ANSWERED AS FOLLOWS: QUOTE. YOU KNOW YOU NEED TO TALK TO ECONOMISTS. I THINK I GOT A B IN ECON 101. I GOT AN A, HOWEVER, IN KEEPING TAXES LOW (THE KISS ASS PRESS CORE LAUGHS HERE) AND BEING FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE WITH THE PEOPLE’S MONEY. WE’VE SUBMITTED A PLAN THAT WILL ENABLE THIS BUDGET TO BECOME BALANCED (NOTE THE USE OF PASSIVE VOICE HERE) BY 2012. - JUST IN TIME FOR ANOTHER CORPORATE STOOGE TO BE FORCED INTO THE WHITE HOUSE LIKE THE FECES OF AN ELEPHANT BEING PLUNGED INTO A FRENCH TOILET. BUSH ALSO SAID QUOTE AND WE CAN BALANCE THE BUDGET WITHOUT RAISING TAXES. UNQUOTE. I BELIVE WHAT HE MEANT TO SAY WAS THAT *SOMEONE ELSE* CAN CLEAN UP MY MESS BECAUSE I AM AN SPOILED BRAT WHO NEVER LEARNED TO CLEAN UP HIS ROOM. ### THE PRESIDENT HAS PROMISED TO VETO A BILL WHICH WOULD GUARANTEE HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR ALL CHILDREN WHOSE PARENTS MAKE LESS THAN EIGHTY-THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR. HIS ARGUMENT IS THAT KEEPING CHILDREN FROM DYING OF CURABLE DISEASES WOULD RESULT IN MORE OF, *THAT GREAT EVIL*, GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTHCARE. PUSSY REPORTERS FAILED TO POINT OUT TO BUSH THAT GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTHCARE FOR CHILDREN IS BETTER THAN NO HEALTHCARE AT ALL. MICHAEL MOORE HAS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED THAT IN OTHER COUNTRIES, GOVERNMENTS DO A FAR BETTER AND MORE EFFICIENT JOB AT RUNINNG HEALTHCARE THAN CORPORATIONS WHOSE PRIME MOTIVE IS MAKING MONEY AND HIPOCRITICAL TV COMMERCIALS. MEANWHILE SADISTIC MORON BUSH IS ONCE AGAIN BLACKMAILING CONGRESS. BUSH PUTS CONGRESS AT FAULT FOR PUTTING FORTH A PLAN WHICH THEY KNOW BUSH WILL VETO. ACCORDING TO BUSH, BY ATTEMPTING TO PUSH THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE BILL INSTEAD OF A BILL WHICH PROTECTS INSURANCE COMPANIES AND *NOT* CHILDREN, CONGRESS IS ACTUALLY FORCING ALL S-CHIP COVERAGE TO LAPSE. THAT’S HARD TO FOLLOW. I KNOW. TO PUT IT MORE CLEARLY, THE S-CHIP PROGRAM IS ALREADY IN PLACE BUT CONGRESS WANTS TO DRASTICALLY IMPROVE IT. BUSH WANTS ONLY TO GIVE IT 5% MORE FUNDING SO THAT HE CAN AFFORD TO HAVE HIS POKER BUDDIES FROM BLACKWATER MELT TINY INFANTS TO THEIR MOTHERS WHILE STOPPING AT BAGHDAD STOPLIGHTS. BUT SEE THE S-CHIP PROGRAM RUNS OUT VERY SOON IF IT IS NOT RENEWED. SO BUSH IS SAYING THAT ALL S-CHIP CARE WILL END BECAUSE HE, BUSH, WILL NOT SIGN THE BILL WHICH THE LEGISLATVIE BRANCH OF *OUR* GOVERNEMNT AGREED UPON. ### WHEN ASKED BY THE *PRESS* ABOUT ALAN GREENSPAN’S SCATHING CRITIQUE OF THE PRESIDENT, BUSH SLYLESSLY CHANGED THE SUBJECT TO SOMETHING HE AND GREENSPAN BOTH AGREE ON: GETTING RID OF SOCIAL SECURITY. THE PRESIDENT SAID QUOTE: GREENSPAN AND I SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT THE UNFUNDED LIABILITIES INHERENT IN SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE. AND HE’S CONCERNED ABOUT THOSE UNFUNDED LIABILITIES AS AM I. AND THAT’S WHY I WENT IN FRONT OF CONGRESS, TALKING ABOUT HOW TO REFORM SOCIAL SECURITY SO THAT YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING AREN’T PAING PAYROLL TAXES INTO A SYSTEM THAT’S GOING BROKE. UNQUOTE. THIS WAS ANOTHER CIRCULAR STATEMENT FROM OUR C MINUS PRESIDENT. SOCIAL SECURITY IS NOT IN DANGER. IF THESE SO CALLED LIABILITIES CONTINUE TO BE FUNDED, THEN THEY ARE BY DEFINITION NOT UNFUNDED. ARE AMERICANS REALLY STUPID ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THIS DRECK? IF SO GET ME ON A BIG JET AIRPLANE. COME ON COME ON. GET GOING. BIG WHEEL KEEP ON TURNING PROUD MARY. COME MOON. BUSH AND THE OTHER ‘YOU *CAN* TAKE IT WITH YOU’ REPUBLICANS WOULD RATHER SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES BE DIVERTED INTO RECKLESSLY MANAGED WALL STREET FUNDS. ### EDITOR AND PUBLISHER- A BLOG I FREQUENTLY QUOTE, POSTED A BIO OF THE MAN WHO GOT TAZERED AT THE JOHN KERRY SPEECH IN FLORIDA. THE BIO REAKED OF THINLY VIELED JEALOUSY. AFTER ALL, ANDREW MEYER RECEIVED AT LEAST HALF A MILLION DOWNLOADS OF HIS VIDEO. THE EDITOR AND PUBLISHER HEADLINE READ QUOTE STUDENT TASERED WHILE QUESTIONING KERRY WAS, OF COURSE, A QUASI-JOURNALIST. UNQUOTE. CAN YOU IMAGINE A MORE PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE AND INSULTING HEADLINE WHICH NEGATES THE IMPORTANCE OF THE HEROIC ACT UNDERTAKEN BY MR MEYER. THE E&P ARTICLE WENT ON TO DISCREDIT ANDREW MEYER BY MENTIONING VARIOUS INTERNET PRANKS WHICH WERE COMPLETELY HARMLESS AND HAD NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH HIS JOURNALISTIC ACTIVITIES. ANDREW MEYER ASKED QUESTIONS THAT NEEDED TO BE ASKED, AND WOULD NOT ACCEPT NO ANSWER AS AN ANSWER. ANDREW MEYER DID WHAT THE SO CALLED REAL JOURNALISTS SHOULD BE DOING, BUT ARE AFRAID TO DO. SO INSTEAD THEY REACT BY PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE JEALOUSY BASED CHARACTER ASSASINATION. WELL, ECLECTIC NEWS BRIEF APPLAUDS ANDREW MEYER FOR TAKING A STAND, AND IF HE IS A QUASI JOURNALIST, WELL I’LL TAKE QUASI-JOURNALISM OVER ‘REAL’ JOURNALISM- KATIE KOURIC AND ALL- ANY DAY OF THE WEEKS. ### OH AND SPEAKING OF JOURNALISM,DAN RATHER, THE VETRAN JOURNALIST WHO WAS REPLACED BY KATIE KOURIC IS SUING CBS FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. DAN RATHER CLAIMS HE WAS FIRED BY CBS IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE WHITE HOUSE. IF TRUE, THIS IS A CLEAR VIOLATION OF THE LAW WHICH FORBIDS PROPAGANDIZING WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. NOT THAT IT ISN’T BEING VIOLATED EVERYWHERE ANYWAY. TIME TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX. ### PLEASE SEND COMMENTS, NEWS ITEMS, AND QUESTIONS TO RICHARD@BLUESTEIN.COM. I’M ALSO LOOKING FOR ITNERESTING AND PROVOCATIVE BACKGROUND FOOTAGE FOR THIS SHOW. IF YOU HAVE ORIGINAL CONTENT THAT FITS THE FORMAT OF THIS SHOW, I WILL GLADLY INCLUDE A PROMOTION FOR YOUR BLOG, VLOG, PODCAST OR WHATEVER. I’M RICHARD BLUESTEIN AND DIT WAS HET NIEWS. #### Tags: Popcorn , Lung, , Bush , Latest , Moronic , Press , Conference, , Passive , Aggressive , Tazing, , Bush , New , Math, , Dan , Rather PAB2007 - Arthur Masters Download PAB2007 - Arthur Masters Context is King: Re-examining Conventional Wisdom for an Unconventional Media presented at PAB2007 by Arthur Masters . Learn about the idea of ‘Context is King’, other shifted paradigms and the realization of theories by media futurists including McLuhan (Hot and Cold Media), Alvin Toffler (predicted granular micronization of niche markets circa 1995), and even Jung’s ideas about the collective unconscious, and how the interconnectedness of communication media has begun to actualize it. This episode of Canadian Podcast Buffet is brought to you in part by TD Canada Trust . When you switch your main chequing account to TD by August 3rd, you’ll qualify for either a free Shuffle, iPod Nano or a 30 gig iPod. Click here for details . Photo by Jim Milles. Transcript below… Mark Blevis:  I’m Mark Blevis. Bob Goyetche:  And I’m Bob Goyetche.  Welcome to special coverage of the 2007 edition of Podcasters Across Borders right here on the Canadian Podcast Buffet. Mark Blevis:  This episode is brought to you in part by TD Canada Trust.  Listen at the end of the show to see how you can get a free iPod. Bob Goyetche:  So while you listen to the great sessions from Podcasters Across Borders 2007, keep in mind that Podcasters Across Borders 2008 is June 20 through 22 in Kingston, Ontario once again. Mark Blevis:  Keep following the www.podcastersacrossborders.com and www.canadianpodcastbuffet.ca for details on PAB 2008 registration, hotel room rates, programs and social activities. Bob Goyetche:  On this issue you’re going to hear Arthur Master’s presentation “Context is King”.  Arthur runs the Ottawa Local Podcast at www.ottawalocal.com . Arthur Masters:  Wow am I nervous.  I’ve known about this for months now and I guess much of this speech is gonna come from conversations that I’ve had with Mark Blevis.  One of the nice things about living in Ottawa is that I live just, you know, a minute’s walk from the Arrow & Loon Pub where Mark likes to get together with anyone who’s passing through town.  And it’s easy for me to convince him to stay for an extra drink because he lives around the corner.  And so once everyone else has wondered off back to their homes, we’ll sit around and polish off another couple of pints.  And we get into these really neat conversations.  And if we can remember them in the morning, it winds up on one of his blogs or on one of my podcasts.  So despite that, I am really nervous and, whoa, I just pictured you all naked, that was uncomfortable.  Okay, I want to welcome you all to Podcasters Across Borders but I also want to welcome you all to the future, because what we’re doing right now, this realization of technology, this interconnected community that we have is something which has been predicted by futurists.  Well, will make predictions and we only pay attention to the ones that come true.  Now maybe that’s kind of the shotgun theory, if you send out enough ideas, some of them will hit the bull’s eye and those are the ones that we wind up reading thirty years later.  And that is the case, in that there have been a lot of ideas.  But some people like Marshall McLuhan and Noam Chomsky and Alvin Toffler are futurists that seem to hit it just about every single time.  And I just wanted to…perhaps you’re already aware that we’ve already realized some of these ideas.  But I wanted to just hit on some of these points, so that you can all know what an incredibly exciting thing it is that we’re all participating in here.  And there’s an ancient Chinese curse which says “May you live in interesting times” and I think we are living in the most interesting of times.  People, when they think about the future, we tend to idealize it.  There was this idea once upon a time that we would all travel in tubes, you know, you would get up in the morning and put on your nice crisp shirt that was prepared by the robot maid, and you would leave your house and you’d  get on to this shiny glass steel tube.  And it would shuttle you across the city to your towering office building, where you would perform your terribly important task, punching numbers into a giant calculator, computer sort of machine.  This isn’t how it happened.  In fact, it’s the blue collar workers who take the tube to work in the morning, its people in Toronto who get onto the subway and it’s grimy and it’s noisy.  And it’s not what we thought it would be.  And the same thing applies to the future of technology.  Alvin Toffler described the paperless office almost thirty years ago.  I’ve seen more paper in offices…anyone here? Does anyone here have a paperless office?  No? No, maybe Goggle does, maybe you know, some of those, you know, entirely online businesses do, but no one I know.  But we do have something called iTunes, which is a recordless music store.  And the only thing is he just got the media wrong.  It wasn’t type media, it wasn’t print media, it was another form of media.  And so these things are really becoming true and I don’t think any of the predictions have fallen flat.  I think all of them have some validity.  One of the things that you also have to do when you’re being a futurist and thinking about the future, is you have to re-examine the maxims of today.  What was the environment that we thought we were sitting in?  And when we think about the future, can we go back and re-examine those and redefine them and does it fit the model better?  Well, one of the old maxims of radio has been “content is king”.  And this is the idea that when people tune into the radio, they want to know what time is it? What’s the traffic like? What’s the number one hit song? You’ve got to have this kind of a prioritized list of information.  And I would like to propose that we have left that era and we’ve entered a new one where context is king.  And this isn’t something new, I’m just stealing this from Marshall McLuhan.  And this is his most famous quote.  And I think podcasting realizes that maxim, the idea of context being king, more than any other media that we’ve had so far.  And part of the reason for that is the way that the idea of podcasting has manifested in our minds.   Now I believe it was at the 2000 or 2001 Portable Media Expo that the word first was used.  And someone had been speaking about narrowcasting which, as many of you probably know, is where you’re pulling a file from a website instead of broadcasting it.  And this is what makes podcasting able to circumvent all of the conventions of radio and conventional media.  And someone got up at the end of this conference and perhaps it was something that was…had come up in a conversation or maybe it just came to them.  But they said, well there’s this new iPod product and there’s this narrowcasting.  And those are the two most exciting things here.  