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Coachean PodcastsGive a man a
podcast, and he'll listen for an hour.
Teach a man how to podcast,
and he'll annoy you for the rest of your life.
Most recent posts:
How to Judge LD, 7/27/08
Ciao, 6/14/08
Nostrum Episode 72, 4/29/08
Nostrum Episode 71, 4/22/08
Nostrum Episode 70, 4/15/08
Nostrum Episode 69, 4/5/08
Details:
Subscriptions to Nostrum and The View from Tab are both available through iTunes.
Complain about Nostrum by email directly to the Nostrumite (and leave Menick out of it).
Music in Nostrum is excerpted from "A Fairy Tale" by Harvey Glotzer

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New to Nostrum? We recommend starting at the beginning.
NOTE: Nostrum is no longer being podcast, but all the episodes are still available.
Episode Seventy-Two (It takes one to screw up a tournament. podcast or pdf)
Houston, We Have a Problem
Episode Seventy-One (Oh, great. Another pointless Sinatra reference. podcast or pdf)
Musical Chairmanship
Episode Seventy (You too can run a tournament. Unless you're from Stanford... podcast or pdf)
How to Run the Perfect Tournament: A Hands-on Guide for Average Humans Wishing to Achieve Forensics Immortality
Episode Sixty-Nine (Meet me at the soda fountainhead podcast or pdf)
But Is He Worse Than Her Bite? / Did Somebody Say Conversion?
Episode Sixty-Eight (Wait till we do West Side Story! podcast or pdf)
The Nostrum Musical Players Proudly Present the Round Robinskis in "On the Town"
Episode Sixty-Seven (I hear the Don's Ho is in Hawaii... podcast or pdf)
The Dons' Last Do
Episode Sixty-Six (It must be a Greek thing. podcast or pdf)
The Magnificent Sevens
Episode Sixty-Five (Don't forget other Henrys, not enough, and 1.5 less than a Fellini masterpiece. podcast or pdf)
The Magnificent Sevens
Episode Sixty-Four (A Nostrum Quadruple Play -- Go Giants! Giants? GIANTS? You've Got to be Kidding. podcast or pdf)
Godsapoppin / The Old Dawg's Network / Old Trick, Young Pup Division / He Walks in Nightly, Like a Beaut
Episode Sixty-Three (Apres Seinfeld, le Nostrum? podcast or pdf)
It's Not the Black Spot, but it Will Probably do the Job; Someday My Prince Will Come
Episode Sixty-Two (Whoa! Another three-in-one! Thank you, masked man! podcast or pdf)
Hooray for Hollywood; The War Between Debates; Totally Moly
Episode Sixty-One (But Mama has got a trio! podcast or pdf)
And Quiet Flows the Don (Provided He has a Flow Pad); Bunburying; Which Came First? The Chick or the Yegg?
Episode Sixty (Paging Carmen Miranda! podcast or pdf)
I Wake Up Screaming; Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Kick!
Episode Fifty-Nine (April Fool's Day, and this is all we could come up with? podcast or pdf)
A Night at the Telephone
Episode Fifty-Eight (We'd love to hear more about those Clinton Disads podcast or pdf)
What Becomes an Invoice Most
Episode Fifty-Seven (And you thought only the Catholics had a Trinity podcast or pdf)
Things That Go Bump in the Day -- A Nostrum Pot Pourri
Episode Fifty-Six (Are you wearing tweed, Boss? podcast or pdf)
You da Man, Girlfriend
Episode Fifty-Five (Pomo frites. podcast or pdf)
Hand Me De Construction Paper
Update (Where have we been?) podcast
Explaining our recent hiatus.
Episode Fifty-Four (Good grief. More Sondheim? Will it never end? podcast or pdf)
I'm Calm, I'm Calm, I'm Perfectly Calm
Episode Fifty-Three (Bon chat, bon rat podcast or pdf)
I'm in Love with IMs, Baby, or, What's the Story, MorningGlory@aol.com
Episode Fifty-Two (Hey, Queequeg. Get a load of this! podcast or pdf)
Make Him an Aff Case He Can't Refuse
Episode Fifty-One (I guess that makes the school bus the engine of love. podcast or pdf)
Aspects of Love
Episode Fifty (Eyes on the Prize. Or as they say at Mcdonalds, eyes on the fries. podcast or pdf)
By George, I Think She's Got It
Episode Forty-Nine (Don't be so rash, Omon. podcast or pdf)
How Now, Kurosawa?
