by cameron | Oct 22, 2007 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Last week I received a large envelope in the mail from the International Napoleonic Society, an organisation I’ve had nothing at all to do with outside of the fact that their Vice-President J. David Markham has been my co-host on the Napoleon podcast for the last couple of years.
Inside the envelope was a folder containing lots of Napoleonic literature as well as this letter:
As you can see, it says that I am being made a “Fellow” of the society for my contributions to the remembrance of Napoleon. Do you think I’m the first podcaster to be made a Fellow of a historical society for his/her contributions to the field? It is a very great honour and I’ve been feeling both extremely grateful as well as extremely undeserving. I mean what do I do except hit the record button when David talks? The only thing I ever really did was have the idea to do the show and then talk David into it. When I rang David to thank him, he pointed out that the show now has 30,000 listeners every month and that very few Napoleonic books published sell 30,000 copies, so our little show is having a pretty big impact on spreading the word about Napoleon’s place in history.
The letter is signed by INS President Ben Weider, who is also co-founder of the International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) along with brother Joe Weider who is the guy who brought Arnie to the United States.
You’ll also notice that Prince Albert of Monaco is the Honorary President of the INS. No “Prince Albert” jokes necessary, thank you.
Now that I’ve achieved this honour, I feel a little closer to my dream award, a Légion d’honneur, established by Napoléon on May 19, 1802. The Grand Master of the Order? Nicolas Sarkozy. I wonder if any Australians have been inducted into the Order before? I know Canadian Ben Weider is. So are Americans David Lynch and Clint Eastwood. So perhaps I have a chance one day. I wonder what I’d need to do to be worthy?
by cameron | Oct 19, 2007 | Podcast
Katherine Cunningham, my guest on today’s show, runs menstrual education for woman and joins me today to talk about how our attitude towards female sexuality ended up so screwed up in Western society. I’m fascinated with the power that women have over men but which most don’t seem to realize. I blame the Christians for screwing it all up, but then that’s not surprising.
So Katherine and I talk about sex, sex and more sex. She tells me how she wants to reclaim “cunt” and I tell her that I think women already are running the world but just don’t seem to realize it.
Hope you enjoy it. I’ve told Katherine she is now the official “cunt correspondent” for the show.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
by cameron | Oct 18, 2007 | Melbourne, Podcast, Uncategorized
Tonight Jono and Beti (host of TPN’s Health and Fitness Podcast) celebrated the opening of their new store XERO, a very cool tech store at 106 Elgin Street, Carlton.
I presented them with a very wonderful opening night gift – an original copy of Heino‘s ” Halli, hallo, wir fahren” album.
Now… I think everyone at the opening, including Jono, thought I was taking the piss. But really… as everyone in Germany knows, Heino is a complete L E G E N D.
Perhaps it is true that I only paid $1.00 for the copy that I gave them but that is a BARGAIN. It is currently for sale on Ebay for EUR$20.00!
Anyway… if you’re in Melbourne and you want to check out some cool geek stuff, including the Nabaztag, pop in and see Jono and tell him Cam sent ya.
UPDATE: Jono just sent me this. I suspect it was made with Comic Life.
by cameron | Oct 10, 2007 | Podcast
It’s my birthday and I’m taking the liberty of chatting to you about some of the things that I think about a lot lately – the lack of leadership in our world today and the future of the human race. Where are the leaders? Have the baby boomers driven the planet into the ground, beyond hope? Can we rescue the human race? Can you? What problems are you going to help solve? I don’t have answers, I’m still learning to ask the right questions.
Thanks for recent birthday presents too from Frank Arrigo, Miriam Parkinson and Charlie Tuke-Hastings! You guys are in my good books.
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If you’re a member of Facebook, you can ADD ME AS A FRIEND and then ADD YOURSELF TO THE G’DAY WORLD GROUP.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
by cameron | Oct 8, 2007 | Podcast
Dan Patterson is the host of the excellent Creepy Sleepy podcast and is a UN Correspondent. Dan and I talk about the pros and cons of social welfare in capitalist countries like the USA and Australia as well as some of the problems with the UN model.
Become part of the G’Day World conversation.
TPN now has a HQ in Second Life! If you’ve never spent any time in SL, jump in, go to TPN HQ (by clicking this link) and add “Cameron Switchblade” to your friends (that’s me). I’d be happy to show you around and help you find your SL legs.
If you’re a member of Facebook, you can ADD ME AS A FRIEND and then ADD YOURSELF TO THE G’DAY WORLD GROUP.
You can show your love by buying me stuff from my Amazon wish list.
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You might DIGG the show.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
by cameron | Oct 3, 2007 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Speaking of Brett Welch reminds me… he recently interviewed me for his podcast. Check it out (link below).
I was also interviewed yesterday by Leon and Garry at The Age which will come out in the SMH/AGE business section soon as well as on their TPN Take Two podcast (taketwo.thepodcastnetwork.com).
| Media 2.0 – A chat with Cameron Reilly CEO of The Podcast Network (Podcast) |
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Last month BC’s Brett Welch had the opportunity to chat with Cameron Reilly over Skype. In this wide ranging, highly entertaining and enlightening interview, Brett and Cam discuss:
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