It’s Wednesday, July 30

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Here’s today’s introduction:

Aloha, it’s just barely July 30, 2008, in Hawaii, and welcome to episode 103 of Therefore a.m., the morning talk show that treats you like you’re already awake … on today’s show … think vacations into space are only for the uber-ultra-mega rich? Well, yeah … they pretty much still are, but on the New Virgin Galactic WhiteKnight2 craft, they uber-ultra-mega rich can now have most of their fortunes still waiting for them here on terra firma when they get back
http://gear.ign.com/articles/894/894536p1.html

Then, YouTube gets good press for  helping to nab a bad cop
http://cbs13.com/national/nyc.youtube.video.2.782212.html

Meanwhile, airline passenger torture hits a new low. Can’t wait to see what Jerry Lewis says about this on his next telethon:
http://consumerist.com/5030632/delta-makes-woman-with-muscular-dystrophy-crawl-off-plane

And finally, the kids today with their permissive lifestyles and their craven ways, what are they calling condomless sex these days? Oh yeah, the new engagement ring. Stop the ride! I want a do-over. Take me back to 17 again!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92871273

All this, plus SURFING THE WEBSTER’S and today’s CARNALIZATION QUOTATION, all coming up, on the only podcast where night persons and day persons can actually understand each other — Therefore a.m.

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It’s Tuesday, July 29

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Aloha, it’s just barely July 29, 2008, in Hawaii, and welcome to episode 102 of Therefore a.m., the morning talk show that treats you like you’re already awake … on today’s show … professional firefighters say those gigantic planes that drop tons of water on wildfires are really nothing more than stagecraft, or “CNN drops.” Does this mean the pilots must be members of the Screen Actor’s Guild?
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wildfires29-2008jul29,0,5666042.story

Meanwhile, a scofflaw dog in India, named Chhotu, is on trial for an alleged series of bitings. Too bad he’s not in the U.S., where he could take the 5th, refusing to bark on the grounds that doing so might incriminate him.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7528199.stm

Plus, ever heard of Cuil? Well, it’s a search engine that was supposed to compete with Google, but it didn’t work out too well. We Googled it, and have all the details.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10000670-2.html

And finally, if you think all these fancy, schmancy, newfangled gadgets like the iPhone are ruining society, there are some policemen in New York who agree with you. Teen-on-teen Apple crime is apparently rampant in the Big Apple.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/07/25/2008-07-25_crime_by_kids_soars__blame_the_iphone.html

All this, plus Jeff SURFING THE WEBSTER’S and today’s FRUSTRATION QUOTATION, all coming up, on the only podcast where night persons and day persons can actually understand each other –

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It’s Monday, July 28

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Aloha, it’s just barely July 28, 2008, in Hawaii, and welcome to episode 101 of Therefore a.m., the morning talk show that treats you like you’re already awake … it’s followup Monday … on today’s show … finally, we’ve got a link from a bodyless foot to an actual body, not to mention a footless body. This is starting to sound like some gruesome mix and match garanimals commercial.
http://www.nationalpost.com/most_popular/story.html?id=667360
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2008/07/20/6210956-sun.html
BC_Investigators_Link_Footless_Body_080718/20080718?hub=BritishColumbiaHome

Then the new iPhone has been “jailbroken,” while at the same time, continued glitches with software and the whole supply/demand thing continue to plague Jesus phone lovers
http://news.cnet.com/hacker-team-releases-iphone-2-jailbreak/
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2008-07-28-apple_N.htm

Plus, first some tracks were leaked online, and now a new Guns N’ Roses song is making its way to “Rock Band 2,” forcing fans further along the Easter Egg hunt trail for new music. Perhaps they should just put the album under random Diet Coke bottle tops?
http://uk.reuters.com/article/chinaNews/idUKN1444356220080714

And finally, just for kicks, a dog is banned from a jumping contest after winning it 3 times in a row, part of the canine union local 432nd’s “every dog has his day” policy.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/pets/wonder-dog-riley-banned-for-simply-being-too-good/2008/07/26/1216492803691.html

All this, plus SURFING THE WEBSTER’S and today’s PASTIME  OF THE NATION QUOTATION, all coming up, on the only podcast where night persons and day persons can actually understand each other — Therefore a.m.

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It’s Thursday, July 23: Our 100th show!

Aloha and welcome to our 100th show.

