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/

Diamond in the back, sunny roof top...

When cars were cars.

Well, what are you waiting for, Heir?  Take her out for a spin!

"Say what!"

Here's a dash the Heir wants to see come back, in our techy dash age of ours.  This comes from the King of all cars, but while also being patent-wise, there's no reason why we can't have this general design.  Once again.

"Well, maybe if they still want a GPS in there, showing you where all the gas stations and restaurants are, we can shrink it down and put it on the middle axle of the steering wheel."

After being unsure about his future for the past two months, the Heir feels temporarily buoyed.  He hopes to live it up as much as he can last weekend of the summer (and good weekends after), because it's back to the fight Monday.  But at least he found a new discount supermarket to help him in things (and they may have some Comida Del Sol stuff).

The Heir's not entirely sure Main Team One will even get a wild card.  Baseball's bound to end early like it did last year.

The Heir's having to deal with some serious soul starting back in mid-July or so.  Stay tuned, though we do have a couple of episodes or so already in the making from before the Heir's serious soul.  He still hasn't finished with ripping on our Ed Snowden culture though.

Okay, so the Heir's at least a day late coming to this, but he's outraged by Beyonce's acquisition of a pair of shoes costing $300,000.  CBS Radio reminds its listeners that that's the same price as a mid-cost house, as if they couldn't already tell by the Heir's audible sticker shock (he went, "Boing-oing-oing-oing!!").  The Heir wonders why the Guy Fawkes Mask Wearers aren't planning to Occupy Beyonce's Shoe Video.  People are still having trouble making ends meet, and not just the Retired Factory Worker or the fast food workers.  Sure there's a luxury market that's meant for rich celebrities, but the Heir still thinks it sends the wrong message, and he has yet to find anyone online who's just as mad about it as he is @ #beyoncesshoes #filthyrichcelebrities #strugglingtomakeendsmeet #essentialseconomics #boingoingoingoing #twentyfourcaretporcelainthrone

"Beyonce bought a pair of shoes that costs $300,000.  That's OUTRAGEOUS!!!"

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 Heir contrasts the Guy Fawkes Mask Wearers who claimed to have caused the Wall Street computer problem with the concept of the Alex Delarge Mask Wearers, who while presently non-existent, the Heir fantasizes as coming out now anywhere the Guy Fawkes Mask Wearers are protesting, and the Alex Delarges counter-demonstrate on the Guy Fawkeses even if they did as much as cough.  The Alex Delarges would hold signs saying, "It's Our Country Too!" @ #alexdelargemaskwearers #itsmycountrytoo #nationalprinciple

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Very remotely related to the audio portion of the Third Pillar, the Heir sees great promise in emerging White Space tech for the Internet.  Though he's wary of the possibility of unintended consequences, he also believes it'll revolutionize mobiles in terms of cost to both the consumer and the environment.  He sees contract broadband with mobile as wasteful and not very responsible.  So it was a joy for him to read about how an indigenous society in California is adopting White Space partly because they believe impact on culturally sensitive environmental areas will be minimal.  One of these fine days, the Heir hopes, White Space will make its way to Bachelor Blue State, both densely populated and materialistic, and possibly the last state to adopt White Space.  California’s Yurok Tribe Takes Advantage of White Spaces Technology @ http://www.radioresourcemag.com/newsArticle.cfm?news_id=7126

Now that the Confederate Flag is increasingly toxic, and now that the Greek referendum voted against further austerity, the Heir thinks the Southern rebels have a sufficient enough stand-in:

"Hey, hey, hey!  I was born a rebel."

Don't think mob justice doesn't work, people!  Heir found this online along with half the world's online population: Car illegally parked in handicapped zone get covered in post-its @ https://youtu.be/k-jJ4uq8TWk

Heir was in for the day today, because of lower 70s temps and chances of showers.  But we still didn't continue on the upcoming Bachelor episode.  Heir did almost everything else he meant to do.  He's lazy, doesn't want to do a Bachelor episode he can continue working on Monday.  But he's got his stuff packed for tomorrow, for him and me the Mentor to go with Lucinda and Yumeka to that beach conformant with their preferred dress code.

