Scott J. Thompson, who is editing an english translation of the german book, “Nazis on Speed” joins us today to talk about those crazy tweekers in the Third Reich; and about defining fascism. Thompson is also the Director of Research at the Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate and he’s also translated many classic books including “Tales of Transformation” by Goethe.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Die Eier Von Satan” by Tool | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate

Know this: YOU own Satan & he hates Jack On The Box!

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Vote for Cult of Celebrity in The Rock Star Lottery - it will piss off Satan & you could win a video ipod!

The show is now publishing twice-weekly. This episode centers around a clip from our first guest, Fred Burks, who appeared on our first and fifth shows. In our conversation, we cover Indonesia, terrorism, psychedelics, and the coming global war between fundamentalists and libertines.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

At the end of the nineties, the legendary Joe Firmage left his post as the CEO of the highly successful USWeb and released a statement called “The Truth,” claiming that extraterrestrials have visited earth and stimulated technological development. He’s currently CEO of Digital Universe and they are creating an online encycleopedia that distinguishes itself from Wikipedia in interesting ways.

We probed him deeply… about his beliefs.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Terra Nullius” by DJ Spooky | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Joe Firmage | Digital Universe

Today we talk about “The Participatory Panopticon” — how we are increasingly sharing our lives with one another through digital media.

Jamais Cascio deals in plausible scenarios for the future. He was the co-founder of worldchanging.com He’s written settings for several science fiction games including Transhuman Space: Broken Dreams and Transhuman Space: Toxic Memes, and he’s consulted for Global Business Network. He writes for Salon.

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Sponsor: Life Enhancement Products | Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Co-hosts: Brian Malow and Jeff Diehl | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp

Jamais Cascio

Listen, just listen.

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Paul Krassner started the irreverent underground magazine, The Realist, in 1958. He’s collaborated with Lenny Bruce, started the Yippies with Abbie Hoffman, and took acid with the (Charlie) Manson girls and Groucho Marx (although not at the same time). We’ve got him on the show today.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Steve Robles, Will Block, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Bike” by Pink Floyd | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Paul Krassner

Martine Rothblatt advocates Transbemanism and we were all set to talk to her for today’s show, but our GIZMO connection would not function. We could not get a listenable conversation. So, using our limited understanding of Martine’s ideas as a jumping off point, we talked amongst ourselves.

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Sponsor: Life Enhancement Products | Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Co-hosts: Will Block, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp

Chicano cyberpunk performer Guillermo Gomez-Pena hypnotizes us, riffing on the inevitable multi-racial culture that politicians are trying to stop.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Dada” by Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Guillermo Gomez-Pena and La Pocha Nostra

David Duncan joins us today. He’s the author of “Masterminds: Genius, DNA and the Quest to Rewrite Life” and the co-host of Biotech Nation on NPR. We talk about Craig Venter and Cynthia Kenyon’s nearly immortal worms, among other things

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Sponsor: Life Enhancement Products | Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Co-host: Sherry Miller | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp

David Duncan | Masterminds: Genius, DNA and the Quest to Rewrite Life

Don’t let a little thing (like never meeting the person) keep you from saying, “I Love You”!

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We go nuts for Dick (Philip K., that is) with the director of “A Scanner Darkly”: Richard Linklater. He explains the nuance of adapting the Dick vision to film and the struggle of dealing with Hollywood.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Guest Co-host: Brian Malow | Featured Song: “Flash Runner” by Doppelbanger | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

A Scanner Darkly

There isn’t a whole lot of commentary on this show — just a lot of great music - all from indieish.com:
http://www.indieish.com”. Note that I previously had mistakenly linked to Indyish.com, which is another great site that just launched which provides tools for Independent Artists. Sorry for the mixup

I just put up an HTML version of my Licensing Guide and Research Paper about the history of copyright here too: my final graduate work, so that will give you something to chew on for a while until my next show June 17th.

Remember to email me at lisa@creativecommons.org with any questions you have, and I’ll include them in the next show.

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