So for those of you following The Happy Bachelor Shares Base (supported by Blogger), you've mostly endured and/or followed the Heir's latest social outrages, informed by the his skepticism of the moral state of society at large.  We want you to know that within the next few days to a couple weeks or so (hopefully it won't take long), we'll be migrating both this shares base and our (eventual return to) audio content toward the main themes of principle and a simplicity and meditative state of mind we've called "tropical soul."  There will still be Happy Bachelor type content consistent with the four pillars of sex, classiness, music and food, but we're finding that as society at large descends deeper into personal corruption, we just cannot sit by the sidelines and merely do a complaint du jour.  We need to make a more formal stance over the long term in favor of things like tropical soul and principle.  Definitely know the title of this shares base will change to accommodate those things, along with a separate announcement page explaining the history of where this upcoming migration is coming from and what to expect in the foreseeable future.  That said, you may be interested to know that while we've been going in this general direction for some time, the Heir's come to a dead end in his making of his DIY audio player using a particular type of computer board, and it's become clear he needs to use another type he's been seeing online.  We'll spare you the technicals to let you that what this has to do with our upcoming migration is that we would have preferred to put the migration off till the Heir gets a useable player that replaces anything mediocre that comes off the shelf.  He's been at it for three years, and frankly that's a long time to put off standing for the cause of principle.  He'll still continue going DIY with the player and other things, and we're still looking to get back on audio, maybe in some kind of alt broadcast on an offline analog basis, since we've been oriented and informed by audio mainly on terrestrial analog radio.

Keep it tuned here as we embark on an "exciting" new chapter in what we do.

The Heir Does Not Favor Legalizing Pot.  Shocking, right?  Well the Heir's such an old fart now (albeit still an Heir), and over the course of the 2010s he's seen the consequences of an Anything Goes society promoted by Ed Snowden.  So they've put off voting on the measure in the state capitol for now, but the Heir doesn't want there to be such a pro-pot bandwagon, where youth will fall in the cracks with peer pressure, and believing having a joint on their person is their Get Out Of Free Jail Card for any offense they want to commit, solely because they feel like it.  The Heir also believes the Donkeys For The People had their Blue Wave after all *mainly because* they weren't reluctant to criticize Trump.  So Schumer had it wrong that the Donkeys had to somehow ignore the elephant in the living room in the last election.  The Heir also takes those media outlets to task that on Accountability Day June 6 of last year only did anniversaries of RFK's death and D-Day, but not Ed Snowden's 5th.  It was left up to him to do so.  He also blames Big Tech's placation of Ed Snowden as the reason why no-one still knows why that guy shot all those people in Las Vegas three years ago.  Big Tech would have refused to cooperate with authorities in gaining access to the guy's devices and smartphone accordingly.  On audio (click Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Bachelor Stance Against The Swing Voter Narrative With The Supreme Court. So now that the election's come and gone, there isn't as much discussion about the Supreme Court as there was in September 2018.  And that's with this thing with Brett Kavanaugh replacing a "swing vote" on the Supreme Court, which is a narrative the Heir rejects entirely.  The Heir also doesn't think that Hope Hicks was necessarily a counselor-in-chief to Donald Trump, because there were a number of things he ended up saying and doing that Hope Hicks apparently didn't prevent.  So between the Supreme Court and the threats against Bob Mueller, even in spite of the election results, the Heir believes that only Papua New Guinea's cultural sense of tropical simplicity is ultimately going to save us in the West.  The Heir's increasingly seeing accountability and law-and-order as increasing issues.  He also differs from the vanilla progressives in believing that Ronny Jackson got thrown under the bus.  And the naval disasters that took place in May 2017 the Heir believes is due to big tech pushing forced obsolescence to the point of mental atrophy.  He believes that every navigator needs to receive basic training in the use of the sextant, among other simple and reliable tools of navigation.  On audio:

