Radio Free Marist

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."