Remember the time we got a frog and put it down Mrs. Beasley’s dress?

Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Two Chatterers: RU Sirius & Jeff Diehl | Opening Song: “DJ Riko, “Merry Mixmas” | Closing Song: Some Assembly Required, “XMAS special MIX” | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

For the last show of the year, RU Sirius runs down his top 5 things, and realizes he hasn’t been absolutely super-thrilled by anything…

See you in two weeks…

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Sponsor: Life Enhancement Products | Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp

You can bet that we’re going to cover this issue in-depth, my brothers and sisters. No one is safe!

Some people say ’sold out’ is a kind of advertising tool… but you can’t sell what you don’t have. This quarter basically boils down to how many iPods Apple can manufacture. Keep in mind the reports earlier this quarter about NAND supply issues, and last weeks re-up on the clickwheel people. Also, Apple has never manufactured (ok sold) more than 6.5 million ipods (or anything else, ok songs i guess) in any quarter EVER. and the iPod is not a mature design… just saying. Oh and the stock appears to have topped early last week trying to close above $75, now a bit lower…

Join us as we give a rave review to the recent video by members of the SF Police Department and as we try to talk to author/punk legend Richard Hell over a faulty phone connection. Ain’t that nothin’?

Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Two Chatterers: RU Sirius & Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “The Plan” by Richard Hell and the Voidoids | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Richard Hell

Conceptual artist, writer and Wired magazine contributor Jonathon Keats joins us for a rollicking good time.

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Sponsor: Life Enhancement Products | Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Co-host: Sherry Miller | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp

Jonathon Keats
Extraterrestrial Art

No Business As Usual This Show - A Man Imprisoned by the State of California Has Been Put To Death By that same state, and I just want to take a moment to think about it.

It happened around 12:30 am this morning. I don’t like to be reminded that we’re living in a police state, but things like state-sanctioned executions make it all too crystal clear.

Will we find out months or years from now that Tookie was innocent? We’re learning that innocent people are convicted all the time. It could happen to you or me, but research has proven definitively that it’s much more likely to happen to you if your an african american male.

And what if he was guilty after all? Is he arguably rehabilitated? Or is rehabilitation just a lie?

However you slice it, it leaves me sad. And thinking.

Whether you’re for or against the death penalty, I think you will agree that it’s important that we all think long and hard about what happened today.

I only speak during the last part of the show, when I give the credits, so no need for a “music only” version this time.
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Show Notes

We interview Arthur editor, Jay Babcock. Arthur, in case you don’t know, is the coolest, smartest underground newsprint rag on earth.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Jeff Diehl & Sherry Miller | Featured Song: “Rise in the Springtime” by Lavender Diamond | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Arthur

Douglas Rushkoff joins us to talk about his new book, Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out.

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Sponsor: Life Enhancement Products | Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Co-host: Sherry Miller | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp

Douglas Rushkoff

Why Grokster Shouldn’t Be Any More Responsible For When It Is Misused Than Smith And Wesson

This covers a few points I brought up in the written portion of last week’s show.

The point then, and now, is that, historically, in this country, we choose to criminalize the misuse of a technology, rather than criminalizing the technology itself. Guns, for example, are only made for killing. Killing and maybe target practice. It’s what they do. Depending on the circumstances surrounding when the killing takes place, such killing is legal or not. But do we hold gun manufacturers responsible for when gun technology is misused? Of course not.

According to White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, even President Bush “believes that the manufacturer of a legal product should not be held liable for the criminal misuse of that product by others.”

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show notes

Comedian Will Franken returns and slices up poetry slams, burners, feminist burlesque performance art and whatever else you’ve got.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, & Jeff Diehl | Featured song: “Do You Wanna Cuz It’s Tricky My Sharona” from Thriftshopxl.net | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Will Franken