The Bachelor Continues Pushing For Simplicity And Principle In The Continuing Age Of Big Tech And Ed Snowden.  So again sorry people for the delay.  We're going to do everything we can to pick up the pace of our putting out new episodes.  So in this one, we pick up where we left off in standing fast to the value of simplicity and the importance of principle in a still-decidedly confused and unprincipled age, here in 2018.  Because of a book Donna Brazile put out months ago, the Heir believes the political vanillas cherry pick when to fact-check something or not to fact-check it.  The Heir still believes Papua New Guinea has the potential of being the out-of-left-field hero in the new cold war between the U.S. and Russia, by being a none-of-the-above country.  The third way out of the exclusive two that exist.  The Heir believes that with Me Too and successful males in show business, everybody's doing it.  All males in show business, he believes, have sexually harassed a female colleague at one time or another.  They just haven't gotten caught yet.  The Heir remembers one such male, Minnesotan Humorist, for his rational contributions to an otherwise irrational world.  Marco comes in with our food from Barbecue Spice Kitchen and worries about how A Certain Friend Of His may run afoul of ICE and be forcibly deported.  The Heir believes that Big Tech and Ed Snowden both play a far bigger role in RussiaGate than both Donald Trump and Russia combined.  He looks at Big Tech trying to use Red Herrings and Avoiding The Issue techniques such as Disruptions and Artificial Intelligence to distract from the fact that most tech just doesn't work properly.  Look at Heathrow 2016.  With Ed Snowden, the Heir found an article link on thehill.com where Ed Snowden apparently assisted in promoting the Deep State conspiracy theory.  On audio (Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Bachelor Contemplates A Political Cult Awareness Week.  That's what we're doing for the fifth anniversary of Ed Snowden this year.  This will be about somewhere between May 20 and June 6, and plenty of time before and after.  Among other things, we differentiate ourselves from the progressives and as political skeptics in that we observe that the progressives have never gone back on their support for Ed Snowden in the past five years.  We see Ed Snowden as even more of a threat to the American way than Donald Trump, because we see the former as promoting the kind of corrupted thinking the latter finds a handy place in.  It's this corrupted thinking that threatens the rule of law in this country at this time.  This is how Heir believes Ed Snowden was primarily the one that caused Trump to become President.  Worse than that, the Heir believes that the progressives think of Trump as a handy way of not dealing with Ed Snowden.  So, the Heir will think twice before giving the progressives any money to do things with.  The Heir also now believes the "sex revolution" was a marketing campaign during the Seventies aimed at young people to make money off selling beer and cars and deodorant to them.  The Heir has also started covering NBC Port Moresby more actively, to keep tabs on that one small country in the pacific region we believe whose indigenous cultural background holds certain wisdom for the otherwise Type A and overmodern West.  On Audio (click or tap Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Importance Of Vital Information Through Audio In The Era Of Fake News.  So, people, you've likely been hearing the phrase "fake news" left and right these days.  But we provide some insight as to how to tell between fake news and reliable information, and lo and behold, it has to do with using the following Vitality Standards on analog radio: Relevance, Accuracy and Substance.  We remind people that audio should be more preferred to visual (whether that's TV or social media), because audio helps filter out clickbait links and distracting sensationalized imagery.  We're also looking into classic murder mysteries (e.g., Agatha Christie) as boot dressing the classiness pillar, since the TV adaptations feature classy architecture, furniture and decor.  The Heir also believes we are a classist society and is very disappointed in the progressive movement's failure to sincerely champion the working class.  And whatever happens to Funny Named Care, the Heir is determined to uphold the importance of affordability, for himself and for others.  The Heir also doesn't understand why an actor in Shakespeare In The Park has to cause "political" problems for the play program, just because he just happened to look like Donald Trump.  On Audio (Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Bachelor Helped Defend Funny Named Care.  This is what they're debating in Washington this week (late July 2017), and the Heir isn't confident that Funny Named Care is going to make it.  That said, he looks upon this episode as a snapshot of he and us in the Bachelor helping to defend Funny Named Care, now that he's on it.  We start out by talking about Donald Trump, and how the Heir was creeped out over how Donald Trump believes he had the biggest turnout of any Inauguration in the history of the country.  The Heir also continues to condemn Russian politics in light of their interference with the election.  The Heir and Sonya made up for the times she didn't want to talk to him when he didn't feel up to going places when he was having worse economic problems.  Let's see, what else...  Hospital ads on the radio advertising medical solutions in search of problems.  The bandwagoning rhetoric of summer radio ads.  The Heir's following of that rock'n'roll talk show that pointed out, among other things, that the Rolling Stones *did not* hire members of Hells Angels as security guards in Altima.  On Audio (Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Heir Has His Wings And Ribs On The Beach Back In Mid-July.  We start out with a Termination Notice the Heir places on an economic solution from last year that didn't work out, which he believes is a reflection on them far more than their letting him go was any way a reflection on him.  He faults the "coordinator's coordinator" for being in a position to help that one particular department and doing nothing.  