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Thursday, June 11th, 2009 @ 5:19PM
First, I haven't been blogging in a while because I haven't had anything to talk about. I have been doing a lot of Summer reading so I'm sure when I get a few more of these books under my eyes I will have a lot to say; especially when I finish "Johnny Got His Gun" by Trumbo. Second: I found this documentary online and had to share. I passed on a night of drinking to watch this, which is big for me. Fascinating.
“The Century of Self” (note: never released on DVD though Amazon carries one, it sucks, don’t buy it - horrible quality but this is good).
Episode 1: Happiness Machines
pt 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kp24ZeHtv4
pt 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsZ8UkkVAdM
pt 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W22Gna9J5eU
pt 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOaugmZTmD8
pt 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q64Pgm-YJ4s
pt 6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApMGX2sOvX8
Episode 2: The Engineering of Consent
pt 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV4Jz3OPTio
pt 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vy-tsyieOk
pt 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmhnhY4I5FU
pt 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltUt3jOx0jA
pt 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63bHeb4qBRo
pt 6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axg6rnDa5_I
Episode 3: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be
Destroyed
pt 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcXQK8oNOeE
pt 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7juDLDiD3o
pt 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCKur9TJ1LM
pt 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bZddHo0QeI
pt 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBd8z1Z3cSc
pt 6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B58q_pkhAjg
Episode 4: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
pt 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r2yLlZ_tmY
pt 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeI4AML3hhY
pt 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp5Qsj2ExQo
pt 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlg6nFaMfyA
pt 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC_AcWSIN_0
pt 6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpbSC8Pz0RU
Enjoy!
P.S. if you like this read this:
FREE: Download The New 311 Album FREE, Today Before It Hits Shelves Tomorrow!
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Monday, June 1st, 2009 @ 10:08AM
311 has grassroots for yer momma! 5 each hour until 7pm then Andy will have 10 more!
Listen today between 2 and 7p for you chance to download the new 311 album “Uplifter” before it is officially released tomorrow, FREE and legal. I will also be playing my favorite new songs from the album all afternoon long. Also, keep listening for your chance to win a pair of tickets to 311 on June 11th. It’s our Summer of 311, 311 tickets.
Here is how to download the album:
1. Go to the downloading website : http://uplifterwinner.myplaydigital.com
2. Enter your PIN code **Note: each PIN code is good for only ONE download and cannot be used on the site more than once**
3. Download Zip file of the album and save into your music library.
Listen today and I will announce when the codes will be posted for your free download. I will have twenty total to give away and Andypants will have 10 more after 7pm (yes, Andypants is officially one word).
Here are the first five codes.
GV2R6N76NWXUX78
8SK7Q3RJ6DYJP2Z
R6CDR3JE5GDCVT3
PSWBNJ8HBP6AME3
WXFCQWXKTPEG2J9
4 to 5p codes:Be nice. Leave a comment if you get one.
E6EDDRARGWGRGUD
YKDKSR8BRD7S7J8
EAGKU4SHF2DXKEA
URVZGPSYE43VABD
EDPPB7PZRYPJGED
5 to 6p codes. Enjoy. Comment to let me know when these ones are gone please.
H3FARE57RGDJFTQ
CB44YTDDEQSAC3D
ZBJ7V3HS5X4UMFY
P4CY4NQAUYV6KZZ
HV7PCC7677HSRJU
6 to 7p codes.
HRNCBXJEYAFCRB8
PGQ8QY4FQ4J5Y38
EAXQBMWTJSN3Q89
CBBBHBYHU6PVEAZ
YFYU3W57CVK2C43
Are they all gone? 10 more codes when Andy gets here @7pm. Keep listening to X96.
-COB
Comments (21) •Have Big Ass Show Questions? Call my cell phone. Really!
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009 @ 2:57PM
I am just here to help.
So I figured there are some of you who have never been to a show or at least a show this big and some of you may just have some questions. That is why I am giving my cell phone number out. I was going to give my number out and change it after the show but my homies at Cricket hooked me up with a phone just so I can help you out. Starting tomorrow at 10am you can call me and ask me any questions about the show or let me know if there are any problems I may be able to fix. I know - what am I thinking? I am thinking, as one of the hosts of the B.A.Sh., I want to make sure you have a kick-ass time. You can text me now, heck even send me pic messages from the show I can post on my blog, but you won’t be able to call me until 10am tomorrow.
My number is: 801-759-5408. Feel free to drop me a text but I won’t be answering until tomorrow at 10am to personally answer your Big Ass questions.
Cheers and thanks for keeping us going so we can put on this show for YOU every year. Trust me, Todd (especially) and everyone put a lot of work and headaches into this in appreciation we have for you allowing us to be on the air. Have a great time tomorrow and I hope to talk and see all of you and thanks to Cricket stepping up so I can do this. Patronize them! Now! 
-COB
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 @ 5:35PM
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Here ya go. Plan accordingly and wear sunscreen. It will be a very nice day .
3:05 Broke City
3:25 Mury
3:50 Street Dogs
4:25 Billy Boy On Poison
4:50 Single File
5:25 Madina Lake
6:00 Escape The Fate
6:45 Airborne Toxic Event
7:20 Alkaline Trio
8:05 Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
8:40 Unwritten Law
9:35 The Offspring
Bring Back OPR???
