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Dr. Victor Stenger will be returning to the show to tell us about his latest book, The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason. Check out Dr. Stenger's Website at http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger

Musician Kram (Spiderbait) made his co-hosting debut, and he and Jon Faine talked cricket with Tom Gleisner, and author Malcolm Knox.

If you're left speechless when someone gives you a compliment, follow these tips and feel better about yourself the next time it happens. Author: ssproductions

Alan Brough was Jon Faine's co-host, as they spoke with musician Robert Forster, and medium John Edward.

Bruce Guthrie filled in for Jon Faine, and he and co-host Rafael Epstein spoke with Kevin Mitchell (AKA Bob Evans), and two of the performers from 'Spontaneous Broadway!'.

I've been a fan of Jill Sobule (left) and Erin McKeown (right) for a long time and, in the last year or so, they have become pioneers of new fundraising models for the music industry. They both also have new albums out and are out on a US tour together through the start of December, including: * Wed Nov 04: Ann Arbor MI at The Ark * Thu Nov 05: Cleveland OH at Beachland Tavern * Fri Nov 06: Buffalo NY at The Ninth Ward * Sun Nov 08: Chicago IL at Old Town School of Folk Music * Mon Nov 09: Madison WI at High Noon Saloon * Tue Nov 10: Minneapolis MN at Cedar Cultural Centre * Thu Nov 12: Seattle WA at Tractor Tavern * Fri Nov 20: Santa Monica CA at McCabe’s Guitar Shop * Sat Nov 21: Santa Barbara CA at SOhO Restaurant and Music Club * Sun Nov 22: San Diego CA at Casbah * Fri Nov 27: Denver CO at Walnut Room * Sun Nov 29: Kansas City MO at Record Bar * Mon Nov 30: St. Louis MO at Off Broadway * Thu Dec 03: Asbury Park NJ at The Saint * Fri Dec 04: New York NY at Highline Ballroom * Sat Dec 05: Philadelphia PA at World Cafe Live * Sun Dec 06: Goshen MA at The IMA Big Barn I was lucky enough to have some time with them both just before their first show of the tour at Club Passim the famed club in Cambridge, Massachusetts that started as Club 47 in 1958. You can find their upcoming dates at on McKeown's site or Sobule's site. Sobule has released eight albums since her first, Things Here are Different in 1990, including releases on the Atlantic and Artemis Record labels. Her latest album, California Years, was financed entirely by her fans with tiers of donation levels and corresponding tiers of how donors were involved with hearing or participating in the record itself. Aiming for $70,000, Sobule ultimately raised close to $90,000 from 500 of her fans. McKeown has also released eight albums since her first, Monday Morning Cold, in 1999 including releases on Nettwerk Records and Signature Sounds. McKeown raised money to produce her new album, Hundreds of Lions, by producing a series of online video variety shows, each webcast from different spots at her home in Western Massachusetts. McKeown charged a subscription rate to view all four episodes. You can still subscribe and view these. The album was just released by Ani DiFranco's label Righteous Babe Records. McKeown was also on a panel called "The New DIY: Creative Control in an Accelerated World" at the recent Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit in Washington D.C. McKeown and Sobule are literally leading the way in the new music ecosystem where musicians and music fans are connecting directly with each other via the internet. Instead of musicians sharing their revenue with a record store, a distributor, and a record label, artists are utilizing fan-funded opportunities to allow them to bring new work to their fans. Some other recent examples include David Bazan, Kristin Hersh, Idlewild, Issa (Jane Siberry), Marillion, Amanda Palmer (hear the Well-Rounded Radio Interview), Public Enemy, and Michael Tarbox (hear the the Well-Rounded Radio Interview). Sobule's California Years was produced by Don Was (Was (Not Was) and producer of Bonnie Raitt, Rolling Stones, B-52’s, and many, many more) and written over the past three years after she moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and is often very much about the Golden State. As she has long done, Sobule switches between subjects that touch you and humor with some real substance...she keeps you guessing and coming back for more. McKeown's Hundreds of Lions was produced by her longtime musical partner Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter (hear the Well-Rounded Radio Interview), Langhorne Slim, Kris Delmhorst). Together they experimented with pairing acoustic and synthesized sounds, resulting in a lush, sophisticated record that continues McKeown's musical journey as a performer that you can never quite predict what sounds she'll be creating next. Just the way I like 'em. We recently spoke in the dressing room at Club Passim--with all the sounds you'd expect in a nightclub and restaurant-- to discuss: * how each of them came to decide to organize fan-funded projects * some pros and cons to recording and releasing your own work * what they’ve learned by being pioneers...and what they still aspire to learn Songs featured in this episode from McKeown's Hundred of Lions and Sobule's California Years albums include: 1) Erin McKeown: Santa Cruz 2) Jill Sobule: Nothing to Prove 3) Jill Sobule: San Francisco 4) Jill Sobule: The Donor Song 5) Erin McKeown: The Foxes 6) Erin McKeown: The Rascal 7) Jill Sobule: Where is Bobbi Gentry? 8) Erin McKeown: To a Hammer 9) Jill Sobule: Palm Springs 10) Erin McKeown: You, Sailor 11) Jill Sobule: Empty Glass 12) Erin McKeown: The Foxes 13) Jill Sobule: League of Failures 14) Erin McKeown: (Put the Fun) Back in Funerals 15) Jill Sobule: Spiderman 16) Erin McKeown: 28 17) Jill Sobule: Mexican Pharmacy 18) Erin McKeown: Seamless 19) Jill Sobule: A Good Life 20) Erin McKeown: The Boats 21) Jill Sobule: The Donor Song

