The Slanty Shanty

Slanty Shanty Show #13 - Back from the Dead Across America!

2008-05-28T22:22:00.000-07:00

It's been two years since the last Slanty Shanty show took place in the Slanty Shanty itself, deep in the heart of Madison, Wisconsin's Greenbush neighborhood...

...and now...despite barriers of thousands of miles of beautiful American territory from the glorious greenery of Klief Park...we're back!

HERE's THE SHOW

In this thirteenth installment, Bob joins the conversation from Idaho, while Brad rings in from New Orleans. Why did we do it? To quote ZZ Top: "cuz we're bad, and we're nationwide."

We put out a whopping 16-minute long show, dressed in the technical wizardry of the man in Spudland.

Topics:
1. We're back!
2. Places
3. G-unit of Guamanians?
3B - the history of Guam's acquisition...tangent alert!
4. Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
- Chronic - what- kles of Narnia?!?
5. The Battle of Stalingrad, or The Continuing Story of the Democratic Prez Primary (cue ominous music shift)
+ Bob feels sympathy for Hillary Clinton?
+ SHE's gonna be in this to the convention - SHE's gonna try to take Obama
6. Brass band music, perhaps
7. McCain's VP? The BBQ boys - Jindal, Crist, Romney
8. More - Probably something else, too - Obama is NOT a Muslim - Madam Clinton
9. Bloviating's never felt so good - "the year of big starpower"
- Jindal's on the horizon
10. Signing off
11. Woo hoo!

- Things we didn't talk about but should have - New Orleans Chinese spy pleaded guilty today, UW-Madison has a new chancellor, etc.

Musica for this one: CCR, Youngblood Brass Band, Offspring, etc.

~ Special thanks to Phil E for the use of a mic headset down on the Crescent City side.

And, as always, if you'd like to be a guest on the Slanty Shanty Show, get in touch!

Signing off from the Greenbush...The Last Slanty Shanty Show

2006-05-15T12:12:00.000-07:00

Hear ye, hear ye - all rise for the honorable Slanty Shanty!

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I. Bienvenido!
II. Woo hoo!
III. A cornucopia of guests
IV. Graduates sound off on the commencement speaker
a. "Her only claim to fame seemed to be that she's named after a Crimean seaport..."
b. "She claimed to have slept with a restaurant and had a restaurant baby..."
c. "Frankly I don't care."
d. "the words Audrey Seiler"
- An abysmal attempt at a transition -
5. MATC - UW-Madison transfer guarantee
6. "Sneaking in"
7. The other chair talks (?)
8. Back
9. Forth
10. Guaranteed
11. A real transfer student, JE, chimes in
12. Schwerbel tries to call in (accompanied by the Soviet national anthem)
XIII. The merits of UW-Fond du Lac
XIV. "3.0 is the new 2.0"
(and Darryn broke open her third beer of the evening...)
XV. "Your mom made hotdish!" (a fight over Minnesota breaks out...)
+ Another pitiful attempt at a transition +
XVI. "The melting pot is getting a little bit more picante"
XVII. The Immigration Issue - "It's already here."
18. Tito Puente!
19. "Mexico needs to become a more attractive place"
20. Agreement? What?!
21. Mark starts cussing up a storm...
22. A surprise call from Ryan Scannell on immigration
23. "We should secure our borders"
XXIV. More swearing!!! Stop it!
XXV. Mark goes for Brad's jugular
(whoops we forgot to put these in originally)
1. Tim Shea calls in on immigration
2. "You get the Slanty Shanty Show ringtone!"
3. Mark swears for the third time, a cock crows
4. Bob to Darryn: "That's false. That's 100% false!"
5. "I heard Christian rock music in Chipotle."
6. "A positive Viewpoint Neutrality Violation"
7. American values, conservative, catholic?
Cryptic references to incubi
XXVI. A Round up on Immigration
a. James: "I agree with Brad"
b. Jordan: "Build a wall
c. Mark: "Open immigration...something about freedom"
d. John: "Nada"
e. Timmy: "Yes to amnesty"
f. Ryan: "Incubi"
g. Darryn: "Deplorable"
h. Frank: "Fish"
i. Brad: "Improve Mexico"
j. Bob: "Stay the Course"

27. "Corona is the new Guinness"
28. Brad's mom and sister make an appearance...
29. "Foot out of mouth"
30. The other denizens of the Slanty Shanty finally show their faces
30.5 (The man in the hat arrives!)
31. A woeful bid to transition to the final topic - our
32. SUMMER PLANS
33. LSAT, campaigning, writing books, law firm, China, reading, finding a job
34. "Mark, I think he's going to crack down on you."
35. Althouse: "Our show's better than yours."
36. A final woo hoo from the Greenbush
37. Farewell!

