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Dale duro Val . I will be listening

looking forward to the discussion re glover -- on an EMPTY stomach, of course

I will be listening. The show last week was great !!

Val mira las fotos que consegui de las hienas jineteras de fidel atacando a las damas de blanco
nada mas se fueron los italianos y han sacado a esta gentuza para la calle ..otro acto de repudio mas

la sangre me hierve Val... Si alguien me toca se electrocuta

I am listening.

Guess which listener is furthest away????

I heard your show twice tonight, unintentionally. So did everybody else. Unfortunately, it was playing simultaneously with a five minute delay between feeds. To say this was annoying is to put it mildly. The mind, of course, cannot process both feeds at once, so I found myself switching my attention from one to the other as I tried to follow the gist of the show. If this was an experiment, it didn't work. It reminded me of certain 19th century letters which I have seen, where to conserve on postage and paper the writer would use two different color inks on the same face of the page, writing one text superimposed on the other. Reading those letters also crosses the wires of the brain.

In fact, I need to lay down. I feel a stroke may be coming.

Came in fine over here in South East Asia. Enjoyed the show.

I don't know what went wrong for you manuel, but it didn't seem to affect others.

You can listen to the arcvhived show if you like. It sounds fine, I'm listening to it now.

Hard the show live with no problems and enjoyed it. Also, finally got to hear last weeks's, albeit six days after the fact. Nice job!

Of course, Henry, they would target me first, and then they would come for the rest of your listeners. Seriously, I have described the situation exactly as I experienced it. Nevertheless, I did manage to get through the entire show despite the two simultaneous but not concurrent feeds. I may have lost 20 million brain cells in the process but I can spare them.

Manuel, that has happened to me when I have done a double click to watch a YouTube video, because it opened two files instead of one and you could hear the regular one and the other one on the background.
Maybe that was what happened to you last night. Just a thought.

Manuel, were you hitting the Bacardi a little more than usual last night?

George:

Actually, if I had been drinking Bacardí, I probably would have understood it a lot better. In fact, I would have understood it perfectly. Gotta remember that for next time. Thanks, George.

TheRealCuba:

I believe you are entirely correct because when I heard the archived version there was no double feed.

The battle, as you know, continues at the Australian Forum. In fact, the two Cuban threads have been the most popular this week at the Australian blog. It was fun to wrangle with this other set of fidelistas who live on the other side of the world and whom we rarely have the chance to set straight. Have you experienced additional traffic on your website from down under? I am Cubano there, in case you didn't figure it out.

Must have been a heck of an experience listening to not only Henry and Val twice, but the "one and only" Jack "you can't handle the truth" Nicholson.

I'm glad Jack cleared up the rumor of the sting operation in Cuba.

Nothing like a first hand account!

Val,
I listened to the Radio Hour after the fact. As a musician, I encounter the issue of castro-loving artists all the time. I draw a distinction, however, between the work of art itself, and the artist's private beliefs.

I've created a "test" for myself: (1) does the art itself support a cause I disagree with? For example, a song about how great fidel is, or a bust of fidel saying "civil rights hero." (2) if the art is not political, does the money I spend go, at least in part, to the pockets of a cause I disagree with? For example, the Buena Vista Social Club songs are not political, but the money goes in part to the pockets of the government, not the performers. I love the music, but not where my $ ends up.

That's how I analyze it, personally...

The "90 Millas" Gloria Estefan album is not just a random collection of songs but is deliberately intended as a tribute to Cuba. Therefore, it is absolutely inappropriate and unacceptable for anyone with Santana's track record to be involved in it, unless he clearly and unequivocally apologizes to the Cuban people and refrains from any further support of the murderous Guevara.

I seriously doubt Santana will ever do such a thing, no matter what the Estefans may say to him, because he's got his little "radical" image to protect, and no doubt a lot of his Hispanic non-Cuban fans are also pro-Guevara. I suppose it's possible that the Estefans didn't know about the Santana/"Che" business, but if they did, there is simply no excuse, especially in the context of this particular album.

Wouldn't it be great, though, to have Santana, knowingly or unknowingly(!), contribute to an ostensibly anti-castro album?

Well, unless Santana had no clue what the album was about, he himself should have refused to participate in it, given his known sympathies. Of course, he could simply be a hypocrite who sees it as just another career opportunity or chance to make a nice buck.

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