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Hello all and Happy New Year!

Thank you for listening. My New Year’s surprise was an increase in listenership. I am pleased and encouraged that there is an interest in my particular take on news and issues. Keep listening.


Show #6


–Trying to understand Sudan


–Ethiopian Girls and Children, Run or Work


–Cable a la carte


–NEA’s Big Bucks


–Public School Bill to Parents: $1500


–No Secret Here: Blacks at Higher Risk in Cancer Care


–Katrina Welcome Mat: Whites Only


–Records’ First Years


–Hollywood Spins a Bad Year. Glickman says "Yeah"; USA Today says "Nope"


–They’re Lovin’ Minorities Now!


–Howz ‘Bout a MLK Holiday DVD sale, Y’all?


–DC Style; If You Build it They Will Learn? Not Here

–Running From DC to PG County Still Doesn’t Make You Safe. Now Where To?


–Limbo, Limbo, Limbo, No More


–Scott Joplin, Still on the Rag


–James Allen’s "As a Man Thinketh"


See ya next time,
Sunny

Welcome to Show #26-07

–  Sunny Does XM, Very Well, Thank You

–  Mother Jones, For Sale by Owner

–  University Diversity, Excludes US Blacks

–  Bolivian Women Finding Their Way

–  Deval Patrick, Never Was Daddy’s Little Boy. Video

–  Chess, ‘Hood Style, Still A Game for Kings and Queens

–  Slavery, Who’s Sorry Now

–  Attention . . . A Salute to Black Airmen

–  Plastic Surgery Down South, and I Don’t Mean Alabama or Georgia

–  "Maxed Out" A Must See

–  Terrance Howard in a Speedo? I’m There! "Pride" Makes a Splash and Other Confirmations that Black Folks ARE NOT Afraid of the Water

–  Obituaries for Robert DeForrest and Walter Turnbull

–  Joplin, Bobby McGee’s & Me–Nothing Left to Lose!

–  Sunny’s Washington - U Street

See ya next time, Sunny!

Welcome to Show #29-07

Many thanks to Sean Hennessey and his blog about the Nation’s Capital Bloomingdale neighborhood (see neighborhood link on this page)  The Half Show and MotherTalkers for links.  New listeners are a good thing and the links from these two sources have been a real shot in the arm for The ABW Show and what was my sagging commitment to continue.

They’re gone–Joanna and Jonathan do Crenshaw Boulevard.  Los Angeles be nice to my kids.

They’re back–University and college listeners, Hampton University, San Francisco State University, William and Mary and Howard University.

Just Click the Button, like–Celisa, Craig, Dwayne and stillcrazyinconnecticut did. Thanks for the financial support!

<<——And, would somebody please use this damn message box!

News and All the Other Stuff for  #29-07

See ya next time,
Sunny

Welcome to Show #27-07

Short Takes

 1.Time Magazine’s Most Influential People Actually Found Interesting People of Color

 2. Mormons in the ‘Hood, And After the Black Soul

 3. Oprah, President Maker? NewsMax Says Maybe

 4. Palestinian Moms, They Too Can Blow Themselves Up for God

–  Chicago Tribune, Hey, Is This An Anti-war Rally or An Obama ‘08 Rally, Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

–  The Washington Post, Carter Blasts Bush with his Nobel Peace Prize-winning-former-president-with-a-successful-track record-of-diplomacy death ray!

–  Jena, Louisiana’s Racial Demons.  Don’t Worry This is the US of A, Those Pesky Little Things Never Go Away

–  Talk About Talk Radio

–  The Economist, Zimbabwe In the Dark, Still Wishing Mugabe Was in the Wind

–  International Herald Tribune, Africa’s Colleges Teaching Who?

–  The Land of Milk and Honey is Just a Bus Ride from Haiti

–  Chicago’s Schools Hip Hop Workshops

–  Editor & Publisher, Spike Lee Puts Money Where His Mouth Is, Film at 11

–  The Last Words from August Wilson

–  Who Ate Chocolate City?

–  For the Musically Stuck in a Rut:  Macy Gray & Me, Doin’ Something!

