In this episode, Luke and Ed record their responses to Lou Dobbs’ Broken Borders special, which aired live on CNN from Hazleton, Pennsylvania on May 2, 2007.  Luke and his dad offer a unique perspective on the situation, being natives of Hazleton and having lived through the events Dobbs’ is covering.

Ed’s thoughts on the situation are also blogged about here.

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-Eddie

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• Luke and His Dad try to process the events of April 16, 2007.
• Brief discussion of the protests in Russia.
• In deleting email, this administration is throwing out any concept of accountability or transparency in government. They can’t even adhere to the spirit of their own laws.
• We process and respond to a message from listener JW Fail.

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• Global Warming for Fun and Profit
• How the Monkee’s Changed My Life
• The Sinking Ship that is Don Imus
  • Is this man in any way relevant?
  • Can we continue to ignore the fact that our culture glorifies negative black stereotypes?
  • Is this a scapegoating tactic to get this relic out of the picture?
  • We could use some other perspectives here- get in touch!
• The Democratic Powerbase versus the Actual Democrats
  • Laura Flanders’ article at the Nation
  • Why don’t Democrats really court their constituents?
  • Organizing Native American voters
  • Democrats too comfortable with Unions as organizers?
  • Eddie suggests Republicans made better use of the ‘net and faster.
• Trib-Review whining about Conservative representation in new media
  
  • QubeTv
  • 1/2 Hour News Hour
  • Conservapedia
• “Reality has a well known liberal bias”- Stephen Colberrt, not John Stewart.
• The old Liberal Bias discussion- Eddie still believes it is so, Luke thinks there is in fact a strong conservative streak in mainstream news media. Neither argument is very convincing.
• This month’s 54 Hour Movie Project: Anyone might think he would have found it difficult to do two things at once like that.

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We start off with a little family housekeeping, then go right into HBO’s The Wire.

This episode does discuss season 3 of the Wire in spoilerific detail, so be warned.

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Luke and His Dad welcome a new family member!

The hypocracy of the administration. Is this well worn?

Hagel mentions impeachement.

Luke discusses his weight loss. 50 pounds lost since January 2007. You can read more about it in this blog post.
Keys to Luke’s weight loss:

• Mindful eating- slow chewing, small bites.
• Frequent, intense exercize.
• Cut out breakfast.
• Treat yourself- small portions of sweets. 1 cookie instead of 4, etc.

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News and notes:

• “Obama’s” Anti-Hillary 1984 Video
  • Anyone could have done it
  • The democratization of campaign advertising
  • Drudge directs the conversation
  • How will this change the political landscape?
  • Obama’s October 26 2002 Speech
• Goodbye to “The Show”
  • Building on community
  • Sustainable through value adds
  • Working with mass media (Hollywood) is the opposite of what narrowcasters should be doing.
  • Earth Sandwich
  • Running Fool
  • Songs and Video for Ray
• We’re gonna be rich!
• Hazleton- The Trial continues.
  • The Law:
    • Landlords fined
    • Business owners fined
    • English language of Hazleton
  • Will it be completely struck down?
  • Crime isn’t down significantly in Hazleton
  • How has Hazleton changed?
  • Dad feels violence was rampant for some time until crackdown.
• Final thoughts
  • Luke: User created media will replace traditional mass media campaigns
  • Dad: Perhaps political allegiance to big money campaign contributers will die out.

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Notes:

• Hazleton goes to Court
• Gonzoles in the hot seat, conspiracy a-go-go for real
• Halliburton goes where the money is
• Sub-Prime lending implodes
• Luke still isn’t so sure owning is a good idea- from a personal, if not financial perspective
• Current.tv- perhaps too ahead of its time?
• Why Social Networks will beat Video Aggregation

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Luke and Eddie get up early to shoot the bull.

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After another hiatus we return with a new slightly longer format. New episodes will be released once a week from now on.

Returning to our roots in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Luke and His Dad recorded the episode in the basement of our family home. No real show notes this time around, but we did discuss the primaries, Hazleton politics, familial influence on personal politics, and the very mixed feelings about moving Ed’s 93 year old mom into an assisted living facility.

The music during the break was supplied with much love but no permission by Six Organs of Admittance, from the record For Octavio Paz.

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Shifting sands: For now, we are going to record once a week, episodes Monday and Thursday morning. Monday’s show will be current events, Thursday will be broader.

Today’s episdoe is long since we’re catching up from a break.

