Podcasts about coexisting with nonhuman animals

Building on recent Veganacious and Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals podcasts, the ARZone team look again at vegan education - this time vegan education in schools and in relation to teaching young children about how society uses other animals. How can animal advocates get access into schools and what should they - what can they - say once there? You may also LISTEN HERE.

Episode 84 Hellhounds with Hotdogs accompany Stephen King and Men in TutusDelivering Pamphlets for the New Zealand Green Party, Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals and Invercargill Vegan Society Facebook groups (please "like" them!  I need to be "liked"!), Vegan Childrens Books in the Invercargill Public Library.7m July, August INVSOC potlucks 15m Carrie clips, societal norms22m Teddy Duchamp, Stand By Me29m 11.22.63 Changes in society, smoking tobacco, racial segregation, man on the moon!33m Jesse Owen, Usain Bolt - differences for ethnically African gold medalist sprinters through Olympic history38m Kanye West, from "tell PETA my mink dragging cross the floor" to "eating good, vege-tary with the brown rice"41m A Sociologist puts everything in its placeFull shownotes athttp://www.coexisting.co.nz/2012/08/episode-84-hellhounds-with-hotdogs.html

LISTEN HEREHere is the link to the Shirtless Dancing Guy video I mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQThis is the link to the Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals episode about the Oprah Show that I mentioned: Episode 46 - Oprah Goes... Vegan, "Veg*n","veganish"...Here is the link to the latest Abolitionist Approach Commentary Number 24, an interview by Gary L. Francione with Rob Johnson creator of the blog Animal Rights UK and founding member of Grampion Animal Rights (which in typical me fashion I accidentally called Aberdeen Animal Rights, all my friends ought to be used to my getting things all mixed up by now, but I again apologise for mis-naming another organisation/website etc) and Vegan UK:Commentary 24: Vegan Advocacy in the UKThanks for listening!

Listen HEREThis week I talk about how as a vegan consumer in a capitalist society I am trying to work as best as I can in the system, as a consumer in my daily life, aside from the main focus of advocating to individuals for a paradigm shift, and opening people's minds up to a fundamentally different way of thinking about all other animals and life on the planet by promoting the abolitionist approach and veganism. I admit I am very uneducated about politics, history, agriculture, sociology, and a myriad of other extremely important subject matters related to vegan advocacy, so I will do my best to educate myself as best I can for the rest of my life, and in the meantime lean heavily on my colleagues and fellow advocates who ARE educated in these things :-)So this podcast is just some of my personal thoughts, as always, and I do appreciate any advice and constructive criticism. One of the things I touch on is how we can avoid buying from companies that are direct exploiters of animals and their products, i.e non vegan restaurants for example. The truth is, most of us can't. I mean, we can easily choose to avoid some of them (non vegan restaurants for example) but what about the supermarket? What about where we buy our clothing? What about where we buy our fruit and vegetables? My fruit and vege place sells eggs and ice cream bars. Some people are lucky enough to have access and money to buy all their products from purely vegan online suppliers, but I am not one of them.That is why I always affirm that I personally am part of the problem, which is one of the many reasons I feel such a strong urge to rectify the problem and why make it my personal responsibility to do so as best I can. Please keep in mind, this is nothing at all like some "Vegan Outreach" advocacy that says "oh don't make a fuss and try to be pure, just eat the egg product every now and then so people don't think we are too fanatical". No no no. I am an ethical vegan. I am, however, a human being, an active consumer, and I live in a speciesist society, and whether I like it or not, I am contributing to industries that exploit animals, even when I buy my fruit and veges from the fruit and vege store. BUT we must let the producers know we vegans exist—that there is a legitimate and lucritive demand for vegan products. I am not a supporter of capitalism, I would like to see a better system, but I also live in reality and face truths. Right now, today, I live in a capitalist society and am an active member and consumer in that society whether I like it or not. So in the meantime too, while we are still working for change, we must have a voice. It will grow to a thunderous roar, right now it is a whisper in the grand scheme of things. But that will change. Until it does; don't be shy! Demand vegan! Ask for vegan products. Enquire about vegan products. MENTION vegan products at the very least. Educate sellers and producers about the vegan consumer. Tell them it's a guaranteed sale. That'll prick up their greedy little ears.Note: I don't consider "prick up their ears" to be a bad animal metaphor. That is because the way I look at it; noting that some lovely animals have ears that can prick up and using it metaphorically for human animals whose ears don't prick up doesn't have anything to do with exploiting the animals whose ears do prick up, so I think this is an acceptable animal metaphor. Thoughts?There is SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT it is just an inexhaustible subject this animal exploitation, unfortunately. I wish we didn't have to talk about it, but we DO.This week I mentioned some other podcasts and blogs and I would like to provide those links here, but they are also in my blog link list too.Firstly I mentioned Gary Francione's latest episode from his Abolitionist Approach Commentary:A Discussion of Abolitionist PrincipalsRoger Yates from his On Human Nonhuman Relations podcast:Dehumanization Processes Part OneDehumanization Processes Part TwoVincent Guihan from We Other Animals and Animal Emancipation:We Other Animals RadioI must make a correction - the podcast is called We Other Animals Radio not Animal Emancipation. I am sorry!Sam Tucker from Food for Thought Radiofftradio podcast on iTunesAnd Jordan Wyatt from Jaywontdart's Podcast has a new blog and vegan podcast:Coexisting With Nonhuman AnimalsAnd this is the link to my favourite vegan restaurant in the whole world (especially since it is right here in Auckland NZ)Golden Age Vegan RestaurantThis is the video that Randy Sandberg posted:Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood. It is blood chilling, but watch it! Knowledge is power! This is all part of it too. Thanks Randy, this is a great find.Finally, I was wrong (in a good way) there ARE other actual physical vegan stores in the world. Here is one:The Pangea Store in Rockville Maryland.  I am sure there must be others.   Awesome!

