KUCI: Weekly Signals: Recent Episodes
Nathan Callahan & Mike Kaspar
On this week’s episode, a 78-year-old billionaire, a weird obsession with crowd sizes, “happy Trump” or “angry Trump,” a staggeringly dishonest debate performance from former, Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady, 3 on 1, Abdul, strongmen, and so much more
On this week’s episode, posting absurd memes, stolen valor, combat service, a laughable and even pathetic clown, true evil, MAGATS, Isaac Hayes, copyright infringement, a COVID memorial, Roger Stone, Russia, if you’re listening, crowd size, objective journalism, and so on.
On this week’s episode. “Meet the Billionaire,” reality TV fail, say it to my face, Citius, Altius, Fortius, Communiter, dismantling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Project 2025, Trump’s Egyptian heist, and so on.
On this week's episode, neokayfabe, Mr. McMahon, the best humane alternative to genocide, the Thielverse, J.D. Vance’s weird, terrifying techno-authoritarian ideas, and the Republican 2025 plan for menstrual surveillance, sexual assault, intimate-partner violence, and general stupidity.
On this week’s episode, “It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,” a fascist who tried to overthrow the US government, the Trump Supreme Court’s contempt for facts, banning the AR-15, a hillbilly hypocrite, Appalachian stereotypes, infinite timelines for the Pool Shed Papers Case, and so on.
On this week’s episode, media bias, Republican incoherence, a basket of deplorables, the eco-disaster of Project 2025, Trump the racist, Trump the felon, Trump the liar, Trump lies constantly, Trump lies every time he opens his mouth, and Trump lies because he can.
On this week’s episode, educator and self-proclaimed hermit who lives under a rock Athena Greene talks to Nathan about artificial intelligence, irony, artifice, thoughts, the creative process, muses, Netflix, ChatGPT, copyright infringement, electricity consumption, disturbing clichés, and so much more.
Claudia Shambaugh, the host of KUCI’s Ask a Leader, joins Nathan to discuss The Newport Beach Public Library board’s decision to move “Melissa” – a book about a 10-year-old transgender child — from the children’s section in a new appeal process that has been offered to reactionary patrons wanting to challenge decisions on where books should be shelved.
Joining Nathan is Claudia Shambaugh of KUCI’s Ask A Leader to talk about AI generated post-death time travel, grief bots, and Laurie Anderson’s Lou Reed bot; Mike Kaspar of KUCI’s Film School discussing The Balboa Cinema, The Pussycat Theater, I am Curious Yellow, and his life as a projectionist; and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog howling about wishing someone was dead.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about crucifixion, dog language, armadillos, the Fescue Belt, left-wing stuff, dealing with cows, simpler songs, Joni Mitchell, disasters, Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, engagement farming, Ronna McDaniel, strange metals, sports gambling, River Action, Martha Stewart, Godzilla, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about seeding the grounds, leftover pizza in a refrigerator, giant sequoias in the UK, asbestos in the US, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, outrage, Trump the Transgressive Comic, plausible deniability, malign Russian influence, waterfront property, the iPhone monopoly, rats eating our marijuana, sleeping on a jet, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about constitutional abortion, non-existing unidentified anomalous phenomena, alien technology, Amazonian drought, altered rain gauges, German Chocolate Cake, lead in drinking water, TikTok, car apps, robotaxis in L.A., Standard Daylight Savings Time, Miami in Alaska, football frostbite, the world’s largest chocolate fountain in the world, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about, 2 drugs in 1, de-extinction, lone orcas, dzuds, the Anthropocene, MethaneSat, losing trillions of gallons of drinking water, junk fees, high wealth tax cheats, Allen Weisselberg, anti-vaccination bullshit, the rotating detonation engine, lost scholarly articles, alarm fatigue, loud fish, an Elon Musk Tesla Cybertruck, a hypervaccinated man, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about sweating thistles, snake diversity, the National Eagle Repository, wildfires in Texas, boiling microplastic, women who are psychopaths, self-immolation, presidential immunity, the Comstock Act, GenAI political ads, mixed-reality, dead rockets, Major League Baseball’s new uniforms, the Boebert family, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about artificial intelligence-driven hiring platforms, the end of all things, the truth about Luddites, Exodus, Locust, nonnative earthworms, SoCal coastal radioactive waste, Sponge City, The Election Outcome Pledge, preregistration at 16, student loan forgiveness, spies in the skies, J0529-4351, Alzheimer’s Stage 1, a chalk, a spark, a line, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about applied logic, poop on Everest, polluting fragrances, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, single-use plastic bags, the desecration of historical memory, the leading source of goods imported by the United States, the right to disconnect, women umpires, Waymo fires, a hidden ocean, compassionate cannibalism, nosepickers, trash compactors, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about profane parrots, wind turbine installation vessels, the Right to Mine law, high-risk A.I. systems, veterinary cannabis, stoned empathy, Russia’s accidental bombings, Takata air bags, Martian gridlock, public tippling, no parking zones, Dorothy’s ruby slippers, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about reusing graves, Uno, gas station heroin, cancer immunization, Sports Illustrated's troubles, The Baltimore Sun's troubles, Los Angeles Times' troubles, Pitchfork's troubles, machine-translated garbage, the human behavioral crisis, parking lots, student debt cancellation, the California State University strike, facial unrecognition, lunar bottoms up, bricking HP printers, the sale of Vroman’s, losing your nose wheel, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about ashes to ashes, the world's five richest men, Eastern monarch butterflies, illegal sand mining, Greenland’s ice sheet, the blood brain barrier, death in the Rio Grande, exorbitant overdraft fees, the right to vote for 16 year-olds, a primordial galaxy, a cloned rhesus monkey, recycling wine and liquor bottles, a bloody pig mask, a fetal pig, live insects, a funeral wreath, weather manipulation, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about the American Dialect Society Word of the Year, effective altruism, our growing country, feral peacocks, bad dogs, a whale Fibonacci, orange rivers, bottled water nanoplastics, internal displacements, the sacredness of the Moon, lightless craters, replacing lithium, beat perception, OCD mouse, Alabama diving, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about the state bat, field pansies, aloe vera, powder power, marine mass extinction, wastewater heating in False Creek, Chief Justice John Roberts year-end report, a virtual sexual assault, TOI-1853 b, Mickey Ears, the Russian Federal Security Service 2024 calendar, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about Tigger, Call of Cthulhu, venomous snakebites, raiding aquifers, wooden wind turbines, euthanasia, ChatGPT plagiarism, covert space missions, overmassive black hole galaxies, AI insider training, baseball rule changes, an “item of concern,” and so on.
