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Porncast 17: Stuck in the closet with you

by Jason on August 18, 2010

At long last, another porncast – and I made a video version for you as penance!  Fear my disheveled visage!

A little rambly, but let’s be honest, it’s caffeine’s podcast, not mine at this point.  Sleep deprivation has never been so rewarding.

Links from this show:

Sorry it gets a bit rambly, but I’m incredibly proud to say that this week’s show is exactly 30 minutes long. What, you’re going to watch that rerun of Friends for the 40th time instead of this? You can direct download the audio version here, or subscribe in iTunes to get them delivered automagically.

And of course, there’s a handy widget thingy to listen right now, in case the video version is offensive to your eyes:

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Let me know what you think about video versions in the future (assume production values improve) – should we make more? Put ‘em in iTunes? Facebook? Let me know in the comments!

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Porncast 16: powered by Dax’s diapers

by Jason on June 25, 2010

Long live PornicusSo we’ve pretty much established that regular typing of articles isn’t happening much, but what I can do is talk while bouncing a baby, so that’s how it went down.  Should I be worried that my voice bores my child to sleep?

This episode covers a bit of older news, most of which was already discussed on vegan.com so I’ll post to Erik’s commentary as a starting point for your own amusement, but I think I took things in some other directions too, so be sure to listen to me!  We got into the whole man seduced by cow thing and the potential impact on small family run farms in North America.  Then we talked about a story Colleen sent in about new innovations in bun replacement technology, resulting in a 1500 calorie sandwich that’s three, three, three sandwiches in one!  Next up, some restaurant has launched a line of purses, apparently trying to plug the whole “we don’t waste any of the animal” thing, but why aren’t the purses filled with poop?  Then, that’s right, then, because we’re not done yet, we talk a bunch about biofuels from a magazine that may or may not have links.  Diapers, coffee and chocolate will fuel my jet car!

This episode is a tub-thumping 21 minutes, and you can listen on this very page, or – and this is a great deal, lemme tell you – you can subscribe in iTunes and get this stuff sent to your computer automagically. Or your iPod, iPhone, iPad, iCrotch, you know, whatever.

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Long live PornicusThis time around, we take a look, a good, hard look, a good, hard, steamy look, at a post sent in by Colleen: Is Vegetarianism dead?

Well, it was as good an excuse as any for an episode of Business Time.  Conditions were pretty much perfect anyway.

As if that wasn’t enough, because we’re quality over quantity people here, fer shure, we go into what Men’s Health is calling America’s worst drink: with 2010 calories and as much saturated fat as 68 slices of bacon, yeah, I can kind of see why the Cold Stone PB&C Milkshake would be up on that list.  I tried to compare it with either 1 or 10 pounds of Vega, yes, in one sitting, but apparently the bacon comparison is more effective, which sparks a little rantble (that’s a rant delivered as a ramble, natch.)

And speaking of Vega, Angela found a new product in the line that looks pretty cool: the Vega Shake & Go Smoothie doesn’t have as many ingredients as Vega does, but it’s also sweetened with something other than stevia, which is going to make it a Huge Deal for some people.  We got ours at Panacea, Toronto’s vegan grocery store, but you can get it at Amazon if it’s not in a store near you (and yes, I realize I said I wasn’t getting paid when I did the recording, but I found this link later and I’m about to have one more mouth to feed, so yes, purchases made through that link will help fund our pornographic operations.)

This week’s show is 26 minutes of wonderment, which you can get as part of a free subscription through iTunes, or download directly here, or just listen with the gadget thingy below.

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Porncast 14: Nicolas Cage is Crazy Smurf

by Jason on May 20, 2010

Long live PornicusThis week’s show – only a few days late, I might add, thank you very much – covers some familiar ground, like the Vibram Five Fingers shoes stuff, (I didn’t warn last time that some models contained kangaroo leather, which sparks a whole other line of discussion,) that weird Nicolas Cage story from yesterday, and then it gets a little odd, like “what kind of activism smurf are you?” odd.  We wrap things up with a call for help – do you have brick tofu in your area?

I love you on the interwebs, but just because of the way things get published, iTunes knows about each new show before the home page does, so be sure to subscribe to the feed to make sure you don’t miss anything!

Or you can listen to all delicious 25 minutes here.

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Long live PornicusIn this long-awaited porncast (lucky 13!) we’ve got excuses a’plenty! Some of them are possibly even amusing. We also do a review of the Vibram Five Fingers shoes (I’ve been wearing the Sprints for a week now,) some thoughts on the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale (and a similarly-initialed, different intent alternate event idea that someone’s more than welcome to run with,) make the obligatory comments about Mike Tyson being vegan, and end with our Question of the Moment: what food product would be the most ridiculous one to supplement/fortify?

Oh, and some SV links we mentioned: vitamin D and the “ignore and surround” article (which was from a newsletter, and wasn’t “embrace and surround” like I said in the show, but that’s just proof that I didn’t have internet!)

And once again, a reminder: not only to iTunes subscribers generally get this thing before anyone else, but downloads via iTunes helps build awareness about veganism to iTunes surfers who may be searching for other things, which amuses me greatly, so subscribe to the feed already!

Oh, you want a link? Here’s a link to 17 mindblowing minutes of mindblowingness.

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Porncast episode 12: Battles a’plenty!

by Jason on March 9, 2010

Long live Pornicus

For today’s episode of the Vegan Porncast, we’re joined by PonderingWillow, and one of us has been drinking.  Try to guess who!

