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The Show / Re: Less Stephanie, Please
« on: June 29, 2012, 02:01:44 PM »
I really enjoy the Sunday show here lately. Mark normally says what I would have said when Stephanie says something stupid and listening to her bristle is very amusing to me.

Lucky she has a vagina otherwise Mark probably wouldn't talk to her at all.

You know.. the basis for all male/female interaction.

Is there something we don't know about Ian?

you mean...you...don't...know?

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The Show / Re: Higher Quality MP3 Archives
« on: June 01, 2012, 11:36:54 AM »
Mark, Ian,

You rock

I'm far more productive with FTL in my ears at work. My employer (the military industrial complex) thanks you.

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The Show / Re: Higher Quality MP3 Archives
« on: May 11, 2012, 09:38:36 AM »
Due to a fun little quirk with my ISP, the connection tends to get dropped when a download hits around 50MB.

I just checked; the latest .mp3 is 109MB & I am not even going to waste my time trying to download it.

It looks like I have little choice but to drop FTL.

(EDIT: Fixed my terrible grammar...I was frustrated and didn't proofread)

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The Show / Higher Quality MP3 Archives
« on: May 07, 2012, 02:30:58 PM »
I am frustrated.

Perhaps the bumper music is slightly clearer, but Ian still sounds like Ian, Mark still sounds like Mark, and Stephanie still deep-throats the mic on Sunday, only now it takes twice as long to download and there is no added value...just added inconvenience.

Perhaps I'm the only person who feels this way, but I don't listen to Free Talk Live because Mark's dulcet tones make my buns tingle - did anyone actually have a problem with the sound quality of the MP3 archives prior to the latest change?

I suspect that most listeners would not be able to detect a difference between 48-kbps and 96-kbps files of the same content.

It is my opinion that only an audiophile-wannabe is going to complain about a 48-kbps bit-rate talk show.

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I noticed that he's started using "in no way, shape or form" a lot too. Time to get him a fresh word-a-day calendar.

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The Show / Re: Less Stephanie, Please
« on: May 07, 2012, 10:57:45 AM »
I think Nemmy would be a far better choice.
Seconded
Thirded - Nemi, Julia, or both.

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The Show / Re: Less Stephanie, Please
« on: February 16, 2012, 11:56:58 PM »
Some harsh comments here...I can't see being angry-hostile about Stephanie. I download every podcast and I simply stop listening when I hear Stephanie's voice - it's irritating to waste the time downloading a podcast I can't listen to, but it's not worth getting angry about.

Mark likes the controversy - he believes it to be good for business...I want more people to be exposed to the ideas of liberty, so I hope he is right, but I think Nemmy would be a far better choice. If Mark keeps Stephanie on long-term, I really hope someone teaches her how to speak into a microphone without gurgling saliva or sucking her teeth.

 

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The Show / Re: Less Stephanie, Please
« on: January 24, 2012, 02:30:32 PM »
Has that happened?

Sunday show (24 January 2012) - she got to yammering on three different times during the podcast; when she finally shut up, sanity was restored. She attempted to define weird and marriage, but largely kept her inane ramblings to a minimum.

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The Show / Re: Less Stephanie, Please
« on: January 24, 2012, 01:33:09 PM »
I checked downloads of all of the January FTL podcasts. The Sunday shows where in the top 54% percentile. I will check back farther, but my initial findings show that Sunday shows with Stephanie and me are as popular as the regular show and 20+% more so than the old Sunday show format.

Of course it is more popular with YOU making up 1/2 of the show and not a bunch of guys acting immature or girls giggling the entire time.

Right-O. It's far easier to FF through Stephanie's prattle when one is reasonably certain that there is something worth listening to on the other side.

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The Show / Re: Less Stephanie, Please
« on: December 12, 2011, 01:06:52 AM »
I've decided to listen to every episode of Free Talk Live a week, except Sunday.
Mr. Edge, consider another host or go back to the guest show format.
Huh. Thought I might be alone on this.
I have nothing personal against Stephanie. But this past Sunday, I looked at the topics list for the podcast, kinda sighed, and decided to just not listen. Eventually I suspect I may just stop checking the Sunday show all together.
You're [...]buttons.
I can't quite figure out why Stephanie irritates so many others but not me - I'm thinking it must be my mother.

When I was in my teens, it was black guys that were the most adamant to not have anyone ever call them "boy".  \

Is it different now with calling women "girls"?

