<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Elisberg Industries]]></title><description><![CDATA[elisbergindustries]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:52:23 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.elisbergindustries.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[It's Alive!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well, we're here.  At least for most people.  The new site went live around 1:30 PM Pacific Coast Time, though it could take longer in other parts of the country or world (perhaps up to two hours), as all the updates have to "populate," and different servers handle it differently.  If it did take longer in your location, sometimes the old site would continue to display -- though in some areas, a "Site down.  Try again later" sort of message would appear.  But all this is moot for those...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/it-s-alive</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a67ce0e388acffd1e3c88d2</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:32:20 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hot and Blathered]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, an apparently angry but definitely delusional Trump posted an onslaught of 14 lunatic AI-generated memes, including him standing in front of the White House beside JFK like  close buddies (or at least as close as buddies can be when one tried to abscond with the other’s legacy); a CNN anchor manipulated to look like a well-known transgender personality; attacking Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon as homeless, out-of-work bums in Skid Row; a slobby, food-stained...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/blather</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a66f8d935380d3132b77f1d</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:25:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d220c5_af9785aa76944dbabc70e97ee5cbec2d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_209,h_300,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers Talk]]></title><description><![CDATA[On this week’s episode of 3rd &#38; Fairfax, the official podcast of the Writers Guild of America, the guests are the head writers of Jimmy Kimmel Live,  Molly McNearney and Danny Ricker.  They talk about the creative challenges of writing for a late-night comedy/variety talk series, their advice on what it takes to submit a great writing “packet,” balancing the personal and professional, and much more. And now, thanks to the magic of video, you get to actually see the writers!]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/writers-talk-142</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a66956eb59210289e92c59d</guid><category><![CDATA[TV]]></category><category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:59:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WimA0KvgziA" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Weekly Stewart This Week]]></title><description><![CDATA[On this "The Weekly Show" podcast with Jon Stewart, his guest is New York City Mayora Zohran Mamdnai.  As the show writes, "Six months into his administration, Jon is joined by Zohran Kwame Mamdani to take stock of what democratic socialist governance looks like in practice. Together, they explore what it takes to lead the nation's largest city guided by those principles, discuss how his agenda is taking shape on housing, public safety, and affordability, and consider how to create a more...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/the-weekly-stewart-this-week-42</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a65908c532301fe59fddf4b</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:30:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nffK_ji57X0" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the Management]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just a reminder that the Big Switchover moving this website from the Weebly platform it's on now to the Wix platform will take place on Monday.  I have a Zoom call scheduled at 1 PM (Pacific Coast Time) with the folks who built the new site and are managing the move -- a company called Wix Legends.  There are some final red tape issues that have to be handled, and the "Go live" button should be pushed soon after.  It's likely that the switch will instantaneous.  However, it could take a few...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/from-the-management-42</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a65404a4c854def40b98155</guid><category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d220c5_f1188433cf7e4156b892db91fd902d81~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_395,h_227,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Can Call Him Al]]></title><description><![CDATA[On this Al Franken podcast, his guest is Franklin Foer of The Atlantic.  As the show writes, "We're joined by our longtime friend, Franklin Foer. We have a deal in Iran or at least an agreement to have an agreement. Even some Republicans are calling this an unconditional surrender. Al and Frank break down the massive concessions, which include a staggering $300 billion to reconstruct Iran, lifted blockades, and Iranian tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. And what does all of this mean for Trump...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/you-can-call-him-al-347</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a640c0b532301fe59f9e3c6</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:30:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKcUPjhHU0k" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a Voice]]></title><description><![CDATA[We’ll take another slight detour here.  It’s not from an international version of The Voice, but I came across it during one of those searches, and it popped up.  It’s from America’s Got Talent, and is when a young woman with a bad stutter very slowly comes onstage.  