He will continue to add to his Termination Notice over time, so he can make clear what the situation is with that solution.  The Heir in this case at least doesn't believe in not "wallowing" in the past, particularly when there's unfinished business.  He now attends the catering counter at Bland Barns.  Meanwhile, the Heir continues to criticize the Ed Snowden and Roger Replacement types in the world, also because he doesn't believe they understand how much they're skating on thin ice with their reckless ways.  And even though now there's suspicion that Russia interfered with our elections, he doesn't believe we should have cooperated with them on Syria last year, because he believes they'll only take political advantage.  He now wants personal alliances with the Baltic States, Eastern Europe, the island states of the Pacific Rim and individual African states.   Speaking of Russia, the Heir sums up on how the Ed Snowden tech age is coming to an end, by paraphrasing that he walked around the St. Petersburg that is Silicon Valley when he saw it was time for a change.  And Prepper Maker continues with his research into a DIY audio player, and things like RSS Search and "crowdcommend."  On Audio (Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The End Of Music.  Happy New Year, people! So the Heir starts off the New Year from back last May to remind people about a plane crash that's now off the front pages, but at the time was Issue #1 because he believes both the media and politicians wanted it to be about terrorism.  Another thing you don't hear about now is the Zika virus.  But the Heir's more concerned about what could be The End Of Music, because of streaming services having to "replace" music downloads, and mainly only provide Top 40 content.  The Heir believes we're lucky that we were able to investigate that nightclub tragedy in Florida last year, because Apple would have opposed it out of the possibility of our needing to decrypt a suspect's smartphone.  He doesn't know why it didn't count as an Isis attack.  He thinks about how such tragedies get extreme coverage on cable news on giant TVs in medical waiting rooms, and how that's just distressing for waiting patients already worried about what the doctor may say.  He's pretty sure that Brexit will only serve to make the EU Parliament even more of a rubber stamp, because the UK won't be there to provide a dissenting view.  He wonders whether Fun Loving Chief in meeting with Loretta Lynch about Seventy First Lady's email situation pulled a "Columbo" in bringing up the issue.  On Audio (Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Bachelor Declaration Of The Concept Of Prepper Maker.  We've been waiting weeks to let people know about Prepper Maker, but it's been going on with the Bachelor since before then.  It's the *other* maker movement not content with today's high tech status quo.  It's about self sufficiency, and saving and preserving cultural meaning through the creation of simpler tech crafts.  Listen in for more.  And while you do so, you'll hear reminders that once Bill DiBlasio is made into a one-term Mayor, his Vision Zero Initiative will go out with him, and people will drive dangerously once more in New York City.  The Heir's convinced of the closeted hypocrisies of those politicians who favor the "bathroom laws" in the south, and he's not all that sympathetic for the Verizon strikers from earlier this year.  He also believes that the war on drugs wasn't about discrimination, but about making it safe for people to get help for their drug problems at a time 20-30 years ago when drug dealers practically seized control of the country.  It's apparent to him that there's a Zikaphobia going on, when there too few cases to get worried about, compared to heart disease and cancer.  He's concerned for the potential for indiscriminate spraying.  On audio (click Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Heir Laments Over All These Dead Rockers.  So, yeah, the Heir grieved for David Bowie and Prince, but also added on Glenn Frey, Maurice White and Keith Emerson.  He's also going to miss Billy Paul.  He feels as if these artists have no business dying.  They've been with him his entire life, and they should have only waited till they got to 140.  He's also terrified that North Korea now has the H-Bomb back in January, but they only claimed it, and no-one's talked about it since.  Another pro-sex conviction he has is that you shouldn't worry about fat and cholesterol, if you have enough sex.  The Heir rips on the age of enthusiasm and the *unchecked* power of positive thinking.  He's observed that store chains now make all towns look almost exactly the same.  He doesn't understand why Donald Trump never made an election issue off the standoff in Oregon months ago.  But he does believe that Apple's flip-off to investigators signals that they will always refuse to help investigators on any crime, no matter how many people die, spinning any such cooperation as a slippery slope of some sort.  And that the courts will always side with Apple no matter what, going forward.  It makes the Heir nostalgic for the Tough On Crime campaigns of the early Nineties. On Audio (Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Heir's Next Step Toward The Time When The Time Will Come Around.  The Heir's getting there, and he shocked everyone by making an extended appearance at Barbecue Spice Kitchen this past December.  Sonya's mad at him, though, for making a comeback that she feels is too late at this point.  