The first show for Podshow and Sirius. Hope it isn't too much of a trainwreck. I do know that the music absolutely rocks. On the show, you'll hear:

1. The Lordz
2. New London Fire
3. Rasa 9
4. Lions in the Street
5. Gasoline
6. Rick Barry

Special Thanks to Nick Murray, Boris Khaykin, Michael Yusi and the uncanny Brian Noe.

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Starting Monday, 9:30 P.M.

Apparently, we're way past World War III. So, if its the end of the world, its time to rock.

On this show, you'll hear

1. Zamarro
2. Anti-Hero
3. Anonymous American
4. Boris Khaykin
5. Naama Hillman

Intro music by Dreamline

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And here's your Essay:

    Summertime is all about sequels. X-Men Three, Clerks II, Die Hard 4, I mean if the Entertainment section of the newspaper keeps covering sequels, then why shouldn't the Front page cover sequels as well?
 
    Last weekend, one of my close personal friends and most enlightened individual on the planet, Newt Gingrich - oh wait - [noise like hitting the back of one's own head], ah that feels better, every once in awhile you have to get the old noggin' back in line, now where was I? Oh yes, last weekend, one of the biggest retards on the planet and complete two faced bastard, Newt Gingrich was on the venerable Meet the Press, where he told Woodsy the Owl himself, Tim Russert, that the situation in Israel and Lebanon was the beginning of World War III. Now notwithstanding that Tim Russert has a face that looks like he's about to ask how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop, even he looked shocked that good ol Newt took the old rhetoric meter up to a new level. I mean Newt didn't just pick the hammer up and ring the bell, he goddamn might as well have popped the bell off.
    
    But then again, once you get past the pasty face, the slick beady eyes, the ridiculous Peter Graves from Mission Impossible haircut, you just have to ask yourself is good old salamander face right? Is the beginning of World War III?
 
    And, rest assured dear Toddshow listeners, we're not at the beginning of World War III - we're way past it. You see, World War III already happened. 
 
    You see, on July 13, 2006, son of Satan himself Bill O'Reilly said that we were already said that World War III had started. But, compare this with the July 10, 2006 edition of the Fox Big Story show where Mr. Personality himself, John Gibson interviewed a guy named interviewed Michael Ledeen, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and said "some are calling the global war on terror something else, something more like World War III." But Ledeen responded that "it's more like World War IV because there was a Cold War, which was certainly a world war." Ledeen added that "probably the start of it [World War IV] was the Iranian revolution of 1979."
 
    Ok, fine, so we're up to World War IV? Right? Apparently frigging not. On the July 13 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Sean Hannity declared: "we are loaded up today, as the Middle East on the brink of World War V, here."

    Look, we could talk all day about whether or not Israel has the right to bomb the Hezbollah back to the caveman days until Hezbollah stops lobbing missiles into downtown Haifa. And we could talk all day whether its right for Iran to arm Hezbollah or whether its right for the US to arm Israel....and we can talk all day whether Oprah is gay. Personally, I don't think she is, but that doesn't mean that I don't think that she hasn't had some wild and crazy nights in college that she may not remember, but hey, live and let live right? 
    
    Because if you take Gingrich, Gibson, and Hannity and really look at them, they are just nothing more than pawns for the whole conservative movement that knows that we are coming up to a very big election this fall, and there is nothing more that will get people buzzing than World War V. I mean these guys are starting to run out of ideas. Because as Rocky V proved, once you've gotten up to V sequels, the whole concept has pretty much jumped the shark, and lets be honest Sylvester Stallone beating up Tommy Gunn in the streets had as much credibility as Newt's whole contract with America.
 
    But the end of the day, people like Gingrich, Gibson and Hannity, aren't just considered conservatives, they are considered neoconservative, with the term "neo" not just meaning Keanu Reeves in the Matrix, but a whole form of "new wave" conservativism that is not exactly the same as isolationism, and is step to the left of cavemanism, and a little to the right of botulism, and for neocons to really get their message out, they need you to be scared
 
    Now, I'm not going to go as far as saying that neocons and terrorists have any kind of connection, and certainly some of my best friends may have conservative tendencies, but lets face it, they both like to drop bombs. Terrorists, like hezbollah, drop bombs in public places and kill a lot of innocent people. Neocons like to drop bombs like World War V into civilized arguments and serious discussions and make every attempt to clear the room quicker than one of my brother's farts.
 
    For these morons to start throwing around terms like Armageddon while you and I are flicking around the tv trying something more interesting to watch than a repeat of Sponge Bob Poop Pants, is just plain wrong. Because this isn't the beginning of World War V, this is the beginning of World War Five Million, because if the history of Israel and Lebanon has shown us that these two neighbors get along as Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie. Just two many similarities between them but too many bad vibes to make it all just work out.
 
    Until jerks like Hannity and Gingrich can all get on the same page, and figure out which war I'm supposed to be hiding under the bed from, I'm just gonna go back to something really scary - Big Momma's House 2....