What leaps out – and is clear that it leaps out to not just the judges but the auditorium – that it’s not only her singing that stands out, but her musicianship, songwriting and who she is.  Watch, too, the judges’ reactions as...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/having-a-voice-13</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a63f792bb2a37d2909fc0d5</guid><category><![CDATA[Music]]></category><category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:51:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9TgB3KIQPM" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dodgers]]></title><description><![CDATA[In most ways, this is minor and egregiously common, but it's too "perfect" to let slide through the cracks.  So, bear with me.   Yesterday, the Los Angeles Dodgers had a ceremony at the White House with Trump, honoring their winning the World Series last year.  Team owner Mark Walters presented Trump with gifts, which is traditional.  He also gave Trump a World Series ring -- which is not. My immediate thought, as Trump marveled at his shiny toy as if he was now a big boy and was a world...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/the-dodgers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a62c48e532301fe59f69c49</guid><category><![CDATA[Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:30:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcrGttMK1bY" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Letterman's Sendoff to Stephen Colbert]]></title><description><![CDATA[Right before Stephen Colbert was taken off the air, one of his last guests was the host whose show he replaced, David Letterman, who came by for a farewell visit.  And the appearance was wonderful, most especially with several pure-Letterman, totally unexpected twists.  And then it ended with almost classic Letterman.  In all, he was on for about 20 minutes.  I wanted to post this at the time, but I'd been posting so much Colbert video around then that I thought it best to put a bit of...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/david-letterman-s-sendoff-to-stephen-colbert</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a62580321af5c246d021309</guid><category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category><category><![CDATA[TV]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzd1XffhWac" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["...That is the question"]]></title><description><![CDATA[For a long while, when Democrats have MAGOP officials testifying at Congressional hearings, they often ask them the same, simple, damning question - "Who won the 2020 election?"  And each time, the reply from the MAGOP officials is the same - "Joe Biden was certified president."  The answer is embarrassing, of course, and the question keeps getting repeated, exacerbating the problem for the MAGOP official. Embarrassing and damning and proper as the question is, it occurred to me - after...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/that-is-the-question</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a61785a424f5a9980a2f124</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:20:17 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a Voice]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve mentioned that my favorite of the international versions of The Voice which have clips online is Australia, and this video is a good example why.  Which is all the more notable because the singer doesn’t get any chairs to turn around.   The singer performs a song that was written and sung by one of the coaches, Delta Goodrem.  And she does a very good job, but not enough to get anyone to turn – in part because it’s late in the selection process when coaches only have a few picks left and...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/having-a-voice-12</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a616128424f5a9980a2aa9e</guid><category><![CDATA[Music]]></category><category><![CDATA[TV]]></category><category><![CDATA[International]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:33:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RREuEuUUjkE" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[It All Comes Down to the Test]]></title><description><![CDATA[I wanted to write about this last week, but too many other more notable stories cropped up, and so this got pushed back.  But I can’t let it fall through the cracks because it stands out manifestly on its own.  And also, because it gives new meaning to the expression “taking the test.”   If anything defines “Secretary of Defense” Pete Hegseth’s pseudo-macho cry for help, it was when he announced that the Defense Department would begin testing members of the military for testosterone.  And...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/it-all-comes-down-to-the-test</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6045d65514a6e974a6b8e6</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:30:11 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Daily Stewart This Week]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you didn't see Jon Stewart's Monday hosting of The Daily Show, he of course opened the show (and of course had to...) on Trump wandering around the with winning Spanish World Cup team.  But the Main Story was about Trump and MAGOPs' disdain for DEI hires and promising "meritocracy" instead -- and ending up with incompetence.  This is Jon Stewart at his "going nuclear" furious and and hilarious best.]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/the-daily-stewart-this-week-123</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5ffedca31281306f0c2e0b</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYoETtrk0Hw" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the Management]]></title><description><![CDATA[In my article this morning about the Big Switchover, I said it would happen later this week.  