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7/4/2008 3:00 AM UTC
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Why Talk Radio Was Invented. Hosted by author/syndicated columnist Dr. Thomas Keister and "The Internet Legend," ppdingles, the show takes an often cynical look at the best, the worst, and the least damn surprising of the week you're amazed you've only made it halfway through. Current events, politics, entertainment, pop culture, we discuss all the crap getting beamed into space to state the case we're an intelligent species. Yeah...we're boned...
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Date / Time: 11/12/2009 4:00 AM UTC
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Come join Dr. Thomas Keister and The Internet Legend ppdingles for an all-new episode of the award-nominated, internationally acclaimed talk radio hit! This week on Probably Uncalled For, we'll be discussing PETA, Ford Motor Co, the U.S. Postal service, and Ashton Kutcher's dumb a**, along with the usual epic fails in crime, an all-new Dumb Import, and the massively interesting topics to be determined! Phone lines and chat room open the duration of the broadcast! Come find out what the world is listening to, LIVE as always on Blog Talk Radio!
Original Air Date: 1/30/2008 1:00 AM UTC
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Date / Time: 1/17/2008 3:18 AM UTC
The one you won't hear coming...according to the February 2008 Playboy, 29 men have experienced hearing loss as a result of erectile dysfunction medication. I said it last night on the show...if the vajayjay is good enough to go deaf over, more power to you. Closed captioning's a b**ch, don't get me wrong, but damn yeah, more power to you.
Guys-only gatherings never went out of vogue, no matter what the hell the Seattle Times seems to think. What simply has to stop is this 'mancation' bulls**t. It does not matter if you're hetero, homo, metro, or asexual troll living under a f**king bridge- it is a vacation. Bottom line. End of story, damnit, and could you all stop and get some balls on your way back through? Hope you don't get caught up in customs.
Since that kid in Poland basically built a remote control to take over his city's train system, I'm now waiting for the day when some jackhole uses an XBox 360 to commandeer the New York City subway system, or some similar hot mess. Think it's not possible- just look at the movie Wargames. This 1983 Matthew Broderick epic showed us a s**tty home PC and an old school push button phone could poleaxe NORAD. Now, 25 years down the road...?
Norwegian crime is funny, even if the police and everybody else in the country have seemed to given the f**k up on the problem. I mean, come on, an in-ground swimming pool getting swiped is not only freakin hysterical, but damn impressive, to boot. Wonder if pool theft is on the rise now in Norway...
That guy in Canada who successfully challenged his breathalyzer test on the grounds he was too cheap to get loaded? Yeah, I think that motherf**ker owes the rest of us a round.
Who's dumber, I wonder...a millionaire living in New Jersey, or a tourist picking Colombia as a vacation destination?...
Now that the steroid scandal has apparently impeached the levees of the sporting world, threatening to engulf other areas of the entertaiment world, most notably the music industry, I wonder if Dominick Dunn is gearing up for his own version of the Mitchell Report? Of course, they would release it on Tru TV, but it would feature a lot less scrubs, I would imagine...
I don't care what anyone says- the New York Post hiring a Jessica Simpson lookalike to sit behind the Dallas Cowboys' bench- third row, during their home playoff loss to the Giants on Sunday, was absof**kinglutely brilliant. That's what Tony Romo gets for going to Mexico rather than practice. No go dry T.O.'s eyes and tell him to wait for next year...
It was good to have ppdingles back in the studio for the show last night. It's been a rough couple of months for The Internet Legend, with the extended illness and passing of his father earlier this month, and he has appreciated all the thoughts and prayers that were sent his way.
Be sure to be back in front of your monitor next Tuesday night, with nothing better to do, cause Probably Uncalled For will return, live as always, 8:00PM Eastern.
Original Air Date: 1/16/2008 1:00 AM UTC
Date / Time: 1/16/2008 12:27 AM UTC
Date / Time: 1/15/2008 1:35 PM UTC
The following are remarks our host Thomas Keister made while roaming around, whoring out the show on the forums at Topix.net:
Topic: Do you feel sorry for Britney Spears?
I'm just sorry where one left off, a new one is chasing right behind her. at the rate they are spawning, we may never be rid of the Spears family.
Topic: TNA star Chris Harris reportedly signing with WWE...
Chris Harris will be lost in the mix in no time flat. Even so, who can blame him? TNA blew their push of Harris, and that was a shame. They did not give Harris time to try and get over as a singles wrestler. His former tag partner gets more air time staging a drinking contest. Who wouldn't jump at a new deal at that point?
I'm surprised by this point that Christopher Daniels has not made his way to WWE.