Here's a cool radio the Heir saw on YouTube.  He likes the vinyl-ish texture, as well as the double-mat speaker grille.  The shortwave band can be swapped out for the weather band, and with an aux band button swapping out the tone knob on top, and he's got something to bring with him to that beach that's conformant with Carmen's preferred dress code.  He'll have to re-watch the video to see whether the carry handle gets in the way of the buttons.  1960 Sudfunk @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ570UrhdSs

Yes, people, there are *good* things in life, that the Heir is *optimistic* about.  And now that we got that out of the way, yet another sure loser for Main Team One the Heir has said.  He switched off his Sixties reminiscent grille sided radio when Main Team had bases loaded and no-one out, and allowed a shut-out with the game going 3-1 Hollywood Squares Team in the 6th.  So that's the third, fourth or fifth time in a row he switched off his Sixties reminiscent grille sided radio.  The announcers lionized Hollywood's outfielder, and of course they'd never do that if it were another team was losing 3-1.  Main Team has severe problems for letting the outfielder be the Only One Man And One Man Only, and they're squarely in second place in the AL East, and that status won't change any time soon.  The other teams had lost today, and so will Main Team One.  They'll come off the road trip tied for third with Chowdah, and it'll be essentially too late when they have their 4th Of July homestand, because they'll go into the All Star Break just waking up one day wondering where all those months went.  It Figures @ #worstteamever

z=z=z "Dang the other team's got a whalin' outfielder there, and anybody thinks it's only because Main Team One doesn't hit?  Is that you Heir by any chance??" z=z=z

Oh no you don't!  The Heir wants Ed Snowden to know that just because he hasn't been in the news recently doesn't mean he'll give him slack.  The Heir believes that the headcutting at that gas company in France possibly involved knowledge of classified info leaked by Ed Snowden when he was going after the spying program.  The Heir believes it's a side effect, and pointed out how Funny Named Skinny Kid stated that the full effects of the breach may not be understood for years to come.  {Headcutting At Gas Co In France And Ed Snowden: Loose Lips Sink Ships @ #nationalprinciple}

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Let's face it, the Heir was raving.  Main Team One is the worst team in baseball, just not record-wise.  The Heir turned off in the 5th when Masahiro Tanaka allowed two home runs for the game tied at 6 after Main Team led 6-0.  But what made him turn off was the fact that when Tanaka allowed 6-5 Main Team didn't have anyone warming up in the bullpen.  They were all just a sitting duck.  I the Mentor pointed out that you got to lose the battle to win the war, in case they need to rest their bullpen, but the Heir had none of it.  He believes they're losing both the battle *and* the war, being stuck at 2 in the AL East, and they're not rising up anytime soon.  Maybe Main Team One could still win the game after all, but they lost at least one listener for the day: The Heir @ #worstteamever

"Main Team One is the *worst* team in baseball!"

Probably real late for the Bachelor to say so, but same-sex marriage now made a right by the Supreme Court in all 50 states: it's big!

Here are some resources related to Tok Pisin, which the Bachelor tries (with mixed success) to interpret extreme 50 cent buzzwords from English, to break down language to simpler elements.  That's at least what the Heir sees in the language, though a native may beg to differ.  Here's the Heir trying real hard accordingly: "Mi bilong long Hapi Basela."  I the Mentor think he just said "I am a jelly dough-nut" (or something more embarrassing).  Tok Pisin @ {http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tokpisin.htm, http://www.unilang.org/course.php?res=80, https://research.jcu.edu.au/lcrc/language-archives/papua-new-guinea-languages/some-learning-materials-tok-pisin}

This thing with taking down the Confederate Flag, the Heir was musing, he shares the cynicism of those who believe that politicians in favor of it may wish to sidestep race issues entirely, and possibly pretend that taking down the flag somehow means that mission is accomplished.  Very easy thing to do, very symbolic, and the politicians don't have to face difficult issues which may not always have a clear answer.  Another reservation the Heir has, which he doesn't want Sonya and Naomi to know about (too late Heir, they're reading this), that as divisive as the flag is, is about the potential for censorship.  He wonders whether we're going to use CGI to repaint the General Lee in the Dukes Of Hazzard in Special Edition DVDs.  We may repaint the flag with a Barney-ish Pokemon type flag, and the confederate march in the car horn will probably replace with the chortle of a Model T Ford.  Because let's not stop there.  The Confederate march will be seen as a reference to the southern side in the Civil War, possibly also socially offensive now.  So when the car swings into action to save the townspeople from the corruption of Boss Hogg, you won't hear a heroic fanfare, you'll hear the choking chortle, hardly something that the characters get their hopes high on.  We'll see soon enough.

