Kristen and Timothy were joined by Peter Eckersley of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
to talk about the organization’s recent charges that Internet service provider Comcast is actively interfering with the communications of some of their customers.
Details of The Great Pumpkin Caper kick off the News segment, followed by some updates on the Iraq debacle,
telecom immunity, and excellence. Read the full news here.
It’s the end of November and we’re deep into the holiday season. Yes, millions of Americans have begun their slide into the seasonal insanity that’s sparked by the inane corporate Christmas muzak piped into every mall in the country minutes after the clock struck midnight on the last Thursday of this month.
We extend our sympathies to them, because the pain won’t end until the first of January ushers in an 11-month respite from the aural pollution of dogs barking “Jingle Bells”.
We’re joined this post-Thanksgiving Friday by Anthony Bourdain, who took some time out of his week to chat with Timothy and Alec about his television show, “No Reservations,” and newly released book, “No Reservations, Around the World on an Empty Stomach.”
Be sure to stay tuned for when a few secrets about the Timothy Jordan Show crew are revealed in the News segment. Read the full news here.
And a good evening to everyone out there in radio land. I’d like to take a moment to acquaint all those listeners who may be new to the Timothy Jordan Show with some little-known facts about the program. We practice a form of the barrier method, using these microphones and your speaker, to limit the flow of information about the people behind the program. The less that you know, the more we can get away with.
But every now and then we dip into the mailbag and answer some questions from the listening audience. Recently there’s been some curiosity about the people behind the program, and what goes into producing each show. Ever responsive to our listeners, I’ll now provide a few insights into the show.
Robin Yo Life and Charlie Red Stick from the Santa Cruz Rollergirls join Timothy and the crew live in the studio to talk about roller derby history and an upcoming charity event in Santa Cruz.
The News returns with proposals to spice up the campaign season, the joys of sex education, wiretapping, and excellence. Read the full news here.
I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, and you've got a dental plan [52:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadCan you smell it in the air? There’s an odor on the wind, very faint. Not much to it yet. I’m only getting a little whiff of it here in the studio. Are you guys picking this up? No, no, it’s something else. It smells like… fermented human waste, which can only mean one thing.
Yep, you guessed it, we’re barely over one year out from the 2008 Presidential election. The long-anticipated primary season is about to start just as soon as New Hampshire and Ohio finish strutting like a couple of bantam gamecocks, and finally get around to setting a date for their legally-mandated first primary of 2008– which may happen in 2007 if the rest of the country doesn’t stop screwing around with their own primary dates. Florida, I’m looking at you.
Jim from the UCSC Public Affairs Office came on the program to talk about the recent controversy surrounding development at the university. We were joined in the studio by Jennifer Charles, a media representative for the arboreal protesters.
Due to the length of this evening’s interviews, the News Staff became disgruntled. The News will return as planned next week. Read the full news here.
Where are my pants? Why are there things randomly sawed in half scattered around the kitchen? Ahh, yes. It’s the wreckage of disgruntlement.
The News Staff, suffering from a severe lack of gruntle, may have cut loose a bit last night. Due to the length of the interviews there wasn’t enough time to make a presentation of the News segment worthwhile. I apologize to listeners for this, and promise to apply my testicles to the forehead of anyone who interferes with the broadcast of future News segments.
A plethora of robotics interviews kick off the show this week. Timothy followed up a visit to the Robotics Development Conference last week with an interview featuring Emilie Kopp, an Applications Engineer for National Instruments. He also spoke with Karl Muecke, a graduate Researcher at Virgina Tech’s Robotics and Mechanisms Lab, Trevor Blck well, Founder and CEO of Anybots, and Hans Utz, a Staff Scientist at NASA’s Research Institute for Advanced Comnputer Science.
The News segment brings a few ideas from in and out of our offices for spcicing up the Presidential elections, government failures, and musical success.