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Aloha, it’s just barely July 24, 2008, in Hawaii, and welcome to episode 100 of Therefore a.m., the morning talk show that treats you like you’re already awake … … on today’s show … British geeks want to honor older British geeks who saved the world in WWII by turning the famed code-breaking Bletchley Park into a museum.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7517874.stm

Plus, researchers say bottlenose dolphin moms chat up big time after they give birth, just to let junior get familiar with their piercing “get over here, now” calls. My mom used to do the same thing around dinner time from our front porch when I was goofing off in the woods.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7511352.stm

Then, think the Cuban missile crisis is a done deal? Well, we might’ve just been enjoying a 40-plus-year halftime between the action.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aCEyhnlMZgls&refer=latin_america
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iwSF3qnv4rIUQzJy-yvQ82R-oo5g

Then, wanna now if someone you know has a criminal past? Now you can search online for free. Some of us may be paring our little black books down to a black leaflet.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25820953/

All this, plus SURFING THE WEBSTER’S and does his NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION QUOTATION, all coming up, on the only podcast where night persons and day persons can actually understand each other — a special 100th anniversary edition of Therefore a.m.

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It’s Wednesday, July 23

Aloha and welcome!

Here’s the only part of today’s show that was scripted, the introduction:

Aloha, it’s just barely July 23, 2008, in Hawaii, and welcome to episode 99 of Therefore a.m., the morning talk show that treats you like you’re already awake … on today’s show … when OK! magazine puts a beaming 17-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears on its cover as she holds her newborn baby, is it glamorizing teen pregnancy? Maybe not, but it would seem to the casual observer that it’s saying it’s at least, OK!
http://www.newsweek.com/id/145837?tid=relatedcl

Then, think the Gospel always included the resurrection of Jesus? Well, turns out, you might have been reading the director’s cut.
http://www.nbc10.com/family/16947935/detail.html

And, Tanzanians practicing witchcraft are killing albinos … 25 in a year’s time. Can somebody please get these people an Xbox 360?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7518049.stm

Plus, Massachusetts is considering banning the plant Salvia. Something about an herb called “purple sticky” that offends New England sensibilities.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/16950572/detail.html

And Finally, online journalism is destroying print journalism, in part because it covers things print can’t or won’t cover, like the inevitable destruction of print journalism by online journalism.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/147831

All this, plus SURFING THE WEBSTER’S and today’s REFUTATION QUOTATION, all coming up, on the only podcast where night persons and day persons can actually understand each other — Therefore a.m.

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It’s Tuesday, July 22

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Here’s the only part of the show that’s not scripted, the introduction:

Aloha, it’s just barely July 22, 2008, in Hawaii, and welcome to episode 98 of Therefore a.m., the morning talk show that treats you like you’re already awake … on today’s show … What happens when you let an IT guy become an all-powerful evil genius? San Franscisco is finding out the hard way:
http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/07/18/30FE-sf-network-lockout_1.html

Then, do you know someone who’s paralyzed and told they’ll never walk again? Well, a new invention could soon turn your favorite shut-in into a cybernetic killing machine.
http://gizmodo.com/5027546/video-exoskeleton-helps-paralyzed-man-walk-for-first-time-in-twenty-years

Plus, a teen proves he wasn’t speeding by showing a court his teen “black box” driving monitor. Court buys it, and you can too!
http://gizmodo.com/5027564/gps-vs-radar-gun-battle-appealed-gps-wins

And finally, thinking men can have tattoos, and women can’t, is sexist. But thinking women change their minds and eventually get them removed more often is, well, just the facts of the matter.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2008/07/social-stigma-d.html

All this, plus SURFING THE WEBSTER’S and today’s INCARCERATION QUOTATION, all coming up, on the only podcast where night persons and day persons can actually understand each other — Therefore a.m.

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It’s Friday, July 18

Aloha and welcome to the podcast!

Here’s the only part of today’s show that’s scripted, the introduction:

Aloha, it’s just barely July 18, 2008, in Hawaii, and welcome to episode 97 of Therefore a.m., the morning talk show that treats you like you’re already awake … on today’s show … turns out, underwater vertebrates (fish) were vocalizing more than 400 million years ago, and the beat goes on … humming to get a mate, grunting to defend territory … just like everyone a half-hour before last call at a karaoke bar.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7510443.stm

Then, want to get on the government’s terrorist watch list? Try reporting critically about the government’s terrorist watch list.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/CNN_reporter_wants_off_terror_watch_0716.html

Plus, a parachutist misses his mark and lands on an Army band. Perhaps they should load some anti-aircraft artillery on hand at next year’s graduation.
http://www.wibw.com/localnews/headlines/25554004.html

And finally, the Denver zoo has some rare, evil looking primates that they hope will mate … sheesh, maybe they’re rare for a reason, guys.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jul/17/look-what-denver-zoo-has-very-rare-animal/

All this, plus SURFING THE WEBSTER’S and today’s CONFLAGRATION QUOTATION, all coming up, on the only podcast where night persons and day persons can actually understand each other — Therefore a.m.

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Here are those last two items, starting with SURFING THE WEBSTER’S: humuhumunukunukuapuaa

CONFLAGRATION QUOTATION: And finally I’d like to just let the people out here know that we’re paying attention in Washington, D.C., we care about you, and that we’ll respond as best as we possibly can.