And next year, we’ll all probably be podcasting, ha, ha, ha, and it just stuck.  And every single journalist who was there went home and wrote down podcasting, and put that into the article, and the word was born.  But people didn’t understand what podcasting was.  People thought oh, well podcasting is a delivery method.  Well podcasting is the content of what you’re talking about.  And then some people at first were confused because there was so much talk about well, what type of file format? Is this some sort of protocol that I’m just not aware of? And it was just so vague and blurry.  But that did something wonderful.  It combined content and context.  The delivery mechanism was synonymous in peoples’ minds with the content.  And when people first picked up a microphone and figured out how to do it, one of the first things that a lot of people have done, yourselves have done I’m sure, and I know you’ve all heard shows like this, is you talked about how to make your own podcast.  So the content is then giving you the tools and the information on how to use the tools to create more podcasts.  And this is…so listening to a podcast actually primes you for creating a podcast.  And the early version of Podcaster X or iPodder…I think it became Juice.  It was Adam Curry’s baby.  It actually had a program in one of the sub-directories that helped you write RSS feed.  So as soon as you had the tool to listen to it, you also had the tools to make it.  And this struck me as being an extension of this context, the medium is the message realization and this was now part of what Chomsky had described as means and viral means.  And the content of an idea containing the information which is needed to prime people and get them to create more of that, something which is viral, you are infected and then you become a producer as a result of the information.  And it passes itself on that way.  Now I’ve never actually read a lot of Chomsky.  I’ve read People on Chomsky and I’m a big fan of Douglas Rushkoff.  I don’t know if anyone here is familiar with Douglas Rushkoff, a nice Jewish boy from New York.  And he is a cutting edge, frighteningly intelligent futurist who’s…anyway, I just want to recommend if anyone gets a chance go read the book Media Virus.  And it was written in 1993.  But the things he talks about in the book are more and more relevant every day.  One of the things that resulted of this mass explosion of people who we’re being primed and then putting out content was an incredible diversity in subject matter.  Now that diversity…if you want to have a hit, you don’t want diversity, you want mass appeal.  So this has been the depth of the hit as well, having, you know, 800,000 voices all speaking on their own personal areas of expertise.  And this has created a micronization of markets.  Markets which appeal to a single niche.  And if there’s a million people, all who are experts in one particular tiny field like, you know, there’s Jay Mooney who is an expert on capitalizing on…. Mark Blevis:  Maybe your battery died.  Thank you very much to Arthur Masters everybody.  It was going nowhere man. Arthur Masters:  Wait till it gets there. Arthur Masters:  Check - one - two.  Okay, we’re back.  So, as a result of this incredible variety and this medium which actually primes people.  Like, can you imagine if every single person who watched television was suddenly struck with the impetus to go out and create a TV show with the same like rabid drive that podcasters seem to experience it?  You know, we would have a massive explosion.  And if you look at the growth curve and the adoption curve that…it’s hard to get numbers for this year.  Last year, the numbers were spectacular, it was experiencing this kind of zero to 5,000,000 podcast curve and it was really exciting to look at.  But what this means is you have all these people, this incredible diversity, and there’s no focus.  It’s not like podcasters are all computer geeks.  Or podcasters are all on-line music junkies.  Or podcasters are all hobby radio enthusiasts.  You get this whole spectrum.  And you’re not going to find two of the same person or two of the same common experience.  So because of this, you get this incredible micronization, this over-specialization, sometimes to the point where none of us can keep a market of more than 30 listeners to our specific area of interest.  But that’s okay, because we’re satisfying the need of those 30 people.  Now Alvin Toffler…I first heard of Alvin Toffler in 1993.  And I was reading Wired Magazine which was in its second year of publication.  And I think they were only putting out one episode every two months.  And it was really counter-culture, it was edgy, it was anti-big business, it was pro-individual piracy and privacy and anti-big business.  And it was really cutting edge.  And today it’s more corporate and I don’t read it anymore.  But they had Alvin Toffler.  And I didn’t know who Alvin Toffler was but if Wired Magazine had Alvin Toffler, then he must be cool.  And he was talking about in 15 years from 1993, he was saying we’re going to have thousands of channels.  We’re not just going to have a sports channel, we’re going to have a sports channel for every sport.  And at the time, there was still only 30 channels on my television set.  So I don’t know what kind of drugs he’s on or what kind of, you know, crystal ball he’s using.  But his ability to describe the environment that we’re sitting in right now I find mind blowing.  And I’m so excited to be a part of it.  And that’s why I’m here today.  Because I really feel like I am living part of that wild roller coaster ride of ideas that I’ve have been reading about for 30 years.  And it’s so flattering to know that I can participate.  And right on the cusp, in terms of participating and being a podcaster.  Now once you have…now as I mentioned a moment ago, sometimes because of this great diversification, you have this very shallow niche.  And maybe you’ve only got 30 or 60 listeners.  This means that people aren’t doing it for profit.  This means that people are doing it out of a sense of powered by passion, to use, you know, a phrase that Andrea Ross coined.  They’re not doing it for money. They’re doing it out of a sense of volunteerism.  And its very anarchist.  It’s very communist, very socialist in that we’re providing a service which was a paid service.  And we’re doing it out of a sense of, not out of a sense of duty, but out of a sense of fulfillment.  We’re fulfilling a need in our society, in our media.  And to do that, we had to democratize the tools of production and the means of distribution.  And this…when I start to hear phrases like that, and that’s not…I’m not using these, I’m not making those terms up.  That’s…I’m quoting from Chris Anderson in his recent book “The Long Tale”.  He says we had to democratize the tools of production and the means of distribution.  And right away, I’m thinking Carl Marx.  This is the new factory.  This is the electronic factory.  And I’m the worker and I own the factory.  And this is another radical revolution.  You know once I made that realization that I was also living a socialist dream, you know, instead of just voting NDP, I can participate by owning that factory and I am the network.  And I don’t do it for a pay check.  I do it out of a sense of personal fulfillment.  And that spirit is also something that Mark has talked about - the day when people would do away with things like currency which simply re-enforce power structures.  And we would, you know, we would all become sort of renaissance men who had not one job that, you know, perhaps one task which was necessary to perform, but many other tasks that we would perform that society would benefit from.  And there would be no pay scale, there would be no pay structure, there would be no ownership.  And we’re also living in that world, increasingly so.  And I’m going to jump ahead to what I just mentioned, Chris Anderson, “The Long Tale”.  Some of you may have read it.  I wanted to make sure that instead of just bringing a bunch of guys to the table who’d been, you know, had all their theory’s out there for 30 years, I wanted to have someone new and more modern.  And Chris Anderson is perhaps not a futurist, in that he hasn’t been jumping ahead 30 years and saying where we’re going to be.  But he’s…he does a very good job of describing where we are right now.  And he’s the Editor-In-Chief of Wired Magazine.  And despite my feelings that Wired has become kind of a lukewarm corporate sell-out rag, I still respect his opinion.  He’s a very hip guy.  And he introduces an idea that someone mentioned to me the other day, just in conversation, that we have probably left the information age for the communication age.  But we’re getting into a new age here.  Where, because we’ve started to re-enforce the communication structure laterally, rather than just vertically, I mean by vertically, I mean from network to receiver.  Now it’s from podcaster to podcaster, from blogger to blogger.  There’s an increased amount of communication and we have entered into, as a result, the age of referrals.  No longer are we dependent on the top 40 list on Billboard to tell us what’s a hit.  We can go to our friend’s, you know, computer or look at his iPod and we can find the songs we want, even if no one else has heard of them.  And it’s more word-of-mouth.  And we’re now able to filter through all the stuff out there through a system of referrals.  And this is a result of the increased kind of depth of re-enforcements that we’ve had along these lateral communication chains, which is a part of owning the means of production, being able to democratize these tools.   Like, if you want to buy a car, it used to be you went and you bought a copy of  Lemon-Aid.  You know, we all know the book Lemon-Aid.  You know, I’m sure anyone whose bought a new car in the last 10 years or a used car in the last 10 years has probably, you know, looked at a copy or borrowed a copy, or sat in Chapter’s and read a copy.  And the reason that was a great book is because it was a source that you would trust and it was a good referral.  Well now, anyone who’s ever owned any model of car has probably posted a blog.  And if you type in, you know, 2002 Honda Civic 4-Door, you’re probably going to wind up reading a lot peoples’, you know, referrals about whether or not you should buy a 2002 Honda Civic 4-Door.  And this is something that we didn’t have before.  And so it’s taken the power away from the hit-makers, the people who decide what popular culture is.  And this is part of the whole kind of getting that long tale, having niche markets, fewer hits.  And that’s something that’s interesting because it means that I, as a content provider, am not competing as far to get to the top.  It means that people like Julien, who’s here somewhere…there he is.  Julien, you know, 15 years ago, you might not have been able to reach, you know, as many people or get the recognition that you were able to get.  But the context was right for it, and the scene was…the stage was set and everyone was primed.  And there was…it wasn’t as far to go between just being some guy with a mike to being some guy that everybody is listening to.  There was a lot more options and the ground work had been laid with everything that’s been happening with putting the tools of production back in everyone hands.  And that’s sort of thing has been going on for a long time.  If you want to think of it in terms of, you know, in the 1970’s, electric guitars and cheap recording devices, you know, sprung up in every garage.  And instead of being an artist or a performer, you know, with a $1,000,000 studio to back you up, you could play just as well as the Ramones of the Sex Pistols, you know.  And today, with the powers of home studio production, you know, people can produce an album for $15,000, you know.  And those tools are then going on to the next level of communication, the next level that we’re ready to go, you know, beyond music, into news, into video, into audio.  And what this is all doing is it’s…and I really do think of it this way.  We’re hard-wiring ourselves for a network, almost a neural network.  If there’s a drive or an idea that exists in the kind of the podosphere, the online culture, it’s like a neural network, you know.   In the simplest form something like Oprah decides that she likes pagminas.  And within a year, every woman between 35 and 55 owns a pagmina.  You know, it was like a neuron fired and a muscle got pulled, you know, and there was a physical reaction.  People ran out to stores, you know, and started buying these things, you know.  If Mark Blevis says I recommend getting a particular model of solid state recorder, sales for that recorder will actually jump by 2 or 3 sales, you know.  