http://www.dietsoap.org Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:28:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chris "Isto" White is this week's guest, and we discuss his superpower, the children's performer Raffi, Mister Rogers, and the importance (or lack of importance) of philosophical ideas and music lessons. This week's episode is laden with music and song including Cartoon Music from Isto's latest album Let's Get ... http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/03/11/diet-soap-48-istos-beautiful-kazoo/ Dennis Perrin is a blogger, author, stand-up comic, and the guest this week. We discuss his return to the stage, the state of politics in the US, and the reality of living in Obama's America. Turns out it's very much the same as living in Bush's America, which was more ... http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/03/04/diet-soap-47-how-to-stand-up/ Frank Aragona, the host of the Agroinnovations podcast is the guest this week and we discuss the word "radical," permaculture as a radical approach to life, and briefly the ideas of Stanislav Grof. Also featured this week is the Vitamin String Quartet's cover of REM's Shiny Happy ... http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/02/25/diet-soap-podcast-46-radical-permaculture/ Author and podcaster Jason Horsley is the guest again this week as we continue to discuss the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Also this week is a collage about JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, God, and the State. There is a song by Chris Isto White entitled "Transcendentalisto," ... http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/02/18/diet-soap-45-close-encounters-of-the-everyday-kind-pt-2/ Author and podcaster Jason Horsley is the guest this week, and we discuss the concept of the second matrix and the fascist character of the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Also this week I received a missive from the Better Bad News panel correcting last week's characterization of ... http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/02/14/diet-soap-44-close-encounters-of-the-everyday-kind/ Daniel Coffeen is back this week for the second part of our conversation about Rhetoric, the image, finding gaps, and how Capitalism may be a virus set to destroy its human host. Also featured this week is a collage tribute to JD Salinger and Howard Zinn. Chris Isto White sings ... http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/02/06/diet-soap-podcast-43-pleasure-vs-consumption/ Rhetor and former professor at UC Berkeley Daniel Coffeen is the guest this week and we discuss the idea that capitalism may be a language virus that is quickly destroying its human host. Daniel comes to what he describes as a revolutionary perspective through his own experiences as a ... http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/01/28/diet-soap-42-a-virus-called-capitalism/ Takis Fotopoulos is a libertarian socialist, an economist, and this week's guest on the Diet Soap podcast. He is also the founder of the Inclusive Democracy movement, the author of many books, and the editor of the Inclusive Democracy journal. KMO of the C-Realm Podcast and Neil Kramer of the ... http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/01/21/diet-soap-podcast-41-on-a-human-scale/ Takis Fotopoulos is a libertarian socialist, an economist, and this week's guest on the Diet Soap podcast. He is also the founder of the Inclusive Democracy movement, the author of many books, and the editor of the Inclusive Democracy journal. The Music this week includes Gill Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will ... http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/01/19/diet-soap-podcast-40-the-crisis-and-the-growth-economy/ Chris Carlsson, former editor of the 'zine Processed World and author of the book Nowtopia, is the guest on this week's podcast. Also featured is the music of Tibet2Timbuk2, Peggy Lee, John Sebastian Bach, and 3 Leg Torso. There is also a reading from the book "The Coming Insurrection." We ... http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/01/08/diet-soap-39-process-this-utopia-now/