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The Rude Guy is the poison mushroom on the pizza of corporate culture. The arrow in the ass of the institutions of our time.
And you have stumbled upon the blog page that posts his podcasts, and the text versions of his podcasts, every two weeks or so.
There’re plenty of laughs, and something to offend everybody.
Podcast 58:Health Care and Wall Street … July 1, 2009
Podcast 57:The Problem with Rent … June 15, 2009
Podcast 56:How the World Works: Intro … June 1, 2009
Podcast 55:CIA lies and Banksters … May 15, 2009
Podcast 54:Capitalism with a Human Face … May 1, 2009
Podcast 53: Eat the Rich … April 15, 2009
Rerun of Podcast 19: NAFTA and immigration … June 26, 2006 [rerun April 1, 2009]
Rerun of Podcast 18: Peruvian Jungle Adventure … June 12, 2006 [rerun March 15, 2009]
Rerun of Podcast 17: Time for a National Strike? … May 29, 2006 [rerun March 1, 2009]
Rerun of Podcast 16: What Men Know That Women Don’t … May 15, 2006 [rerun February 15, 2009]
Rerun of Podcast 15: What’s REAL and what’s not? … May 1, 2006 [rerun February 1, 2009]
Rerun of Podcast 14: Are corporations tapeworms? … April 17, 2006 [rerun January 15, 2009]
Rerun of Podcast 13: Does female greed feed corporate greed? … April 3, 2006 [rerun January 1, 2009]
Rerun of Podcast 12: Are men the oppressors of women, or are women the oppressors of men? … April 3, 2006 [rerun December 15, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 11: Why do rents and mortgages cost so much? … March 27, 2006 [rerun December 1, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 10: Are corporations vampires? … March 20, 2006 [rerun November 15, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 9: Memes: What makes fanatics fanatics? … March 13, 2006 [rerun November 1, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 8: Christian Communists and Corporate Communism? … March 6, 2006 [rerun October 15, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 7: What is science good for? … February 27, 2006 [rerun October 1, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 6: Does God exist? … February 20, 2006 [rerun September 15, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 5: Populism and the fight against corporations … Feb 13, 2006 [rerun September 1, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 4: What IS it with the Fragile FEMALE Ego? … Februrary 6, 2006 [rerun August 15, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 3: Does the Democratic Party understand the difference between white men and RICH white men? … January 30, 2006 [rerun August 1, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 2: Should we tax stock market transactions to pay for national health care, like England does? … January 23, 2006 [rerun July 15, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 1: Are U.S. corporations directly to blame for the attacks of 911? … January 16, 2006 [rerun July 1, 2008]
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Podcast 20: Bush Family Fuckups and Rush Limbaugh cab drivers … July 2006
Podcast 21: Things Conservatives Believe … July 2006
Podcast 22: How do we get rid of fear? … August 2006
Podcast 23:What do women want? … August 2006
Podcast 24: Fantasies: Americans have free and fair elections and live in a democracy; and 19 Arabs with plastic knives brought down the World Trade Center and attacked the Pentagon … September 2006
Podcast 25: Should socialism be called Peoplism? President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela says: I follow the teachings of the first socialist. Jesus Christ … September 2006
Podcast 26: Rich Zubaty holds forth on polite, charming, witty, clever Assholes; taking back the government, the value of being RUDE, how your mom fucked up your brain, his jackass siren, and who’s really taking away our freedoms anyway? … October 2006
Podcast 27: The Corporate Vampires DVD sound track … October 2006
Podcast 28: Rich Zubaty reads vignettes from Romance, his autobiography, about life on the lam in 25 different countries … November 2006
Podcast 29: Guided Buddhist Meditation from Thailand …November 2006
Podcast 30: Rich Zubaty rants about living in his truck, Homeless in Hawaii, homeless shelters that don’t provide housing, and Female Aristocrats who ignore the plight of poor people …December 2006
Podcast 31: Impeach Bush, and Part One of Rich’s South Pacific adventures. Lost and found …December 2006
Podcast 32: Part Two of Rich’s South Pacific adventures. Fabulous fishing and a mysterious visitor…January 2007
Podcast 33: One year anniversary show. A recap of the first 32 shows …January 2007