–  Blatant Self Promotion for–what was supposed to be video and is now audio–New Feature, Sunny’s Washington and More Blatant Self Promotion, The ABW T-Shirt!

See ya next time,
Sunny!

Welcome to Show #28-07

Short Takes

 1. Sharpton, Westward Ho, And Questions Who Let Her Out of Jail.  Hope That’s a Refundable Ticket

 2. Obama and Tony Who?

 3. BET Goes to the Land of the Rising Sun, A Damn Dark Day

 4. Judge Blows Off 10-Year Sentence for Oral Sex

News and All the Other Stuff for  #28-07

Episode 1

The news is that The Podcast Pickle Show is back from the dead. It is no longer podfaded. It has been reborn as The NEW Podcast Pickle Show.

It is a short show this week. I am, just trying to get the ball rolling again. I talk about The Reviews For Riches Contest, my blog PDillys.com, and just a few notes on what the new show will try and accomplish.

I know it is short, but it’s a start.

Feel free to subscribe.

Episode 35

Ladies and Gentlemen we would like to welcome you aboard Celebrity Express!  Hold on to your armrests as we navigate through some turbulent and funny star stories.

At the end of the episode I’ll tell you about the most impressive passenger I have ever met on the airplane!

Contact… flywithbetty@gmail.com

CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE IN iTUNES!  It’s all free

Music by www.garageband.com  "Stars" by Sulphur

Episode 33

This show is jam packed full with hijinks and pranks on the airplane, from the silly to the sublime!  Lets get the party started! 

Music by www.garageband.com  Airplane by Sidestreet Blues

A special thanks to  www.landsend.com  for sending me the great suitcase!

Episode 31

I’m just back from Tobago and something I miss when I have a break from work is the Galley Talk!  This show has alot of funny stories from the galley!

We hear about the lower galley, famous people in the galley and at the end of the episode… we hear about an experiment on the airplane that had all the passengers cheering!

Music by www.garageband.com  "Everything Good" by Twintwelve

Episode 34

In this show we hear about ghosts, angels and unexplained events on the airplane and on layovers.  It’s basically Airline paranormal if you will…I’m not saying I believe in ghosts or angels…I’m just saying that you never know. 

Whatever you believe…these are some really good stories!

Music… Paranormal Sunrise by Endsville www.endsville.ca or www.garageband.com

Episode 32

Who knew there are so many Airline stories starring our furry friends!

In this show we hear about racoons, gorillas, dogs, monkeys, cows, birds and ferrets all flyings the friendly skys!  Hang on for a "wild" ride!

Music by www.podsafemusic.com  "Betty" by the Lavcivious Biddies

Episode 29

I record all types of stories and then I try to find a theme for an episode.  Strangely enough a common thread seemed to be stories with people in various stages of undress?

So among the underwear and naked stories we hear my own most embarrassing moment and at the end of the episode we hear about a really famous lady in her underwear on the airplane!

Music by www.podsafemusic.com  "Betty" by The Lavcivious Biddies

Episode 28

Roger…or Roger that…is what a Pilot says all day long.  It indicates that a message has been recieved.  But…is the message always understood?  Are we always on the same page?  

Words can mean different things to different people which makes for some hilarious stories in the cockpit and the cabin!

The end of the episode has a great segment about the Aircraft manufacturer Fokker.  Roger? Roger that! 

Music by www.garageband.com "Cabin to Cockpit" by The Belvederes

Episode 30

Like every work environment there are power struggles in the airline industry.  You have stand offs between the Flight Attendants and passengers, the Captains and First Officers and Flight Attendants with each other.  Now on paper that probably doesn’t sound funny…but it really is!

At the end of the episode I tell about a Show Down that I regularly have with passengers on the airplane.

Music by www.garageband.com "Struggle" by Scott Fisher

I’m going to have to suspend operations for a few weeks as I prepare for and go on vacation. This short announcement was just put together to let everyone know and also to announce that this coming Friday’s CTC will have to be cancelled as well.

Andy joined in for a short chat about a recent collaborative project we’ve begun with Mogulus. More information on San’s Merry Band of Turtles (SMBot) will be released when it becomes available.

