no show tonight
Going to a Halo 2 “fight night” with a few of the lads. 🙂
G’DAY WORLD PODCAST 182 – Blue Origin Space Travel, Bush America’s #1 Villian, Catholics and Euthenasia, and Clerks 2
Tonight Duncan Riley and I talk about:
Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin – You’ll Believe A Geek Can Fly
Kevin Smith’s Clerks 2 kicked ass
The World’s Greatest “Fuck You” Ever?
New poll reveals George W Bush America’s #1 Villian
The Catholics and Euthanasia – How The Catholics Screwed Piergiorgio Welby
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G’DAY WORLD PODCAST 181 – Tony Abbott’s Catholic Invasion and Casino Royale
Tonight Duncan and I talk about:
Australia’s Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott and his Catholic invasion
Casino Royale, what a great Bond film!
Music Industry Changes Its Tune on Podcasting? No, not so much.
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G’DAY WORLD PODCAST 180 – We Cure Our First Christian!
Well we said we were going to do it last night and tonight, in our first attempt, we CURED OUR FIRST CHRISTIAN.
Here’s some links you might want to follow up.
Molly’s blog. Oh yeah Molly, you may have had to give up your belief in Christianity but you at least got a link out of it. The lengths some people will go to for their Googlerank.
Some resources you might find handy when you try to cure a Christian in your life:
The Bible and Jesus Myth.
The Skeptics Annotated Bible.
Help me “Cure A Christian” on future episodes! If you’re a Christian, and you want to be cured, come on the show or suggest a friend!
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G’DAY WORLD PODCAST 179 – Saddam’s Execution, Cure A Christian, and Mitch Denny’s Ferrari
My guest host this week is Duncan Riley (no relation). Duncan was one of the founders and VP Operations of blogging network b5 Media until his sudden departure recently. He hails from Bunbury in Western Australia.
Mitch Denny’s joins us briefly (my PC stopped recording… sorry Mitch) to give us his overview of the Ferrari thing. Read more on his blog.
So… the US had Saddam executed before he could spill the beans on them during the next phase of his trial. Duncan and I debate the whole thing a bit on the show and here’s a list of links for you to read more.
Top Ten Ways the US Enabled Saddam Hussein
The High Commissioner for United Nation Human Rights, Louise Arbour, warned that there should be no rush to execute former Iraqi leader Sadddam Hussein saying the trial wasn’t fair. The Human Rights Watch agrees. But John Howard doesn’t. Surprise Surprise.
Apparently someone might be stealing rocket launchers and other weapons from the Aussie Army.
The Europeans launch the COROT satellite to find planets outside of our solar system.
Whatever you do, go listen to these podcasts:
Richard Dawkins interview
Sam Harris interview
Then help me “Cure A Christian” on future episodes! If you’re a Christian, and you want to be cured, come on the show or suggest a friend!
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The Root Of All Evil?
I can’t tell you how exhilarated I am tonight after watching Richard Dawkins’ two-part DVD “The Root Of All Evil?“. For years I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the feeling that I should just accept christianity as a reasonable viewpoint. Particularly as my boys grow up, I find it unreasonable that they should be told that the religious perspective is as equally valid a way of thinking about the world and their place in it as a rational, reason-based perspective which takes in all of the facts available to them.
Earlier today I also listened to the Point of Inquiry podcast with Sam Harris, author of “Letter To A Christian Nation” and it was equally as exhilarating. To finally have some highly erudite statesmen for the reason-based community is a relief and inspiration, even though the message they are delivering, that reason is on a slippery slope in the West at the moment, is one that is deeply concerning to me.
Humanity has had to endure thousands of years of persecution and being held back from progress as a result of the particular mythologies of the leaders of our societies. Too many millions of people had to die to get us to the privileged position we are in the 21st century, where we have the freedom to review the facts and make a reason-based decision on how the world works and our position in it.
The thought that religious zealots could reverse that trend, sending us back to the dark ages, should be terrifying to any sane person.
How Superman Should Have Ended
Check out this brilliant animation about how Superman should have ended. Very clever stuff.
And Before Michael Richards There Was…
… BILL HICKS!
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8821778916602801508&hl=en-AU
Watch as Bill loses it at a woman in the audience who tells him he sucks. Get the backstory and the mp3s here. Thanks to Warrick Alldridge for the link! My little baby sister Nita gave me this biography on Bill for Xmas.
G’DAY WORLD PODCAST 178 – The Nuclear Debate
Today my guests are TPN’s host of The Atomic Show, Rod Adams, and we’re very honoured to have with us again the Wisconsin Secretary of State, Doug La Follette.
**I want to apologize straight off for the poor sound quality. Despite a soundcheck, my mic settings were way off and I’ve done the best I can to make it survivable.**
Doug tells us a little about his recent trip to Thailand and then the gents discuss the pros and cons of nuclear energy versus other forms of alternative energy.
Some other links:
Rod mentioned the Externe report that was supported by the European
Commission. Here is a link to that study.
The Wikipedia link to Thomas Malthus – the intellectual founder of the Zero Population Growth
(ZPG) issue.
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G’Day World in 2007
Yeah yeah… I can hear what you’re saying.. “Don’t tell me he’s going to try another format change which will last a week and then he’ll forget…”.
Well maybe. But you can’t blame a guy for trying.
So here’s what I think I’m going to try to do in 2007.
Starting Jan 1st, I’m going to try to record a show EVERY WEEK NIGHT. It might be long, it might be short, it might be an interview I’ve recorded earlier in the day. Sometimes I may have to pull out due to other commitments. But either way I plan to do a show a day.
The schedule of shownotes, guests and talking points will be up here:
G’Day World Shownotes. Rather than keep a separate notebook for each show I think I’ll just keep sub-headings under this folder. I’ll also keep the links to the calendar and forum here as well. Makes it all rinky dinky easy, huh? Let’s see how long I can keep this one up! 🙂
Oh and Molly, Tony… bite me. I’ve had a “ridiculously strong influence” on Miriam’s life. 🙂