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Intro. song: Sam Lanin “Yes! We Have No Bananas”
Outro song: Eddie Cantor “If You Knew Suzie”
Notes: Starting with this episode, I have “jokes” about corrections for the local newspaper. All of them are pulled from the paperback “Press Boners”, edited by Earle Temple. It was printed in 1967, a paperback original from Pocket Books.
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Intro. song: Green Bros. Novelty Orchestra “Yes! We Have No Bananas”
Outro song: Lee Morse “Yes, Sir! That’s My Baby!”
Notes: Thanks to AmSci, ChristianChildAbuse, Diabologue and Cosmodromium and everyone on facebook who “shared” the show link for the support. Please blog, tweet, “share” and digg these shows.
I haven’t given historical background info in the blog posts because I’m working under the assumption that visitors/listeners will at least have a basic understanding of the event. If not, or if you wanted to know more, they just recently invented a research tool called “the internet”, it’s cool, I’m on it.
I do want to make one additional note though. I just obtained the first 5 issues of H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan’s “The American Mercury” (Jan. – Mar. 1924) . In Vol.1 No. 2 there is an article debunking osteopathy, and it began with the following quote:
Despite our remarkable advance of knowledge, nonsense is ever becoming bolder and more rampant: it is pre-eminently a time of fads and crazes, and the question as to how people are to be brought to their senses grows urgent. - W. Duncan McKim
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Welcome to the first installation of an ongoing series of reports on the Scopes Trial in Dayton Tennesee in 1925, exactly 85 years ago! The trial was the first in the US to be broadcast on the radio. Those recordings no longer exist, but we will be releasing a podcast every day that Mencken published an article in the Baltimore Sun. Relive the trial in real time through the words of one of America’s greatest and most prolific writers.
Intro. song: Coon-Sanders Nighthawks “Hong Kong Dream Girl”
Outro song: Ted Weems “Somebody Stole My Gal”
Notes: The radio was a new medium. I’ve had a hard time finding examples of radio shows from the time, but these podcasts aren’t created to be true to the period. All of the music was from 1925 or prior, and were popular hits. The trial itself was broadcast live, an historical first, but no recordings of it exist.
June 29th – Homo Neanderthalensis
July 9th – Sickening Doubts About Publicity
July 10th – Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury
July 11th – Trial as Religious Orgy
July 13th – Souls Need Reconversion Nightly
July 14th – Darrow’s Eloquent Appeal
July 15th – Law and Freedom
July 16th – Fair Trial Beyond Ken
July 17th – Malone the Victor
July 18th – Genesis Triumphant
July 20th – Tennessee in the Frying Pan
July 27th – Bryan
Sept. 14th* - Aftermath
*Will be released by July 30th.
The full text of the report after the fold!
I started an ad campaign on Facebook as an experiment. It seems to be working. If you saw the ad, you fit a pretty tight criteria, please take some time to look around – I literally paid someone to have you come here.
We’re updating and redesigning the website, so first things… you can find all our books for sale here: http://www.lulu.com/underworldamusements
We use lulu.com for print-on-demand publishing of our books. I’m very satisfied that they produce a quality book, and their order fulfillment is top-notch.
Second, our podcast for this month is running late, but we’ve got a special series of episodes beginning at the end of the month! Pop over to our subscribe page to get the upcoming new episodes and browse ones already released.
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Nine-Banded Books, publishers of previous podcast guest’s book Considering Suicide, has released Confessions of an Antinatalist. Â Publisher Chip Smith sent me two copies, and I’m going to give one of them out to someone who gives a shit and will write a review and get it published on a blog or somewhere on the internet with some decent traffic. If you hate the book, I’ll give you an out – you’ll have to give the book to someone else. Â If you disagree with the arguments, that’s not hating the book.
There’s no special rules or game to play, I don’t want to bother with that. This is me trying to get some promotion for what looks to be an interesting book from a publisher that I like and work with (I’m doing some graphic design for a few upcoming books, and I’ll probably be interviewing a few more authors on my podcast).
TO GET THE BOOK:
Post a comment that tells me you want it and what venue you’d post the review in. I’ll select someone May 31st using whatever subjective or even arbitrary criteria I want.
You’ll obviously need to send me a mailing address if I select you.
Here’s the back-cover copy:
Life is a mixture of good and bad, or so they say. Trouble is, there’s no way to determine where a particular life might fall along fortune’s spectrum. For every child born into the lap of luxury, there’s another born on the point of a knife. There are no guarantees as to what may transpire as the immediate present unfolds into the uncertain future. Things change in an instant. Two things, however, are certain. Everyone will suffer. And everyone will die. Back to where we came from. Knowing this, and understanding full well that any particular life embodies the potential for experiencing extreme pain and unhappiness — unceasing in some cases — is procreation really worth the risk?
Jim Crawford doesn t believe it is. In Confessions of an Antinatalist, Crawford reflects on what it means to exist in the belly of a ravening serpent-life whose only prey is itself, and whose teeth are very, very sharp.
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We’re Considering Suicide this episode with Catholic reactionary and author Andy Nowicki.