The levels are a little mismatched between segments of this 31 minute bounce-hit-cast. I’d rather have spent more time editing the file but ultimately the overwhelming reality of my schedule has forced me to release it as is.

It looks like I’ll have to slow things down with the podcast for the next 7 weeks or so. I’ll try to get two more episodes out this month.

Calling Tokyo Calling will continue it’s Friday morning/evening run for as long as I can maintain this balancing act.

Links mentioned in this episode will follow, as time allows.

Running time: 31′35″ ..:.. Filesize: 10.9 mb
Bit Rate: 48 Kbps (mono) ..:.. Sample Rate 44.100

Once again, thanks for listening! !

I know I need to do a better job of writing up some details and information about what is to be heard on these various recorded bit of audio.

I promise to do better in the future.

Thanks for listening.

Tonight on GeekNights we teach you about those ports on your computer. In the news, Dell is taking suggestions and MP3 patents are out of control.

Scott’s Thing - Hebrew Macron 1
Rym’s Thing - Chinese Sailor Moon

ROAR-2007-06-10 - Episode 52 - President Jim And The BirthdayCast

This week on the ROAR:
Greetings from:  Lynn and Maria in NYC, Hope in Ohio, Carrie in Ohio, Kevin in Alabama, Jim’s brother Andrew, David Dalton, Clyde Rose, Graham Dillabough, Joan from Tipperery, Max, Helen, Joy Dillabough, Sandy the NBC, Pam from the pub and Roseanne,opening remarks, thanks, birthday babble, the new sax, the new clarinet, welcome back to the Mad Player, … the walk downtown, Newfoundland weather, the new Bob Marley t-shirt, ice bergs outside the harbour, the new forum, audio puppet porn, the Romper Room story, physcodelic cartoons, insomnia, the border-line 911 event, where the Jeep Cherokee used to be parked, the buskers, Jim’s Richard Nixon impersonation, the human crow, Lillian’s old band, born off the back of a Harley, our new religion, greetings from Bob McDonald of CBC’s Quirks And Quarks and many more things that could be considered sillier than a bag of hammers.

Music this week:
Our theme (Genesis) by Jim Fidler and Days Like These by The Cat Empire.

Best listened to on headphones  -  Ain’t life just a slice?

This 40 minute episode of Calling Tokyo Calling was simulcast live via Mogulus on Tokyo Calling TV.

A wide range of topics worked their way in to this 52 minute crazy-quilt-cast. Things that I’ve been listening to and watching on the net comprise the bulk of the episode. Also included are responses to a couple of frequent listeners and a couple of songs from the Tokyo Calling Singers.

Relevant Links:

• Plantronix USB Headset Microphones
• Terrance’s Wine Podcast
• NPR’s OnPoint with Tom Ashbrook
• ABC Podcast
• Digiki’s Polypunk Podcast
• Snack Fan Japan
• Ground Report TV
• Mashup Town TV

Thanks for listening!!

Click Doraemon to listen

Thanks to the Tokyo Calling singers for pulling me out of a tight situation. I had high hopes of recording a full-blown episode 91 of Tokyo Calling. Try as I might, it just wasn’t happening this evening.

Luckily the two eldest daughters allowed me to record them singing the new Intro and Outro themes to Doraemon. There is even a little bit of a fading echo of daughter #3 chiming in from time to time.

I have every intention of putting out #91 by the end of this coming weekend. Thanks for your continued patience.

Update 062707: When I woke up this morning, I noticed that TalkShoe had replaced the file I uploaded with the original blank recording. It would appear that more than 100 people have downloaded the blank one through RSS. I have restored the originally intended file. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Tonight on GeekNights, we review and reminisce about Battletech. In the news, there’s a rumour of Nintendo Power’s imminent demise, and PS3 kids are “sharing” with their friends.

Scott’s Thing - Videogame Maps
Rym’s Thing - Rym Waits

Hurray I am 36! I am, not the KastPod (it is 42). Today we are Giving Liz Phair a shout out, play music by Angela Carnegie and a reprise of Joel Melton, we also have the Cantonese version of the CruiseBox hit On a podcast. And if all that ain’t enough, Amelia Earhart in the Historical Sound Byte. You probably will not get this until it is some sort of Friday where you are, but while I am typing this it is still the Thursday show…

The local library’s pulling classics from the shelves so they can have more…shit.

