We contemplate the notion of punishment and prison in human societies
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl. Steve Robles | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
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Scientology battler and longtime space advocate Keith Henson joins us to talk about his ongoing travails with L. Ron Hubbard’s joke come true and tells us why and how we should build a space elevator.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Two Chatterers: Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl | Song: “2 Live Supertramp Disco” by dj BC | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Keith Henson News
Sex, Drugs and Cults by Keith Henson
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: We’ll be broadcasting live video of both of our shows — “The RU Sirius Show” and “NeoFiles” with chat, every Sunday from 2PM - 4PM Pacific. Bookmark the show page and join us on Sunday.
In this show, we talk about animals and we talk about guns but we don’t talk about animals with guns. Also, no animals were harmed during the making of this show.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
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First of all, an announcement: We’ll be broadcasting live video of both of our shows — “The RU Sirius Show” and “NeoFiles” with chat, every Sunday from 2PM - 4PM Pacific. Bookmark the show page and join us on Sunday.
David Van Nuys profiled the Zodiac Killer in “This is the Zodiac Speaking: Into the Mind of a Serial Killer”, which he co-authorwed with Michael D. Kelleher. We talk about the strange mind of the mysterious Zodiac, the recent massacre at Virginia Tech, and Transpersonal Psychology.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | “Lord High Executioner’s Song” by Gilbert & Sullivan | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
This is the Zodiac Speaking
David Van Nuys
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How should we deal with the bodies of the dead and our own feelings about the recently departed? SF writer John Shirley and Guruphiliac editor Jody Radzik join us as we discuss the issues.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: Jody Radzik, John Shirley, Jeff Diehl | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Guruphiliac
John Shirley
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Jody Radzik, the publisher of the website, Guruphiliac, enlightened us about bad v. good gurus, and the nutty followers they attract. Learn for yourself how to judge a bona fide guru and how to spot a huckster with a god complex.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: Jody Radzik, John Shirley, Jeff Diehl | Song: “Ego is a Too Much Thing” by Charles Manson | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Guruphiliac
John Shirley
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Should human beings be humble? Or should we go for it, full tilt? And are the Presidential elections another weapon of mass distraction? We discuss.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: Dr. James Ketchum, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten by Dr. James Ketchum
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Security expert Bruce Schneier joins us for the first show of the Spring Season. Schneier is the author of “Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World” and writes about security issues for Wired and many other publications.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Two Chatterers: Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl | Song: “Heights” by Los Veneremos | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Bruce Schneier
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We talk to Jag Davies, Director of Communications for MAPS — Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies — about ongoing “legitimate” research into psychedelics and marijuana.
We also drop the news that we’re taking a three week break and then dividing the show up into ten week seasons. Post here with any thoughts and suggestions about what you’d like to hear on the show
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Song: “Dutch Holiday,” a mashup from dj BC | Gang of Two Chatterers: Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
MAPS
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Legendary “sexpert” Susie Bright joins us again for the second half of this two-part program.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Song: “Obscure Disorder (Ghosthacked)” by DJ Spooky | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Find All Things Susie Bright | Diana Brown in “Dead Certain” | RU Sirius Online Course on Timothy Leary | RU Sirius’ “True Mutations: Interviews on the Edge of Science, Technology & Consciousness”
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Legendary “sexpert” Susie Bright joins us. We talk about the latest in the book series she edits: “The Best American Erotica 2007″ and many other topics. This is the first of a two-part program.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Song: “Obscure Disorder (Ghosthacked)” by DJ Spooky | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Find All Things Susie Bright | Diana Brown in “Dead Certain” | RU Sirius Online Course on Timothy Leary | RU Sirius’ “True Mutations: Interviews on the Edge of Science, Technology & Consciousness”
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Has life really been changed by technology over the last 100 years or so, or do we all put on our pants one leg at a time?
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
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SF Writer, Boing Boing Editor, and Man-About-Cyberspace Cory Doctorow joins us to talk about his marvelous new collection of short stories, OverClocked.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Cory Doctorow | OverClocked
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Wikipedia founder and mainman (or ex-mainman) Jimmy Wales joins us to talk about open source philosophy, objectivism, digital maoism, and how Wikipedia’s gonna like wipe out Google in 5 years (or not)
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia | Digital Maoism, by Jaron Lanier | Our Right to Death
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Comedian Will Franken joins us on our weekend edition and man, he really hates Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! And because we like Will, we’ve agreed to get together and off the Iranian psycho.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Will Franken, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl, | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
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Comedian Will Franken returns to the show and we talk bout his new podcast, “Things We Did Before Reality” and the Michael Richards apology, among other things. Here’s my unrequested blurb for Franken’s podshow: Will Franken is Firesign Theater meets Jonathan Swift, if Swift were transported into today’s world and forced to live in Berkeley for five years.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl, Joe Quirk | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Will Franken | Things We Did Before Reality
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Destiny joins us and we talk about our growing new webzine 10 Zen Monkeys. The hippie chicks who tried to shoot Ford, real videos from soldiers in Iraq, and the deprecations of Perverted Justice are part of the discussion. And we also object to Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Five Chatterers: RU Sirius, Destiny, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles, Richard Kadrey | Song: “A Yah We Ded” by Barrington Levy & DJ Spooky | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
10 Zen Monkeys | Hippie Chicks Against Ford | The Real Iraq | Perverted Justice Perverts
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James Ketchum, the psychiatrist who was at the center of U.S. military research into BZ, LSD, and other deliriants and hallucinogens as potential incapacating chemical warfare agents, joins us to talk about his self-published memoir: “Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten.”
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Destiny, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Song: “I Want an Affair” by the Kleptones | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten
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Yes, we’re always looking ahead here at the RU Sirius Show! The past just seems so “yesterday.” Also, we give you a sampling of the recently released Mondology Vol. 1 collection of audio highlights from previous shows (damn you, yesterday!).
Playlist:
“Gimme Helter” by Mondo Vanilli | “I Have A Dream” by Rob Brezney | “Katrina Klap” by Mos Def | “Mind Control” by Fred Burks (remixed by Carlos Villarreal) | “Most Disgusting Behavior on a Plane” by Mark Frauenfelder | “Fences” by Claus Muzak | “Stammer Off” by RU Sirius and Larry Harvey (remixed by fling!) | “Other Universe of Bruce Wayne” by Bucky Sinister | “Limo Job” by Beth Lisick Ordeal | “The Fairy Real” by Neil Gaiman
Check out the full collection here.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Destiny, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
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It’s the RU Sirius Show Christmas Special and it’s a schizophrenic delight. First Brian Flemming, the Director of the documentary film “The God Who Wasn’t There” returns to talk about his “Blasphemy Challenge” and his “War On Christmas.”
And then Destiny plays some strange and wonderful Christmas tunes for your entertainment. Pass the eggnog!
PLAYLIST:
Leonard Nimoy - Lost in the Stars
Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream
No Doubt - Oi to the World
Vandals - My First Christmas as a Woman
Root Boy Slim - Christmas at K-Mart
“Ding! Fries are done” (Joe Davidson Remix)
Cast of Bonanza - Merry Christmas Neighbor
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Destiny, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Blasphemy Challenge | The God Who Wasn’t There | The War Against Easter RU Sirius Show
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