Listen HEREThis week I welcome back to the show my first ever podcast listener Jordan Wyatt from the Coexisting with Nonhuman Animals podcast, and we discuss his podcast about veganism and animal rights, what it is like to be vegan in Southland, talking to NZ farmers about veganism, the economy, the issue of sterilization, the counter movement of industry advertising and other things.You can find Jordan's blog here:Coexisting with Nonhuman Animals You can subscribe to his podcast via iTunes hereFollow Jordan on twitter:jaywontdartand on Facebook:#/jaywontdartThanks Jordan for coming back on the show!

Listen HERE This week I have the absolute pleasure of interviewing new NZ abolitionist podcaster and animator Emmy James from the Vegan For Life Podcast.  We talk about her journey to veganism, her animation and podcast, and her plans for the future as a vegan in this world.Enjoy!  Thanks to Emmy for coming on the show, please listen to her podcast!Here is a link to the Vegan For Live Blog: http://vegan-for-life.blogspot.com/To access the podcast on iTunes click HERE This is a link to Emmy's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/veggiegirl142PLEASE VOTE for Emmy's design: Corel Digital Art Competition Emmy JamesWe mentioned Sam from Food for Though RadioAnd Jordan Wyatt from Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals

Episode 81 Vegan BubblesNew logo design, Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals listener survey (which you can find at www.coexisting.co.nz , please fill it out! :-) ), The Vegan Option friendly competition, Hearts, Necks, Frames, Friends, Expanding our Vegan circle of friendship online and offline, our "Vegan Bubble", Shooting Ducks to death, an Emergency doctor speaks out on drunken injuries, "just shut up and do your job!" says angry commenter, Vegan Potlucks in Invercargill, INVSOC taking off, Veganism spreading around the world :-)Full shownoteshttp://www.coexistingwithnonhumananimals.co.nz/2012/05/episode-81-vegan-bubbles.html

Episode 75 The Vegan Obligatory Hello and welcome to another fine episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals, today we share in a conversation with the two hosts of The Vegan Option, a great podcast thats doing its best to destroy Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals! We will fight themmmmmm on the beaches…..oh wait, they've already sent the Red Coats and Blue Bottles over….ok, I give in, truce? If you cant be bothered to beat them…..have them join you for a special episode of your show?Thank you very much to Ian and Diana for their time, and their fantastic show :-)The Vegan Optionhttp://www.theveganoption.org/Thank you for listening to Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals.You can find the script for this episode, as well as downloads for every episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals at www.coexisting.co.nzIf you want to contact me, I'd really love to hear from YOU, please send me an email to info@invsoc.org.nzI'm also on Facebook and Twitter, Jordan Wyatt.Thank you for listening :-)

