This week will be the 60th anniversary of the first use of the atom bomb in warfare and the IMAO Bloggers embrace the coolness of do-it-yourself superweapons in the August 1, 2005 IMAO Podcast
In this week’s IMAO Podcast:

• Frank J. holds the world hostage with a nuclear weapon unless every human being subscribes to the IMAO Podcast before Sarah comes back from the hair salon
• Spacemonkey channels Slim Pickens for a ride on a nuke
• RightWingDuck answers listener questions on WMDs
• Sarah reviews “Constantine” on DVD and discusses the difference between atomic and “noo-klee-uhr” weapons
• Harvey does Fun Facts about Georgia
• Laurence Simon gives the Ant and the Grasshopper an atomic twist

The Fake Kevin makes an appearance in this podcast so it’s probably going to be a collector’s item someday.
Visit our sister site IMAO Podcast to download the sound file now. (NOTE: You can listen to the IMAO Podcast even if you don’t have an Apple iPod.)
IMPORTANT: If you subscribed to the IMAO Podcast before July 18, you must update your Apple iTunes and iPodder RSS feed for the IMAO Podcast to http://www.imaopodcast.com/podcast.xml. I have written Step-By-Step Instructions on updating the RSS feed for iTunes and iPodder here.
If you want to send your friends a link to download the IMAO Podcast, cut and paste the following text into your e-mail:
“Hi [YOUR FRIEND’S NAME],
I laughed so hard while listening to this extremely funny sound file from my favorite blog, IMAO.
http://www.imaopodcast.com/podcast/IMAO-Aug1.mp3
It’s safe for work and is on the list to be categorized as a miracle by the Catholic Church.
[YOUR NAME]”
For your acquaintances and co-workers that were desperately hoping to be able to say “President Dennis Kucinich” on November 3rd of last year, you should still send them the link but with this text:
“Hello [HIPPIE],
I have been wrong all this time and have been converted to your way of thinking after hearing this podcast speaking truth to power! Listen to it on the QT and make sure the Bushitler military-industrial machine doesn’t catch you!
http://www.imaopodcast.com/podcast/IMAO-Aug1.mp3
The listen to the very end to hear the totally true X-rated jokes about Haliburton and Karl Rove!
[EITHER YOUR NAME OR A FAKE NAME]”

Oh great… I saw in the Washington Times that “debris” fell off the space shuttle at launch. God, I pray that the seven astronauts make it safely back to Earth.
When they are back home, roll the shuttle off the runway of Edwards AFB and scrap it. The shuttle should be a museum piece like the Saturn V rocket and outer space should be commercialized using free market principles on safety grounds alone.

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Our latest podcast is available at our sister site http://www.IMAOPodcast.com
This week’s theme for the IMAO Podcast is “espionage” and features:

• The President giving IMAO a secret mission (if they can prove they are good spies)
• Sarah and Frank contemplating their wedding plans
• Laurence Simon’s bedtime story is a cloak and dagger version of Billy Goat’s Gruff
• Harvey’s Fun Facts about Florida
• Sarah reviewing “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” and attacks Mancow for his appearance on Fox & Friends
• IMAO scoops everyone with newly declassified spy tapes

All iPodder and Apple iTunes users subscribed to the feed should have the IMAO Podcast MP3 waiting for them right now. If you want help on subscribing to the IMAO Podcast, see our extensive Step-By-Step Help site.
To download the newest IMAO Podcast, click here.
Look for Frank to post a couple of the IMAO Podcast bits as small, e-mail sized MP3s here on the IMAO Blog soon. We encourage everyone to download these small versions of the IMAO Podcast and then e-mail them to all of your friends. I can’t always get on the radio to pimp the podcast so let’s get some word of mouth going for IMAO!

IMAO Blogger and Podcast Producer Scott will be hosting all two hours of the weekly live radio show “Republican Radio: The Life of the Party” from Seattle, WA this Saturday starting from 2pm Eastern/1pm Central/12pm Mountain/11am Pacific.
The theme for the show is “Your Rights as an American” and we’ll definitely talk about the Supreme Court–which gives me an opportunity to play the Marbury v. Madison bit from our last IMAO Podcast. Unlike Frank J., when I’m on the radio I will pimp the blog and the podcast (but mostly the podcast).
UPDATE: Not only did I mention IMAO Podcast.com about 437 times during the live Republican Radio broadcast, I was able to play not one but two IMAO Podcast bits on the radio. You can hear the MP3s of the show at:
http://www.republicanradio.com/sounds/0723Hour1.mp3
http://www.republicanradio.com/sounds/0723Hour2.mp3
I had hoped that fellow blogger Homocon would co-host with me on Republican Radio but he was too busy laughing at the pathetic response one of his recent posts ellicted from the mental giants on DU.
Homocon is one of my favorite blogs and should be required reading.

