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NBL sat down to go over Matt’s recent trip to Capitol Hill. This is a great story and a great look at the procedures for visiting the Hill. Matt outlines his disastrous arrival and how he ended up scheduled with Congress meetings with the wrong people! As a bonus he has compiled a list of dos and don’ts for your very own visit. For example:

• DO wear a name tag
• DON’T wear a polo shirt with a pizza sauce stain
• DO carry business cards
• DON’T show up unprepared
• DO speak clearly, concisely, and to the point
• DON’T stare at the interns.
• DO have a connection with your Senator, such as bringing up where your grandmother is buried (if he has a relative there too)
• DON’T ask to go to the bathroom in their tiny office.
• DO take pictures of the office hallway
• DON’T take pictures of the security guards at the entrance.
• DO walk briskly between appointments
• DON’T walk briskly between appointments with your hand on a bulge in your coat pocket.

These are not hard and fast rules, but they should get you on to a successful career in lobbying Capitol Hill. NBL has set up a Flickr account to share all the great photos we have from this trip, including some sweet panoramic shots of the Capitol and the ceiling of the Library of Congress. In fact, our next pod has photos AND video so keep an eye out for that. As soon as we figure out how to link it here we will get it up and posted.

Before jumping into the entertaining trip, we discuss corporate media and that clown Glenn Beck. We are officially dubbing him Jester Beck or something like that. It needs to be a good name that captures his essence, kind of like Hacksaw Jim Duggan’s name does for him. Goldline is a sponsor for the Glenn Beck show and is rumored to be an outright scam. Is it a scam or just misinformed buyers? If so, whose fault is that, the buyer or the marketer? Sounds like a subprime blowup in the making. Either way, I am frantically trying to cancel my order for 40 Finnish gold coins but no one is picking up the damn phone over there.

Resources for today’s Pod:

• Senator John Cornyn
• Representative Lloyd Doggett
• Representative John Culberson
• Human Rights Campaign
• Art Bell
• Glenn Beck
• Gold Line
• Library of Congress
• The Giant Bible of Mainz!!!!
• NBL Flickr Page for Capitol Hill