The Theory of Everything

We take a trip round the web to meet fellow TMiers: the 2006 runner up <a href="http://www.tmi-band.com/">cover band</a> from Tuscon, a BBC <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n55tq">radio comedy programme</a>, a recent <a href="http://lindsayallyndrucker.com/">unemployed college graduate</a>, and a strange <a href="http://tmi-comic.com/">cartoonist</a>. Also we meet "Chris" the TMi Washington D.C. correspondent for the first time. Plus your host explains why he chose to name the program "Too Much Information" in the first place, and why a good name is the most important factor when creating a new radio show. 

What's In A Name

<a href="http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/brightsided.htm">Barbara Ehrenreich</a> says NO WAY to "Smile or Die", Peter Choyce tries out <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/">Couchsurfing</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/ZigZiglarQuotes">Zig Ziglar</a> Tweets, <a href="http://www.jeetheer.com/">Jeet Heer</a> 'splains Little Orphan Annie, <a href="http://hotchickssmilingatgroundzero.com/">Hot Chicks smile at Ground Zero</a>, <a href="http://stores.lulu.com/staceychil">Stacey Chillemi</a> talks about the benefits of being positive while your host talks up the POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING

Power of Negative Thinking

Our series wraps up this week with Rolling Stone journalist <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/matt-taibbi-on-the-tea-party-20100928">Matt Taibbi</a> explaining why the Tea Party is full of shit. <a href="http://www.naomiharris.com/">Naomi Harris</a> takes us into the world of overweight swingers from the the Bible Belt. Your host suggests the 'rant heard round the world' is fake (or at least disingenuous). Internet activist <a href="http://law.fordham.edu/faculty/10930.htm">Zephyr Teachout</a> explains how a political opportunity was lost. Cartoonist <a href="http://www.thepaincomics.com/">Tim Kreider</a> fears the return of the madness, and TMI's man in DC goes to New Orleans to do something while your host goes to the Stewart/Colbert rally. 

Beyond The Fruited Plain (Part III)

Historian <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Whites-Their-Eyes-Revolution-American/dp/0691150273">Jill Lepore</a> talks Tea Party History. <a href="http://alecsoth.com/photography/">Alec Soth</a> photographs from the Middle, <a href="http://andreasilenzi.com/">Andrea S</a> discovers the Middle, and your host fears the Middle! Plus TMi's "Chris" learns more about who is really pulling the strings. 

Beyond The Fruited Plain (Part II)

First of a three part series on America and the Tea Party. Journalist <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Backlash-Right-Wing-Radicals-High-Def-Hucksters/dp/0061991716">Will Bunch</a> talks about the two years he spent researching his book "Backlash;" Historian <a href="http://www.zoetrodd.com/">Zoe Trodd</a> explains how the idea of protest gets appropriated by groups like the KKK, the White Citizens councils of the 1950s, and the Tea Party of today; Photographer <a href="http://www.fraenkelgallery.com/#s=0&mi=222&pt=1&pi=10000&p=0&a=21&at=1">Richard Misrach</a> photographs the voice of the people; your host recalls the first right wing person he ever met (his college roommate); and the TMI Washington D.C. correspondent starts a twisted journey into the secret depths of a conspiracy. 

Beyond The Fruited Plain (Part I)

Your host attempts to break through to the other side, <a href="http://www.cindyheller.com/">Cindy Heller</a> has difficulties with online dating in Zurich, and <a href="http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/">Dog Lover "Amy"</a> has difficulties with the Christians. Noah tells us about a few cults, TMi DC correspondent "Chris" tells us the truth about <a href="http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006368">Guantanamo</a>, and Silicon Vally correspondent <a href="http://vimeo.com/9225227">Val</a> tells us about the healing power of tweets. 

Something Will Happen, Soon

<a href="http://www.johnnyleeclary.com/">Johnny Angel</a> recalls his Klan days and the electric Cross, <a href="http://andreasilenzi.com/">Andrea</a> considers buying gold, <a href="http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/">Ed Burtynsky</a> talks about his Oil photos, <a href="http://www.davidfeng.me/">David Feng</a> loves his iPhone, <a href="http://www.modernghana.com/news/252766/1/war-psychiatry-and-stealing-covet-disorders-as-war.html">Desmond Ayim-Aboagye</a> tells us the truth about War, and Tracy and John deal with gentrification and bed bugs and encounter the mysterious "Condor."

Most Precious Thing

<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/books/11book.html">Kathryn Schulz</a> wants us to think differently about being wrong, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Sold-World-Betrayal/dp/1568584423/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277176375&sr=1-1">William Kleinknecht</a> wants us to think differently about Ronald Reagan, <a href="http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/Wire?authorName=Mishka%20Shubaly&publication=60">Mishka Shubaly</a> relates a wicked wrong tale about hot girls on the internet, and Cheryl Rogers discovers something is wrong with internet love. Plus Anonymous Lady gets her "enemy" fired from the culture magazine.

Mistakes Were Made

<a href="http://www.watchman.org/cults/guruma.htm">"GS"</a> recalls how Bad Karma took him from Devon, England to the C.U.T. bomb shelters in Montana. Author <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Going-Kill-Everybody-Terrifyingly/dp/0307464342">Robert Brockway</a> explains how Everything is going to kill Everybody and <a href="http://www.prepperpodcast.com/">Matt Jarvis</a> explains what it means to be a Prepper. Pamela Walt has Bad Vibes in general and our DC correspondent "Chris" has Bad Vibes about the Tea Party. Also Astronomer <a href="https://www.as.arizona.edu/people/faculty/impey.html">Chris Impey</a> explains how Dark Energy is the ending of all endings.