On this week’s episode, Mike, Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog, and I talk about an Orca Update, tears, the air travel tax, hurricane microplastics, a repugnant ruling, a plutonium pit, the measles, money well spent, the Vatican’s plan for ending homelessness, pretextual stops, prescription meth, the emerging Coronal Mass Ejection, Commercial Lunar Payload Services, getting doored, Wilma Mankiller, the reverse cowgirl, and so on.
On this week’s episode, special guest co-host Claudia Shambaugh, Nathan, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about the Word of the Year Part 2, pure carnivores, Canadian tropical fish, the wet-bulb global temperature, COP28, La Posada at the U.S./Mexico Border, Pompeii’s bakery prison, Mississippi’s religious vaccination exemption, Americans’ prescription records, direct-sound printing, willful ignorance, emoji biodiversity, hurling a burrito, the importance of voting, and so on.
On this week’s episode, special guest co-host Claudia Shambaugh, Nathan, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about the word of the year, chinstrap penguin microsleeping, better coffee, methane digesters, net metering 3.0, rescuing the Marshall Islands, Cop28, nuclear energy, hydrogen from plastic waste, the LA to Vegas bullet train, old organs, anthrobots, wine fraud, 23and Me, Junior Walker and The All Stars, and so on.
On this week’s episode, special guest host Claudia Shambaugh, Nathan, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about a life-extension drug for big dogs, the Principal Odor Map, nanoplastics, the Crunch factor, the most invasive animal on the planet, flying disabled, a one-time stunt, a legal right to housing, reptile feed, Friends of Attention, CRISPR, Sports AI Illustrated, It’s a Small World, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about canine infectious respiratory disease, coffee ground quantum dots, death metal orcas, Bolsa Chica Mesa, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Plant Hardiness Zone Map, the Fifth National Climate Assessment, not screaming into the void anymore, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, AI Controlled killer drones, the Kremlin’s crackdown, the International Space Station, marionette bowling pins, a 24/7 car chase channel, onanism, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about unpopular science, pet vaccines, the world’s largest insect farm, a flesh-eating fungus, the carrot boycott, Southern California Edison, the Supreme Court's Code of Ethics, hallucinations, Iceland’s volcano, gamma ray bursts, AI hyper-realism, tree theft, a dog named Simona, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about orcas having a bit of fun, culling cocaine hippos, the hottest year, power outages, the Jurupa Oak, insect extinction, a good day for democracy, Meta’s AI rules, the north hangar, robot homicide, Cruise’s recall, non-hallucinogenic psychedelics, AI golf, grenades, frozen turkeys, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about vampire bats, California condors, thermoregulation, cooling a river, orca brains, lawn care pollution, Biden’s AI Executive Order, subpoenaing Crow and Leo, your noses, two mysterious “blobs,” the Chicxulub impact, light evaporation, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about fluorescent flying squirrels, platypuses, extinction, sunflower sea stars, the Mirounga-Nuyina Canyon, mosquitoes, malaria, vaccines, rapid intensification, Badwater Basin, irreversible tipping points, Mike Johnson, suing Meta, Alex Jones’s debt, the “Harlem Park Three”, The Debt Collective, Kamoʻoalewa, Cruise robotaxis, lowriders, one count of endangering an aircraft, a Halloween decoration, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about talking to animals, hunters and gatherers, piston-engine aircraft, Green Mountain Power, San Onofre, Army surplus, ghost guns, rolling coal, teledriving, baby hands, the whole foundation stone of conceptual art, a possible bomb on board, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about space life, Martian real estate, crashing into buildings, pink river dolphins, a palm oil alternative, groundwater pollution, a “decades-long campaign of deception”, where petroleum comes from, China’s maritime expansion, a dam report card, net neutrality redux, student debt, magic mushrooms, World Athletic Shoe Regulations, a Stevie Nicks doll, stoned sheep, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about flamboyances, bait birds, fireflies, processed food addiction, night harvests, national hurt feelings, the Great Wall Society of China, Dimorphos’ orbital period, natural psychedelics, nonfunctional turf, autonomous trucks, Paw Patrol snacks, a ritual mass murder, a "biohazard issue," and so on.
