Listen to the first twenty minutes of this (airquote)podcast(/airquote). Tell me that Gillmor and Madge aren’t the same person.

You’ll have to watch Madge Weinstein for the full receep. Madame L. was to have Madge and BicycleMark for lunch. Sounds v. delish. I hope she reports further. I also hope they thought to bring something.

The YeastRadio segment enlightens. Madge interviews Max Keiser and Stacy (from Karmabanque Radio — where the tired and oppressed can hear some “jolly good rants” and extremely metaphorical financial entertainment about the neo-feudal corporate occupation and the suicide consumers they inspire. Leave audio messages at +44 2024935755). Max likens Americans to “ducks on a massive foie gras farm,” force-fed consumers. The insights came fast and furious, insights like “the American dollar is a fiat currency.” Max’s “See Whitey Run” explains the foundation for this assertion better than I can… okay, as well as I can and it’s musically tasteful besides.

Unlike Amanda and ze Frank, Madge has a forthright monetization thing going… ads for godaddy show up in the black space from time to time (madge1 is the Godaddy discount code!) Following the “journey of the artist” through this lengthy vidcast is at times sobering (with thoughts like “decapitalize them [the corporations] now or they will decapitate you later”). But Max is such a light-hearted economist that he pulls us out of the dismal parts with practical suggestions such as this one regarding a new triangle trade operation with Japan, the American consumer, and the American eleemosynary community wherein we lose weight, the Japanese tastes are satisfied and we save the whales! here’s how it works: the Japanese have reintroduced whaling because of a taste for fine blubber. This is not itself a bad thing, but it does threaten our huge finny friends, the cetacean community. American consumers often use liposuction for weight loss. Rather than discard the blubber as medical waste, why not sell it to Japan. This improves the balance of payments, meets the Japanese demand for fine blubber and indeed with our improved economic circumstances we can contribute more financially to save the whales from extinction.

There was a bunch of stuff relating to bulldogs and Caravaggio that went just over my head, but I enjoyed Madge’s play with the kiwi fruits and the beauty tips, the poise and balance secrets that Stacy shared with her. After watching this Yeast Radio segment, I can see why so many blog personalities have found her captivating.