Tonight we're going to talk about the stuff that's happening "OVER THERE", and its connection to the stuff happening "OVER HERE".
Yes, the two things ARE related, and the cons and neo-cons DO NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT!
HOW are they connected? You'll just have to find out.
So tune in THIS SATURDAY (2/26) right here on ShockNet Radio at 7pm Eastern (6pm Central and 4pm 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 "Brutally Honest" chatroom at www.shocknetradio.com open during the show!
It's Social... It's Political... It's IN-YOUR-FACE... and it's BRUTALLY HONEST!
Okay, what do Bieber fans, Neo-Cons, and two overhyped events have in common? You'll be shocked!
No, seriously. They DO have something in common. And you'll find out in tonight's program!
There will be more to talk about, but I think that's enough of a teaser as is to get your attention.
So tune in THIS SATURDAY (2/19) right here on ShockNet Radio at 7pm Eastern (6pm Central and 4pm 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 "Brutally Honest" chatroom at www.shocknetradio.com open during the show!
It's Social... It's Political... It's IN-YOUR-FACE... and it's BRUTALLY HONEST!
Wow... it's the weekend before Valentine's Day and you have to ask... "Where is the LOVE?"
Well, sorry, you won't find too much of it on tonight's show. But, hey, it's not my fault! Really, it isn't!
For starters, I have a little thing about a certain "Magic Trick" that I need to dispel. Then I have some thoughts about Egypt and what's going on there, I mean you know I'd have something to say about that situation. THEN there's a poll question that got me fired up about something normally very beautiful. THEN I want to take a trip down memory lane, but it's NOT about the Brutally Honest Archive. It's about something that goes back even LONGER than the archives. Something that we used to treasure, and we really need to take stock in again.
Yeah, no Archived Rant this week! Just NEW rants!
PLUS some listener mail! I actually have feedback I want to share with you, along with a certain update that some of you may be wondering about. What is it? You'll just have to listen to find out.
So tune in THIS SATURDAY (2/12) right here on ShockNet Radio at 7pm Eastern (6pm Central and 4pm 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 "Brutally Honest" chatroom at www.shocknetradio.com open during the show!
It's Social... It's Political... It's IN-YOUR-FACE... and it's BRUTALLY HONEST!
There are lines that get crossed, lines that get blurred, and lines that get ignored.
Tonight's show deals with two different kinds of lines. The first deals with the economy and a certain kind of business that doesn't operate under the same rules as expected. What business is this? It's something you take for granted.
Then we go back in time five years to show you a Brutally Honest subject about politics that unfortunately is being carried out today.
Then we pick up on a subject that we left off a few weeks ago. Remember when I said that a certain topic would require me to dedicate a whole segment to discuss? Well it's HERE.
So tune in THIS SATURDAY (2/05) right here on ShockNet Radio at 7pm Eastern (6pm Central and 4pm 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 "Brutally Honest" chatroom at www.shocknetradio.com open during the show!
It's Social... It's Political... It's IN-YOUR-FACE... and it's BRUTALLY HONEST!
I'll also have another great archived rant that should make you pause. And then I want you to consider the two most DANGEROUS words in any society. Know what they are? You'll find out, and also find out how they apply to a little tale wrongly applied to Aesop's Fables.
So tune in THIS SATURDAY (1/29) right here on ShockNet Radio at 7pm Eastern (6pm Central and 4pm 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 "Brutally Honest" chatroom at www.shocknetradio.com open during the show!
It's Social... It's Political... It's IN-YOUR-FACE... and it's BRUTALLY HONEST!
I think that best describes the theme for tonight's show. I'll be starting out with the one word that you'll hear more times in your life. Then I'll have an archived rant from 2007 about change, and who would REALLY be opposed to it. And then I'll be answering the question that SOME people have been asking me about a certain cable news channel. You can probably guess which one, but are you ready to hear the reasons WHY? Are you REALLY ready to hear it? I guess you're going to have to find out for yourself.
