1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Delta Shara Charley 225 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:56,000 And it is your daily source code for Monday, August 22, 2005. 3 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Hey everybody, how you doing? 4 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:07,000 We have a new week back at the cottage and a whole new setup. 5 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,000 You're not going to believe where I am right now. 6 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Actually, you might believe it. 7 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,000 I'm in the garage in the new setup since it's too freaking heavy to carry upstairs. 8 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:24,000 I will definitely take a picture of this because it's just unbelievable. 9 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:34,000 You know, my father-in-law built me this podcast table, which he built in the garage where we were in the states on vacation. 10 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:39,000 And he made it out of MDF so that's really heavy thick wood. 11 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,000 And the thing is just absolutely beautiful. 12 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:48,000 Of course, I've posted a couple of pictures about it or of it on my weblog, on my flicker page. 13 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,000 When we got back, but this thing is so cool. 14 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:57,000 And I've got new equipment to go with it. 15 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Which of course means that this show may actually not even be recording or it could screw something up. 16 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Well, let me explain what I have here. 17 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 So I've got the big setup and today we went to the music store. 18 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:19,000 We're going to go see if we can get some 19-inch rack rails so that I could put my compressor limiter and all my outboard gear in. 19 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,000 And then we started talking to the guy at the music store. 20 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:32,000 And he showed me this Yamaha Professional Audio Workstation, which is just beautiful. 21 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,000 And it does everything all in one. 22 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:35,000 It's got your effects. 23 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,000 It's got your faders. 24 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 It's got to hard disk recording built right in. 25 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 So we're going to give it a shot and see if we can make it work. 26 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Might as well. 27 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,000 It's a Monday. 28 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,000 So shit's going to break. 29 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 This is the right data. 30 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Have it break. 31 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 And let's get it all kicked off with a mashup. 32 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,000 This was a mashup town's mashup of the week. 33 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,000 We can trip in too. 34 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Recognize the Beatles in there. 35 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 You're going to date this one. 36 00:03:03,750 --> 00:06:21,000 [ Music ] 37 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 And then we started talking to the guy at the music store. 38 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 So we started talking to the guy at the music store. 39 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 So we started talking to the guy at the music store. 40 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,000 And then we started talking to the guy at the music store. 41 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Well, it was we talked to the guy at the music store, 42 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,360 So new set up, so it may sound a little bit different. 43 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,600 It may not sound a perfect yet. 44 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,560 In fact, let me just roll off a little bit of high in there. 45 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,040 So this new box that I got is something that I actually think I could take with me on 46 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,040 the road, because we were talking to the guy at the music store saying, look, I want 47 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:54,080 a little mixer, that I want a little compressor, that I need a microphone preamp. 48 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:59,480 And by the time we got done, if you look at all that kit, all put together, it's like 49 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:06,480 three boxes, one of which would probably have to be a 19-inch rack size, three power 50 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:07,480 supplies. 51 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,080 I mean, just all this stuff, and it's like, you know, that's not going to be very handy 52 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:11,080 to carry with me. 53 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,680 And then you show me this professional audio work station. 54 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:18,840 It's the AW 16G, 16 tracks. 55 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:23,360 And I spent, like, with my father and all, we spent, like, at least probably about an hour 56 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:27,960 and a half, just getting all the information from him, figuring out how to do it, how 57 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:32,800 you can patch channels, reroute stuff through buses, and then it has this hard disk 58 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:33,800 recorder. 59 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:39,280 And actually, you can burn stuff to a CD drive, it's just, it's an incredible machine, 60 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:41,000 and it has everything all built into it. 61 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,880 Also got a new microphone. 62 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,200 This is, oh, let me see, it's an AKG microphone. 