is that I have too have interviewed Michael Shermer on my show. It was a great thrill to interview one of my favorite authors. Sure, there were a couple other podcasters at TAM6, who have had big time guests like Shermer on all the time, but my podcast is pretty new. I’m only eleven episodes in, and still learning the medium.

Listening to the interview again, I see places I could have done better. I realize I spoke a mile a minute, though, my memory is that he had some place to go quickly, so I didn’t have too much time to delay. One thing I’m glad didn’t happen, is that I didn’t have a “You’re so awesome” interview. I tried to ask questions I really wanted answers for.

The interview was included in our 11th episode of The Libertarian Dime, but if you don’t want to listen to all that, you can download the interview here.

Enjoy!

Well, I’m back from TAM6, and it was probably the best overall TAM for me. The speakers were consistently interesting and I did get my interview with Michael Shermer. Because of his schedule and the setup of the conference I was only able to get 10 minutes, however, that is as many minutes as he appeared on The Colbert Report. I also found some new ideas for upcoming guests, and I hope some of those guests will be on in the near future.

I will write a guest by guest summary sometime, but for now, I will just say, it was one of the best times I’ve had learning about things ranging from real crime scene investigation to a spoon bending lesson from Teller. Just a great conference all around.

So, in short, episode 11 of the Libertarian Dime will have my interview with Shermer and our usual opinions on current events. TAM6 also made me more determined to keep going with The Dime, and to expand our offerings. And while I’m at it, I will need to plug my podcast again: http://thelibertariandime.mevio.com.

Josh and I have been enjoying the TAM6 conference quite a bit. Friday’s speakers were all around pretty good. Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson was so good, he was asked to go over his time by 30 minutes. If you think he is good on the Colbert Report, he is even better in person. PZ Meyers and Ben Goldacre were both new to TAM but they were also pretty good. About the only low point, was someone named George Hrab, who sings folk songs about skepticism. Because Christopher Hitchens was unable to attend, Hrab sang a song he dedicated to Hitch called “God is not great.” Well, I can tell you that it is more like that God is great than that song was great. I wasn’t alone, a number of people left during the 10 minutes of folk songs.

I was not able to interview Michael Shermer yet. I did go up to him and check in, and was working on his laptop on his presentation, and clearly was also very tired. During the Penn and Teller session, he was actually sleeping on the floor. So I’m assuming he was actually tired, and not blowing me off. So, sometime in the late morning I will try to arrange a time. I’m still a little nervous, but I think I’ll do okay.

Well, that’s it for now. Josh and I will be heading out to Saturday’s festivities in a little bit. Shermer, Phil Plait, and Adam Savage are on today, and oh, hey, I have a big interview as well.

Tonight Jonathan and I recorded the 10th episode of The Libertarian Dime, and it didn’t even have to happen. Jonathan’s computer hard drive melted down, causing him to lose his data and his Skype access. Show material was lost. I would have forgiven him if he had decided not to do the show. He exhausted his Microsoft oriented avenues for repair, and instead, booted his PC with a Linux LiveCD so he had access to the web, AIM, and our online show agenda. He set up next to the phone, so I could dial up him with Skype and do the show. Just like the first episode, he was doing the show over the phone. Starting much later than expected, we took a deep breath and dived into the show.

And it rocked. With scant notes, missing material, compromised sound equipment, and fatigue setting in, we kicked ass. Our best performance yet. We did the show with an ease and comfort that would at home on any radio show. We kicked it up a notch for sure, on our special 10th episode, and it didn’t even have to happen.

I recently uploaded episode the 8th episode of “The Libertarian Dime“, but it really marks the 10th episode over 11 weeks that Jonathan and I have done. I don’t know how many podcasts die before they get to 10, but I imagine it’s quite a lot. So I’m proud that Jonathan have done as many as we’ve done, but we won’t talk about numbers again until we hit our 50th.

Enjoy!

http://thelibertariandime.mevio.com

The seventh episode is up now at http://thelibertariandime.mevio.com. The show continues to get better, and Jonathan and I continue to come up with more and more show ideas. I finally registered the domain “ldnetwork.tv” which is where we will eventually setup the new podcast network we’re launching. Bit by bit, here we come.

I haven’t posted about my podcast since after our third episode of the rebranding. The show hasn’t stopped in the meantime though. Jonathan and I have done three more since then, and I think the show gets stronger each week. It’s become a very important task every week for us to do, and we’ve been taking it seriously. This past week’s episode was all about the carbon credit market and aspects of Kyoto. I feel like we could and maybe should do even another show about it, since I think we barely touched the surface.

For all those curious, the show is at:

http://thelibertariandime.mevio.com/

Next week we’ll be talking about the Libertarian National Convention, and trying to get the flavor of it. I hope also to get the eventual libertarian candidate on, to see if I would vote for him.

We did our third episode of the new podcast on Monday night, but due to time constraints, I was only able to produce and load it last night. Because we ended up missing a week for my brother Josh’s wedding, Glenn Nielsen of the Missouri Libertarian Party ended up being our guest again, back to back. This time we had him on to talk about the fourth amendment and some recent court cases.

Still putting together the next show, and I lined up a huge guest for a show in June, a far bigger guest than we expected. For now, though, I’m focused on the next couple shows. If all goes well, next week’s show will be less political and more practical. It’s the type of show I would like to do now and then to expand the show’s horizon’s.

The new episode can be found at:

http://www.mevio.com/shows/?mode=detail&episode_id=110615

We did the interview with Glenn Nielsen today. He was nice enough to give us a 70 minute interview. I’m learning a lot about the whole process of interviewing people and doing a show. Jonathan and I are having fun doing it, and we’ve gone too far to stop now. I’m even thinking of doing a smaller weekly podcast concerning Hellfood.com.

The show is hosted at: http://thelibertariandime.podshow.com.

Next week, I’ll be in Vegas for my brother’s wedding and we’re gonna do a show while I’m there. Not sure when and where, but we’ll think of something.

This Sunday Jonathan and I will be recording the second episode of The Libertarian Dime, and this week we have a guest. We are interviewing Glenn Nielsen, the State Chair of the Missouri Libertarian Party. I will be asking him about what the Missouri chapter of the party is up to, how their policies are connected to the national platform, and a series of questions about specific issues I care about.

This will be my first ever interview of someone in the role of a “media” person. The goal is to get some information out there and not be boring. If I have to, I’ll bring up Ron Paul. That will surely create some fireworks.