Widely Ranging Interests

I saw it, respectively heard it too, but I thought that was just another WRI clever idea to make a huge buck with the podcast: to post an add under the disguise of a Red Cross organization on some x TV station of some x country, whose proverbially naive people has the big tendency to contribute money for a good, humanitarian causes. The commercial ends with a motto:
It s nice to share. That even more sounded like you guys.
Beside the WRI intro music, there s also the same red and white graphics, so it was kind of a twilight zone feeling when I first saw it. At first I didn t even know what bothers me.
If the add is really Red Crosses then, we obviously are connected with some mystical frequencies, so making fun of open minded people and their empirical (and not theoretical) believes was very much right away compensated by universal irony joke.
Anyway, I managed to type some of the commercial with my phone and I am going to send the wmv to you.

1) Speaking of the Kingston Trio, there’s still a “Sons of the Pioneeers” out there touring. The original members of that band are all long dead. And you can hire the official Temptations, as owned by Berry Gordy,, to sing at your Bat Mitzvah. But ain’t none of them the guys on the records.
2) Speaking of the Minutemen, Mike Watt is now the bass player in the touring version of “The Stooges,” a band whose original members are 50% dead.
3) Hey, you passing-ly mentioned Erie PA. Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town.
4) Your intro music is also in an ad for some hemrhoid treatment product. But I think i pointed that out to Francis a while back.