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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 65: Barack Obama’s Flying Pigs … January 1, 2010
Podcast 64: Nationalize the Fed … December 19, 2009
Dump Obama: Obama claims Afghanistan is not Vietnam … December 2, 2009
Podcast 63: Butterfly Barack … November 26, 2009
Podcast 62: Barack Obama: Our First Female President … October 13, 2009
I Choose Therefore I Am: Quantum Physics and Free Will… October 5, 2009
Podcast 61: Healthcare or die: people vs.corporations … August 15, 2009
Podcast 60: Live in your car … August 1, 2009
Podcast 59: Get out of Afghanistan … July 15, 2009
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 #65 January 17, 2010]
[FDR: "I welcome their hatred" speech.]
Rich Zubaty here. Welcoming you to the Reality Cult. The show that’s about reality…not fantasy. Not Rush Limbaugh talking points, not the Democratic Party platform, not Barack Obama’s to-do list, not fantasy. Reality.
This just in. Natives of the South Pacific island of Vanuatu recently held a, quote “conciliation ceremony”, with the great great grandson of the British missionary, the Reverend John Williams, whom the islanders ATE when he came ashore in 1839. They claim their forefathers had eaten him to, quote, “absorb the power of their enemy”. Nonetheless, 160 years later they still feel “guilt” over killing and eating the famous Christian missionary, and therefore presented great great grandson, Charles Milner-Williams with…a SEVEN YEAR OLD GIRL…I shit you not… a SEVEN YEAR OLD GIRL, who will NOT be eaten. But whose education will be paid for by the British aristocratic family. Win win for the natives. First they eat the great great grandfather, then get his family to pay for their daughter’s private education in the best English schools.
See what I mean about reality.
[bird]
I’ve actually begun to think that one big reason President Obama is in no hurry to end the wars, is because he’s afraid to throw a couple million more people out of their jobs, making guns and bombs, in this rotten economy – as if they couldn’t be reassigned to repairing falling bridges and crumbling schools. But staying the maddening course, set by George W Bush, is the safe way to handle it. And that’s the way our pragmatic president does things. The safe way. The easy way. The convenient way. The way that makes the fewest waves and fewest enemies. The CONSERVATIVE way. We now have a populist leader who has convinced us that War is Peace, Conformity is Creativity and No Change is Change. Someday soon, in order to avoid mass insanity, we’re gonna have to go back to using the dictionary definitions of things, not just whatever sounds good in a sound bite.
It’s gotten to the point where I cannot stand the sound of Barack Obama’s voice. As soon as I hear it I change the channel, just like I did with George W Bush. It just plain annoys me listening to him serving up vinegar and calling it champagne. It makes me angry.
My shrink tells me that I’m angry because I am fearful. That anger is always caused by fear. Oh really? That’s like telling me that pigs can’t fly because they don’t have wings. There’s a whole lot more to the story. Pigs can’t fly because they don’t have hollow bones and streamlined bodies and proper wing muscles. Like so many things in clinical psychology, what my shrink tells me is true as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough.
I’m angry because Barack Obama lied. To me and to the nation. And in lying to us he fucked up an enormous opportunity for change. Fucked up a historical swing of the pendulum from conservatism back to liberalism. No, fuck liberalism. Way past liberalism…to Progressivism. Maybe even socialism. Once again, the Democrats came out in full blown support of bullshit social issues – electing a black man or a white woman for president – and tiptoed away from supporting no bullshit economic issues – like halting the thirty-year destruction of the middle class by banks and insurance companies. And today. One year after the economic collapse directly caused by Wall Street greed, the capitalist pigs are openly saying: boy oh boy, if we didn’t start a stampede to socialism after that fuck up, it’s NEVER gonna happen. And they’re greedier and more brazen than ever. Because Barack Obama dithered and compromised and sermonized from the sidelines, instead of jumping into the game and grabbing the ball, and making the moves he told us he’d make, to straighten out the economy and the wars and insurance company parasites…which means, he lied.
Never have I seen a human being talk so much, and do so little. If you think that this guy is smart, then I’ve got a flying pig to sell you. (more…)
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Tom Hayden said its time to peel the Obama sticker off his car. And I know why. Barack Obama distorts the truth.
