B2S1: 018 Zymurgists for 9-11

018 Zymurgists for 9-11

12 September 2009 Show Notes: Episode 18 Zymurgists for 9-11

The Macintosh Prayer

(Let Us Pray)

Steve Jobs, who art in Silicon Valley

Ubiquitous be thy Apple

Thy iPhones surfs, Thy iPods sync

To PCs as they do to Macs

Give us this keynote our yearly revolution

And forgive us our transgressions, as we forgive them that proselytize Windows

And lead us into temptation

But deliver us from Microsoft

For Apple is the dreamer, the designer, the doer, forever and ever.

[Command+Click]

We're back, baby! ...with less fail this episode! Since we lost so much recording last week, we're giving Adraw & Alienation a second chance to rock our background music scene! After a quick prayer to keep this show fail-free, we jump right in with Rain talking about her puppy Chevron (Chevy). While it will not be revealed to the end of the show, we'll spoil it now and say that Kitty-Kat and Rain are now official co-hosts of the show! [Kermit Flail] First on our agenda (or lack thereof) is talk of ShoWare Stadium in Kent, Wa. and its hosting of the new (lingerie) football team, The Seattle Mist! (Who won their debut game, to boot!) Also making its debut at the stadium was Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (which also made an appearance at its traditional stop at the Comcast Arena at Everett Events Center). Pimpage then occurs for all (most) of the big Seattle sports teams (though we'll pimp the one's we missed as well in the show links below) in the area. While Glacier Wulf takes (naughty) photos of Kitty-Kat, Osyris and Johnny-B reminisce about a drunken escapade that ended in thong wearage! We then get into the brewing of the IPA & Amber Alt Ale from last week and Johnny-B's modified Ale brew this week. During the talk, we pimp an upcoming video podcast special about our brewing and a possible visual tour of the studio... so stay tuned for that! During the double batch brew fest, we had a marathon of Basic Brewing Video™ in the background! We also get sidetracked by Glacier Wulf and his mead brewing. Ending the brewing topics is a upcoming trip to Leavenworth, Wa. for Octoberfest! (See our episode art work for the final brew topic!)

In our next major topic, we discuss the events 8 years ago on 11 September 2001 (and we observe a moment of silence). We give our two-cents on the subject and its aftermath before misquote President Thomas Jefferson; because it was Benjamin Franklin who truly said, “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Unlike the misquoting we used on the show, the quote here in the show notes is the correct one. On the same post-9/22 line, we then get into the issues of Homeland Security, the TSA, and buses of powers by "security guards". Osyris makes points regarding South American and African leaders in context while Johnny-B notes the issues Adam Curry had entering the country (USA). Plus we recall our own personal first reactions to hearing of the attacks. We then go into the meat of what happened and why the buildings went down. After this, we switch to the Organ State football player who acted like a jackass and disgraced his university, LeGarrette Blount. That churns into Osyris' role in UWT (Butt-Scratcher!?) before devolving into an Family Guy/Adam West/God discussion. Getting into the show stats, we make another John C. Dvorak sighting before going into the nuts and bolts of our small listenership. Going ever further into the ditch, we have a talk about wood. We then bitch at our listeners for not reviewing the show and e-mailing us. Then Johnny-B gets mad over 3-D Home Entertainment Systems before telling us the story of MST3K-ing Passion of the Christ with his brother! We then explain the origins of Honeymoon (Mead). This evolves into breading out atheism.

We cream out pants over the new Beatles Rockband & digitally re-mastered discography of all the band's works. [Kermit Flail!] We pimp the 9/20 Sakura-Con meeting at the WSCTC and give info about what is happening in the next couple episodes, including Osyris going back to TWU. Making the podcast school credits? We'll see! Butt-Scratcher! Our new co-hosts (officially) are announced! Huzzah! After this, since Johnny-B had to be at work (Sunday) at 0700(am), we finally end the show.