Even though we have repeatedly made ourselves available to various media outlets to talk about the increasingly popular IMAO Podcast (averaging 716 downloads per day as of July 19, 2005), I read a huge article in today’s Wall Street Journal on how “popular” and profitable X-rated podcasts are becoming.
Podcasting was a curiosity to the mainstream media three months ago when drag queens, wannabe DJs, and Hollywood has-been comedians with recycled NPR shows started posting MP3s online for the iPod crowd. Now the mainstream media heaps high praise on sex talk from husky-voiced overweight women and how condom companies are sponsoring podcasts by “performance artists” who can’t string together a complete sentence without an obscenity.
Thanks for forcing the new genre of porncasting on Americans, mainstream media. The dumb people in the flyover Middle America states really appreciate it.
Here’s a suggestion: Force the IMAO Podcast on the mainstream media. The writer of the WSJ porncast article is Vauhini Vara. Let’s see if Vara would be interested in having all of the IMAO Fans e-mail vauhini.vara@wsj.com to extoll the virtues of the IMAO Podcast because it:

• Is “work safe” comedy
• Appeals to a broad audience
• Lessens flu symptoms
• Sounds totally unlike any other podcast available on iTunes
• Has a growing number of fans (downloads have steadily grown to an average of 700+ per day in a matter of weeks)
• Can be used to clean stubborn stains on upholstered surfaces
• Stars a pretty blond girl that sings

Please e-mail Vauhini Vara at the WSJ <a href=”mailto:THISISSPAMTHISISSPAMenty of action.
UPDATE: If you e-mail the WSJ and Vara blows you off, e-mail us to let us know! If Vara dains you worthy of a reply, e-mail us that too.
We’ll post the best replies/non-replies from IMAO Fans on the blog and talk about it in the podcast.
E-mail us – feedback@IMAOPodcast.com

The latest IMAO Podcast is now available for download at http://www.IMAOPodcast.com!
If you subscribe to the RSS feed using Apple iTunes or iPodder, you already have the podcast on your MP3 player or computer–good for you and there’s no shame in being an early adopter.
What’s in the latest IMAO Podcast? Well…

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We are working hard on getting our weekly podcast ready on Monday, but I have a tantalizing tease of what you’ll hear in our latest MP3:

• The conclusion of “IMAO in Iraq” begun in last week’s podcast. Will Spacemonkey survive being kidnapped by Islamic terrorists?
• IMAO takes on the Supreme Court
• Harvey’s Fun Facts
• The triumphant return of Laurence Simon’s Crappy Bedtime Stories!
• Sarah reviews the USA Network’s sci-fi miniseries The 4400

We will not release a “Frank Discourse” roundtable discussion this week but may revisit it in the future. As always, we want your comments and criticisms of the podcast by e-mailing feedback@imaopodcast.com

Do you want to subscribe to the IMAO Podcast but can’t figure out how iPodder works? Are you frustrated that Apple doesn’t show the IMAO Podcast in iTunes anymore?
Help is here! I have posted Step-By-Step Help for anyone having trouble subscribing to the podcast on the IMAO Podcast website. If you have you have iPodder or iTunes, these pages tell you exactly how to get the IMAO Podcast automatically downloaded to your computer every Monday.
Check out our new IMAO Podcast Step-By-Step Help page here. If you think of anything that would improve this guide or anything else in the IMAO Podcast, please e-mail your suggestions to feedback@imaopodcast.com

The latest IMAO Podcast is up at our sister site, the appropriately titled http://www.IMAOPodcast.com
In this latest podcast:

• Frank J gives you the lowdown on ninjas
• “She Blonded Me With Science” featuring SarahK
• Harvey’s Fun Facts about Connecticut
• The IMAO Bloggers take the Hate Filled Lefty to task over his comments about last week’s terrorist attacks in London
• A cross-country roundtable on bombs, blogs, and cat death

Visit the IMAO Podcast website’s Download page to start your Monday off right.
We love to hear your feedback on the IMAO Podcast, so send us an e-mail to feedback@imaopodcast.com or leave us a comment in this post.

