TameBear: Podcasts

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:29:27 GMT

Let There Be Light / Goings On In Goshen: God spoke the world into existence by desire, with love, by thinking, and speaking. In this first podcast of 2007, Tame Bear and Peter Oakley catch up on things, discussing hibernation, solar power, global warming, ballroom dance, Sundance and local moviemaking, AppleTV and the Apple iPhone. [TameBear Radio 2007]

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:41:52 GMT

A Christmas Music Special: Tame Bear spins the tunes for your listening pleasure. In twenty six special songs you've probably never heard before, The Bear explores the highs and lows of this holiday season through evocative words and music. Let the merriment, the mystic truth, and the light of God shine forth. [TameBear Radio 2006]

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:31:20 GMT

Gollywood: It seems the small town of Goshen in northern Indiana has become a hot spot for feature film production, so much so that the locals have begun calling it "Gollywood". Today's special guest on "TameBear Radio" talks about her recent experiences working with the latest film crew in Goshen, here to shoot a teen horror feature titled "Elsewhere". [TameBear Radio 2006]

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:36:58 GMT

Making Wine: Tame Bear examines some of the possible reasons why Mennonites don't talk about drinking, don't admit to drinking, and don't drink in each other's presence. How do the drinking Mennonites find each other? What goes into making a good batch of wine? And which of the "bad wines" can we throw out of Congress this election year? All this and more on the latest episode of "TameBear Radio". [TameBear Radio 2006]

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:59:25 GMT

Light Theory - Transcripts: In response to our growing audience of listeners, we've begun publishing transcripts of some of our more notable "TameBear Radio" podcasts. Three episodes in particular have been getting a lot of attention, and so we're featuring them here. These are the initial episodes in what is likely to be an ongoing theme regarding the Bear's "Theory of Light and Existence"...

Into the Light - Everything we perceive of the material world, including ourselves, is made of light, and is moving through space at light speed. (Also known as the "To Be Or Not To Be" episode.)
Choices, Choices - Every moment is a decision point, and every choice we make splits the universe. All possible choices exist in a multverse of overlapping existence. (Also known as the "To Do Or Not To Do" episode.)
Riding Waves - The light that we and all things are made of exists as both particle and wave simultaneously. Particles are the physical stuff we are made of; waves are the ephemeral sensory processing, thoughts, and dreams of our mind. There exists a unity of light, mind, and body.

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:52:21 GMT

Riding Waves: We are everything we perceive in the world, everything we think, everything we belive and everything we imagine. We are, at our core, the merest stuff of substance and dream. This week's podcast expounds further on the unity of mind, matter, and light. The Bear's conjecture that we and everthing we see around us is made of light, implies that everything we are, and everything we do, and all the ways we impact our sphere of influence and partipate in the repetitive march of history, is a matter of waves emmanating through space. The quality of our lives is directly related to how well we ride those waves. [TameBear Radio 2006]

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:44:16 GMT

A Supreme Power: Our reputation as a kind nation ready to help others in need was squandered by this administration: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and a cowed House and Senate that had no spine to stand against the new doctrine of pre-emtive war they constructed out of our national tradgedy. Five years after 9/11, America -- which could have shed God's grace on the whole world -- has instead made itself a nation worthy of reproach, of ill repute, a war-mongering global bully. Our leaders in Congress and the Whitehouse lost sight of the essential task: bringing the 9/11 criminals to justice. [TameBear Radio 2006]

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:45:44 GMT

War and The End of The World: With the advent of the latest war between Isreal and Lebanon, the televangelists are once again predicting The End of The World. Will the conservative Christian right buy us the future they anticipate by paying for an ongoing culture of warfare? Or will the meek inherit the Earth? [TameBear Radio 2006]

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:29:51 GMT

Limburger Cheese: As the summer heat is upon us, "TameBear Radio" this week brings a story full of warmth and laughter. Listen in to this lighthearted tale of family summer vacation fun. [TameBear Radio 2006]