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Show Links:

1. ShoWare Stadium - Official Website


2. Official Website - Seattle Mist - Lingerie Football League


3. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus


4. Comcast Arena at Everett Events Center


5. The Official Site of The Seattle Mariners | Mariners.com: Homepage


6. Seattle Seahawks - The Official Site of the Seattle Seahawks


7. The Official Site of The Seattle Thunderbirds


8. Everett AquaSox: Home


9. Home - Seattle Sounders Football Club


10. Seattle Rainiers Home Page


11. Larry's Brewing Supply


12. Basic Brewing™ : Home Brewing Beer Podcast and DVD - Welcome


13. Basic Brewing Radio™


14. Basic Brewing Video™


15. Visit Leavenworth Washington - The Official Site


16. Party Bus TV


17. Those who would give up Essential Liberty - Wikipedia


18. Boise State's Petersen wants Blount's punch to be a lesson for others


19. TV Makers Pushing 3-D at Home - Dvorak Uncensored


20. The Beatles™: Rock Band™


21. The Beatles: Remastered


22. Sakura-Con 2010

Music Alley Feature: Alienation

• Beggars and Kings (Original Mix)


• Beggars and Kings (Chill Out Mix)


• Firefly


• Hobie Beach (Chill Out Mix)


• Imagine A Star 2007


• Mad World (ft. Marty B - 2007 Remix) (Chemical Mix)


• When Angels Cry 3

Music Alley Feature: Adraw

• Bridge to Trance


• Guardian Angel (Final Mix)


• Look


• Shine


• Specialty


• Stranger


• Synergy

Podcast Album Art: "ZYNRGY" by Jon Morrow

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"Back 2 Square 1" New Episode 015

Back 2 Square 1 has a new episode: 015 Islamic Influence

Saturday 22 August 2009 Show Notes:

We're back & with a reduced crew again; just Osyris Diamond (who has flu-like symptoms... though I doubt it's a cool as "Swine Flu" or known as "Mexican Flu" for international listeners. He'll be blowing his nose throughout the show), Johnny-B, & the Kitty Kat! PKP is back in the house for our background music & starts off where we last left off with their track "Northbound". Joining us in the studio this evening is my new Bengal kitten, Lexus Ton-Ton (pronounced Tän-Tän) a.k.a. Crouton. Check out some more videos here: Lexus Ton-Ton a.k.a. Crouton. We discuss some of the (not-so) highlights of having her since Tuesday before Johnny-B goes into a mini-rant on "rabbit pooh" constipation. Osyris is "hating life" for lack of sleep & sanity but has yet to regret getting his $200.00 kitten (inflated to at least $500.00 with cat stuff & the first round of vet appointments). We give a shout-out to our missing comrades (Wild-Reto, Dark-Lilith, Dutchie Dutchmen, Glacier Wulf) before explaining how sick Osyris really was & how it relates to the B.S. at Iron Mountain, whose management can't properly assign replacement employees for open shifts. He explains his revelation of why he's all too often sick during the school season then the work ethics of his male family predecessors. We then talk about the other cat in-residence Taximus Maximus Meridius Kittius & his origins.

Johnny-B then segways into his co-worker from France who is dealing with an identity-crisis between being French & Algerian & Muslim. He goes on about some misconceptions of Islam & the Koran before Osyris relates this conversation to the proposed revamping of Paris: "Greater Paris" (see link above) & how it relates to dealing with the issues facing the city regarding its upper-class center and lower-class suburbs. He notes the 1995 movie "la Haine" (which is French for "Hate", though Osyris cannot recall the movie by name during the recording) as a reference for this tension (see links above). He also relates it back to the issues with Israel & Palestine discussed last week's show & relating it to the origins of "ethnic nationalism" as a consequence of European colonialism & western interference in the 19-20th century. Johnny-B brings it back to the Islam integration issue (globally) & discusses its role as the dominant social, economical, political, cultural, artistic, scientific, mathematic, & spiritual leader several centuries ago. Osyris brings up the 2005 movie "Kingdom of Heaven" (though once again he failed to remember it's name while recording) and its ending sequence in relation to this historical topic (see links above). From Wikipedia, "Privately, Saladin picks up a cross that was thrown off and puts it back on the table as well as refusing to step on the stones carved with crucifixes." We also touch on the US/USSR cold war effects on the Middle Eastern region & the rest of the world for that matter (with hints of capitalism). We then end the long rant with a little poking of the western educational system.

