Cotolo Chronicles

SYDNEY, Australia (from the GREEN STREET office) -- In an astonishing feat of survival involving an iPod and a popular podcast program, an Australian mountaineer who followed another mountaineer left for dead after conquering the summit of Mount Everest, was found alive, returning to his base camp right behind the first mountaineer.

Lincoln Hall, 50, was reported dead by his collegues after reaching the 29,000-plus-feet summit of Everest. Mathew Wunderberry, a climber imitating Hall, was thought to be dead, also, since he mimicked Hall's climb. Both were thought to have died in their descent, though few cared about Wunderberry. "I had my iPod on all the time," said Wunderberry, "and I was listening to Cotolo Chronicles. That's what got me home safely."

Hall is one of Australia's most experienced climbers; Wunderberry is a novice and greatly disliked in his neighborhood. "Hall became disoriented, lay down in the snow," said Wunderberry, "but I kept going and laughing and learning stuff from all the news, information, conversation and insubordination on Cotolo Chronicles."

A team of climbers came upon Hall several hours after he collapsed and found the Australian alive. Wunderberry has passed by Hall an hour before. "I was sick and I thought he was dead," said Wunderberry, "or I would have shared my headphones with him and we could have gotten back together."

A Russian doctor, Vitski Neboshikov, said, "He would not have been able to come down under his own steam. The program he listened to served as a life-support system, even though he is now suffering acute psychosis, a disorientation in space and has a strong urge to appear at a book-signing."

Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to conquer Everest, critisized anyone who conquers Everest with the help of Cotolo Chronicles.

Good news!! Thanks to two affiliate stations (pictured on right is a typical affiliate station power engine), our program goes live again this Thursday night, May 25.

At 9 p.m. EST, you can catch the live version of our program from some updated sources.
For hi-fi, you broadband users can go to Extreme Radio 1077 or just click here to listen.

If you are still on dial-up connections, listen AM-radio style at SRN ONE; just click here.

On May 18, our exclusive reporter/commentator Brock LaRobb returns with his unique insights about unique insights from deep inside Heartland USA. If you like that old guy on 60 Minutes or Jeff on CNN or any of those media characters, listen to Brock only on our program.

Nothing else changes, broadcast-wise. Check below for all the possibilities to hear the show live and replayed and archived, on your computer or your iPod.

Live on Thursday nights,
Attitude Radio
US Radio X
KJAG Radio
Mondays-Fridays, replays
True Talk Radio
Weeknight early mornings, replays
Network 1KX
SRN One
KJAG Radio
ExtremeRadio1077
Fridays, replay
Rant Radio
Saturdays, replay
Flash Radio
Sundays, replay
TyneFm

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MILFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- It's been more than 30 years since Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance but the FBI isn't giving up on finding his remains. The search made headlines again when a tip from an ailing prison inmate directed the bureau to a horse farm in Michigan. Agents, archaeologists, anthropologists, cadaver dogs and a shovel dug up the grounds to look for the vanished labor leader's remains (see photo of men looking in the ground for the vanished leader's remains). And sources now reveal the farm is the first of two sites they will investigate.

The second site, according to another ailing inmate, is the ground behind the studios where popular webcast/podcast Cotolo Chronicles originates. That land, nestled at the foot of the Blue Mountains range in southcentral Pennsylvania where Cotolo houses his recording and broadcast studio, could soon become a media hub surrounding the search for Hoffa's remains.

An FBI source says that Dwiddles McGuire, an ailing prisoner, claims that a former owner of the Cotolo property told him that the mulberries on the grounds flourished since 1975, the same year Hoffa disappeared, because "a dead gangster is buried there." A botonist hired by the FBI says that the bodies of mob-related figures tends to "produce fertile ground that assists in productive crops."

Cotolo told the press, "Locating Hoffa's remains would put my mind at ease. It would certainly bring closure to millions of Teamsters and retired union guys who wonder what happened to their leader."

Hoffa is still a champion in the minds of many working people. "He got the national master freight agreement, raised wages and was played by Jack Nicholson in the movies," said an old-time Teamster. "That's pull."