On this week’s episode, special guest host Claudia Shambaugh, Nathan, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about, canine vaccine hesitancy, Asian hornets, invasive species, extreme heat, California’s disappearing beaches, Crown Prince Mohammed bin (bonesaw) Salman, death for marriage, wage theft, meat hogs, NASA’s crop monitor, the human ancestor crash, admission to Venice, Schedule 1 drugs, Mary Ann Gaido, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, And Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about Earth perched atop two long, bright red legs, one bat hanging from the ceiling, the slick gene, olive oil, China’s summer, Groundwater loss, wetlands, photosynthesis fail, boat fuel cancer, virtual Putin, kidney vitrification, a 14-foot-long robotic snake, Elon’s Special K, fining the abused, a legitimate penological purpose, In-N-Out loyalty rally, an ejected umpire, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about strange beings, participation, coffee grounds, skin vision, emperor penguins, Yasuní National Park, blocking news emergencies, the Judas Wolf Program, speaking through a digital avatar, regrowing teeth, stuck in the muck, AI personal life coaches, ChatGPT book bans, India on the moon, Luna-25, texting with Jesus, bad travel advice, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about high-speed evolution, gray wolves, reviving redwoods, clean energy, heatstroke insurance, Montana’s clean and healthful environment, Heatwave British Petroleum, mifepristone, robotaxi porn, e-bike right-to-repair, the Mütter Museum, Pink Floyd’s neuronal patterns, digital funerals, Mookie Betts, Walter Johnson, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about medical aromatherapy, roasted nuts, future-climate-suitable seedlings, ecocide, six things to know about flying with the superrich, legal nicknames, Wisconsin’s dairy industry, Simon & Schuster, free-floating planets, the Tyre Extinguishers, Zoom unzooming, Antarctic berries, the Fermentation Association, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about Neanderthals, cryptobiosis, virgin birth, a trillion trees, snow sublimation, Joshua trees, saguaro cacti, apologies, fighting defeatism, Meta news blocking, nine metric tons ten stories high, Aeolis, letting kids serve alcohol, the texting judge, a new California e-bike bill, Paris’ bouquinistes, Trader Joe’s Unexpected Broccoli Cheddar Rocks, family pets and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about out-of-body experiences, a vegan planet, ticks, Lake Tahoe microplastics, toilet to tap, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, Hubris syndrome, turning cancer against itself, self-healing metal, We Agnostics, unidentified aerial phenomena, the Los Angeles Thread Millipede, pickleball Gandhi, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about mammals eating dinosaurs, test monkeys, CRISPR poplar trees, hot oceans, the Saudi Arabia Arizona Alfalfa Corporation, Algal Greenland, the politicization of the weather, drinking water forever chemicals, repulsive taste, toxic flame retardant in human breast milk, child firearm mortality rates, the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, Dark Stars, Alzheimer’s in Southern California, union-busting, Union Beer, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about unicorn meat, bird anti-bird spikes, a salmon’s sense of smell, methane-spewing holes, the Blackfeet Nation bison, Arkstorm, Farmers Insurance, solar geoengineering, superheroic white paint, over-the-counter birth control, the “thousand year veto,” cartooning industry shock waves, the lawful “thumbs-up” emoji, the richest 500 people on earth, the Week of Cone, sex at Wimbleton, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about the Orca Uprising, PFAS v pets, The Return of Tulare Lake, clear-air turbulence, the slo-mo universe, AI pollution, solar maximum, social media disinformation, Euclid, Africa’s split, Diego Rivera, postmortem sperm retrieval, smartwatching Parkinson’s, psychedelics, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the fake news dog talk about gravitational wave background, pollinators, tilting the globe, toxic fish, white spots/dark wings, the U.S. Bicycle Route System, cumulative poverty, rail workers sick pay, self-defense, a corporation’s right to vote, selling body parts, the idiocy of fireworks, hell, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, special guest host Claudia Shambaugh, and Mahler the fake news dog talk about the virgin birth, lifelong feline birth control, OC Animal Care, Fairytale Dibrova, Sikh helmets, a new nuclear reactor, the curse of Proposition 22, Neuralink, banning books, “incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide”, the Bonesaw Tour, income-based utility bills, a lung cancer drug, Apple’s auto-correct duck-up, Maryland’s casino license plate, the marijuana pension plan, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk animal fat flights, the baby bust/boom, dumbing down India, Winnie the Pooh, Labor profanity, insurance in the wildfire state, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the ChatGPT law practice, the Chatbot diet, AI Armageddon, Meta in California, the Digital Services Act, lighthouses for sale, draining the reservoir, sugar bears, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk nappie homes, underskin armor, cheetahs in India, Shamu’s revenge, e-skin, brain and spine implants, the death cap mushroom, the Colorado River Deal, the cooling stratosphere, which wetlands are covered by the law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, palm-print payment, correct creative thinking, hell on the rise, postdoctoral fellowships, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the Pope’s pet problem, butterflies, flood gold, wildfire charges, the Chumash Sanctuary, Kevin McCarthy, air bag shrapnel, optical frequency combs, Lyme disease vaccinations, the AM for Every Vehicle Act, Warhol’s Prince, ruby red slippers, cell phone distraction, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about moving to Russia, the oldest living dog, microbes digesting plastic, Turkmenistan’s venting, birds changing shape, Tornado Alley East, ocean deoxygenation, greedflation, a better genome, 3-way babies, self-checkout tipping, the Sexual Predator in Chief, surviving on wine, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Freya the walrus, the Subway