In this episode we talk to our pal Mark Leyner and his co-author Dr. Billy Goldberg about their hit book, “Why Do Men Have Nipples.”

Also, my interview with Deek Magazine (as mentioned on the show) should be up any day now. Meanwhile, you can read their interview with Henry Rollins.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl |Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, & Jeff Diehl | Featured Mashup: Can’t You Hear Biz Knockin by DJ BC | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Why Do Men Have Nipples by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D. | Deek Magazine

Esteemed American philosopher Richard Rorty joins us once again and tries to talk some sense to your befuddled hosts.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl |Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Five Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl, Will Block & Sherry Miller | Featured Song: Question by The Kleptones | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Richard Rorty’s Homepage

We talk to John Leland about his book, Hip: The History and contemplate the 50th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl |Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, & Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: Keep Rollin’ by Negativland | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Hip: The History

Maybe Logic Academy - Question Authority Course

Author and performer Beth Lisick tells us about her mom, her worst fears, and her popular new book, “Everybody Into The Pool.” We chat with Dan Joy, who co-wrote “Counterculture Through the Ages” with RU.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl |Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, & Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: Limo Driver by The Beth Lisick Ordeal | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Beth Lisick | Everybody Into The Pool: True Tales by Beth Lisick | Counterculture Through The Ages

Tim Cavanaugh, from Reason magazine, returns. Also, pot hero Ed Rosenthal about his legal challenge against the feds, and Harmon Leon attends Amber Frey’s workshop.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, & Jeff Diehl | “Amber Frey Workshop” by Harmon Leon | Featured song: “Katrina Klap” by Mos Def | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Reason | Ed Rosenthal in Court | Ask Ed | Republican Like Me by Harmon Leon | Joke-e-oke | WEBZINE 2005

Comedian Will Franken joins us in the studio today and we also call Johnny White’s in New Orleans.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, & Jeff Diehl | Featured song: Will Franken | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Will Franken | Counterculture Through The Ages by RU Sirius & Dan Joy | Question Authority Course by RU Sirius

Activist and filmmaker Ken Jenkins and Reason Magazine’s Tim Cavanaugh discuss and debate whether powerful forces in the US were behind the 9-11 attacks.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl / Host: RU Sirius / Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, & Jeff Diehl/ Also Featured: “The Civilized World” by Mr. Barker / Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

9-11 Truth.org | Reason | Popular Mechanics: 9/11 Debunking The Myths

Ben Blue from Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed is back and we probe more deeply into anarchism and other topics.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl / Host: RU Sirius / Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Sherry Miller & Jeff Diehl/ Featured Song: “Adonis Castle,” Anarchy Online, Shadowlands / Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Rob Brezsny joined us this afternoon and charmed the pants off of all of us. Brezny is the author of Pronoia is the Antidote to Paranoia, and the popular syndicated column “Free Will Astrology.� He also rocks the globe with his band World Entertaiment War.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl / Host: RU Sirius / Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl / Gang of Three Interviewers: RU Sirius, Sherry Miller, Jeff Diehl/Featured Song: “Apathy and Ignorance” by World Entertainment War / Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Pronoia is the Antidote to Paranoia
Free Will Astrology
World Entertainment War

World famous philosopher Richard Rorty joins us in our new studio in San Francisco’s Lower Haight district. We also think hard about Rick-James-o-nomics. (mp3)

Producer: Jeff Diehl / Host: RU Sirius / Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl / Gang of Three Interviewers: RU Sirius, Sherry Miller, Jeff Diehl/Featured Song: “Superfreak is Playing at My House” by DJ Zebra (Rick James vs. LCD Sound System) / Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Richard Rorty
Freakonomics Blog

Mark Frauenfelder, founder of BoingBoing and author of The World’s Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting, Hideous, Inept, and Dangerous People, Places, and Things on Earth, joins us for the final recording at our studio in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. (mp3)

Producer: Jeff Diehl / Host: RU Sirius / Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Sherry Miller & Jeff Diehl / Featured Song: “Vahine Taumotu” by Terorutoa and His Tahitians / Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Ben Blue, from the magazine Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, talks to us about anarchism, schizophrenia, and camping. (mp3)