Charmaine Yoest in London via PowerLine says the many of the Londoners she has interviewed just hours after the terrorist attack on their subway system think the bombings are Tony Blair’s fault:
“I interviewed three very ordinary, normal teenaged English Muslims… All three seem to be parroting Muslim talking points: ‘The bombings were a conspiracy by Blair to generate support for the war,’ they recited in a charming British accent… A young British black woman told me, ‘The bombings are Tony Blair’s fault – they killed a 100 thousand Iraqis – and it’s like a boomerang [coming back at the British].’ Most everyone [in London] I talked to believed that the British caused the bombing or had it coming. Of the dozen or so people I interviewed only white males in business attire expressed surprise that anyone would think the British were at fault. But these gentlemen were the minority. Most felt that the Brits were complicit.”
Yes, the dumbass Left still parrots the utterly ridiculous “100 thousand Iraqis” killed statistic posted by a British medical journal almost two years ago.
GlobalSecurity, a defense analysis firm based in Alexandria, VA, completely discredited the phony 100,000 Iraqi civilian casualty number as early as Fall 2003:

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I wake up to news of coordinated terrorist bombings in the very London subway system I have used in the recent past. Like Frank said, terrorism should piss us off rather than scare us and I am pissed off for sure.
In spite of the fact that terrorists are usually male Arab Muslims between the ages of 18-45, the press conference in London has been careful not to implicate any group, even the most obvious–Al Qaeda. There is no shortage of hateful whackjob Muslims in London who are abusing the United Kingdom’s very liberal freedom of speech laws and who admire Al Qaeda and advocate the destruction of the very society that allows them to speak such madness.
If Al-Qaeda is behind the London subway bombings, I doubt that England will roll over like the Spainards did on 3/11. God save the Queen and up the irons, England!
It will be interesting to see what tomorrow brings. Will the idiot anti-free market communists protesting in Scotland take to the streets to protest Al-Qaeda tomorrow or will they claim “the West had it coming”?
Ooooooh, if that happens I say it’s open season on hippie protestors everywhere.

Thank you to all of the IMAO Fans who commented on our latest patriotic podcast. We are very proud of this podcast and want to get the word out about the IMAO Podcast to as many people as possible. When I called him on his mobile phone over the weekend, Frank J. told me he had a “Manifest Density” (I don’t know what that meant; must be some kinda engineering term) to rule the “Podcast-o-sphere” just before I heard a lot of yelling and splashing…

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According to New York Newsday, two teenage thugs in Brooklyn murdered Christopher Rose (15) by stabbing him in the chest when he wouldn’t hand over his iPod to Samuel Darran (16) and Daryl Stephen (17) on Saturday.
Newsday notes that “Police also have reported a wave of iPod robberies… It’s believed that most robbers kept the devices, which can retail for about $100 to $500, for personal use rather than selling them. ”
I know this is no consolation to the Rose Family (I’m very sorry about your son), but I’ve got a solution to the problem of iPod theft: exploding iPods.
Apple was sued by the Pod People a few months ago when their overpriced iPods crapped out after a few weeks of use. Apple didn’t admit to wrongdoing in the obviously faulty non-removeable batteries in the iPod, but once the lawyers were knocking on their doors, Apple offered to replace the failed iPods.
If Apple replaced the failed batteries with a small explosive device akin to the M-80 firecracker so many of us will be exploding on this Independence Day, the victim of iPod theft could hand over their iPod, wait until the thief starts to run away, and then remotely explode his iPod.
From then on, potential iPod thieves will constant be wondering: “Does this guy have the exploding iPod? Do I take the chance of stealing this iPod and have it blow a hole in my lazy ass when I put it in my pocket?”
I doubt Apple will do it (even though the technology to implement such a device would be highly advanced) and the State of New York would probably consider it a firearm and ban it…
I wonder if the NYC City Council will consider banning knives in light of the tragic death of Christopher Rose at the hands of iPod thieves? Or will they ban iPods?

Bruce Campbell, the star of such cult movie hits as Evil Dead and Army of Darkness, made a swing through Seattle to promote his novel How to Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way, a satirical look at Hollywood.
A friend of mine and I got there a little early to the event and promptly got lost in the extremely confusing underground parking lot. Once we found our way up to overcast Seattle daylight, we were on the wrong side of the building. We weren’t the only ones lost: Bruce Campbell and his publicist were also wandering around back there.
“Hi,” Bruce Campbell said. “Do you guys know where you’re going?”
“Yeah we’re going to see you,” I said. “Where are you going?”
What followed was a comedy of errors where the four of us tried various doors into the building that mostly went like this:
   ME: Okay Bruce–This door is the one!
   (Kuh-click! RATTLE! RATTLE! RATTLE!)
   PUBLICIST: (sigh)
   BRUCE CAMPBELL: Yep, I sure am glad we hooked up with you guys…

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