Changing topics, Johnny-B updates us on the home-brew (based on Alaskan Amber Ale) before pimping a new place call "The Beer Essentials" store down in Lakewood, Wa. Check out their website & visit their locale if you're in the area (see link above). He then updates us on the software he's working on for home-brewing (embedded system-based)! Osyris then updates everyone on the spikes in downloads for episodes 014 & 013, thanking Glacier Wulf for pimping the show to new people while on the job!). Welcome all new listeners! (New start e-mailing us, damn it! ...email is below.) We then talk about the changing nature of the podcast (B2S1) & where is might and should go in the future (your help, listener, is always appreciated and encouraged).

Then Osyris does something obscene before we get around to bugging our pseudo-co-host Kitty-Kat about what her point in life (let alone the podcast) is. This leads into (and was in-part a product of) a discussion of some background issues brought up by (currently) nameless co-hosts & the role of insults, touchy topics, & apologies (or the lack thereof). (We then remember to pimp PKP on the show.) We then plot to get Telefon Tel Aviv (see links above) as the background music (& maybe on the podcast itself) before ragging on Kitty Kat again in an attempt to get her talking. (It should be noted at the time of the recording of this podcast, we were unaware of the passing of Cooper. RIP) Osyris & Johnny-B sing Happy Birthday to Kitty Kat! We then rag on Iron Mountain again. We round out the show by visiting Failblog.org & Dvorak Uncensored with a great (old) Daily Show report on spamming. Osyris then sings us out... before failing & then we pimp the email before signing off.

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Back 2 Square 1 Episode 014 posted!

Back 2 Square 1 has produced yet another episode: 014 Brewer's Aftermath

Show Notes: 15 August 2009
Take 3! (Again!) Only an hour this time... brewing took too much out of the others & Osyris was recovering from a bad case of McDonald. The studio fridge is finally operational! Johnny-B & Glacier Wulf discuss the latest home-brew, first in the new place (& in two years or so). [Correction: there was 14.5lbs of malty grain used in the brew, not 12lbs.] We talk -again- about whom Osyris is likely a "Bi-In-Denial" & female issues. "Crouton", which is the given name currently for my girl Bengal cat. Lava lamps (yes, we now have two!) in da studio! We don't have the doom dice tonight, or Dutchie or Dark-Lilith, so we're winging it. First, we head to Dvorak Uncensored blog & listen to American President Obama make a great gaff about the U.S. Postal Service. We also browse several other blog posts before switching to Failblog & skim through three pages of fail. Among other topics, we give our two-cents about child discipline & spanking. Then we watch an epic fail unicyclist via Failblog before Osyris goes into a "reverse racism" rant. Due to the day's events, we consider a 20min. break before deciding not to & check out the BBC World Service News & ranting briefly about the red cards give out at the Sounders/Galaxy MLS match (2-0w). After stumbling through a mini-rant about the bullshit surrounding Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma/Myanmar, & briefly talking about Secretary of State Clinton (& her more famous husband) Osyris finally give Israel hell (again) about the Palestine conflict. Wanna come on the show & give us a piece of your mind? E-mail us & we'll make it happen! (See address below...)

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Back 2 Square 1 Episode 013 posted!

"Hey, you guys!"

Back 2 Square 1 has a new episode, 013 Dark-Lilith Visitation.