 

On the Jersey Toddshow, you'll hear it here first, and tonight I have a special edition for you - James Brown has joined the revolution.

 

The night before a trial is a smart time to do a podcast, but it'll all work out fine. At least, I think it will. On the show, I played:

1. Rock Down Baby
2. Josh Woodward
3. Id Guiness
4. Psychic Hearts
5. Testosterone
6. Vittoria Conn

Also, helping out with this show was John Wall from the M-Show, the Geoff Smith, Tangential Cold....and big plug for Rutter's Ramblings and The Rubberoom.

Check out this wonderful email that I received today. This is why I podcast:

Hi My name is Colette Laing and am a teaching assistant at Selsted Church of England Primary School. I would like to thank you for playing our song and we welcome any exposure in publishing our case. The children have voiced their views on this song and they are really excited that their song being played in America so thank you for you support.

I am so psyched about this show. First, I missed podcasting. The State of New Jersey shutdown caused big problems. Second, the first song on this podcast, is a big deal, and we're catching it early.

1. Children of Selsted CE Primary School 
2. The Lascivious Biddies
3. Geoff Smith
4. Munk
5. Cake or Death
6. Roadside Zoo

Here is the video for the Selsted kids. You need to watch this and then grab your credit card and buy numerous copies of this song.

Also, remember to check out Shadow Falls 

Can You Dig It? Podshow Plus is out....

 

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As one of the only podcasting attorneys, I come to this whole process from a different frame of mind. Generally, there are a lot of technical people or media people in podcasting, and they all come to this arena with wonderful skill sets that I absolutely do not have - the very proof being the page that you are reading right now.

Today, Podshow, Inc. has been accused of intentionally stripping copyright information from RSS feeds for some nefarious purpose. In the 12-hours since this problem was uncovered, they have admitted that it was wrong, and have taken steps to correct the problem, and are continuing to make changes to correct the problem even further. During that same period of time, I have seen no evidence of any podcaster actually suffering any real economic loss from this inadvertent and admitted mistake.

However, I have seen calls for lawyers to get involved, from those that have competing economic interests or old gripes. Maybe this is everyone's war cry that doesn't practice law, and honestly strikes me as cheap self-promotion. Frankly, a minimal copyright violation in a situation like this, does not make a lawsuit. While my practice generally involves helping injured workers, and I am not a copyright attorney, it would seem that any case would require liability and damages. Here, I would also presume that there also needs to be a level of intent - not of the programmer, but from corporate directive or policy. Frankly, based on everything that I've read today, I can't imagine a lawyer that would want to get involved, and some of these bloggers that are ranting about this really need more information before they get their keyboards in a knot.  

More importantly, even if someone were to assume an 'evil intent' of Podshow, do people really think that they'd be as lame to do it in the fashion that they did? The errors were in the first couple lines of code. It took about half a second to determine that the feeds were set up wrong. Even someone as sorry as I am figured it out pretty quickly that something in the feed was off-kilter. Trust me, I think that if someone at Podshow wanted to do something 'evil' they could have done it long ago, in a far more sophisticated and talented way.

I've never met Adam Curry. In fact, we've never even had a conversation in real-time. Come to think of it, I don't think that I've ever spoken with any Podshow employee or contract-Podcaster on the phone or skype. However, I have no reason to think of any of them poorly. You need to ask yourself, why would anyone intentionally tear something down that they've helped to build? Why would they intentionally complicate the process and intentionally cause additional divisions in an already too fractured podcast community?

If you think its about advertising revenue, or trapping new ears in one site, then you're kidding yourself. Podcasting is still in its infancy. We forget this because it has become such an intergral and wonderful part of our everday life. But, the average consumer still has so many opportunities for entertainment and is bombarded by so many advertisers, that podcasting is only a drop in the bucket, and if Podshow is the one that breaks away due to its own innovation and sweat, then so be it. Certainly, the market will make these choices. However, most of the items I've read were either self-serving or disingenuous, and often both at the same time.

While I have yet to log in to Podshow's new toy due to a different bug, I really have not lost anything, either. I haven't paid anything to Podshow, and they're releasing this new site for free with the hope of advancing the art of podcasting. While I'm bummed that I've accidently become a "gamma tester" for this Podshow product, I remain excited about what the finished product is going to be when its finally working correctly.

Keep your eyes on the prize, people.

...and P+, suck this up...

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Happy 4th of July. I can't believe that this show started on New Year's Day and we're already here. I hope everyone has a great day, and celebrates safely. On the show, I played:

1. Sophia Ramos
2. The High
3. Jesta
4. Little Fish Small Pond
5. Jeremy Kushnier

 Also, a little bit of Juggling Suns for you...

Compare the picture that my friend the Wanderer posted on his blog with the genuine article. The odd thing is that he had no idea what I looked like prior to posting the picture.....wild.