The Encouragement The Heir Gets From Carmen And Naomi To Go To A Massage Parlor.  We talk about how authorities went out of their way to talk about sex trafficking during the Superbowl, even though there are numerous parlors up where the Superbowl took place anyway.  The Heir expresses concern that a massage place opening up near where he works might be one of "those" parlors, but Carmen and Naomi tell him that he should still go there if it is, to be adventurous and expand his repertoire in life, and to be sure to ask for extras.  Also in this nearly outdated and long overdue episode, we talk about whether in light of Donald Sterling's racist comments the Bachelor has a possible reputation problem due to its urban image, there likely being a majority around where we live in taking a pro-Kremlin stance favoring Putin's incursions into the Ukraine, and how Bill DiBlasio is becoming known as the horse cart mayor of New York City.  On audio (click on the first play button after the banner ad): http://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

Mentor (center, copper) and Heir (right, gold).

OK, so the Heir didn't hear from our preferred web space company within a 24 hour limit using their admin address.  So he had to crawl back to one of the fad services he had criticized and sign up with them again.  In spite of our cultural misgivings about the service, we got something worked out pretty well there technically, even though it's currently paltry and skeletal.  Seems as though we do have some leeway as to presentation, and hopefully it'll be like this in the foreseeable future when we're ready to use that leeway.  Heir's concerned about that leeway vanishing before then, though, and still unhappy about not being able to properly upload files from a tablet.  He still wants to retain an account at the old school company, because he believes that a stream from therein is the best way to syndicate to a willing shortwave broadcaster if and when we decide to do that.  And now, in our next announcement or so, we'll call out our ready episode we've got on audio.

So more on the adventures the Heir is having getting an audio site set up.  Currently he's pinned his hopes on a generic web site host, old school.  He's hoping that we can retain the audio there while using a front page wiki style service for the web site proper.  The Heir did try a couple of "social media" fad service style audio clouds.  One of them does not allow uploading through a tablet which is what the Heir signed up for in the first place, and he was maneuvered into signing up without being able to easily find out that he essentially can't use the service.  Another service does allow for uploading, but he wasn't able to tap on any of the buttons to make an upload from his tablet or even delete his account.  He had to retreat to his W laptop against his discretion from which he deleted his account because he's sure the site believed that he has no such discretion.  This is why the Heir believes we need to go back to the good ole days of simple web functioning pre-web 2.0, pre-fad.  Because back then the only thing you needed to worry about is getting your site to work on Internet Explorer and a normal browser.  Didn't have to worry about mobile sites or apps or puerile rectangles onscreen or anything.  So again, stay tuned.  Because the Heir hasn't given up!

Well, we tried to get one service to host the audio portion, and it didn't work.  The Heir tried to get all the audio files to work with each other on the service's space, but that service insists on jumbling the web references of the audio files, making it all but impossible to stream them correctly.  Within one hour the Heir created and deleted a new account.  The service wasn't intended as a free web host, so we go back to our list again accordingly.  We've already got content on audio ready to go, so it's just a matter of finding the right host for it.  But the Heir wants to make sure it's a flexible enough host with an actual useful service.  The Heir's afraid that that set of pre-web 2.0 values are going out the window in favor of online bastardization, and is making sure we avoid those, keeping in line with the old school.

Heir switched off this game as well, in the 6th, when Main Team One trailed 3-1, and did nothing to answer Baltimore's relentless hitting.  Main Team One.  Worst team ever.  They let it get away from them just before the all star break and they probably also called it an official game because of rain right when Main Team One might have gotten their mojo back.  Worst team ever.  How can they possibly make postseason at all whatsoever if this is the note they go out on just before the all star break.  And NL will certainly win the all star game like they've done the past five years or so.  There is a serious question as to whether the brand of Main Team One is permanently damaged as a result, and that they'd have to disband.  That question comes solely from the Heir, who has no sports writing or analysis chops whatsoever.

A little update on our upcoming new home online.  We still don't know where that will be, but I the Mentor and the Heir have been doing some thinking about which bits of content would reside in which types of service.  Our biggest priority is audio, so we believe that's the first change that'll happen.  So once we get a new episode ready on audio, it'll be on that audio service TBD.  We're also thinking about how to look at what we do on the present site conceptually, and we've separated the immersive aspect of the site from the lists of links.  And what we expect will happen is that The Bachelor Presence online will reside on multiple services rather than just one or two.  We intend for The Bachelor Content on the different services to all work together as best as possible.  Again, stay tuned.

Main Team One has got to be the worst team ever, said the Heir as he switches off the tabletop radio to the back of the Swank Lounge.  He's still waiting for the team to start hitting, here in mid July.  If they start hitting in late August, they may have a chance at a 20 game winning streak to put them just one game behind Baltimore by mid September.  But that's still too little too late.  If you're only starting to hit in August and September, it means you should have started doing so opening day back in April.  As cold as it sounds, injuries and climate change affecting team performance is no excuse.  It's time to start counting out Main Team One, and for the Heir to look forward to Lionel Holland's hopeful coaching chops for Brooklyn starting in late October.  Local teams making it in baseball is a lost cause.  Time to look forward post baseball, preferably with Brooklyn but possibly with the Giants to way outperform their last season of less than half.

So we're starting our search for a new home online, and also thinking about things we do that we want to change to make it easier for us while we're at it.  We still dream about getting our stream to play on a generous shortwave station, but we've been doing our updates in a nerdy low level way when there are easier ways of doing it.  We haven't made any decisions, but you'll know once we do.  I the Mentor am encouraging the Heir not to stop helping build the episodes just because we currently can't update the current site.

We seem to be going through a transition where our main web site is concerned that we reference every time we have a new episode.  We don't know what's going to happen there, but keep it tuned here accordingly as to what we eventually decide to do about it.