BuDDy #26 - The Amazing Tattooed Man

Time: 50:03

Mr. Be starts out with a touching observation about the show which you'll just have to hear to appreciate.

Our guest this week is Eliot Kohen - of Good Ideas advertising specialties (mugs, pens, bumper stickers, etc.), often-heard voice-over guy, reader, writer and so much more. He's the author of a popular left-wing bumper sticker widely seen around Santa Fe, and BuDDy asked to have him on the show not to confront him about his politics (BuDDy's not that kind of guy, he just wants to be your friend), but simply to explore this fascinating character.

Eliot talks about Wendell Berry, whose book he's reading currently, tells a Jim Terr story involving singer/songwriter Steve Young, writer of the oft-recorded song, "Seven Bridges Road." And, as a famous voice-over artist, Eliot favors us by reading aloud the second half of the latest installment of BuDDy's historical-novel-in-progress, LINCOLN, TWAIN and the TROUBADOR. A "good read", as we say in the business!

BuDDy is glad to have the left-leaning Mr. Kohen in the room when he debuts the studio-recorded version of a song he sang "live" on one of our earliest programs, a stirring defense of our president called "He's a Godly Man". All present are stunned into silence by the quality and Truth of the song, which will be posted on Jim Terr's political satire site, www.BlueCanyonSatire.com, for balance.

Our recorded song for the week is, for a change, one that is NOT by a singer who's a friend of BuDDy, but just something BuDDy heard recently and was struck by how much more depth it had, listening now, as an adult, rather than as a child when he first heard it. Since he's trying to surprise our guest with it, we'll not print the name of the song here, but after hearing it you can find more info on the song and writer here.

Finally, following an indiscreet mention of deflowering virgins which puts BuDDy in a tizzy (since he tries to maintain a certain level of decorum on the show), we play an excerpt of a parody of a National Public Radio review of Jim Terr's CD, which parody review will also be posted at http://www.bluecanyonsatire.com/. In that excerpt, critic and former BOFP guest Bill Hutchison refers to our podcast as "HANDS DOWN THE CLASSIEST PODCAST IN THE ETHER."  By God! Also in that excerpt is reference to Jim Terr's song, often played on this podcast, called "Do They Have E-Mail in Heaven," which has been a #1 comedy hit in the podcasting world. (Not that we're here to promote Jim Terr, however).

Eliot indicates that he has attempted to avoid the trend of everybody having a website, and he can be reached for business purposes by telephone at 505-983-1105.

NEW! Be sure to check out the complete list of songs played on past Podcasts.

LINKS AND FRIENDS
Email Buddy
Jim Terr's Music
BuDDy's Old Fashioned Web Site
BuDDy on the Forbes Magazine billionaires list
Marsha Mason's Throat Therapy Spray

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