Podcast 34: Nascar Politicians, cheeseburgers for Darfur, how our own soldiers enslave us, what is evolution good for?; and an excerpt about talking plants from Rich Zubaty’s novel: Your Brain Is Not Your Own …February 2007
Podcast 35: Grandfathering, plus: betting on presidents, the Jewish lesbian Republican governor of Hawaii, and outsource Dick Cheney …February 2007
Podcast 36: Pilgrimmage to Singapore and India …March 1, 2007
Podcast 37: Why I hate women, and the importance of ideas …March 15, 2007
Podcast 38: Soul, Soulfulness, Things I Want My Kids to Know …April 1, 2007
Podcast 39: Reinventing Learning; more excerpts from Rich Zubaty’s book: The Corporate Cult …April 15, 2007
Podcast 40: The last show for a couple months:…The mind of Robert Crumb; plus previews of upcoming shows: prosecute Cheney and Rove, how our soldiers don’t protect us – but enslave us to massive debt, how George W. Bush is like Josef Stalin, biographies of defense attorney Clarence Darrow, political novelist George Orwell, and populist Huey Long; ban depleted uranium, Teddy Roosevelt on malefactors of great wealth, male initiation, and male menopause …May 2007
Podcast 41: Rich Zubaty in France, reading from his Wisdom Booklet, the spiritual travelogue of his world travels …July 1, 2007
Podcast 42: Male Initiation, turning boys into men …August 1, 2007
Podcast 43: Huey Long, C.I.A. operative Gloria Steinem, and a goofy political Odyssey featuring the amazing human and animal impersonations of Dan Burgevin …September 1, 2007
Podcast 44: Unsung American heroes Abbie Hoffman, and Franklin Roosevelt, and Bad Words that are Really Good …October 1, 2007
Podcast 45: Evolution: Science or Religion? …November 1, 2007
Podcast 46: How fishing is like praying …December 1, 2007
Podcast 47: Synthetic Terrorism, Shadow Government, Oligarchy, False Flag Operations, Webster Tarpley book …January 1, 2008
Podcast 48: What’s wrong with American woman by author Nancy Levant …February 1, 2008
Podcast 49: Report from a Mexican village on Latin American anti-globalization …March 1, 2008
Podcast 50: Naomi Klein on the Shock Doctrine and Disaster Capitalism …April 1, 2008
Podcast 51: Quantum Physics and God …May 1, 2008
Podcast 52: Male versus Female Brain biology …June 1, 2008
[The Rude Guy Podcast #58 July 1, 2009]
This is Rich Zubaty, the Rude Guy no more.
Gas prices where I live have gone up almost a dollar, in the past two months. How come? There’s no more demand for gas, and no shortage of it. I’ll tell ya how come. Wall Street. The same fuckwads we just bailed out – those fine folks at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley – are speculating in oil and driving the prices up. They’re paying back the bailout loans we gave them, by gouging us on gasoline. And here’s my question. Why do we even ALLOW people like this to LIVE in America. Capitalists. You extend them a helping hand, and they cut off your arm. I understand there’s a lack of capitalists in China. Let’s ship ‘em all over there. They’ll destroy that country faster than radioactive rice.
[bird]
The other day I heard Progressive Radio Host, Ed Shultz, say something very important, as he often does. Basically Ed said that if Obama doesn’t come to bat for the working people pretty soon, the Democratic Party is going to fracture, and spawn a Third Political Party, the Middle Class Party, Ed called it…and that will split the Liberal vote, so that in the next big election, the Republicans will be reborn, like resurrected zombies. Divide and conquer. And Obama will be a one-term president…And I will move to Australia or Brazil.
I think Ed Shultz is right. 76% of Americans want single payer health care. Yes, folks, let’s not candy-coat it. That’s socialized medicine. Just like England and France and Germany and Denmark and Canada and Australia have now… and have had for decades. Where the quality of their medical care is higher, and their costs are lower, than ours.
And yet President Obama just said, quote “Nobody wants…or at least I don’t want…socialized medicine like England has”. Get real Barack. As a member of the U.S. government, you already have socialized medicine! In 2003 you told us you were for it. In 2008 you told us you were for it. And now that you’re in office, suddenly you’re against it? That’s not a flip flop. That’s a flat out betrayal. A stab in the back. A campaign lie. I don’t like being lied to.
The reason other countries have beat our pants off in manufacturing, is because their manufacturers don’t have to pay for healthcare, and ours do. That’s reason enough to establish national health care here. The way out of our decade-long economic decline is by unburdening our employers of health care obligations.
