Random Signal #66 - All Aboard the Christmas Train!

It's Christmas! To celebrate, I bring you an extra-long episode filled with wine, women, and song. And chocolate cookies. All songs by Beatnik Turtle from The Song of The Day podcast.00:00 The Christmas Train (Song of the Day for 12/10)04:00 I welcome my two special guests: Jared Axelrod, host of podcasts The Voice of Free Planet X and Aliens You Will Meet, and JR Blackwell, host of Voices of Tomorrow.08:58 JR is a runner-up in Violet Blue's list of the Top Ten Sexy Geeks of 2007!11:44 How to tell if your waiter is Wolverine.18:33 Christmas Is Coming To Your House (Song of the Day for 12/9)21:06 We discuss "Comfort and Joy" the Justice League Christmas special. For the record, the Ultra-Humanite was voiced by Ian Buchanan, not Kelsey Grammer. 28:25 The Ultra-Humanite vs NPR34:18 Fun with Mythology Pt. 1A short reading from Classical Myths That Live Today (Silver, Burdett & Co., 1927) by Frances E. Sabin (who was a woman, incidentally).Question for discussion: Is classical mythology a "girl's subject"?38:45 Christmas Is a Vulture (Song of the Day for 12/12)42:28 Fun with Mythology Pt. 2Question for review: Was Juno justified in her jealous attitudes toward Jupiter?50:00 Coed Naked Drunk Xmas Shopping (Song of the Day for 12/11)52:16 Trader Joes's Candy Cane Joe-Joe's: "Oreos to the next, NEXT level."55:00 Will Jared and JR ever discover the true meaning of Empire Day?58:59 A Random Signal exclusive--JR Blackwell will launch her new podcast, Blackmail, early 2008!01:01:10 For Lee at the I Motor Away podcast, "I Motor Away In a Manger" a drunken, a capella, improv (mostly), karaoke Christmas carol.