But there’s…but it’s…you actually can affect the world by saying something, having it encoded into an electronic file which is really just a bunch of ones and zeros.  Someone else picks it up and they go and they take action.  That blows my mind, you know.  This is, you know, so we’re slowly kind of laying a network by which we can communicate, and ideas.  And not even a single idea, but a movement, a bunch of people all with the same idea, can really affect change in the world.  And this is laying a network for our collective unconscious, because we’re not always conscious of the effects that we’re creating.  Sometimes it’s a general desire and the way that it manifests is different.  I mean, there’s obviously been a desire for greater communication in an increasingly populous world.  And podcasting has been the manifestation.  The fact that people went out and developed the technology, developed the code, developed, you know, the tools, you know, to allow this to happen.  That’s a manifestation of an unconscious need for a greater communication among a higher density of population.  And so I really feel that we are participating in that hard-wiring of the collective unconscious globally. And something that someone mentioned last night which it occurred to me was really the summation of everything that I’m talking about, because I’m talking about some kind of far out ideas.  And maybe some structural concepts that you can lay over this revolution that we’re all experiencing.  And the wildest one of all is Timothy Leary.  And I didn’t even know this, but I’m familiar with some of his earlier work.  But I didn’t know that…so this is actually unsubstantiated, someone told me this.  So whoever it was, it’s their fault if it’s wrong, not mine.  And he said that on his deathbed, he said that the internet for the next generation would be the LSD of his generation.  Because he and Ken Casey would dose, and Ken Casey would be in San Francisco, Timothy Leary would be in New York.  And they would be able to communicate telepathically, you know, on LSD, sharing streaming audio and video.  And they did this in 1969.  And today, every single kid in America is, instead of high on LSD, they are high on the internet.  They have, you know, a 1,000,000 colours.  And they can create and they imagine something and produce it, you know, within minutes with the tools lying around their bedroom.  And they can alter audio and video, you know, to an amazing degree.  And then share with other people and have one-on-one conversations, have group conversations.  And this is an expansion of consciousness.  This is turn on, tune in, drop out of reality into virtual reality.  It’s better than any drug.  And it’s not the opiate of the masses that television was, you know.  This is something that’s really exciting, you know.  And interactive and hot in terms of how McLuhan would describe it.  And that’s what I wanted to communicate is that like I’m really excited.  I’m, you know, sometimes I feel like I’m hot, you know, when I’m listening to podcasts, you know.  Sometimes I am hot when I’m listening to podcasts, you know.  But it really creates an intense visceral experience, you know, that equates any, you know, other experience I might have had, you know, through use of non-internet technologies.  There’s one guy in particular, just to…I’m going to wrap up in a second. I can see Todd’s been giving me…Mark’s been giving me the countdown.  There’s one guy, Avalanche Radio done by Hector Herrera.  And I always mention the guy.  I don’t think a lot of other Canadian podcasters listen to him, but he’s out of Toronto.  And he’s done a couple of shows where I hit “play” and I had a cup of coffee and I was doing something else.  Maybe I’m playing online poker and reading a book and listening to a podcast all at once.  And suddenly I have to stop everything because this guy, his voice comes on and I’m frozen.  And I close the door and I unplug the phone.  And it’s such an all encompassing experience.  I listen to one of his shows that I have to close my eyes because it’s…I’m just being over stimulated by his show.  And I haven’t had another form of media do that to me in a really long time.  And that’s something that some guy in Toronto is producing out of his basement as an escape from his marriage, you know. He talks about that, it’s an intense show.  But anyway, but that’s the sort of thing, I’ve never been moved by something and it’s really exciting to me that instead of just experiencing it, I can experience it really, wholly, by also becoming a part of it.  And I wanted to invite you all to take that journey yourselves and don’t just produce podcasts, but really revel in the moment.  And know that all of you are doing something really exciting and groundbreaking.  And I want you all to congratulate yourselves for being a part of it.  And next time you podcast and you’re about to hit the button to upload with your FTP, you know, and get it out there, just stop for a moment and think about how far we’ve come.  Thank you. Bob Goyetche:  Thanks Art.  We have a few minutes.  Does anybody have questions for Art while we have him nailed to the podium?  I didn’t realize you had a hand on each arm.  Audience:  Hey Arthur, how are you? Bob Goyetche:  Who are you? Julien Smith:  I’m Julien Smith. Bob Goyetche: From? Julien Smith: In Over Your Head, never heard of it.  I just want to say this is spectacular, everything that you’re saying right here, because this is everything that podcasting used to be about. Arthur Masters: Exactly. Julien Smith: Right, you remember Bob? Bob Goyetche: Yeah. Julien Smith: You remember.  But it’s not very much like that anymore, but those…I mean, I don’t know, I still remember, right?  So, and Bob still remembers, you know. Bob Goyetche: What?  I can’t hear you. Julien Smith: Hello, hello.  So anyway, next time that you have a conversation with Mark in Ottawa like this, call me. I’ll take a bus, I don’t give a damn. No, seriously, this is what it’s all about.  And it’s like, we all need to return to what this is and how spectacular and how revolutionary all this was. Arthur Masters:  Year One, Year One was wild, like I remember listening with bated breath on the edge of my seat to Don and Drew. I don’t listen to Don and Drew anymore. Julien Smith:  But I mean, no, seriously, we’re listening to it and going wow, these people are just sitting on their couch talking for 45 minutes and I’m listening to them. Arthur Masters: I have a virtual trophy, I have an e-mail that Drew Domkus sent me in response to me going,hey, nice show. Julien Smith: Yeah, right, exactly. Like hold on, wait, a personal connection, wow.  So anyway I just wanted to say, I mean this is a great way to open a thing, because this is why we’re all here.  I mean that’s why I’m still here, you know what I mean? Arthur Masters: Yeah. Julien Smith: Cheers. Arthur Masters:  Thank you. Bob Goyetche:  Julien brings up a great point because my first exposure to Julien was because Julien and I, we both started in 2004.  And my first exposure to Julien was listening to his show.  He said, I mentioned you on my show.  You have a show?  There’s another show in Montreal? And, yeah, there’s these two old guys talk about music and stuff, they’re cool.  And then he swore a couple of times.  And that was, you know, that’s what it was.  You just communicate, you know, and I’m listening for the first time to his show and I hear my show back because we were just grabbing each other’s audio and passing it back and forth.  And that’s gone a bit and that’s too bad. Julien Smith:  Do you remember the first time that like…does anyone here remember the first time they heard someone else talk about their show?  Yeah? And you get this like he, he, he.  Yeah, I still get that sometimes.  Should we pass the mike? Bob Goyetche:  Two minutes… Julien Smith: Two minutes… Bob Goyetche:  Anybody?  Well, thank you Art.  Great talk, great start to the day. This episode of Canadian Podcast Buffett featuring Podcasters Across Borders audio is brought to you in part by TD Canada Trust.  When you switch your main checking account to TD by August 3rd, you will qualify for either a free Shuffle, iPod Nano or a 30 gig iPod.  Visit www.tdswitch.com/pab for details.  Mark Blevis:  Thanks to all of the PAB2007 Sponsors: Rogic Podcast Conglomerate , Third Storey Productions , TD Canada Trust , Thornley Fallis , StartCooking.com , Marion McDonald , Don Edwards , Freddie Litwiniuk , Bill Deys and Christopher Penn .   Bob Goyetche:  For more info on Canadian Podcast Buffet you can go to our website www.canadianpodcastbuffet.ca . Mark Blevis:  For more information on Podcasters Across Borders visit that website www.podcastersacrossborders.com . Bob Goyetche:  To contact us you can leave us a voicemail, area code 267-220-3701 or our e-mail at: canadianpodcastbuffet@gmail.com . Mark Blevis:  Of course you’re welcome to join any and all of the Rogic forums including the Canadian Podcast Buffet forum, the Podcasters Across Borders forum, and there’s a link to that at www.rogic.com/forum on the Canadian Podcast Buffet website. Bob Goyetche:  Canadian Podcast Buffet and Podcasters Across Borders are proud members of the Rogic Podcast Conglomerate. tags: Arthur Masters , Context is King , PAB2007 , Podcasts Arthur Masters , Context is King , PAB2007 , Podcasts 8 Essential Skills for PR Pros Show me a PR person with these eight skills (in this order) and I’ll show you the elite of our profession. (Are you listening ASU ?): (1) Knowledge of business operations - If you don’t know how a business works and especially, how it makes money, you cannot succeed in PR. Period. Public perception is the ultimate referendum on good business operations or the ultimate check against poor operations. You need to be in a position to know your client’s business as well as the client does in order to advocate and deliver. (2) Personal relationships – Smart content and distribution only get you so far. For best results, it is always who you know. Everything else is a cold call. That’s right: you’re a whore on Information Blvd. whispering “Hey baby, want some sugar?” at passing journalists. (3) Knowledge of consumer behavior — No consumers, no business. Wrong consumers, no business. Who target consumers are, how they think and how to reach them — especially on the Internet — is the lynchpin of PR. (4) Strategy – “Every battle is won before it is fought” — Sun Tzu “The Art of War” . If you’re not strategic, you’re simply tactical. Anyone can be tactical — it’s called telemarketing — or spamming. You’ll win some battles but always lose the war for media and consumer attention. Noone plans to fail, they fail to plan. (5) A great attitude. “If you think you can or can’t, you’re right” — Henry Ford . A can-do attitude is simply unchanneled passion. A great attitude builds confidence and trust, even if the end result is a loss. You always get hired on attitude, not skill. (6) Journalism skills – PR pros are essentially corporate journalists with sales responsibilities. You have to think and write lik journalists in order to out-think them and write stories they want to write themselves. This is why the best PR pros are generally former journalists, especially those who go to work for major corporations. (7) Rhetoric and negotiation skills — You need to know how to argue well and properly break down an argument into premises and conclusions. You need to know how to negotiate (fight) beyond one round. And to play poker and call bullshit . This is a sure-fire recipe for another important quality: thick skin. (8) Focus — PR is a non-linear, fast paced business with an ever-changing environment. It requires a lot of juggling — the kind with fire sticks. Good “jugglers” must focus on tasks at hand, stay calm and organized and know when to switch gears.

