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• The Delivery Presents – Happy Thanksgiving! Now Ask Me Questions
• The Delivery Presents – Bring On the Pander Bears!
• The Delivery Presents – After the Election, What? Tell More Stories

The Delivery Presents – Happy Thanksgiving! Now Ask Me Questions Posted: 17 Feb 2013 09:43 PM PST Happy Thanksgiving! The last two shows were pretty heavy, so we were due for something more light and enjoyable in Episode 174. Honestly, I don’t know how in the world anyone brings the weighty politics on a Thanksgiving show. Fie on anyone who does, I say. I have a lot for which to be thankful, not the least of which is my upbringing, which instilled in me the proper food to have for Thanksgiving dinner. Don’t make fun. Dinner, especially Thanksgiving dinner, is serious business. We’ll rumble over cranberry sauce. I tried something a little bit new in the second half. Partly because I like to try new things on the show and partly because I got caught short for show-prep (and didn’t want to talk about politics), I threw the whole second half open to random questions from the live chatroom. As I expected, the Deliverati did not disappoint. Question Time (or whatever I decide to call it) will happen again, so if you missed it this time around, be patient! The Delivery - Episode 174 This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

The Delivery Presents – Bring On the Pander Bears! Posted: 17 Feb 2013 06:24 PM PST The post-election malaise set in during Episode 173, but not in the way you might expect. It didn’t last long, though, so if you want to skip over that bit, you won’t miss much of the show. On the other hand, you may want to hang in there to catch the beginning of a theme I’m sure will come up again in future shows: the utter lack of contrition from people who campaigned among conservatives for Mitt Romney like a bully campaigns for popularity on the schoolyard. The whole postmortem took most of the show, which means I didn’t get to the non-political stuff until right at the very end. However, I think what’s in this hour is going to be important in a few months when conservatives are ready to figure out just how they screwed up the election and put together a few strategies to win the next one. Of course, this assumes the President doesn’t get his way and destroy the Republican Party before then with the help of the Pander Bears. The Delivery - Episode 173 This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

The Delivery Presents – After the Election, What? Tell More Stories Posted: 17 Feb 2013 05:56 PM PST It is not enough, as I say in Episode 172, to break out the spreadsheets and line charts when we want to explain why over-sized government is bad for us all. We have to put those numbers into a narrative that people can share easily. Throughout history, we humans have passed down our morals, cautions, legends, and lessons through stories. Myth is the first “viral content”. In the first half, I hash out the whole matter of conservative storytelling — why we should tell good stories and what sort of stories we might want to tell first. Consider the show an expansion on Episode 171, in which I left a whole lot on the table and decided this week to scoop it all up and make a delicious podcast goulash out of it. But that’s the second half. Before that, a little Election Night advice to “stay frosty” and a look at what problems we’ll face after the election. The list is long and we’ll need some patience. Okay, we’ll need lots of patience. Tons of it. The Delivery - Episode 172 This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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