As of 2am Eastern/11pm Pacific on Friday/Thursday, the IMAO Podcast (or “IMAudiO” for those of you without iPods) was voted into the NUMBER ONE SLOT ON PODCAST ALLEY by a single vote.
If the fans can keep us in the top slot for a full and consecutive 24 hour period, we will release a new IMAudiO production this September 5 to reward our loyal listeners.
Thank you for your votes and for believing in IMAO!

Left-wingers dominate Apple iTunes and Podcast Alley’s Top Ten lists and have since those sites started keeping tabs on listeners’ habits. Frank and I promised new IMAudiO (or “a new episode of the IMAO Podcast” for those who own an iPod) if IMAO is voted #1 at Podcast Alley for a 24 hour period between now and midnight September 5, 2005.
I just checked the stats at Podcast Alley and see that IMAO is #8 with only a fourth of the votes required to bump us up to the top slot. If you’re in the top slot at Podcast Alley, it often garners media attention for the producers (which IMAO needs to continue and grow).
And nine out of ten of the top podcasts are produced by political leftists–even if their shows aren’t about politics, these top-rated hosts go out of their way to villify traditional American values. And two of the latest audio productions added to the Podcast Alley lineup are “Left Hook Radio” and “Blast The Right” whose show descriptions cheefully offer to give advice on defeating the Republican agenda.
Take a stand against these hate-filled lefties and tell all of your friends and family to vote for IMAO at Podcast Alley. If you can’t immediately get on the Podcast Alley website, it’s the first of the month and lots of left-wing podcasts are telling their listeners to vote. Be vigilant and don’t let the political left game this system!
VOTE FOR IMAO!

Among the stories of harrowing escapes from the natural disaster in New Orleans, our friends at the World Tribune have the story of a man who recounts his “Escape from Northern California.”
Check it out.

IMAO is taking time off this Labor Day weekend, so there will be no IMAudiO on September 5th.
However, we will release a new show on Monday if we are voted #1 at Podcast Alley and sustain the #1 slot for a 24 hour period before midnight September 5, 2005.
We need your votes! Voting is quick, free, and doesn’t require registration or personal information.
When we are voted #1 on Podcast Alley, we will reward our fans with a new IMAudiO production on Monday.
Go vote now!

As promised in the show notes of our latest IMAudiO production, Scott has produced and posted Sarah K’s very funny “Blonded Me With Science” skit.
Listen live at:
http://www.imaopodcast.com/podcast/IMAO-Addiction.mp3
Comments? We’d love to read them on our IMAudiO Fan Forum

If you are stuck in the office on a dreary Monday and have a PC with speakers, you can listen to the latest IMAudiO production to brighten your day!
This IMAudiO production is about all of our corrupting influences… starting with the fact that you’re listening to our show when you should be working on your office computer.
Download the IMAudiO at:
http://www.imaopodcast.com/download.html
Comment on this audio in the IMAudiO Fan Forum at:
http://www.imaopodcast.com/phpBB2

Continue reading ‘New IMAudiO: The Corrupting Influence’ »

We are in the process of completing the IMAudiO production for Monday August 29th. Like most of our previous IMAudiO productions, this week’s show has a theme: “The Corrupting Influence” and features a blogging guest star!
Learn more about our weekly IMAudiO productions (which you can listen to on any computer with speakers or download to any portable media player that plays MP3s) on our sister website.
You can get pre-release hints about Monday’s “Corrupting Influence” IMAudiO production or comment about any of our previous audio masterpieces in our IMAudiO Fan Forum.

The latest IMAO audio production (posted Monday August 22 at 10:30pm Pacific) is now available for download to your computer!
In this week’s episode:

• Frank and the IMAO Bloggers start their own college: “IMAO U.”
• Spacemonkey, Harvey, RightWingDuck get professorial
• Samurai Partying Tips
• Fun Facts about Illinois
• Sarah reviews Fox’s “Arrested Development” second season on DVD
• Laurence’s bedtime story mentions Michelle Malkin

You can comment on this week’s episode, get exclusive behind-the-scenes knowledge of how the shows are written and produced, and interact directly with the IMAO Bloggers in the Fan Forum on the updated IMAO Podcast website brought to you by Spacemonkey.