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ENB #36 Popcorn Lung, Bush’s Latest Moronic Press Conference, Passive Aggressive Tazing, Bush’s New Math, Dan Rather Artwork by Roger Smalls direct link to small ipod version of show transcript: HELLO I’M RICHARD BLUESTEIN AND THIS IS THE ECLECTIC NEWS BRIEF FOR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2007. THIS PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY PODSHOW AND GODADDY. CHOOSE GODADDY TO RELIABLY HOST ALL OF YOUR DOMAN NAMES. ENTER CODES INSANE1, INSANE2, OR INSANE 3 WHEN YOU CHECK OUT AT GODADDY.COM. PODSHOW.COM IS THE THE BEST WAY TO HOST YOUR AUDIO AND VIDEO PODCASTS. UNLIKE YOUTUBE, PODSHOW ALLOWS FOR LONG-FORM CONTENT AT VERY HIGH QUALITY. THIS PODCAST FOR EXAMPLE, IS OFFERED IN A 720P HD FORMAT IF YOU GO TO INSANEFILMS720.PODSHOW.COM. ### THERE IS A NEW DISORDER EMERGING FROM THE MURKY DEPTHS OF CORPORATE GREED. IT’S CALLED POPCORN LUNG. ACCORDING TO THE SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM, THE EPA, LAST YEAR, *BURIED* A REPORT ON THE HEALTH RISKS FROM THE BUTTERY FLAVORING CALLED DIACETYL. THE MICROWAVE POPCORN FLAVORING PRODUCES AN INCURABLE AND ULTIMATELY FATAL LUNG DISEASE IN WORKERS EXPOSED TO IT OCCUPATIONALLY. WORSE YET, A DOCTOR CAME FORTH WITH THE CASE OF A CONSUMER OF MICROWAVE POPCORN WHO CONTRACTED THE DISEASE. THE EPA TO THIS DAY HAS *NOT RELEASED* THE REPORT TO THE PUBLIC. THE EPA HAS, HOWEVER, GIVEN THE REPORT TO THE POPCORN INDUSTRY. THIS FROM THE SAME EPA WHICH CAUSED THOUSANDS TO GET LUNG DISEASES BY NOT WARNING THEM OF THE DANGERS OF WORKING AT GROUND ZERO. ### DURING HIS PRESS CONFERENCE, THE IDIOT AND CHEAT WAS ASKED IF THERE IS A RISK OF RECESSION. YOU WOULD THINK THAT HE *MIGHT* TAKE THIS QUESTION SERIOUSLY SINCE ONE MILLION AMERICANS LOST THEIR HOMES DUE TO FORECLOSURE IN THE PAST YEAR. INSTEAD THE MORON ANSWERED AS FOLLOWS: QUOTE. YOU KNOW YOU NEED TO TALK TO ECONOMISTS. I THINK I GOT A B IN ECON 101. I GOT AN A, HOWEVER, IN KEEPING TAXES LOW (THE KISS ASS PRESS CORE LAUGHS HERE) AND BEING FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE WITH THE PEOPLE’S MONEY. WE’VE SUBMITTED A PLAN THAT WILL ENABLE THIS BUDGET TO BECOME BALANCED (NOTE THE USE OF PASSIVE VOICE HERE) BY 2012. - JUST IN TIME FOR ANOTHER CORPORATE STOOGE TO BE FORCED INTO THE WHITE HOUSE LIKE THE FECES OF AN ELEPHANT BEING PLUNGED INTO A FRENCH TOILET. BUSH ALSO SAID QUOTE AND WE CAN BALANCE THE BUDGET WITHOUT RAISING TAXES. UNQUOTE. I BELIVE WHAT HE MEANT TO SAY WAS THAT *SOMEONE ELSE* CAN CLEAN UP MY MESS BECAUSE I AM AN SPOILED BRAT WHO NEVER LEARNED TO CLEAN UP HIS ROOM. ### THE PRESIDENT HAS PROMISED TO VETO A BILL WHICH WOULD GUARANTEE HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR ALL CHILDREN WHOSE PARENTS MAKE LESS THAN EIGHTY-THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR. HIS ARGUMENT IS THAT KEEPING CHILDREN FROM DYING OF CURABLE DISEASES WOULD RESULT IN MORE OF, *THAT GREAT EVIL*, GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTHCARE. PUSSY REPORTERS FAILED TO POINT OUT TO BUSH THAT GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTHCARE FOR CHILDREN IS BETTER THAN NO HEALTHCARE AT ALL. MICHAEL MOORE HAS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED THAT IN OTHER COUNTRIES, GOVERNMENTS DO A FAR BETTER AND MORE EFFICIENT JOB AT RUNINNG HEALTHCARE THAN CORPORATIONS WHOSE PRIME MOTIVE IS MAKING MONEY AND HIPOCRITICAL TV COMMERCIALS. MEANWHILE SADISTIC MORON BUSH IS ONCE AGAIN BLACKMAILING CONGRESS. BUSH PUTS CONGRESS AT FAULT FOR PUTTING FORTH A PLAN WHICH THEY KNOW BUSH WILL VETO. ACCORDING TO BUSH, BY ATTEMPTING TO PUSH THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE BILL INSTEAD OF A BILL WHICH PROTECTS INSURANCE COMPANIES AND *NOT* CHILDREN, CONGRESS IS ACTUALLY FORCING ALL S-CHIP COVERAGE TO LAPSE. THAT’S HARD TO FOLLOW. I KNOW. TO PUT IT MORE CLEARLY, THE S-CHIP PROGRAM IS ALREADY IN PLACE BUT CONGRESS WANTS TO DRASTICALLY IMPROVE IT. BUSH WANTS ONLY TO GIVE IT 5% MORE FUNDING SO THAT HE CAN AFFORD TO HAVE HIS POKER BUDDIES FROM BLACKWATER MELT TINY INFANTS TO THEIR MOTHERS WHILE STOPPING AT BAGHDAD STOPLIGHTS. BUT SEE THE S-CHIP PROGRAM RUNS OUT VERY SOON IF IT IS NOT RENEWED. SO BUSH IS SAYING THAT ALL S-CHIP CARE WILL END BECAUSE HE, BUSH, WILL NOT SIGN THE BILL WHICH THE LEGISLATVIE BRANCH OF *OUR* GOVERNEMNT AGREED UPON. ### WHEN ASKED BY THE *PRESS* ABOUT ALAN GREENSPAN’S SCATHING CRITIQUE OF THE PRESIDENT, BUSH SLYLESSLY CHANGED THE SUBJECT TO SOMETHING HE AND GREENSPAN BOTH AGREE ON: GETTING RID OF SOCIAL SECURITY. THE PRESIDENT SAID QUOTE: GREENSPAN AND I SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT THE UNFUNDED LIABILITIES INHERENT IN SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE. AND HE’S CONCERNED ABOUT THOSE UNFUNDED LIABILITIES AS AM I. AND THAT’S WHY I WENT IN FRONT OF CONGRESS, TALKING ABOUT HOW TO REFORM SOCIAL SECURITY SO THAT YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING AREN’T PAING PAYROLL TAXES INTO A SYSTEM THAT’S GOING BROKE. UNQUOTE. THIS WAS ANOTHER CIRCULAR STATEMENT FROM OUR C MINUS PRESIDENT. SOCIAL SECURITY IS NOT IN DANGER. IF THESE SO CALLED LIABILITIES CONTINUE TO BE FUNDED, THEN THEY ARE BY DEFINITION NOT UNFUNDED. ARE AMERICANS REALLY STUPID ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THIS DRECK? IF SO GET ME ON A BIG JET AIRPLANE. COME ON COME ON. GET GOING. BIG WHEEL KEEP ON TURNING PROUD MARY. COME MOON. BUSH AND THE OTHER ‘YOU *CAN* TAKE IT WITH YOU’ REPUBLICANS WOULD RATHER SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES BE DIVERTED INTO RECKLESSLY MANAGED WALL STREET FUNDS. ### EDITOR AND PUBLISHER- A BLOG I FREQUENTLY QUOTE, POSTED A BIO OF THE MAN WHO GOT TAZERED AT THE JOHN KERRY SPEECH IN FLORIDA. THE BIO REAKED OF THINLY VIELED JEALOUSY. AFTER ALL, ANDREW MEYER RECEIVED AT LEAST HALF A MILLION DOWNLOADS OF HIS VIDEO. THE EDITOR AND PUBLISHER HEADLINE READ QUOTE STUDENT TASERED WHILE QUESTIONING KERRY WAS, OF COURSE, A QUASI-JOURNALIST. UNQUOTE. CAN YOU IMAGINE A MORE PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE AND INSULTING HEADLINE WHICH NEGATES THE IMPORTANCE OF THE HEROIC ACT UNDERTAKEN BY MR MEYER. THE E&P ARTICLE WENT ON TO DISCREDIT ANDREW MEYER BY MENTIONING VARIOUS INTERNET PRANKS WHICH WERE COMPLETELY HARMLESS AND HAD NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH HIS JOURNALISTIC ACTIVITIES. ANDREW MEYER ASKED QUESTIONS THAT NEEDED TO BE ASKED, AND WOULD NOT ACCEPT NO ANSWER AS AN ANSWER. ANDREW MEYER DID WHAT THE SO CALLED REAL JOURNALISTS SHOULD BE DOING, BUT ARE AFRAID TO DO. SO INSTEAD THEY REACT BY PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE JEALOUSY BASED CHARACTER ASSASINATION. WELL, ECLECTIC NEWS BRIEF APPLAUDS ANDREW MEYER FOR TAKING A STAND, AND IF HE IS A QUASI JOURNALIST, WELL I’LL TAKE QUASI-JOURNALISM OVER ‘REAL’ JOURNALISM- KATIE KOURIC AND ALL- ANY DAY OF THE WEEKS. ### OH AND SPEAKING OF JOURNALISM,DAN RATHER, THE VETRAN JOURNALIST WHO WAS REPLACED BY KATIE KOURIC IS SUING CBS FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. DAN RATHER CLAIMS HE WAS FIRED BY CBS IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE WHITE HOUSE. IF TRUE, THIS IS A CLEAR VIOLATION OF THE LAW WHICH FORBIDS PROPAGANDIZING WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. NOT THAT IT ISN’T BEING VIOLATED EVERYWHERE ANYWAY. TIME TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX. ### PLEASE SEND COMMENTS, NEWS ITEMS, AND QUESTIONS TO RICHARD@BLUESTEIN.COM. I’M ALSO LOOKING FOR ITNERESTING AND PROVOCATIVE BACKGROUND FOOTAGE FOR THIS SHOW. IF YOU HAVE ORIGINAL CONTENT THAT FITS THE FORMAT OF THIS SHOW, I WILL GLADLY INCLUDE A PROMOTION FOR YOUR BLOG, VLOG, PODCAST OR WHATEVER. I’M RICHARD BLUESTEIN AND DIT WAS HET NIEWS. #### Tags: Popcorn , Lung, , Bush , Latest , Moronic , Press , Conference, , Passive , Aggressive , Tazing, , Bush , New , Math, , Dan , Rather Goalie Wow. Jeff Cutler reaches 25 episodes. OK, really 24 because I think we skipped #13. Call us - 201-793-8255 or drop us an email - podcast@bowlofcheese.com And take a moment to look at our blogs... http://www.jeffcutler.com http://www.bowlofcheese.com http://www.thingstoworryabout.com Here's today's podcast... For some people, setting goals is driven by their situation. They are less free - in my opinion - to make decisions that contribute to their happiness and more prone to choose 'tasks' or paths that others strongly influence. If I were still married, I imagine that many of my decisions would follow the whims and wishes of my wife. I'd be less free to jump on opportunities like a free Six Flags Day from Scion or Podcamp Boston. Doing tasks around the house would become a stronger focus and the me generation might face extinction. Fortunately, I'm extremely easy-going and not at all obsessive. My journey through life is in no large way adjusted because of external drivers...it's essentially a live life and enjoy it philosophy. That's why the cat decision is very difficult. While I might joke about skinning and dining on cats, that isn't how I really feel about these cute creatures. From Rags to Nick to Huckleberry, all the cats in my life have been (or will be) full-fledged members of the family. I can assure you I won't creating a Michael Vick-esque den of catfighting (I'll let the women in offices all over this great country of ours do that). But a new cat is definitely going to be a change for me. Primarily, a cat is a little more needy than a goldfish or plant and slightly less needy than an infant. So dropping everything and riding my scooter to Florida for three months is going to be a little less realistic. And my penchant for shutting off the heat in the house will probably have to stop during the winter months. But the things I gain will more than make up for the slight crimp in my lifestyle. My main concern is that my cat will want more attention than me or have an OCD mentality. So prepare yourself. In this space you're soon going to hear about cute little kitten adventures and be subject to innumerable photos of kitten cuteness. But while kittens are fun, this column is about goals. To that end, on Tuesday I listed out a few 2007-2008 goals and I'd like to share the majority of them here. The world-domination plan gets a little convoluted, so I'll save that for its own post. 1 - Invent a device that is similar to an iPhone but just plays music 2 - Write a joke for David Letterman 3 - Keep up with all my blogging and podcasting (this current post kills two birds...NO, there is no killing of pets in this blog) 4 - Cultivate some more clients who want me to write Dave Barry and David Sedaris type columns 5 - Win more cash via assorted lotteries (last night I hit Keno for $452, really!) 6 - Buy a scooter (you didn't see that coming?) 7 - Take some serious steps toward home renovations (would like to go from 923 sf to 2300 sf...maybe I just need to put some mirrors on the walls to open up the space) 8 - Land a writing assignment for the 2008 Tour de France 9 - Be more visionary in nature and convert that to billions and billions of dollars 10 - Pay a tiny bit more attention to the world around me (contrary to my miniature amount of self-focus, I would like to remember the birthdays of my nieces and nephews and siblings and parents and girlfriend as well as major holidays like Yom Kippur and July 4th and Talk Like a Pirate Day) So, with those lofty goals in mind I'm off to play poker tonight and generate funds to help me achieve my dream. I urge you to do the same. More to come... PAB2007 - Arthur Masters Download PAB2007 - Arthur Masters Context is King: Re-examining Conventional Wisdom for an Unconventional Media presented at PAB2007 by Arthur Masters . Learn about the idea of ‘Context is King’, other shifted paradigms and the realization of theories by media futurists including McLuhan (Hot and Cold Media), Alvin Toffler (predicted granular micronization of niche markets circa 1995), and even Jung’s ideas about the collective unconscious, and how the interconnectedness of communication media has begun to actualize it. This episode of Canadian Podcast Buffet is brought to you in part by TD Canada Trust . When you switch your main chequing account to TD by August 3rd, you’ll qualify for either a free Shuffle, iPod Nano or a 30 gig iPod. Click here for details . Photo by Jim Milles. Transcript below… Mark Blevis:  I’m Mark Blevis. Bob Goyetche:  And I’m Bob Goyetche.  Welcome to special coverage of the 2007 edition of Podcasters Across Borders right here on the Canadian Podcast Buffet. Mark Blevis:  This episode is brought to you in part by TD Canada Trust.  Listen at the end of the show to see how you can get a free iPod. Bob Goyetche:  So while you listen to the great sessions from Podcasters Across Borders 2007, keep in mind that Podcasters Across Borders 2008 is June 20 through 22 in Kingston, Ontario once again. Mark Blevis:  Keep following the www.podcastersacrossborders.com and www.canadianpodcastbuffet.ca for details on PAB 2008 registration, hotel room rates, programs and social activities. Bob Goyetche:  On this issue you’re going to hear Arthur Master’s presentation “Context is King”.  Arthur runs the Ottawa Local Podcast at www.ottawalocal.com . Arthur Masters:  Wow am I nervous.  I’ve known about this for months now and I guess much of this speech is gonna come from conversations that I’ve had with Mark Blevis.  One of the nice things about living in Ottawa is that I live just, you know, a minute’s walk from the Arrow & Loon Pub where Mark likes to get together with anyone who’s passing through town.  And it’s easy for me to convince him to stay for an extra drink because he lives around the corner.  And so once everyone else has wondered off back to their homes, we’ll sit around and polish off another couple of pints.  And we get into these really neat conversations.  And if we can remember them in the morning, it winds up on one of his blogs or on one of my podcasts.  