Episode 73 Dr Tuttle has a Rolling HomeHello and welcome to Episode 73 of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals, the Dr Will Tuttle special!"Dr Tuttle has a Rolling Home….wherever he parks, that is his home,wherever he goes, this Vegans on the roaaaaaaam"I hope you'll enjoy this interview with the wonderful Dr Will Tuttle, whose Wikipedia article describes him thus:"Dr Will Tuttle, PhD, is an award-winning American author, speaker, educator, pianist and composer. He is a former Zen monk and a PhD graduate from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been awarded a Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award"Thank you for listening to Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals.You can find the script for this episode, as well as downloads for every episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals at www.coexisting.co.nzIf you want to contact me, I'd really love to hear from YOU, please send me an email to info@invsoc.org.nzFullshownotes at http://www.coexistingwithnonhumananimals.co.nz/2012/01/episode-73-dr-tuttle-has-rolling-home.html

Episode 69 Non Veganism is "like eating a bag of cement- it hardens you up"Moonlandings, New Zealand Green Party's landslide victory, The Vegan Option, Vegan Politicians, The Worlds Heaviest Insect, Non Vegan Surnames and Invercargill newsHello and welcome to another fine episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals, the premier podcast of the Invercargill Vegan Society, southernmost Vegan organization in the world (possibly), coming to you from Invercargill, at the bottom of New Zealand.Full shownoteswww.coexistingwithnonhumananimals.co.nz/2011/12/episode-69-non-veganism-is-like-eating.html

Meeting other Vegans, claims making memes, Rap music vs Rock n Roll, In Living ColoUr,  all on this episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals :-)Full shownotes herehttp://coexistingwithnonhumananimals.blogspot.com/2011/01/episode-45-suicide-its-suicide.html

Episode 11 "Cow Cubicles" , The Vegan Menace, "Rabbits Do Their Bit", Eating A RatHello and welcome to episode 11 of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. "Cow Cubicles" , The Vegan Menace, "Rabbits Do Their Bit", Eating A RatThis episode I'd like to menhttp://coexistingwithnonhumananimals.blogspot.com/

Episode 15 ViolenceHello and welcome to episode 15 of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals, Violence. Before I start, I'd love to mention one of my new friends who listens to my podcast,Sasha James,  Thank you for emailing me Sasha.  She mentions:http://coexistingwithnonhumananimals.blogspot.com/

Episode 14 Sea ShepherdHello and welcome to episode 14 of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. This episode I'll talk about Sea Shepherd.I've been interested in Sea Shepherd for a long time, but have put off doing an episode about them until now. What'

Episode 13 Vegetarian's Selling Meat, Potato Pest, Rodeo's, Animal CrueltyHello and welcome to episode 13 of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. This episode I have some more small stories. A curious story about a local Vegetarian Scout selling meat forhttp://coexistingwithnonhumananimals.blogspot.com/

Episode 12 Benjamin Zephaniah, Dennis Kucinich, Avatar Hello and welcome to episode 12 of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals, Benjamin Zephaniah, Dennis Kucinich and Avatar. My first story is about Benjamin Zephaniah, I love his name. His surname is spelt "

Episode 8 Circus Elephant Freed Welcome to the eighth episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. On my first podcast, Jay Wont darts podcast, I covered the story of Jumbo, a circus elephant in New Zealand. I absolutely hate the name "Jumbo", I prefer to

Episode 10 Day Old Chicks Welcome to episode 10 of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals, Day Old Chicks. I wanted to make a special, short episode about todays great news. Ms Chicken's chicks hatched today! So far, I dont know how many there are in total, at

Episode 9 Mcdonalds Free Range, Veganism on TVWelcome to episode 9 of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. Mcdonalds Free Range, and Veganism on tv.Before I begin, I'd like to say hello to Gordon, who left a comment recently on my blog, coexisti

Episode 17 "Get Some Kiwi In Ya!" Hello and welcome to Episode 17 of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. I'd like to say hello to one of my friends, Gordon, who has listened to many of my episodes and sometimes leaves comments on my blog. I'd love to hear f