Carmen, on the other hand, tells him that her friends in the trade greatly admire Heir's frugal ways, because they have spendthrifty bad habits.  The Heir was also wondering if there's even one thing that Donald Trump has said that wasn't controversial.  If he did, it would make all the papers.  Everyone except Sonya's giving the Heir care packages off their plates, inspiring the ire of the Chef, who's kind of a table manners cop.  Because Food should be serious, even if it's mellow.  After the newest Star Wars movie came out last year, it reminded the Heir of an even bigger controversy than Han Shot First, and that was Sandpeople They're The Worst.  He's pretty sure Luke says that rather than Sandpeople Or Worse.  The Heir last year during economic troubles was able to buy audio accessories online for no more than $25, saving him $100 or so.  He needed to do that for Music The Third Pillar.  And he's thinking about meeting friends of friends more once he feels up to it.  And he still believes in the importance of living without compromise.  On Audio (Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/

The Heir Makes Progress On The Dance Program.  The Heir was still more in deep economic therapy than he is now, and he has a beta to show for his auto-compose dance music computer program.  He'd been receiving therapy from Leeanna and Lucinda in the Swank Lounge, and this time it's Lucinda in the episode.  The Heir explains all about the Dance Program in the episode.  He explains how he felt more musically adventurous just earlier in 2015, and he hopes to get back to that as time goes by.  (In this shares base, the Heir shared Little By Little to demonstrate that's how it's going for him).  He had a way of arranging his playlists as "stations" on his now-classic audio player.  Meanwhile, Sonya and Yumeka were missing the Heir at the Swank Lounge while they were hanging out with the Mentor.  Sonya, in particular, seems kind of cynical about the Heir's chances for truly coming back, because of how she believes economics do and should work.  But the Heir does manage a cell call to the Mentor to ask about the Bachelor stance on music streaming.  And the Heir still has prepper type dreams for the infrastructure-for-fun, like building his own radio and his own digital audio player.  When the time comes around.  He wants hedonism to really live more off the grid, a la the crystal radio villigers.  And he also wants to meet more people he's seen in his social circles but never had the chance.  On Audio (click Play All) @ https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Bachelor Keeps Talking About This Year's Primaries When Its Actually Next Year's Primaries.  That's something the Heir at least keeps forgetting and I the Mentor need to remind him.  We went back in history to the McGovern Commission to investigate why there are primaries at all.  We concluded that the primaries are presently a victim of their own success.  But another thing we never found out the reason for is why in the third debate 2004 it was decided that only potential voters from swing states could ask the candidates questions and not anyone else, excluding the 34 other states.  We also don't understand what real value a newspaper endorsement gets you.  But looking back, we're not so sure that Mission Accomplished was such a dumb move after all.  Or that Air America wasn't a waste of time.  Or that it mattered how Impulsive pronounced the name Abu Graib.  But we really don't want TV networks deciding our elections for us, by calling a given state for a given candidate, because that's not in the Constitution.  Outside of elections and politics, the Heir believes that it's pitch pines that are the shore pines in the Artifactorial, and the dogs in the nearby neighborhood snarl at him every time he walks in the sidewalk, so he has to change his walking pattern so they don't give him problems.  On Audio (Play All) @ https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Bachelor Rewinds The Tape On The Culture Of The Primary Season.  It's late July now, but it was back in June when the Heir heard about all the primary declarations, and we all collectively looked back at The Last Meaningful Election Ever 2004 for guidance as to how to look at Primaries now.  The Heir wonders what Presidential Exploratory Committee is in tok pisin, and he has decided now to be against stem cell research just because, since it's no longer a current election issue.  He also expresses bemusement at the notion that swift boating could ever have been the main reason why Stalwart Two lost in an election already riddled with irregularities, or that it was necessarily a big deal now that Impulsive might have smuggled an audio device into a debate so he can get answers to tough questions.  Naomi and Leeanna also expressed annoyance with me the Mentor and the Heir as men for (allegedly) avoiding the subject of that special piercing some women have, just because NHS now considers such women "mutilated."  We really don't see why they'd be annoyed with us though, if we do say so.  On Audio (Play All) @ https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Dismissive Use Of The Word Disruptions By Roger Replacement.  To start, why is the Heir still complaining about the polar vortex on Memorial Day weekend?  It's because we started doing this episode in the middle of March, which saw the last blast of said polar vortex.  Roger Replacement strikes back in this one, suggesting that making people use technology they don't want to use and can't afford is just a mere disruption, and therefore there are no moral qualms.  