Strangler, black smoker vents, another rapid unscheduled disassembly, climate crisis pileup, bidirectional charging, hugging Jesus, the Chevron Doctrine, an RSV vaccine, digesting a planet, near-death experiences, forbidden semen, banana art, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about feral cats, the global sea temperature, the Ispace lander, Red State gun violence, Trigger Time with Kyle Rittenhouse, Blue Checks, who killed the Chevy Bolt, suing over Climate Change, stealing a thumb, long intestines, Barbie Dolls, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about shoplifting, fast fashion, Garbage Patch kids, slaughterhouses, the TransWest Express high-voltage transmission line, the Fox-Dominion settlement, Teargas Tuesday, very fine people on both sides, a bad boy military romance, unacceptable words, quesadillas, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about squirrel emigration, Killer whales, the Colorado River, Climate Crisis Fungus, the sea surge, an electric-vehicle revolution, gun rights politicians, free lunch Republicans, driverless car chaos, fake Basquiat, Art and Artifice, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about extreme polygamy, soundscape research, Climate Crisis Porn, LA DDT, Arms for Hostages, the Trump EPA, Just Say Gay, Huckabee Sanders’ “monument to the unborn”, Pornhub, IQ drops, Ai Weiwei Legos, loving Tofu, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about what Caesar said, monkey labor, Brown Widows vs Black Widows, plastiglomerates, PFAS levels, death by Astroturf, The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, anti-union right-to-work laws, van Gogh in advertising, penis depiction ratios, flipping the bird, goods and chattels, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about vocal fry, eating moths, lichen sea-level readings, zombie forests, your bicarbonate of soda footprint, the new fatalism, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi, Satanist, jihadist group, unrelenting, dishonest, cruel attacks, social media abortion snitches, the Lunar Surface Electromagnetic Experiment, the good manners of a European gentleman, vegan chrism oil and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about glassy-winged sharpshooters, urinating, lemon nanoparticles, the alpha wolf, laboratory monkeys, parking lot prices, recycled glass, public school teacher’s rent, greedy bastard CEO’s, Aluxes, dogs in cars, trains in tunnels, the kissing machine and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about human hair, ants, the biggest animals to ever exist, duckweed, haemostatic microneedle technology, the Tongass National Forest, California toxic waste, Republicans cutting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, a melting liquid robot, a liquid telescope, a lunar oxygen pipeline, dog-bots, human fetal tissue, SUV pepper spray mirrors, where your rectum is, the newly elected serial liar, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Peter the Anteater snot bubbles, floating farms, the Rio Verde Foothills, Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbits, the Lunar South Pole, Solar Cycle 25, Elaine Chao, compressed-air energy, your husband the polar bear, covering your arms, Ezekiel, UFOs, Times New Roman vs Calibri, fields, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about banished words, the Weinermobile, noisy oceans, hot water, paleo valleys, the Great Salt Lake, the ozone layer, Feinstein’s seat, CUTGO, DALL-E proteins, a vaccine for honeybees, the right to repair, sugarware, Türkiye, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about a new migratory record, bison-vehicle collisions, Cape Cod septic systems, a once-in-a-career opportunity, water vapor harvesting, polling sucks, XBB.1.5, abortion pills, psychonauts, walking bacteria, melted butter, Thor, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the public domain, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, a Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit, beastiality, the Christian doctrine of the Sex Trinity, the George Santos Scam Culture, Covid in China, Southwest Airlines f-up, the Russian sausage magnate, pneumatic tube operators, cancer vaping, fentanyl busts, the methamphetamine library, a World War I artillery shell, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about spinach hallucinations, mosquitoes mutations, EU deforestation, rusting waterways, dead pool levels, J. Robert Oppenheimer, influential dimwits, hydrogel, the new state of San Bernardino, urine-adjacent aroma, unvaccinated drivers, the California Psychedelic Mental Health Bill, lead and cadmium in your dark chocolate, seeing your future in your smartphone, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the vagina on a chip, snake clitorises, P-22, Firmageddon, a regional drought emergency, stopping oil and gas projects, a fusion first, the cancer vaccine, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, the Mississippi River supply chain, the last 747, the Erie Basin Auto Pound, Thomas Pynchon, the oldest narrative scene on record, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about motherforking shirtballs, sawfish denticles, the hemispheric storm discrepancy, Arctic beavers, the UC strike, Putin propaganda, biblical principles, keeping your nose warm, golfing the Grand Canyon, the baguette, fire brains, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about circling disease, longer-lived honey bees, ecological pawprints, mega-constellations, better space weather alerts, the nuclear bomb used-parts superstore, bad stick, RIP Medical Debt, a new “roaring 20s” age of decadence, Bob Dylan Scam Culture, headbanger rats, splashless urinals, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Push Button Phone Day, parking lot solar panels, Coca-Cola COP27, La Brea Tar Pits, the UC Strike, the twerps who ruined student loan forgiveness for everybody, Larry David’s FTX, Luckey’s killer headset, Full Self-Driving, the crotch air-bag, ancient truth, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about crow recursion, the gloomy octopus, detachable penises, pig empathy, nighttime hula dances, the wood-wide-web, edible drones, 6 billion gallons of water, the red baby ripple, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Chuckwalla National Monument, rare pink auroras, Kristallnacht cheesy chicken, Canaanite lice, the “world’s dirtiest man”, toxic