Brutally Honest - LIVE! - 09/02/13 - Show Notes

Is it true?  Will David 2 be WORKING on LABOR DAY?

Well, yes...

Working ON THIS SHOW!

I have to, because there is something very important that I want to talk to you about concerning the future of this program.

Some people already know what this is, and if you are one of them, please DO NOT BE A DICK!

But because we are talking about Labor Day, I figured this would be a great time to talk about LABOR.. for what it is worth.

There are people protesting fast food restaurants to demand a hike in the minimum wage.  Billionaire CEO of McDonald's responds by whining about how it would skyrocket the cost of fast food, although doesn't talk about the profits they make and how they came up with a pompous and unrealistic McBudget for those minimum wage workers that actually tells those overworked and underpaid workers that they must get a second job in order to meet the unrealistic McBudget.

Believe me, I'll have something to say when my column comes out on Monday, but what I want to know is what you think of the subject.

Be sure to tune in THIS MONDAY (09/02), right here on ShockNet Radio at 8pm Eastern (7pm Central and 5pm Pacific) over at www.shocknetradio.com and also at Apple's iTunes Radio Player under the "Classic Rock" category.

And don't forget that I'll be in the "BH LIVE" chatroom at www.shocknetradio.com during the show to discuss the subject LIVE, and I'll be taking your calls toll-free in the U.S. and Canada at 866-400-6684

Oh, and by the way, if you like what you hear, if you enjoy the conversations and rants, then tell your friends about the show and have them tune in as well!

When the truth is not enough, it's time for... BRUTALLY HONEST - LIVE!

Brutally Honest - LIVE! - 08/26/13 - Show Notes

First, I want to apologize for last Monday's cancellation.

In order to do these broadcasts I need two computers.  The first computer handles the live connection between Get Brutal Productions and with ShockNet Radio itself.  The second computer handles all the sound effects and the chatroom.  A few months back, I lost the monitor for my second computer. So I turned to "Old Reliable", my original bulky 19" CRT monitor. Then that died, so I was out the audio PC.  I managed to set up a workaround with my laptop, which did a superb job these past few weeks... until last weekend when the display died.

Fortunately I was able to get a new monitor for my audio PC, so it is back and running... but I do miss my laptop.

Anyway, on with the show!

This week I have another two-fer discussion subject. BALLMER and BATMAN!

First, Steve Ballmer, the gruff CEO of Microsoft, has announced he is stepping down in the next year or so. He seems to think that his biggest failure was with Windows Vista, but was that really the case? How about their XBox Live with the forced DRM junk? How about MS Surface and the dancing morons? I'm sure a lot of listeners are Microsoft users in one way or another, so I'm wondering what you think of the Post-Bill-Gates Microsoft. Do you like where they are heading? What should they do? Can they recover? SHOULD they recover?

Then there's BATMAN! Or is it BatFLECK? Ben Affleck has agreed to be Batman for the Man of Steel sequel, working with Henry Cavil as Superman and Bryan Cranston (from AMC's "Breaking Bad") as Lex Luthor. This would supposedly be a multi-picture project, with Affleck and Cranston crossing over into other DC movies much like Clark Gregg and Samuel L. Jackson did for Marvel's movies. But is does the Oscar-winning director have what it takes to take over from Christian Bale? Are we talking another surprise like Michael Keaton, or would he be another George Clooney? And why should we even be making this kind of fuss?

That's what up for discussion... and if one subject dominates over the other, then at least I could bring the other subject back the following week.

One more thing: there is a certain announcement that has been going around regarding the future of this program on ShockNet Radio. The staff here is well aware of this announcement and we will formally address it on the Labor Day program.  For those of you who already know what it is, I would ask that you please be patient for one more week before peppering me with questions about it, okay?

Be sure to tune in THIS MONDAY (08/26), right here on ShockNet Radio at 8pm Eastern (7pm Central and 5pm Pacific) over at www.shocknetradio.com and also at Apple's iTunes Radio Player under the "Classic Rock" category.

And don't forget that I'll be in the "BH LIVE" chatroom at www.shocknetradio.com during the show to discuss the subject LIVE, and I'll be taking your calls toll-free in the U.S. and Canada at 866-400-6684

Oh, and by the way, if you like what you hear, if you enjoy the conversations and rants, then tell your friends about the show and have them tune in as well!

