Show 1170

Sep 11, 2024

1. Talks with citizens pushing back against the US Army Corps of Engineers plans for the American River Parkway: Bill Brattain and Pete Spaulding
2. A brief look at the Presidential debate followed by analysis of recent Trump statements

Show 1169

Sep 4, 2024

1. We take Trump up on question of whether we are better off today than 4 years ago: Steven J. Harper returns to examine the disastrous Trump mislandling of Covid in 2020
2. Continuation of Steven J. Harper

Show 1168

Aug 28, 2024

1. RFK Jr, Phil Donahue obit (and mention of his Iraq war opposition), Trump disparages Congressional Medal of Honor, lost in space
2. Meiselas report on DJT/RFK Jr phone call (recorded by RFK III)

Show 1167

Aug 21, 2024

1. Trump, the oldest person ever to become president now older than oldest person to BE president - Reagans record holder - Reagan
2. More clips on Trump - Ben Meiselas, HannibalLecter craziness, recent polls

Show 1166

Aug 14, 2024

1. Look ahead to election 2024 and need to address Trump s increasingly bizarre behavior
2. Clips from MSNBC on press conference anger vs Biden contrasted with Trump blather

Show 1165

Aug 7, 2024

1. Current Event round up
2. Ben Tyler Cohen clips on Trump running away from Project 2025 and how GOP election officials are going to avoid certifying vote counts - chat with attorney Marc Elias

Show 1164

Jul 31, 2024

1. David Packman clip on latest Trump incoheret ramblings, GB&U, Joe Conason clip on his new book The Long Con
2. Chat with our favorite Trump expert Steven J. Harper

Show 1163

Jul 24, 2024

1. Current Events
2. Collection of you tube clips frpm Dave Pakman and Ben Meiselas on Trumps mental issues, glossed over by the MSM

Show 1162

Jul 17, 2024

1. Near assassination of DJT, Debate and takeaway - review of same, judges bulldozing a path for the former prez, GB&U, limits to growth, potpourri small news items
2. Abandonment of current events in favor of humorous material

Show 1161

Jul 3, 2024

1. GB&U review, Trumpland detour
2. Pushback from US women, review of 2015 Ashley Madison scandal which faked data

Show 1160

Jun 26, 2024

1. Travelogue of Asia and Europe
2. Listener urging, More tales from the road

Show 1159

May 15, 2024

1. Honoring former guests Wecht, and McKlosky, GB&U, pumping perrier, finding former film critic from NYT who almost sank career of Mel Brooks
2. Einstein on propaganda, Pete McKlosky excerpt Cyril Wecht excerpt

Show 1158

Apr 17, 2024

1. The Mazatlan Eclipse, aviation, astronomy, and really terrible music
2. More eclipse, GB&U, science close

Show 1157

Apr 3, 2024

1. Archival material, 2002 Art of the Hoax
2. GB&U

Show 1156

Mar 20, 2024

1. GB&U
2. Jefferson Morley on his book Snowstorm in August

Show 1155

Mar 6, 2024

1. USACE assaults on the American River Parkway, SCOTUS assaults the American democracy, Putin murders Navalny, a fishy Superbowl, docu on reporter Danny Casoleros "suicide", GB&U, Harpers Index
2. Chat with investigatibe journalist Jefferson Morley about his historical book Snowstorm in August The Struggle for Americas Freedom and Washingtons Race Riot of 1835

Show 1154

Feb 21, 2024

1. Some jokes, Harpers Index, look back at Bob Edwards, Giuliani, another Putin murder, Silicon Valleys scary technocracy advocates
2. GB&U, potpourri of recent Trump mental deterioration, traformation of war via drone technology, Palantir in Ukraine science topics

Show 1153

Feb 7, 2024

1. A look at Japans bizarre politics, "intelligence failures" in Gaza and Israeli overreaction
2. Jimmy Carter on Israeli Apartheid, slavery in the US, the tragic tale of civil rights workers murder in 1964

Show 1152

Jan 31, 2024

1. Bush 41, the pledge of alliegance, Fareed Zakaria BS, the tractor, Pacific islander navigation, GB&U
2. Everything gets marketed as "AI" now, the superyachts, the illegal and unscrupulous fishinging industry (Chinese mostly), The Tragedy of the Commons revisited, bad reporting

Show 1151

Jan 24, 2024

1. Space trombones, Baby Ruth BS, misc quotes, the genius of Newton, predicted collapse of civilization?, cuneiform translation and AI
2. Avatar ABBA show, modern cursive illiteracy, Venus mysteries, political aspects of Albert Einstein and Charles Chaplin, Hearst & Hitler

Show 1150

Jan 17, 2024

1. Andy Borowitz on democracy, Asimov on reviews, new AI music and look back at visit fom "Paul McCartney", beaver news, Herman Daly belated obit
2. Neptunes discovery & political skulduggery, Ayn Rand/Silicon Valley development in Solanao Co., Mountain House urban sprawl

Show 1149

Jan 10, 2024

1. Ted Kaczinski vs us, GB&U, archival article looking 20 years into future from over 20 years ago, Andy Borowitz on stages of ignornce in politics
2. Old Chris Mooney look at GOP nuttiness & new Trump lies, Michael Lewis on covid including White House manipulation of reality, Halberstam article on Korean War gaffs of MacArthur/Willouby, Ben Stein & anti-Darwinism, Rudy Giulianis earlier effort to promote riots

Show 1148

Jan 3, 2024

1. Plunging into 2024 with Dave Barry look at 2023, Xmas movie, GB&U including Tik Tok vs the US Army, mucus evolution, congress unproductiveness, evil Nicraguan politics
2. Nicaraguan Ortega tyranny continued, liberal segregation advocacy, "blackface" controversy - Hannibal - not a black African, Phoenicians, "Black Pete", gender neutral French, article on cutting the virtual cord