masculinity, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about candy gouging, insect electricity, the Mississippi drought, elephant justice, endangered penguins, New Jersey vs Big Oil, Shell’s inflation scheme, fascist ecology, polling crimes, Ye, a spaghettified star, maslins, ash bats, nose picking, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about alligator lizards, taxing cow burps, the bird flu outbreak, snow crabs, a Sisyphean trap, offshore wind energy on the West Coast, backup batteries on wheels, the Kroger-Albertsons monopoly, student loan debt relief, keeping Daylight Savings, Idaho drag, ghostguns, Republican public masturbation, playoff baseball, making America more "sex positive," and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about organoids, bee CBD, Jute, Coalinga water, feeding on the forest floor, wildlife population drop, two sick piglets, Florida’s surgeon general COVIDiot, gene-edited sheep, humanity’s first planetary defense test, moai statues, bull sperm, digital license plates, Walk & Roll to School Day, a Russian astronaut wedding scam, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Biden’s cannabis pardon, penis worms, mud dragons, California’s avian flu, Hurricane real estate, The Inflation Reduction Act, the bane of artificial turf, Oz the dog killer, STIR/SHAKEN, the world’s whitest paint, Barry Bonds, hearing with your teeth, friend-of-the-court satire, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about mosquito color preference, ant counters, a magnetic liquid robot, eagles dodging wind turbines, vultures mitigating greenhouse gases, ships dodging whales, framing DeSantis’s stupidity, space junk, volcanic mass extinctions, organic compounds on Mars, giant African land snails, the Minor League Baseball Union, human composting, stealing your kidneys and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Tyre Extinguishers, Patagonia, donkey penises, high seas’ genetic resources, community solar projects, stabilizing the grid, floating solar farms, Amazon, the Internet Archive, the smell of Parkinson’s, Captagon bowls, ribbon cutting out, fake profiles of attractive women, Probey McProbeface and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Chichi the Kharkiv chimpanzee, California condors, anti-coagulant rodenticides, domoic acid, bugs in warm soil, a private microgrid, correcting the courts, Christian HIV, WNBA out of Russia, decriminalizing psychedelics, menstrual cramps for men, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Mike, Mahler, and I talk about sensationalized spider language, the solar panel aqueduct, getting off coal, the family forest owner carbon market, Jackson, Mississippi, an accident, a suicide, foul play, fat trucks, the Disclose Act, Big Gaming’s misinformation, exoplanet carbon dioxide, moss piglets on the moon, tragically ugly illustrations, emotional and social maturity, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler, talk about dog tears of joy, the Australian rabbit invasion, variegated snailfish antifreeze, kelp forest otters to the rescue, endangered trees, the California Air Resources Board, the Marble Freedom Trust, Saudi groundwater hijacking in Arizona, improving photosynthesis, meth-addicted dogs running wild, smuggling reptiles, poor, broke, busted, disgusted, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about hybrid species, Tasmanian Tigers, a potentially fatal herpes virus, k-leather, illegal wildlife products, Freya the walrus, taxing the Trump Organization, Fix libel, the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, Gravity Payments, two overbearing imbeciles, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about sponge sneezes, hot female turtles, mad honey, a beluga swimming to Paris, restored electrical activity in human retinas, euthanasia for criminals, Emmett Till, climate change diseases, the Webb Space Telescope color wheel, electricity from perspiration, point-and-shoot cameras, stick shifts, Cracker Barrel sausage, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about scent appeal, pig organs, mouse embryos, smothering seaweed, vanishing snow, managed retreat, Big Oil’s big profits, space debris pollution, QAnon candidates, rainwater PFAS, the Cartwheel galaxy, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the corvid palace, the North American beaver, the hot Tour de France, heat wave Zoe, the Tyre Extinguishers, algal blooms, floating pathogens, the church over the university, necrobiotics, Alzheimer’s fraud, the Line, psychedelic naiveté, parentese, a repurposed Ferrari, robots at the Moscow Open, emu enforcement, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Moss Piglets, the cure for heart attacks, a long, never-ending plateau, COVID-19 for at least 471 straight days, Putin’s Best Ally, giant sequoias in the pyrocene, rewriting our weather history book, California gun laws, the first things to come out of the Big Bang, bananas, duct tape, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about accidentally legalizing edibles, Hamptons Bladder, COVID boosters, COVIDIOTS, wildfires in Alaska, evaporative demand, involuntary relocation, a gun insurance mandate, Griffith Park Drive, the Center for the Prevention of Distracted Driving, the modifiable risk factor movement, dinosaur feathers, the celebrity peanut vendor, Wax Boris, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the Top Ten Reasons to Hate Fireworks, GanjaChicken, jumping genes in octopuses, waiting for the green man, the Golden State’s great drying, a major setback for the EPA, how to move to Canada from U.S., Snake Island, Mrs. Roy Bryant, Bruce's Beach, Ecstasy and psilocybin at the V.A., a missing flash drive, hearing dead relative's voices, Killing in the Name, Burger King, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about success, luck, unintended vasectomies, scammer personas, sucking up all the energy from the Sun, the Corvid Palace, the independent nation of Texas, Canadian plastics, the Kitt Peak National Observatory, origami robots, Herschel Walker, surfer scholarships, firewalking, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog’s arrest, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the popcorn shortage, catnip, phylogenetic trees, the Mr. Trash Wheel Family, how a U.S. single-payer health care would have saved 338,000 lives from COVID-19, the Colorado River system, the Yellowstone National Park flood, a trans-continental