Dagmar Heijmans from Sellaband.com joins the show to explain how his website allows you to invest in up-and-coming bands that tickle your fancy. Users can buy shares, or "parts," of a cool band and once that band reaches $50 K, they record an album. As stakeholders, Sellaband users share in sales revenues. So far 27 bands have reached the coveted $50,000 mark. In the second half of the show: A McCain supporter is mugged in Pittsburgh and has a "B" carved into her face, really Fox News? San Francisco votes on Proposal K, a Taiwanese students eats himself to death and, of course, the weekend box office.

Dan the Mantern here. When listening today, be sure to enjoy Wilson's pathetic grasp of geography. No Wilson, Holland is not the capital of Denmark. Holland is a province in The Netherlands. Wilson, is your geography so pitiful because U.S. Americans don't have maps? Was your education in South Africa, or such as, the Iraq, such as, really that bad?
NOTICE: The "Photoshop Dan Ackerman in an Inappropriate Situation" contest continues. Make us a funny photo of Dan and win yourself a copy of Far Cry 2 or Baja for 360.
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