Episode 6 Live Export Hello and welcome to episode 6 of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. Just before the intro, I played the first "bumper" I've received, from Sam Tucker. I've asked other vegans, from around the world to send me a recording as they menthttp://coexistingwithnonhumananimals.blogspot.com/

Episode 5 NZ Pork Scandal FollowupWelcome to episode 5 of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals.Before I'd begin, Id like to mention that New Zealand once again has a Vegan society! Very cool, you can find the New Zealand Vegan Society at http://coexistingwithnonhumananimals.blogspot.com/

Episode 4 Changing Perceptions: World Vegan Day! Welcome to another episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. Happy World Vegan Day to everyone listening! The first of November each year is World Vegan Day, I think its a great idea. I'm celebrating by http://coexistingwithnonhumananimals.blogspot.com/

Episode 3 Strife After Death: Using Dead AnimalsWelcome to the third episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals.I'd like to say a very big hello to Barbara, of Veganacious . Barbara sent me an email thanking me for my other podcast. I've thanked Barb

Episode 16 Australia Day Lamb Ads Hello and welcome to episode sweet sixteen of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. I'd like to talk about an Australian holiday, aptly named Australia Day. Just to be clear, I'm a New Zealander, we are not part of Australia http://coexistingwithnonhumananimals.blogspot.com/

Episode 21NZ Pro Whaling, Mcdonalds+Weightwatchers, Temple Grandin Hello and welcome to episode 21 of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals.This episode I'd like to talk about New Zealand becoming a Pro Whaling country, Mcdonalds and Weightwatchers enter

Episode 18 Mad Butcher Has Cancer, Catcha Cray Returns Hello and Welcome to the eighteenth episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. This episode I have two stories, The Mad Butcher Has Cancer, and the Catcha Cray Machines Return. Most New Zealanders,

Episode 19 Animal Cruelty Hello and welcome to episode 19 of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals.Before I start, I have another email from a listener, from my German friend Martin Deffner ( deaf nur ), who sent an email of encouragement. Martin has a bl

Episode 38 Vegan Dot Com Hello and welcome to another episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals.  I'm recording this on William Pauls birthday, I'd like to make a toast.  William, you're always out there, on the streets of Auckland, homeless…..no, justhttp://coexistingwithnonhumananimals.blogspot.com/

Episode 36 Mysterious Millionaires and multimillion dollar Welfare Campaigns Hello and welcome to another fine episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals, Mysterious Millionaires and Multimillion dollar Welfare Camphttp://coexistingwithnonhumananimals.blogspot.com/

Episode 34 Chicken Friends Hello and welcome to a fine episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. I may have recently dissed Liberia, but one country I'll never mock is Latvia, I have a listener from Riga, Latvia who often visits my blog.  So uh, Hi!  Ihttp://coexistingwithnonhumananimals.blogspot.com/

Episode 32 "Center For Consumer Freedom" Hello and welcome to another episode of Coexisting For Nonhuman Animals, ok, lets start again, Hello and welcome to another episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals.  Before I begin, I'd like to mention another

Episode 30 Gary, Indiana and Pukeko Hello and welcome to another episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals, not just your every day special episode, but the THIRTIETH special episode.  I was going to do a big special "lets see where Welfare reform has g

Episode 29 Pets or Meat Hello and welcome to another episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. I always like to start off by saying hello to people who well, said hello to me. First of all Mitch Bennett, who is a photographer, you can find his work at

Episode 28 "Factory Farming" $300K pigs Hello and welcome to a fine episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. My friend Sasha James , of Melbourne Vegan is thinking of having her own podcast.  I think its very exciting to hear from other Vegans, if you

Episode 27 Drunk Kereru and "Humane" calf killing Hello and welcome to yet another episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals.  I've been lucky enough to be included on two Animal Rights shows recently, Wild Time, an Irish radio show, and also on the fir

Episode 26 Cutting Off Fingers and Bloodstained Burgers Hello and welcome to another fine episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals.  I heard some positive comments about my peace episode, I was worried it was too off topic for an Animal Rights show.  I

White Poppies, ANZAC Day Hi, welcome to an unusual episode of, well, its not really Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals , I just wanted to talk about ANZAC day, war in general, and White Poppies. Today, the 25th of April is ANZAC day in New Zealand, today Ne

Episode 25 Animal Rights and Wrongs Hello and welcome to another episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. I've had some great feedback on the last episode, saying that it was my best episode ever. I suppose thats because the others set the bar pretty

Episode 24 A Knife Through My Brain Isn't Humane Hello and welcome to another episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals....is how this would normally begin. But, in my frustration with uploading errors, I accidentally deleted my script after recording!

