One of these fine days, we'll go back to making one episode a month.  At least that's what the Heir fantasizes.  He sees it as Unfinished Business.  Godfather-style.

"Hey Heir, remember when we put out episodes once a month?"  "Yeah, I want my Bachelor back!"

Yesterday the Heir watched the snow, today he shoveled it.  Well, looks like that's over.  Do you know that Bloomberg might become our next President?

"Life's back to normal for me after the snow.  When did that happen?"

Heir's watching the snow come down.

"Snow whoa whoa, it's magic you know."

Happy New Year from the Bachelor!  We have a new episode ready on audio, BTW, as below.

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/

To paraphrase Lombardi, principle isn't everything, it's the only thing.  (Heir just added, "particularly if it's pro-sex").

The Happy Bachelor

The Heir feels like Robert Plant's protagonist does as linked below (via the radio pic).  But, no, the time has not come around yet.  And the Heir doesn't have a time frame for when that will happen.

-- Recovering gradually --

(and we're still working on that episode, we might even get it out on the holiday weekend)

The Heir says he believes that the voter list situation is being blown out of proportion.  No doubt Seventy First Lady also has unfettered access to Bernie Sanders' list, and you don't see *him* complaining.

"Why is this an issue after three plus months of the field agreeing that Seventy First Lady's email situation wasn't an issue?  Do voters care about the voter list than they do economics?"

Believe it or not, we *are* working on an upcoming episode, slowly but surely.  We don't know when it'll come out, though.

The Bachelor expresses condolences for the victims of the attacks in Paris.

There haven't been any new episodes thus far for a couple of reasons, but we're hoping that will change at some point.  For one thing, the Heir is still having sex therapy for his non-sexual economic problems, therapy courtesy of Leeanna and Lucinda, and he wants that to go on audio at some point.  Also the Heir's been working on the The Dance Program, and he's getting very close to a beta, so he no longer has to deal with lack of reliable music podcasts (i.e., *feed* casts, not streaming).

When you get a chance, please tune into our new episode.  Because we have to remind ourselves it's not *this* year's primaries, it's *next* year's primaries.  So with that out of the way, the Heir is pleased to announce that the mp3 player is alive and well, that it hasn't been killed by the streaming fad.  I the Mentor lists below some player models that have been introduced from February 2014 to September 2015 that the Heir found.  He likes the fact that most of these accept at least a 32 gig card, and even a 64 in some cases!  Many of them are getting fairly good reviews on Amazon.  He's not sure how far they go back in supporting older systems like his, and he wants to know what kind of significant niche is keeping the mp3 player alive.  But seems all is good for the time being in the portable player world.  (Meanwhile, he's also keeping a breast on the radio situation as well.  We provided a list of that earlier this year or sometime last year).  It all goes to show that there's still good stuff out there.  You just need to look.  Mp3 Players Are Alive And Well @ {http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Player-Screen-MicroSDHC-SDMX24-004G-G46K/dp/B00HCMZ0OK/ref=pd_rhf_dp_p_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0DFV68DBB37YSY8X0KFX, http://www.amazon.com/Elecmall-Economic-Mp3-Mp4-Player/dp/B013DPF59Y/ref=pd_rhf_dp_p_img_5?ie=UTF8&refRID=0DFV68DBB37YSY8X0KFX, http://www.amazon.com/Tomameri-Portable-Player-Viewer-Recorder/dp/B012Z9PZJE/ref=pd_rhf_dp_p_img_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=0DFV68DBB37YSY8X0KFX}

Click above regarding the newer Sandisk player, as an example

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/