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:29:12 GMT

Choices, Choices: In this latest episode of "TameBear Radio", the Bear presents a theory of The Multiverse - multiple universes all unseen by us. As we make choices, moment by moment, we pass from one universe to another. The universe divides and multiplies, driven by our freedom to choose one way or another, in a fomenting torrent of splitting and growing. [TameBear Radio 2006]

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:28:38 GMT

Into the Light: What a marvelous place we inhabit, a mystical world awash in a bright glow of light, on a scale that truly challenges the imagination. Come along this week on a descent into the subatomic realm as Tame Bear presents a theory of existential being, a jig of mass and light, from the tiniest particles of matter we scale up rapidly to the grand expanse of the universe. All to comprehend the essential core of our existence. [TameBear Radio 2006]

Sat, 27 May 2006 04:54:34 GMT

Solar Powered: In this followup to last year's "Preparing for Solar" episode, the Bear interviews webmaster Peter Oakley to learn more about the solar electric power system that was installed at his home office this Spring. Pete describes how solar panels work, the components of the system, interconnection with the electric utility grid, battery backup, environmental reasons for going solar, total cost and payback. A very informative episode for everyone interested in reducing their ecological footprint. [TameBear Radio 2006]

Fri, 05 May 2006 18:15:35 GMT

Little Emma: Bless our pets. In this latest episode of "TameBear Radio", the Bear concludes that cats inside and underfoot are the most natural thing in the world. It wasn't always that way. Listen to today's story about cats, cat allergies, island living, and the inevitability of death. Tame describes his first pets, and especially an adorable tortoiseshell kitten named Emma. [TameBear Radio 2006]

Fri, 05 May 2006 17:27:23 GMT

Native Speaker: Tame Bear surmised back in January (see "Apple Rosetta Stealth", Jan 20, 2006) that Apple was laying the groundwork for everyone to run Windows apps on Intel Macintosh computers -- without running the Microsoft Windows OS! Now Robert X. Cringely has picked up this same theme, reminding readers that Apple already has a license to implement the Windows XP API, and they can do it natively on their new Intel Macs. So Windows XP users could get a Mac to run all their current software apps, and ditch the security-flawed Windows OS in the same move. Can't wait for Windows Vista? Why bother when everything it offers is already available and shipping in Mac OS X? [PBS.org]

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:46:19 GMT

Sabbatical From Church: In a Good Friday podcast, Tame Bear shares some learnings gleaned from a year-long "sabbatical" from church. For starters, there is a lot to like about NOT going to church. The Bear believes we are self-aware eddies of light, awash in a vast sea of light. The world around us is ultimately mysterious, deeply spiritual, and only vaguely knowable. If the practice of church is a hinderance to deepening our knowledge of God, then perhaps we should refrain from the practice of church, and seek more effective ways of knowing God in the world at large. [TameBear Radio 2006]

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:05:18 GMT

Give Up the Car: Last year Treesh and Tame gave up their car for Lent! The Bear had his reasons for doing so -- making a political statement about our unholy dependence on foreign oil, and our preemptive attack on Iraq among them. But Treesh had her own reasons for giving up the car, and as Lent comes around again this year the Bear thinks it would be fun to hear her take on it. After much begging and pleading, we've gotten Tame's sweetie to agree to an interview for this week's episode of TameBear Radio. Listen in to hear why Treesh gave up the car for Lent. [TameBear Radio 2006]

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:55:24 GMT

Let Computers Screen Air Baggage:"It seems like every time someone tests airport security, airport security fails." So begins this article focusing on technologies to replace humans at the baggage scanners. If you heard the TameBear Radio podcast titled The Dynamite Bomb, you have some sense of the inevitable failure when humans are involved in the thankless job of watching the screen. [Wired News]