Episode 20 Swallowing Goldfish, SPCA Pearl giveaway, Sow Crates...Again...Hello, welcome to episode 20 of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. This episode, live Goldfish Swallowing, the SPCA giving away pearls and SAFE are still focusing on Happy Meat.http://coexistingwithnonhumananimals.blogspot.com/

Episode 23 "humane lobster killing", Rabbit hunting, Crafar on the dole Hello and welcome to another episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. This episode I have three stories. One about rabbit hunting, another chapter in the Allan Crafar Saga, the ma

Episode 49, This Is It (Final Episode)To start with , here are my favourite vegetarian or vegan related clips from the No Agenda Podcast with John C Dvorak and Adam Curry.Dvorak made a few mistakes with my message, I do NOT own NZ Vegan Podcast, I just asked for it to be mentioned, and Im not the only vegan who listens to No Agenda, I've met a few now.Welcome to Episode 49 of Jay Wont dart's podcast. This Is It, both the Michael Jackson movie, and my final episode.Thank you to everyone who has ever listened to my podcast. I'm no longer going to update this, Im focusing on my Animal Rights show, Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. You can find that at coexisting with nonhuman animals . blogspot.com. I'd love to hear from anyone who has listened to this podcast, my email is jaywontdart @gmail.com.If you would like to remove this podcast from your iTunes podcast section, you can just select it and hit delete. Or, if you'd like to keep the episodes for some reason, to make fun of me when I run for Prime Minister of New Zealand, you can select all the episodes, and "convert ID3 tags". That removes the bit that says "this is a podcast, keep it separate from normal music files". Right click on all the selected episodes and you will see "convert ID3 tags". Select "1.0" ok that. When you do that, you will lose the artwork for the episodes, you could always copy the picture from one of the episodes and then paste it back for all tracks after deleting the tags. You can then drag the tracks out of iTunes to your desktop, and then back to iTunes, they should just show up as usual music, not in the podcast section any more. This way, you dont have a dead podcast in your podcast section, looking for updates that will never come. I have little space left on screen, even with a 23 inch screen, because I have so many podcast subscriptions, so I remove any that are not updated and save the files the way I just described.A few weeks back, I went to the movies. It was the first time in years, Probably the last movie I had went to would have been Lord Of The Rings, Return Of The King. I didnt think much of the movie theatre, in fact, it SUCKED! I had to wait for the ticketing clerk to get off the telephone, while another one sat there doing NOTHING at a closed till. After a minute or two of awkward standing and looking around at movie posters, I finally got to pay. The manager was further along, on another telephone, yakking it up about how great his theatre is. Something about digital projection equipment. Yet, our local theatre cannot afford to get 3D projectors. 3D movies are cited to be the new breakthrough in reversing movie theatre losses, because at home, you just cant get 3D, its going to be THE reason to go to a theatre. And, we just wont have it, because it costs so much. So, Invercargills local movie theatre is pretty much screwed. Like I said, it had been YEARS since I had last gone, and I really dont see myself EVER going to a movie theatre again. I normally just wait until things are out on DVD, and buy them, although I have friends who download movies from bit torrent, and its pretty impressive what you can get for FREE, BEFORE the movie is even OUT in THEATRES, let alone waiting months for the dvd version. I dont like stealing movies though, so I dont do it, although I think Digital Distribution is the way to go. I buy all my music through iTunes, and hope one day I'll be able to get movies the same way. I imagine someday you will be able to just get new movies on your computer, by download, at the same time they are released in theatres, because all the theatres will be long gone.Before I tell you about what I thought of This Is It, I'd also like to mention, I wanted to own it on DVD straight after the movie ended, I wanted to be able to rewind certain bits and watch them again and again. Turns out, Sony was willing to have the DVD and Blu Ray versions out BEFORE christmas, makes sense right? So then everyone would be buying copies for christmas, thats the best time of year for sales, "for christs sake". But, oh, the movie theatres bitched and moaned, "oooh, you cant do that to us", and so Sony had to postpone the home release until almost FEBRUARY. Ok, so I could have this dvd in my hands in a few weeks, OR, I could wait MONTHS. Guess what I have to do! All because I want to legally buy the damn thing, I could have just grabbed a pirated copy of the movie from online, probably before it was even showing in theatres. The people who play by the rules always get screwed over.So, it seems to be a long wait until I can own This Is It. Im not happy about it.So, what did I think about This Is It? Heres the trailer.As you probably know, This Is It were a series of concerts that were cancelled after Michael Jackson died, a very short time before the concerts were to begin. This Is It, the movie thats been released, is from footage filmed privately for Michael himself, it was never meant to be seen by the public. Some fans have thought it shouldnt be released, since its practice footage, and not finished. Im personally glad I got to see it. Lots of interesting set designs were used, and actual computer graphics for the concerts are shown during the movie. One has a spider scurrying about, and then an actual giant spider comes out on stage, with its legs stomping about, and it opens up to reveal Michael inside. Theres been all kinds of rumours about the movie too, some of them bizarre. I mean, the whole thing is a cash grab by the producers, trying to get as much money as possible of