When the truth is not enough, it's time for... BRUTALLY HONEST - LIVE!

No Show For Monday - 08/19/13

Regretfully we will have to cancel this week's broadcast of "Brutally Honest - LIVE!"

Over the weekend we suffered the loss of our audio computer's display, which is essential for the show, and we will not be able to get a replacement in time for this week's show.

However, we hope that you will continue to enjoy all the great programming that ShockNet Radio provide this week, including "The Rock & Roll Diner" this Tuesday night with CA Wood, and "Hard Luck Chuck's Juke Joint" on Friday night with Hard Luck Chuck (aka "2BuckChuck" on our show). Both shows are at 8pm ET, 7pm CT.

AND hopefully we will be back on the air NEXT Monday at our usual time of 8pm ET, 7pm CT, to go over everything social, political, in-your-face, and BRUTALLY HONEST.

Brutally Honest - LIVE! - 08/12/13 - Show Notes

Remember Court TV?

That's the cable channel that was supposed to be all about court cases.  Every kind of court case you can get, from OJ Simpson to the local murder cases, were discussed.  Obviously the Supreme Court decisions played a role with them as well.

Well Court TV pretty much died in 2008 when it was "re-branded" as "TruTV" and began running mindless programming.  Oh, wait, they were doing that back in 2004.

Anyway, Court TV may be dead, but why does it seem like its ghost lives on through other channels?

Daytime television is still apparently fixated on certain court cases, from Casey Anthony to George Zimmerman, and everyone wants to dissect the proceedings.  Hundreds of so-called "legal experts" and thousands of armchair consultants all break down each and every action in the case, second-guessing testimony and legal tactics and trying to read the minds of the players. And it's apparently working, or else people like Nancy Grace and Greta Van Sustren would be virtual nobodies.

So the discussion subject for this week is all about the Court of Television. Should there BE one? Should we BE second-guessing the proceedings?

And WHAT KIND of trials should we be looking at? Here in Atlanta, we have the perjury trial of Andrea Sneiderman versus the corruption trial of Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill.  Sex-Lies-and-Murder versus Politicians-Gone-Wild... you can guess which one the media here is fixated on. But are they fixated on the WRONG case? I want to know what you think about this whole thing!

Be sure to tune in THIS MONDAY (08/12), right here on ShockNet Radio at 8pm Eastern (7pm Central and 5pm Pacific) over at www.shocknetradio.com and also at Apple's iTunes Radio Player under the "Classic Rock" category.

And don't forget that I'll be in the "BH LIVE" chatroom at www.shocknetradio.com during the show to discuss the subject LIVE, and I'll be taking your calls toll-free in the U.S. and Canada at 866-400-6684

Oh, and by the way, if you like what you hear, if you enjoy the conversations and rants, then tell your friends about the show and have them tune in as well!

When the truth is not enough, it's time for... BRUTALLY HONEST - LIVE!

Brutally Honest - LIVE! - 08/05/13 - Show Notes

So you probably heard about all the CHATTER that Homeland Security picked up. All the CHATTER that tells Americans they need to BE AFRAID, be REALLY AFRAID, especially if they're overseas.

The embassies have to be shut down over the weekend... GOTTA BE CAREFUL! And now it has to be the whole week. Sucks to be an American abroad and you need the help of the local embassy, huh?

Because of the CHATTER, don't you know? It's all about the CHATTER.

Or is it something else? Makes you wonder, huh? Homeland Security admits losing track of A MILLION visitors, don't know if they're still here. TSA workers are sleeping on the job. Edward Snowden got his asylum in Russia. FBI going after people who Google a certain kind of kitchenware. Is it really about a little Bush-era tactic to bring the masses back under the mattresses?

Well let's have our own little CHATTER about it... on the digital airwaves, of course!

Be sure to tune in THIS MONDAY (08/05), right here on ShockNet Radio at 8pm Eastern (7pm Central and 5pm Pacific) over at www.shocknetradio.com and also at Apple's iTunes Radio Player under the "Classic Rock" category.

