AmeriNZ 48 – Preachers’ Kids

Episode 48 is now available. You can listen to it or download it through the player at the bottom of this post, or subscribe for free through iTunes here (you must have the free iTunes player installed). You can also listen to it for free through the player on my MySpace page.

This is a special episode, and one of my favourites yet! I’m joined by two other gay podcasters who, like me, are preachers’ kids: Tim Corrimal (Go Rainbow Radio and There Are Some Who Call Me Tim) and Eric (Confessions of a Southern Boy in Yankee Land). We have a wide-ranging conversation about being preachers’ kids who grew up gay. What’s it like for a gay kid growing up, literally, in the church? Were we affected by Biblical passages used against gay people? How do we feel about religion now?

We share some stories from our growing up, talk about some differences between “mainstream” and “evangelical” protestants, and plenty of other things, too. This conversation was too interesting to me to cut into two parts, so I hope you’ll forgive the longer length episode.

Complete shownotes and links on my blog, www.amerinz.com. Leave a comment on my listener comment line, 206-339-8413, or on my blog, or send an email to me at amerinz(at]yahoo.com. Join my e-mailing list to find out about new episodes as they’re released.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Go Rainbow Radio

There Are Some Who Call Me Tim

Confessions of a Southern Boy in Yankeeland

Hello Waffles

Tranny Wreck Radio

Lutherans Concerned North America

Dignity USA (GLBT Catholics)

Ernest Angley

Purchase Dusty Springfield’s “Son of a Preacher Man” from iTunes (USA)

Purchase Dusty Springfield Ultimate Collection CD from Amazon.com


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AmeriNZ 47 – Evidence

Episode 47 is now available. You can listen to it or download it through the player at the bottom of this post, or subscribe for free through iTunes here (you must have the free iTunes player installed). You can also listen to it for free through the player on my MySpace page.

I’d planned a special episode for today, but it didn’t happen, and it’s evidence of how hard it is for me to arrange a Skype conference with people in North America. So, it’s just an ordinary episode today. Still, I had my first voicemail message!

I tell you about the upcoming podcast schedule. Episode 50 will be on Friday, November 2 (the day before in North America), which will be a very special day for other reasons. You can leave a message about that on my new listener comment line (206-339-8413), or you can email an MP3 file to me at amerinz(at]podomatic.com.

The NZ Prime Minister is about to reshuffle her cabinet, and I tell you a little about that, and about hw a gay Minister might be promoted. I explain what it means in American terms, and then I talk a bit about the upcoming US elections and how I’m able to vote in them.

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AmeriNZ 46 – Continuation

Episode 46 is now available. You can listen to it or download it through the player at the bottom of this post, or subscribe for free through iTunes here (you must have the free iTunes player installed). You can also listen to it for free through the player on my MySpace page.

This week is an upside down episode as I go over comments first. That’s because of the feedback I got about continuing my podcast. I AM continuing, by the way. After that, it’s on to a discussion of our Labour Holiday weekend and some of the things we got up to. I have some interesting guests coming up in the next few weeks, beginning the end of this week or next week. Have a topic you want to hear about? Let me know. Leave a comment or send an email to me at amerinz[at)yahoo,com (if you put “comment” in the subject line, I’ll know to read it on the podcast.

Breaking News: I now have a listener line! Feel free to call and leave a comment on (206) 339-8413 (located in Washington state, USA).


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AmeriNZ 45 – Carcast

Episode 45 is now available. You can listen to it or download it through the player at the bottom of this post, or subscribe for free through iTunes here (you must have the free iTunes player installed). You can also listen to it for free through the player on my MySpace page.

I don’t normally have podcast shownotes as consecutive blog posts, but I’ve been busy this week.

Anyway, it’s a mixed bag today, starting with my second “carcast” (the first was AmeriNZ #25, if you want to know). I give you some updates to Tuesday’s episode, then it’s a bit of a rant about bad customer service, and then I share some of my recent thinking about the podcast. From there it’s back in the “studio” as I share five things you don’t know about me (and challenge other podcasters to do the same—about them, of course) and then I go over comments.

Mentioned in this episode (thanks to Nancy):
Brockovich forces NZ firm to drop ‘sexist’ ad

NZ brewery offers beer for laptop


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AmeriNZ 44 – Weird

Episode 44 is now available. You can listen to it or download it through the player at the bottom of this post, or subscribe for free through iTunes here (you must have the free iTunes player installed). You can also listen to it for free through the player on my MySpace page.

There was weird news about a “terrorism-related” raid in New Zealand but, at the moment, it should all be taken with a grain of salt. The local election results are in and I tell you a bit about that. There’s a weird TV commercial running in New Zealand. Leave a comment or send an email to amerinz[at)yahoo.com; if you put “Comment” in the subject line, I’ll know to read it on the podcast.


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AmeriNZ 43 – Votes and Books

Episode 43 is now available.

You can listen to it or download it through the player at the bottom of this post, or subscribe for free through iTunes here (you must have the free iTunes player installed). You can also listen to it for free through the player on my MySpace page.

First up, I have some bits of good news to report. Then I talk about our local elections, which are drawing to a close. We’ve already mailed in our ballots, but there’s huge concern that many people won’t bother. Why is the turnout low? I talk about that and also about how hard it is to get information about candidates. A little computer talk, then the puppy update.

I then talk about the New Zealand authors who were on the poll on my blog. It asked what authors, if any, people had read at least in part (this last part was for me, because I often fail to finish books).
The results were: Janet Frame: 2, Elizabeth Knox: 2, Witi Ihimaera: 4, Owen Marshall: 2, Frank Sargeson: 3, Peter Wells: 3 and None of these: 12. I talk about all these authors. Then on to comments and we’re done.


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AmeriNZ 42 – Compromise

Episode 42 is now available. You can listen to it or download it through the player at the bottom of this post, or subscribe for free through iTunes here (you must have the free iTunes player installed). You can also listen to it for free through the player on my MySpace page.

I begin today by jokingly talking about changing my podcast’s name to get higher in rankings (yes, I was kidding…).

I’m tired. The clocks have changed, which I say is unrelated. Still, things are going well. Mainly, today I talk about ENDA, compromise with conservatives, and troubles within America’s fundie right wing. I tell you a little more about my past, as well as my political beliefs.

The rest of this episode is apparently the Eric Cast, sort of, as I talk about our war, uh rivalry, uh fellow podcastship-ness. Or whatever. Maybe I’m just tired. Comments let me comment, too. There might not be a podcast on Friday. I’ve now passed six months of podcasting.


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