She sounds smart to me and I don't get irritated at all by her.  Hell, Ian can get alot more annoying to me.   I mean every problem has ta hammer (no state) and it gets to me sometimes.

Fred,
I have long understood that words are simply human constructs employed to convey thoughts and ideas to other humans - and sometimes animals. The words themselves have no meaning beyond the messages they are used to convey. I don't care if it's the "N word" or the "F word" or whatever - the word is innocent & it is only the intention of the speaker/writer that matter. When black guys rail against the word "boy" or Stephanie against "girl" when used in other-than-offensive context (I know, who gets to decide, right?), it has nothing to do with the word or the intention of it's user, it's just an opportunity to hop on top of a little soap box and try to browbeat - it's a power-play, and if you let the person get away with it once, they'll keep doing it again and again because it makes them feel powerful. Mark will call Ian to the carpet when he does it, but he frequently lets Stephanie slide...I don't get it.
 
Ian is irritating at times too - he's a huge bigot (a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from their own) though he seems to think he's got an open mind or is a good listener. Cannabis is a legitimate topic, but where's the 420 coke snort or heroin shoot? Weed just isn't that interesting - prohibition is evil, but cannabis talk just makes for boring talk radio. His smarmy jackass routine is fun to listen to, but it's hard to believe that anyone is so dense that they could have a business partner for so many years and still be so frequently incapable of understanding his words.

this post is so 10 minutes ago...I'm bored of it now.

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The Show / Re: Less Stephanie, Please
« on: December 10, 2011, 01:59:30 PM »
I've decided to listen to every episode of Free Talk Live a week, except Sunday.
Mr. Edge, consider another host or go back to the guest show format.

Huh. Thought I might be alone on this.

I have nothing personal against Stephanie. But this past Sunday, I looked at the topics list for the podcast, kinda sighed, and decided to just not listen. Eventually I suspect I may just stop checking the Sunday show all together.

You're certainly not alone on this. I usually fast-forward through most of the Sunday shows now because I don't want to hear Stephanie's constant insistence that various things are gender issues, or the phony "I'm sorry(s)" that she throws out every time someone mentions that they have parents (I'm exaggerating), and that because she was a kid; she knows what it's like to be a parent, etc. I still generally download the Sunday show - but I've started replacing my Monday-morning podcast with Marc Stevens & Dan Carlin.

Stephanie really stepped in it the first time (that I noticed) when Nemmy called in about a month or two ago, when Nemmy described her father's attempt to ostracize her, rather than beat her, because she didn't stand for the pledge in school - Stephanie derailed the normally-principled Dale and they both proceeded to talk about what an affront to individuality it was to be ostracized - WHAT?!?!? Don't non-violent people generally recognize ostracism as an acceptable behavioral modification option? At that point it became clear to me that there is absolutely nothing any parent anywhere could ever do for a child that Stephanie wouldn't claim is abusive.

I love free talk live because as a non-religious conservative, I never fit in with anyone and I spent many years wondering why everyone else was so damn crazy, and free talk live presented thoughtful, principled, intelligent people from various walks of life who frequently discussed topics of interest to me from reasonable perspectives - it was amazing & is why I am a consistent podcast listener. Stephanie breaks that paradigm for me, she introduces what feels like thoughtless, emotional grand-standing bereft of principle. She'd be a great occasional caller - but as a talk-show personality, she's really going to have to get in touch with her own gender and parent issues if she doesn't want to sound like a typical pseudo-intellectual hysterical feminist. I'm not calling her any of these things - I said "feels like" and "sounds like." I feel bad for writing so harshly, but...I'm just going to have to live with the fact that I'm a jerk sometimes and Stephanie really pushes my buttons.

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I do not believe that Scott the Bigot is a fake caller – his rhetoric is consistent and he is clearly passionate in his beliefs. My assessment is that Scott believes in the rhetoric he repeats because it has had a positive effect in his life – he’s smart enough to know that it isn’t quite right, but it serves a purpose – I try to explain better below.

The likeliest explanation for the 2011-12-02 show segment, in my opinion, is that;
1.   Scott calls many radio shows and will not shy-away from cross-show recognition.
2.   The person who emailed Mark and Ian probably heard a pre-recorded show, perhaps it was a “best of” while the radio personality was on vacation.
3.   Scott was questioned on-air and wanted to confirm his appearance on the other show, but the time frame wasn’t right and he couldn’t figure out which show Mark was talking about.
4.   Scott probably wasn’t being evasive, he would likely have enjoyed recounting his conversation with Peter Schiff, or whoever it was, but there just wasn’t enough information or time to hash it out live, on the air.