And don't forget that I'll be in the "BH LIVE" chatroom at www.shocknetradio.com during the show to discuss the subject LIVE, and I'll be taking your calls toll-free in the U.S. and Canada at 866-400-6684

Oh, and by the way, if you like what you hear, if you enjoy the conversations and rants, then tell your friends about the show and have them tune in as well!

When the truth is not enough, it's time for... BRUTALLY HONEST - LIVE!

Brutally Honest - LIVE! - 07/29/13 - Show Notes

"If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear."

How many times have you heard that, huh?

Anytime some pompous self-righteous chickenhawk talks about national security and wanting to peer into our lives, that's the statement they LOVE to use.

"If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear."

What a bunch of self-serving BS!

I believe that WE ALL have something that we would rather not be made public.  We ALL do!  Our lives are not the "open books" that we pretend they are.

So if we KNOW that we all lie, that we ALL have something that we would rather not be made public.. WHY then do we subscribe to THIS particular lie of "If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear"?

That's is what I want you to open up about. Do you subscribe to the LIE? And if not, how would you deal with the person that tries to shovel that LIE?

Be sure to tune in THIS MONDAY (07/29), right here on ShockNet Radio at 8pm Eastern (7pm Central and 5pm Pacific) over at www.shocknetradio.com and also at Apple's iTunes Radio Player under the "Classic Rock" category.

And don't forget that I'll be in the "BH LIVE" chatroom at www.shocknetradio.com during the show to discuss the subject LIVE, and I'll be taking your calls toll-free in the U.S. and Canada at 866-400-6684

Oh, and by the way, if you like what you hear, if you enjoy the conversations and rants, then tell your friends about the show and have them tune in as well!

When the truth is not enough, it's time for... BRUTALLY HONEST - LIVE!

Brutally Honest - LIVE! - 07/22/13 - Show Notes

So I'm sitting back over the weekend, wondering about Monday's show, and for once I was a little stumped.

It's not easy sometimes to come up with show subjects... things that make you think, and, more importantly for me since this IS a radio show, things that make you want to call-in and talk about it.

That's when my high school buddy and "adopted bro" Phil (a.k.a. MONSTER) chimed in and we started talking some subjects and he mentioned that his father was REALLY upset over President Obama's comments about Trayvon Martin and how Obama said it "could have been me... thirty-five years ago". That's when we started talking about racial profiling and how some people claim they don't "see it", and because THEY don't "see it", that must mean that it "doesn't exist".

Then my best friend put the whole subject on its ear with this question:

What if the problem isn't about RACE at all?  What if the problem really is CLASS?

Crazy? Out-of-bounds? On-the-mark? I WANT TO KNOW! And I want to know ON THE AIR!

Be sure to tune in THIS MONDAY (07/22), right here on ShockNet Radio at 8pm Eastern (7pm Central and 5pm Pacific) over at www.shocknetradio.com and also at Apple's iTunes Radio Player under the "Classic Rock" category.

And don't forget that I'll be in the "BH LIVE" chatroom at www.shocknetradio.com during the show to discuss the subject LIVE, and I'll be taking your calls toll-free in the U.S. and Canada at 866-400-6684

Oh, and by the way, if you like what you hear, if you enjoy the conversations and rants, then tell your friends about the show and have them tune in as well!

When the truth is not enough, it's time for... BRUTALLY HONEST - LIVE!

Brutally Honest - LIVE! - 07/15/13 - Show Notes

"With Liberty And Justice For All..."

Or so the Pledge of Allegiance ends, as created by a certain Christian-Communist.  (Oh, you didn't know that?  Do some research.)

But is it REALLY the case today?

Corporations are declared people, banks are allowed to steal homes, lobbyists are allowed to literally craft legislation for politicians to simply rubber-stamp, the government can snoop into our lives at will, police can shoot your dog and arrest you for simply taking pictures of them from your own front yard... and now a young man walking to the store can get himself killed by some gun-toting thug with delusions of having a badge and he is allowed to get away with it thanks to Fox News.

"Liberty and Justice For All"... really? REALLY?

Maybe we need to strike this from the Pledge, because right now the only people with "Liberty and Justice" are the millionaires and billionaires that can buy the law and buy their way out of accountability.