How many of you blog readers would be interested in IMAOnDemand, an audio version of the blog that you would download to your computer and listen to at your convenience?
There’s so much confusion about the IMAO Podcast (“Podcast? No, I can’t listen to podcasts… I don’t own an iPod”) that I’m considering a change that would re-brand the weekly IMAO audio productions as “IMAOnDemand” in the hopes that more people listen.
The bottom line is the bottom line: I am not seeing a growing number of downloads for the IMAO Podcast, our audio is being ignored by the mainstream media that normally fawns over any poorly produced but politically far-left podcast (I count a grand total of “0” stories done on right-of-center podcasts like StarkCast or unashamedly right-wing podcasts like Republican Radio but no fewer than seven mentions of far-left “entertainment” podcasts in the past ten weeks of New York Times’ stories on podcasting), and I’m not seeing a return on time/money investment here.
If you like the IMAO Podcast, comment in our forum or send us an e-mail to let us know podcast@imao.us
AFTERNOON UPDATE: Here are some of the comments we’ve received about the IMAO audio content so far…
If you just change the name (EXCELLENT IDEA!) make it something obvious like “IMAO on MP3” or “Audio IMAO” so the doofi like me don’t ignore it for 7 weeks because we don’t HAVE one of those Ipod thingies.
-Squirrel on Crepes
I don’t download the podcast because I view IMAO when I should be working… and work + speakers don’t mix.
-Charles
I have no intereste[sic] in any audio content. I prefer to read because it is faster and quieter and can easily be done in bits and pieces as I work or whatever.
-Bolie Williams IV
thanks but no thanks …. I enjoy your blog just fine without audio …. usually means no one in the office is aware of what I do during my breaks (from reality)
-pete
I seriously don’t think you’re doing half enough to promote the podcast if getting mentioned on the NYT & more is your goal…
-Francesco Poli
EDITOR’S RESPONSE: Our goal is not to have any IMAO audio productions mentioned in the NYT… our goal is to have 10,000+ downloads per week of our audio productions–the left-wing podcasts that have been mentioned in the NYT do enjoy those kinds of download numbers while we are hovering at 4,600 per month and all of our requests for media attention are ignored. I am sure that if Glenn Reynolds, Michelle Malkin, the guys at PowerLine, La Shawn Barber, and Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs would talk about the IMAO Podcast on their blogs, we wouldn’t even need a mention in the NYT.
WORK-LIFE BALANCE UPDATE: For the large number of IMAO readers who say “I can’t listen to audio at work”, the solution to that is a cheap USB Drive from any local electronics store like Best Buy. You can download the IMAO Podcast as an MP3, pop in the USB Drive into your work computer, transfer the MP3 to the USB Drive, and take the USB Drive with you to listen on your PC at home. The $16 USB Drive from Best Buy I mentioned is a great investment just because it is more convenient than a floppy disk and can hold hundreds of digital photos, thousands of documents, or up to 5 IMAO Podcasts at a time.
POST-PODCAST POSTING UPDATE: I want to thank everyone who has given us great feedback on the IMAO Podcast… which will now be called IMAudiO. We hope you all enjoy the latest episode!

It’s Monday and that means there will be a new IMAO Podcast some time today!
For our regular listeners, this week’s episode of IMAO audio goodness is our “Back to School” special. If you’re new to the site or don’t know what a podcast is (a podcast is an audio file you can download to your computer or listen to on a portable media player that plays MP3s… you do NOT have to purchase an overpriced Apple iPod just to listen to a podcast), you can get all the answers at our IMAO Podcast website.
While there, check out some of the new features like the Fan Forum and rapidly-expanding archives of previous audio shows.