63 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,600 It's something that's very portable that I can take with me. 64 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:57,720 And I'm still using the computer for the sound output, for, you know, I'm using Megaseg, 65 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:03,360 and oh, by the way, I'm only, I've scrapped the, what I think was probably the trouble 66 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:04,680 some fire wire drive. 67 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:10,840 I'm only using this small portable fire wire drive that I have, where is it not actually? 68 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:11,840 It was around here somewhere. 69 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:12,840 Oh, here it is. 70 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:16,080 It's the, let me see, the fire light, I think it is. 71 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:17,640 What is it called? 72 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:20,760 Yeah, it's a fire light drive. 73 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:28,600 So this incredible podcast desk that my, my father-in-law, John built for me, is still 74 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:32,240 on the garage because I have to clean up all my other crap first. 75 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,840 And I have to move desks around and have to move, actually, I think we have to take one 76 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:40,480 door off of the, of the cottage studio in order to get the, get this thing in. 77 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:45,200 And then when you'd like two extra guys to help me because it's so freaking heavy, but so far 78 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,960 just standing here and, you know, I put the equipment, just kind of in a temporary setup. 79 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:53,360 While the mashup was running, I took four pictures so I'll be sure to post those along 80 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,800 with the show notes. 81 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,520 It's working, I like it. 82 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:58,520 It's the right height. 83 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:03,320 It's, I mean, it's not adjustable, it's my height exactly. 84 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,280 And I've got the mixture in the middle, I've got the laptop on the right, I think this 85 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,200 is going to be a perfect setup. 86 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:13,400 And on the left, of course, I have my tea and other cool tomals that I need for the 87 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:14,400 show. 88 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:24,680 Hmm, we got back Saturday, had a nice trip once again, a fantastic voyage on Virgin 89 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:25,680 Atlantic. 90 00:09:25,680 --> 00:09:29,960 I actually slept for at least four hours. 91 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:33,720 The girls, well, Christina slept, Patricia couldn't sleep at all, so she's now completely 92 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:34,720 jet lag. 93 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:40,200 She's been up at all hours the night and sleep in during the day. 94 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:44,120 And feeling much better, it's too bad about the vacation. 95 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:49,600 It didn't quite work out the way we wanted it to with us being sick in New York for the 96 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:50,600 first week. 97 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,760 And then San Francisco, it being the coldest week in San Francisco ever. 98 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:59,960 And by the way, as far as I could tell, actually, I mean, look at my, my weather report 99 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:00,960 right here. 100 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,360 It looked to me like San Francisco was beautiful this week. 101 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:08,320 Let me see, London and Amsterdam are going to be horrible. 102 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:12,920 It's going to be, yeah, San Francisco, they're looking at sunshine every single day. 103 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,840 Oh my god, are you here that? 104 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:19,920 You can hear the, you can, that's my MDA, making little whining sound there. 105 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:24,440 So the only thing I don't have here in the garage is Wi-Fi. 106 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:30,760 I almost could pick up a signal and I'm sure that if I spun stuff around and really did my 107 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:31,960 best, I could pick it up. 108 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:36,880 So I won't be able to go through all of my email as usual to talk about stuff. 109 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:41,400 Actually, I have my Gmail page open here with all my daily source code stuff, you know, 110 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:46,480 reminders and I guess the, the a couple of things I can see right off the bat. 111 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,880 If, if you hadn't seen it already, the Catholic insider was interviewed on CNN, Father 112 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:54,280 Roderick, really fantastic. 113 00:10:54,280 --> 00:11:01,240 He was at the, at the world youth day and that was in Germany where the pope was. 114 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:06,080 And he was, he was doing his thing and then he got a really good spot on CNN, which is 115 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:08,160 very, very cool. 116 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,920 And, uh, oh, man, there's just so much to do, so much to talk about. 117 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:16,320 I'm pretty much pretty sure I'm going to be going back to San Francisco next Sunday. 118 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:21,600 And I'll be there for at least a week, maybe 10 days, just because there's so much going 119 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:22,600 on. 120 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:27,080 We've got the new podshow.com that's going to be launching and we've got a lot of stuff 121 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:28,280 that's going to go along with that. 122 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:31,960 I think Friday, this coming Friday, we're just going to do kind of like a soft launch of 123 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:33,280 some stuff. 