Show Notes:
While you guys won't necessarily notice the difference, though B2S1 tries to be posted by Monday. we recorded this show on Sunday and this explains a Tuesday posting. Dark-Lilith returns! ...well, for at least most of the episode before she leaves to help a friend. Glacier Wulf also jets at the same time, too. We bitch as usual about a bunch of things. There is a lot of "fuck" in this episode. We figure out what iTunes categories this show should be on and discuss Osyris' sexual orientation- again. Osyris also goes off on the debate about the Universal Healthcare legislation in Congress. Through the wisdom of the digital Doom Dice & List, we speak on XBOX-360, Steve Jobs' new iLiver 2.0, and other game related topics, we touch on the Rorschach Test/Wikipedia controversy, Osyris poorly explains "Cold Reading", the Shit List is visited, we tried to explode Kitty Kat's head, he give a shout out to the crew of "That Damn Red Boat", Osyris and Johnny-B compare bra sizes, we watch some Jimmy Justice and comment on "The Beer Summit", Buddy causes some minor mayhem, we talk about movies (Brüno, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, District 9), Kirkland Signature Beer is brought up, under the topic Government, we discuss the Supreme Court and its role in America, then we role over into the ethics and production of podcasting in general and verses traditional radio (including how B2S1 is made and its content), we give you a preview of things to come on B2S1 and the logic the will effect future episodes, we give a shout out to Reto, long-lost B2S1 co-host likely still battling the Battle Cat, The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Reasonable Doubts, and No Agenda are uses as a contrast to B2S1, after Johnny-B takes a piss, we move into the stalled housing developments around Auburn, Kent, and Covington, Wa. and have a trip down memory lane about our old high school Kentlake. There, of course, if a bunch of other material covered not mentioned in these notes so listen to the show to get all the juicy goodness!

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Chistmas... An Editorial

Well, here is the end of this year... and another post. The only thing more perplexing than my need to have three "blogs" (not counting the one Curtis T. has) is the fact that this one seems the least needed... and that I mention that fact every time I post. It seems I use this site more as a backwards R.S.S. reader than anything. Well, hopefully I'll find more use for it in the new year... School is out and Christmas just passed. I got a lot of good gifts, including some new music (thanks to iTunes and Amazon), a digital picture frame, and other stuff. I've been building snowmen in homage of Calvin and Hobbes and working the the most snow this region has seen in a good long time. My grades came back and all is well: 2.8, 3.5, 3.9 for the various classes. You would think with all the big papers and stress I was under getting them done this journal would have been a great way to take a break and get my mind of things. Well, again that's what you and I both get for thinking. Three large papers (all 6-10 pages or so) over the span of three weeks to write. After this, I tried to keep trudging along but found I could only get once edit out of my E7 fan-fic. Amazing how sitting down to watch the Futurama movie (well, the first one anyway) helped me clear my mind. Guess I sometimes need to do something rather mindless. (Another way to get my mind off writing for a bit is the snowman project I've been working on.) Got the podcast up and running finally: Back 2 Square 1 Next episode will be up next week. Will likely resubmit the pilot before posting the second episode. 116 download requests so far! Well, let's get back on a writing topic: here is a holiday centric editorial I did about Christmas. Don't get too offended now...

Christians bitch that Christmas has become to secular. People have obviously list the true/original meaning of the holiday; the reason for the season, as it were: baby Jesus and all that stuff. True, the commercialization of the holidays makes many of us wish for its quick execution by the time the first of December comes around, but it is clear many (if not most) Christians forget that they stole what would become Christmas today from the pagans. Ever hear of Yule and the other various Winter festivals that usually centered around the winter soloist? There are much more things to celebrate this time of year than the supposed birth of carpenter's son whose real birthday is likely in mid-Spring. Hanukkah can make a better pass for being celebrated around this time of year than Kwanzaa, which doesn't make much sense to anyone (even Kwanzaa-bot!). Both of these the average Christians would likely look down upon; like they have sole right to the season... sure, some of their gripes are legit, but their reasoning behind their banter is no more selfish and self-righteous than at any other time of the year.