Who knows? It felt so good to record this 11 minute leader-board report that I might just have to dust off the old Sumo-Cast feed one of these days.

Thanks to San Nakji for prodding me to talk about sumo again. It really is an incredible sport. And this particular tournament looks like it will go down to the final match on the final day to determine the champion!

As mentioned on this recording, there is actually a live video feed of the action provided by the Nipon Sumo Kokkai. Check it out if you are near a computer and are awake between 16:00 and 18:00 JST. The video quality isn’t great but if you’re not in Japan and don’t have access to the NHK satellite programming, it’s the only game in town.

And finally, don’t forget Calling Tokyo Calling Episode 11. We’d love to have you join us over at Talkshoe on Friday July 20 at 9:00 EST / 22:00 JST.

Guest: Jeremy Bernstein, Professor Emeritus at Stevens Institute of Technology and a former Staff Writer for The New Yorker

Guest: Robert Harris, Journalist, formerly the Political Editor of the Observer, and Novelist; archive from 11/16/06

Guest: Darren Wershler-Henry, Writer, Critic and Assistant Professor in the Communications Studies Department at Wilfrid Laurier University

Guest: Robert Harvey, Cartoon Historian and Author of Meanwhile…A History of Milton Caniff, Creator of Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon

Guest: Jane E. Henney, University of Cincinnati’s Senior Vice President and Provost for Health Affairs

This month, both the Meandering Mouse Podcast and the Disney Podcast Network are celebrating their first anniversary.

As a way of saying thanks to Jeff, I’m going back in my time machine phone booth and revisiting the first emails and clips that Jeff sent in to Trapped on Vacation back in November of 2005 when he pretty much became a co-host of TOV for a few months.  Without his contributions, I’m pretty positive that I would’ve given up and gotten bored with this gig back in December of ‘05.  Now of course with the DPN, I’m not doing this for listeners, I’m creating this show as a way of hanging out with friends that live around the world.  Just last night the Bleepin’ Wife and I were discussing the fact that some of our closest friends live across the country, and many of them we didn’t know just 10 months ago!  Strange but true.

So thanks for everything Jeff, here’s to another great year!

(I’m such an ass kisser…  although he’ll probably smack me for playing this stuff.  Compared to the Meandering Mouse today, it’s almost painful to listen to!  Gotta love that Griffin Lapel Mic that someone recommended so highly!) 

PG-13 Warning!!!  I missed an edit and dropped an F-Bomb…  Right after I read Jeff’s original email that he sent me, I crack a beer.  When I open the beer skip 10 seconds and you’ll miss the f-bomb (I called Jeff an f-in’ awesome friend.)  The rest is clean I promise!

This week Trapped on Vacation gets attacked by the Evil Pause Button of Death!!!

All day on Thursday I kept accidentally pausing while recording.  Did I ever learn my lesson???   H3ll no!!!  Why?  Because Iâm an idiotâ 

Actually I was having too much fun hanging out with Auntie Lo and SilverJeeper (plus the Bleepinâ Wife of course) that I just wasnât paying attention.

So this week we hit Big Thunder, followed by the biggest pause button disappointment of the day (18 seconds of heartache.)  We then head on over and get our Buzz on in Tomorrowland.

This week is also the first installment of DrDuckâs trip to Tokyo Disney Resort!  When I met him and his family at Epcot a few months ago, he gave me literally hours of audio. Iâve finally been able to begin going through it.  Over the next few weeks, months, years, etc, Iâll be sharing his wonderful trip a few minutes at a time.  Itâs really incredible stuff, and his family is great!!! 

Ending things this week is a segment from this weekâs episode of the Teknikal Difficulties Podcast.  Sketch Comedy featuring the Main Street Electrical Parade.  It cracked me up so much that I had to email
Cayenne to ask him if I could play it.  Thankfully he said yes!