aquifer system, microplastics in fresh Antarctic snow, PlookGanja, cow burps, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the James Webb Space Telescope Micrometeoroid Collision, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed, South Coast hydrologic region water-hogs, hot schools, planet-warming carbon dioxide, Social Security success, rectal cancer, Covid-sniffing dogs, the vast international horse trafficking network, the Taser drone, protecting kids from drag shows and other inappropriate displays, the human meatball, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about automated voices, Corny Johnson’s oak, Poseidon’s ribbon weed, mango shortages, allergies without COVID, asteroid algorithms, your liver, the Queen’s Guard’s hats, bad hamsters, Howard Johnson’s, Mona Lisa, ElliQ, hot dog debris, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler crab discos, mangroves, elephant eating habits, the rattlesnake boom, hanging Mike Pence, backdoor Baptists, the Supreme Court death panel, mandatory vasectomies, Foxy Biden, shoes for diabetics, app-based driver’s licenses, Vishnu, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about cat names, paying off all student loans, using your face to climb up walls, a mystery present of mystery spiders, biocrust, wet-bulb temperatures, birds with heatstroke, the future of Covid-19, active postmortem retinas, windowless cars, futbol flatulation, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about grilled cheese sandwiches, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, a downcast, straight-faced man brightened only by the yellow $34.99 price tag on his cheek, rejuvenating aging rodents, the Hurricane Gun, cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens, blank-check companies, meme stocks, California’s two largest reservoirs, nontoxic plywood glue, bats imitating hornets, Republican first-degree murderers, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the lone star tick, the Lake Mead Mafia, portable desalination, visiting asteroids, India’s heat wave, Tulsa’s concentration camps, our sorry excuse for a Supreme Court, the “jack-in-the-box” flaw, releasing California condors, Democratic primary train wrecks, MLB collusion, odd and even numbers, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Oreology, depth of field, killing contests, reptile extinction, zoonotic spillover, the electronic Twitter machine, water restriction, the definition of the word “girl,” bailing out Bezos, vault toilets, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Jack Dorsey’s crypto crash, compound eyes, catalytic converters, sinkholes in Alaska, In the Night Kitchen, Barnes & Noble, guns, ganja, typeface prohibitions, Loch Ness, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about bull testicles, invisible art, trophy animals, the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker, saving water, your father the rapist, the San Bernardino County sheriff's marijuana pay-off, forged COVID cards, the Santa Ana Police copyright infringement trap, Hitler’s life on the street, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Darwin’s notebooks, laying eggs, Monkey Queen redux, the BirdBot, a river’s liver, marine snow, houses out-earning humans, child marriages, wired baseball, the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, meatballs, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about what's important, jazz cancelling cancel culture, Warhol’s Prince Series, Koons on the moon, mushroom leather, the most distant single star ever seen, cryovolcanism, the Conger ice shelf, Burmese pythons, Austria’s “right to repair,” The Rapture, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about local mountain lions, supersized goldfish, climate change in Anza-Borrego, bugs in the trees, Antelope Valley going electric, the breadbasket of Europe, a grave failure of justice, our supremely inconsistent Supreme Court, pipeline punctures, getting high on toads, gay dogs, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about allergies during climate change, cane toads, 5G versus weather reports, poisoning bees, Lake Powell, too many trees, Sarah Bloom Raskin, Chernobyl, being careful what you ask for, Standard Time, Ai Wei Wei, smuggling snakes, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Lent, meat, alligators, the Postal Service Reform Act, diagnostic odysseys, a new DNA test, Appalachian solar installations, Lake Powell, the independent state legislature doctrine, stratospheric storage units, the Keystone XL pipeline, big cars, bats, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about turning it down, frass, Chris Burden's perpetually burning US flag, the Major League Baseball Team Owner’s Strike, defeating Russia with clean energy, Ukrainian lithium, Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, Montana’s cowardly Governor vs the mountain lion, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about a doghouse auctions at Christie’s, odor, storyliving, hot Jupiters, the Volkswagen Group ocean bonfire, smashing into the far side of the moon, uncontrollable wildfires, gas hog Louis DeJoy, bald eagles, assault rifles for kids, soccer settlements, rhinoscopies, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about metamates, kibbutzim cannabis, winter’s death, aridification, coastal flooding, solar canals, avocado protection money, Trump the chump, rejected ballots, cancelling student debt, a freaking miracle, invalid baptisms,and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the Urine Revolution, Ai Weiwei way wrong, ocean deoxygenation, thinning the forests, Woodside lions, spinal implants, trucker protests, the “shadow docket,” flushing Trump, the Confederate discount, geomagnetic storms v SpaceX, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about big dog little dog, same-sex penguin couples, the feral swine bomb, sea turtles, rogue black holes, tree biodiversity, net neutrality, knocking down Trump Art, We Stand America v The National Butterfly Center, rolling stops, California water, fat cats, the Queen’s 70th, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about monkey love triangles, succulent bamboo, frog legs, retinal scans, vapes, net metering, the Crypto Crash, new music, Neil Young v Joe Rogan, Maus, the NASA GLOBE Cloud Challenge, sausages, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Syrian wild asses, eruptions, HOA