Introducing Brian’s Forest Chats the Podcast

BrianofLondon's Forest Talks
BrianofLondon's Forest Talks
Introducing Brian's Forest Chats the Podcast
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I’m getting back into podcasting! And this is where I explain what’s going on, why I’m re-releasing the back catalog of Shire Network News and a bunch of other things. Join me and subscribe in your favourite podcast app.

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005 Podcast continues interviewing La Shawn Barber and remembers Episode 5 from June 12 2005

Shire Network News Archive
Shire Network News Archive
005 Podcast continues interviewing La Shawn Barber and remembers Episode 5 from June 12 2005
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This episode was first broadcast June 12, 2005. Social Justice and diversity get an early mention in this episode. Keith Thompson’s interview is all about leaving the left a long time ago. He talks about rejecting the term “Social Justice” because justice is always social!

Mentioned in this week’s edition of Shire Network News, the official podcast of Silent Running, Amnesty International, Bob Geldof, PowerlineJoe TrippiCitizen Smash, the Chinese government’s registration of blogs, TownHall.comVictor Davis Hanson, the collapse of the EU constitution, Charlie Quidnunc of the Rip and Read blog, the Democrats being whiny bitches about the Patriot Act, James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Robert Mugabe’s contest with the ghost of Pol Pot, Zimbabwe Pundit, Howard Dean, James Lileks’ new Screedblog, the Chinese Cultural Revolution finally comes to the University of Oregon, Joanne Jacobs, and why a staggering death toll must surely force the US government to pull out of Washington DC.

The featured interviews are with La Shawn Barber and Keith Thompson, and of course we have the Full Of Crap report from Laurence Simon.

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004 Podcast remembers Episode 4 from June 5 2005

Shire Network News Archive
Shire Network News Archive
004 Podcast remembers Episode 4 from June 5 2005
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Thanks to the amazing archive.org, we have the original show notes from this episode, as broadcast on 5th June 2005. This features the first ever “Full of Crap Report” from Laurence Simon. Got to love this episode: Global Warming makes an appearance in this episode too, because themes.

Mentioned in this week’s Shire Netwok News, the official podcast of Silent Running, Guantanamo Bay, who is really abusing the Koran there, Captains QuartersEmmett TillNatalie Solent, Dr Who, the welfare state, Tiananmin Square, a high profile defection in Australia, Workers World defends the use of tanks against students, Damian Penny, Mao Tse Tung, global warming, why the Antarctic ice shelf is getting thicker, the UK Union of Jewish StudentsMelanie PhillipsLaurence Simon, why Mahmoud Abbas is full of crap, La Shawn Barber and why black people aren’t rushing to become Republicans. Yet.

003 Podcast remembers Episode 3 from May 29 2005

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Shire Network News Archive
003 Podcast remembers Episode 3 from May 29 2005
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Podcast talks about the #FakeNews with Aussie Dave in 2005

Includes interviews with Damian Penny and Aussie Dave from Israellycool. What’s somewhat distressing, listening to this back 13 years later is how we find very similar themes to those still being discussed.

Aussie Dave’s interview in particular (around 17 mins in) covers aspects of #FakeNews he was seeing all the way back then.

002 Podcast remembers episode 2 from 25 May 2005

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Shire Network News Archive
002 Podcast remembers episode 2 from 25 May 2005
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This is the earliest episode of Shire Network News from Thomas Paine that still exists. Show notes have gone but the audio remains. This was first broadcast way back on 25th May, 2005