• Rants: Trader Joe’s and Diggnation
• Fast Food Reviews: Wendy’s The Baconator; KFC’s Double Down
• The Gulf Oil spill has reached land
• World Cup Flop-Fest
• Mexican Pres. wants U.S. ban on assault weapons
• Economy: Unemployment, Gov’t Spending, and a False Recovery
• Aussie Ninjas rescue man from beatdown
• Headbanging to Fire
• Trapped Drunk Driver Opens Another Beer
• Joe’s blog
• Featured alcohol: Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat
• Featured music: Rush and Obituary

Intro Music: Social Distortion – Ball and Chain; Outro Music:  “8-bit Junkie” by George Wood

Notes: No, Jason has not sailed off to Valhalla and Joe has not been carried off to the Underworld by his spirit horse!  The show is back from an extended “Spring Break”. We kick off the beginning of summer with another action packed show. The show may change a bit in the future, but we will continue to bring you full alcohol reviews, funny news, kick ass music, and of course, we will continue cutting through the slew of economic and world news that bombards us daily. Listen to Episode 28 for gut wrenching food reviews, listen to wussies drink Simpler Times, plus headbangers, soccer floppers, ninjas, and the usual news items from our glorious press.

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- New York Attorney General sues Bank of America
- Find an independent bank or credit union at moveyourmoney.info
- Obama says the drop in unemployment is a cause for hope – looks like AP changed the internal link again….
- Calculate the true unemployment rate at shadowstats.com
- Swine Flu vaccines cost millions of dollars, people still getting sick from the vaccine
- Death cat
- Ghost update
- Featured alcohol: Vodka Shootout Round 2: Smirnoff vs. Seagrams
- Featured music: The Slapbacks and Yellow Matter Custard
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Intro music: “Anhelos” by Leechmaster
Outro music: “8-bit Junkie” by George Wood

Notes:  A lot of news in this episode!  We continue our vodka shootout with last week’s winner, Smirnoff, up against Seagrams.  In the end it was a tie, I chose Seagrams and Joe chose Smirnoff.  The next day I wanted to change my vote because the Seagrams gave me a real bad headache BUT we drank all the Smirnoff so Seagrams moves to Round 3 by default.  We mentioned some websites to check out (linked above) and we played a song from a psychobilly band called The Slapbacks and a Beatles super-cover-band called Yellow Matter Custard.

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- Ghost updates
- Goldman Sachs to force charitable donations for top execs
- Obama considers tax on bailout money
- Crash test: ’59 Chevy vs. ’09 Chevy
– Fecal bacteria in soda fountains
- Featured alcohol: Fosters Beer
- Featured music: The Unknown Psychobilly band and Chevelle

Intro music: “There Goes The Neighborhood” by Body Count
Outro music: “8-bit Junkie” by George Wood

Notes:  Definitely check out the crash test video and decide for yourself if it looks legit or rigged.  Fosters was a nice change of pace.

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- New Year resolutions
- Financial news summary from http://www.market-ticker-denninger.net
- Tim Geithner to explain AIG bailout secrecy
- Shareholder sues Goldman Sachs over pay and bonus amounts
- Information about potentially dangerous chemicals hidden and protected by the US government
- Featured alcohol: Free-for-all with Sauza Blanco tequila, Coors Light, and Newcastle Ale
- Featured music: The Baboons and Chromium ZA

Intro music: “Anhelos” by Leechmaster
Outro music: “8-bit Junkie” by George Wood

Notes:  Welcome to 2010, or is that “oh ten”?  Either way, it’s a new year but the same old BS in the financial news.  Cracker and Kickass stop by and Cracker opens up and shares a feeling or two [sob] <g> -_-. We’re also back to a 1 hour show after doing some extended shows in December just for the hell of it.  After the onslaught of bourbon whiskey, we kick back this week with a free-for-all, so we did a mini review for Sauza tequila, Coors Light, and Newcastle Ale, but next week it’s back to the normal review.  Featured bands this week are The Baboons, a psychobilly band from Belgium and Chromium ZA, a modern metal band from South Africa.  Enjoy!

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From Reuters:

LONDON (Reuters) – Spanish research appearing to show that very heavy drinking can reduce men’s risk of heart disease has come under fire from scientists who say the study is flawed and should not encourage anyone to drink more.

The controversial study found that men who drank moderate, high and very high levels of alcohol had a lower risk of coronary heart disease.

People were classed as non-drinkers, former drinkers, low, moderate, high and very high drinkers. The latter drank more than 90 grams of alcohol a day, equivalent to around a dozen drinks. Following the patients for 10 years and mapping the number of coronary problems they had, the researchers said the overall results for men showed that drinking alcohol cut the risk of heart disease by 30 percent, and that heavy drinking cut the risk even more than moderate drinking.

“Spain is the world’s third largest producer of beer and wine and its per capita consumption of alcohol places it sixth in the world. But it also has one of the lowest death rates from coronary heart disease in the world,” the researchers wrote.

More alcohol = healthy heart.  Now there’s a statement I can get behind.  Seriously, who wouldn’t want to be the healthiest slosh at the party?  All the more reason to listen to the podcast for our weekly alcohol reviews.  We’re doing our part to promote a healthy lifestyle.  Screw canola oil and tofu.  Have another beer and live an extra day!

Read the full story at Reuters