In response to those of us who oppose his Afghani military build up Obama said:
“They argue that [Afghanistan] cannot be stabilized, and we are better off cutting our losses and rapidly withdrawing. Yet this argument depends upon a false reading of history. (more…)
[The Rude Guy Podcast #64 December 19, 2009]
Rich Zubaty, The Rude Guy here. I had to laugh when Barack Obama gave himself a “solid B plus” for his first year in office. In my last podcast I gave him a solid D plus. Obama’s cautious plodding conservative do-nothing style, makes it look like the white guys who have been running the place for the past two hundred years, were a bunch of gung ho activists, doing a whale of a job. I’m a WHITE guy and I don’t even believe that. For progressive activists like me, the bad news is: Barack Obama is a bigger threat to us than George W. Bush ever was. If George Bush had got up before the Nobel Prize Committee and told us: “make no mistake about it, evil exists,” we would have hooted and cat-called, and shouted, “Yeah right George, and you’re it. The evil is you.” If Bush had sent another 50,000 troops into Afghanistan and told us “don’t worry, they’re gonna start coming home in a year and a half,” this is, right after the midterm elections, there would have been protests from coast to coast, and in dozens of European cities. But when Obama says it there’s one single protest demonstration in Bozeman Montana. Good for you Bozeman. If Bush had told us he was gonna fix the demolished economy, and then did everything he could to help Wall Street and nothing to help main street, for ONE SOLID YEAR, leftists would be having “die-ins” on Wall Street, and on the runways of major airports, to shut them down and get the government’s attention, like Thailand did last year.
“Change we can believe in” huh? The Politics of Hope always was bullshit. Obama’s self-centered ambition, repackaged as a populist dream. “Change we can believe in” was a slogan invented by David Axelrod, chief strategist and media advisor for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The job of media advisers is to come up with snappy slogans. Axelrod, a former Chicago Tribune reporter who makes $1.5 million dollars a year as a political media consultant, had already worked for—Mayor Richard M. Daley, senatorial candidate Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd, and Tom Vilsack — and had run John Edwards failed 2004 presidential campaign. Indeed, Axelrod had a long time friendship with Hillary, through her work for an epilepsy foundation, co-founded by Axelrod’s mother and wife, but…friendships be damned. This was politics. If opinion polls had said that “a peanut butter sandwich on every plate” or a “wrecked car for every homeless person to sleep in” were the winningest campaign slogans, then instead of “change you can believe in” we would have been hearing about peanut butter and junk cars for two years. That’s how deep “change” went with these guys.
Yes, folks, unlike any other candidate in history, Barack Obama ran for president for two years. He never did shit as an Illinois Senator. Didn’t even oppose the war that he had so heartily opposed to get onto the national stage. Where I live shi-shi Obama house parties for the wine and cheese liberals, started in 2006. There were even bogus anti-Kucinich emails, accusing Dennis of being a racist, flooding our inboxes, because they knew Dennis Kucinich had won the 2004 Democratic primary against John Kerry, in this county.
As I’ve said before, I voted for Obama. I was proud of America for electing a brown-skinned president. The entire world was ready to march to his drum, and bring about systemic change, particularly Europe. Even some African and Muslim countries. And now I am appalled, at what a do-nothing conservative sell-out he really is. He’s taking the generals advice, instead of the grunt’s advice, to fight an international terrorist organization that operates under fifty different names, in fifty different countries…by putting 100,000 troops into Afghanistan.
His economic advisers are all understudies and former employees of Bob Rubin, the free trade pirate himself, who wrecked the entire economy by abolishing the Glass-Steagall act as Clinton’s Treasury Secretary, then went over to the freshly deregulated Citigroup to make 120 million dollars before his deregulatory schemes poisoned the entire world economy. Wonder why there are no serious attempts to reinstate Glass-Steagall right now, the firewall between commercial and investment banks? Bob Rubin, the guy who smashed that firewall, is still behind the curtain, pulling the levers to run the U.S. economy.
As Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone said: it would have cost us 1.4 trillion dollars to bail out every subprime mortgage in America, but instead taxpayers ended up paying FOURTEEN trillion dollars to pay off all the bad BETS, on the subprime mortgages, placed by Wall Street banks. And President Obama wants to give us $70 billion to stimulate jobs. Whoopee do. The man lives in a shoe. And the shoe is owned by the big banks.
And that’s what this show is gonna be about. The big banks that own the American economy, and thereby own the American government, including its water boy in chief, Barack Hussein Obama. (more…)
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[The Rude Guy Podcast #63 November ??, 2009]
This is Rich Zubaty, The Rude Guy. Back with another guerilla attack on wealth, hypocrisy and the American Way.
Freedom isn’t free. But if you think our soldiers in Afghanistan are protecting our freedom you’ve got your head up your anus. The Afghanis aren’t trying to take away our freedom. The Republicans and Democrats are.
Lone wolves like Ron Paul and Alan Grayson occasionally join together to fight for things like, auditing the Federal Reserve, an institution that played a great part in causing the Great Depression of 1929 AND our current economic depression. The FED is a private club of a dozen or so private banks that can print and loan money at will, with no oversight, and which has NEVER BEEN audited. Preposterous.
By and large both Republicans and Democrats are complicit in letting the well-oiled machinery of the corporate state set the course of monetary policy.
We were told that if we hadn’t bailed out the banks, we would be having a depression, not a mere recession. In a depression small businesses cannot borrow money to operate – farmers can’t buy farm machinery and seed, plumbers can’t buy pipe, everybody gets laid off. And what’s happening right now? Wall Street is fat city, and small businesses cannot borrow money to operate.
This is the Obama, Geithner, Summers recovery. These guys don’t have a fucking clue what normal people need to live. They don’t understand that when Wall Street is doing great, the rest of the economy suffers. They cannot imagine a future in which Wall Street is doing shitty and the rest of the economy is doing great, precisely BECAUSE Wall Street is doing shitty, and not being allowed to rob us blind. The stunning success of the Chinese economy over the past decade was certainly not due to banking. They didn’t HAVE any private banking.
[bird]
The good thing about Obama being AWOL in China during the healthcare debate, was that it made Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid look REALLY good. Like they’ve got the Congress working again. Like they can run the country just fine without him. If that was Obama’s plan – it was masterful. Americans need to believe that the Congress can actually pass bills about something more
than starting wars and cutting taxes.
I voted for Barack Obama. I wanted him to succeed. Now I’m not so sure. I thought Obama had the same values I do…now I’m not so sure. During the financial meltdown, a month before he got elected, I remember him saying: We Americans don’t have to apologize to anybody for our way of life. Unquote. That’s just about the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard a politician say. We have military bases in 130 countries and we spend as much as the entire rest of the world put together does, on soldiers and weapons and killing. We support tyrants and beat people up, all over the planet, so we can steal their wealth and exploit their cheap labor. And we have nothing to apologize for?
Without meaningful debate, Congress and Obama just gave the U.S. military and intelligence services as much money to operate for one year, as it would cost us for TEN years of healthcare coverage for everybody. Ten years. And that healthcare bill has been bogged down for months, getting more compromised and watered down with each passing week. Thank God Harry Reid finally moved the ball in the Senate.
Listen to what Beijing cab driver Li Chun Hwa, told a reporter from Aljazeera. Li was one of millions of Chinese who invested his life savings into stocks, buying into the western-styled WISDOM of fast returns on the market floors of capitalism.
Those floors collapsed this past year as speculative investments by US banks and financial institutions drove the world into financial crisis.
Says cabdriver Li, “The age of America as the world’s superpower has come and will soon pass…America has been too busy extending itself, spending money on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Now it’s broke, and it’s policies have lost friends around the world…what it says and does holds less meaning now.” Unquote.
Do you hear that Barack? We’re at a point in history where even cabdrivers in China understand, we have to apologize to just about the entire planet for our arrogant, militarist, greedy capitalist way of life. And not just apologize, but start behaving very differently.