"I'm against any sacrilege on the Dukes Of Hazzard General Lee."

It's that time of year when new episodes are slow to come out, because we're having too much fun at the beach conformant with Naomi's and Sonya's preferred dress code.  But with the beach, the Heir's get-a-room tent had just arrived, so he's looking into testing putting it up and taking it down this evening, and figuring out how to get it on our beach handtruck.  The box that arrived was lighter than he thought.  It was supposed to be 10 pounds, but it feels more like 5 pounds.  Also it seems short enough folded up that it should go on the truck no problem, taking up no more room than the screen does on 70 degree rough-it days.  Heir only wants to put either the screen or the tent on the truck, not both, so he has to ascertain in the parking lot how much he needs the screen that day.  If he doesn't need the screen, it's the tent.

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Thoughts and prayers are with the families of the deceased in the tragedy in Charleston, S.C.

The Heir's thought of the day is as follows: if the FIFA arrests are only a colonialist effort for the U.S. to expand its jurisdiction, is Sepp Blatter's agreement to resign part of that supposed conspiracy?  Who put a gun to Mr. Blatter's head and said, you must resign?  And why isn't the America's Always Wrong crowd making that case?  Maybe that's an implied admission that it ain't so, and it casts a shadow on making the FIFA arrests some sort of conspiracy theory to begin with.  {Blatter Resignation Casts Doubt On Supposed FIFA Arrest Conspiracy @ #nationalprinciple}

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The Heir noticed that among the two words the central government in Beijing used to describe U.S. accusations that hackers in China broke into records of Federal workers, neither of those was the word "wrong."  He's pretty sure they cannot bring themselves to use the word wrong, and they can't outright deny the hackings such as, "We absolutely did not hack into your Federal records."  Sure that's not an admission of guilt, but if they didn't do it, you'd expect them to actually say, we didn't do it.  On the other hand, they're never going to say, OK you got us, we did it.  But they had to say something, at least to sustain the America's Always Wrong spirit of a post Section 215 world.  {China Never Explicitly Said Hackings Accusations Are Wrong @ #nationalprinciple}

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The Heir thought that the FBI spokesperson left it way too open for the Ed Snowdens on the CIS this morning.  The CIS asked her to respond to America's Always Wrong (AAW) allegations that the FBI's investigations into FIFA are politically motivated, and she ended up giving a speech to the effect of making the world safe for democracy and implied that Funny Named Skinny Kid was on board with that sentiment even though the CIS didn't ask her about Funny Named.  The Ed Snowdens will continue on with See I Told You So in response to the spokesperson's unintended reference to Woodrow Wilson, whose actions regarding the League Of Nations preceded World War II.  The Heir thought she should have been schooled beforehand on every single AAW accusation that exists, so that her response will always be a thought-terminator for the Ed Snowdens, to the point that their responses in turn will look like whiny bitching.  {Need Better Schooling On The Ed Snowdens In Your FIFA Arrest Interviews @ #nationalprinciple}

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So two days after the Heir got me the Mentor to create the National Principle label here on this shares base, we hear accusations that the U.S. is only going after corrupt officials in FIFA as part of colonialism or as part of expanding jurisdiction.  The Heir thinks the accusers are pulling that out of their butt as part of their America Is Always Wrong campaign, because they don't believe they have to prove their accusations or present probable cause.  Their stance is, they said it, you should believe it, that settles it.  The fact is, there's nothing inherently controversial about the arrests, but the expiration of Section 215, as bad as an idea as it was, seems to have given grist to critics who seem to have the attitude of, OK let's *really* hand it to them now.  So if anyone thinks Ed Snowden hasn't done damage, think again.  And that's the Heir's take today.  {There's No Controversy In The FIFA Arrests @ #nationalprinciple}

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Now that Section 215 has expired, the Heir announces his followup on his declarations here a couple days ago.  And that's in the form of something he calls National Principle, which is now listed on this shares base for your convenience.  The Heir has decided not to wait until the USA Freedom Act gets decided on, because National Principle is the beginning of the end of Ed Snowden's celebrity cult, and the beginning of the end of the idea that the ends justify the means, and that two wrongs make it right.  The Heir also sees an absolute connection between the celebrity-cult-based-activism of today symbolized by Ed Snowden, and the new puerile squares-and-circles designs of today's web sites, among other things.  So he's also added a hash tag here for #classicweb, in addition to #snowdenwatch, and of course, #nationalprinciple.  And the Heir now thinks of the likes of Ed Snowden as the new Pat Robertson.