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Slanty Shanty Show XI, Election Recap

2006-04-04T21:14:00.000-07:00

Topics Discussed:

.5 Congrats to Dave Lapidus for a great race!!!
1. Anti-War Referendum
2. What does it matter?
3. Who cares?
4. Madison: Surrounded by reality
5. ASM Referenda
6. Union Referendum Failed again!
7. Politics makes strange bedfellows
8. SLAC "Living wage" passes
9. May be moot issue
10. ASM elections redux (Wednesday - Friday)
11. Vote Robinhood slate!
12. Signing off, live from the Greenbush...
13. One scotch, one bourbon, one beer...

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Slanty Shanty Show X: ASM IS DEAD

2006-03-30T19:08:00.000-08:00

Topics Discussed:

.5 The Ultimate Showdown
1. ASM IS DEAD
2. The "Student Government" is formed
3. One of the Leaders is in the studio - Tim Schulz
4. "ASM is useless and corrupt"
5. Where do we go from here?
6. Meeting with Laurie Berquam
7. Do you recognize ASM as your government? No, didn't think so!
8. We could "totally disband the Student Government"
9. Does ASM have the authority to take away our money?
10 36.09(5)? No
11. Will the Chancellor recognize us?
12. Bailiff Force?
13. The Orange or Rose Revolution
14. "We want change, there is a movement out there, we want this to occur now."
15. What is ASM?
16. Too many hands in the cookie jar...eating my cookies
17. Signing off

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Slanty Shanty Show #9: ASM and County Elections, TARs, Green, and Final Four

2006-03-27T20:07:00.000-08:00

On today's show:

1. ASM
2. Spring Election
3. vote.asm.wisc.edu
4. Referenda? Vote NO, NO
5. Dane County Elections, too
6. Bring our Troops home now? NO! No cut and run.
7. Asshok vs. Lapidus
8. Spring Break
9. Box Elder Sap - duh?
10. Montana Skiing
11. TARS
12. Mark Green and J.B. in the "Freedom Baron"
13. Walker Dropped out - a good thing?
14. NCAA B-Ball
15. Selection Committee is on notice
16. "No #1s are in the final four"
17. "UConn - you sons of b******"
18. More shows this week
19. David Lapidus and Ashok are invited to be on the show!
20. Sign off
21. Born on the Bayou
22. The sound of money raining from your pocket into the greedy hands of the Union Directorate...

Listen to find out!!

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Snow Oddities in Klief Park

2006-03-10T15:50:00.000-08:00

Slanty Shanty Show #7: Spring Break, Kielites in the House

2006-03-10T09:40:00.000-08:00

On today's show:

1. Spring Break!
2. People from Kiel in the house
3. Plans for break
4. Montana, mundane stuff...
5. Drunk golfing in Kiel? (Wha?)
6. Brian, an engineer, analyzes the Slanty Shanty
7. House is deflecting
8. House not structurally sound
9. House will fall down
10. Blame it on glaciers
11. Signing off
12. Jump around!

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Slanty Shanty Show #6 - Birthday, Solomon, Mr. Anderson (Surprise, surprise...)

2006-03-08T19:34:00.000-08:00

Topics Discussed:

1. Happy B-day!
2. Ladies and Gentlemen, it's the Solomon Amendment...
3. yay Supreme Court
4. Round robin of views
5. Don't ask don't tell?
6. You told!
7. Separate showers
8. Biology?
9. Problem...Bill Anderson
10. I'm a Loser
11. What do we think of the man?
12. Means well...
12.3 Plugging the blogs
13. Virus
14. Bakunin, Lenin, etc.
15. Has Bill Anderson won? (gasp!)
16. Greenbush Bar
17. Can you be a member of the Italian Workmen's Club?
18. Signing off
18.5 A final shameless plug - oh the impudence
19. End of the World

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Slanty Shanty Show #6 - Ports, Referendum, and Steve's Foul Tongue

2006-03-05T20:40:00.000-08:00

Topics Discussed:

1. Live from the Greenbush...
2. A cavalcade of guests: Steve S (letters-in-bottles), Frank H. (Mendota Beacon), Tim S. (SSFC).
3. Let's talk ports, everybody
4. Dubai - good? bad?
5. More ports!
6. Everybody gangs up on Brad
7. ...Brad fights back
8. [Things get heated]
9. Xenophobia?
10.Vote (someone loses)
11.Union Referendum
11.5 VOTE NO!
12. Why didn't they ask for a donation first?
13. Taxes
14. Ok, so they're going after some donations
15. But still a majority of costs on students
16. Why does Union South suck so much?
17. Steve defends Humanities
18. - ugly -
19. Sell naming rights
20. Even we could make Union South better
21. Bring in companies
22. 1928 - Mem. Union all donation-funded
22.Possible trouble getting donations - UW in bad light these days
23.The WRAP
24.Capitalism good all around
25. Signing off
25.5 Woo hoo!