England taxes stock market transactions at the rate of, one half of one per cent, and pays for national health care with the money. American taxpayers have just taken it up the ass from Wall Street, to the tune of 3 to 4 TRILLION dollars. And this is how to get our money back. This is EXACTLY how to get our money back. The timing could not be more fortuitous to link these two. Health Care and Stock Market. Tax stock market transactions and pay for national health care with the money. Just like merry old England does.
Despite what you said Mr. President, seventy six per cent of us want socialized medicine…and your job is to represent the interests of the people who elected you. Your job is to fight for national medical care…and if we lose, we’ll figure out who to blame, and kick them out of the House and Senate next time around. We’re going to accomplish this.
You’ve been in office a mere five months, and this country is already sick of your smooth-talking sellouts. (more…)
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[The Rude Guy Podcast #57 June 15, 2009]
This is Rich Zubaty, The Rude Guy. The Paul Harvey of podcasting. Bringing you…the Rest of the Story.
I’m still living in my car, because rent is way too high. If I pay rent I don’t have money for anything else, and in fact, I go deeper into credit card debt each month. Rent is an abomination. Rent is the way that rich people and banks, oppress poor people. And rent, these days, includes mortgages, which are really just rent of money…So how did we get here?
Long ago, in Europe and Asia and America, some man looked out over a thousand acres and said, “This is all mine”. The Indians, the local nomads, were baffled. They fell over laughing. But before long this entrepreneur had hired them, or other latecomers like himself, to “work” this land. Plowing it and raising cattle on it. Making it productive. The entrepreneur himself worked long and hard too, but he was the “owner”. He paid the others subsistence wages, corn and cows, and kept the rest for himself. And thus his wealth increased, by the capital, produced from the labor, of the local people. Labor IS capital.
Several generations later, the sons and daughters of this entrepreneur, still “owned” the land. But they had been to Harvard and Princeton, and had better things to do than raise pigs and soybeans. So they… “rented out” the land. To whom? To the grandsons and granddaughters of the very locals who had built up the capital wealth of the farm, in the first place. Overnight, the owners began renting the work of the local great grandfathers, to the local great grandchildren. What a system. This is what Proudhon meant when he said, quote, “property is theft.”
But pretty soon the renters wondered why they couldn’t be owners too? And after awhile, the heirs of the owners decided they needed ALL the capital, all the wealth, held in the farm, for other projects they were launching. So they decided to, “sell” the farm. To whom? The heirs of the very locals who had built it up. Now they were selling the work of the great grandfathers, to the great grandchildren. But the problem was, the locals didn’t have money to buy the farm.
“No problem,” said the heirs of the owners. “We’ll lend you the money, from our bank.” So the heirs of the owners made up money out of thin air, which is what banks are licensed, by the government, to do. Then they “lent” this money to the heirs of the people who had built the farm… so now the great grandchildren could “buy” the work of their great grandparents. And all they had to do was pay a little “interest”, in order to buy their great grandparents work back from the heirs of the owners.
Every wonder why there was a French Revolution? Why king’s and noblemen’s heads rolled in the streets? Why capitalism is despised over most of the globe? This is why. Rents and landlords.
An average payment on this rent of imaginary money, now called a “mortgage”, would be 90% towards interest, and 10% towards principal. It would take the better part of your lifetime, to pay off your purchase of your grandfather’s work. Grandpa’s work was stolen to begin with, and you have to buy it again. Ever wonder how rich people can afford racehorses and yachts?
And it gets worse.
For who would set the price of the farm? The renter? The owner? No, no, no, no. The “market” sets the price. What market is that? The “market” that is made up of 90% imaginary money, lent by other banks to other locals, who want to buy farms too. This is what’s meant, by growth. Growth is actually inflated value. The only way the banks can get back their imaginary money in real money, is if the economy keeps growing. Keeps inflating the value of everything, so that if you own lots of things, you get richer just for waking up in the morning. And if you don’t own anything, you get poorer sipping every morning’s coffee. But Rush Limbaugh and the Republican Party, and bastard, sell-out, right wing Democrats like Max Baucus, tell us that’s how the market works, so who are you to complain? You can buy all the work of your grandfathers for nine times more than it’s worth, plus interest. (with gravitas) The “market” says so.
Fine. You buy the farm. You make the payments. You have some good years. You have some bad years. The Banks, who have already made piles of money from you, by financing your purchase of the work of your grandfathers, the banks, lend you more money for machinery and seeds. The good years come back, but meanwhile the banks have also financed huge agribusinesses, farming hundreds of thousands of acres, which produce so much, food they drive commodity prices into the toilet. You can’t compete. You go bankrupt.
