My wife Ryn joins me once again as co-host. Check out her brand new blog The Suburban Herbivore!

All the music in this episode is from the album Our One Mistake by The Old Ceremony from Chapel Hill, NC.
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Song 1: Get To Love

The Great Bat Incident

Bats my be hella creepy when they get in your house, but they are actually fascinating creatures!
Read more about them on Wikipedia, The Source of All Knowledge.

If you have a wild animal problem, we highly recommend AAAnimalControl.com

Song 2: Believer

Comic book reviews

1. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Joss Whedon's Season Eight

Publisher: Dark Horse Comcis
Writers: Joss Whedon, Brian K. Vaughan, and Drew Goddard
Principle artist: Georges Jeanty

2. Angel: After the Fall

Publisher: IDW Publishing
Writers: Joss Whedon and Bryan Lynch
Art: Franco Urru

Song 3: Papers In Order

Hang on to your ear holes, and cover the furniture in plastic, because it's Aprilween and we may not make it out alive...

Song 1: Monster Party - The Powerknobs (from Tomorrow's Never Going To Come)
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Song 2: Where They Wander - Horrorpops (from Hell Yeah!)
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Video 1: Ghouls - Horrorpops (from Hell Yeah!)



Song 3: Hunting For Witches (Fury666 Remix) - Bloc Party (from Hunting For Witches [Remixes])
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Video 2: Hunting For Witches - Bloc Party (from A Weekend In The City)



Song 4: Who Wants To Be a Zombie Anyways? - The Mansfields (from Cramp Your Style, coming in May 2008 from Gearhead Records)
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Song 5: Vampires of the West Coast - Ghost Bees (from Tasseomancy)
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Song 6/Video 3: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (from Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!)
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Song 7: Knee Deep In Wolf Guts - Two Headed Phantom (from Her Majesty the Witch Demo)
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Song 8: Black Cat - The Young Werewolves (from The Young Werewolves)
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Song 9: Demons Are a Ghoul's Best Friend - Ghouls Night Out (from The Mourning After)
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Song 10: Elena's Empty Tomb - Thee Merry Widows (from The Devil's Outlaws)
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What's this? A new episode of Random Signal already? Could this be some kind of wonderful dream and/or psychotic break?

Probably. My advice--roll with it...

Song 1: Wreck My Flow - The Dirtbombs (from We Have You Surrounded)
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Comic review - The Twelve

• Publisher: Marvel
• Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
• Artist: Chris Weston
• Wikipedia entry

Song 2: Pins In My Doll - The Dynamite Brothers (from Clap Along With...)
[Ask me and I bet I can hook you up!]

Comic review - Project Superpowers

• Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
• Plot: Jim Kruegar and Alex Ross
• Scripts: Jim Kruegar
• Cover Art: Alex Ross
• Interior Art: Doug Klauba and Stephen Sadowski
• Wikipedia entry

Watch Jon Stuart geek out about Man-Bat!



Song 3: Boogie Chillen - John Lee Hooker (from Face To Face, Volume 1)
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Ryn joins me as co-host again to talk about her recent trip to South By Southwest Interactive and her new-found addiction to social networking.

All music in this episode is by one of my new favorite bands, Los Campesinos!

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Their first full lengh CD, Hold On Now, Youngster is realesed in the US on April 1, 2008 (pre-order here), but you can get it now at Emusic.com.

Song 1: This is How You Spell "HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics"

Video 1: The International TweeXcore Underground (from The International TweeXcore Underground EP)



Ryn's SXSW report -- "There was a moustache going around."

Song 2/Video 2: Death to Los Campesinos!



Need a new drug?
Socialthing!
Get Satisfaction
Good Reads

Song 3: My Year In Lists

A couple of sites that came up during listener feedback...

Andy Lee - www.findandy.com
The Clockwork Cabaret - www.clickcaster.com/clockworkcabaret


Song 4/Video 3: We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives (from Sticking Fingers Into Sockets EP)



Video 4: You! Me! Dancing!

Being an experiment in tandem podcasting. For more steampunk and dinosaurs, listen to The Voice of Free Planet X (aka Jared Axelrod).

Song 1: The Lives of Captured Scientists - The Craft Economy (from All On C)
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Steampunk!

As definied on Wikipedia

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

On Flickr - The Guild of Justice-Minded Citizenry! (as seen on Boingboing.net)

Steampunk Spectacular podcast

The Clockwork Ball - Ringside, Durham, NC (Saturday, March 28)

Song 2: Airship Pirate - Abney Park (from Lost Horizons)
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Dinosaurs!

Paleo-blogs:
Tetrapod Zoology
Laelaps

On Flickr - Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries

Cladistics on Wikipedia

North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences

Song 3: Age of the Fern - George Hrab (from [sic])
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WARNING: This episode of Random Signal contains snarky Liberal ranting about the state of American politics and the 2008 presidential election. Not Safe For Work, Children, or Easily-offended Republicans.