So tune in THIS SATURDAY (1/22) right here on ShockNet Radio at 7pm Eastern (6pm Central and 4pm 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 "Brutally Honest" chatroom at www.shocknetradio.com open during the show!
It's Social... It's Political... It's IN-YOUR-FACE... and it's BRUTALLY HONEST!
Well here it is, 2011! And once again I'm busting my butt to get this show out to you. You'd think that I'd have five weeks of time to do this, but as always, it just creeped on by.
So... what's on tap tonight? Well it's the start of the new year, so I figured I'd let some of my new listeners in on what this show is about... and it's a good thing too, because the segments after that will deal with tragedy and blame, and I'm NOT in a good mood when it comes to one of those things. (You can probably guess which one.)
So tune in THIS SATURDAY (1/15) right here on ShockNet Radio at 7pm Eastern (6pm Central and 4pm 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 "Brutally Honest" chatroom at www.shocknetradio.com open during the show!
It's Social... It's Political... It's IN-YOUR-FACE... and it's BRUTALLY HONEST!
Let's see how many ways we can trash the abomination that used to be called the SciFi Channel...
And they all start with their catchphrase... "SyFy: Imagine Greater".
SyFy: Imagine Greater... but expect far less.
SyFy: Imagine Greater... just not on our budget.
SyFy: Imagine Greater... as long as it's being performed by professional wrestlers from the WWE.
SyFy: Imagine Greater... now imagine it in a bikini... with palm trees... and she's handing you a beer...
SyFy: Imagine Greater... as long as "Greater" is defined as being in Europe.
SyFy: Imagine Greater... imagine how "Greater" it would be if we actually put as much effort into giving you better quality movies as we did in paying for our campaign to tell you how "Greater" we want you to "Imagine" us to be.
SyFy: Imagine Greater... but in the meantime here's another "Twilight Zone Marathon".
SyFy: Imagine Greater... in 13-week cycles that show up once every two years.
SyFy: Imagine Greater... because the BBC told us to stop pestering them for more "Doctor Who" episodes.
SyFy: Imagine Greater... as long as the good parts are all censored and covered with mosaic bubbles.
SyFy: Imagine Greater... because if you don't we'll have to resort to having everything done in 3-D with the stupid glasses!
SyFy: Imagine Greater... because we need you to forget about those episodes of "Star Trek", "Firefly", and "Dark Shadows".
SyFy: Imagine Greater... because we ran out of stuff to imagine about.
This is the first time since doing my last show of the year that I could get in a few thoughts.
First of all, I want to apologize for not giving you enough notice about the special live broadcast. This was something that we had in the works for a couple of weeks, but we could not say with any certainty that this WAS something we could do. RJ and his wife did everything in their power to make this happen, but they couldn't say with certainty that it WOULD happen until two days before flight time. Believe me, if we knew with certainty that this was going to happen I would have given you guys plenty of notice and would have been advertising it to the hilt that it was going to happen.
To that end, I had two different formats in mind for my last show of the year. The first format was the same kind of show I did last year, which was my final rant on politics, followed by some archived holiday specials, and then my special thanks before calling it a year. The second format was pretty much what you heard on the air, although I also didn't have a guest in mind either until the night of the Friday special. You can thank RJ for arranging Chuck's guest appearance.
Clearly doing a live show isn't the same as a pre-recorded one, and, um, it, um, showed... If, um, it seems... um... if it seems, um, like I did a lot of... um... you know... that's because that part was all ad-libbing.
But the first segment of the show... the rant on politics... was something that really shocked both RJ and Chuck. Neither of them have really heard my show, and especially concerning the subject matter, so when I really went off on a rant, they were impressed.
So first and foremost I do want to thank RJ and his wife for not only making the arrangements for me to fly out to Oklahoma City, but also for giving me the forum for the show and recognizing the talent that goes with the show.
Second, thanks to Dr. Charles A. Doswell III (aka 2BuckChuck) for agreeing to be my guest at the last minute. I hope everyone tunes in come January for his first-ever late-night blues show called "Hard Luck Chuck's Juke Joint" as well the (returning) regular weather-related "High Instability" show.
