Radio Free Marist

Some new theme music, while we talk about...

- OJ Simpson's new masterpiece, <i>Getting Away With Murder: Let Me Show You How I Killed Two People</i>. (Can you tell we recorded this days ago?)
- <a href="http://www.kennyvsspenny.tv/">Kenny vs. Spenny</a>
- Evelyn Allen has an important message about kids and drugs.
- Celebrity birthdays.
- Otis' Opinion Minute: Otis rants against gay marriage.
- Ryan's plans for Black Friday 2006.

It's our 21st show, so we used our wine expertise to pick a bottle and drink it during the show. Other than that...<BR><BR>

- Our clubs: Curling and fluting.<BR>
- It's RFM Mailbag time with four listener emails!<BR>
- Celebrity birthdays.<BR>
- More possible new show names, and more about The Festival of Gas.<BR>
- Media of the Week: Criticwatch's <a href="http://www.hollywoodbitchslap.com/feature.php?feature=1810">Diary of a Mad Trailer Editor</a> and Gary Wright's "Dream Weaver."

Watch our show stay steady as Kelly moves about!

- Our second listener letter for the week!
- Putting things on the internet is like putting pee in the pool.
- Caitlin's Chicago trip, eating sweat, SleepNumber bed, and the mystery cake.
- The lonely meal.
- Reviews of New Food: <a href="http://www.hphood.com/products/prodDetail.aspx?id=1046&">Hood Pumpkin Egg Nog</a>
- Celebrity birthdays. Featuring a special Petula Clark tribute.
- Topic from a Hat: Be good-looking or have musical talent? Also, would you trade your superpower for Warren Buffet's bank account? And can money buy you superpowers?
- Osymyso's <a href="http://www.osymyso.com/Downloads/mp3/osymyso-Pat%20n%27%20Peg.mp3">"Pat n' Peg"</a> (direct mp3 link)

- Why don't they play Halloween music at stores around Halloween season?
- Which voting method reigns supreme? We say the "lever" method.
- Election Day turned out pretty good. RFM on politics? Sure, why not. But should NYC become a separate nation?
- Celebrity Birthdays.
- Our second listener email. New show name ideas.
- Media of the Week: <a href="http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/politics/2006/11/07/election_worst/index.html">Ten Worst Attack Ads of the Year</a>, <a href="http://www.new7wonders.com/">The 7 New Wonders of the World</a>, and "Pallin' With Al" by the Squirrel Nut Zippers.

- Our first listener mail.
- Guy Fawkes Day history.
- Celebrity birthdays. What do you give someone for their 164th marriage anniversary? Technically, two diamonds, one ruby, and fruit or flowers.
- 49 Up the whole 7 Up documentary series.
- Days of Our AOL - User 671641's searches for May 2006. "Blower unit for furnace it making noise"
- Media of the Week: Cute bunnies on YouTube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmroaYVD_so&eurl=">opening letters</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg9x5mUjbH8&eurl=">eating together</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie4YtGZibTE&NR">breaking out of straitjackets</a>. Also, our promo / attack ad for <a href="http://www.bobsyeruncle.net">Bob's Yer Uncle</a>.

- Possible new names for our show
- Celebrity birthdays.
- Halloween and its season, rituals, costumes, candy, penny-givers, urban myths, stories, and movies.

- Girls who say "Daddy" in movies.
- A review of Marie Antoinette.
- More Co-Worker Nicholas Stories: Today's story, Nicholas on Nicholas.
- Celebrity birthdays.
- Reviews of New Food - Moxie.
- Media of the Week: John Henderson Will Eat Your Children (Part 1. Part 2 is sadly offline.)

#15 -  The Gwar Concert Report

We're back finally. Why were we gone?

- We went to Vermont... Does Calvin Coolidge sleepwalk?
- We were curling.
- Ryan went to a Gwar concert. View a gallery of pictures here. (YouTube videos: Joan Rivers Show, MuchMusic, Gwar Q&A, The Daily Show interview)
- Celebrity birthdays.
- Caitlin Rants: Jeffrey from Project Runway.
- Media of the Week: Tideland reviews at RottenTomatoes.com.

* Where has Otis been? Getting neutered.
* Reading Da Bomb Blunts website.
* Another Co-Worker Nicholas story: The 40-Year Old Virgin
* A word from our sponsor: Ovaltine
* Reviews of New Food: Desserts of Distinction Lava Cake - Double Chocolate Explosion. (Food sound haters, beware!)
* Lonely Food
* Days of Our AOL: User 671641's searches for April 2006.
* Media of the Week: The Omron pedometer and Momus' "Stefano Zarelli."

A little late this week because of a busy weekend, but two shows this week! First:

* About the New York State Museum, which leads Caitlin to a tangent on Strange Remains.
* Da Bomb Blunts.
* The Texas Gubernatorial Debate and Quiz Time.
* Celebrity birthdays.
* Evelyn Allen on the dangers of contact lenses.
* Media of the Week: Google Books: Search for hygiene, disease cures, spontaneous generation, or humor in the years 0-1850.
* France Gall - "J'ai Retrouve Mon Chien" (I'm only seeing now what happens to that dog!)

Lucky you! A second show and the return of Days Of Our AOL.

* Another story about Co-worker Nicholas:  Nicholas' Binder.
* Celebrity birthdays.
* Movie review of The Proposition.
* Days of Our AOL: User 671641's searches for March, 2006.

Two nice shorter shows this week! Today we talk about:

* Our first kayaking trip
* October 21st, Sweetest Day: Real or fake holiday? And why do we need another candy holiday?
* Alan Watts (an electrician, ha ha) will be the first frequent flyer astronaut through Virgin Galactic.
* An exciting story about state work for Ryan
* Can Caitlin be a "professional expert"?
* A new re-curring story segment, Co-worker Nicholas. Today: An introduction to Nicholas and his eccentricities, and Nicholas and Villains.ppt.
* New closing music!