124 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:38,120 And then we'll have, you know, we'll start adding on the bits, uh, yeah, bit by bit, literally 125 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,400 but we've got some amazing things that we're going to be doing there and we'll be talking 126 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:42,400 about that. 127 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,320 And, of course, since I'm back at the cottage and I've got everything all, uh, in close 128 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:48,920 proximity, I can roll out some of those promos again. 129 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:56,040 I say, boldly, God, yes, Ambrose, have you ever heard of Rusty Bandar or Rusty Bandar? 130 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:00,160 Not since I stopped drinking my shan out of a coffee can, but I have, remember, you 131 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:04,560 would lock your lock, it was yesterday, but I would scarce be so undelicated to bring it 132 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:05,560 up again. 133 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:06,560 Thank you, Ambrose. 134 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:11,040 Not at all, but we got, so what is this Rusty Bandar? 135 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:12,040 Not what? 136 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:13,040 Who? 137 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:21,040 Very nice man has himself a podcast, a podcast, whatever is there, well, I'm sure I haven't 138 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:28,080 finished idea, but I'm told that you listen to it, where the podcast, this is a podcast 139 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:34,840 called Strange Brain Radio, yes, I have heard of it really, how did you find it? 140 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:40,680 It was quite good, I would even recommend it, but bless his heart, well, but what ever 141 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:49,720 is the matter, he's just not from sound, well, we can all be perfect, how true, how true, 142 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:56,720 all the men, jula-fambros, well, absolutely, you know without proper medication, I become 143 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:59,720 quite nervous. 144 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:09,040 God, Joe, content that will make you walk the dog and kiss your mother. 145 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:14,360 Sing along with a zoo choir in South Africa, swing with sharks and the Galapagos, study 146 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:18,480 Buddhism in Cambodia. 147 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:23,520 I'm here on Earth, we share stories that inspire and delight. 148 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:27,360 We don't just talk about the world, we bring you the world. 149 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:34,080 Here on Earth, from Wisconsin Public Radio, subscribe to our podcast at iTunesPodcastAlley.com 150 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:40,600 and here on Earth, our podcast is so much going on in podcast land, there is so much cool 151 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:45,400 stuff that's been coming out, we were at the office last week and I was just looking at 152 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:50,640 the ping page, that's ping.indepotter.org, which I think Marcus was also going to map 153 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:54,840 to podshow.com, so it'll be ping.podshow.com. 154 00:13:54,840 --> 00:14:01,080 But there you can see the most recently updated podcast in the past three hours, ping.indepotter.org. 155 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:05,760 And yeah, we're just going through this stuff and I was making a whole list of incredible 156 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:12,200 podcast and I put it into an outliner and I want to feature those on the next podfinder, 157 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:16,280 which will be coming out tomorrow, also coming out tomorrow, a brand new episode, it was 158 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:21,480 going to be the fourth and final episode of Spike Lee's Shadowcast of his movie Inside 159 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:22,480 Man. 160 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:29,440 But as you'll hear tomorrow on the podcast, Spike was so into it and by the way, we got full 161 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:30,440 access. 162 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:35,800 Human Newman is on the set while they're rolling, excuse me, oh yes, we're back and already 163 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,080 the sincere was hitting me. 164 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:43,000 As I said, full access, so you can hear what's going on on the set, you can hear Spike 165 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:49,640 directing, some of the actors, you have some, some mayhem that happens on the set. 166 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:52,600 I'm not going to spoil it for you, but you definitely want to check that out that should 167 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:59,820 be coming out tomorrow and that'll be in iTunes exclusively, the Inside Man podcast, Spike 168 00:14:59,820 --> 00:15:00,820 Lee. 169 00:15:00,820 --> 00:15:05,520 And because, well, this I can tell you at the end of that podcast, he totally goes 170 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:10,720 off and says, you know, this is the last one, this can't be the last one, he's supposed 171 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:15,560 to do four episodes and then he says, please come back again next week, so it looks like 172 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:21,360 we're going to have five out of four episodes of Spike Lee's Inside Man podcast. 173 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:26,520 The online community radio show dedicated to moms in every country who are holding the 174 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:31,640 world together one child at a time at www.monicaest.com. 175 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:43,720 She moves like she don't care, smooth that film, cool that's it. 176 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,840 Hi Adam, this is Paige and Gretchen from MommyCast.com. 177 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:52,560 Our podcast is Four Moms, by moms, we've got tips and advice and some really cool interviews 178 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:57,360 and we even talk about technology with a woman's touch. 179 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:01,080 Adam, we've got seven kids between us, so we know what we're talking about. 