Episode Forty-Eight (I'll know when my love comes along podcast or pdf)
Mine I'll Leave to Chance and Chemistry. Yeah, Chemistry.
Episode Forty-Seven (Shut Your Bloomin' Trap, Leopold! podcast or pdf)
In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis
Episode Forty-Six (Tragedy Tomorrow, Soap Opera Tonight podcast or pdf)
So Is Teeny Todd Really Sweeney's Little Brother?
Episode Forty-Five (You Call this a Balcony Scene? podcast or pdf)
Another Reason for Sticking with Bruce Willis Movies
Episode Forty-Four (Apprenticed to a
pi-lot, Shylock? podcast or pdf)
A Pound of Flesh, Two
Pounds of Carrots, and a Nice Baguette
Episode Forty-Three (To Err is Human;
To Coach is Divine podcast or pdf)
And You Call Yourself an
Immortal?
Episode Forty-Two (Was that Loaf or
Balls? podcast or pdf)
Paradise by the Dashboard
Light.
Episode Forty-One (I Think Bing
Crosby Would Have Been Good in the Part of Monsignor Lloyd. podcast or pdf)
At Least It's Not the
Christian Coalition.
Episode Forty (You were expecting
communion wafers? podcast or pdf)
Any Place I Hang my Hat is
Holy.
Episode Thirty-Nine (It's Dog Eat Dog
Out There. podcast or pdf)
I Don't Think They Mean SATs
for Labrador Retrievers.
Episode Thirty-Eight (Song and
Dance. podcast or pdf)
Tell Me on a Sunday,
Please.
Episode Thirty-Seven (Please, Mr.
Postman podcast or pdf)
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam,
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spammetty Spammmmmm! Spammetty Spam.
Episode Thirty-Six (No nose for news,
Newt? podcast or pdf)
Put This in Your Tub and
Smoke it!
Episode Thirty-Five (Not to mention
the archbishopric... podcast or pdf)
A Most Excellent See, Your
Excellency!
Episode Thirty-Four (You Light Up My
Life podcast or pdf)
One to Hold the Bulb and
Five to Twist the Ladder
Episode Thirty-Three (Well, it beats
butterfly kisses podcast or pdf)
PDA
Episode Thirty-Two-B (The early
correspondence of Jules O'Shaughnessy. podcast or pdf)
Special Edition
release.
Episode Thirty-Two ("It's an honor
just to be nominated." Yeah. Right. podcast
or pdf)
Break, Rattle and
Roll
Episode Thirty-One (I Hate Men!
podcast or pdf)
Sisterhood Forever!
Episode Thirty (Until next week, the
balcony is closed. podcast or pdf)
But in the Morning, No.
Episode Twenty-Nine (I want to live
with a cinnamon bun. podcast or pdf)
What's Good about it?
Episode Twenty-Eight (Bring some more
coal, porter. podcast or pdf)
Because the Night...
Episode Twenty-Seven (Sign, sign,
everywhere a sign. podcast or pdf)
Have an Eggroll, Mr.
Goldstone.
Episode Twenty-Six (If music be the
food of love, I'll have fries with that. podcast or pdf)
La ronde forensique.
Episode Twenty-Five (Yes, I like your
ami, dear. podcast or pdf)
David and William confront
the truth.
Episode Twenty-Four (We called our
dog Elton John because he was the pianist. podcast or pdf)
Arriving in Miami for the
Messerschmitt Mess o' Forensics.
Episode Twenty-Three (Hi-ho, the
glamorous life. podcast or pdf)
First class travel with the
Nutmilks.
Episode Twenty-Two (In which we
definitely go near the borders of the family viewing hour. podcast or pdf)
Introducing David and
William.
Episode Twenty-One (And you call
yourself a Flying Dutchman? podcast or pdf)
Okeechobee Ar.
Episode Twenty (Habanera. Hab two
while you're at it. podcast or pdf)
On the road to the
Messerschmitt Mess o' Forensics.
Episode Nineteen (And You Call
Yourself a Valkyrie? podcast or pdf)
The levels of debate.
Episode Seventeen (Dwarf Conductors
-- Is that an opera pun, Vlad? podcast or pdf)
Tarnish Jutmoll gets some
bad news.
Episode Sixteen (Opera Lazy River
podcast or pdf)
At home with the Buglaroni
clan.