Barack Obama presented himself as an agent of change, and one year later I…don’t…see it. Two weeks after he was elected he smugly told us: don’t worry about who I appoint to my cabinet. I am the change. That’s my job. The change comes from me…Then he appointed investment banker Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff. And he brought Larry Summers and Tim Geithner on board to FIX the financial mess THEY had created under Clinton and Bush. And one year later what’s happening? Wall Street is wallowing in money, paying out billions in bonuses to their employees. Worse, the big financial institutions that took our stimulus money are using our own fucking money, millions of dollars, to bribe congressmen NOT to pass legislation that would regulate them. In effect we are paying the New York banks and brokers to create another financial mess down the road, so we can bail them out again. This I call communism. Corporate communism. Corporatism. We have no control over these assholes. They OWN our government. Capitalist Communism. No matter who we elect, they still run the show. Even the biggest old fool of them all, Alan Greenspan, finally got religion. He recently said, quote: if it’s too big to fail it’s too big. It should be broken apart into smaller pieces… This is not a disaster. Look at Standard Oil. We broke it apart at the beginning of the last century and then its parts became more valuable than the whole. Unquote.
This is the same antitrust dispute we’ve been having in this country for a hundred years, since before Teddy Roosevelt was president. If it’s too big to fail it’s too big. So why not bring Leftists with a vision, like Nobel prize winning economists Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, into the Obama administration, to take on the task of cutting corporations down to a reasonable size? Why try to get bankers to regulate themselves? Why try to get congressmen, who have their hands in the pockets of the bankers, to regulate their patrons. Time for Obama to put other players in the game. Yeah, it’s as simple as basketball. You can’t have a five foot hotdog guarding a seven foot gorilla.
And then there’s Robert Gates. CIA Director under Bush One, Defense Secretary under Bush Two. Continuing Defense Secretary under Barack Obama. What the fuck happened to Colin Powel? Former Big Cheese of the Pentagon The guy who articulated the Powel Doctrine about how an invading army, BEFORE it invades, should HAVE a goal and an exit strategy. It should hit with overwhelming force, then get out! The Powell Doctrine. That’s change. That’s the lessons of Vietnam learned, and applied. Not D-day fantasy flashbacks played out over and over again on unfriendly soil, in unfriendly nations. The reason the Iraqis did NOT welcome us with flowers and open arms, is because they are Arabs, not FRENCH. For fuck sakes. Why isn’t Colin Powel Secretary of Defense – if we’re gonna hire Republicans. Or former General Wesley Clark, if we’re gonna hire Democrats. Why do we have the same old Bush administration assholes running our wars?
Like Stanley McCrystal, current big cheese in Afghanistan…former big cheese of Dick Cheney’s covert assassination squads and covert torture prisons. The ones they wouldn’t let the Red Cross in to, to inspect. Are you shitting me? These guys again? If your only tool is a hammer everything looks like a nail, and if your only tool is a predator drone everyone looks like an insurgent. (more…)
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I CHOOSE THEREFORE I AM:
Quantum Physics and Free Will
How we make decisions
How do we make decisions? How do we decide whether to go up the mountain, or down into the valley, looking for food? How do we decide which lipstick is most likely to attract some nerd to buy us a beer? Why do we buy one shirt instead of another? Do we have free will, or are our behaviors predetermined? Or predestined? Or encoded?
I searched high and low, through history and philosophy and psychology and physics, but could find no definitive evidence either confirming or denying the existence of free will. I was stuck. So I tried coming at it from a different angle.
The opposite of free will would seem to be instinct. Pre-programmed behavior. So I went looking for instinct, thinking that if I could just find out where instinct ends, I might find out where free will begins. But I got nowhere because no one knows where instinct is located, or how it works. Birds do not have computers in their brains that tell them to fly south in winter.
However, instinct seems to be a type of memory, albeit an “inherited” memory. So I went looking for memory and couldn’t find it. But I was in good company. Neither could James Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, who said understanding memory is the biggest remaining mystery in the biological sciences.
I wasn’t done yet. Memory is a property of “mind”, so I went looking for mind, and couldn’t find that either. Nobody can. We can find our brains, but not our minds. (more…)