Notes:

• This was a 54 Hours Weekend
• Luke’s Team- stfun00b- submitted the film: Street Freekz 2: Snowpocalypse N00b
• Eddie’s critique
• Steve Jobs turns up the heat.
• Eddie rails on Ralph Nader
• We discuss the never ending election cycle
• Superbowl advertising
• Strange gifts at the Ferdinand residence.

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A tangent from this blog post, we talk about music:

• Growing up with music.
• Frank Sinatra: Fly Me To the Moon
• Seeing Dizzy Gillespie in New York
• Beatles at Shea Stadium
• Music & Revolution
• Drug use as catalyst
• What does music mean when you’ve grown up?
• Dark Side of the Moon
• Spaciness
• 54 Hour Movie Project Weekend!

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Note- this will be our only episode this week!

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Scooter Libby Trial
What you could do with $400,000,000,000
Thoughts on the SOTU (text of SOTU, text of 2003 SOTU)
54 Hour Movie Project

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Happy Blue Monday!
In this episode Luke and His Dad spend most of their time discussing the film Children of Men. Be warned, here be spoilers.

We also touch quickly on a bunch of current events, and use our patent-pending robo-voice technology to find out what commenter Jason would sound like if he were a cyborg.

We’re going to try to use the robo-voice to respond to comments live on the show from now on, so get commenting! Also lukeandhisdad -at- gmail, the Gizmo Project and Google Chat. Voicemail: (412)567-2979

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• Luke’s Tired
• Tom Brady
• Replacing US Attorneys and criticizes Federal Judges (not removes, yet)
• Ahduld works it for a greener Cali
• Troop increase in Afganistan
• Iran next on the agenda?
• The big picture
• Barak announces intent to investigate candidacy
• Gore/Obama?

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• Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• First 100 Hours
• Hagel Lays The Smack Down
• 24 is Back!
• Miscellany

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Dad still in ATL, speaking to you from a restroom at Pizzeria Fortunato.

Not much on the agenda this evening:

We’ll touch on the SURGE and the President’s speech this sunday.

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We’re back! Two episodes a week, Monday and Thursday morning, for the foreseeable future.

Predictions for ‘07, on January 07, 07 (Please take these as a bit of kidding on the square):

Dad:

• GW Bush will be impeached, GHW Bush’s health will fail, Cheney will step down, Pelosi becomes PRESIDENT

Luke:

• The US Economy will suffer a tremendous blow- the Dow will drop well below 10000 again, gas prises will rise, the housing market will continue to decline and inflation will continue. This will not be a second great depression or anything, but things will tighten significantly.

Dad:

• Big moves out of Iraq by the end of 2007. Luke disagrees- early 2008.
• Major extreme weather coming.
  

Luke

• Google stock will lose half of its value this year, based on a loss of credibility as Google gets bigger and branches out, as well as the market realizing that AdSense is not as transparent, or useful as it should be. $250 or less. $485 today.

Luke’s resolutions:

• Eat slower and less
• Continue working out.
• Buy a home by August 2007.
• Be a better podcaster.

Lofty? Not really, but something to work on anyway.

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• Time Magazine’s Person of the Year
• Winter Solstice
• The Iraq Segment
• Happy Holidays!

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• Big news for Grandpa Eddie
• Christmas decorations
• India gets the nuclear go-ahead.
• Controlling the narrative.
• Brad on Barak
• Next episode: Person of the Year

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• Luke and His Dad get ahead of themselves.
• Wrapping things up and moving on.
• Removing external stimuli and recording your thoughts
• Tom Delay is blogging
• What is blogging?
• Mainstream blogger surveying- legit?
• Blogs:
  • Juan Cole’s Informed Comment
  • Eschaton
  • Daily Kos
  • Crooks and Liars
  • MyDD
  • Powerline
  • Redstate

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Check out December’s 54 Hour Movie Project!

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• Chaos around the world.
• Government/Citizen Disconnect
• White House abandoning recommendations of ISG
• What Dad Wathced:
  • Apocalypto
  • Bobby
• Obama’s Making His Move
• Dad says: Obama/Clinton Ticket (I say thee nay!)
• The coming matriarchal revolution
• Christmas- the season continues

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James Kim: Rest in Peace

Podcasting/Vlogging for Money

Iraq Study Group

Christmas Time

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Luke and his dad look back on their storied past.

• Growing up Italian American
• We know Tony Soprano

Other goings on…

• The end of the Iraqi Government?
• The problem with defining things (like Civil War)
• America’s Geographical, Cultural Seclusion
• Let’s Not Forget Electronic Voting (VVPAT)

Luke’s participating in the Podcasting/Vlogging for Money Podcast with John
C. Havens, Chris Brogan and Justin Kownacki on Wednesday December, 6 at 10PM.