This is the love story that landed Chrissy Dunaway in Australia to be with Cameron Reilly after a whirlwind romance in Ajaccio, Corsica where they meet at the International Napoleonic Congress in 2008. Chrissy or as she is known on twitter @fddlgrl and I  talk of Love at first sight and migration from Seattle to Australia. What lead her to rebel from her upbringing in Southern Utah as a Mormon, eventually to lead her to her move to Seattle and the counter Mormon culture there. Here is a view from both inside and outside Mormonism. Not forgetting  the good in the upbringing and what she has brought with her from that. Chrissy seems to have landed on her feet in her new life in Australia as a Teacher in the Suzuki Method and performer of Violin, diving into developing a small and already thriving network of students, group classes and orchestral performances. We also briefly discuss what she has noticed in the differences between the Australian and US cultures. To automatically receive this podcast freely to you, click on one of the links to the left or search in iTunes for Your Story. Join the Your Story Facebook group. Subscribe freely in iTunes by Clicking here. If you use another Podcast software Get the feed here. Support Your Story by giving it a Digg or Stumble or writing a review on iTunes Music is from iodaPROMONET Insert iodaPROMONET info here Again as I mentioned, sorry about the audio quality Mormons Southpark Style from Sanshyuum on Vimeo.

Jon Faines' co-host was journalist and broadcaster Tracee Hutchison, and they spoke with stockmarket guru Marcus Padley, and the author of 'The Men Who Killed Qantas', Matthew Benn.

David Plotz, editor of Slate.com, will join us to discuss his commentary on the Bible. After reading the Bible for the first time without the aid of scholarship, Plotz kept a running commentary of his thoughts on each book in the Old Testament, which has since been published as "Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible".

Jon Faine's co-host was ABC Grandstand commentator Gerard Whateley, and they talked racing with Flemington racecaller Greg Miles, bookmaker Alan Eskander and jockey Casey Bruce.

In anticipation of the upcoming performance of The Abattoir Pages, Joseph Matheny in conversation with John Harrigan about anything and everything that comes to their mind. All music provided by Veil of Thorns Songs, in order: And the Beast of the Vision Still Roams in Dream Intellectual Institutional Object Thought Pollution Evolution In Your Ear: Reviewing Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story Guerrilla Zoo and FoolishPeople present The Abattoir Pages, a terrifying immersive Halloween experience, hosted in a vast, secret subterranean landscape that was once one of London s largest abattoirs. The Abattoir Pages combines immersive performance, art installation, haunting and treasure hunt-style activity to form a labyrinth of mystery and horror, exposing the earliest Gaelic and Pagan rites. Once inside, audience members will be free to explore the abandoned underground chambers, join the secret party or may be caught in the middle of the most terrifying of puzzles. This Hallowe’en, the infamous horror author Helen Mayer will hold court at a debauched secret party. She will share the perverse and warped research conducted inside the old abandoned abattoir, which was the genesis of her greatest work. In this dark playground, the very nature of human terror has been tested, abused and fed into the living story The Forest . The author invites you to solve the puzzle and unlock the terrifying history within the old and powerful pages hidden throughout the slaughterhouse. Each holds a key to learning the truth of an ancient tale, which will ensure your survival. Tonight, a debt will be repaid to blood dishonoured. An eternal nightmare rises up from the depths of the dark boreal forest, in the shadow of the mountain. It comes to feed on new meat inside an old abattoir. http://www.apocryphon.org/

Tell me if it was funny and be honest!!Here we get a sneak peek at what theese random dorks have to say! Tune in for a possible part two!

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Our extracurricular activity.... PAINTBALL!!! Special guest... our brother Justin aka REPTILE!!!

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