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 @ 4:19PM
It's up to you...
For those of you who don’t recall I used to do a weekly, hour-long show called OPR (O’Brien Public Radio). I had a lot of fun doing it and got to play a lot of great bands you might not have ever heard of otherwise. My question is: would you listen if we brought something like this back? Would you care? I was thinking Todd could even co-host with me and we could bring some old-school indie etc, to the mix. Anyway if you like and have suggestions on how to make this interesting for you leave a comment or join the Facebook group by clicking the logo below:
If you would like a look at the OPR archive to see the kind of stuff I used to play click here.
I think it would be a great show to bring back. There are tons of great bands I think you would love but never get to touch on and I know Todd has a bunch he would love to get the word out about as well.
-COB
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Friday, May 15th, 2009 @ 1:48PM
First come, first served
The new Green Day Album, “21st Century Breakdown” is out today but that doesn’t mean you have to buy it. I will be posting 5 more codes for free downloads before 4pm today for your listening pleasure. Stay tuned to X96 radio to find out when I post them.
CODES COMING SOON!
Instructions:
1) Write down one of the codes below.
2) Click on the album cover above.
3) Fill in required information.
4) Download album (or not if all the codes are gone, obviously).
5) Play album loud as to annoy those around you, like your step parents or step pets or birth mother.
6) Leave comment when they are gone so I can take the trash out.
Codes:
9C0UCD690C
9CBU227746
9CCU5D1F31
9CDU4A1DB4
9CEU235AA6
If all the codes are used Andy Pants will have five more downloads tonight.
Thanks,
C_O_B_
Comments (3) •FREE: Download the NEW Green Day album - NOW!
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009 @ 1:43PM
First come, first serve.
Here are 5 codes. Once they are gone they are gone (only one download per code). Write one down and click on the album cover above. Enter the info and download. Oh, be nice, leave a comment.
9BBU3BF0EF
9BCU78CBD8
9BDUA22478
9BEUC9E26F
9BFU82E2A3
You’re Welcome!
UPDATE: These codes are all used up however Andy will have 5 more tonight and Todd and I will each have five more tomorrow. Don’t fear, the force is still strong.
We MUST Save Charlie Bartlett From The Terminators
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Friday, May 8th, 2009 @ 2:01PM
Bummed there was no NIN in the trailer but looks good anyway.
This could be better than Star Trek. In HD:
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 @ 4:45PM
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Then become a follower mine on Twitter. Tomorrow I will give away tickets to Tool (Sunday, July 19th at Energy Solutions Area, tickets go on sale this Saturday at 10a at ticketmaster locations, ticketmaster.com or the ESA box office) but I won’t say when - I will tweet when. It’s the only way you will know when to call and the only way you can win tickets. Follow me by clicking here.
This Swine Flu Madness Has Got to Stop…
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009 @ 3:30PM
Some perspective.
This picture was probably taken during the 30’s, the 50’s perhaps.
This one was taken this year.
One would then have to conclude that people are just as stupid as they were 50 to 70 years ago. Progress: we aren’t making any. I don’t want to get sick and my guess is you don’t want to either unless you hate your job more than being ill but in this country when the media says, “jump” the stupid listen and not only jump - they blast off. So as schools are closing and your co-workers are wearing masks thinking it will keep them from getting sick and these masks are the top seller on Amazon.com you know the media, which used to terrorize its local stomping ground has gone global. That being said, I am not a doctor and know very little about disease spread patterns or how viruses mutate but I do know how people behave when Brian Williams uses words like “pandemic” and informs you something is spreading from Mexico and this time he isn’t talking about fruit-pickers and child care workers for high-raking members of the US government, people are going to lose their minds. If something is getting this much media coverage there is probably something afoot and at your expense. The LA Time reported today that scientists say this flu strain is no worse than the one that kills 10,000 people every winter (read the full story here). So why all the attention? Maybe it takes you away from more important stories of death and lack of humanity in the world. Maybe it takes you away from what your government is doing with your tax dollar or who we are bombing this week and how many civilians were killed. Maybe it is because there are few real journalists left in the world who have the know-how to sniff out facts (though I suspect there are many of these, outlets for their facts are null though save the internet). It’s a ratings game and the more you are scared and await instructions the more you are going to see ads for things you don’t need and probably buy them. We have surrendered our money to the failed rich and insist they keep shoveling distractions down our throats while they go about kicking you out of your house. Today’s Guardian UK had a great story about all the real news you missed because the media is “worried” about you getting a runny nose (that story is here).
So in a rush to keep up the Utah media, as it always does, has us convinced we need to make this a local story so we don’t get left out in the worldwide panic. Local media not only lives by, “if it bleeds it leads” but “make the big small.” We are closing schools and expect to see masked people walking among us because the parents panic and the schools don’t want to get sued. Personally, I will avoid these people. If I owned a company and my employees showed up in masks I would know who to lay off first - these people are the expedables. Think for yourself. If something sounds like it is being sold to you get the facts and don’t go with the crowd. Here is a reading suggestion to start:
Neil Postman “How to Watch TV News”
Cheers.
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