course, and they've succeeded doing that. The rumoured price for the raw concert footage was 60 million us dollars, and to date, the movie has taken in over 200 million dollars. It will probably do something similar to that again in merchandise and sales of the home media versions. Then, rumours that body doubles were used, that not all of the dancing is done by the actual Michael Jackson, its someone who looks just like him doing it, because Michael was too sick to dance. Who knows if thats true or not. Even Joe Jackson, Michaels Father has said that its "mostly body doubles". I dont know, Joe Jackson says all kinds of things. Sony released a statement denying rumors that the film had rehearsal footage of Jackson body doubles. "This story is pure garbage and there are no body doubles. [...] Audiences will begin to see the film tomorrow [October 28, 2009] and every time they see The King of Pop they will know that every frame is unquestionably Michael [Jackson] as he rehearses and prepares for the London concerts that were to have begun this past summer." I dont know, thats a bit mean, to say "oh, the true fans will recognise its Michael", its a bit like the story of the Emperors New Clothes, we all want to believe its Michael Jackson, and so will just assume it is him. From what I saw, it seemed like him, sure. Then, there are rumours of the actual singing too. For most of the movie, you dont hear Michael singing at full strength, he doesnt sing properly, apparently to save his voice for the concerts, this was just practise remember. So, he skips huge portions of songs, and what he does sing tends to be rather quietly, and he sounds out of breath, like hes forgotten parts, or is generally stressed. There were rumours that Michael was close to death as he performed, and that he could never have actually fulfilled all the concert dates. These rumours say they people around him were giving him drugs to keep him going, never caring about his health, and that they just needed him to perform. At least parts of the sound have been confirmed as being the original master recordings, with Sony confirming that some of the practise recordings were just not strong enough. Again, I dont know, maybe we will never know the truth.From what I saw from the movie, Michael looked rather freaky, every time you see him, he looks like a different person, his whole face again looks different from just a few years ago. Now he looked "smaller" and even thinner, with large cheeks but nothing else to his face. He wears sunglasses for most of the movie, and some rather crazy looking suits. I didnt like the costumes very much, they are just bizarre. I'll read from some reviews of This Is It."More important, however, is that we rarely witness Jackson giving 100%: He frequently comments that he is saving his voice and body for the actual performances. Jackson certainly can’t be faulted for this, but it’s questionable whether he would really want his fans to see him thus. Don’t get me wrong: 60% of Michael Jackson is still a pretty good thing [...] [Jackson] the noted perfectionist, at work, correcting others’ dance moves without missing a beat himself and giving notes, sometimes revelatory and other times inscrutable, to his music director and others"—Marjorie Baumgarten of Austin Chronicle[ "We see Jackson as a perfectionist, a generous boss, a tough taskmaster and a playful child. Off guard and probably unaware that it would ever be seen by the public, we find Jackson pushing his band and production team to the limit with demands to "let it sizzle" and "make the music simmer". Obsessive Jacko fans may be shocked by his Diva-ish behaviour as he complains about ear-pieces, but it's heartening to finally view the late singer as a rounded human with regular failings and imperfections. Similarly a scene featuring Jackson screaming "weeeee!" with childish glee as he moves around the stage on a giant cherry-picker, will surely bring a smile to even the most cynical viewer"—Alex Fletcher of Digital Spy[I guess you just have to go and see the movie for yourself, if its still available where you are, if not, we have to wait until its released for home media. Im not enjoying this wait, theres so many scenes I want to watch again, to see if I can spot any signs of body doubles, or other unusual things. Overall, Im really glad I saw This Is It, although it is rather weird to watch. You know Michael is dead, it briefly mentions that at the very start, before going through the process of auditions for the supporting cast. Who knows if Michael Jackson had the strength left to do all those live performances. Honestly, the majority of the movie has him "practise singing", not singing properly at full strength. It comes across as if hes forgetful or tired, although it could really be that he was just doing that because it is a practise, and he needed his strength for the real performances.I really liked a lot of things about the movie, I hope you can see it. Im going to end with the main song of the movie, that was released with the movie. This Is It was recorded many years ago, and just recently worked into a full song. Its always exciting to find "unreleased" songs of your favourite artist, especially after they have died, although the studios ALWAYS let them trickle out, to maximise their profits. Its going to be years before all Michaels best songs have been released, if they ever are.Thank you for listening. Its been fun doing these podcasts. Im going to continue doing my animal rights podcast, Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals. You can find that a coexisting with nonhuman animals . blogspot.com I'd love it if you would listen to that. You can find the script for this episode, as well as downloads for every episode of Jay Wont darts podcast at jaywontdart.blogspot.comIf you want to contact me, even just to say you listened, send an email to jaywontdart@gmail.com, j a y w o n t d a r t @ gmail.com, I'd appreciate it. I really, really would. For the last time ever on this podcast,Have a super happy day, bye.Sources=======http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson%27s_This_Is_It

