Trump vs. Rosie O’Donnell
Tyson vs. State Of Arizona
Lindsay Lohan vs. Booze

Of course some celebrity rants. Should we really feel sorry for Miss USA (picture at left) Tara Conner? This dunce couldn’t last 30 days in New York without filling her nose up with coke. Some role model. Thanks Donald!

It is the most miserable time of the year. As Christmas nears, people get petty. Going deeper into debt. Fighting over stupid Elmo dolls and video game systems. Getting depressed over relationships. Sadly, we have to touch on the dark side of the Christmas season.

And speaking of Christmas. When did it become a crime to say, “Merry Christmas” or to have a “Christmas Party”. Sometime between 1980 and 1990 I think.

Plenty of celebrity breakup news. Plus Madonna buys a kid.

Plus, rants on the media coverage of the Amish school shooting. More business travel miseries.

A bit on the Korean nuclear test and how the U.N. will be ultimately useless in assisting with the disarming of this or any other madman on the face of this earth.

Lovely ambience provided by Urbansnake.

Celebrity breakups abound. Dave and Carmen. Kate and Chris. Shannon and Travis. And that dunce kid of Dr. Phil will be next.

How about them commercials? I’m sick and tired of sweat botox, colon cancer tests, erectile dysfunction meds and just about every other hokey snake oil that marketers can dream up.

And what of the has beens like Robert Wagner, Dan Marino and Zora pushing useless garbage like diet TV dinners and reverse mortgages. Oh great, I get to sell my home out right from under myself for $300 per month.

The recent restrictions on liquids and creams on airplanes goes way to far. Let’s go after the people committing terrorist acts and leave my jello pudding alone!

Finally, I weigh in on the Israel - Iran…er…Hizbollah conflict. Could Mike Wallace please retire…NOW?

Is the American dream a lie? Is it a myth? We see failure all around us.

Towns like Asbury Park, NJ have gone from once thriving resort villages to desolate, post-apocalyptic nightmares that even Chuck Heston would avoid.

And stars are falling all over the place. Like Star Jones and Christie Brinkley. Maybe there’s only darkness at the top if you get there.

And maybe Michael Moore is right about American being a crappy place to live. Or does he just hate America?

Tune in to find out.

Can you handle sixty minutes of ranting action? Somehow I think CBS doesn’t feel this is a threat to the real thing. They’re full of it anyway. That show is only about 45 minutes when you factor in the commercials.

SHOW NOTES

• • • • • $40,000 Podcast Studio. No joke.
  • • • • My airplane seating fears. www.seatguru.com
  • • • • Traveling with the family
        • Unholy trifecta of Hollywood females
          • Angelina Jolie
          • Britney Spears
          • Jennifer Aniston
        • Net Neutrality. Who will pay for the growth of the internet?
        • Zarqawi Dead!
        • U.S. Soldiers charged with murder.
        • WTC Memorial Disgrace
        • Second Life? How about getting a first life.

Let’s call this episode, “How Opal Mehta Got Busted, Got Outed and Got Dumped.” The gal on the left, Kaavya Viswanathan, is the young author of a book that has found to be plagiarized from a couple of other books. What else is new.

The birth of Suri, celebrity pregnancies, bad 9/11 movies, gas prices and illegal immigration on the docket as well.

…Link to the real Flight 93 Story…

Plenty of other celebrity foolishness this week including Sharon Stone’s return to full frontal nudity at 48 and a raft of celebrity divorce announcements.

Finally, because I don’t want to be outdone by major news organizations I’m weighing in on the French Employment Riots and the Moussaoui Terrorism Trial.

SHOW NOTES

• 2008 Winter Olympics - Arrividerci Torino
• Bad NBC Coverage
• Bode and Jacobellis Flop
• Hail the flying tomato!
• Celebrity Action
• Breakup - Sheryl Crow and Lance Armstrong
• Screwup - George Michael and Lee Tamahori
• Iraq violence flares…and the media loves it. Ugh!
• Special Bonus - Yale Welcomes Taliban.

SHOW NOTES

• Dentist Nightmare
• Howard Stern vs. David Lee Roth
• James Frey - Mister Lie
• Demonizing the successful - like WalMart, Google and Oil Companies
• The Bin Laden truce offer
• The RIAA vs. America - The real domestic spying scandal!

SHOW NOTES

• Intro
• Celebrity Babies
• The soon to come - Brad and Angelina
• The already here - Britney and Kevin
• The not gonna happen - Chad and Hilary
• Celebrity Sex Tapes
• The one that started it all - Tommy Lee and Pamela
• The one that reignited it all - Paris and what’s his name
• The trainwreck - Tom Sizemore
• The one that never was - Ashlee Simpson
• The one they want to keep under wraps - Colin Farrell
• Vanity in America
• My Secret Revealed
• Sign Off

SHOW NOTES

• Intro
• Poor Dick Clark - and why our culture condemns old people
• Poor Lindsay Lohan - and why stupidity has become a cottage industry
• Is Tom Cruise the last icon?
• Poor Howard Stern - and why you can’t really live on $100 million per year
• Poor you and me - and why the banks are sucking us dry
• Down with debt in 2006
• The Debtfather - Dave Ramsey
• Predictions for 2006
• More Celebrity Screw Ups
• The Demise of Radio
• The Rise of Portable Media
• Dead Pool - Ariel Sharon, Robert Blake, Lindsay Lohan and Gerald Ford
• Outro

SHOW NOTES

• Intro (00:00)
• Everyday Drudgery (01:30)
• Mini Van Drivers
• Men’s Bathrooms
• The Apprentice (10:05)
• Four for the price of one
• How the Donald gets ahead and what he doesn’t tell you
• Blocking out the light and air
• Boycotting Jarhead (21:04)
• Book by Anthony Swofford
• The military always gets portrayed incorrectly
• Jake Gyllenhaal is not a tough guy
• WTF does Sam Mendes (aka Mr. Kate Winslet) know about the military
• The Future of Media (33:20)
• Howard readies to make his move to Sirius
• Leading edge of a major indie media movement
• Established media companies are in denial
• Sign Off (40:00)

Here’s a question for you. Why is Sly Stallone going ahead with a plot for Rocky VI that puts him in the ring at 60 years old? God only knows.

Do TV shows like The West Wing and Commander in Chief accurately depict the realities of politics in the United States? Of course not and my bro will tell you why when he gives you his two cents.

Finally, Howard Stern is moaning about leaving his current gig to one where he’s getting $100 million per year. I think he needs to up the dosage on his medication. No one can be pissed when they’re getting a pay raise of that magnitude.

SHOW NOTES

• Intro
• New Orleans Police Beating and the Media
• The NY Yanks playoff loss can teach us something
• Boy George Gets Arrested (and other celebrity screwups)
• Vincent Safuto’s Two Cents
• The EatFeed Saga
• New Video iPod - What about all those folks who bought the Nano?
• Sign Off

SHOW NOTES

• Intro
• End of the NHL season - Good Riddance, Does anyone care?
• Grammy Ridiculousness
• Britney Spears wins
• U2, Of Course They Won!
• Ray Charles finally gets his due
• Same old crap: Springsteen, Rod Stewart, Motorhead, Velvet Revolver (Guns n Roses)
• America’s obsession with celebrating tragic circumstances
• Stallone does it again as ‘Contender’ commits suicide
• The Apprentice Wrap Up
• Sign Off