Category: Saint Kermit

[download the mp3 of “Saint Kermit #47”]

Another episode of the green-tinged podcast.

Talk:

• Jim thinks third-party candidates didn’t do very well in Massachusetts.
• Jim thinks Grace Ross should run for Worcester’s City Council.
• Mike thinks WCCA is awesome.
• Mike talks a bunch about community media and for-profit media. (If you read this blog, you’ve seen it before.)
• Jim watched some of the new English-language al-Jazeera.

Interview:

• Jim talks with Ann Hancock of the Climate Protection Campaign about greenhouse gases and ecobabes.

Sports crew:

• They talk about sports.

[download the mp3 of “Saint Kermit podcast #46: Democrats, Democrats Everywhere”]

After a sleepless night riding the bus, and a long day hanging around a hospital, Mike summons the energy to phone Jim and record a podcast. They mostly complain about the Democrats.

Then Jim interviews Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern, and Anna Burger, the chair of the Change to Win Coalition.

After Mauro DePasquale’s song “In Your Hands,” the sports crew extolls the joys of tailgating.

[download the mp3 of Saint Kermit #44: “Music to Our Ears”]

Yes, another Saint Kermit podcast.

• Mike interviews Rand Wilson about the Working Families Party and Question 2.
• Jim and Mike talk about the gubernatorial debates.
• Jim interviews John McCutcheon about music, labor, and baseball. Featuring John’s song “It’s the Economy, Stupid.”
• More baseball from the sports gang.

I make an appearance on this week’s Saint Kermit podcast, speaking from my parents’ basement (like all the real podcasters do). I manage to talk politics with Jim for a few minutes, and then start ranting about the pope’s Regensburg speech.

More show notes.

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Some links to things mentioned in the most recent Saint Kermit podcast.

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First, Jim Henderson and Mike Benedetti discuss poverty and race:

• Report: Data show one in eight Americans in poverty
• Rep. Chris “The Count” Chocola responds to the report
• Proposal: roll Mass. income tax back to 5%
• Coach Pat Williams incident
• Colorblinded: Walter Benn Michaels wants the left to stop obsessing over diversity and start worrying about economic inequality
• Massachusetts: Wages down almost 5 percent, report says
• Tom Cornell’s Labor Day sermon
• Michael Apted’s “Up” documentaries

Interview: Jean Hay Bright, running for Senate against incumbent Olympia Snowe in Maine. Jean Hay Bright has a diary at DailyKos. TIME on Olympia Snowe: “. . . she is also known as one of the most effective advocates for her constituents.”

Music: Ad Frank, “World’s Best Ex-Boyfriend”

Sports: The crew talks with Seth Mnookin about his book Feeding the Monster and the Sox.

Note: No, I am not going to blog every St Kermit from now on.