180 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,280 We love your show and we think other moms will love podcasts too. 181 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:06,920 It's convenient and mobile for moms on the run. 182 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,920 So give us a listen and thanks for introducing us to your audience. 183 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:13,280 Hey guys, tell your wives about Monikaest.com. 184 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:19,240 Yousa, I play that promo before, but the Monikaest is a really kick and some major button 185 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:24,680 people are tuning in and they're even getting all kinds of attention from movie companies. 186 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:30,880 They do the, I think they did something about the Penguin movie and it's getting good. 187 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:31,880 It's getting really good. 188 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:36,440 I also, let me see if I can find that if I had to do my outline. 189 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:41,560 I came across a daddy cast, let me see if this is going to start out, but it's going 190 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:43,800 to give me problems here and hold on. 191 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:54,360 Here it is, what was it, was it, yeah, 101 uses for baby wipes. 192 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:59,840 I'll be sure to play that piece of that on tomorrow or maybe when's the source code. 193 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:02,200 It's really quite awesome. 194 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:06,480 So this whole parent cast thing is really catching on tomorrow. 195 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,280 By the way, be doing a little bit of flying. 196 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:14,440 The in-laws are going to go back and that means, yes, I get to fly him. 197 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:19,560 So wink Amanda Williams will be showing up bright and early and the weather's pretty crappy. 198 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:20,920 I mean, like really crappy. 199 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:25,720 It's raining and, as I said, rain is expected for the rest of the week. 200 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:30,380 So I'm not quite sure if I'll be able to go VFR, which is visual flying rules or 201 00:17:30,380 --> 00:17:35,240 if I'll have to go IFR now, I'm not IFR certified, which means you fly an instruments. 202 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:39,240 But the wink Amanda, of course, is and he can certainly train me on the instrument. 203 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:45,600 So if we do go instrument flying, then that'll be some great experience for me. 204 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,000 So I'm looking forward to it. 205 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:48,480 I'm going to drop them off. 206 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:54,200 I haven't quite decided yet if I'm going to stay in an antwerp where the plane currently lives 207 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,960 and then come back on Wednesday morning or from to come back the same night. 208 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:58,720 That kind of depends on the weather. 209 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:00,480 But I will be taking my new setup. 210 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:04,880 So I'll be able to do all kinds of stuff on the road, taking the Yamaha Professional Audio 211 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:06,120 Workstation. 212 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:11,320 I got to figure out what kind of suitcase I'll have to be using now because if I use just 213 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:16,640 the overnight bag, I don't know, I don't know if I'll be able to fit my underwear. 214 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,520 But I'm really, really jazzed about this thing. 215 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:20,520 And it was cheap too. 216 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:24,320 It was like 400 bucks and it's got a 20 gig hard drive at anyway. 217 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,440 Enough about all that shit. 218 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,320 Let's see, what else is going on? 219 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:32,960 I got some pod save music, which I'll play for in a couple of minutes, pod save music 220 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:34,640 network also doing really well. 221 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:37,240 I'm just getting recituated. 222 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:38,240 It's good to be back. 223 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:42,680 It was good to be back in my own environment, good to have my own bandwidth back. 224 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:44,840 You kind of get used to the speeds that you have. 225 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:50,000 But at the same time, I'm gearing up for the next trip because I'll be in the apartment. 226 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,360 So that will be the Kurikondo in San Francisco. 227 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:56,600 And I guess I'll take the setup with me and be able to use it there. 228 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:58,200 So that's all coming up. 229 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:04,920 And this week, plenty of stuff to do, plenty of recording, plenty of production. 230 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:06,920 Lots of pod show calls, of course. 231 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:12,360 Back to living the dual time life where I have my normal day here in the UK. 232 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:19,360 And then around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, people start to wake up, that's 8 a.m. in San Francisco. 233 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:22,360 And then I have a whole another day to deal with. 234 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:29,640 Comment a few of the world features me, Michael, an ordinary teenager, expressing his views 235 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:35,040 an audio format, I speak about issues in the world and what's on my mind. 236 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:40,120 On the proud founder of the teen podcasters network, if your interest did end during the teen 237 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:50,440 view, head on over to comercast.tk, don't miss out. 238 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:57,880 The multitudes went forth and cast their pods in the direction of all who would listen. 