I’ll give you a hint: this show almost didn’t get posted on time because I have to take extra effort to remove the many awkward pauses that occur after I invent something amazing, like the ability to prepare kale on the internet.  Thanks again for Pew for being a good sport, and try not to mock her too much for her Mr. T fantasy.

This week we cover some, and possibly all, of the following:

Beer innovations; broccoli ads; our uncontest of the week (you can only enter once!); followup on our kale chips recipe; Jason redefines how appliances work, and how the internet works; cheese biscuits meet Captain Planet!; even more about the patent pending root beer pie; PonderingWillow goes solo; cheese battle!; Follow your heart vs Daiya (or Dariya); Oh yeah, and then we talked about the A Team. Of course; vegan milk battle!
I apologize for the poorly-formatted list, but here are the multiple media elements I promised.  It’s a broccoli ad that aired on TV around here, along with a picture of cheese biscuits.  Try to figure out which is which.  Hint: one of them moves.  If your cheese biscuits are moving, it’s time to throw them out.  Or name them.

biscuits

Vegan cheese biscuits a la PonderingWillow. Captions really take the fun out of "guess which one is which" don't they?

(OK, that video didn’t air on TV. And those girls don’t have prostates. But the original ads aren’t embeddable, and I promised an embed. Watch the real ones here and here.)

This is also your bi-weekly reminder that not only to iTunes subscribers generally get this thing before anyone else, but downloads via iTunes helps build awareness about veganism to iTunes surfers who may be searching for other things, which amuses me greatly, so subscribe to the feed already!

40 minutes of awesome by way of a Barnivore-approved beer: Listen here.

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Porncast Episode 11: Enter BatVegan!

by Jason on February 23, 2010

Long live Pornicus

This week (well, technically, we porncast every 2 weeks, but “this fortnight” sounds weird) were joined by guest co-host Dagda Samildanc!

Things start off fairly seriously with talk of activism and volunteering, but it was really just a matter of time before things went “the way of the porncast” and, well, let’s see…  We started a virtual reading group while looking for this comic, and then we came up with the best uncontest ever involving BatVegan.

Oh, and the rumours are true: The Eazy Vegan Cooking Show lives!

iTunes subscribers generally get this thing before anyone else, and it helps build awareness about veganism to iTunes surfers, so subscribe to the feed already!

32 minutes of madness that could fry the Bat Computer: Listen here.

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Porncast Episode 10: The Heavy Early Show

by Jason on February 9, 2010

Long live Pornicus

Recorded and uploaded before 9AM! We didn’t think this was possible, and Yoda would have said that’s why we failed, but Yoda doesn’t have coffee breath. OK, the writeup pushed us past the deadline, but not for iTunes subscribers, so subscribe to the feed already!

This week we learn Jason’s new favourite word, as inspired by this tweet.  It’s all downhill from there, but when did that become a bad thing?  Jack and Jill had fun going down the hill, right?  At least until Jack broke his crown, and you can decide where in the 24 minutes of mayhem Jason broke something.  Was it when he came up with new jobs for meat eaters?  When he lamented his inability to hold 35 pounds of semi-digested food in his colon?  When he talked about a new vegan food truck?  Probably not when he thanked Lisa for the NPR story on discipline, but maybe, just maybe when he called for a time machine to be invented to convince Charles de Gaulle to enforce a vegan regime on France.  Yeah, that’s probably where it all went wrong.

24 minutes of mayhem, suitable for framing: Listen here.

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Porncast episode 9: Vegan Porn on the iPad?

by Jason on January 29, 2010

This week’s a solo show, and Jason’s the host. Funny how that works, eh?

First of all (whoops, I guess this is second of all, silly editing…) sorry for not getting this out on Tuesday like I promised, but the plague has struck, yes again, and I was a little bit out of action for some of this week. I’m feeling better now, thanks in part to the magic of coffee that’s not from McDonald’s.

So what’s this week’s show about? Pretty much what I just said, plus some ideas about how VP could rock the iPad. Because as everyone knows, there hasn’t been nearly enough coverage in the media about that thing.

You can listen directly, but as always, because I am lazy, iTunes listeners get first dibs, so subscribe to the feed already!

This week’s show isn’t even 24 minutes long. Keifer Sutherland could manage to fit it into his schedule, and in case you haven’t noticed, that guy’s running out of time!

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Porncast episode 8: Take back the meat!

by Jason on January 13, 2010

The long awaited Porncast episode 8 is spurting out across the internet directly into your ears.

Ewwwwww.

I blame PonderingWillow’s influence. She found our unofficial show sponsor: Waffles!, after all.

There’s a lot of food in this one, and it’s all meaty in a vegan way, except for where it isn’t. Popcorn cookies and root beer pie. Do I really have to say anything else?

For those of you who, like us (and those of you who like us) can’t find vegan graham cracker crusts, pew has a recipe for us. She claims it might have been pulled out of her ass, but that step’s optional:

1/2 cup almonds
2T veg. oil
1/4 cup agave nectar
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour (don’t use reg whole wheat cuz that
would be nasty)
1/4 tsp salt

Mix all ingredients together, press onto pie pan, bake in a 350F
preheated oven for 20 mins

If you’re determined to learn how to roll out a proper crust, the Silpat is apparently of some help, as demonstrated by Julie Hasson (and not Dreena as we said in the porncast.)

Lastly, your homework has been done for you, should you too require the ability to make cupcakes the size of your head.

You can listen directly, but as always, because I am lazy, iTunes listeners get first dibs, so subscribe to the feed already!

Enjoy 35 minutes of audio nectar.

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