Today Marty, Michael Stusser and guest comic Adam Cozens (in Seattle for the International Comedy Competition) make the announcement that the Podcast will be divesting itslf from corporate behomoth Bank of America, transferring its massive portfolio to a local credit union. All $32.65. Suck it BofA!

Also, Michael Jackson lives!! No, not really. He’s dead. But his music lives on in the new Cirque du Soleil show “The Immortal World Tour” coming to Key Arena, November 9th and 10th. Today we Skype with one of the show’s fabulous dancers, a graduate of the University of Washington Business School. Where Cirque gets most of its dancers, the ones that they don’t get from Forestry Resources.

Finally, our crew celebrates the successful landing of the first 15-month, $15-million Moscow-to-Moscow non-Mars mission. Six dudes – three named Alexi – all spent the last 15-months in a Moscow warehouse pretending to fly to Mars. Big deal. After 2 years and 315 episodes sealed in the Moldy Basement we’re halfway to Uranus. Hee hee, we said Uranus.

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I had a chance to poke around the Seattle Auto Show earlier this week at the CenturyLink Field Event Center, and I was looking forward to getting up close with some of the cool new cars at the show. Craig Chastain, the media guy for the show, was kind enough to personally escort me around to show me some of the highlights — probably because he didn’t trust me on my own. Anyway, here he illustrates a hot new trend — small cars that are well equipped and fun to drive, like the new Fiat 500. Let’s have a look:

You can get all the details about the Seattle Auto Show here — the show runs through Sunday. Tomorrow, I’ll take a look at another Italian car, but this one’s a little pricier — $390,000. (That’s dollars, not lire!)

Tacoma’s own musical hero and contender on The Voice Vicci Martinez dropped by the Mountain studios to fill me in on a benefit for Children’s Hospital that she’s a part of on Friday night.

It’s called The Last Wonder of the World, and here’s how the Seattle Symphony describes it:

The Last Wonder of the World, the Symphony Guild’s 14th annual benefit concert, explores the complexities of the unbreakable human spirit in all its beautiful abundance. This year’s concert celebrates the enduring hope and unbreakable spirit of Seattle Children’s Hospital patients and of all of us.

Or, here’s how Vicci describes it:

Sounds cool! Click here for the details and to buy tickets.

Next week, Vicci fills me in on her musical adventures since leaving The Voice.

Jakob Dylan’s wandering off into solo territory (6 years/2 solo albums) has been going on so long, you never thought The Wallflowers would reunite. But this just in from Rolling Stone:

Jakob says “I’ve got new songs and we’ve all been talking. We’ve been trying to carve that time out for a while.” Dylan adds that he’s been a bit weary of touring as a solo act. “I can’t do what I do in the Wallflowers without them. I miss it. I’m happy to put the acoustic guitar down. That was something I wanted to do, but I never planned on hitting the road and just being the guy with a guitar out there. That never has been exciting to me. I came up loving bands and I want to be in one.”

After seeing solo Jake at Mountain Music Fest last year, I think we can all agree that while lovely, he’s right that he can’t do what he did with The Wallflowers…ROCK! Let’s hear it for this reunion!

to the new Metallica/Lou Reed collaboration, “No, no, no, no, no…”

Pitchfork gave the album a simialarly scathing review:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15996-lou-reed-metallica/

But you don’t even have to bother reading it. Just check out Puss when his owner previews the platter. Just a word of warning, the more you watch, the more Lulu you have to listen to!!

Months after the death of Amy Winehouse. the first posthumous album has been announced. It’s Lioness: Hidden Treasures, containing unheard and unreleased material from Winehouse and is slated for a December 5th release. There’s also material that was intended for her third album. Here’s a track that leaked today, featuring the rapper Nas: