msbpodcast

View
 

msb-0365 Its not all about me you know

Page history last edited by Charles-A. Rovira 6 mos ago

 

 

 

Episode Sponsor's banner (This could be YOU!)

MSBPodcast Shows

 

Episode Name msb-0365 Its not all about me you know

 

Direct Link to episode -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/msb-0365_Its_not_all_about_me_you_know.m4a

 

YouTube Vids.

. .

 

Intro

 


Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

 


Survey

 


FeedBack comes first, so...

 

Its not all about me you know.

I started this podcast with two things in mind at least:

The first was to relieve the absolute media vacuum about MS and the products that makes our lives easier.

The podcast is mainly about you, because if you're listening to me, you most probably have MS.

I want to be a vehicle for information in a non scary way about all the things people out there doing things and making for us MSers.

And it has started with my finding two sponsors.

Yes I'm flogging product but I've actually tried the stuff out first so I can honestly report on its quality.

I actually own some of these T-Shirts and i can report that they're good stuff.

The CADDI is also necessary stuff and its well made.

The second thing was to do well by doing good. I'm not in the lest ashamed of wanting to make a buck. I need to live too.

---- "Song About You" by: "The Cartwheel Club" http://www.myspace.com/thecartwheelclub

 


FeedForward

 

---- "Crazy About You" by: "DAVID MILLER" http://www.davidmiller.us/

 


FeedMe 

 

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  off  every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.

[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Thinking About You" by: "Magdalena Konefal" http://www.myspace.com/magdalenakonefal

 


Thesis:

 

 I missed monday, AND I KNOW IT, thank you.

ComCast has been a real Yo-yo. Both the company and, I hate to call it so but, the service.

Sadly, I HAVE to use them exclusively because cable companies have a geographic monopoly and Verizon FiOS REFUSES to come into this area.

Why that is, like, we don't know, eh?

[...ribersack-a-fraglesack-a-ribersack-a-fraglesack...arrrgh...]

I have spare computers, spare drives, spare cables, spare mikes, a spare console, a wireless virtual private network and a cabled one.

I have a UPS which will give me two hours and seven minutes of power if the building power goes dead.

I have ubiquitous redundancy, all over, everywhere...

I only have a single point of failure in my house in my house and that's my internet connection.

Of course, that's the one that picks that day to go dead, then live, then dead again, then... Grrr!!!!

----

Now where was I?

Oh yes, its not all about me.

Its "all about you".

---- "All about you" by: "Luman" http://www.myspace.com/denilsson

 


Synthesis:

 

Like the song said, it is 'All About You".

The reason its not all about me, is that its all about helping us all with the products that other people produce to make our lives better.

Now my sponsors aren't makers of products that we need yet, but its starting.

When I can recruit the company that make my cane to sponsor me, I will do so with great delight.

The same with whatever you're using right now that you feel might be of help to somebody else.

I'm admittedly rough on shoes but I don't really suffer from the "foot drop" problem that I have seen ads for, so do they work? Which one are you using? Can you recommend it/them?

That's one for the feed forward segment.

----

Here's another one, but it could be for the feed me segment:

"The  Courage Center" [ http://www.couragecenter.org/index.aspx ] is an organization which takes care of the needs of plenty of people, such as those with MS.

They're located in Minnesota, in and around Minneapolis.

While that's only a small footprint on the planet, this podcast goes where ever the internet goes, I am sure that some of their people, both staff and service providers as well as their service clients, are using the internet right now.

While I am not claiming to provide a complete advertising solution for them, I am a portion of that solution in ways that the former media never could be since those media were burdened with production and delivery costs that were orders of magnitude greater than that of the internet.

If they wanted to reach the Mers in the Minneapolis area, i've got/had some.

If they wanted to reach MSers in the Minnesota area, I've got/had some.

Look at the map on my MSBPodcast.com Wiki. I've been in peoples' ears all over the planet.

And, to tell you the truth, that the part of this podcasting that always gives me the giggles.

---- "All About You" by: "Shemekia Copeland" http://www.alligatorrecords.com/

 


Conclusion:

 

I will readily admit that when I started this little adventure, it was all about me.

I felt hard done by. I had survived September 11 and one of my fellow workers hadn't.

He was a great guy and nobody deserved to in a blaze of Osama Bin Laden's Arab Street theatre. Nobody ever deserved to go that way.

I had got away from and with my MS for almost twenty years until reality reared up in my path and dropped me with a roundhouse kick to the crotch.

I felt like crap, wounded, harried and unexpectedly ashamed.

The US is Ultra Competitive, not ultra conservative. It weeds out the weak with ruthless efficiency, regardless of what it ultimately costs them.

"Look at ME!" seems to be the operant meme.

But that only lasts until the next distraction.

And that is why I am trying to distract you, while I inform you.

But enough about you.

---- "Not Another Song About You" by: "Tris McCall" http://www.trismccall.net/

 

Outro

 

SongList

 

Theme and 'incidental music' from:

"msb_theme",

 by: "Guy David",

 http://www.guydavid.com/

 no album,

 via personal contract

 

Song list

 

"Song About You"

 by: "The Cartwheel Club"

 http://www.myspace.com/thecartwheelclub

 album: "none"

 via: music.podshow.com

"Crazy About You"

 by: "DAVID MILLER"

 http://www.davidmiller.us/

 album: "none"

 via: music.podshow.com

"Thinking About You"

 by: "Magdalena Konefal"

 http://www.myspace.com/magdalenakonefal

 album: "none"

 via: music.podshow.com

"All about you"

 by: "Luman"

 http://www.myspace.com/denilsson

 album: "none"

 via: music.podshow.com

"All About You"

 by: "Shemekia Copeland"

 http://www.alligatorrecords.com/

 album: "none"

 via: music.podshow.com

"Not Another Song About You"

 by: "Tris McCall"

 http://www.trismccall.net/

 album: "none"

 via: music.podshow.com

 


PhotoCredits:

 

 All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

 


BookRecommendations

 


Links:

Comments (0)

You don't have permission to comment on this page.