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The Heir has a big surprise for Ed Snowden once the spying provisions of the Patriot Act expire on June 1st.  Ed Snowden according to one of his proteges in the media, the Guardian UK, indicates that the expirations are only the beginning.  He means to say that they're only the beginning of the expansion of his activist celebrity, when in fact it's the beginning of the end of said celebrity.  The Heir will make sure of that, through expanded discussion both on audio and this announcements base, to remind the world, and specifically his followers, in both the citizenry and the media, that his motives are not so heroic, and won't be any more now than they were during I Already Won.  The Heir will remind everyone that Ed Snowden does not sincerely care about privacy rights, that he made a mockery of the information process by emphasizing the practice of hearsay, and that he promoted such anathemas as It's All About Me and The Ends Justify The Means.  As the spying provisions have their sunset clause, so do those 2010s things the Snowden personality cult has a clear adherence to, such as Guy Fawkes masks, romper room circle-and-square designs of "Web 2.0," and forced obsolescence.  These things will not last, and when they meet their final end, we will then rewind the tape, and wonder why we ever upheld or tolerated those things now.  Trust The Heir On This One People It's Going To Happen @ #snowdenwatch #keepamericasafe #nationalprinciple #convictions #theupcomingpostguyfawkesmaskera

"What, you mean the expirations are only the beginning, Ed Snowden?  Well, you have no idea what has begun here."

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/

We're going to get a new episode up either Saturday or Tuesday.  The Heir wants to make use of the Memorial Day weekend for when he sees Yumeka and Carmen there, who are also going with us.  Saturday where we are is supposed to only be in the 60s, but the Heir also wants to buy some tracks online.  He's going to see what he feels like doing, whether it's getting those tracks OR getting a new episode up.  Not both, because he feels like that's being Type A.

The Heir's *very* disappointed in Main Team One.  Slump shlump.  First it's the Giants, then it's the Nets, and now Main Team One.  And he doesn't buy the argument of lose the battle win the war.  When you lose 7 out of 9 on the road, you're losing both the battle *and* the war.  And you can't win a war if you don't win at least 51% of your battles.  80% if you want to keep first in the AL East.  In terms of local teams, he feels good about the Rangers' prospects, but he doesn't follow hockey.

Heir thinks they probably should have rephrased it.

The Heir is considering drawing the Prophet Muhammad on a regular basis after the shooting at the Let's Draw Muhammad Event in Texas.  He's not going to wait until they verify that the shooters were in fact associated with Isis.  He doesn't believe in insulting other people's religions, but Isis has made Muhammad into a political football with their practice of killing people if they do as much as cough, and cutting people's heads off if they have a bad day.  They're better known as the Headcutters, and the Heir believes the best way for citizens to deal with them is to do the exact thing they're saying you shouldn't do.  After all, Isis can't shoot all 350 million plus Americans (plus much of Europe).  An "example-setter" won't be good enough, because it'll just make us draw Muhammad even more.  America.  Land of the Muhammad drawers @ #isissucks #fisis #downwithisis #wearecharlie

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The Heir was saying between episodes that Brooklyn is just not the kind of team that wins must-win games.  So at this point dropped from post-season they're pretty much a must-sell team.  Prokorov's strategy of having a revolving door at the head coach's office is a failure, so it's time for another owner to step in and rebuild the team, so the team can really become a contender, and hence debunk Brooklyn's chronic doubters.

"I estimate the team's worth at this point to be about three dollars."

The Heir momentarily had wanted to talk about Baltimore in an upcoming episode, but he's so bummed out about what happened that he's decided against it, until sometime in the future.  That's not to say he doesn't believe people in general shouldn't talk about it, but personally he just feels kind of sensitive about it.  So instead I the Mentor suggested to him that he talk about all those mean and neurotic dogs that give him problems on the sidewalk when he goes out walking in Blands Township to people apparently he knows there.  That'll certainly elicit a response, and then he can delight in the kind of social cynicism that's dominated up to 93% of his complaints about the world.

"I want to expound upon the mean and neurotic dogs of Blands Township, and delight in my social cynicism with my complaints about the world."