So despite that, I am really nervous and, whoa, I just pictured you all naked, that was uncomfortable.  Okay, I want to welcome you all to Podcasters Across Borders but I also want to welcome you all to the future, because what we’re doing right now, this realization of technology, this interconnected community that we have is something which has been predicted by futurists.  Well, people will make predictions and we only pay attention to the ones that come true.  Now maybe that’s kind of the shotgun theory, if you send out enough ideas, some of them will hit the bull’s eye and those are the ones that we wind up reading thirty years later.  And that is the case, in that there have been a lot of ideas.  But some people like Marshall McLuhan and Noam Chomsky and Alvin Toffler are futurists that seem to hit it just about every single time.  And I just wanted to…perhaps you’re already aware that we’ve already realized some of these ideas.  But I wanted to just hit on some of these points, so that you can all know what an incredibly exciting thing it is that we’re all participating in here.  And there’s an ancient Chinese curse which says “May you live in interesting times” and I think we are living in the most interesting of times.  People, when they think about the future, we tend to idealize it.  There was this idea once upon a time that we would all travel in tubes, you know, you would get up in the morning and put on your nice crisp shirt that was prepared by the robot maid, and you would leave your house and you’d  get on to this shiny glass steel tube.  And it would shuttle you across the city to your towering office building, where you would perform your terribly important task, punching numbers into a giant calculator, computer sort of machine.  This isn’t how it happened.  In fact, it’s the blue collar workers who take the tube to work in the morning, its people in Toronto who get onto the subway and it’s grimy and it’s noisy.  And it’s not what we thought it would be.  And the same thing applies to the future of technology.  Alvin Toffler described the paperless office almost thirty years ago.  I’ve seen more paper in offices…anyone here? Does anyone here have a paperless office?  No? No, maybe Goggle does, maybe you know, some of those, you know, entirely online businesses do, but no one I know.  But we do have something called iTunes, which is a recordless music store.  And the only thing is he just got the media wrong.  It wasn’t type media, it wasn’t print media, it was another form of media.  And so these things are really becoming true and I don’t think any of the predictions have fallen flat.  I think all of them have some validity.  One of the things that you also have to do when you’re being a futurist and thinking about the future, is you have to re-examine the maxims of today.  What was the environment that we thought we were sitting in?  And when we think about the future, can we go back and re-examine those and redefine them and does it fit the model better?  Well, one of the old maxims of radio has been “content is king”.  And this is the idea that when people tune into the radio, they want to know what time is it? What’s the traffic like? What’s the number one hit song? You’ve got to have this kind of a prioritized list of information.  And I would like to propose that we have left that era and we’ve entered a new one where context is king.  And this isn’t something new, I’m just stealing this from Marshall McLuhan.  And this is his most famous quote.  And I think podcasting realizes that maxim, the idea of context being king, more than any other media that we’ve had so far.  And part of the reason for that is the way that the idea of podcasting has manifested in our minds.   Now I believe it was at the 2000 or 2001 Portable Media Expo that the word first was used.  And someone had been speaking about narrowcasting which, as many of you probably know, is where you’re pulling a file from a website instead of broadcasting it.  And this is what makes podcasting able to circumvent all of the conventions of radio and conventional media.  And someone got up at the end of this conference and perhaps it was something that was…had come up in a conversation or maybe it just came to them.  But they said, well there’s this new iPod product and there’s this narrowcasting.  And those are the two most exciting things here.  And next year, we’ll all probably be podcasting, ha, ha, ha, and it just stuck.  And every single journalist who was there went home and wrote down podcasting, and put that into the article, and the word was born.  But people didn’t understand what podcasting was.  People thought oh, well podcasting is a delivery method.  Well podcasting is the content of what you’re talking about.  And then some people at first were confused because there was so much talk about well, what type of file format? Is this some sort of protocol that I’m just not aware of? And it was just so vague and blurry.  But that did something wonderful.  It combined content and context.  The delivery mechanism was synonymous in peoples’ minds with the content.  And when people first picked up a microphone and figured out how to do it, one of the first things that a lot of people have done, yourselves have done I’m sure, and I know you’ve all heard shows like this, is you talked about how to make your own podcast.  So the content is then giving you the tools and the information on how to use the tools to create more podcasts.  And this is…so listening to a podcast actually primes you for creating a podcast.  And the early version of Podcaster X or iPodder…I think it became Juice.  It was Adam Curry’s baby.  It actually had a program in one of the sub-directories that helped you write RSS feed.  So as soon as you had the tool to listen to it, you also had the tools to make it.  And this struck me as being an extension of this context, the medium is the message realization and this was now part of what Chomsky had described as means and viral means.  And the content of an idea containing the information which is needed to prime people and get them to create more of that, something which is viral, you are infected and then you become a producer as a result of the information.  And it passes itself on that way.  Now I’ve never actually read a lot of Chomsky.  I’ve read People on Chomsky and I’m a big fan of Douglas Rushkoff.  I don’t know if anyone here is familiar with Douglas Rushkoff, a nice Jewish boy from New York.  And he is a cutting edge, frighteningly intelligent futurist who’s…anyway, I just want to recommend if anyone gets a chance go read the book Media Virus.  And it was written in 1993.  But the things he talks about in the book are more and more relevant every day.  One of the things that resulted of this mass explosion of people who we’re being primed and then putting out content was an incredible diversity in subject matter.  Now that diversity…if you want to have a hit, you don’t want diversity, you want mass appeal.  So this has been the depth of the hit as well, having, you know, 800,000 voices all speaking on their own personal areas of expertise.  And this has created a micronization of markets.  Markets which appeal to a single niche.  And if there’s a million people, all who are experts in one particular tiny field like, you know, there’s Jay Mooney who is an expert on capitalizing on…. Mark Blevis:  Maybe your battery died.  Thank you very much to Arthur Masters everybody.  It was going nowhere man. Arthur Masters:  Wait till it gets there. Arthur Masters:  Check - one - two.  Okay, we’re back.  So, as a result of this incredible variety and this medium which actually primes people.  Like, can you imagine if every single person who watched television was suddenly struck with the impetus to go out and create a TV show with the same like rabid drive that podcasters seem to experience it?  You know, we would have a massive explosion.  And if you look at the growth curve and the adoption curve that…it’s hard to get numbers for this year.  Last year, the numbers were spectacular, it was experiencing this kind of zero to 5,000,000 podcast curve and it was really exciting to look at.  But what this means is you have all these people, this incredible diversity, and there’s no focus.  It’s not like podcasters are all computer geeks.  Or podcasters are all on-line music junkies.  Or podcasters are all hobby radio enthusiasts.  You get this whole spectrum.  And you’re not going to find two of the same person or two of the same common experience.  So because of this, you get this incredible micronization, this over-specialization, sometimes to the point where none of us can keep a market of more than 30 listeners to our specific area of interest.  But that’s okay, because we’re satisfying the need of those 30 people.  Now Alvin Toffler…I first heard of Alvin Toffler in 1993.  And I was reading Wired Magazine which was in its second year of publication.  And I think they were only putting out one episode every two months.  And it was really counter-culture, it was edgy, it was anti-big business, it was pro-individual piracy and privacy and anti-big business.  And it was really cutting edge.  And today it’s more corporate and I don’t read it anymore.  But they had Alvin Toffler.  And I didn’t know who Alvin Toffler was but if Wired Magazine had Alvin Toffler, then he must be cool.  And he was talking about in 15 years from 1993, he was saying we’re going to have thousands of channels.  We’re not just going to have a sports channel, we’re going to have a sports channel for every sport.  And at the time, there was still only 30 channels on my television set.  So I don’t know what kind of drugs he’s on or what kind of, you know, crystal ball he’s using.  But his ability to describe the environment that we’re sitting in right now I find mind blowing.  And I’m so excited to be a part of it.  And that’s why I’m here today.  Because I really feel like I am living part of that wild roller coaster ride of ideas that I’ve have been reading about for 30 years.  And it’s so flattering to know that I can participate.  And right on the cusp, in terms of participating and being a podcaster.  Now once you have…now as I mentioned a moment ago, sometimes because of this great diversification, you have this very shallow niche.  And maybe you’ve only got 30 or 60 listeners.  This means that people aren’t doing it for profit.  This means that people are doing it out of a sense of powered by passion, to use, you know, a phrase that Andrea Ross coined.  They’re not doing it for money. They’re doing it out of a sense of volunteerism.  And its very anarchist.  It’s very communist, very socialist in that we’re providing a service which was a paid service.  And we’re doing it out of a sense of, not out of a sense of duty, but out of a sense of fulfillment.  We’re fulfilling a need in our society, in our media.  And to do that, we had to democratize the tools of production and the means of distribution.  And this…when I start to hear phrases like that, and that’s not…I’m not using these, I’m not making those terms up.  That’s…I’m quoting from Chris Anderson in his recent book “The Long Tale”.  He says we had to democratize the tools of production and the means of distribution.  And right away, I’m thinking Carl Marx.  This is the new factory.  This is the electronic factory.  And I’m the worker and I own the factory.  And this is another radical revolution.  You know once I made that realization that I was also living a socialist dream, you know, instead of just voting NDP, I can participate by owning that factory and I am the network.  And I don’t do it for a pay check.  I do it out of a sense of personal fulfillment.  And that spirit is also something that Mark has talked about - the day when people would do away with things like currency which simply re-enforce power structures.  And we would, you know, we would all become sort of renaissance men who had not one job that, you know, perhaps one task which was necessary to perform, but many other tasks that we would perform that society would benefit from.  And there would be no pay scale, there would be no pay structure, there would be no ownership.  And we’re also living in that world, increasingly so.  And I’m going to jump ahead to what I just mentioned, Chris Anderson, “The Long Tale”.  Some of you may have read it.  I wanted to make sure that instead of just bringing a bunch of guys to the table who’d been, you know, had all their theory’s out there for 30 years, I wanted to have someone new and more modern.  And Chris Anderson is perhaps not a futurist, in that he hasn’t been jumping ahead 30 years and saying where we’re going to be.  But he’s…he does a very good job of describing where we are right now.  And he’s the Editor-In-Chief of Wired Magazine.  