wildfire CC&Rs, Curiosity on Mars, Arnold’s solar panels, Elephants eating plastic, DirecTV dumping OAN, Rule 202, political blunts in Louisiana, 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, the Association for Dressings and Sauces, Franz Kafka, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about joint custody of a dog, COVID Cannabis, Cronutt the sea lion, the future pig-heart recipient, moonwater, hot oceans, bouncing back to Armageddon, Republican betrayals, Oath Keepers in jail, Cyber Ninjas folding, gleefully watching the insurrection, not fit for office, a Stand Your Ground Prius, Allen Toussaint Boulevard, a rangy lefty, a Sicilian dinner, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about banned words, talking to dogs, water restrictions, the Swedish Psychological Defense Agency, Fascist Facebook Groups, drunk driving detectors, McDonalds in Rome, the Pulitzer manuscript scam, cat arsonists, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Psycho Killer Alexa, Mamie’s Jazz Hounds, a universal flu vaccine, renaming schizophrenia, zombie fires, deceiving investors, the stupidest year in American history, cancelling student debt now, the heaviest drinkers in the animal kingdom, lickable TV, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about witchcraft, how the English are French, an avian chart topper, James Brown’s will, Eric Clapton’s selfishness, the Commander in Chief of Your Choice, what’s left of the border wall, the Pillar of Shame, third graders re-enacting the Holocaust, Amazon in China, the Sackler drug family performance art piece, horseshoe crabs, swimming pigs, sea snot, and then some.
On this week’s episode Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about, using tools and language skills, plastic-eating bugs, beaver damage, lead in the water, all-electric cities, touching the sun, rerouting asteroids, Fox News psychopaths, the Ku Klux Klan Act, Newsom calls their bluff, Meta groping, deepfake abuse, brain surgeons, rocket scientists, and then some.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about smoke-tainted grapes, salmon sperm, X-rays in space, athletic mice, the rights of nature, dragonflies, Hawaiian snow, climate spending, California gas, a term-limited supreme court, cocaine in the U.K., camel beauty contestants, magic brownies, and then some.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about fungus, Republicans on drugs, a spiritual attack from the enemy, the Smithsonian underwater, people of concern, a lithium rush, Caligula’s party yacht,an impure trend, and then some.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Albatross, Un-Real Estate, The Cyberspace Administration of China, a public nuisance, backsliding democracies, Omarova, Ukraine’s borders, marine oxygen levels, marijuana taxes, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, Judas, and so on.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about beer, orb weavers, Vizio, Crypto, DIY, COP26, Oil leases, Malcolm X, hopscotch, and then some.
Mike, Mahler, and Nathan talk about DeathScience.org, piranhas, Pacific Standard Time, digital nomads, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, greenhouse gas, state secrets, the Bigleaf Maple, and then some.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about having 500 teeth, a warning to deer hunters, the cancer map, the non-delegation doctrine, Smartmatic, open carry, Meta and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about dinosaur socials, Big John, Pismo Beach, cocaine hippos, the world's first tourism destination inspired by offshore oil platforms, solar sheep, Space Adventures, the Museum of Forgeries, state failure, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about onions, candycorn, In-N-Out COVID, pig kidneys, Kyrsten Sinema, intercontinental ballistic missiles, Robot Rifle Dogs, and more
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about bird songs, Olympic lies, low-hanging fruit, the Magic Kingdom’s caste system, golf guzzlers,and more.
Nathan, Mike and Mahler discuss electrical charging roads, brain pacemakers, Google Fire, psychedelics, the oil leak, bumblebees, The Pandora Papers, and more.
On their first live show since the COVID-19 shutdown of KUCI studios, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler discuss Cats: the musical, heating your testicles, fire fighting satellites, Mr. Goxx (the crypto-trading hamster), ivermectin, the California State Cannabis Derby, John Eastman’s memo, the word “performative,” Louis DeJoy’s Post Office death wish, Ancient human footprints, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle chlamydia, memories, cheap solar, Brent crude oil, electric hand dryers, cutting the CDC budget, the payroll tax cut, Trump emoluments, coffee, chocolate, malaria, blazars, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle rats, water world, Sagittarius A-Star, the hottest ever, good billionaires, Goks uncertainty language, Crypto AG, Public banks, bad polling places, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle pedestrians, space junk, Gray Whale solar storms, permafrost relief, The Frontier Project, dairy cows, phytomining, poor jobs/good jobs, Title X, Richard Grenell, every possible melody, Gif/Jif, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle car-sized turtles, the second quantum revolution, the marijuana-beer coalition, seaweed fuel, fooling Tesla, Trump’s EPA, unpriced risk, whale poop, the military’s climate crisis, the right to repair, data privacy, polygamy, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle vision implants, autonomous cars, solar-powered desalination, the world's biggest iceberg, global systemic collapse, raiding renewable energy, Trump’s repugnant budget, the defenders of foreign interference, Nazi architecture, small cannabis farming, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle monkey-wrenching Google Maps, killing bee mites, shutting down coal, abrupt thaw, night panels, Humboldt wind power, the National Censored Archives Redux, El Salvador asylum seekers, the Finnish Dream, decriminalizing nature and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle boiling plasma, Mr. Peanut, flash graphene, the green accelerator, input footprints, cow farts, monarch butterflies, cock fight losers, forever chemicals, sustainable roofs, a blatant political manipulation of science, 5G, your local library, falling iguanas, and more.