Episode 47 My New Animal Rights PodcastWelcome to an extra short episode of Jay Wont dart's podcast. My intro was my latest mention on No Agenda, although Dvorak got my podcast wrong, I DO NOT own the NZ Vegan podcast :) I do enjoy telling people to search for "NZ Vegan" when they look for my podcast on iTunes, because searching for "NZ Vegan" shows up all the New Zealand Animal Rights podcasts. I almost uniformly love each and every one of the results.I just wanted to let everyone know, I've decided to do all future animal rights, and Vegan related episodes under a separate designation. This will make it easier to just listen to the episodes you are actually interested in, if you want to only hear me talk about NZ news or movies, or if you want to only hear vegan topics. Or, ideally you could subscribe to both!The name of my new podcast, chosen by my friend Sam Tucker, is Coexisting with Nonhuman Animals. I asked for help on Veganzchat, an email group, with a starting point of " living with animals ", asking for it to be improved upon. Sam kindly came up with Coexisting with Nonhuman Animals. I like it very much, although it is a long name. You can find that blog at Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals.blogspot.com. I'm not sure how often I'll update each podcast, just when I feel like it most likely. To make up for this being a short episode, Im going to include some of my favourite outro clips. I have the autotuned Glorious Dawn, using clips of Carl Sagan, a famous astronomer, an american church which has banned Pepsi, and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, on the iPhone before it were released.Just to make it clear, you can find Coexisting with Nonhuman Animals on iTunes, by searching for it by name, although it shows up just fine if you search for " jay wont dart ", both my podcasts will show. You can also find the blog at coexisting with nonhuman animals . blogspot.com.Thank you for listening.You can find the script for this episode, as well as downloads for every episode of Jay Wont darts podcast at jaywontdart.blogspot.comIf you want to contact me, even just to say you listened, send an email to jaywontdart@gmail.com, j a y w o n t d a r t @ gmail.com, I'd appreciate it.I hope you check out Coexisting with Nonhuman Animals.Have a super happy day, bye.