239 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:03,360 And casting their pods in this manner, they were henceforth known as podcasters. 240 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:22,400 January 1991, the US military goes to war with Iraq, using a media-planet system to control 241 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,400 information. 242 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:33,040 April, 2003, the US military invades Iraq, reporters volunteer to be embedded. 243 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:41,480 May 2005, a memo containing proof that the reasons for war were fabricated, is found. 244 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:48,040 The American Mask Media ignores it. 245 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:54,320 In that same year, from out of the ashes of journalism, in the tradition of Norman 246 00:20:54,320 --> 00:21:03,760 Miller, Jack Newfield, Seymour Hirsch and Robert Fisk, a journalist appears, a podcaster 247 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:07,760 emerges. 248 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:14,240 Exiled in Amsterdam, both Portuguese and the American, he examines the world as the eternal 249 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,960 outsider. 250 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:24,240 Ignorant and intelligent, angry and amused, critical and open-minded. 251 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,960 He's everything, the mainstream isn't. 252 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:35,360 He is bicycle mark, and this is his audio-communicale. 253 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:40,560 Bicyclemark.org. 254 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:45,280 Bicycle mark, now is a good time to check him out and subscribe, fantastic podcasters. 255 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:49,320 He's also been known to do some really outrageous sound seeing tours. 256 00:21:49,320 --> 00:22:01,640 But I want to talk about the war on terror and about President Bush, Cindy Sheen. 257 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:10,680 Now Madge Weinstein went to Crawford, Texas, to get some experiential sights and sounds 258 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:16,640 from what's going on there, and I've been thinking about this a lot, and I usually don't 259 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,240 try to get too political, but I don't have a political slant on this. 260 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:28,080 I think a very practical slant on what's going on, and actually having been to Iraq myself 261 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:34,720 about, was it February last year, so when things were definitely heating up over there, 262 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:45,200 I met with lots of Iraqis, went to six different towns, really got quite a taste of what 263 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:49,360 life is like there, and what the people are like. 264 00:22:49,360 --> 00:23:03,200 By the way, pre-Sidam Hussein Iraq really was quite a learned country, lots of great universities, 265 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:09,360 a lot of scholars came from universities in Iraq, and they say that civilization actually 266 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:14,960 started there, and I've been to the place where they say that that all began. 267 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:25,440 So I think that I have some insight into what's going on over there, and when I listen to 268 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:32,880 what Cindy Sheen is saying, I think that she is absolutely right, if she wants, and by the way, 269 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:40,800 anytime a mom tries to organize or organize a protest or a march, it's amillated, because women are 270 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:47,040 really by default, natural organizers. They're already organizing everything with the kids, 271 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:55,920 right? It's a ballet lesson, soccer, school, other after school activities, dinner, 272 00:23:55,920 --> 00:24:01,120 house cleaning, this is if you're a state home mom, if you add to that, a working mom, 273 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:06,240 there's a whole another dimension that's going on. And also there's something so 274 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:13,680 pure about a mom and her child, that's something that no one can deny. Everyone has a mom, 275 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:20,800 you know, and everyone has that invisible bond with their mom. So when a mom wants to know 276 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:29,840 what the noble cause is that her son died for, then that really hits home, and you can't 277 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:37,840 deny it. You can't go around that, and I think that President Bush is making a large mistake 278 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:44,080 by not addressing this head-on, because he should be talking to her, and I'd like to actually 279 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:48,480 be able to hear the conversation, but here's what I think that he should be saying. 280 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:58,240 The war on terror, first of all, is real. And we really started witnessing it full on 281 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:06,560 on 9-11. That's when it hit home, so to speak. And boy, did it hit home. But the war on terror was 282 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:13,120 going on before that. Many, many years before that, we had embassy bombings, we had a failed attempt 283 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:22,240 at a bombing of the World Trade Center. We had a ship bombed in Yemen. There has been a continuous 284 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:28,000 and constant attack for years on the United States and the United States citizens, but it hasn't 285 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:36,560 happened at home. It was happening mainly overseas. And I think that you have to realize that 286 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:43,600 there, when something happens in Iraq, the news media always reports insurgents. 