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It's all medical, all the time. Mark-o is back with a new baby story. Pete is going under the knife. Curt's working to get those voices out of his head, and Matt is just trying to keep the choppers out of the classroom.

New Voices. New Bar. Same old swill. Beer:30 Live is back! First new episode in over six months, and we still don't have anything smart to talk about. This week on the docket: Matt nearly looses his head in his first bike race of the season, Mark-o levels with us about his wife's white hot rage, Boeing patents the Star Trek sling-shot 'round the planet technique, and do you know where your old girlfriends are? All that and more this week on Beer:30 Live!

This week, mean ol' Uncle Curt Siffert from curtsiffert.com joins Shane and Pete to talk up the week of oddities. A man gets struck by lightning. In the penis. A University of Florida student is tazered on YouTube. The New York Times prints a story on how the Iranian President will not be allowed to visit Ground Zero on his up-coming trip to the UN, which he doesn't want to visit. Congress overwhelmingly passes a resolution renouncing MoveOn.org as "mean". All that and more this week on Beer:30 Live!

This week, we catch up. We catch up on news, on the good Senator Taps-a-lot. And then we cry like girls over Greg Oden. It's all made a little better as we muse rhapsodic over Bill Belichick and his progressive coaching tactics. All that and more this week on Beer:30 Live!

This week on Beer:30 Live!, Jason Seibel from Greater NW Mortgage joins us to talk about the current mortgage crisis in the US. He fills us in on the loans to avoid, the loans to covet, and how to get out from under the weight of a heavy market. There's light at the end of the tunnel, so says the expert, all this week on the show! Special thanks to McMenemin's, John Barleycorn's, in Tigard, Oregon for letting us take up a booth of the place, with beer and tater tots, by the window. Comments, shoot us email at theshow@beer30live.com. Got a great idea for the show? Send it to BarBoy! And now, subscribe to the show directly in iTunes.

It's the Senator Craig show! Not to mention a full hour of unverified assertions and loosely annotated syllogisms that make up one of the most wholly uninformed shows on the Internet! Special thanks to McMenemin's, John Barleycorn's, in Tigard, Oregon for letting us take up a booth of the place, with beer and tater tots, by the window.

This week on Beer:30 Live!, still weather the summer vacation schedule, Pete and Jamie show up to have a fantastic talk with university instructor and Frenchman, Alain Gracianette. Alain is working on his doctoral research on China's growing prominence in the global arena, and brings us up to speed on all the reasons we should be studying Chinese. All that, plus Jamie's new -- and ironic -- flipflops this week on the show!

This week on Beer:30 Live!, the crew the crew is still stuck in a rift in the space-time continuum. Joining Pete, Jamie and Mary this week is Mary's super smart husband/scientist Phil Jones (hauntavirus hunter) to talk about evolution versus creation. He has a textbook -- "science" textbook, that attempts to take on science from a creationist view -- and he shows it off this week on the show.

This week on Beer:30 Live!, the crew ditches Pete, to spite him for his long vacation. Joining Pete and Shane for a beer, Frank Bender sits down to talk about the recent discovery of a benign tumor resting close to his brain, and the process he and his family have gone through in recent weeks to deal with it. Rather than spoil the punchline, we'll leave it at this: the choice was between a drill into his skull to dig out the tumor, or 201 individual lasers pointed into his head. He'll let us know what he chose and whether he'll be developing any super powers as a result this week on the show.

This week on Beer:30 Live!, the crew is finally adjusting to Pete being gone, riding out the phantom pains and learning to live again. Joining them for a beer, Merrill Watts graciously sits down to talk about his journey from strict Mormonism, to angry observer of organized religion, to spiritualist, and back to Mormon over the course of about 40 years. It's a fascinating journey and interesting discussion on the power of the collective and the role of believe in society... believe it or not. Check it out and write in with your thoughts!

This week on Beer:30 Live!, Shane is emotionally distressed about running the mixing board again, Mary openly disses the dead by slamming Pete's equipment while he's away, and Jamie serves his duty as the last man standing while the globe burns yelling a la Howard Beale, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more... and no new taxes!" This week, Jan Dombrowsk, mathematician and scientist joins the crew to talk about the research and the myths surrounding current global warming theory. Finally... someone on the show who knows something about anything.

This week on Beer:30 Live!, Shane is emotionally distressed about running the mixing board, Mary shamelessly spoils the series finale of "The Sopranos" for all us DVD-only viewers, and Jamie ruthlessly insults all international listeners, by country, all while enjoying the political partnership of both Ron Paul and Mit Romney. The Beer:30 Live! curse is well in force this week, knocking both the A-list guest out of the show with a death in the family, and the B-list guest out with a concussion. If you've been approached by the show to be a guest, think twice, all this week on Beer:30 Live!

This week on Beer:30 Live!, gracing the table is very special guest Kari Chisholm, co-founder of BlueOregon.com, one of the most prominent progressive political blogs in the nation. Kari is a wildly well-informed political strategist specializing in building grassroots support online through his company, MandateMedia. He's a guru of political process and shares his thoughts on the system with us. We're missing two regulars again, so back in the chair goes our guest host Curt Siffert to sit in and review the week with Pete and Mary. All that and more, this week on Beer:30 Live!