And despite my feelings that Wired has become kind of a lukewarm corporate sell-out rag, I still respect his opinion.  He’s a very hip guy.  And he introduces an idea that someone mentioned to me the other day, just in conversation, that we have probably left the information age for the communication age.  But we’re getting into a new age here.  Where, because we’ve started to re-enforce the communication structure laterally, rather than just vertically, I mean by vertically, I mean from network to receiver.  Now it’s from podcaster to podcaster, from blogger to blogger.  There’s an increased amount of communication and we have entered into, as a result, the age of referrals.  No longer are we dependent on the top 40 list on Billboard to tell us what’s a hit.  We can go to our friend’s, you know, computer or look at his iPod and we can find the songs we want, even if no one else has heard of them.  And it’s more word-of-mouth.  And we’re now able to filter through all the stuff out there through a system of referrals.  And this is a result of the increased kind of depth of re-enforcements that we’ve had along these lateral communication chains, which is a part of owning the means of production, being able to democratize these tools.   Like, if you want to buy a car, it used to be you went and you bought a copy of  Lemon-Aid.  You know, we all know the book Lemon-Aid.  You know, I’m sure anyone whose bought a new car in the last 10 years or a used car in the last 10 years has probably, you know, looked at a copy or borrowed a copy, or sat in Chapter’s and read a copy.  And the reason that was a great book is because it was a source that you would trust and it was a good referral.  Well now, anyone who’s ever owned any model of car has probably posted a blog.  And if you type in, you know, 2002 Honda Civic 4-Door, you’re probably going to wind up reading a lot peoples’, you know, referrals about whether or not you should buy a 2002 Honda Civic 4-Door.  And this is something that we didn’t have before.  And so it’s taken the power away from the hit-makers, the people who decide what popular culture is.  And this is part of the whole kind of getting that long tale, having niche markets, fewer hits.  And that’s something that’s interesting because it means that I, as a content provider, am not competing as far to get to the top.  It means that people like Julien, who’s here somewhere…there he is.  Julien, you know, 15 years ago, you might not have been able to reach, you know, as many people or get the recognition that you were able to get.  But the context was right for it, and the scene was…the stage was set and everyone was primed.  And there was…it wasn’t as far to go between just being some guy with a mike to being some guy that everybody is listening to.  There was a lot more options and the ground work had been laid with everything that’s been happening with putting the tools of production back in everyone hands.  And that’s sort of thing has been going on for a long time.  If you want to think of it in terms of, you know, in the 1970’s, electric guitars and cheap recording devices, you know, sprung up in every garage.  And instead of being an artist or a performer, you know, with a $1,000,000 studio to back you up, you could play just as well as the Ramones of the Sex Pistols, you know.  And today, with the powers of home studio production, you know, people can produce an album for $15,000, you know.  And those tools are then going on to the next level of communication, the next level that we’re ready to go, you know, beyond music, into news, into video, into audio.  And what this is all doing is it’s…and I really do think of it this way.  We’re hard-wiring ourselves for a network, almost a neural network.  If there’s a drive or an idea that exists in the kind of the podosphere, the online culture, it’s like a neural network, you know.   In the simplest form something like Oprah decides that she likes pagminas.  And within a year, every woman between 35 and 55 owns a pagmina.  You know, it was like a neuron fired and a muscle got pulled, you know, and there was a physical reaction.  People ran out to stores, you know, and started buying these things, you know.  If Mark Blevis says I recommend getting a particular model of solid state recorder, sales for that recorder will actually jump by 2 or 3 sales, you know.  But there’s…but it’s…you actually can affect the world by saying something, having it encoded into an electronic file which is really just a bunch of ones and zeros.  Someone else picks it up and they go and they take action.  That blows my mind, you know.  This is, you know, so we’re slowly kind of laying a network by which we can communicate, and ideas.  And not even a single idea, but a movement, a bunch of people all with the same idea, can really affect change in the world.  And this is laying a network for our collective unconscious, because we’re not always conscious of the effects that we’re creating.  Sometimes it’s a general desire and the way that it manifests is different.  I mean, there’s obviously been a desire for greater communication in an increasingly populous world.  And podcasting has been the manifestation.  The fact that people went out and developed the technology, developed the code, developed, you know, the tools, you know, to allow this to happen.  That’s a manifestation of an unconscious need for a greater communication among a higher density of population.  And so I really feel that we are participating in that hard-wiring of the collective unconscious globally. And something that someone mentioned last night which it occurred to me was really the summation of everything that I’m talking about, because I’m talking about some kind of far out ideas.  And maybe some structural concepts that you can lay over this revolution that we’re all experiencing.  And the wildest one of all is Timothy Leary.  And I didn’t even know this, but I’m familiar with some of his earlier work.  But I didn’t know that…so this is actually unsubstantiated, someone told me this.  So whoever it was, it’s their fault if it’s wrong, not mine.  And he said that on his deathbed, he said that the internet for the next generation would be the LSD of his generation.  Because he and Ken Casey would dose, and Ken Casey would be in San Francisco, Timothy Leary would be in New York.  And they would be able to communicate telepathically, you know, on LSD, sharing streaming audio and video.  And they did this in 1969.  And today, every single kid in America is, instead of high on LSD, they are high on the internet.  They have, you know, a 1,000,000 colours.  And they can create and they imagine something and produce it, you know, within minutes with the tools lying around their bedroom.  And they can alter audio and video, you know, to an amazing degree.  And then share with other people and have one-on-one conversations, have group conversations.  And this is an expansion of consciousness.  This is turn on, tune in, drop out of reality into virtual reality.  It’s better than any drug.  And it’s not the opiate of the masses that television was, you know.  This is something that’s really exciting, you know.  And interactive and hot in terms of how McLuhan would describe it.  And that’s what I wanted to communicate is that like I’m really excited.  I’m, you know, sometimes I feel like I’m hot, you know, when I’m listening to podcasts, you know.  Sometimes I am hot when I’m listening to podcasts, you know.  But it really creates an intense visceral experience, you know, that equates any, you know, other experience I might have had, you know, through use of non-internet technologies.  There’s one guy in particular, just to…I’m going to wrap up in a second. I can see Todd’s been giving me…Mark’s been giving me the countdown.  There’s one guy, Avalanche Radio done by Hector Herrera.  And I always mention the guy.  I don’t think a lot of other Canadian podcasters listen to him, but he’s out of Toronto.  And he’s done a couple of shows where I hit “play” and I had a cup of coffee and I was doing something else.  Maybe I’m playing online poker and reading a book and listening to a podcast all at once.  And suddenly I have to stop everything because this guy, his voice comes on and I’m frozen.  And I close the door and I unplug the phone.  And it’s such an all encompassing experience.  I listen to one of his shows that I have to close my eyes because it’s…I’m just being over stimulated by his show.  And I haven’t had another form of media do that to me in a really long time.  And that’s something that some guy in Toronto is producing out of his basement as an escape from his marriage, you know. He talks about that, it’s an intense show.  But anyway, but that’s the sort of thing, I’ve never been moved by something and it’s really exciting to me that instead of just experiencing it, I can experience it really, wholly, by also becoming a part of it.  And I wanted to invite you all to take that journey yourselves and don’t just produce podcasts, but really revel in the moment.  And know that all of you are doing something really exciting and groundbreaking.  And I want you all to congratulate yourselves for being a part of it.  And next time you podcast and you’re about to hit the button to upload with your FTP, you know, and get it out there, just stop for a moment and think about how far we’ve come.  Thank you. Bob Goyetche:  Thanks Art.  We have a few minutes.  Does anybody have questions for Art while we have him nailed to the podium?  I didn’t realize you had a hand on each arm.  Audience:  Hey Arthur, how are you? Bob Goyetche:  Who are you? Julien Smith:  I’m Julien Smith. Bob Goyetche: From? Julien Smith: In Over Your Head, never heard of it.  I just want to say this is spectacular, everything that you’re saying right here, because this is everything that podcasting used to be about. Arthur Masters: Exactly. Julien Smith: Right, you remember Bob? Bob Goyetche: Yeah. Julien Smith: You remember.  But it’s not very much like that anymore, but those…I mean, I don’t know, I still remember, right?  So, and Bob still remembers, you know. Bob Goyetche: What?  I can’t hear you. Julien Smith: Hello, hello.  So anyway, next time that you have a conversation with Mark in Ottawa like this, call me. I’ll take a bus, I don’t give a damn. No, seriously, this is what it’s all about.  And it’s like, we all need to return to what this is and how spectacular and how revolutionary all this was. Arthur Masters:  Year One, Year One was wild, like I remember listening with bated breath on the edge of my seat to Don and Drew. I don’t listen to Don and Drew anymore. Julien Smith:  But I mean, no, seriously, we’re listening to it and going wow, these people are just sitting on their couch talking for 45 minutes and I’m listening to them. Arthur Masters: I have a virtual trophy, I have an e-mail that Drew Domkus sent me in response to me going,hey, nice show. Julien Smith: Yeah, right, exactly. Like hold on, wait, a personal connection, wow.  So anyway I just wanted to say, I mean this is a great way to open a thing, because this is why we’re all here.  I mean that’s why I’m still here, you know what I mean? Arthur Masters: Yeah. Julien Smith: Cheers. Arthur Masters:  Thank you. Bob Goyetche:  Julien brings up a great point because my first exposure to Julien was because Julien and I, we both started in 2004.  And my first exposure to Julien was listening to his show.  He said, I mentioned you on my show.  You have a show?  There’s another show in Montreal? And, yeah, there’s these two old guys talk about music and stuff, they’re cool.  And then he swore a couple of times.  And that was, you know, that’s what it was.  You just communicate, you know, and I’m listening for the first time to his show and I hear my show back because we were just grabbing each other’s audio and passing it back and forth.  And that’s gone a bit and that’s too bad. Julien Smith:  Do you remember the first time that like…does anyone here remember the first time they heard someone else talk about their show?  Yeah? And you get this like he, he, he.  Yeah, I still get that sometimes.  Should we pass the mike? Bob Goyetche:  Two minutes… Julien Smith: Two minutes… Bob Goyetche:  Anybody?  Well, thank you Art.  Great talk, great start to the day. 