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:13:31 GMT

Calamity on Our House: Our grand plans for pushing out new and fun TameBear Radio stories like clockwork every three weeks is derailed by unexpected tragedy as two dear ladies in our lives are involved in a life-threatening car accident. [TameBear Radio 2006]

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:04:20 GMT

Hiking with Goats: The Bear learns a thing or two about goats, and friendship, and covering your backside, in this vacation remembrance of a trip away from Seattle to visit close friends on their homestead in the dry scrubby high country of Idaho. [TameBear Radio 2006]

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 03:23:22 GMT

Apple Rosetta Stealth: Tame Bear enjoys Apple rumors as much as anyone, and now we learn that he has a few theories of his own. The Bear has roused himself from winter slumber to voice these predictions about how the Apple Macintosh story will play out over the coming months and years. [TameBear Radio 2006]

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:17:46 GMT

A Year Without Church: This Advent season brings a final TameBear Radio episode of 2005. The Bear describes his year-long "sabbatical from church", and finds there is still great anticipation and wonder at the baby's birth. [TameBear Radio 2005]

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:00:38 GMT

Peak Oil resolution in U.S. House of Representaives: Echoing the essential message of Tame Bear's recent "The Race for Space" podcast, a newly formed "Peak Oil Caucus" in the U.S. House of Representatives has introduced a resolution: As fossil energy resources become depleted, new, highly efficient technologies will be required in order to sustainably tap replenishable resources... The United States, in collaboration with other international allies, should establish an energy project with the magnitude, creativity, and sense of urgency of the 'Man on the Moon' project to develop a comprehensive plan to address the challenges presented by Peak Oil. [Global Public Media via Renew Energy Blog]

Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:32:37 GMT

A Brief History of Podcasting: This week's episode is all about podcasting! The Bear talks about the podcasts he especially enjoys listenening to, and reflects on all the changes that have taken place in podcast land over the past year. There is a parallel universe of pod-safe music now emerging among podcasters, musicians, and listeners. [TameBear Radio 2005]

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:21:22 GMT

Podcasting Explosion: A nice chart shows the rapid growth of podcasting starting from just a little over a year ago. The Bear's own "TameBear Radio" podcast first "aired" on Nov. 5th 2004, putting it at right about the #245 spot in podosphere history. Back in those early days new podcasts were coming online at the rate of about 9 or 10 per day. By mid-May of this year the rate had doubled to more than 18 new podcast launches per day. [Business Week]

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:59:56 GMT

Haunted Castle: So you like to feel scared? So scared that your heart pounds in your chest, and you forget to breathe? Then turn down the lights and turn up the volume with this story of Tame Bear and friends as they go to visit a REAL haunted house in the suburbs north of Chicago. [TameBear Radio 2005]

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:49:54 GMT

Video Podcasting Will Be Huge: After picking up his own 30GB iPod Video, Russell Beattie writes,"I'm telling you right now, Video Podcasts are going to be huge. HUUUUGE. ... I'm positive. It's a no brainer." And not just because of the bright gorgeous screen and simplicity of downloading -- much of the content will be highly original and free. [Russell Beattie via Wired News]

Fri, 14 Oct 2005 04:08:46 GMT

Reckless Abandon: The transition from highschool to college is one of those archtypal coming-of-age moments in a life, when you leave the home and the town you grew up in, live on your own for the first time, and manage your own affairs in a way somewhat resembling (as best one can know at the time) how grown-ups do it. In "Reckless Abandon," Tame Bear describes his own life transitional experience, featuring one single day and night, a moment in time captured in prose, on which his life turned. [TameBear Radio 2005]

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:39:49 GMT

Why I Blog: Many and various are the motives and purposes that lie behind publishing a weblog. For the Bear, it comes down to one word: VOTING. [TameBear Radio 2005]

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:03:28 GMT

TBR - The Race for Space: Our first ventures into space are stories of myth and legend, a time when we worked together as one people inspired by the words of a young President Kennedy, to achieve an accomplishment beyond anything our planet had there-to-fore dared to dream. Could a President today rally the nation around a new cause to match the scale and lasting impact of the Apollo Moon Landings? [TameBear Radio 2005]