287 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:48,800 Well, just who are these insurgents? No one ever really stops to explain and take the time to 288 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:55,680 go through that. Insurgents are not necessarily Iraqi civilians who are pissed off that there 289 00:25:55,680 --> 00:26:02,240 are armed forces from another country in their country. Insurgents are, in this case, 290 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:08,480 the same people who have been attacking the United States and other countries as well, by the 291 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:14,800 way, the so-called infidels for many, many years is just they've never done it at home. 292 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:23,520 For us at home, that is. But for them, home is Iraq, home is Saudi Arabia, home is, 293 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:29,040 well, it could be North Korea. I can't really speak about that because I've never been there. 294 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:38,880 But it is the large portions of the Middle East. And that's where these terrorists have been 295 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:48,560 attacking United States citizens and therefore the United States. What happened is they started to, 296 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:54,480 well, let's just step back one second. Why are they doing this? This is something that is being 297 00:26:55,200 --> 00:27:01,440 programmed into very young minds from an early age that if you are essentially not Muslim. 298 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:05,920 And we're talking about radical Muslims here. Again, this is just my viewpoint, but I'm pretty 299 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:10,880 certain this is what's going down. They're programmed that the infidels must die. 300 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:20,960 And the reasons for that, hard for me to even start to grapple and grasp how that works, 301 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:27,840 but it is a fact and that's what's happening. So this war on terror, on September 11th, 302 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:33,360 really moved into the homeland and heartland of our country, the US. Even though there'd been 303 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:40,320 some previous attempts. So what the United States government has done because it's not just George 304 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:44,960 Bush who has sent our troops over there. It's the entire government. Everyone voted on this. 305 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,040 And if they want to change that, I'm sure that they can change that whenever they want. 306 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:56,240 They basically are protecting the United States and the United Kingdom and other 307 00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:03,360 members of the coalition by moving the front of this war, 308 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:12,160 there where the warriors are, where the enemy is. Instead of having them come over here and fight 309 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:20,320 with us on our own turf. That's really, I think, the only practical situation that makes sense 310 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:27,360 for why we have 150,000 plus troops over there right now. And they are fighting these 311 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:35,600 extremists who want to kill us. So if you were to pull the troops out, 312 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:43,440 it is my view that then that front would subsequently move back to the United States. And the 313 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:51,760 only way to make sure that it would not hit home is by intensifying our borders, security, 314 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:59,040 which is almost impossible. Already, you know, I guess the best that can be done is being done. 315 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:09,520 And I don't think it's just a, it's not a workable situation because the extremists want 316 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:16,880 to come and kill Americans and right now the easiest place for them to fight and fight they will, 317 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:22,960 no matter what, is where the Americans are. In this case, they're heavily armed and well trained 318 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:32,480 servicemen and service women. So until we can get to the root of the problem and the root, 319 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:38,960 really, and I believe that that can only be solved through social awareness. So when you have, 320 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:48,720 like in the UK, you have imons and other religious leaders condemning any attacks, 321 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:54,240 explaining that the Muslim religion has nothing to do with violence and that these are 322 00:29:54,240 --> 00:30:02,960 pure extremists that really are misusing religion for something cultural that they have 323 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:07,680 that has been programmed into their minds. That's a good thing because that's the only way you 324 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:12,080 can start to change some of that perspective in these young minds is getting that message out there. 325 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:22,800 And essentially, keeping all of these people that are dangerous, keeping them out of our shores. 326 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:30,480 So that's a really long-winded way of saying, I believe that that is why the troops are in Iraq. 327 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:38,000 It is not about oil. And I thought about it and I must say that it's easy to 328 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:45,600 slip into that thought. But if it really were about oil, then wouldn't we have lower prices? 329 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:52,000 Wouldn't we have more oil coming in? No, quite the opposite in fact is happening and here's a 330 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:58,960 little bit of perspective on the gasoline prices. Explain to me, if gasoline prices are now at 331 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:04,160 record highs, not historically if you translate today's dollar versus the dollar in the 80s or the 332 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:10,640 dollar in the 70s, but still it's unbelievably expensive by any standards. And now it's 333 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:17,920 really starting to hit the economy. What is it? I mean, we have these high prices, but then on the 334 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:23,600 other side of the fence, every single one of the oil companies has reported record profits. 