The Heir's pretty sure Brooklyn's post-season hopes are dashed with this loss in Milwaukee.  The odds are against them.  The other teams vying for a playoff spot are pulling ahead real fast, so once Brooklyn loses against Chicago tomorrow, that's the end.  And then all they can hope for is a consolatory win on Wednesday.  The Heir very often finds himself celebrating when his team wins the last three games with nothing left to play for.

So on the subject of Brooklyn and Milwaukee, the Heir feels as if Brooklyn needs to do more to unsweeten Jason The Kidd's revenge on Prokorov for firing him.  Sure Jason Kidd rebuilt Milwaukee from scratch, and while you got to credit him for that, Brooklyn will only lose face even more with each loss against a Kidd-coached team.  So any currently Kidd-coached team, whether that's Milwaukee or someone else, that's the new rivalry.  The Heir was happy to see Brooklyn defeat Portland, because they *never* defeat Portland.  So Portland, check.  Sacramento, check.  The current Kidd-coached team, unfinished business.  So it'll have to be 2015-2016 that Brooklyn needs to put Jason Kidd's sense of revenge to an end, and justify his firing so long ago at this point.

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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/

Heir was at Bland Barns the other night, and he giddily came upon a price Barns had to pay for its obsession with visual. This is one of those giant TVs to pressure you to buy something you probably don't want, and apparently it  crashed earlier in the day, with the cat out of the bag and everything!  The hacker shoppers now know what computer system is being used, and can probably parse that dang hexidecimal number indicating the reason why the system crashed.  Probably ran out of memory.

Heir (offscreen): "Heh heh heh!"

Sorry, people, no episode tonight.  It'll probably either Wednesday or Saturday.  We want to get it up before Easter, though.

The Heir feels for the victims' families of the crashed flight {#4U9525}, and that it's a tragedy, but he wants to remind people that this is a freak instance statistically.  As far as he knows, air travel is still the safest form of travel, in terms of yearly casualties.  Statistically, cars are the worst.  Now, improving accommodations on flights is something the airlines can work on, the Heir thinks, even on short flights, so that the passengers don't have to retain their cynicism about being sardine-canned on airplanes just for that extra 10% in margins the airlines want to make.  The Heir doesn't want to make this a discussion for a Bachelor episode on audio, because he doesn't think that substantively there's much to discuss.  Investigators have determined that the crash was caused by a co-pilot with emotional problems, period, as far as the Heir's concerned.  So he doesn't think that in week 2 there should be this much coverage of the co-pilot as kind of a soap opera.  The Heir counts his lucky stars he went with audio for the information, because doubtless now 24 hour networks on visual are like round-the-clock co-pilot's problems.  Of course now they can't say that the airplane ended up in a black hole, but it seems like their brains did.  So the Heir's question is, why don't they ditch talking about the co-pilot in favor of something more relevant?  Like essentials economics?  And whether or not young adults need to be sexually active by a certain age?

"It's not that important of an issue, visual.  Talk about essential economics instead!"

FYI, we're planning on a new episode to come out within the next week or so.  And we're not done with posting shares consistent with the four pillars, and stuff the Heir wants to complain about.

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/

From all of us in the Bachelor,

Happy Valentines!

It looks as though our upcoming episode may very well become available on Valentines itself, not that we necessarily planned it that way.  But please be sure, no matter when we do put out the episode, to Keep Sex In Valentines.

Even though the Heir didn't necessarily need a victory on this one, he didn't think Brooklyn served vengeance enough on a Jason Kidd team.  Brooklyn fans booed Kidd last November or so for his prima-donna style ambitions toward May 2014 which got him fired, and yet his Milwaukee won anyway in that game, and the narrative is that that was vindication for him.  Brooklyn's defeat tonight only serves to reinforce that narrative.  The Heir believes Brooklyn needs to find a way to take that vindication away again, even if they were in Milwaukee tonight, and even if such vindication theft may take years to materialize.  The Heir likes Lionel Hollands a lot more than Jason Kidd as a head coach, but he also believes Hollands is a little too pragmatic, a little too nuts-and-bolts.  He's someone who understands the game, but doesn't quite understand the fans.  It's possible he believes (wrongly) that how the fans feel about rivalry (including one on a former head coach) is irrelevant.  He needs to understand, along with Prokhorov (not sure I the Mentor spelled that right), that there's at least a significant minority of fans who really do want to see Jason Kidd drown.  To have vindication taken away from him and for the Nets to get that vindication in return.  So in March of 2018 or so, when Brooklyn wins its first game in years against Milwaukee, at Barclays, and by 20+ points, the Heir and the rest of his anti-Kidd contingent will be there to make Kidd pay for his vindication narrative.  Sooner or later it's going to happen.  And by that time Brooklyn will become a team to fear all across the NBA, even trouncing Portland in a turnaround upset.