And now the banks, owned by the sons and daughters of the original “owner” of the farm, have your land back again. And they’ll even hire you to come work on it, at a subsistence wage. Just like your great great great great grandfathers did. (more…)
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[The Rude Guy Podcast #56 June 1, 2009]
This is Rich Zubaty, The Rude Guy no more. Paul Harvey of podcasting. Bringing you…the Rest of the Story.
Is Barack Obama still wondering how to regulate Wall Street? For goodness sakes. Here’s how to do it:
One: tax stock market transactions and use the money to pay for national health care. Just like Great Britain does. Exactly like Great Britain does. That slows rabid speculation, and gives us health care at the same time, which instantly makes our manufacturing more globally competitive.
Two: Limit all loan leveraging, to one part to eight. For each dollar banks and brokerages have on deposit, they can loan out eight. Not eighteen, not thirty-three, not sixty-three. Eight.
Three: ban loaning money to buy stocks. That’s just plain insane. If you got money you can buy stock, if you don’t you can’t. For fuck sakes. We can’t be leveraging stock purchases.
Four: ban derivatives, and credit default swaps, and securitizing mortgages for resale, and any other financial instruments designed to be so obscure no one knows how risky they really are. This will encourage investors to make real investments in real things, like factories and food and energy. Not more electronic digits zipping around the globe never landing anywhere and never doing anybody any good.
Five: reinstate the Glass Steagall Act, which separated banks, insurance companies and brokerage houses, like they had been, since the 1930’s, until conservative democrats Bill Clinton and Robert Rubin and Larry Summers came along and tore down the firewalls, and laid the rotting floorboards for the economic mess we are in now.
Do these five things and the global economy will snap back into shape again. No, we won’t have insane hollowed out growth like before. We will have stability. Sustainability. Not financial swamp rot.
[bird]
I just heard Peter Orzag, director of the Office of Management and Budget, talk about how wasteful healthcare spending is, and how we can drastically reduce health care costs by eliminating unnecessary medical testing.
He’s absolutely right. I just racked up a $20,000 dollar hospital bill, which I don’t have the money to pay, for $20 dollars worth of healthcare, at my local hospital…I woke up at 2 am with a vicious pain in my gut, down by my appendix. A cop saw me leaning against my truck, which is my house, and convinced me to call the ambulance. The ambulance came, did heart tests on me, and said that my heart seemed to be OK, but if I was in pain I should drive myself to the Emergency Room.
At the emergency room they completely ignored my pleas about intestinal pain, and started performing heart tests. I finally had to beg them for something to take away the pain. They gave me morphine. But that didn’t even help, the pain was so excruciating. In the morning I was transferred upstairs to the hospital. A doctor came in and told me there were protocols he had to follow, so he was ordering a battery of heart tests. I told him he could order all the heart tests he wants, but my pain is in my gut and I should be getting something to decrease that. Maybe antibiotics.
He ignored me. The nurses ignored me. One nurse actually laughed at me when I said I wanted antibiotics. Nevertheless, they sent me off for all kinds of expensive heart tests. At 2 am the following morning, 24 hours later, I was still in so much pain, I asked to see a doctor. They said there was no doctor in the hospital. I blew up. “What the hell am I doing staying overnight in a hospital that has no doctor. I’d be better off sleeping in my truck!”
In a fury I started packing up to leave. A kindly nurse took the time to position me sitting up in a chair, which helped relieve the pain, and I made it through the night, but just barely. I’ve had a broken ankle and a broken kneecap, that hurt less than this intestinal pain. It was like a shark ripping at my guts. When the doctor came in that morning I complained loudly again. He gave me a blood test and found that my white cell count was up, and put me on antibiotics, LIKE I WANTED IN THE FIRST PLACE, and within an hour the pain began subsiding. But now, since my white cell count was up, I had to stay in the hospital two more days.
So, 20 thousand dollars and thirty hours of excruciating pain, all because the heart nazis had commandeered the situation, and put me through all kinds of unnecessary tests. Meanwhile completely ignoring the real problem. And here’s the thing. In my medical kit, in my storage locker, I had a bottle of pills of the same antibiotic they gave me in the hospital. It cost 20 bucks when I bought it for an abscessed tooth, last year, in Mexico. I thought about taking it when the pain first came on, but I couldn’t get into my storage locker until 6 am, and it was only 2 am, so that’s why I drove to the hospital instead. Surely they would give me better medical attention than I could give myself. Right?
