1. Comment #432321 by Mitch Kahle on November 16, 2009 at 10:13 pm

Excellent!

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2. Comment #432323 by Sally Luxmoore on November 16, 2009 at 10:29 pm

What time? (translation into GMT for us Brits please)

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3. Comment #432327 by Eventhorizon on November 16, 2009 at 10:47 pm

Whats The Ron Reagan Show

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4. Comment #432328 by quisquose on November 16, 2009 at 10:50 pm

Comment #432323 by Sally Luxmoore on November 16, 2009 at 10:29 pm

What time? (translation into GMT for us Brits please)

I second that request. My internet radio is ready and waiting.

And I like Mr Reagan very much.

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5. Comment #432329 by mirandaceleste on November 16, 2009 at 10:53 pm

Here's the Air America live stream: http://airamerica.com/ondemand/stream/washington/

Ron Reagan's show starts at 6 p.m. EST, which is 11 p.m. GMT

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6. Comment #432330 by quisquose on November 16, 2009 at 10:54 pm

It's 6pm eastern time, whatever that is.

It's the next programme anyway.

http://airamerica.com/schedule/

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7. Comment #432331 by Sally Luxmoore on November 16, 2009 at 11:04 pm

Thank'ee kindly.
(Tugs forelock, bows head)

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8. Comment #432334 by Richard Dawkins on November 16, 2009 at 11:27 pm

I'm in bed, with the telephone by my side, struggling to stay awake! The phone call is supposed to come at midnight, British time

Richard

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9. Comment #432335 by aoratos philos on November 16, 2009 at 11:30 pm

I'm listening to the show right now and I sympathise Richard. I was off to bed @ 11pm GMT now I have to stay up to listen too!
... I've not heard Ron mention the interview with you yet?! Boy this station is advert intensive.

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10. Comment #432336 by debridement on November 16, 2009 at 11:35 pm

Good luck Richard.

This Reagan sounds like a decent enough fellow so far - there is no love for Palin anyway... so that's a good sign. His current guest says: "the bigger the hair, the closer to god". Nice!

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11. Comment #432338 by Richard Dawkins on November 16, 2009 at 11:42 pm

Is it possible to listen to it in England?

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12. Comment #432339 by InYourFaceNewYorker on November 16, 2009 at 11:43 pm

Oh man, I just tuned in now just as he was welcomed! What luck! Jebus must have been watching over me! ;)

By telephone? Good reception...

Julie

EDIT: I'm such a bonehead. Some other file opened up. No wonder it sounded clear.

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13. Comment #432340 by Richard Dawkins on November 16, 2009 at 11:45 pm

There's a fly buzzing around my room. It is bound to be audible on the radio, and will be distracting for me!
Richard

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14. Comment #432342 by InYourFaceNewYorker on November 16, 2009 at 11:47 pm

Kill the fly.

Julie

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15. Comment #432343 by Sally Luxmoore on November 16, 2009 at 11:49 pm

You can borrow my fly spray...

Edit: If we can tell from your voice that you dropped off to sleep and the phone woke you up, I warn you now, I will laugh!

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16. Comment #432344 by InYourFaceNewYorker on November 16, 2009 at 11:50 pm

You can borrow my cat, Neptune... he loves killing and eating bugs.

Julie

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17. Comment #432345 by aoratos philos on November 16, 2009 at 11:51 pm

Richard, mirandaceleste posted the stream link above
http://airamerica.com/ondemand/stream/washington/

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18. Comment #432346 by debridement on November 16, 2009 at 11:51 pm

Right now they're talking about the controversy relating to Obama bowing to the Emperor of Japan. The Right is outraged! Oh America, get over yourself.

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19. Comment #432347 by InYourFaceNewYorker on November 16, 2009 at 11:58 pm

When I hear stuff like that I'm embarrassed to be an American... a bow in Japan is their equivalent to a handshake. It is a sign of respect. It's not bow and worship, but I'm sure a lot of these right wings think so...

Say it with me! 1, 2, 3...

THESE PEOPLE AND THEIR STUPIDITY!

Maybe I can give them a good in-your-face New Yorking. :)

Julie

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20. Comment #432350 by debridement on November 17, 2009 at 12:03 am

Julie,
I'm sure he's just trying to kill some time in the show. The callers seemed to think it would have been inappropriate NOT to bow.

At least the Right gives us something to write about while we're waiting for the boss to go on air....

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21. Comment #432351 by InYourFaceNewYorker on November 17, 2009 at 12:07 am

Yeah, well...

Sally Luxmore, I too will laugh...

Julie

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22. Comment #432352 by Peter Beattie on November 17, 2009 at 12:09 am

He'll be on any minute now! :)

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23. Comment #432353 by InYourFaceNewYorker on November 17, 2009 at 12:09 am

He's on now, and sounds very much awake! :D

Julie

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24. Comment #432354 by Peter Beattie on November 17, 2009 at 12:10 am

I think I can hear the fly buzzing about... :D

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25. Comment #432358 by Sally Luxmoore on November 17, 2009 at 12:30 am

Great stuff!

Richard is so good at this now, you'd almost think he could do it in his sleep....

Speaking of which...Night all.

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26. Comment #432359 by InYourFaceNewYorker on November 17, 2009 at 12:31 am

Yep, good job Richard! Keep fighting the good fight!

Good night to you and all here who are in Europe...

Julie

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27. Comment #432360 by root2squared on November 17, 2009 at 12:31 am

I heard more ads than the interview.

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28. Comment #432364 by debridement on November 17, 2009 at 12:38 am

Well. That was great! Nothing new for the regular readers of this site, but the interviewer was great (one of the dark side, no doubt). There is great contrast between this interview and some of the early interviews at the start of the tour (O'Reilly!).

Richard was very succinct and effective as usual.

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29. Comment #432365 by InYourFaceNewYorker on November 17, 2009 at 12:40 am

I liked it on O'Reilly when Richard said,"Will you listen to me and stop shouting at me?" Classic. About time somebody told him off. :)

Julie

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30. Comment #432366 by Zzyx1170 on November 17, 2009 at 12:43 am

I placed an mp3 of this interview at:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mi1iu4nnjmh

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31. Comment #432369 by decius on November 17, 2009 at 12:54 am

I'd say that it went very well. As expected, Reagan wasn't hostile and Richard sounded relaxed and focussed. The sound quality was poor, though.

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32. Comment #432370 by Thurston on November 17, 2009 at 1:02 am

I love the insights provided by this website, but I never heard the fly.

It's a good thing Ron Reagon is so different from his father, who famously said "Evolution is only a theory". Ugh.

Overall it was a great interview.

Thank you for the link Zzyx1170

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33. Comment #432371 by InYourFaceNewYorker on November 17, 2009 at 1:12 am

I think his boneheaded father also said that trees cause pollution.

Julie

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34. Comment #432372 by njwong on November 17, 2009 at 1:31 am

Yes, the sound quality from Richard's end was pretty bad. I have heard audio shows where they used Skype to interview guests across continents, and the sound quality from both ends of the interviewer and the guests' were amazingly clear. And Skype calls over PCs are free.

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35. Comment #432382 by zenmite on November 17, 2009 at 3:35 am

Just in case everyone didn't already know, Ron Reagan is an atheist. I wish he'd run for prez of the U.S. so I could put a Reagan for President sticker on my car.

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36. Comment #432384 by Alternative Carpark on November 17, 2009 at 3:54 am

Reagan lives!?

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37. Comment #432389 by Lisa Bauer on November 17, 2009 at 5:09 am

Thanks for the link, Zzyx1170. I have the opposite problem as far as time zones are concerned -- when it's evening on the east coast, I'm still at work!

Considering the lateness of the hour, a very informative interview (even if we've heard it before). It might have been interesting if Richard had said something like, "When your father was governor of California, he called out the National Guard on the protestors at the university I was teaching at!" Ron probably would have apologized profusely on his behalf... ;-)

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38. Comment #432391 by SaintStephen on November 17, 2009 at 5:16 am

30. Comment #432366 by Zzyx1170 on November 17, 2009 at 12:43 am

Yes, thanks very much for the link. Richard spoke clearly and well and seemed in full control of his considerable powers.

"What's true is true whether you like it or not."

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39. Comment #432394 by Lucas on November 17, 2009 at 5:31 am

Kill the fly.

Julie, you heartless bitch! How could you suggest that fly's life be taken simply for Richard's comfort?! All life is sacred!

... kidding! I committed mass roach genocide in my kitchen yesterday and left their bodies around as a warning to the others. I will hunt and smash them mercilessly until they learn their lesson. I relish their pain. You gotta love living above a bodega.

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40. Comment #432395 by InYourFaceNewYorker on November 17, 2009 at 5:37 am

Lucus, I just checked your profile to see if you are a fellow New Yorker. I knew you had to be, given your roach problem. Roaches love New York. I HATE ROACHES!!! Sometimes in the summer you can see them on the street, and they're even bigger than the ones that you'll get in your apartment... like 3 inches long. They're so hard to kill. You can't step on them, because then you'll spread the eggs that they carry on their backs. The only thing you can do is go after them with that Combat gel, sit back, and watch the little fuckers drop dead. ;)

Julie

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41. Comment #432396 by Bolland on November 17, 2009 at 5:47 am

Julie,

Enough talk of "little fuckers"-- they are all God's bugs, Ha! Anyway, I am impressed that the Reagan genome could express itself in such a different manner in such a relatively short span of time. This itself is instructive I think.

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42. Comment #432398 by InYourFaceNewYorker on November 17, 2009 at 5:50 am

God can bite my shiny metal ass. ;)

Julie

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43. Comment #432399 by Bolland on November 17, 2009 at 5:59 am

Just curious-- do you polish it?

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44. Comment #432400 by InYourFaceNewYorker on November 17, 2009 at 6:06 am

As we speak... ;)

Julie

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45. Comment #432401 by Bolland on November 17, 2009 at 6:20 am

Strangely, or perhaps not, that imagery was sufficient to make my day. Perhaps my days lack that je ne sais quoi? p.s. I also lived in NY and know the roach issue. (Although the little ones can be cute if you invest the effort in the relationship).

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46. Comment #432402 by InYourFaceNewYorker on November 17, 2009 at 6:33 am

The image of me polishing my shiny metal ass made your day? And you find roaches cute? That's... interesting. ;)

Julie

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47. Comment #432403 by Sciros on November 17, 2009 at 6:39 am

Former resident of Brooklyn here (Bensonhurst). Yes... roaches. I remember playing with my Shredder (TMNT) action figure, having him do some dance or something, and having Shredder accidentally squish a roach with his plastic foot (I was maybe 8?). That's how many roaches we had -- even the action figures would step on them.

And yeah they were the little ones -- the ones that like to live indoors and eat your food. By the way I think a vacuum cleaner is supposed to be pretty good at taking them out because the air current confuses their... ass sensor. I'm not an entomologist.

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48. Comment #432405 by InYourFaceNewYorker on November 17, 2009 at 6:48 am

I didn't grow up in Brooklyn; I grew up in a suburb outside of Philly and moved here 10 years ago to go to college... and I never left.

Once, when I was about 10, I swatted a fly. I hit it so hard that its guts went spilling out in the form of a brown gelatinous cube, and then I had the wonderful task of cleaning it up. It was so nasty that, to this day (I'm 29), I literally gag sometimes when I swat a fly (which is weird, because it usually takes a lot more than that to gross me out). That one incident has settled into a Pavlovian response, although it has lessened in intensity over the years.

Incidentally, I saw your website. Are you a comic book artist or an animator or something? Where do you live? We need to network...

Julie

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49. Comment #432407 by Sciros on November 17, 2009 at 7:07 am

Incidentally, I saw your website. Are you a comic book artist or an animator or something? Where do you live? We need to network...

I'm a software developer, and I do a bit of web and graphics design and photography on the side, along with too many other hobbies that I have no time for. Been in Columbus, OH since I was 10. Visited NYC just a month ago for a weekend (caught swine flu there I'm pretty sure, woohoo), actually. Brought back a few memories.

I'll add you to my MSN list.

Here I don't have many roaches to contend with, though a rather tenacious spider has taken up residence in my mailbox and refuses to leave. I may have to hose him out. Other than that it's the occasional HOUSE CENTIPEDE gwaaarrr! They're kind of harmless I guess but boy are they challenging to deal with! Here's a funny site I just found with a good account of the bastards: http://www-users.math.umd.edu/~schris/scutigera.shtml

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50. Comment #432408 by InYourFaceNewYorker on November 17, 2009 at 7:11 am

Centipedes are nothing like dealing with roaches. Roaches are relentless little buggers. My experience with centipedes (here or in PA) is that you see one at a time. Roaches on the other hand...

Heh, one time somebody I know found a centipede. She asked a guy to kill it. The guy farted at it and said, "There! I blew its brains out. It never knew what hit it!" :)

I have to admit, though, that it's funny when people freak out about insects. I worked at a camp this summer, and every single time-- without fail-- when the girls went in the shower, I could hear them screaming about the insects and spiders. One girl even cried every time (she was 14). They way they screamed, you'd think they were being disemboweled. If you're at a camp, you should expect to see-- and get used to seeing-- insects and spiders in the shower. At one point, I said something like, "When it comes to muscle power, don't you think you outdo the bug?" and I also said something like, "I'm sure these bugs would be glad to know that they're freaking out somebody who's that much bigger than they. They could take over the world!" I'm beginning to think that teenage girls screaming-- especially unnecessarily loudly-- is some kind of social ritual. ;)

Anyway now that you have my MSN handle, let's take this convo offline (you can shoot me an IM anytime) so we don't annoy other people. :)

Julie

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