The Heir wonders why the lesson we learned with the Bill Cosby allegations about not putting "beloved" entertainers on pedestals we apparently forgot with regards to Leonard Nimoy, solely because he was never caught doing anything wrong.  The Heir is also seeing a war on vitamins at large in light of a fraud scandal in New York state, he opposes pitch timing, and does not acknowledge Netenue's greatness in light of his election victory.  On audio (Play All) @ https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Upcoming Internet Outage In A Post-Radio Shack World.  OK, a few notes here.  As of this writing, there are still some or many Radio Shack stores (at least for now), we guess because that was that part of the liquidation that allowed for that.  Also, the weather is getting better, so that will fly in the face of the polar vortex that we had to deal with when the episode was being made.  Now with that out of the way, this episode is so named because the Heir is concerned that Radio Shack being seen as a has-been will effectively kill the engineering expertise that keeps the Internet running, so once the outage occurs we're basically screwed.  Looks like the Cigar Assistant was right after all!  This is also the episode where we take aim at affirmative consent, the belief that North Korea *did not* cause the Sony hack, and Roger Replacement once again.  Roger's lieutenant Robbie Replacement stands by the bleeding edge tech in the failed GPS unit that stranded him in Bachelor Borough.  We also discuss the tragedy at the French newspaper, and Jon Stewart leaving the Daily Show.  On audio (Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Year Of Nominality Ends With The Emergence Of Roger Replacement.  That Year Of Nominality actually ended early- to mid- December of last year.  This is the account of what happened the day after the Heir got his Linuxtop and running.  That personification that I the Mentor talked about in the last episode was, in fact, Roger Replacement.  Roger Replacement has a lieutenant named Robbie Replacement, and it's the latter the Heir will have dealings with going forward.  The Year Of Nominality that ended was mainly about making sure that tech doesn't run your life, to the point where your pro-sex convictions are at risk.  Some other things we get to talk about on this episode are that one law that's being passed in an increasing number of cities making it illegal to feed the homeless, the New York Giants ending yet another losing season, whether or not shoveling snow actually gives you a heart attack, the assaults by Bill Cosby and whether the days are numbered for those charming Victorian houses in residential areas of cities.  Click Play All at: https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Bachelor Has A Different Take On The Past Election.  This, nearly two months after that election took place.  Contrary to conventional wisdom, the Heir is skeptical that the election was necessarily a referendum on or a mandate against Funny Named Skinny Kid.  When the new Congress is sworn in the New Year, the Heir continues to see the most important issues in this country today being neglected, particularly the question of whether to medically require young adults who haven't been sexually active by a certain age to go to a sex therapist.  Two months was also enough time for the Bachelor to express regret over our One Percent Doctrine type response to the Ebola scare, including killing a dog without testing him for the virus, and imprisoning a nurse in quarantine who never had the virus.  They also stopped listening to the CIS full-time, particularly because of their contribution to the scare with their wrong downer claims that never got supported.  But the Heir relates his love of German radios he saw on that YouTube channel, available under the Audio link on this shares base.  He talks about how to look at the month of October (now that it's nearly January) in the context of hedonistic meditation.  On Audio (click on Play All) @ http://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Great Walkup

The Bachelor's Concerns That Visual Is Starting To Corrupt The Developing World.  Even though the Bachelor acknowledges that the developing world has its problems, they do admire their enthusiasm for the radio medium with the information, something that the Western world has forgotten with its glut of tech.  But now, the Heir says he sees signs that visual is starting to corrupt the developing world, over irrational accusations on visual that a Ghanian soccer player had killed his best friend in a ritual sacrifice.  The Heir also takes psychoanalysis to task over the "dog test," whereby at least one writer he saw seemed to contend that because a dog does not know how to talk, he cannot come up with forensic arguments against his mistreatment, and therefore such is the case for a young child.  The Heir also doesn't know about this Isis raid in Australia a couple months ago, wondering why the CIS reported at least a hundred helicopters for only fifteen suspects.  The Heir believes we need to restore warnings in radio spots for nutritional supplements that they're not meant to treat, prevent or cure disease, particularly that brain one that claims EHT.  And to the dismay of both Sonya and Lucinda, he has decided not to go to that massage parlor after all.  On audio (click Play All) @ http://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The great walk-up.