Yes, a while between shows. Not two months though! That would have been terrible.
Today’s podcast covers an amazing line of topics, and I even edited out the big embarrassing bit where I couldn’t find the thing I wanted to talk about and sang a song about suing me to get my vegan airplane to fill in the space. Lost to history forever, who will think of the children, pass the peanuts, and so on.
Apparently Sarah Palin made a snuff film, says a guy who doesn’t like Sarah Palin, and I’ve got to say I liked the hunter’s response better, but that’s partly because it exposed once again the biggest problem with hunting that the pro-gun group never likes to talk about.
From Palin on reality TV we moved on to Palin and the food lobby, with several amusing responses to proposed dietary guidelines from the PR groups that promote sugar, salt, and dairy (their response was particularly interesting…)
Then a brief segue into Wal-Mart, which has nothing to do with veganism but could be the future of big meat company legal defence strategies if and when a food safety mishap kill millions. Bookmark this page, because it’s bad form to follow the death of millions with an I told you so.
And finally, there seems to be some way to triple your testosterone with a cheap plant-based drink, but I’m too scared to try it. Not because of the testosterone, but because of the consequences of single-vegetable juicing based on a really bad experience I’m sharing with you today.
Today’s show runs for almost 24 minutes, and you can subscribe in iTunes here to get it automatically (or grab the podcast rss if that’s how you roll,) or of course you can listen directly here:
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Oh, and I mentioned Mark Hawthorne, so here’s his blog, and yes, I did this entirely so your searches for “Mark Hawthorne porn” would bring you to this here page so I can sell you a t-shirt. It doesn’t say “I surfed online for Mark Hawthorne porn and all I got was this lousy t-shirt,” but it is pretty witty and helps pay our microphone bills.
This episode is a mind-altering 22 minutes long, which is more time than it takes to make and eat breakfast around here, so, you know, be leisurely about it. You can direct download the audio version here, or subscribe in iTunes to get them delivered automagically. Or click the whatzit below to listen right away:
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You might like Shake & Go Smoothie if you’re not a Vega fan – here are the ingredients for smoothie vs Vega. I get a commission if you buy through the Amazon links, but seriously, Vega seems like a really good deal to me, and I honestly love the products.
And no porncast would be complete without mention of a milkshake that tastes like pancakes. No, probably not vegan, and not big on my list of life’s regrets.
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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So 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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This 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.)
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This 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?
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In 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!
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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.
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!
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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.
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32 minutes of madness that could fry the Bat Computer: Listen here.
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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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Yes, a while between shows. Not two months though! That would have been terrible.
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