Episode Fifteen (Uma? Opera. podcast or pdf)
Amnea and her debate team,
part two.
Episode Fourteen (Pagliacci? Oh, he's
eating lunch in Cafeteria Rusticana podcast
or pdf)
Amnea Nutmilk acquires
a debate team.
Episode Thirteen (A Mite at the
Opera podcast or pdf)
Awards at the Andrew
Johnson.
Episode Twelve (Going Opera? podcast or pdf)
Break rounds at the Andrew
Johnson.
Episode Eleven (Opera Tune Itty
Knox podcast or pdf)
Seth B. Obomash v. Amnea
Nutmilk.
Episode Ten (What Goes Opera Must
Come Down podcast or pdf)
A most intriguing road
trip.
Episode Nine (Opera buffo, Biff
podcast or pdf)
Jasmine and Buglaroni discuss
rights.
Episode Eight (Opie, Opus, Opera
podcast or pdf)
The Hutt judge.
Episode Seven (Opera the Down
Staircase podcast or pdf)
Introducing the remaining
members of the Nighten Day School LD team.
Episode Six (Opera Yours podcast or pdf)
Inside the Andrew Johnson
Reconstruction Memorial tab room.
Episode Five (Opera to No Good podcast or pdf)
Jasmine, Buglaroni and the
Social Contract.
Episode Four (Opera Winfrey podcast or pdf)
Insights into Cartier, and a
first taste of Tarleton repartee.
Episode Three (Come Opera and See Me
Sometime podcast or pdf)
Meeting Seth B. Obomash and
Amnea Nutmilk at the Andrew Johnson, plus a surprise visitor.
Episode Two (Opera and At 'em podcast or pdf)
The Andrew Johnson
Reconstruction memorial
Episode One
What's Opera, Doc? podcast or pdf)
Introducing Hamlet P.
Buglaroni, Jr., plus a word from the narrator

Subscribe to The View from Tab on iTunes
Judging LD for parents. A general guide to what happens at a tournament, and what is expected of a parent judge. There are also some printed materials accompanying this lecture at the MHL judging site.
Research. A general guide to research, aimed primarily at newer LD and PF debaters. There is also a pdf for those who prefer to read these things.
Lexington tab revisited in 2008. Although I ran out of time and didn't talk about the Black Cloud Over Monticello or the Miracle of the Burrito, most of what happened is recorded here.
The tabbing of Yale, 2007, Part 1. We've done Lexington. Let's look at a college, this time out.
Part 2.
Part 3. (Sorry about the quality of this: too late to do anything about it now.)
If you only want to listen to the best part, on-site, go straight to #3.
As mentioned in the recordings, here's a copy of the Excel spreadsheet that concatenates team names.
Backstage at Lexington. What goes on in tab? Here's the answer.
Jon Cruz interview. An interview that took place in November of 2006. Audio quality is slightly off (it's a copy of a copy), but in the main it's O'C, his life, times and opinions.
Arguing the Resolution. A general
lecture on why it makes sense to argue the resolution at hand.
A pdf is also available.
Geopolitics. This incorporates the sovereignty material (below) but redirects the enterprise toward understanding the interplay of nations in the world today, with an eye on acquisition of nuclear weapons. A pdf is also available.
Sovereignty. An introduction to the
concept of national sovereignty, based on an old blog entry (which is here in a pdf if you're curious). It's simply
a long explanation of the general idea, and not a dig into things like
Hobbes or Rousseau and the philosophical construct of sovereign.
Business. A general lecture on how
business works, to help get your mind around business resolutions. (This
was my first attempt at recording, so it's a little warbly at
tiimes.)
The Postmodern Condition. What it means
to be a philosopher, or an artist, in the postmodern world. A basic,
relatively short, introduction to postmodernism for high school
debaters.
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
Part 1, Part 2,
Part 3.
A lecture to help you get your mind around a
quintessential French postmodernist. This is recorded in three parts;
there is an unfortunate section in part two that gets a little thick,
but for the most part, it's clear. I recommend reading the book,
especially the essay Precession of Simulacra, before listening to the
lecture. I also recommend a visit to Disneyland or Disney World; feel
free to take me along with you.
From Caveman to Frenchman
Menick explains art, from the
earliest days to the latest at Dia. (Or read the illustrated pdf, if that's
your preference.)
2/28/08 There is now a small pamphlet of Caveman art now available, separate from the illustrated lecture.