(poster) Megaman must be delusional. Why would WWE waste the effort hiring Hall to no show? This way, he can accomplish the same thing without the blown paycheck.
Ron Killings was a waste of time when he was in WWE the first time, and to this day remains the most inexplicable world champion since David Arquette. Maybe TNA withdrew from the NWA to break the Killings connection to the title. That's my theory, anyhow...
Date / Time: 1/14/2008 1:33 PM UTC
I'm surprised you haven't heard the squeals of outrage from where you are sitting at this very moment, whether it be your favorite chair, your desk at work, or outside messing up a perfectly good day by fiddling with your mobile web. Of course, if you live in Oklahoma, you can indeed hear the outrage, so it's pretty much a moot point if you're in Tulsa reading this article. At any rate, there has been plenty of outrage to spare since the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007 took effect last November 1.
One of the nation's toughest laws dealing with illegal immigrants, the Act, or "1804," as it is more popularly known, affects the state in a variety of fashions. For law enforcement agencies in Oklahoma, 1804 allows the state to negotiate the ability of those agencies to enforce immigration law. I suppose it's a little late in the game to ask exactly why a state trooper or county sheriff couldn't enforce a law in the first place, but I'll take the positives as I can get them, in regards to this issue. In addition, 1804 prevents the adoption of so-called "sanctuary" policies that bar police from cooperating with immigration authorities. Not that I am a constitutional scholar, or anything like, but how is a local government allowed to prevent the police from dealing with a federal agency?
For businesses that employ illegal immigrants, life just got a little less convenient in Oklahoma. Illegal immigrants are no longer allowed to have driver's licenses or other forms of government identification. The effect is already noticeable in the state, as businesses have reported declining employee numbers and industries have experienced sales declines. The biggest changes, perhaps, is the new requirement for businesses and government agencies to cross-check hires to ensure they are legally eligible to work. If a business violates this, they would not get the contract with the agency. Personally, my favorite touch is the new rule allowing fired legal employees to sue their former employees if they retain illegal workers on the payroll. Then again, I suppose if a company insists on keeping illegal workers on the payroll in Oklahoma, given the new rules, then I would imagine liability not being an overwhelming concern.
And what of the illegal immigrant, our country's erstwhile guest of honor? For a person whom the Dallas Morning News named the 2007 Texan of the Year, just across the state line, things are not as pessimistically optimistic. For starters, transporting, concealing, harboring, or sheltering illegal immigrants was made a felony offense, as it should have been all along. In this overcomplicated world of intelligence, counter-intelligence, law enforcement, and security agencies, it seems amazing that transporting or otherwise assisting someone not allowed legally to be in the country is a misdemeanor most everywhere else in this country. If you think that seems a little melodramatic, take someone caught smuggling in people from Tijuana and someone caught smuggling people in from Afghanistan, and see who gets the misdemeanor and who gets made an example of.
You knew it was not going to be a complete cakewalk, right? Detractors have been many, including churches and business groups. Neighboring states to Oklahoma are noticing a rise in illegal immigrants coming from Oklahoma for health care, leading to an obvious increase in those states' spending. One of the main criticisms seems to be that removing the illegal immigrant thins out the workforce, creating competition for jobs, high turnaround on services, and forcing businesses to raise wages and prices.
Hard to be sympathetic. I mean, are those companies that dependent on an illegal labor pool that simply enforcing the law is a serious threat to their business? How many of these businesses receive corporate welfare of some form already? I know you have to walk before you can run, but how many crutches are you gonna claim you need just to stand on your own two feet? State Rep. Shane Jett (R), an opponent of 1804, envisions a program that would allow illegal immigrants to pay a fine and continue working (and paying taxes), exempt from 1804 regulations but not from existing federal law. Hold up a second. Allowing someone to pay some money, so they continue to do their thing, even if it's against the law? Sounds like either a protection racket or bribery to me.
Competition for jobs may drive increases in wages and prices, but it will also spur development, possibly in education. Education trends are tied to hot jobs, and hot jobs are the ones competed for, whether or not they are glamour details, because of the wages. At what point does buckling down, seeking new industry, and maybe working to prevent higher education from being a lifetime lesson in debt management work out to be a bad course of action for a government? Eliminating the eligibility for most social assistance to illegal immigrants will free up money to better provide care for those deserving, or to fund more ambitious social projects on down the road.
For all the good, bad, and ugly over 1804, the bottom line is the legislation will end up being a long-term win for the people of Oklahoma, and should be something more than just a handful of states are examining on their own. Once they realize the first step in addressing the problem is not simply ignoring it, the rest should not be rocket surgery.
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