It seems very clear to me that Scott the Bigot is a very lonely man. He has likely spent an inordinate amount of time alone with his thoughts, dwelling on his loneliness and the reasons for it. Generally speaking, humans are social animals and need to feel loved. Some people, however; go so long without feeling the love they so desperately desire, that the loneliness is compounded by decades of sorrow, eventually distrust and ultimately anger – those people either fade away into nothingness or they set out in search of some human interaction – usually very awkward and misunderstood, sometimes even dangerous.

In Scott’s case, he probably ran across the Zionist-international-lizard-jew thing while he was at a very low point in his life and it seemed like a perfectly reasonable place to store some of the blame he has been carrying for so long. It eases his burden to know that an evil force exists in the world because he can then convince himself that he would rather be alone than deal with “those people” – and it provides him with a purpose: to expose the evil. Calling various shows gives him the opportunity to interact with others in a way that is less stressful than face-to-face and the hosts and callers who remember and talk to him are probably the closest thing Scott has to actual friends – even if ridicule is a large part of that interaction.

Scott is not evil, he’s not even a bad person – he’s lonely to the point of borderline-psychosis. People like this can be reached with love and compassion, but he’s never going to come out of it until he feels that he belongs somewhere. Right now, the whack-a-doodle-Zionist-international-lizard-jew folks are taking all comers and as long as he feels like he’s part of a sleeper-cell resistance – or however he justifies it to himself, he feels he’s got a place to belong.

I’m not suggesting that I know how to reach Scott, but I think Michelle Seven had some success reaching him. He wants to belong but he’s given up on finding love and his rhetoric is so bat-turds crazy that anyone capable of giving him what he needs is going to be driven away instantly – it’s like a pre-emptive strike – he forces you to reject him before you’ve gotten to know him well enough to reject him for who he is, because that would just hurt too much.

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General / Re: Minethings Q&A
« on: November 05, 2011, 02:57:06 PM »
I like the idea of the game. I set up an account after the 2nd or 3rd time I heard it advertised & I have logged in from time to time since then.

The first thing I noticed is that my mining guy doesn't mine for me when I'm not logged in - so Mark has lied to us. Perhaps the mining guy does mine for a few hours and then stops - I don't know and I can't tell.

I think I get that the object is to buy, sell and trade, but how one should go about accomplishing these things is less than obvious. As far as skinner boxes go, I like the point of this one the best.

I have a camel and two electric toothbrushes. What's the point?

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Serious Business / Re: I love religion thread.
« on: November 05, 2011, 02:27:43 PM »

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Episodes & Show Prep / Re: 2011-10-31
« on: November 01, 2011, 10:40:44 PM »
@63 minutes into the podcast while talking to Scott the Bigot from Massachusetts who had recently wished Ian et al. a happy Halloween, Ian says; "Now, why would someone who considers themselves a christian wish anyone else a happy Halloween? D...Don't you consider it a pagan holiday?" Scott responds that he thinks it's cool and that he loves Halloween to which Ian replies; "Even though it's...it's not of a christian origin in anyway way shape or form, and in fact many christian churches are very explicitly anti-Halloween?"

Simple mistake, perhaps you'd be curious to learn about how Halloween is, in fact, a very christian holiday?

Halloween, as we know it today, is strongly rooted in at least 900 years of christian tradition, the fact that so many churches these days disavow Halloween is only evidence of how little Christians actually know about Christianity. Christians frequently adopted or created holidays with similarities to existing pagan holidays, probably because it made it easier to transition the pagans to Christianity - Halloween coincided with the Celtic summer's end festival of Samhain at which bonfires were built to ward off spirits. At the time, Christian tradition held that the spirits of the recently departed would wander the earth until All Saint's Day (also known as All Hallows Day) and All Saint's Eve (All Hallows Eve) was the last chance for the souls to exact revenge on those who had wronged them in life. To prevent being recognized by an angry soul, Christians would wear costumes to hide their identity and eat soul cakes - I don't remember what the cakes were for, but I assume that's where the candy tradition comes from. Even the name "Halloween" has Christian origins - from around the time of the Protestant reformation, it's a shortening of "All Hallows Evening" - it was probably derisively shortened by Protestants who took issue with the concept of praying for those in purgatory, which traditionally took place on All Saint's Day. So, I'd guess that Halloween was a solemn Christian observance for about 500 years until it became more of a light-heated affair after the protestant reformation, for these past approximately 400 years.

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