Double Meat Podcast

2011 has been a rocky year for your rotund hosts. Zeke unexpectedly changed jobs and relocated. Sasha unexpectedly changed marital status and is in the process of relocating. This has disrupted our already less-than regular output, for which we are both sorry. Once things settle down for both of us we hope to start getting more dick jokes out to your ear holes.

One other thing that we want to address are the two yet-fulfilled rewards for those kind souls who donated to make the live Dragon*Con episode happen:

• The recording of the special backer-only episode was lost in the chaos of the convention and is unrecoverable. We are working on making something happen to replace it for everyone who donated. We’re very sorry for the problem and for the huge and unacceptable delay in making that right. Your patience and support is remarkable and we thank you for it.
• A few of your donated at the $100 level and are owed t-shirts. You have not been forgotten. The con and travel ate up all the money donated and Sasha has been unable to have the money to pay for the shirts and shipping. Divorce is financially chaotic and even worse when you’re poor to start. Please know that the move Sasha is in the middle of will be making that easier for him and you will have your shirts soon.

Thanks again for being such great folks. There are two Sashaful episodes recorded but unedited. As he gets breaks from work and moving those will be released, and we hope you enjoy them.

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Zeke is hunting Nazis in Brazil, but Sasha was able to sit down with Mickey Schulz to talk about why men are so annoying. They were joined by Mickey’s lovely husband Ogre. There was some bashing of rapists and libertarians.

Important links mentioned in this show include:

• Geek Girls Rule (http://www.geekgirlsrule.net/)
• Polimicks (http://www.polimicks.com/)
• “Photography and Sexism in the Skeptical Movement” (http://skepchick.org/2011/04/photography-and-sexism-in-the-skeptical-movement/)
• “Lawrence Krauss Defends a Sex Offender, Embarrasses Scientists Everywhere” (http://skepchick.org/2011/04/lawrence-krauss-defends-a-sex-offender-embarrasses-scientists-everywhere/)

If you will be in the San Francisco Bay Area over Memorial Day weekend, please come by SkeptiCal 2011 at the Doubletree Hotel in Berkeley. Sasha will be there and it will be good for your brain. (http://www.skepticalcon.org)

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As a special holiday “gift” to our listeners, Sasha and Zeke present this unedited show recorded in August 2010. We had a very fun chat with Ogre Whiteside (http://stabbingcontest.libsyn.com/) wher we mostly talked about gaming, pork, libertarians, pork, hippies, pork, evolutionary psychology, pork, misogyny, and also some pork. Zeke also improvised a mic stand using some canine MacGyver skills.

We hope you enjoy this special, completely uncut, look at a “lost episode” and we look forward to you listening next year, when we have some very special things planned for you guys.

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Sasha and Zeke talk about some recent nerd TV before they sit down for a very long chat with Kenneth Hite. Kenneth is a role-playing writer and designer and expert on alternate history. Amongst diverse topics they discuss constipated Germans, anti-koboldism, several alternate-historical scenarios, why Zeke is wrong about Tim Powers, and who we’ would kill once we get our time machine.

You can follow Kenneth on Twitter: @kennethhite and read all about him on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Hite

If you’d like to learn what all the fuss is about Tim Powers, you should look him up on Amazon. I doubt you’ll be disappointed.

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Thanks to very kind support from our listeners, Sasha and Zeke were both at Dragon*Con over the 2010 Labor Day weekend. The live show was, well, a bit rough in places. We’ll make sure we don’t have to substitute guests at the last minute next time. Very special thanks to both Sam and Jenny for helping make this show enjoyable.

Shout Outs:

• Jenny’s Blog: http://www.jennywadley.com/
• Sam’s Online Nexus: http://samchupp.com/

Last night we got an email from the loveley Chelsea in Canada. She’s not only a fan of the podcast but is also an illustrator. She was kind enough to send us our first ever fan art! Check it out, yo:

If you have some fan art or any other feed back, please share! (Especially if your fan art or feedback is somehow written or drawn on beautiful breasts.)

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Sasha talks to Michael Cornett about a variety of topics: tabletop roleplaying, the troubles with finding a group as a grown up, fucking your game master, and the lesbian assassin trope. They also discuss burlesque and how great naked ladies are, the mysical allure of Ron Perlman, and why it is that there’s not more skeptical and atheist outreach to the LGBT community or more skeptical and atheist queers. They have some theories, but you’ll have to listen to the episode to find out!

You should read Michael’s blog: http://dustandcorruption.blogspot.com

Also, if you will be in Washington, DC for the Rally to Restore Sanity, you should watch some sexy ladies undress afterward. Michael approves: http://www.palaceofwonders.com

Shout Outs this episode:

• Joey Haban: @ZenMonkey on Twitter and her blog: http://newly-nerfed.net
• Righteous Indignation‘s two part series on Miracle Mineral Solution: http://parafort.com/ri/?p=1144 and http://parafort.com/ri/?p=1154

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Sasha and Zeke talked to Nikol Hasler about her new book Sex: A Book for Teens, and also LARPing, vampire roleplaying games, Jewish butt-fetishists, and why there won’t be any more Midwest Teen Sex Show. We’re all sad.

After you listen to the episode, please go buy Nikol’s book for the teens in your life and then maybe try some LARPing. If you want some high quality funny, you should follow Nikol on Twitter: Twitter.com/NikolHasler

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While at Dragon*Con Sasha and Zeke got a chance to meet one of their heroes, the 10 year old LGBT activist Will Phillips. Getting a chance to talk to Will and his family was definitely a highlight of the con for the two hosts of Double Meat.

This episode is a special clean bonus episode, so there’s none of our usual potty-talk, but I think it’s well worth the listen. Will explains to us in three points why Star Trek is vastly superior to Star Wars.

Please note that we recorded this on the convention floor so there is a lot of background noise. Bear with us and enjoy the brief conversation with a real American hero.

Thanks for being patient as scheduling and internet caused a delay in publishing new content. Those are licked now and we will post our mini-sode with Will Phillips by this weekend. Two more episodes will post a week apart and then we will return to our usual bi-weekly schedule.