Show 1027

Dec 25, 2024

1. Mark Evanier of News From Me web site Xmas anecdote on Mel Torme, GB&U, 15 faves from The Most Interesting Man in the World ads, Ghostbusters tale, beloved quotes

Show 1026

Dec 4, 2024

1. Doubts about election 2024, Greg Palast clip from you tube, failures of judicial system - Trump stealing of records delayed, payment of bribes resulted in 34 felony convictions but no sentencing, Jan 6th riot case delayed by SCOTUS, Trump criminality i trying to bribe GA official to find 11,780 votes sidetracked
2. Educator Mark Mattingly my high school history teacher sound off on current status of American government

Show 1025

Nov 6, 2024

1. November 6th started LIVE as election unfolds, we knew GA would disenfranchise Democratic voters, quips, Republican delusions
2. Second segment delves into lighter faire

Show 1024

Oct 30, 2024

1. October 30th show 2024
2. Second segment

Show 1023

Oct 23, 2024

1. Candidate Trump running amok, incompetently working as the McDonalds fry cook, Robert Reich sounds off, admiring the "putter" of Arnold Palmer inviting Stormy Daniels diss, confused about hydrogen
2. Lawyerly advice from Steven J. Harper and Nancy Yamada

Show 1022

Oct 16, 2024

1. October 16 show 2024
2. Second segment

Show 1021

Oct 9, 2024

1. October 9th show 2024
2. Second segment

Show 1020

Oct 2, 2024

1. October 2nd show 2024
2. Second segment

Show 1019

Sep 25, 2024

1. Ukrainian/ Trump mayhem, why is Harris mopping the floor with Trump is not reported that way, look back at prior debates, comedy hiatus - essay to enter NYU, Trump promoting violence and lying about election theft - a threat to democracy
2. Brian Tyler Cohen on Trump lawyers effort to sink evidence of Jan 6 crimes and so much more, Republican party chairmen endorse Harris

Show 1018

Sep 18, 2024

1. Fears over Trump following Grover Cleveland's feat of reclaiming White House, musings on politics, GB&U
2. Medi Hasan vents on Trump alleged pacifism, Dave Packman looks at Trump on the stump, MSNBC Ari Melber weighs in

Show 1017

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 1016

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 1015

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 1014

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 1013

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 1012

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 1011

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 1010

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 1009

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 1008

Jul 3, 2024

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

Show 1007

Jun 26, 2024

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

Show 1006

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 1005

Apr 17, 2024

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

Show 1004

Apr 3, 2024

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

Show 1003

Mar 20, 2024

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

Show 1002

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 1001

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 1000

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 999

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 998

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 997

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 996

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 ignorance 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 995

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