On a very special episode of Truth Seekers, Dani is feeling bitchy, so wraps Christmas presents to make herself feel better. Does it work? Tune in to this must-hear edition of Truth Seekers to find out!

*Our President (still) speaks.
*Rapping while wrapping presents
*Do trolls have lice?
*The economy sucks
*From the sucky economy to rich (almost) former presidents
*Florida gets it right on adoption
*Food stamps at all time high
*Are the uniformed troops uninformed? And why are they getting comfy in our borders?
*Cluster bombs are quite the clusterf**k
*College is affordable?
*Taking a dump in rivers and streams
*Keep an eye on that lame duck
*Canada was bored, so decided to overthrow their government
*voicemails from Nobilis and Kevin
*Nobilis wants me to understand him
*Kevin covers the DC Tree-lighting ceremony
*Do you want to be a roving TS reporter? The pay sucks but your boss is AWESOME.
*Mic Check Radio is going to get me in trouble

-headlines from Democracy Now

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Nearly three weeks after a historical vote, and a discriminating one at the same time, I have some things to say!

*Promo: Dream Realm Dr. Who
*Hey, Dani's busy! Who'd a thunk it?
*Headlines:
-Democracy Now
-Obama election bringing out the haters
-Another first
-More on hate crimes since the 4th
-Bush is still president, let us not forget
*Headline background music provided by Liveloop
*Let the griping begin!
*Daily Kos goes to the shallow end of the pool
*Being a jerk doesn't make people listen
*The Barack Obama Song- I kid you not
*Next gripe- Anti-equal rights proposition (otherwise known as anti-gay marriage)
*Interracial marriage used to be against the law too, ya know
*Olbermann special comment
*Jon Mecham on Real Time takes a religious POV for gay marriage
*Voicemail from a new listener!
*The most tolerant people in the world
*Happy Thanksgiving!
*Jim's Big Ego takes us out, with "International"

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Part Two of my post-election talk with ScottyJ. Also answer a few more voicemails that came in!

Scott's website:
http://www.scottjosephson.com/

Love Long and Prosper
http://www.lovelongandprosper.com/podcast/

Wicked Good Podcast
http://wickedgoodpodcast.com/

Yes For Marriage (Prop 102)
http://yesformarriage.com/

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Now, the name of this was originally supposed to be "F**k the Vote". However I heard that iTunes would pull it right off, and I don't want that to happen.

This is part 1 of my voting morning 2008. You hear from me, my daughter, ScottyJ, and a Proposition 102 supporter.

(links later!)

Happy Election Day! Wanted to make sure I got the audio from my live podcast at Podcamp AZ in so it was still semi-relevant.

This was a great talk with Dan from Love Long and Prosper, and everyone's favorite guest ScottyJ. We cover the presidential candidates, and several of Arizona's propositions that are going to be decided on. Today, even!

Keep watching the feed because I will be recording from the polling line, and getting an 11-yr-old perspective on the voting process. No, not Scotty- my daughter is coming to the polls with us!

Then tonight- starting at 7pm eastern, head to the live chat on the forum, and spend the evening with us as we watch all the results trickle in!

It's more fun than any sporting event I've ever seen!!!

Call in with your post-voting and election thoughts: 206-337-1026

So if you've been watching the Twitter feed, you know I am participating in Podcamp AZ this weekend. What an awesome day it was- and I get to do it all again tomorrow!

At any rate, I haven't had a chance to see what's going on around here, I will catch up after the weekend I promise. Until then, I wanted you all to know that tomorrow afternoon I will be doing a 30 minute live show from Podcamp! I will probably talk more about local issues, like our ballot propositions, but I'd love it if you all could tune in and check it out!

It's a video cast too- though I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing. ;-)

Tomorrow (Sunday) at 3:30 mtn time (5:30 eastern- remember to put those clocks back everyone else (AZ doesn't do that daylight saving thing!))

Link: http://podcampaz.org/podcast-az/

Hope you'll tune in!

~Dani

A little update on upcoming neat things from me- including Podcamp AZ, Election Day, and of course talking about the Podcast Awards!

Then, part 2 of my talk with Dave, and answering Nobilis' voicemails. I have to give special thanks to Nobilis for leaving such great voicemails and giving us so much to talk about!

Links:
*Colbert Report
*Podcamp AZ
*Podcast Awards (voting now open!)
*Topper's Tap
*Topper on Twitter
*Nobilis

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Back to a more regular format next episode- headlines shall return! :-)

I'm really glad someone emails me about these things- otherwise I'd never know!

Yes, Seekers, the show has been nominated for another award. This one is the Podcast Award, which is also called the "People's Choice" award, since anyone can vote!

I must be doing something right, because I never in a brazillion years would have expected to be nominated for such a popular award.  Frankly I'm up against so many great shows, well, let's just say I'm practicing my "It's good just to be nominated" speech. ;-)

You can see all the nominated shows in all of the categories right here:
http://www.podcastawards.com/

Voting begins On Thursday (the 23rd). You can vote once-a-day, every day through November 6th.

Thanks to those who nominated me- it means a lot. It always does. :-)

~Dani

Back from San Diego- and realized I had no time to write a show this week.

Soooo.... I called up my partner in crime Dave and we chatted for a bit, because it's easier to talk to someone else with no script than alone. A bit ended up being an hour and a half! The hate machine kept churning over the past couple of weeks, so we started in on that, and began listening to voicemail from Nobilis. There is PLENTY more coming in part 2, but for now I give you Part 1.

Recorded Wednesday, October 15th.

Links:
Topper's Tap
Daily Show
Nobilis
Now Live KSL News Radio

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A topic that has received a lot of discussion on the forums, important enough to bring as the subject of this week's show. With this presidential election we have a great opportunity to keep the discussion of race, racism, and hate in America where it should be- at the forefront. So let's do it.

*Opening: Michael Savage and Glenn Beck
*Dani's nervous
*Headlines:
   -Democracy Now
   -Troy Davis case
   -Brandon McLelland
   -Anti-Muslim DVD handed out in swing states' newspapers
   -How is gassing a Mosque *not* a hate crime?
   -Obama effigy is hung from a tree
   -Denver police joke about beating protesters
*Glenn Ford from Black Agenda Radio talks about recent poll on racism
*So what exactly is this white privilege thing anyway?
*Tim Wise knows his stuff
*The most accurate analogy for Affirmative Action I've ever heard
*Threads covering race in the TS Forum:
   -Nation on White Privilege
   -Is White Privilege the Problem?
   -Barack Obama and White Privilege
   -Hate Crimes Prevention Act
*Privilege in many forms, it all equals power
   -Maria Niles Post on White Privilege
*More clips from hate radio
   -Bill Moyers Journal story on hate talk radio
*Music provided by Podsafe Music Network
*"Hate", by Kyprios (WARNING: NOT WORK OR KID SAFE)
*Back in two weeks- going to visit a friend in Cali over fall break!

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