I also want to thank Carrie Kube (aka Yaoi-Huntress Earth) for all of her feedback over the past year. I wish I could have been able to read all of the feedback she's sent me, but I just didn't have the time to do that. I had to keep an eye on the clock, and I actually had to pare down the second commercial break because of the time spent in that segment.
If you missed out on the show... first, you suck... second, PLEASE listen to the archive, because it explains the rationality for the new "nickname" for the White House under Barack Obama's tenure. This will be the new reference for the White House from this point on.
A few other subjects have popped up since my last show, and since I may not have the time to discuss them, I'll give a few thoughts on them now.
DATA Repealed: This was a surprise move by the Dems, and one that the GOP didn't consider. I don't have a stake on this subject, other than it being a matter of freedom, but I'm curious that with all of the fear rhetoric about "openly gay and lesbian" soldiers, I was wondering if they can point to one off-hand if they can't identify themselves as one beyond their military attire. Go ahead Field Marshall Torquemada; go ferret out an "openly gay or lesbian" soldier in the platoon just on sight alone! I DARE YOU! By the way, isn't an "openly straight" soldier equally frowned upon?
Wow... next thing you know, you'll try to convince me that there aren't foxhole atheists... oh, wait, have I introduced you to RJ Evans? Or how about Ernesto Haibi? Boy those assumptions of yours are just making total ASSES out of you neo-cons, huh?
9/11 Responders Aid: Another surprise deal, especially after a certain Senator from Oklahoma practically vowed to kill it by any means necessary. It is absolutely disgusting that the SAME PEOPLE who in 2003 and 2004 stood on the floor of the Senate and said that 9/11 Responders deserve all the help they can get for their acts of heroism, then turned around in 2010 and went back on their word. THEY ARE SCUM! And they KNOW it!
Tax Cuts for Unemployment Aid: I had a feeling the neo-cons were going to relent on the unemployment aid, but I have to call BS on the terms. $300 BILLION in tax cuts for TWO YEARS, but they want to haggle over ONE PERCENT of that number for unemployment benefits for ONE YEAR? ONE!?! By the way, you Neo-Con ass-clowns, since you sold this idea on the PROMISE that the tax cuts would "create jobs", it's now on YOUR HEADS TO CREATE THEM! Oh, and see this neat little sharp object? I got it from Damocles. Guess where it's going to be displayed? (Here's a hint: don't look up.)
Finally... January's schedule. ShockNet Radio is going to be down a few days as we get brand new equipment in. When I was in OKC, the tentative date for this equipment was pushed back to the end of January, but now I've found out that it actually showed up EARLY. As in, as of this blog post. That means that ShockNet Radio's returning schedule is back on track.
January 14th: American Heathen® with RJ Evans, David 2, John Mill, 2 Buck Chuck, and Linda D.
With the HOLIDAY (F.O.A.D. O'REILLY) Season in full swing, now is the time we start to get barraged with emails from "well-intentioned" friends and family members.
Some of these emails will be cute little cheesy messages offering well-wishes. Others will be smarky stories about the season. Still more will interject pseudo-patriotic guilt, reminding people that we have soldiers in harm's way, oh, and bad guys still want to do harm (never mind that the REALLY bad guys are the ones inside the United States who dream up ways to keep us afraid and get itty-bitty Yule logs in their pants when they can get us to tremble).
But then we have the ones that send seasonal LIES. The continual retelling of history that is more fiction than fact.
And to combat the LIES, I turn to a group that spend its time doing what CERTAIN news groups (*coughFOX*) fail to do, namely fact-check! (Hey Rupert: your employees find any more breaking news stories from THE ONION?) That fact-checking group is SNOPES.
So the next time someone you know forwards some "seasonal secrets" about the HOLIDAY (F.O.A.D. Neo-Cons!) season, just direct your browser to this address...
I am a freelance writer, online commentator (both written and audio), techno-geek, Libertarian, Trekker (have the uniform, just don't wear it), amateur disc jockey, and (unfortunately) an all-around nice guy. I'm also the author of various fan-based comics at Battlerock Comics.
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