Brother Russell Podcast

Featured music by: David Ingles, Richard C. Hackley (world’s wimpiest Christian rocker), Jon Wayne, Shooby Taylor the Human Horn, Ananda Shankar, and more. Ministering and teaching tonight will be: Kenneth Phillips, Kenneth Hagin (a.k.a. “Daddy Hagin”), David Hyles, Robert Tilton, and Jimmy Lee Swaggart.

By the way, I wish y’all could see the map that Podbean provides me, showing me the approximate location of my listeners. Seattle, Portland, Austin, NYC, no surprise there… but London, England? Bartlesville, OK? DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (not that there’s anything wrong with that..)!!?? I have the weirdest “demographics” you can imagine. But weird is good! Keep on listenin’! And stay tuned for my upcoming special series of segments, “Brother Russell’s Adventures in the Workplace”, featuring my true-life adventures in the death-care industry. (Yes, I am serious).

don’t forget, if you want to make suggestions or requests, or whatever, email me at melbapodcast@yahoo.com

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With Prophet Omega, Brother Russell, Moog music, bad radio commercials, Longmont Potion Castle, Dr. Shrympi Skampers, The Mormon Kids, the Elizabeth Clare Prophet congregation, and more (not necessarily in that order).

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For everyone who has been asking, the person who was featured on Ellen DeGeneres recently doing the voice of an “88 year old lady from Austin TX” named Gladys Hardy who “loves Jesus but drinks too much now and then” is not me. It’s apparently some stand-up comic guy in Austin. I will keep his name under my hat, but he has apparently been doing his own old lady schtick even longer than I have. The influence of the great Jonathan Winters lives on. I suspect that Gladys Hardy and Melba Jackson are both partly inspired by Winters’ twisted character Maude Frickert. I think Gladys Hardy is largely inspired by the Austin comedian’s grandmother, whereas Melba is inspired by 20% my own grandmother and a bigger percentage of this crazy old battleaxe that lived next door to us in Garland, where I grew up. One of those old ladies who is so disagreeable and prone to rants that even her own children have nothing to do with her any more. God bless the old ladies of the world, there’s a little of them in each of us… http://www.austin360.com/tv/content/tv/stories/2007/01/25gladys.html

A cold/flu spirit has attacked our worldwide media headquarters, so instead of the usual podcast, we hope you will enjoy this generous portion of highlights from the Brother Russell CD “Melba Comes Alive”. We will be back next week with our usual eclectic mix of audio oddities. Enjoy!

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Jan. 13, 2007. This week, a slice-and-dice, cut-and-run program with plenty of lewd, crude talk-radio jamming, some odd surprises and a hint of Asian spices.

Featured pranksters: The Christal Methodists. (Special thanks to Dr. Shrimpi Scampers and Three Dollar Bill). Other pranksters: Brother Russell (”Bring Your Tambourine”, “From the Soles of My Feet to the Top of My Head”) and unknown pranksters (”We Come See Car”)… if anyone knows who the unknowns are, please let me know so that I may credit them properly.

Featured music: Unknown song-poem* session players, “The Will of God”. Barry Hall with the Burnt Earth Ensemble, “Terra Zona”. The Bedwells, “Karate”.

Technical note: Tonight’s podcast has been converted to mp3 at 96kbps for better sound quality. However this makes the file size larger than last week’s, which was saved at 64kbps. If you have trouble streaming or downloading this file due to the larger size, please let me know.

*for more info on Song-Poem productions, visit the Song-Poem Music Archives at www.songpoemmusic.com

To learn more about Brother Russell’s alter-ego Melba Jackson, please visit www.myspace.com/melba

You can also direct questions, praise, complaints, requests, dedications, etc. to: melbapodcast@yahoo.com

The Brother Russell Podcast is dedicated to Al Cyford.

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First show…  “They Hate, We Love” (Jan. 6, 2007)

Featured music: Clara Rockmore (Theremin) and Nadia Rosenberg (Piano), “The Swan”. Other music by rockabilly artist to be identified later, Harry Partch, Lucky People Center, Phil Dadson and From Scratch.

Featured pranksters: The Pittsburgh Fightsters (several cuts from their “A Little Man’s Love” CD). Other prank by Brother Russell as Melba Jackson.

Featured celebrity clips: Resident G.W. Bush, Casey Kasem, Michael English, and The Godfather of Soul (peace be upon him).

Featured guest: No guest this week.

Thanks to the other Brother Russell (on the NYC side), Dr. Shrimpy Scampers, Mack Stevens, and Rafael St. Thomas.

The Brother Russell Podcast is dedicated to Al Cyford.

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