Bizarro Phil drops acid, sees Jesus

While the rest of the country collapsed into a financial puddle during 2009, Big Phil’s Love Parade host Big Phil enjoyed a fine annual return.

He cranked out his raw, politics-and-porn Sunday night podcast on a consistent basis, held on to his thankless white-collar job, banned soy from his diet and trimmed down, dyed his bald head orange, and survived a spectacular Oklahoma City Christmas Eve blizzard.

Predictably, Big Phil’s alter ego followed an alternate track. In his first annual greeting to listeners, Bizarro Phil revealed that he partied in 2010 by “having sex without protection” with his “kinky girlfriend.” Further, he announced, “I will drop acid. I am smoking a bong, smoking pot.”

Finally, a clearly addled Bizarro Phil said (coining a phrase), “I am trying to put a show snovel of blow in my nose.”

And then he saw Jesus. Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 1:49 am Wed, Jan 6, 2010.

Another podcaster pays the price

Dave Lee probably figures he’s built a solid foundation of work and a loyal audience over 65 weekly episodes of the U.K.-based Bugcast.

I, on the other hand, have absolutely nothing invested in the chat-and-music program, and see Dave’s archive as a soundbed of coughs, sighs, belches, grunts and assorted exclamations I can combine with a few non-sequiters to completely mischaracterize his intent.

In other words, I’ve alienated another podcaster who foolishly played one of my songs (The Ballad Of Morris The Cat, on Episode 56). Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 2:44 am Fri, Jul 3, 2009.

Big Phil brand could be in play

Big Phil’s dieting. Identity in question, he’s not sure whether he’s really Big Phil, Bizarro Phil, Bald Phil (He confesses he’s also stopped shaving his head!) or James Brown, the Godfather of Soul.

Which Phil is he today? “The Bizarro Phil, not…the Phil…Big Phil!” he replies triumphantly after some hesitation. Sigh.

Madison Avenue is shaken. Analysts suggest the U.S. $1B Big Phil brand could be up for grabs. Meanwhile, Phil Thompson, host of the popular podcast Big Phil’s Love Parade, continues to try on new hats, seeking the best fit for his smooth dome. Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 3:32 pm Mon, May 18, 2009.

Big Phil out, Bizarro Phil in at Love Parade

As the presidential campaign rolled toward its momentous conclusion, I took time out from my rabble-rousing and lovingly edited one of Love Parade host Big Phil’s socialist rants to make Phil sound like a complete fool.

Shockingly, the Big Dummy effusively praised my bit of character assassination, in he appeared to rage about purple asses and declared that he’d vacate the country if Obama came up aces in the election. Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 12:42 am Sat, Dec 27, 2008.

Purple asses imperil nation

Big Phil has been taking some hard shots lately at GOP presidential candidate John McCain, in what I view as a noble but naive campaign to avert yet another Republican “victory” during the November “elections.”

Sure, I could have knocked on doors and campaigned for Obama, but I’m hip to the game, and felt my time would be better served in enlightening my very, very good friend Phil per the modern realities of our political system.

Dead fucking serious

So, I took one of Phil’s impassioned rants — creeping fascism bad, Obama the last hope for democracy, blah, blah, blah — and with a few practiced edits, transformed the host of the Love Parade into a voice made for talk radio, a card-carrying white man who’d be welcome at your neighborhood Palin rally. Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 11:51 pm Fri, Oct 17, 2008.