Wed, 06 Jul 2005 10:26:17 GMT

Podcasting: 60 Million Users Within Five Years: U.S. podcasting industry to grow 15-fold from current 4.5 million users to 60 million by 2010. [Information Week via MyAppleMenu]

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:01:21 GMT

TBR - The Dynamite Bomb: Tame Bear considers what a thankless job it is to work airport security, and how the increased security measures have NOT made us feel safer. Quite the opposite. [TameBear Radio 2005]

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:55:21 GMT

iTunes 4.9 Adds Podcast Support: Big news in podcast land today as Apple releases a new version of iTunes featuring podcast search, subscribe, download and sync. Nothing more needed to enjoy podcasts on your iPod. [MacMinute.com via MyAppleMenu]

Sun, 29 May 2005 12:48:18 GMT

Podcash: Follow the Money: Christopher Breen reads the tea leaves in Apple's latest demo -- podcasts via iTunes -- and shows the way to making money with podcasting in the near future. [MyAppleMenu]

Fri, 27 May 2005 11:41:44 GMT

TBR - Preparing for Solar: Peter Oakley and his wife Patricia cut their electric bill in half as they prepare to switch to solar power. Tame Bear interviews Pete to learn more about this conservation effort. [TameBear Radio 2005]

Mon, 23 May 2005 12:27:57 GMT

Apple's iTunes To Carry Podcasts: More thoughts on iTunes support for podcast downloads; read this take from Dan Gillmor. [Bayosphere via MyAppleMenu]

Mon, 23 May 2005 12:18:17 GMT

Podcasting Via iTunes: At this week's upscale "D" conference, Apple CEO Steve Jobs demoed the next version of iTunes (due out within the next month or two) which adds in new podcast downloading and directory services. [Salon Blogs via MyAppleMenu]

Wed, 18 May 2005 23:26:31 GMT

The Podcast Outlaws Network: Put these podcasts on your "wanted list. The new network of podcasts is "a central place to find some of the brightest, funniest and most underrated Podcasts on the internet." [Scripting News]

Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:29:31 GMT

Tuning In to New Radio Trend: Good layman's description of what's unique about podcasting -- the automated search, retrieval, and downloading of the audio files you want to listen to on your iPod. [CNN via Adam Curry's Weblog]

Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:10:54 GMT

TBR - Free and Independent: Tame and Treesh give up their car for Lent to emphasize the urgent need for a federal renewable energy policy that moves our nation towards freedom from an unholy dependency on foreign oil. [TameBear Radio 2005]

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 21:43:53 GMT

Inescapable Doom: Oil production is going to peak within the next year or two (perhaps it already has -- we'll know for sure when the inexhorable decline really sets in). For over half a century U.S. oil consumption has been climbing. Domestic oil production has been unable to meet our increasing demand for over three decades, forcing us into a near-total dependence on foreign oil.

Now world consumption of oil is poised to shoot past world production of oil. When that happens, the brutal reality of Peak Oil will be upon us. We will be in a terrifying race to find enough new sources of energy to sustain a planet of 6.5 billion people. Solar power, wind power, wave and water power, geothermal, heat recovery... it will take a "war effort" of our biggest ideas in high tech innovation to invent ourselves out of this looming crisis. And as we do, the old non-renewable fuels needed to research, develop and manufacture any hopeful alternative power sources will be rapidly depleted.

"Peak Oil - Life After the Crash" is essential reading. It is a long article. Read it completely. Understand it. Take it to heart. Everyone on Planet Earth needs to know that the biggest challenge we've ever faced as a species is just a few years away. How we frame the public debate and how we act as nations and a global society -- to make the great last-chance leap to renewable power -- will make the difference between surviving... or inescapable doom. [Tame Bear]