Start the week off with super-duper funny: our superhero-themed IMAO Podcast!
IMAO Podcast for August 15, 2005 features:

• The Adventures of lefty superhero squad, the People Intending to Negate Corporate Oppression or The PINCOs (sounds like “pinkos”)
• Spacemonkey finds his superpower is morphing into segments normally performed by Laurence and Right Wing Duck
• Sarah reviews the Toby Keith concert in Orlando
• Harvey’s Fun Facts about Idaho (sans easy-target jokes about The B-52’s or Gus Van Sant)

This IMAO Podcast is guaranteed to make you laugh and offend you at the same time, so don’t be shy… share the funny using this download link with your friends and family:
http://www.imaopodcast.com/download.html
If you get really offended and want to tell us off, sign in to our all-new IMAO Podcast Forum at:
http://www.imaopodcast.com/phpBB2
In our new forum, listeners can interact with any of the IMAO Podcasters in the new forum, ask questions about past shows, get insights on upcoming shows, and generally sound off about the IMAO Podcast.
Thanks for listening and we are doing these podcasts because we know IMAO fans are the best fans on the Web!

My buddy from high school, Johnny, is a hotshot artist in New York City that is wrapping up his collaboration with Firefly creator Joss Whedon on the acclaimed Astonishing X-Men comic book series.
What does this have to do with the IMAO Podcast? The next IMAO Podcast will prominently feature… comic book superheroes.
I just couldn’t swing either of them for tell-all interviews. Johnny wa– I mean, JOHN, was in Chicago for a fan convention and couldn’t make it to the IMAO Podcast and Joss Whedon never heard of us (although Whedon’s probably heard of Frank just because lawyers are obligated to let their client know about Frank’s stalking; the difference between “fan” and “fanatic” is apparently a restraining order and 6 month’s probation).
If it’s any consolation to our faithful listeners, this Monday you’ll hear Frank J. interview Aquaman in his the first appearance on the IMAO Podcast along with other superhero-themed audio comedy.
That’s right, true believers! Check back on Monday for more!

This week’s IMAO Podcast satirizes the energy industry:

ï IMAO strikes oil but will the money change them?
ï Dubya poses as a Canadian to get their oil
ï Laurence Simon updates “Jack and the Beanstalk” with a pot-smoking Willie Nelson
ï Harvey has Fun Facts about Hawaii
ï Buck the Marine reviews “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike“
ï RightWingDuck answers listener questions on the energy industry

For your Monday funny, DOWNLOAD THE IMAO PODCAST!
Be sure to tell a friend about the podcast and look for IMAO at this year’s Portable Media Expo November 11-12 in L.A.

IMAO BLOGGER SCOTT ON INSTANT MESSAGE CHAT WITH FELLOW BLOGGER HOMOCON TUESDAY AUGUST 2…
SCOTT: Wow, it looks like an Air France flight caught fire trying to land at a Toronto Airport.
HOMOCON: Accident or terrorism?
SCOTT: Not sure. All of the passengers and flight crew are running away from the burning wreckage!
HOMOCON: Well, they are French. They’re good at running away and have practiced it countless times in the past century or so.

The MSM has done an absolutely pathetic job of educating the general public about podcasts. To date, most podcast articles have judiciously avoided conservative podcasters like IMAO and heaped praise on the podcasts that are pornographic while never letting on that ANYONE WITH A COMPUTER AND SPEAKERS CAN LISTEN TO A PODCAST.
Let me give you some facts that the MSM won’t give you about podcasting:

• NONE of the IMAO Podcasters own an Apple iPod.
• NONE of the IMAO Podcasters own an Apple computer
• If your Windows or Linux or Mac computer has speakers, you can listen to the IMAO Podcast right now
• You can listen to the IMAO Podcast on ANY portable MP3 player (many of them selling for well under $100)
• You do not need a portable MP3 player to listen to the IMAO Podcast

I guess everyone at the New York Times uses an Apple Mac, can afford an overpriced iPod, and assumes the rest of us in the “fly-over states” use our computers exactly like they do.
No thanks…
Speaking of conservatives and podcasting, Rush Limbaugh has said he legitimized podcasting overnight because he makes his show available as a podcast… No, all he did was take the MP3 of his show that anyone with a paid subscription to his Rush 24/7 service gets as part of their subscription fee, had his staff strip out the music, and then call it a podcast.
Limbaugh charges people for his podcast. IMAO doesn’t.
You figure out who’s giving you, the fans, a better deal on podcasting.