It's All Over

A star guest backs out when your host's iPhone sends her an inappropriate autocorrected email. But this is only the beginning: lots and lots of ladies tell your host off this week. But, what do you expect from TMi episode #13? At least Martynka, Elle, Aneta and Yana are kind enough to stop by - these girls ...definitely know what luck is. Plus, the Wheel of Fortune! 

Lady Luck

<a href="http://www.nartv.org">Nart Villeneuve</a> of the Information Warfare Project explains Stuxnet. Your Host has computer problems, and reads from Joseph Conrad's Secret Agent. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/World-That-Never-Was-Anarchists/dp/037542511X">Alex Butterworth</a> talks about Pyotr Rachkovsky the man who Conrad based "Mr. Vladimir" on. <a href="http://www.fartparty.org">Julia Wertz</a> talks about Drinking at the Movies, and Peter Choyce refuses to use text messaging.

Sabotage

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Typewriter-Holy-Complete-Uncensored-Generation/dp/1416592423">Allen Ginsberg and Market Research</a> &amp; Plastic bear shaped honey bottles and Henry Darger. Also, <a href="http://www.richardkern.com/">Richard Kern</a> reflects on the cinema of transgression and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/There-Power-Union-Story-America/dp/0385526296/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1">Philip Dray</a> talks about his new history of American Labor: "There is Power in a Union." Plus <a href="http://www.groupon.com/new-york/">Groupon</a>! 


...and one for ALL

<a href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/Zero-Decibels/George-Michelsen-Foy/9781416599593">George Foy</a>, <a href="http://inpursuitofsilence.com/">George Prochnik</a> and <a href="http://garretkeizer.com/">Garret Keizer</a> all write about noise; <a href="http://www.cranksturgeon.com/">Crank Sturgeon</a>, <a href="http://www.jupitter-larsen.com/">GX Jupitter-Larsen</a>, and <a href="http://www.sarahlipstate.com/">Noveller</a> all make noise. For more information visit the <a href="http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/36695">WFMU TMi page</a>

Listening To Noise

Psychic <a href="http://abcdesp.com/">Jeannie Reed</a> explains how everything is connected, Poet <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/people/pejk-malinovski/">Pejk Malinovski</a> dabbles in Google Poetry, technologist <a href="http://www.whoissambailey.com/">Sam Bailey</a> imagines the perfect recommendation engine and your host has a run in with two women and one universal on the F train. For more information visit the <a href="http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/34503">WFMU TMi page</a>

If you liked that, then you will hate this

TMI regulars report on their 2010 Summer Vacation: <a href="http://andreasilenzi.com/">Andrea Silenzi</a> hits the road with her Dad, Noah Apple goes home to Maine and discovers he is now one of the "summer people," Laura Mayer tries to take a break from Twitter and Facebook, Chris attends a protest, and your host sets off on an ill-advised road trip across 'Merika. For more information visit the <a href="http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/37217">WFMU TMi page</a>

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

<a href=" http://www.kinetikonpictures.com/splash/flash/">Michael Benson</a> looks at deep space, <a href="http://www.stangaz.com">Stan Gaz</a> explores meteor craters, <a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/">Mark Pilkington</a> explains how the CIA screws with the UFO community and Kara T tries to make sense of it all. For more information visit the <a href="http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/37301">WFMU TMi page</a>


Far Away, So Close

Pictures of Tuff Guys and Old Believers in Siberia courtesy of photographers <a href="http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDetail_VPage&l1=0&pid=2K7O3R1482X4&nm=Bruce%20Gilden">Bruce Gilden</a> and <a href="http://www.ivanboiko.com/">Ivan Boiko</a>. A visit to the world's largest collection of Soviet Nonconformist art in New Jersey! Our man in DC gets another earful regarding the Red Dawn remake, Hitler reads Walter Benjamin and your host finds a photo book on the Bitch War! For more information visit the <a href="http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/37036">WFMU TMi page</a>


Black And White All Over

Your Host travels to Russia! Translator Nurangiz Khodzharova has to babysit a Facebook consultant in Moscow. Sonya S tells us about the life of Andrei Platonov and filmmaker <a href="http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?3907">Alina Rudnitskaya</a> tells us about her film Bitch Academy. Plus "Chris" tells us the truth about how the CIA made "Red Dawn" For more information visit the <a href="http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/36523">WFMU TMi page</a>


Better Dead Than Red

Peter Choyce has problems with his noisy neighbors, Laura Mayer has problems with Beer Pong, Galeb Numa has problems with profiling, "chris" has problems with the BP Oil Spill, and your host has a big problem with Chat Roulette. Plus a feature on Kickstarter.com For more information visit the <a href="http://wfmu.org/playlists/TI">WFMU TMI page.</a>


Kicking Against The Pricks

This week we get status updates from TMi regulars Peter Choyce, <a href="http://andreasilenzi">Andrea Silenzi</a> and "Chris." <a href="http://timwu.org">Tim Wu</a> "Mr. Net Neutrality" tells us about his new book "The Master Switch" and Director <a href="http://philochsthemovie.com">Ken Bowser</a> tells us about his new Phil Ochs biopic "There but for Fortune." Plus: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Dick-Galen-Smith/dp/1935613022">Galen Smith's</a> New York Dick! For more information visit the <a href="http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/38878">WFMU TMI page</a>

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The Theory of Everything

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