MOpod: 2013

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Reins Have Been Passed

Hi, Alan here. Dr. Overbey is now the administrator of this blog and I remain as a writer. It does not appear that the podcast is going to continue so I'm going to assume the blog will die as well but hopefully I am wrong. Nobody seems to know what is going on with Dr. Overbey and his communications are sparse and confusing with those he is continuing to talk to. Hopefully he is not losing his mind (I mean, what is left to lose). The Ogrefest continues to surge.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

MOpod 141

Modus Operandi Podcast

episode 141 5/29/2013

Alrighty, kids. This was my last MOpod production. Apparently there were issues with Dr. Overbey's microphone and a large chunk of what he sent me was silence so expect a confusing couple of breaks in his monologue. Here are some notes from the show:

Toronto mayor Rob Ford possibly caught on video smoking crack. As of Monday there are reports that the original owner of the video may have been killed by the person currently in possession.

Turns out Faux Noise knew about e-mail records subpeona in 2010 but has decided it's time to be OUTRAGED™!

David Kokesh calls for July 4 armed march on Washington D.C. then changes mind.

Bloomberg and director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns receive ricin filled letters.

Sadly Michelle Bachmann says she won't run for House again.

McConnell tries to link Obama to IRS scandal AND compares him to Nixon in ad:

Overbey still believes in chemtrails.

Some science about snows: http://www.wunderground.com/news/sea-ice-loss-20130326

Dave talks about UK basketball but the beginning and a middle chunk of that are missing.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Penultimate Post by Alan

Hey pod people, it's Alan. I have decided to leave the Modus Operandi Podcast to Dr. David Overbey and start my own. For several months Dr. Overbey has been nearly impossible to communicate with and seems to have moved on from the original conversational format of the podcast to presenting a weekly monologue. As such I feel that I should let him take over this podcast and move on to other projects of my own. There will be one final MOpod produced by me and then it will be up to David to continue. It's been a good run, starting in January 2010. Tomorrow the final episode I will produce will be released as episode 141 and will include David's most recent monologue. I'm going to take a few weeks off from the podcast world, looking for a new local partner or partners to talk with each week and figuring out my release schedule, etc. My new podcast will, like my blog, be called Me Talk Big Noise and will appear on iTunes and will be announced on the blog. I would imagine the format will be similar to the original MOpod, based on an animated discussion of what's going on in the world but may also talk more about the arts and music. I also plan on presenting a weekly pre-recorded comedy skit about something that happened in the news. There is a very good chance that the first test episode will be an examination of The Queen of the Batshit Crazy Club Michelle Bachmann's recent announcement of the end of her political career so keep an eye out for Me Talk Big Noise on iTunes.

Be well and bon voyage,
Alan Miller

Saturday, May 25, 2013

MOpod episode 140.1

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Dr. Overbey recorded this on 5/15/2013 but couldn't be bothered to contact me and let me know he had done so. I stumbled onto it in my little used gmail account day before yesterday. A second piece will follow shortly. Subjects Dave covers include:

Death, baseball, boners, armpits, and the importance of never talking about anything that isn't really important like physics.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

MOpod episode 140

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Ray Manzarek of the Doors dead of cancer, tornado in Oklahoma, more on the IRS "scandal," and Alan's weekend in Paducah, Kentucky with his artcar.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Link to A 2-step plan to end the failed War on Drugs: Expand Medicaid and end marijuana prohibition

http://www.eclectablog.com/2013/05/a-2-step-plan-to-end-the-failed-war-on-drugs-expand-medicaid-and-end-marijuana-prohibition.html

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

IRS "Scandal"

1. It would appear that once word of the practice of targeting new tax free organizations containing words associated with the "Tea Party" "movement" became known by the higher ups the practice was ended. System worked?

2. Don't you think that any group whose main purpose is to oppose taxation and whose members explicitly say they hate paying taxes should get closer scrutiny than, say, the Quakers (who got massive shake downs, and CIA and FBI surveillance under Shrub)?

3. Shouldn't the GOP approve the appointments for judge that are currently vacant (over 85 at last count) or anything that actually matters before spending days on this nonsense?

-AM

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Interesting Graphs and Stuff From the Gubment

It appears that the GOP's fulminating about the debt and taxes and stuff is as false as it appears to logical people that use reason and facts: http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44172-Baseline2.pdf

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

MOpod episode 139

episode 139 5/14/2013

Alan talks by himself because once again Dr. Overbey is MIA as is apparently the "new norm."

Does anyone else think it's kind of dick-ish to neither listen to one's voicemail nor reply to text messages
from someone you're supposed to be doing something with? Please, feel free to post your feelings.

Some of the topics Alan covers this week:

Oh no! SARS again?!?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/france-new-case-of-sars-related-virus.php?ref=fpb

California poised to legalize marijuana for any use.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/colorado-poised-to-enact-historic-marijuana-regulations

Gay marriage

IED? What the fuck is wrong with the word "bomb"?

IRS "controversy" another moment of utter hypocrisy
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/reid-charges-gop-with-hypocrisy-over-irs-outrage?ref=fpb

Things Change and They Stay the Same and They Revert to the Past

Hey there, MOpodders! It's your best buddy Alan (I refuse to use the rhyming "Pal Al" because A. it was used by a fellow DJ at the station I worked at in the 80's and B. It's fucking stupid). For reasons that don't make any sense to me I have been permanently banned from America's Yearbook (aka Facebook). The initial reason for being suspended was a picture of a naked girl on a bicycle (see bottom of this post) I posted to a private group, but that suddenly became permanent and all of my pages, groups, photos, and posts have vanished. Luckily MOpod's page remains thanks to Dr. Overbey being an administrator but I am no longer able to post there and Dr. Overbey can't even be relied on to listen to his voice mail or call in when it's time to record the podcast so we'll see if he will ever update the MOpod Facebook page again. In the meantime, every Thursday I will post the link to the latest episode here and on my Twitter feed so put us in your RSS feed or follow me on Twitter. Here are all the links that haven't been posted here because I've been relying on Facebook to notify you. But you really should be subscribed to us on iTunes so that the show just arrives in your podcast folder as soon as it's up there. What the hell is wrong with you? Go subscribe right now!

episode 138