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It’s Thursday, July 17

Good morning! Today’s show is a long one, with guests chiming in from Ireland and Arkansas. Enjoy!

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Here’s the only part of the show that’s scripted, the introduction:

Aloha, it’s just barely July 17, 2008, in Hawaii, and welcome to episode 96 of Therefore a.m., the morning talk show that treats you like you’re already awake … on today’s show … American Airlines is testing an anti-missile defense system for its passenger flights. Why? Here’s a cynic’s view. Checked bag and fuel surcharges are one thing, but who’s going to complain about an additional 11 percent don’t-get-blowed-up fee?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/16/plane.repel.missile/

Then, from the duh-it’s-summer-so-why-really-study file, turns out, people with tattoos are, on the whole, more anti-social than people without them. Or perhaps this research suffers from surveryor bias … I mean, who’s got the guts to take a clipboard up to a man with a full body tattoo?
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2008/07/16/Tattoos_linked_to_personality_disorder/UPI-36131216256432/

Meanwhile, US Airways pilots say they’re facing so much pressure to save on fuel, that it’s unsafe.
http://cbs2chicago.com/national/us.airways.pilots.2.772910.html

And finally, Apple has sold a million iPhones in its opening weekend, if you count all they sold to AT&T and other carriers worldwide. But this story from Redondo Beach suggests, 1 million is not nearly enough.
http://www.easyreadernews.com/story.php?StoryID=20033833

All this, plus SURFING THE WEBSTER’S and today’s HABITATION QUOTATION, all coming up, on the only podcast where night persons and day persons can actually understand each other — Therefore a.m.

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It’s Wednesday, July 16

Aloha!

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Today’s podcast featured Sam from Ireland, telling us about Ireland’s ‘no’ vote on the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, and how French President Sarkozy says Ireland should vote again. We’re with Sam: That’s not very democratic.

Here’s the only part of today’s show that’s scripted, the introduction:

Aloha, it’s just barely July 16, 2008, in Hawaii, and welcome to episode 95 of  Therefore a.m., the morning talk show that treats you like you’re already awake … on today’s show … days after a laserlight show in Moscow, dozens are being hospitalized for blindness. I guess It took that long to distinguish laser blindness from the more common vodka blackout blindness.
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL1452972520080714

Then, a woman in England devotes her whole adult life to caring for her elderly parents, only to be cut completely out of their will in favor of an animal rights group once they died. Hopefully, after litigation she’ll get more than an “I bathed my parents for 30 years and all I got was the lousy T-shirt” T-shrt.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035375/Betrayed-Daughter-devoted-life-parents-sees-2-3m-inheritance-left–RSPCA.html

Plus, a university janitor is excoriated by his employers for reading a book about the KKK while on his break, a book the school has in its own library. School apologizes months later. Next time maybe he should just cover it with a copy of JUGS Magazine.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25680655

And finally, on the islands off Norway, immortality isn’t just a goal, it’s the law.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7501691.stm=

All this, plus SURFING THE WEBSTER’S and today’s DEODORIZATION QUOTATION, all coming up, on the only podcast where night persons and day persons can actually understand each other, Therefore a.m.
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It’s Tuesday, July 15

Aloha and welcome to our podcast.

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Here’s today’s introduction:

Aloha, it’s just barely July 15, 2008, in Hawaii, and welcome to episode 94 of Therefore a.m., the morning talk show that treats you like you’re already awake … on today’s show … a Michigan man swims 6 miles to save a drowning buddy. That’s heroic and all, but one day, you know his friend is going to say, “OK, it’s been 18 years, I think it’s time for you to buy a round of drinks now.”
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/07/15/Man_swims_6_miles_rescues_friend/UPI-56461216098790/

Plus, think you’ve got renting woes? A developer’s bulldozer inspires a soon-to-be-evicted tennant in England to cut off his own head with a chainsaw. Did anybody bother to tell him about Craigslist?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1034901/Man-cuts-head-chainsaw-flat-earmarked-bulldozed-developers.html

And, if you work for the New York Times, don’t try to put bumper stickers on your car. Get ready for a flood of new stickers that say “If You Can Read This, I Must Work for the New York Post.”
http://www.observer.com/2008/media/times-no-place-funny-bittersweet-or-just-bitter-or-idiotic-political-bumper-stickers

And finally, a man in Italy is awarded a lot of money for initially being denied a driver’s license because he is gay, part of the country’s Don’t Drink, Don’t Drive, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell highway safety program.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2300069/Gay-driver-forced-to-resit-driving-test.html

All this, plus SURFING THE WEBSTER’S and today’s PROTESTATION QUOTATION, all coming up, on the only podcast where night persons and day persons can actually understand each other — Therefore a.m.

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Here are those last two items:

SURFING THE WEBSTER’S: lunes

PROTESTATION QUOTATION: “It is important to bear in mind that the athletes also have the right to focus on their sport.”

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