Since our discussion ran quite long, I’ve left out any discussion that didn’t pertain to the book and begin the show with a reading from the first part of his book titled “Diary of a Suicide”. Those three pages of his novel will give you a clear understanding that Andy is not competing in the market with such dreck as the Left Behind series or other eminations of shitty pop culture eminating from the unironic, low-brow modern Evangelical media machine.
9BB describes the book as:
In his epistolary novel, Considering Suicide, Andy Nowicki gives voice to the forgotten man, the man for whom “the death of affect†is no postmodernist amusement, but something experienced acutely — as a profound loss to be mourned. When the pillars of tradition and faith yield to fracture and every higher purpose is thrown to chaos, such a man is left to look into the abyss that remains. Such a man is left to suffer. Such a man may act. Or react.
For this forgotten man, one question will intrude without irony:Â Is life worth living?
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The interview, final recording and mixing for this podcast were completed Between Thursday, April 15th, and Sunday, April 18th, 2010.
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Kevin I. Slaughter reads an excerpt from the book “A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago” by Ben Hecht.
YouTube video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0quag1z47M
Audio file attached for podcast subscribers.
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Matador, of course, meaning killer.
Steve Sailer, blogger and author of “America’s Half-Blood Prince” sat down with host Kevin I. Slaughter for a discussion about the president and other concerns. From bullfighting to Modern English, the conversation covered a number of topics outside of Human Biodiversity, sometimes shortened to HBD, but we covered that as well. The sound of the interview is a little wonky. It was recorded on location and I tried to clean it up but it’s not up to the level I’d like. I do have a better method of location interview recordings though, so the next one should sound better, assuming I get to use that method…
Before that are a few items of interest, two very short excerpts from two books – one being Pentti Linkola’s Can Life Prevail? – A Radical Approach to the Environmental Crisis“, from the folks at corrupt.org. After the interview I read a selection from Robert G. Ingersoll that I recorded for infidels.org. I’ve volunteered to record a few written pieces by Ingersoll for their archives after hearing David Driscoll from American Freethought mention it on his podcast. This is the one of three that I’ve recorded so far, and it’s about 7 minutes long. The title is “Should Infidels Send Their Children to Sunday School?” and it was written in the latter half of the 1800′s. I guess the recording will be available in the “library” section of the site, but I’m not sure when.
Got a problem with something I’ve said on the podcast? Got an angle not discussed?
Call (218) 666-UAVH and leave a voice mail. Since my shows are once a month give or take, I’d like to have a “call in†show where I compile listener responses and my added commentary in the in-between. Keep it under 3 minutes and think about what you’re going to say before you call. Identify yourself, your blog, or keep it anonymous. If I get enough calls, I’ll do a special show, if I get one or two, I’ll slip them into the regular show. If your call lacks substance and seems like you were more interested in plugging your website than commenting, it won’t be aired. You can comment on the most recent or even a previous episode.
The interview for this podcast were completed in October of 2009, final recording and mixing were completed Wednesday, January 20th, 2010.
Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes. As always, our full episodes and specials are also available at Radio Free Satan. Or just find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page.
Find us also at:
facebook.com/underworldamusements
youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements
and I rarely ever check myspace.com/underworldamusements
e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com
and of course, our website is UnderworldAmusements.com
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Thank you Rob for the following quote/review:
“The “alternative right†is an interesting place. It’s full of people who are united by very little except for a common rejection of the current reigning cultural consensus: egalitarianism, universalism and a belief in unlimited human progress. Even in the alternative right, some people stand out as especially eccentric…”
Though it was a transient post on ye olde Facebook, I think it’s one of my favorite lines about the show, or it’s host, yet.
Welcome: Corrupt.org readers, In Mala Fide readers, Diabologue readers and readers of my personal blog. Your linkage is appreciated, your sites are great!
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John Derbyshire, author of the new book We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, sat down for a discussion of atheism and conservatism, math cranks and more in our first proper episode. Your host Kevin I. Slaughter discusses the post hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy and touches on the myth of the noble savage by way of a quote from an author stolen from an interview on the Skepticality Podcast and by lifting a passage from Pinker’s The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. We also hear an archival recording of HL Mencken discussion his philosophy of drinking, and a plug for the new UA release Laffs & Juggs.
John Derbyshire has previously released the novels Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream: A Novel (1997), a New York Times “Notable Book of the Yearâ€, Fire From the Sun (2000) a storyline written in an astounding 76 chapers in 3 volumes. His non-fiction books Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (2003), Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra (2006) and now We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (2009).
In addition to the books, he has over three and a half decades of journalism and reportage under his proverbial belt. A selection of the magazines and newspapers he’s written for: Nat. Review, NYT, Boston Globe, Weekly Standard, Mathematics Magazine, Wall Street Journal and many others. He’s contributed to National Review Online, V-Dare.com and the New English Review websites.
The Underworld Amusements Variety Hour is a podcast covering an eclectic mix of subjects, guided by the interests of its host. This is the first episode proper, but so far there have already been multiple special episodes, short format extras and pdf files of free materials. Underworld Amusements is a small media company focusing on publishing books of forgotten and marginalized works, our podcast and other products and even events.