335 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:33,360 Now profit is money that's left over. After you've already bought your raw materials and 336 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:39,840 you've got your machinery and your refineries running. So if it's costing us more and they're making 337 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:45,200 more profit, then the only thing that makes sense to me is that that is literally that money is going 338 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:52,960 from point A to point B. And it's not because there's a shortage of oil. There may be some kind of 339 00:31:54,720 --> 00:32:00,720 superficial shortage or some make-believe shortage of refinery capacity. That's something I keep hearing. 340 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:10,480 But it's not because we're in Iraq and now we have this free flow of oil coming in. It makes no sense. 341 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:18,640 If anything, I think that the president should make a stand against these fuel companies, 342 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,600 because what they're doing is essentially price gouging. I don't know what the situation is that 343 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:28,400 they're taking advantage of other than just jacking up the price. To me, it smells of price fixing 344 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:35,680 and price gouging and lots of un-American activity. So that's the second part that President 345 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,920 Bush should be addressing. Now if we got those two out of the way, then maybe we can start to 346 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:44,960 have a constructive conversation on both sides of the fence, because after two weeks in the states, 347 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:50,000 this whole red state, blue state thing and they think and they don't know and these, 348 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,960 you know, it's like it's divided. It's a divided country and it's and that's the only thing 349 00:32:54,960 --> 00:33:02,240 that is not, you know, America's great, but this is not right, this division. And I don't 350 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:07,280 think we should be looking at it black or white or red or blue, because it's just not that simple, 351 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:13,280 but we definitely need to have a re-explanation of what exactly is going on in Iraq. And the 352 00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:20,160 news media have to start, particularly television news media, it really has to start explaining 353 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:29,280 better, you know, just saying, oh, there was an explosion, an IED was that improvised explosive 354 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:35,760 device set off by insurgents. Who were they? Okay, I want to know where they come from, what was 355 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:40,000 their background? You know, where's the reporting on that? I'm not seeing any of it, because I'm 356 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:46,720 pretty sure we're going to find out it's not Iraqi civilians. It's any crazy MF from anywhere in 357 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:53,040 the world, just wants to take pot shots at Americans. And, you know, they can go through very 358 00:33:53,040 --> 00:34:00,480 complicated, expensive procedures and try and get smuggled into into the West and do their damage 359 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:06,800 on our shores, or they can just go over to where the, where the other guys are with guns. Oops, 360 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:15,200 what is that? Oh, that was just a text message. And they can go fight there. And so essentially, 361 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:20,480 that's what's happening. That's, that is the only practical reason I can see why we are in Iraq. 362 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:26,640 And if I'm wrong on this, then I really don't understand it. But this is what I've seen, and I know 363 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:33,520 that the Iraqi people don't hate the Americans. They don't like their situation at all. And they 364 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:38,160 certainly don't like the fact that their country is being used as his battleground, but it is not 365 00:34:38,240 --> 00:34:45,120 the US against Iraq. And if, you know, people would say, oh, you have to, you should be in Afghanistan. 366 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:51,600 That's where Osama bin Laden is. Again, I'm quite certain that most of the 367 00:34:55,600 --> 00:35:05,280 radical, call them insurgents, but radical haters of the West that they're all now on this battleground 368 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:12,080 that is Iraq and the Surahams T.C. and Baghdad. What you never hear about, by the way, is the 369 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:17,760 rest of Iraq. There are at least nine other camps. And, you know, very little is happening there. 370 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:25,520 So this is a front. It is a war. And I, for one, am very happy that it is not in the United States. 371 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:32,480 So we don't have urban warfare on our streets. I know that sounds egotistical, but I really do mean it. 372 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:42,240 And I fully support our servicemen and women who have been sent over. And, you know, there's no draft, 373 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:49,680 so these are professionals. And I can totally understand how freaked out you must be if, you know, 374 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:54,320 your family member is called up into service, you know, because they were in the reserves. 375 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:59,280 You know, it's, you never expected that to happen, right? But that is the deal, you know, 376 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:04,720 that is the way it works. If you're in the reserves, then you can be activated. And that's just a deal of. 377 00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:16,320 And, you know, it's, it's a bummer, but it can happen. So all of all of these troops who are over 378 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:24,080 in Iraq, they are really, I feel really are there for a noble cause to keep all this crap away from us, 379 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:31,040 away from our country, away from our countries. And, and that I believe is what George Bush should be 380 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:37,040 telling Cindy Sheen and the world if it is indeed true. If he doesn't, if he comes up with some other 381 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:44,960 story, yeah, then we're all fucked. Anyway, time for some pod save music, I hope that that kind of 382 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:51,600 came out in an understandable way. 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