Producer: Jeff Diehl / Host: RU Sirius / Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, & Jeff Diehl/ Featured Song: “Sewing Up Crap,” by Chumbawumba / Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
Anarchy Action Camp
Anarchism
Black Bloc
John Zerzan Writings

Jack Sarfatti, the Master of All Space and Time, returns so fire up your DeLoreans and join us back to the future. And consider having your sperm sorted. It’s cheap, easy and fun. (mp3)

Producer: Jeff Diehl / Host: RU Sirius / Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl, Sherry Miller / Featured Song: “Metatron” by DJ Spooky / Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others) / Jack Sarfatti / MicroSort

Eric Mathews, Director of Business Development at the FedEx Institute of Technology joins us to talk about their Philip K. Dick robot project. The Dick-bot also answers our questions. And we’re pleased to be joined by special guest Gang Of Three member Rudy Rucker, winner of two Philip K. Dick Awards. (mp3)

Producer: Jeff Diehl / Host: RU Sirius / Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Rudy Rucker, Jeff Diehl / Featured MondoGlobo Mix: Carlos Villarreal / Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others) / Philip K. Dick Robot / Philip K. Dick / Rudy Rucker

Former George W. Bush interpreter Fred Burks is back talking about mind control and leading us into the “web of love.� (mp3)

Producer: Jeff Diehl / Host: RU Sirius / Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Sherry Miller, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl / Sound Engineer: Eddie Foronda / Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondoo Vanilli (and others) / Dove’s Ad Campaign / Want to Know / Web of Love

The Great Lost Last Issue of MONDO 2000 was designed in 1997. It got as far as the film stage (publishers understand) but was never printed. It was a great great issue which I can say because I had pretty much nothing to do with it… it was edited by “Queen Mu” and designed by her and Heide Foley, with some help from Robert Phoenix and a few other stout members of a pick up crew. Anyway it featured a performance artist, Miranda July, on the cover.

Now Miranda July has a film out called “Me and You and Everybody We Know” which is fucking brilliant, beautiful, funny, humane…

OK, it’s in many ways your archetypal indie film: quirky characters, sexual taboo buttons pressed (relatively gently actually, but that may actually make it more powerful), the second lead character (played by Miranda herself) is even a performance artist who makes films of her feet with the words “me” and “you” written on her shoe-tops. But if you’re cringing, you’re cringing WITH her… she’s a very cringy, self-aware character.

Anyway, just take my word for it. This film totally works.

Now, does anybody want to print that lost issue of Mondo 2000?

Mad physicist extraordinaire, Jack Sarfatti, talks about UFOs, time travel, and making the technology of Star Trek a reality. (mp3)

A little item in today’s SF Chron about Berkeley Liberation Radio’s latest changes.

“The 40-watt station has been silenced by the FCC several times before, including under its predecessor, Free Radio Berkeley. It plans to start a streaming Internet broadcast on a Web site within a few weeks…”

And we’ve got the father of Berkeley Liberation Radio, through the auspices of Radio Free Berkeley coming up on the RU Sirius Show on the week of July 10. Stephen Dunifer really got the ball rolling on micro-radio and is currently moving into TV. Anyway, I’m excited about this one and thought I’d drop this little news item to whet appetites (as well as inform).

Chet Helms, who hitchhiked to San Francisco with Janis Joplin in the mid-1960s and started the famous Family Dog, producing shows at the Avalon Ballroom and The Fillmore in San Francisco died at 12:35 AM today from complications resulting from a stroke.

Chet was a friend — he was an incredibly sweet person, had a very cool sense of humor, and was a wonderful story-teller. I’m glad I had the chance to know him and I’m sorry to see him go. I’ll miss his friendly vibes whenever I go to parties where sixties vets and friends congregate.

Happy trails, Chet….

Erik Davis returns to finish a conversation about Zeppelin’s magical evocations. Also, Pastor Jack phones in an exorcism, and we discuss “podsafe music.” (mp3)

“Stairway to Heaven” backwards
Tom Jones exorcisms