Atheists, Humanists, and other non-religious folk seem to complain that you cannot escape Christmas. Everywhere you go, there it is! You are also expected to celebrate it in some way; if you don't, you are ostracized as a Grinch, Scrooge, or worse and in some cases for to participate anyway. Most non-Judaic religious faiths and the like agree that the pressure and overwhelming nature of the Christmas season is very degrading to those who do not wish to join in the festivities. Again, the total commercialization of the holiday is not helping here and with most of America (and many other Western countries) in on the National event, it would be unavoidable even if not the time of year when many businesses finally start to make a profit. Still, that's what you get for living in a Christian-majority country. Most of the season no longer revolves around a manger but bells, and cash registers and the almighty dollar. There a plenty of other reason to celebrate the season, including selfless work to help needy people, being nice to your fellow humans for once, a reason to be happy in a dark and dreary part of the year.

Ironic, it is, that Christians bitch that Christmas is too secular and other religions and the non-religious complain that it is too religious. Just like with most things in the war between religion (any) and secularism (non-religion), both sides see the other's influence and cry foul. While each has legitimate points of concern, they always seem to make it like some horrid thing that is gong to destroy the fabric of our society... yet every year, here we remain. Yeah, it would be nice not to be subjected to the music and commercials and the holiday cheer everywhere you turn, and it would be nice if for once in its existence humanity would finally grow up so there would be peace on earth, good will towards men/women/etc.; it would also be nice if we could care more about each other the rest of the year and perhaps even more so during this time rather they speaking this feel-good mantra while otherwise cursing the idiot in front of us (however much they deserve it) and priding ourselves for swiping the last must-have item and reveling in the tears and muddled curses of those who came too late.

The holidays as we know them today are but a product of our own creation. We built this mixed bag of nuts regardless of our own intents and further it with our actions each year. No matter how you perceive reality or your opinion on the Christmas season, you -all- and responsible for it. All the good and bad aspect of humanity come out in full force this time of year and whether you bow to God or Allah or Shiva or reject all of their existences and advocate the annulment of the entire fiasco (gods included), and all points in between, we as a species are the enemy we fight to make this time of year what we want; and just like every year that has come before this, we fail. We fail because we forgot ourselves, we fail because we are blind to what the solution to all our problems is, we fail because we cannot see beyond our own self-interests as individuals and member of our various blocs and groups. Everyone wants what they see as the best way to celebrate the season or not. How very selfish. What this season should symbolize is what is lacking throughout the rest of the year; and that should be retained throughout the rest of the year regardless.

As an Agnostic, I enjoy the secular Christmas season but find the commercialized overwhelming presence of the holiday to be enough to drive a man to drink... more often than he already does. I see the beauty of the spiritual/religious aspects and for those who need it, that is fine by me. Those who don't want anything to do with the season, I've been there myself. For America, and I might go further to say any country, we live in a world where you cannot just sit idly by in your own little click and forget that others exists or that these others should bow down to how you view the world. Majority rules in a democracy, but that does not mean the majority is always right or should abandon the minority. Yes, there are many places where this ideology does not apply. Good for them. To me, I celebrate this season in my own way and detail with the part that I cannot honestly change. Yes, this does make me accountable for trying to make things "better", but who am I to make that call? Who are any of us? I merely strive to my this time of year a enjoyable one for myself and those I chose to care about; everyone should at least do that; remembering, of course, that we should only extend an invitation to other to join in our ways and move on if they decide otherwise.

Christmas is what you make of it... or not. So stop bitching and start doing! Just don't make an ass out of yourself in the process! In closing: Merry Fucking Christmas, ya filthy animals; and a Happy Bloody New Year!