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Slanty Shanty Show #5: Mardi Gras - with a special guest!

2006-02-28T21:49:00.000-08:00

Topics Discussed:

1. Welcome to the Slanty Shanty!
2. Special Guest - Opiate of the Masses!!!
3. Mardi Gras
4. What are you giving up for Lent?
5. Come on...what are you giving up? :)
6. Vague scriptural references
7. City council's silly ideas
8. Austin King slaps back
9. "Ink Turds"
10. Kelly Schlicht is even worse than us - yep
11. Ashok Kumar appears out of nowhere
12. What do we like?
12.5 - Biergartens!
13. Leave them alone!
14. Fire code? What fire code?
15. "They spilled an MGD on my purse"
16. "You're not forced to go to the biergarten!"
17. Why are they fenced?
18. More freedom for beer on game days
19. Hunch
20. Where has this problem been?
21. "Unneeded government intervention"
22. A smidgeon of credit for Austin King - nyuh...
23. Signing off from the Greenbush
24. Happy Lent!

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The Lakes We Get 'Round Here Sometimes

2006-02-26T08:03:00.000-08:00

Slanty Shanty Show #4: Cartoons, Lapidus, and Green

2006-02-22T21:43:00.000-08:00

Topics Discussed:

1. Midweek show - what a novelty (maybe)
2. Cartoon campus reaction
3. MCSC? How'd they get on there?
4. "Chris Dols went ape----"
5. Dane County Board
6. Lapidus - 29% is impressive
7. Ayn Rand
7.5 Page 902 - whew!
8. New Mark Green Website Beta
9. Settle, settle
10.Mystery on Regent Street
11.A Skeleton in the Annex?
12.Ciao!
13.Duke Ellington's C-Jam Blues...

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Breakfast at Mickie's Dairy Bar

2006-02-20T13:50:00.000-08:00

Say "hi" to Sarah, the waitress with chameleon eyes, if you go.

Mmm...omlettes.

Slanty Shanty Show #3: Republicans in da House...

2006-02-18T13:38:00.000-08:00

Topics Discussed:

-Guests: Sol G., Jenna P., and Jordan S.

1. Intro
2. Who's here?
2.5 So cold the house might fall down
2.75 The meaing of "Grosskopf" (hint: big head)
3. Robert Frost Quote
4. Polar Plunge cancelled
5. KofC Pussies?
6. Caucus?
7. "We were registering you!"
8. Paul Bucher
9. Jessica McBucher - costing Paul?
10.Finding the Slanty Shanty
11.2nd Amendment
12.Panel
13. "Rapidfire mumble...militia...gun...liberal"
14.Difficulty signing off
15.Coming or going???
16."Good fences make good neighbors"
17.Overture 1812
18....Surprise!...

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Slanty Shanty Show #2, Snow, Death, Destruction....Cartoons

2006-02-16T08:33:00.000-08:00

Topics Discussed:

1. Intro w/Folk tune
2. SNOW
3. SNOW LIGHTNING!!
4. Donner Party
5. Cannibalism?
6. Cartoon of Cartoon
7. Cartoon
8. Daily Cardinal Evil?
9. A "voluminous" Colbert style response?
10. Mendota Beacon 1 year old
11. Attack on Bill from Madison
12. Squirrels
13. Figuring out the folklore music
12. Signing off from the Green Bush...
13. The Hey Der Polka Boy

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First Podcast

2006-02-12T22:42:00.000-08:00

Topics Discussed:

1. Introduction to this audio/visual/random podcast
2. Lincoln quote!
3. Explanation of The Slanty Shanty
4. Super Smash Brothers
5. Dick Cheney hunting party
6. Crickets chirping...
7. Signing off from The Greenbush
8. Bells

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The Hood

2006-02-09T20:02:00.000-08:00

The Slanty Shanty is here

2006-02-09T18:28:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the Slanty Shanty. This is a blog dedicated to the lives of the habitants of the slanty shanty in Madison WI.