Show Links:

Teknikal Difficulties Podcast â http://www.tekdiff.com

Originally I intended to hit Mardi Gras at Universal to catch the Doobie Brothers.  That didn’t happen.

In my opinion, I found something better!  Each week on the "small stage" they bring in musical acts directly from New Orleans.  This week was Big Sam’s Funky Nation, and performed 30 minutes of non-stop high energy funk!  After watching their set, I really didn’t think that the Doobie Brothers could’ve topped it, so I left. 

Have fun!

Links:

boingboing

Craphound.com

Big Sam’s Funky Nation

We’re back from Colorado!  No broken bones, but no vacation audio either because I discovered that binaural mics don’t work when they’re covered by big wooly hats or brain buckets.  No biggie, I still had a great time!

This week we head back in time thanks to SilverJeeper and Lorien and revisit the worst Jungle Cruise ever!  Plus I take care of a listener request and head back to DisneyQuest to Ride the Comics.

Have fun!

If you’ve been following the show over at the DPN (now easily accessible at http://www.thedpn.com ) you already know what I did this week!

The Bleepin’ Wife and I spent a great day visiting one of the oldest, and perhaps my favorite attraction in Central Florida, Gatorland!

I have enough audio to spread through a couple shows, but this week we take in the World Famous Gatorland Jumparoo and the Aligator Wrestling show.  I’ve been going there for quite some time, but this visit was the first time I saw a woman aligator wrestler.  It could be that they’ve had women wrestlers for years but I just never happened to be there when they were working, who knows… 

Anyways we had a great time and will probably be visiting again in the future.  The Bleepin’ Wife had never been there before and loved it!

Oh, I almost forgot the death defying stupid stunts!  We also feed the gators hot dogs on sticks, and then I take in Gatorland’s Adventure Hour where I paid $10 to go on the other side of the fence and feed the gators up close from 3 feet away!  That was perhaps the coolest thing that I’ve done in quite a while!  I’d like to thank Gatorland employee, Chris for convincing me to do it and carrying the big stick!

The Gatorland staff is among the friendliest in the area.  The all seem to have a passion for what they do and where they work.

Have fun!

This week we escape the strange January heat and head into the air conditioning of Disneyquest!

Come along as the Bleepin’ Wife and I experience Alien Encounter Invasion, The Virtual Jungle Cruise, Buzz Lightyear’s Astroblasters (The Original!) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for Buccaneer Gold.

Hours of interactive adventures edited down to just over 40 minutes!

Enjoy!

Links:

Digg Trapped on Vacation!

ToV’s Twitter page

eing Spring Break, the Bleepin’ Wife and I skipped the parks on our days off because the crowds are evil! Although I took one for the team and hit Epcot on Saturday night to take a voyage on the Mexican Boat Ride, I mean the Gran Fiesta Tour starring the Three Caballeros.
After that I take a leisurely stroll around World Showcase stopping to plop in a couch and listen to some music in a Flower & Garden Festival Display, and finally head to North Montana as I catch Fiddler’s Joy performing on the stage there. I almost forgot!!! There’s about 30 seconds of Paul Revere and the Raiders in there as well… I caught the very eng of their show.

Everything’s wrapped up with either the best or worst Earlioke ever. I have no idea how Earlioke spun so far out of control, (and why you people keep sending me email encouraging me to keep doing it!?!?!) bonus points for the first person who figures out and posts what the connection is between the song and where I went in the episode.

The start of TOV this week was recorded live at Epcot at the DPN MiniMeet. I forgot to mention that Silverwolf2006 was also there. (Sorry manâ)

Woot! Back from Westfest and boy are the Bleepin’ Wife and I TIRED!!!
After we wander around looking for other Westfest attendees, we head to Sea World Orlando to take in Pets Ahoy!

Of course it’s the first week of May and TOV listeners know what that means… It means that I play a fun Jonathan Coulton song called First of May at the end of the show that isn’t exactly kid safe. So parents you have been warned. The rest of the show is fine, I’ll tell you when to stop.

Originally I recorded this on the First of May but the Vacation Home rehab schedule didn’t let me edit until last night. Oops!