Song 1: Dick Is a Killer - rx

Video 1: Imagine - rx



Song 2: The Happiest Place on Earth - Desaparecidos (from Read Music/Speak Spanish)
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Song 3/Video 2: Exit Strategy - Valient Thorr (from Legend of the World)
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Song 4: W's Duty - Jonathan Coulton (from Thing a Week One)
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Video 3: The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song - The Flaming Lips



Video 4: Dr. Who on Holiday - Dean Gray



Song 5: When The President Talks to God - Bright Eyes
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I've been called out by listener Brandt for "shenanigans" because this episode is coming one month and one day after my last show. But you know what, Brandt? I don't care because I got a new job! That's right, I am the newest project manager at Newfangled Web Factory in Carrboro, NC. To celebrate, all of today's music is by local bands.

Song 1: Dark Horse - Bowerbirds (from Hymns For a Dark Horse)
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Song 2: Terrier - The Moaners (from Dark Snack)
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Song 3: Say You Will - The Honored Guests (from Tastes Change)
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Song 4: Give It Away If You Can - Tad Dreis (from Play To Remember)
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Song 5: For All I Know - SNMNMNM (from Crawl Inside Your Head)
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It's Christmas! To celebrate, I bring you an extra-long episode filled with wine, women, and song. And chocolate cookies. All songs by Beatnik Turtle from The Song of The Day podcast.

00:00 The Christmas Train (Song of the Day for 12/10)

04:00 I welcome my two special guests: Jared Axelrod, host of podcasts The Voice of Free Planet X and Aliens You Will Meet, and JR Blackwell, host of Voices of Tomorrow.

08:58 JR is a runner-up in Violet Blue's list of the Top Ten Sexy Geeks of 2007!

11:44 How to tell if your waiter is Wolverine.

18:33 Christmas Is Coming To Your House (Song of the Day for 12/9)

21:06 We discuss "Comfort and Joy" the Justice League Christmas special. For the record, the Ultra-Humanite was voiced by Ian Buchanan, not Kelsey Grammer.



28:25 The Ultra-Humanite vs NPR

34:18 Fun with Mythology Pt. 1

A short reading from Classical Myths That Live Today (Silver, Burdett & Co., 1927) by Frances E. Sabin (who was a woman, incidentally).

Question for discussion: Is classical mythology a "girl's subject"?

38:45 Christmas Is a Vulture (Song of the Day for 12/12)

42:28 Fun with Mythology Pt. 2

Question for review: Was Juno justified in her jealous attitudes toward Jupiter?

50:00 Coed Naked Drunk Xmas Shopping (Song of the Day for 12/11)

52:16 Trader Joes's Candy Cane Joe-Joe's: "Oreos to the next, NEXT level."

55:00 Will Jared and JR ever discover the true meaning of Empire Day?

58:59 A Random Signal exclusive--JR Blackwell will launch her new podcast, Blackmail, early 2008!

01:01:10 For Lee at the I Motor Away podcast, "I Motor Away In a Manger" a drunken, a capella, improv (mostly), karaoke Christmas carol.

November ended badly, and I'm not quite up to my normal geeky ramblings. Therefore, RS65 is wall-to-wall music. Enjoy.

Song 1: Tip of My Tongue - Tall Dwarfs (from Weeville)
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Song 2: Boy With a Coin - Iron and Wine (from The Shepherd's Dog)
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Song 3: Science VS Romance - Rilo Kiley (from Take Offs and Landings)
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Song 4: My Favorite Book - Stars (from In Our Bedroom After the War)
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Song 5: Revenge! - Spoon (from 30 Gallon Tank EP and the Wired Magazine CD)
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Song 6: The Love I Crave - The Blow (from Poor Aim: Love Songs)
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Song 7: So What - Space Mtn (from A Drawing of a Memory of a Photograph of You)
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Song 8: Feathers - Man Man (from Six Demon Bag)
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Song 9: Bottom of the World - Tom Waits (from Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards)
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The lovely (and giggly) Ryn joins me once again to talk about what's new in the world of television.

Song 1: Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
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Promo: 7th Son and Heaven on Podiobooks.com

Ryn and I run down the pros and cons of the Fall TV season.

Torchwood (Jason: Yes/Ryn: No)
Bionic Woman (Jason: No/Ryn: No)
Journeyman (Jason: No/Ryn: No)
Pushing Daisies (Jason: Very Yes/Ryn: Yes)



Dirty Sexy Money (Jason: Maybe/Ryn: Yes)
Damages (Jason: Yes/Ryn: Yes)
Moonlight (Jason: Very No/Ryn: Yes)
Big Bang Theory (Jason: Yes/Ryn: Yes)



Chuck (Jason: Maybe/Ryn: Maybe)
Reaper (Jason: Maybe/Ryn: Maybe)

Song 2: Fake French - Le Tigre (from Feminist Sweepstakes and the Wired Magazine CD)
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After we finish up our TV discussion, we review Guitar Hero III for the PS2.

Song 3: Helicopter - Bloc Party (from Silent Alarm and featured in Guitar Hero III)
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Song 4: Wasp Nest - The National (from Cherry Tree EP)
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