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Our final installment of comparing the Royals to their division rivals focuses on the Minnesota Twins. While there is little disagreement that the Indians and Tigers will fight for the division title, the order of the third, fourth and fifth teams is a matter for great debate. You can make a case for any of the three (Royals, Sox and Twins) to finish third or last. In the Twins, we have a team that is radically different from last season. Gone via free agency are Torii Hunter and Carlos Silva. Johan Santana has been shipped to the Mets and Matt Garza and Jason Bartlett were traded to the Rays. The Twins picked their spots in the off-season and resisted the urge for a total fire sale: signing Justin Morneau, Michael Cuddyer and Joe Nathan to long term deals. In a word, this is a team in a state of transition. The Lineup C - Joe Mauer 1B - Justin Morneau 2B - Brendan Harris SS - Adam Everett 3B - Mike Lamb LF - Delmon Young CF - Carlos Gomez RF - Michael Cuddyer DH - Jason Kubel Joe Mauer is one of the faces of this franchise, maybe THE face, and a solid catcher with a bat to drool over. Still, Mauer fell back from his fantastic 2006 campaign (.347/.429/.507) to a line of .293/.382/.426 in 2007. Last season’s numbers are nearly identical to his 2005 season line, which may represent a more true forecast of his talents. Having been injured in two of his four major league seasons, keeping Mauer in the lineup will be a key for the Twins. Justin Morneau was the MVP in 2006 and was not as good in 2007, but still hit 31 homers and 31 doubles. In three full seasons, Justin has been bad, great and very solid, so what Morneau will end up stabilizing at is still uncertain. You can pretty much count on 30 home runs out of the guy, no matter what he hits average wise. Brendan Harris came over as part of the Garza for Young deal and will man second base for the Twins this year. He played a lot of shortstop for Tampa Bay, but is better suited for second. His 2007 line of .286/.343/.434 with 35 doubles and 12 homers in 137 games is pretty solid for a middle infielder. The Twins have always been solid defensively and signing Adam Everett to play shortstop sure is not going to change that. Everett is just plain silly good with the glove, but brings almost nothing to the table offensively. He has never walked more than 34 times in a season or posted an OPS of greater than .702. Basically, he better be brilliant in the field. Another free agent signee is Mike Lamb who is slated to take most of the time at third base. Last year, the Twins had the worst offensive regular in the league playing there in the person of Nick Punto. In Lamb, they have upgraded considerably. Playing in Houston, Lamb hit 289/366/453 last season with 11 homers and two years ago hit 307/361/476 with 12 homers. A solid player who at age 32 is what he is. I regard the Twins as one of the most patient organizations in the league and it has served them well. Case in point: Michael Cuddyer. Originally brought up as a third baseman, Cuddyer was pretty unnoticeable his first two and one-half season in the bigs. However, in 2006, the Twins put him in right for good and Michael responded by hitting 24 homers, 41 doubles and posting a .866 OPS. In 2007, Cuddyer fell back some to .276/.356/.433 with 16 home runs and no doubt the Twins are looking for him to rebound back to his 2006 numbers. Think Mark Teahen, Royals fans: pretty much the same sort of deal. As much as the Royals are counting on the development of Alex Gordon into a superstar, so are the Twins counting on the same from Delmon Young. In 2007, Young played in every game, hit 38 doubles, 13 home runs and struck out 127 times. His line of .288/.316/.408/.724 is not eye popping by any means, but the potential is undeniable. New centerfielder Carlos Gomez, over from the Mets, stole 31 bases at three different levels last year. He stole 41 more in 2006 and 64 in 2005. The concern with Gomez, who is just twenty-two is whether he is a) ready and b) will ever hit. In 58 games with the Mets last year, Gomez posted an anemic .232/.288/.304 line and has never posted a minor league on-base percentage above .363. The designated hitter will be some combination of Jason Kubel and Craig Monroe. Monroe has three 20+ homer seasons on his resume, while Kubel posted a solid, if unspectacular, .785 OPS in 128 games last season. Analysis With Torii Hunter in the lineup, the Twins managed just 12 more runs than the Royals last year. While they did slug 16 more homers, Minnesota his 27 fewer doubles than KC and 10 fewer triples. Basically, neither team was a very good offensive unit in 2007. Minnesota fans can reasonably expect Morneau, Mauer and Cuddyer to improve their 2007 numbers and can certainly make a case for Delmon Young to become a feared bat. If all that happens, they will be improved offensively. Still, the Royals expect to improve also. Matching up, a big, possibly giant edge for the Twins at catcher and first base. Give the Royals the nod in centerfield, designated hitter and third base. Realistically, you pretty much have to call Everett v. Pena, Cuddyer v. Guillen, Young v. Teahen and Harris v. Grudzielanek all draws. Both teams are also likely to be among the better defending teams in the league. Bottom line: Pretty much even. Rotation Francisco Liriano Livan Hernandez Boof Bonser Scott Baker Kevin Slowey When it comes to last year’s starting rotation numbers, they are pretty much useless. With the best pitcher in baseball (Santana), an innings eater with excellent control (Carlos Silva) and a rising prospect (Matt Garza) all departed, the 2008 Twins’ rotation bears little resemblance to last season’s unit. You have to be a little concerned when the ace of your staff has not pitched since 2006 and has a career total of 145 major league innings. The talent of Francisco Liriano was unquestionable in 2006 when he posted a 2.16 ERA in 121 innings. How much and how quickly he can get back to that kind of dominance is a huge question mark. Livian Hernandez has started 30 or more games from 1998 to the present. He missed throwing 200 innings or more in all of those years by one out in 1999. He has thrown MORE than 225 innings on FIVE different occassions. Is he really just 33 years old? I bet his arm does not feel that young. With a career ERA of 4.25 compiled exclusively in National League average, you have to wonder how effective he’ll be in the AL. Frankly, if Hernandez was going to break down, you would have to figure it would have happened by now. Boof Bonser started 30 games for the Twins last season, gave up 27 home runs and ended up with an ERA of over five. He had an interesting start against the Royals last year when he walked seven and struck out eight in just five innings of work. Twenty-six years old, Bonser is still searching for consistency. Scott Baker has yet to be given a full season of work with the Twins, but is almost of assured of it this year. In 2007, Baker started 23 games, pitched 143.2 innings, struck out almost four hitters for every walk allowed and ended up with a good 4.26 earned run average. He could take another step forward and slide right into the Twins’ number two spot by mid-season. Kevin Slowey destroyed AAA baseball last year: posting a 1.89 ERA in 133.2 innings. He held his own in the bigs, managing a 4.73 ERA in 67 innings of work. Like everyone else who has ever pitched for the Twins, Slowey throws strikes (47 K vs. 11 BB). Just 24, Slowey profiles out as a much better Carlos Silva. Analysis Keep in mind that the Twins did get Philip Humber in the Santana deal and he will bolster this squad at some point down the road. For now, I think there are way more question marks than answers here. In 2008, Meche holds an advantage over Liriano (don’t get all riled up Twins fans, I said 2008 , future years are likely a different story) and Brian Bannister likely gets the nod over Hernandez, too. Let’s call Greinke and whomever of the remaining three Twins starters has the best year a draw. The final two spots are likely draws, too, with the Royals depending on two veterans of limited potential and the Twins on two younger pitchers of limited consistency. Bottom line: Advantage Royals - at least for this year. Bullpen The Twins have, and have always had, a good bullpen. Since their rise to power in 2000, the club has turned this unit over almost two complete times and still they remain effective. Closer: Joe Nathan Setup: Juan Rincon , Jesse Crain , Pat Neshek Others: Matt Guerrier , Dennys Reyes The acquisition of Joe Nathan has to be among the top ten general manager moves of all-time. He had ONE save in four season with the Giants, was immediately installed as the Twins’ closer and has saved 160 games in 174 chances the past four seasons. He is a strikeout machine with great control. If the Twins lead after eight innings, the game is over. Pat Neshek has 127 strikeouts in 107 innings the past two seasons with a K/BB ratio of 3.85 and really stepped up in 2007 when the other setup guys struggled. After Juan Rincon piled up three spectacular seasons from 2004-2006, striking out 255 hitters in 233 innings, he really struggled in 2007. Rincon threw 60 innings, struck out just 49 and walked 28. The guy has plain nasty stuff, but you always get concerned about relievers who ‘lose it’. Jesse Crain had an off 2007, too. After striking out just 25 guys in 29.2 innings in 2005, Crain upped his total to 60 in 77 innings in 2006 and cutting his walks by 11 over that same period. He was hurt last year, throwing just 16 innings and the Twins need him to recover from shoulder surgery and be an effective cog in their pen. However, even if Crain and Rincon do not bounce back, there is always Matt Guerrier. Throwing a career high 88 innings in 2007, Matt posted a 2.35 ERA, struck out 68 and walked just 21. He’s joined in the pen by LOOGY Dennys Reyes. The former Royal regressed from his spectacular 2006 (0.89 ERA, 50.2 IP, 49K, 15 BB, 35 hits), posting a walk for every strikeout in 29.2 innings of specialized work. Analysis The Twins and Royals’ bullpens posted very similar overall numbers in 2007, but the case can be made that Minnesota had one of their weaker pens while the Royals had arguably their best in recent years. If Rincon and Crain rebound in 2008, the Twins will be very difficult to deal with from the seventh inning on. Even if they don’t, Guerrier and Neshek might be good enough by themselves to assure Joe Nathan plenty of save opportunities. Bottom line: Clear advantage to the Twins. Final Analysis If we are willing to believe Craig’s analysis that the Royals will finish above the White Sox (and I for one, agree with him), then the Royals and Twins may well be in a dogfight for third place in the A.L. Central. It is hard to project either team to have a winning record, especially since both have 38 games against two of the best teams in baseball on their schedule. For the Twins, they need Liriano and Baker/Bonser to emerge or re-emerge (in Liriano’s case) as front line starters. They need Young to develop quickly into a potent, feared bat and they need Gomez and Everett to at least hold their own offensively. The Minnesota organization gets nothing but respect from me for their ability to develop players, manage payroll and be competitive. This year, I think the Royals and Twins will be seperated by less than three games in the final standings, with Kansas City getting the edge based mainly on slightly better starting pitching. Media Klipsch Synergy Series SC.5 Center Channel Speaker So there we was, singing and dancing and drinking the swill they called “Clamato”. When it came over us like a foamy riptide: the voice of Ahab himself. It was a voice of pride, of power, of unrelenting savagery. A cruel, commanding tone. The sort of sound a man could only ever hear from a Klipsch Synergy Series SC.5 Center Channel Speaker. The other sailors were the superstitious kind and they begged the captain to flee. But it was I who had his ear. I had won in it a card game. You play for larger stakes on the high seas. Ear in hand, I ran to the captain to tell him what I knew. For, before a sailor, I was the son of a fisherman. A fisherman with a really good dvd collection. And I knew that 60% of the average movie’s soundtrack comes from the center. An unearthly voice like Ahab’s could only come from a 4 inch square Tractrix® Horn and the 2.4 inch graphite-injected woofers. It was no man. It was some sort of cyborg. The captain gave the order to turn about, and quick. The men raced to make sail, and it was not minutes later when we saw it on the shore, a thing that had been Ahab once, but was now nothing but speakers and rage, stomping along the beach, each footfall a masterpiece of bass and well-balanced treble, but still a mockery of what it meant to be a man. I never sailed back that way again. A few men did, from greed, mostly. They never came back. 