Sunni Maravillosa- Bonus Material!

Sunni Maravillosa's 2005 Freedom Summit Talk (47:37, 22.5M)

Sunni and I spent part of day one of the Freedom Summit doing the interview. The next day she gave her talk in the morning, and has graciously given permission for it to be posted here. The audio was recorded by Charles Heller, and I've just edited it down a bit to take out some material in the file leaving only Sunni's talk. To purchase a data CD of the entire Freedom Summit or individual audio CDs of specific speakers' talks, you can e-mail Charles at the address at the bottom of the page to which I've linked.

Sunni Maravillosa- Part 5

Sunni Maravillosa- Part 5 (9:15, 4.4M)

This segment covers the ceremonious awarding of the Soon-to-Be-Coveted PoddyTalk Colostomy Gift Bag- full of a lot of good crap!- and Sunni's 60-Second Rant.

Sunni's parting gifts included:
-Cheri's Desert Harvest prickly pear cactus jelly
-2 bullet vibrator samples courtesy of The Pleasure Department
-Charmin To Go toilet seat covers
-PaperPalm notepad for manual blogging on the go
-Anti-Establishmints
-our signature "Potty Mouth" gum, 8 servings of sizzling sass (cinnamon flavor)
-Wash Away Your Sins towlette
-Sit and Solve puzzle book
-Disappearing Bill of Rights mug

I also forgot to include but later gave Sunni a couple of Warren Zevon CDs. Alas, I forgot to take a picture of all this crap for posterity.

Sunni Maravillosa- Part 4

Sunni Maravillosa- Part 4 (28:07, 13.1M)

Sunni and I talk girls and guns (okay, women and guns but that lacks the alliteration, and females and firearms just sounds sterile) and girlie guns. Also kids and guns, travel and guns, discretion and guns, sex and guns, and guns and guns. Guns are also periodically mentioned in this section.


Links:

2nd Amendment News Digest

Rational Review News Digest

Musical Interlude:
Lawyers, Guns and Money by Warren Zevon, Live at the Theater of the Living Arts, 2 December 2000, used in accordance with this exchange policy

Sunni Maravillosa- Part 3

Sunni Maravillosa- Part 3 (32:34, 15.1M)

Sunni and I discuss options for and pitfalls of seeking free-market style health care in a decidedly anti-free-market medical system.


Links:

Stop Killing Me with Your Kindness by Sunni Maravillosa

Independent Institute- FDA search results

SimpleCare

LifeSharers

Musical Interlude:
Don't Let Us Get Sick by Warren Zevon, Live at the Theater of the Living Arts, 2 December 2000, used in accordance with this exchange policy

Sunni Maravillosa- Part 2

Sunni Maravillosa- Part 2 (24:48, 11.6M)

Sunni and I chat about some of her current and past freedom-related and individualist-related ventures. And DAMN this woman is active!


Links:

Sunni's Salon (current issue is a double batch!)

Endervidualism (Tom Ender's site)

Whole Foods Market

Loompanics

Doing Freedom!

Liberty Round Table

Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business: A Reason debate featuring Milton Friedman, Whole Foods’ John Mackey, and Cypress Semiconductor’s T.J. Rodgers

Grimbergen Tripel- my favorite beer!

Sunni Maravillosa- Part 1

Sunni Maravillosa- Part 1 (27:15, 12.7M)

Part 1 of my interview with unabashed individualist anarachist Sunni Maravillosa back in early November 2005 when we met up at the Freedom Summit. We discuss her path to anarchy as well as ties between her current worldview and her background in psychology.

Every interview I do is a bit of a learning process, and I try to make at least one improvement each time. This month I am pleased to report that you will never again hear that godawful beeping noise that was in the last three interviews, and I am also learning a bit more about improving the sound quality in other ways. Both of these developments are brought to you, dear listener, thanks to Rich at Bloodthirsty Vegetarians.


Links:

Sunni and the Conspirators: A Blog by, and for, Individualists

Metaphysical Musings on Freedom by Sunni Maravillosa (scroll down for the section we discussed in the interview)

Freedom Summit

Steve White- Part 4

Steve White- Part 4 (44:49, 22.2M)

Originally, I thought we lost some material, but now I think I was wrong on that. I continue to give Steve some guff over his tendancy toward gender-based collectivism. Then Steve has some fun pushing my individualist buttons. This leads us into a discussion of his next novel which will branch out from science fiction into literature targetting men as an audience. We do some market research on one of Steve's roommates. And then we award the Soon-To-Be-Coveted PoddyTalk Colostomy Gift Bag, and turn Steve loose on a 60-Second Rant.

Steve White- Part 3

Steve White- Part 3 (37:21, 18.5M)

We discuss Steve's writing projects incluing science fiction short stories and a completed draft novel. You can find a couple of his stories by following the Steve White link on the right side of PoddyTalk's front page. We also chat about a No Girls Allowed Book Club started by Steve and a few other fellows. I still haven't figured out why not having a penis disqualifies me from a book group- I have no built-in bookmark or what exactly?

Steve White- Part 2

Steve White- Part 2 (27:19, 13.4M)

After going to the door to turn down a window-washing offer, we finish chatting about Steve's work at the Pacific Science Center.


Links:

Pacific Science Center

Elderhostel

Steve White- Part 1

Steve White- Part 1 (40:52, 20.3 M)

This month's interview features Steve White. This was the first interview I ever conducted. I learned a lot during that interview including some stuff about microphone placement and also that it is a bad idea to type on the computer from which you are recording while recording is in progress. (I have yet to figure out how to get rid of that annoying periodic buzz/beep noise.) Many thanks to Steve for being the first waffle out of the iron.

We talk a little bit about Steve's background, analyze some of the uncensored ads from one of Seattle's weekly tabloids, and then chat about his work with the Nightly Observing Program at Kitt Peak National Observatory and as Astronomer-in-Residence at the Pacific Science Center.


Links:

Kitt Peak Nightly Observing Program