"What happened? How did he expire? Where is he at, where are his remains?" says another Teamster. "We all need to know. And finding his body or any of its parts will help us answer these timeless questions."

There was a bug in the kink, a crack in the bug, a glitch in the stitch, so the live feed for our May 18 program tanked. The question as to why this happened remains, at this writing, a mystery within an enigma, wrapped around unidentifiable reasons. We apologize to all of our affiliates that rely on the live, Thursday-evening feeds.

Of course, the show went on without live broadcasting. That program is available any number of places, as an mp3 download and, of course, as an RSS feed. Also, the show airs on our re-broadcast station affiliates and has an unlimited shelf life considering the rebroadcasting schedule of archived programs running at various times daily.

We are investigating the mishap from May 18 and will report anything we discover that could affect future live broadcasts.

Our other page, Cotolo Chronicles at Podomatic, features the May 18 program in various formats now. You can also download the show or capture the feed here or there, as usual. Much of our audience still enjoys the Thursday-evening live broadcasts, which is how the program originated some years back and which is still part of the unique charm of the show (we make no changes from the live show on any rebroadcast file).

If it means changing servers or any other sort of technical reappropriation of the "signal," we are prepared to make the change in order to preserve the atmosphere of the show. Although it sounds "live" anytime anyone listens, according to many testimonials, we want to keep the live broadcasts going, if possible.

One way or the other, see ya next week on the show, see ya earlier here on the blog.

Presenting Van Trillo and Sam Suede. A fast-talking, no-nonsense detective duo (pictured) with a twist: Trillo is a ventriloquist and Suede is a dummy. "It's Charlie Chan meets Charlie McCarthy; Philip Marlowe meets the Muppets; Humphrey Bogart meets Edgar Bergen. Except that Suede is tougher than Bogie and Trillo (as played by real-life ventriloquist Jonathan Geffner) is a better ventriloquist than Edgar Bergen." There is also a T&S movie, Oxford Park, in the works.

The May 18 program breaks every broadcasting rule in the book by daring to have a voice-tosser on "radio." At the same time, our theater offers a courageous act, a man and a dummy. After all, how many of these do you meet down the Hallelujah Trail?

It starts at 9 p.m. EST in the United States.You can tune in on my stream from Shoutcast -- and/or ...Listen live, too, at:
Attitude Radio
ExtremeRadio1077
1KX Network
US Radio X
KJAG Radio
KPDC Radio
Mondays-Fridays, replays
True Talk Radio
Weeknights, replays
Network 1KX
SRN One
KJAG Radio
ExtremeRadio1077
Fridays, replay
Rant Radio
Saturdays, replay
Flash Radio
Sundays, replay
TyneFm

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I discovered that an "everything" bagel is missing something.

If you eat poppy seeds before taking a drug test you will test positive for heroine. So you may as well mainline the poppy seeds.

Life is a walk in the park--Jurassic Park.

If something is worth doing, it is worth doing quickly.

I wrote a song for my Buddhist girlfriend called Don't Sit Under The Bodhi Tree With Anyone Else But Me.

Do you think it is true that Glen Miller suffered from in-the-mood swings?

Why don't people like me, like me?

I went to renew my driver's license and all of the same people who were there the last time I renewed showed up.

I just realized that I am old enough to be my father.

Ordinary contraptions work best in the dark.

I feel sorry for the guy who invented WD-39.

Is it just me or are too many women in porn starting to look like Tipper Gore?

I gave up soap operas because I can no longer tell the difference between the young and the restless or the bold and the beautiful.

It had to happen. A new email scam has been launched, most likely by those inspired by the defunct Nigerian email and European lottery scams (both which were brought to the attention of the media on our program).

Now we have the alleged Mrs. Sandra Bohiri, a widow of the late, wealthy Casimir Bohiri (killed during the Gulf War), a new Christian convert, "suffering from long time cancer of the breast." She writes that she now lives in Cote d' Ivoire, Africa, and is starting a mission with her inheritance. That is $4.5 million (U.S.) which she says she will give to you. Her email address is sandrabohiri@yahoo.fr and she will transfer the money "in the name of you or your church." She closes the mail by writing, "Lastly, I want you/our brethren in the Lord to be praying for me as regards my entire life and my health."