[RG voice: Outrageous]
This is what OMB director Orzag is talking about. This is how we can save healthcare money. Fuck protocols. Whose protocols? Right now the insurance companies have the doctors so scared, they waste all kinds of time and money, performing unnecessary tests, and end up providing painfully inferior healthcare, just so the insurance companies stay off their backs.
It sucks. Fuck the insurance companies. This is a whole other reason we need to boot insurance companies out of health care. They give inadequate coverage at the same time they are blowing health care costs through the roof. Lose/lose.
I watched this same thing happen to my mom, over and over again, on her hospital visits. Smiley Pakistani doctors running up huge unnecessary Medicare bills. They actually gave her open-heart surgery to replace a heart valve, three days before she died of colon cancer. The fucking beasts. Yeah, we can fix healthcare, by NATIONALIZING it. Get the goddamed insurance companies out of it. (more…)
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[The Rude Guy Podcast 55 May 15, 2009]
CIA lies and Banksters
This is Rich Zubaty, the Paul Harvey of Podcasting, bringing you…the REST of the story.
Shortly before Michelle Obama moved into the White House, this rational, educated woman, made an insanely hysterical, paranoid statement, about how she was so thrilled that, in a few weeks, when she put her daughters to bed in the White House, our soldiers in foreign lands would be protecting them……. Are you kidding me? Protecting them? From what? Going to sleep in the White House, has to be just about the safest place to go to sleep, on Planet Earth. It’s a whole lot safer than any neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, THAT I know for sure.
So why is this otherwise sober and balanced woman saying this? She’s saying this because she’s being lied to. By her husband. And why is he lying to her? Because he’s being lied to. And therein lies…[RG and RZ VOICE] the rest of the story.
Every morning the president receives a national security briefing. From whom? From the same assholes who briefed Colin Powell just before he went into the United Nations and made a total ass of himself, and ruined his political career forever, by claiming there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. CIA, FBI, NSA, National Security Agency. These people lie to the leaders of the American People, because it’s the only way to justify funding their asinine projects.
People believe that the president of the USA has privileged access to highly classified intelligence. He does. The problem is, it’s all wrong. He’s told there are enemies all over the place out there who want to kill him. Which is true. He’s NOT told that far and away most those enemies sleep in caves, and ride donkeys. He’s NOT told he’s got more enemies within the American Military, and Intelligence communities, who will want to kill him, if he cuts their funding, than there are sardines in the sea. Any school child or wino in the street could make a better call on a National Security issue than the president, for the simple reason that their thinking is not polluted with lies and misinformation, and his is. It would be laughable were it not so deadly.
I’m not pulling this out of my ass. Hold onto your butt cheeks. I’m gonna to verify it right now.
This deliberate disinformation campaign by American intelligence PROFESSIONALS, against the American people, bloomed during the Cold War, with the Soviet Union. It is now known that U.S. intelligence estimates, ROUTINELY pegged Soviet military strength, three to five times higher than it was. Our spies claimed the Soviets had three to five times the number of missiles, tanks, jets and soldiers than they actually did. This is OUTRAGEOUS.
[RG Voice: OUTRAGEOUS]
The people who told us this should be hung, not given government pensions. What this means is that, instead of giving food and medicine to the rest of the world, like Cuba, we spent our money building more and more useless missiles and tanks. A complete WASTE of our national treasure. And thoroughly counterproductive and outright damaging to our national security, because it goaded the Soviets into a nuclear arms race, and insane adventures like trying to put missiles in Cuba, to counterbalance the missiles we had put near the Soviet border in Turkey.
I just read a book written by a former Soviet KGB officer stationed in Washington DC. Stanislav Levchenko. Levchenko was the Soviet Spymaster who ran spies inside the CIA and FBI…crew cut American guys from Wisconsin and California who spied for the Soviets. And why did they spy for the Soviets? The main reason they gave Levchenko was: they hated, how their superiors, at the CIA and FBI and NSA, were lying to the American people, about Soviet military strength, and the money and weapons needed to neutralize that bogus strength. They hated how American money and resources were being squandered on pumped up lies. According to Levchenko, these spies remained American patriots. They did not become communists. They did not want to move to Russia. They wanted to stop the flood of lies from their superiors: J. Edgar Hoover and William Casey and George Herbert Walker Bush and Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, and the other evil trolls crawling through the political sewers of Washington.
These trolls are the same guys who lie to Obama every single morning. (more…)
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