It’s the age old question of “Art versus Commerce,” or “Craft or Cash.” If you podcast/videocast/create new media, should you be entitled to get paid for what you do? If so, how can you monetize successfully while not turning off your audience?

Check it out! ‘Til Thursday…

-Luke and his Dad

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• Eddie’s final reflections on The Trip.
• Luke gets in on the PS3 money train. (He hopes)
• Things get worse.
• Shooting in Hazleton (stereotypes go right out the window)
• Christmas is coming.

Check out the new Technology Voice- it is really, truly awesome.
Taggin’: Hazleton

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Eddie drops in from Frankfurt. We discuss immigrants, Iraq, parties and the discovery of couscous.

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Listen to Episode 12.

Dispatch from abroad: Eddie the traveler reports on his flight to the Netherlands and an ill considered bout with prescription sleep aids.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Notes:

• Playstation Capitalism (violence)
• Democrats portrayed as failing on congressional reform

Conspiracy a go go: Rove is betting on two years of failed policy by the dems to insure republican control over the seat the sets the agenda- the Executive.

• Iraq in Fragments
• Halliburton/Cheney’s war (continued)
• Borat
• The Liberal Cinéaste
• Stranger Than Fiction
• Obsession: The Threat of Radical Islam
• Lou Barletta on 60 Minutes
• Luke Rants About Hazleton
• Voice mail from Brad

Eddie is on his way to Europe, but we’ll have a new episode on Thursday.

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We get way emo. Consider this a warning.

• Eddie remembers the Tsunami
• Reforming the family unit for the holidays.
• Tiny bit more discussion on the Podcamp.

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• Eddie speaks: “The people spoke. Get out of Iraq! Dogfight on the way.”
• The Perpetual War
• The tragedy of survival.
• Cheney’s war
• Alive in Baghdad - Brian Conley
• MLK Memorial
• Podcamp Pittsburgh
• More thoughts on Podcamp
• Technology in Pittsburgh
• Eddie: “What’s so bad about making money?” …point taken.
• 54 Hour Movie Project
• one-to-many broadcasting versus a totally democratized media
• Wrestling Team
• Technology Voice
• Podcamp Philly

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Taggin’: podcamp, podcamppittsburgh, podcamppittsburgh2006

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No notes this week, save the fact that this episode has some audio glitches that we could not get rid of, so consider this a warning.

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Show Notes:

• Saddam Sentenced to Death
• US History with Saddam
• Rumsfeld w/ Saddam
• If the Republicans lose, Do the Terrorists Win?
• Neck & Neck
• Do people vote their conscience or their party affiliation?
• Blocking the Vote: 1, 2
• THE FABULOUS TAXING DEMS

Eddie predicts:

Dems win House,GOP keeps Senate

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Update: This episode has been terminated with extreme prejudice. It may turn up as a lost episode some day.

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On All Hallow’s Eve, and election looms ever near. In this episode:

• Santorum on his way out.
• “Liberal Media” ABC slings mud too
• The Siegel Rove interview- “the numbers”
• Borat
• Malachi kicks back
• Halloween
• Exxon record profits. again.
  

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More election discussion today:

• Bush press conference
• 20% of all ballots will be absentee on Nov. 7
• Is absentee balloting safer?
• Help America Vote
• The loss of representative government.

This was our first pure Skype Episode!

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Call in from ATL

This week we discuss:

• Insane justification for material wealth (aka Jesus was born rich)
• Obama in ‘08
• Barak Obama Podcast
• Denmark’s Trans Fatty Ban (continued on thursday)
• E-Voting Mayhem in ‘06

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A quick chat as Eddie heads South.

Notes:

• Tom Ridge discusses Threat Level shenanigans
• Chertoff Targets the internet as “Terrorist Training Camp”
• Ohio Purge?
• Maryland Governor Urges Absentee Ballots
• Media Matters Interview with Jonathan S. Adelstein
• Air America Files for Chapter 11
• Bears Miraculous Win

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Our first “official” show!

Wherein Luke and Ed discuss the following:

• Lobbyists
• Rove
• Iraq
• The Departed (SPOILERS INCLUDED)

Enjoy! And send us an email at lukeandhisdad@gmail.com. You can send us a voice mail through that address using Google Chatas well as lukeandhisdad at the Gizmo Project. See you Thursday.

-Luke

My Odeo Channel (odeo/9226ad239018f00b)

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