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(3.21kg) Finishes – Matte-finish Black vinyl In the box: Klipsch SC.5 Center Channel Speaker Front Grill Rubber Feet Owner’s Manual Discuss this product Media Stop Blocking in 08, the birth of a movement There has been a disgusting and vile epidemic rising here in DC. I don’t know what the situation is like in other major cities but this has just been getting out of hand. The situation I’m speaking about is the female cock block. The art where one girlfriend usually stops the other from engaging in a consensual drunk sex with the guy she just met. Most all female cock blockers contain similar physical and mental attributes. There is even a history behind the female cock block. In most women’s lives the female cock block doesn’t start as cock block but as an actual safety measure. In college two girls who might live in the same dorm often lookout out for each other and try to make sure both leave the same party and get home safe together so one or the other doesn’t get ass raped by inbreed townies on the quad. As funny as that sounds getting ass raped by townies is no laughing matter. Imagined being nicknamed ass raped sally for the next two to three years of your life. After college the female cock block turns into a game of passive aggressiveness disguised as “safety concerns” between one female to another. As you get older you’ll notice that the C-block is usually done by the same girl in the relationship and more importantly the same “type of girl”. Usually the ugly, older, bitter, heavy set one. Because no guys actually try to hit on her or take her home her only options at the end of the night is going home using the shower head for masturbatory purposes while the Once soundtrack plays in the back ground. The more attractive girls in the group don’t bother blocking because they still attract guys that want to sleep with them and they like the attention. They have a, “you just do you, umma do me” attitude when it comes to their sex lives and that of their friends, like Italians. What I’d really like to do is turn the table on the c blocker and for one day show up at odd times to stop them from partaking in whatever activities they enjoy just to show them how it feels. She opens the freezer and I pop my head out and say something passive aggressive like, “Ben & Jerry’s really, why don’t you just attach an insulin bag directly to your expanding FUPA”. She goes to open up her closet and I’m sitting there and say, “Oh, the maternity frock and Uggs? I think LC stopped rocking that look her sophomore year in high school. But if you prefer looking like a mentally handicapped woman in your third trimester, by all means”. She’s putting on a make up for a night out and I come up behind her to whisper, “who are we kidding here, all you’re really going to do is sit at the bar getting drunk then going up to you’re girlfriend who are actually talking to guys and asking them if they’re “ok”…… twenty times. Here let’s just uncork some wine and go through your match.com inbox for the night while the Once soundtrack plays in the background. You know what you’ll be doing later” I mean could you see male friends actually trying to block each other at the end of the night. Roosh: VK, listen don’t go home with that hot chick who’ll probably let you violate every opening of her body. You’ll just feel guilty and depressed about it. VK: I’ll get over it once I wake up in the morning, roll over and do it again. Roosh: Dude, but you should have respect for yourself, you’re better than, a cheap drunk one night stand with a cute girl. VK: actually, um no I ‘m not Roosh: But what would Jesus do! VK: Be fruitful and multiply, now get the fuck out of my way, I’ll text you pictures of her boobies later. Do you see how stupid that whole exchange is between two grown men? So can someone tell me how two women have the same conversation and it’s ok? I’m pretty sure this isn’t your friends first time meeting a guy and hooking up, I think at this point and time in her life she knows what she’s doing. It’s getting to the point where you have to drug the C-blocker’s drink to get any action from the girl you want. I mean it’s bad enough we have to Patty Hearst the pussy. (at first I didn’t want to go….. but then I changed my mind…… have you seen his pipe?) Female cock blocking is an outdated and barbaric act, sort of like Honor Killings. That’s why my friends and I are starting the “Stop blocking in 08″ campaign. We believe that this epidemic can only be stopped by increasing awareness and education about the problem. Similar to the “Stop snitching” movement we just feel that there are somethings grown ups should not participate in. T-shirt are being made, pamphlets are being handed out, in the summer we’re planning a “Stop blocking in 08″ walk around the um block. If you’re a male and have experienced instances of female cock blocking please feel free to share, you are not alone. If you’re a female and know someone in your group of friends that constantly blocks do you actually think she’s being helpful or fucking annoying? What I’d love to come from the “SBI08″ movement is to over hear a conversation between two attractive women, Girl 1: I’m so excited about drinks and girl’s night, did you invite Jenny? Girl 2: Hell NO! She’s such a blocker! Girl 1: I know right? Music by crystal Castles, Song one Crimewave, Song two Lovers who uncover Media

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ENB #36 Popcorn Lung, Bush’s Latest Moronic Press Conference, Passive Aggressive Tazing, Bush’s New Math, Dan Rather Artwork by Roger Smalls direct link to small ipod version of show transcript: HELLO I’M RICHARD BLUESTEIN AND THIS IS THE ECLECTIC NEWS BRIEF FOR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2007. THIS PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY PODSHOW AND GODADDY. CHOOSE GODADDY TO RELIABLY HOST ALL OF YOUR DOMAN NAMES. ENTER CODES INSANE1, INSANE2, OR INSANE 3 WHEN YOU CHECK OUT AT GODADDY.COM. PODSHOW.COM IS THE THE BEST WAY TO HOST YOUR AUDIO AND VIDEO PODCASTS. UNLIKE YOUTUBE, PODSHOW ALLOWS FOR LONG-FORM CONTENT AT VERY HIGH QUALITY. THIS PODCAST FOR EXAMPLE, IS OFFERED IN A 720P HD FORMAT IF YOU GO TO INSANEFILMS720.PODSHOW.COM. ### THERE IS A NEW DISORDER EMERGING FROM THE MURKY DEPTHS OF CORPORATE GREED. IT’S CALLED POPCORN LUNG. ACCORDING TO THE SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM, THE EPA, LAST YEAR, *BURIED* A REPORT ON THE HEALTH RISKS FROM THE BUTTERY FLAVORING CALLED DIACETYL. THE MICROWAVE POPCORN FLAVORING PRODUCES AN INCURABLE AND ULTIMATELY FATAL LUNG DISEASE IN WORKERS EXPOSED TO IT OCCUPATIONALLY. WORSE YET, A DOCTOR CAME FORTH WITH THE CASE OF A CONSUMER OF MICROWAVE POPCORN WHO CONTRACTED THE DISEASE. THE EPA TO THIS DAY HAS *NOT RELEASED* THE REPORT TO THE PUBLIC. THE EPA HAS, HOWEVER, GIVEN THE REPORT TO THE POPCORN INDUSTRY. THIS FROM THE SAME EPA WHICH CAUSED THOUSANDS TO GET LUNG DISEASES BY NOT WARNING THEM OF THE DANGERS OF WORKING AT GROUND ZERO. ### DURING HIS PRESS CONFERENCE, THE IDIOT AND CHEAT WAS ASKED IF THERE IS A RISK OF RECESSION. YOU WOULD THINK THAT HE *MIGHT* TAKE THIS QUESTION SERIOUSLY SINCE ONE MILLION AMERICANS LOST THEIR HOMES DUE TO FORECLOSURE IN THE PAST YEAR. INSTEAD THE MORON ANSWERED AS FOLLOWS: QUOTE. YOU KNOW YOU NEED TO TALK TO ECONOMISTS. I THINK I GOT A B IN ECON 101. I GOT AN A, HOWEVER, IN KEEPING TAXES LOW (THE KISS ASS PRESS CORE LAUGHS HERE) AND BEING FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE WITH THE PEOPLE’S MONEY. WE’VE SUBMITTED A PLAN THAT WILL ENABLE THIS BUDGET TO BECOME BALANCED (NOTE THE USE OF PASSIVE VOICE HERE) BY 2012. - JUST IN TIME FOR ANOTHER CORPORATE STOOGE TO BE FORCED INTO THE WHITE HOUSE LIKE THE FECES OF AN ELEPHANT BEING PLUNGED INTO A FRENCH TOILET. BUSH ALSO SAID QUOTE AND WE CAN BALANCE THE BUDGET WITHOUT RAISING TAXES. UNQUOTE. I BELIVE WHAT HE MEANT TO SAY WAS THAT *SOMEONE ELSE* CAN CLEAN UP MY MESS BECAUSE I AM AN SPOILED BRAT WHO NEVER LEARNED TO CLEAN UP HIS ROOM. ### THE PRESIDENT HAS PROMISED TO VETO A BILL WHICH WOULD GUARANTEE HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR ALL CHILDREN WHOSE PARENTS MAKE LESS THAN EIGHTY-THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR. HIS ARGUMENT IS THAT KEEPING CHILDREN FROM DYING OF CURABLE DISEASES WOULD RESULT IN MORE OF, *THAT GREAT EVIL*, GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTHCARE. PUSSY REPORTERS FAILED TO POINT OUT TO BUSH THAT GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTHCARE FOR CHILDREN IS BETTER THAN NO HEALTHCARE AT ALL. MICHAEL MOORE HAS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED THAT IN OTHER COUNTRIES, GOVERNMENTS DO A FAR BETTER AND MORE EFFICIENT JOB AT RUNINNG HEALTHCARE THAN CORPORATIONS WHOSE PRIME MOTIVE IS MAKING MONEY AND HIPOCRITICAL TV COMMERCIALS. MEANWHILE SADISTIC MORON BUSH IS ONCE AGAIN BLACKMAILING CONGRESS. BUSH PUTS CONGRESS AT FAULT FOR PUTTING FORTH A PLAN WHICH THEY KNOW BUSH WILL VETO. ACCORDING TO BUSH, BY ATTEMPTING TO PUSH THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE BILL INSTEAD OF A BILL WHICH PROTECTS INSURANCE COMPANIES AND *NOT* CHILDREN, CONGRESS IS ACTUALLY FORCING ALL S-CHIP COVERAGE TO LAPSE. THAT’S HARD TO FOLLOW. I KNOW. TO PUT IT MORE CLEARLY, THE S-CHIP PROGRAM IS ALREADY IN PLACE BUT CONGRESS WANTS TO DRASTICALLY IMPROVE IT. BUSH WANTS ONLY TO GIVE IT 5% MORE FUNDING SO THAT HE CAN AFFORD TO HAVE HIS POKER BUDDIES FROM BLACKWATER MELT TINY INFANTS TO THEIR MOTHERS WHILE STOPPING AT BAGHDAD STOPLIGHTS. BUT SEE THE S-CHIP PROGRAM RUNS OUT VERY SOON IF IT IS NOT RENEWED. SO BUSH IS SAYING THAT ALL S-CHIP CARE WILL END BECAUSE HE, BUSH, WILL NOT SIGN THE BILL WHICH THE LEGISLATVIE BRANCH OF *OUR* GOVERNEMNT AGREED UPON. ### WHEN ASKED BY THE *PRESS* ABOUT ALAN GREENSPAN’S SCATHING CRITIQUE OF THE PRESIDENT, BUSH SLYLESSLY CHANGED THE SUBJECT TO SOMETHING HE AND GREENSPAN BOTH AGREE ON: GETTING RID OF SOCIAL SECURITY. THE PRESIDENT SAID QUOTE: GREENSPAN AND I SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT THE UNFUNDED LIABILITIES INHERENT IN SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE. AND HE’S CONCERNED ABOUT THOSE UNFUNDED LIABILITIES AS AM I. AND THAT’S WHY I WENT IN FRONT OF CONGRESS, TALKING ABOUT HOW TO REFORM SOCIAL SECURITY SO THAT YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING AREN’T PAING PAYROLL TAXES INTO A SYSTEM THAT’S GOING BROKE. UNQUOTE. THIS WAS ANOTHER CIRCULAR STATEMENT FROM OUR C MINUS PRESIDENT. SOCIAL SECURITY IS NOT IN DANGER. IF THESE SO CALLED LIABILITIES CONTINUE TO BE FUNDED, THEN THEY ARE BY DEFINITION NOT UNFUNDED. ARE AMERICANS REALLY STUPID ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THIS DRECK? IF SO GET ME ON A BIG JET AIRPLANE. COME ON COME ON. GET GOING. BIG WHEEL KEEP ON TURNING PROUD MARY. COME MOON. BUSH AND THE OTHER ‘YOU *CAN* TAKE IT WITH YOU’ REPUBLICANS WOULD RATHER SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES BE DIVERTED INTO RECKLESSLY MANAGED WALL STREET FUNDS. ### EDITOR AND PUBLISHER- A BLOG I FREQUENTLY QUOTE, POSTED A BIO OF THE MAN WHO GOT TAZERED AT THE JOHN KERRY SPEECH IN FLORIDA. THE BIO REAKED OF THINLY VIELED JEALOUSY. AFTER ALL, ANDREW MEYER RECEIVED AT LEAST HALF A MILLION DOWNLOADS OF HIS VIDEO. THE EDITOR AND PUBLISHER HEADLINE READ QUOTE STUDENT TASERED WHILE QUESTIONING KERRY WAS, OF COURSE, A QUASI-JOURNALIST. UNQUOTE. CAN YOU IMAGINE A MORE PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE AND INSULTING HEADLINE WHICH NEGATES THE IMPORTANCE OF THE HEROIC ACT UNDERTAKEN BY MR MEYER. THE E&P ARTICLE WENT ON TO DISCREDIT ANDREW MEYER BY MENTIONING VARIOUS INTERNET PRANKS WHICH WERE COMPLETELY HARMLESS AND HAD NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH HIS JOURNALISTIC ACTIVITIES. ANDREW MEYER ASKED QUESTIONS THAT NEEDED TO BE ASKED, AND WOULD NOT ACCEPT NO ANSWER AS AN ANSWER. ANDREW MEYER DID WHAT THE SO CALLED REAL JOURNALISTS SHOULD BE DOING, BUT ARE AFRAID TO DO. SO INSTEAD THEY REACT BY PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE JEALOUSY BASED CHARACTER ASSASINATION. WELL, ECLECTIC NEWS BRIEF APPLAUDS ANDREW MEYER FOR TAKING A STAND, AND IF HE IS A QUASI JOURNALIST, WELL I’LL TAKE QUASI-JOURNALISM OVER ‘REAL’ JOURNALISM- KATIE KOURIC AND ALL- ANY DAY OF THE WEEKS. ### OH AND SPEAKING OF JOURNALISM,DAN RATHER, THE VETRAN JOURNALIST WHO WAS REPLACED BY KATIE KOURIC IS SUING CBS FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. DAN RATHER CLAIMS HE WAS FIRED BY CBS IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE WHITE HOUSE. IF TRUE, THIS IS A CLEAR VIOLATION OF THE LAW WHICH FORBIDS PROPAGANDIZING WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. NOT THAT IT ISN’T BEING VIOLATED EVERYWHERE ANYWAY. TIME TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX. ### PLEASE SEND COMMENTS, NEWS ITEMS, AND QUESTIONS TO RICHARD@BLUESTEIN.COM. I’M ALSO LOOKING FOR ITNERESTING AND PROVOCATIVE BACKGROUND FOOTAGE FOR THIS SHOW. IF YOU HAVE ORIGINAL CONTENT THAT FITS THE FORMAT OF THIS SHOW, I WILL GLADLY INCLUDE A PROMOTION FOR YOUR BLOG, VLOG, PODCAST OR WHATEVER. I’M RICHARD BLUESTEIN AND DIT WAS HET NIEWS. #### Tags: Popcorn , Lung, , Bush , Latest , Moronic , Press , Conference, , Passive , Agg