I just heard back from the team handling the transfer, Wix Legends, and it turns out that they have a conflict on the day I was able to make it.  So, we set up a day and time for next week. So, unless any other conflicts pop up, the switchover is now scheduled for next Monday, July 20.  The Wix Legends folks and I will begin our Zoom call at 1 PM, Los Angeles time, but I think there are some...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/from-the-management-41</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5fbdc5e75006338f58f25b</guid><category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:43:55 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Big Switchover]]></title><description><![CDATA[​We’ve finally hit the mark when it’s time for the switchover to the new platform, which will go live…next Monday, July 20.  Some final tweaks were needed by the team that designed the new site and transported it from the Weebly platform (that we're on now) over to the higher-end hosting service Wix.  I’m just double-checking a few final things.  And then when everything is set, I’ll give an “In one day” heads-up. That team – Wix Legends – did an impressive job to make the new site on Wix as...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/the-big-switchover</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5ee9743357dd2c74347db1</guid><category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:30:11 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever Floats Your Boat]]></title><description><![CDATA[There have been a lot of recent videos of international tourists here for the World Cup discovering things about American they had no idea of and loving it.  And the videos are a joy.  Many, too, are hilarious when what the visitors are bowled over by are just normal, everyday things to Americans - like ice in soft drinks, or yellow school buses (which they thought was only done by Hollywood for the movies or on The Simpsons), or air conditioning, or free refills of beverages, and more.  But...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/whatever-floats-your-boat</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5ec3a561674ad8b6e1e6e4</guid><category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:57:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-MYxIPCaL4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark: My Words]]></title><description><![CDATA[We're going to turn today's page over to Sen. Mark Warner, who appeared on CBS after the network was the only one to broadcast Trump's rally speech on Thursday.  His segment is seven minutes. He’s wonderful.  And the context is even better.  Not just that he's on CBS, but that much of his comments are directed at CBS. I only wish he was as eloquent as Jon Ossoff or some others, but his passion and fury explodes through.  And though not eloquent, his facial expressions speak as clearly as...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/mark-my-words</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5eaa653357dd2c7433c9b2</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:12:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Gvv-lHPOc" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's Do Lunch]]></title><description><![CDATA[On this week’s Naked Lunch podcast, co-hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild welcome actress, director and passionate foodie Heather Graham.  As the show writes, “Graham discusses her journey from being the self-professed nerdy daughter of an FBI Agent to the stunning movie star in films from License To Drive to Drugstore Cowboy, Boogie Nights to Bowfinger, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me to Hangover.”   By the way, not only was her father an FBI agent, but as she adds later, so extreme...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/let-s-do-lunch-157</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5ea9e46adee9ecb161aded</guid><category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:07:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFWtmstb8tw" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Weekly Stewart This Week]]></title><description><![CDATA[On this "The Weekly Show" podcast with Jon Stewart, the guest is Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.  As the show writes, "As the Fed's new leadership navigates persistent inflation and economic uncertainty, Jon is joined by Austan Goolsbee to better understand how America's most powerful economic institution actually works. Together, they explore the Fed's origins and mandate, examine what the Fed can do as prices remain stubbornly high, and consider how the...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/the-weekly-stewart-this-week-41</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5ea96b6adee9ecb161ac69</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:05:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM9AO0t0zrQ&amp;list=PLIti_J5fVo4IiJWQluYFpz-DbWOF0mK3o" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wait, Wait...]]></title><description><![CDATA[On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, the guest contestant is composer Bobby Lopez.  He not only is an EGOT winner – but a double-EGOT winner, most notably co-writing the score for the Broadway musicals The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and the movies Frozen and Coco.  (In fact, he’s one Oscar away from a triple-EGOT!)  In his conversation with host Peter Sagal, he tells some very funny stories about the writing of The Book of Mormon, especially...]]></description><link>https://www.elisbergindustries.com/post/wait-wait-590</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5ea8fabd30a9e3e57b9ac5</guid><category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Musical]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:03:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGZW4bg24dI" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Robert Elisberg</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>