The jigg is up. Everyone write something, anything, to the above email address. Send your email back with as many CCs as are allowed by your ISP. Flood the box, let "Sandy" know we are aware the deal is a fake. Remember the crazier your email can be, the better. This is how we helped blow the lid off the other scams. Here is a part of my response:

"Sandy, I am so sorry about your cancer but I love the idea of making a few millions off of it. I am glad you contacted me, because I was recently working on a cure for cancer. You can bet I am stopping that project right now. I can start up again when I have your money. But I won't use all of it for my mission, the church or cancer research. I am going to go into the white-slave market business. Yeah, I hear they are short of link chains. I have collected link chains for years and have a warehouse filled with them. With your money I can smuggle tons of link chains to the Middle East..."

If you missed the May 11 program or want to hear it again, check the Thursday post for the rebroadcast schedule. You can also stream the show, download it or capture the RSS by clicking on the Podomatic banner on the lower left.

Laura Dawson introduced us to Bloggapedia and Newstex, two websites that can benefit anyone searching for blog sources. As well, for people with blogs, these two projects offer exposure and even money for participation. Ms. Dawson is a master of making a mess into meaning and her accomplishments prove it.

Ms. Dawson also introduced us to the concept of "varying degrees of dudness," which we all need to understand so as not to allow dudness [sic] to rule our blog posts. Remember Sturgeon's Law and juggle your own definitions of valuable participation carefully.

And, Ms. Dawson revealed a great name for a musical group, which to our knowledge has not yet been taken. The Presbyterian Engineers. We hope she gets credit from whoever adopts the name.

Every day there are thousands of more blogs about a thousand more things, as well as about a whole lotta no-things. On the May 11 program, Laura Dawson talks to us about Bloggapedia, for one, where order may come from the chaos of cyberbabble.

Ms. Dawson has an answer that will not involve Haystacks Calhoun (pictured left), the dead wrestler who might have been large and strong enough to solve this problem, had he lived to see the digital age. Alas, we need him not. We got Ms. Dawson.

It starts at 9 p.m. EST in the United States.
You can tune in on my stream from Shoutcast -- and/or ...

Listen live, too, at:
Attitude Radio
ExtremeRadio1077
1KX Network
US Radio X
KJAG Radio
KPDC Radio
Mondays-Fridays, replays
True Talk Radio
Weeknights,
Network 1KX
SRN One
KJAG Radio
ExtremeRadio1077
Fridays, replay
Rant Radio
Saturdays, replay
Flash Radio
Sundays, replay
TyneFm

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The movie buzz may be about The DaVinci Code, but our good friend Don Semco alerts all audiences hungry for entertainment-based intrigue that another film is on the horizon. It's called The Norman Rockwell Code and it looks to be a perfect parody by Alfred Thomas Catalfo. The talented Mr. Semco is the composer of the film's music. Watch the trailer below. Details on where you can see the entire film are pending. We will let you know ASAP.

Alan Watts (1915-1973) was many things, one thing and all things and he convinced many of us that we, too, are just that. For more than 40 years, Alan Watts earned a reputation as a foremost interpreter of Eastern philosophies for the West. Today, all of Alan Watts' works remain fresh and valuable while pop-culture philosophy works have been dated. An introduction to the elusive, yet simple applications of zen to eastern consciousness still starts and ends with Alan Watts' words.

On our May 4 program, the guest is Alan's son, Mark Watts, who orchestrates his father's library of recordings, which have been preserved in the archives of the Electronic University, a non-profit organization dedicated to higher education. There is also an Alan Watts podcast available.

See the official news release here.

Mark will be in free-form conversation with Frank, offering a special introduction to his father's philosophies, with sound clips from the vast Alan Watts library.

It starts at 9 p.m. EST in the United States.
You can tune in on my stream from Shoutcast -- and/or ...Listen live, too, at:
Attitude Radio
Extreme Radio1077
1KX Network
US Radio X
KJAG Radio
KPDC Radio
Mondays-Fridays, replays
True Talk Radio
Weeknights,
1KX Network
Fridays, replay
Rant Radio
Saturdays, replay
Flash Radio
Sundays, replay
TyneFm

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