The Heir's happy to listen to two Brooklyn victories in a row.  He's hoping that they get to turn it around in February after a terrible January (seems like they were losing 2:1 that month).  He's generally happier with Lionel Hollands than with Jason Kidd as head coach.  Hollands is a more nuts-and-bolts guy as opposed to the drama queen thing with Kidd.  So they had a good November and December, and January was where their dreams of going above 500 slipped away.  That's not to say that they can see such dreams a reality in February, but it's just that now they need to control the bleeding.

The Bachelor offer its congratulations to the New England Patriots for their Superbowl victory.  On audio we were hearing the play-by-play commentators saying that this victory was a vindication for them with Deflate-Gate.  Not so fast, the Heir says.  Because the Heir just got a text from the NFL commissioner's office: they want the Heir, starting after this coming Labor Day in September, to be there at each stadium's equipment room, before each game, to personally inspect the footballs with a pressure gauge, to officially approve of the pressure of each football that's going to get played.  In short, the issue of game integrity should still run paramount, despite the media and Blynn Zimmerman wanting to use the "vindication" as this coming week's talking point memo, and then forget that Deflate-Gate ever happened.  So if the Heir hears one morning a week and a half from now with the sports minute that there was a new development in Deflate-Gate, there will be close to no commentary anywhere on the matter (certainly not on visual).  Blynn Zimmerman was hoping for a Nipple-Gate from Katy Perry just so he won't talk about Deflate-Gate if he had to.  We in the Bachelor have always made it a point to not follow the herd, and very often forsake the herd to drive one important point home: two can play the vindication game.  The herd is moving away from Deflate-Gate, but the Bachelor is heading toward it.  It's not against New England (the Heir doesn't really like Seattle anymore than New England), but for the game.  He doesn't want the commissioner's office to just let it go just because the media will almost certainly do so.

"Keep Deflate-Gate alive.  The integrity of the game is still at stake."

Hey there people.  Believe it or not, we actually are in the process of a new upcoming episode on audio.  The Heir took about 2-3 weeks out to start making some insurance policies for the Third Pillar (music and audio), and we're back on track again for the episode.  Tentatively, we're looking at another week or so.  So now that February starts tomorrow, we'll say again what (we think) we said sometime early January:

Keep Sex In Valentines

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So here's the Heir's tribute to Old School Bargain Foods, which was bought out by another chain last year, killed, and now a closeout, everything must go. He's hoping that public fatigue with hostile takeover style forced closing of worthwhile businesses reaches an all time high, to make a triumphant return, and make the social architecture less impersonal and bastardized. Until then it'll be surreal for him to go back to his roots at Bland Barns, buying foods he paused in buying over a year ago.

We Are Charlie at the Bachelor.  However, once things reasonably settle down, the Heir wants to know how they got a hold of a grenade launcher, and other bigger weapons.  He'd think that something like that should show up on France's SIG-INT, or something.  He might end up wanting to talk about it on audio in an upcoming episode (though not the next one, because that's where the personification of forced obsolescence will make its presence known).

"How did they ever get that grenade launcher!?"

We meant to say this the day before yesterday, but now that the pro-sex holiday has begun, here's something that bears repeating:

Keep sex in Valentines.

The Heir was perusing around radios on Amazon, and was delighted to see that they're still making analog radios with slide rule displays, even now in the 2010s.  I the Mentor made an allusion in our recent episode (see below, or run the Audio stream as per the link on this shares base) to a personification of the replacement belief system that we've spent almost the entire Year Of Nominality in decrying and challenging.  The Heir's able to tell that personification to put it in its pipe and smoke it with these great looking radios, even though the Heir appeals Buyer Beware to everyone here, and do research.  (Mostly) 2010s Slide Rule Analog Radios @ {Kaito KA350GY (2010), Kaito KA210 (2014), 12 Band World Radio (2013), Kaito KA228 (2011), Aweek R-909 (2014), topAlert Weather Radio (2011), Coby CX-38C (2001, not recent)}

Heir's pick in this share linked from the above graphic