It's Caitlin's birthday weekend!

* We talk about our sushi dinner, a custom birthday cake, and visiting the re-enactors at Civil War Heritage Day. Feel bad for the guy who has to impersonate Abe Lincoln's law partner.
* Topics From A Hat: Favorite kind of cheese or cheese-related food? And what reality show would you be on?
* Celebrity birthdays
* The first Caitlin Rants: Podcasters who beg for money (esp. Soccergirl, Inc.)
* And an ongoing rant against, and our strange and frightening connection to, Soccergirl.
* Plus the marketing and monetization seminars at the Podcast Expo are stupid.
* Media of the week: Albany County's online restaurant inspections, and Weird Al Yankovic's "White and Nerdy" video.

* Sketti Squares: Not that popular on the web.
* The spinach e-coli problem.
* Survivor: Battle of the Races, and how disillusioned Ryan is after seeing how Survivor is filmed.
* Celebrity birthdays.
* An exhaustive movie review of The Class of 1984.
* Reviews of New Food: Battle of the Apple Chips.
* Media of the week: Stephen Colbert's "Charlene (I'm Right Behind You)"

* Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp.
* What animals do you hate? Caitlin hates chimps. Ryan hates that baby panda.
* We catalog the animals that have ended up in our stomach.
* Horses: Is it okay to slaughter them for Europeans to eat? America says no. We say yes.
* Otis the Bunny's Opinion Minute: Otis rants against the immigration problem and the creation of a U.S./Mexican state.
* An exclusive interview with the stingray that killed Steve Irwin.
* David Attenborough visits the lyrebird, which can impersonate any sound it hears.
* The Evolution Revolution's "Sha-La Love You"

* The story of local "folk hero" Bucky Phillips
* Survivor's Battle of the Races gets dropped by even more sponsors. Will it air on Thrusday??
* Listener statistics: How are people finding us on Google?
* Days Of Our AOL: User 711391's search history for May 2006. What will happen to User 711391's online relationship?
* Corndogs for breakfast. (See also Jimmy Dean Chocolate Chip Pancakes and Sausage On A Stick at FoodBlog.com)
* Reviews of New Food: Campbell's Select Golden Butternut Squash Soup
* Celebrity birthdays
* Media of the Week: Wikihow.org and How To Survive A Long Fall and Patrick and Eugene's "Birds and Bees"

* Remembering Steve Irwin, the victim of an attack by a normally docile and harmless stingray.
* Evelyn Allen tells us about all the uses of biscuit dough.
* Stories from the Schaghticoke Fair.
* Cooking With Mom (Crimes Against Spaghetti). Today's dish: Sketty Squares.
* Celebrity birthdays.
* Days of Our AOL: A dramatic reading of User 711391's search history.
* Media of the Week: Music that is synchronised to things you are doing, inspired by the Volkswagen Jetta commercial "Synchronicity."

Today we cover a few popular podcast topics and start the first part of a new series:

* Survivor: Battle of the Races! and Pluto's demotion from planet status.
* We play our show backwards to hear the backwards hidden messages!
* Celebrity birthdays,
* A dramatic reading of AOL user 711391's search queries for March 2006.
* Media of the week: Anne Heche's 2001 "Celestia" interview with Barbara Walters (where is the video??) and The Pipettes' <a href="http://hometown.aol.com/bobalien99/plutoname.htm">"Pull Shapes"</a> (and the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rANhuxRSRLY&mode=related&search=">Russ Meyer</a> movie they dubbed Buddy Holly-style for their video)

We made it back alive from Puerto Rico.

* But first: Corrections about the worst fad around. Then on to...
* Our trip. Fun facts about Puerto Rico, Nazi-related beverages, the expensive hotel we stayed at, the likes of which we will probably never see again, the food at<a href="http://www.barrachina.com/">Barrachina</a>, the worst restaurant in the world, cheese buffets and our over-eating at them, El Yunque ranforest.
* A break for Celebrity Birthdays and a story about Caitlin being touched by President Clinton in high school.
* More Puerto Rico: The Arecibo observatory, Camuy caverns, the beach, our most expensive meal ever.
* SNAKES ON A PLANE: Movie of the Year
* Media of the Week: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX1a8evrKLE">John Hodgman's</a> <a href="http://www.areasofmyexpertise.com/">The Areas of My Expertise</a>, and the <a  href="http://www.skymall.com/webapp/skystore?partner=ING">SkyMall</a> catalog.

What do ya know? It's Episode 3! We have to head off to Puerto Rico for a rendezvous with people who we may or may not be working with to smuggle several human heads into the country (you didn't hear it from us) but we still have time to:

* Get mentioned on Bob's Yer Uncle
* Hear from Samuel L. Jackson about SNAKES ON A PLANE
* Tell soliciter stories
* Pick a topic from the hat: worst trends
* Celebrity birthdays
* Media of the week: <a href="http://www.download.com/MixMeister-BPM-Analyzer/3000-2169_4-10290907.html">Mixmeister BPM Analyzer</a> and <a href="http://www.virtualvillagers.com/">Virtual Villager</a>
* Crimes Against Spaghetti (Cooking With Mom)
* And mention our sponsor <i>How It's Made</i>, or Comment C'est Fait

Episode 2!

THIS IS NOT THE BLOG. <a href="http://www.crackerbox.net/rfm">THIS IS.</a>

It's our first show! Our first crappy, crappy show.

We talked about our old radio show, ate Burger King Quads in the interest of science, and talked about our trip to Saratoga racetrack. Also, possible future segments, and celebrity birthdays!