What do you think? Let me know by tuning-in and calling-in!

Be sure to tune in THIS MONDAY (07/15), right here on ShockNet Radio at 8pm Eastern (7pm Central and 5pm Pacific) over at www.shocknetradio.com and also at Apple's iTunes Radio Player under the "Classic Rock" category.

And don't forget that I'll be in the "BH LIVE" chatroom at www.shocknetradio.com during the show to discuss the subject LIVE, and I'll be taking your calls toll-free in the U.S. and Canada at 866-400-6684

Oh, and by the way, if you like what you hear, if you enjoy the conversations and rants, then tell your friends about the show and have them tune in as well!

When the truth is not enough, it's time for... BRUTALLY HONEST - LIVE!

Brutally Honest - LIVE! - 07/08/13 - Show Notes

WOW! The "Summer Break" is here and gone already! Well, at least it is for us here at the Brutally Honest Command Center.

So let's get caught up on what's been going on while we've been out, shall we?

And while we're at it, I have a couple of subject for us to hash over...

Let's start with the people that I refer to as an "OBLAMER". What is an "OBLAMER", you ask? Well it's someone that blames everything on Barack Obama, especially when it involves things that Obama didn't do.  Like when your insurance provider decides to screw you over and you decide to blame it on Obama rather than on the greed of the big corporate Insurance company. Or when if the price of gasoline goes up and you blame Obama for it, but refuse to credit Obama when the price goes down and claim that it fell "in spite of Obama". Or when you wake up in the morning and you stub your toe and you blame Obama for it instead of your own incompetence.

In fact, let's have some fun with this and take this into a Jeff Foxworthy monologue... "You might be an Oblamer if..."

If that doesn't work, then we have another subject we can talk about... B00BS!!!

No I'm not kidding.  Is there a war going on against "b00bs"? It certainly seems like it.

BUT let's not go there only if we don't have any "Oblamer" zingers to bring up.

Be sure to tune in THIS MONDAY (07/08), right here on ShockNet Radio at 8pm Eastern (7pm Central and 5pm Pacific) over at www.shocknetradio.com and also at Apple's iTunes Radio Player under the "Classic Rock" category.

And don't forget that I'll be in the "BH LIVE" chatroom at www.shocknetradio.com during the show to discuss the subject LIVE, and I'll be taking your calls toll-free in the U.S. and Canada at 866-400-6684

Oh, and by the way, if you like what you hear, if you enjoy the conversations and rants, then tell your friends about the show and have them tune in as well!

When the truth is not enough, it's time for... BRUTALLY HONEST - LIVE!

Happy Fourth of July!

Today we celebrate...

Well, we CELEBRATE! 

We fire up the grill and we put on some burgers and hot dogs, we slice up some watermelon, we show up at that parade and we cheer the local boy scout troop and the veterans that served that we then honor, then we go find our usual place in the park and we watch the fireworks staged to some sermonized jingoistic music.

And we claim that we're doing this for A REASON.  We claim that we're doing this because over two hundred years ago a bunch of men got together and said they weren't going to follow the dictates of the dominant and overbearing international superpower, and that we have to remember that or else we'll lose this thing called FREEDOM.

But here's a funny little question... do you REALLY know what FREEDOM is?

Seriously, do you know?

Have you ever sat down and wondered WHAT the concept of FREEDOM means?

I tell you what: you won't hear it from the Fox News crowd!  You won't hear it from the trained parrots of talk radio!  You won't hear it from the conservative editorials that have decided to waste their time re-printing the Declaration of Independence and pretend to know what it was all about.

You want to know what FREEDOM REALLY MEANS?

I'll tell you.  Or better yet, I'll SHOW YOU!

This is an animated video taken from my "Brutally Honest on ShockNet Radio" show from a few years ago.  The show was an hour-long and broken into three segments, so you have each part as a separate video.

Watch the video series.  THINK about what it means, and then compare that to the BS you hear from Fox News and talk radio.  THEN go to your July 4th celebrations and see if other people actually GET what the concept is all about.


And if you like what you see, then be sure to tune in every Monday night at 8pm ET, 7pm CT, for "Brutally Honest - LIVE" on ShockNet Radio!