On his birthday — fifteen years ago this February 1st — the late, great Terry Jones, founding member of Monty Python's Flying Circus took time out to talk to Mike and me about his latest bit of writing, a collection of columns brought together in his then-newly published book, "The War on the War on Terror," which targets, with wit and venom, the Anglo-American response to September 11.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle the platypus, scorpions, cancer cures, the ozone hole, new bad plastic, low-tech cities, the Green Gold Rush, the Truth About the Trump Economy, West Point porn, the National Censored Archives, free tuition, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Paltrow's vagina products, unique intelligence, engineered living materials, the ginkgo biloba tree, 5 Hiroshima bombs of heat, the cost of renewable energy, floating wind farms, daylight saving time, Canada v U.S. health care costs, memory impairment, squirrels, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle new cannabinoids, renewable Fukushima, cleaner air smart students, bad almonds, quasi-immortality, fact hacks, the Hofeller Update, Trump’s demons, leaf blowers, the Y2020 bug, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Amazons, garbage in garbage out, peace through climate change, The Tomb, Citizens United, Exvangelicals, Michelangelo's David, bats, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle composting toilets, DNA tests, drunk teens, pre-meditated bone-sawing, climate change-denying railroads, Trump squared, hacking the election, traditional voter suppression, dim bulbs, tomatoes on Mars, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle little punks, Trump pork, the larynx, Ohio methane, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, the Madrid morass, supertrees with superpowers, a better battery, a bad China deal, dot-orgs, swiping for gas, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle cowboy pigeons, the long night moon, fish antibiotics, deoxygenation, the Church of Atheism, oil subsidies, drunk Wisconsin, blue energy, the Forever War, #flushtrump, the odds on the president, anti-voting laws, Satanism, MERMAIDS, and more.
Special guest co-host Claudia Shambaugh, Nathan, and Mahler tackle robocalls, hacking the census, charging for asylum, Utah’s refugees, no food on the table, punishing the innocent, Republicans in Moscow on the Fourth of July, Putin’s encyclopedia, the Pentagon’s climate crisis, deer in the headlights, and more.
Nathan, Mike, & Mahler tackle executive privilege, Richard Nixon’s Treason, protests in Iran, Bologna, a list of the 5 absolute dumbest places, natural organic reduction, infectious deforestation, dogs driving in reverse, & more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle laughing gas, permafrost melt, fish wrap, the right to repair, the Squad, Iran in Iraq, Putin’s kill switch, peak oil, the electoral college, suspended animation, more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Neil Young, marijuana, Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease, flooding the Basilica, Australian wildfires, zero carbon, Germany’s coal, your private medical records, impeachment confusement, the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act, microbial fermentation, elephant dung gin, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle vulturine guineafowl, untold suffering, marginal choices, bitumen, a liquid molecule, Sudden Oak Death, intact forests, The Hostile Takeover of P G & E, Multinational mergers, cerebrospinal fluid washes, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle zombie flies, revenge porn, rising seas, five reasons the climate crisis is the worst environmental problem the world has ever faced, salt tolerant crops, poly anthraquinone, Lithium, Day Zero, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle prime editing, soda jerks, avocado cartels, proforestation, troubled water, The Northeast Pacific Marine Heat Wave of 2019, California cap-and-trade, election security, Zuckerberg’s fifth estate, AI job interviews, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle blue light, many-headed slime, opioid fungus, decomposing polystyrene, kinetic energy, the green economy, renewables, air-conditioning the outdoors, nuclear hostages, 30,000 satellites, MyShake, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle living longer with dogs, noise killings, methane fountains, catastrophic oil, arresting Giuliani, Russian Trump, the Kurds, the Army of Jesus, fast food wrappers, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle arguing bats, mass-producing psilocybin , wide-track microplastics, septic floods, Ukraine in the dark, raw bribery, state Net Neutrality, Suckerberg Zucking, Kavanaugh-Kollins, Planet 9 black hole, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle chessmaster workouts, spider ballooning, sea level rising, neurodiversity, Greta Derangement Syndrome, Trump bailouts, food stamp hunger, the global disinformation order, Bitcoin at Bakkt, quantum supremacy, Machu Picchu and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle massive mass, Greater Adria, climate wars, the anti-Green New Deal Supreme Court, UC Fossil Free, carbon sucking algae, the pro-Republican Electoral College, justice… or just us?, the UAW and Trump, Bezos on testosterone, and more., and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle anti-aging cannabinoids, foot painters, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, three eco-cities of the future, Trump’s War on the Economy, emoluments, homelessness, known or suspected terrorists, Caucasia, juiced balls, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle divine mysteries, the AC feedback loop, the cryosphere, the Money Saving Green New Deal, light bulbs, Trump’s economic suicide, the Deutsche Bank impeachment, the gerrymander ruling, Boris Johnson, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle concentration camp funds, hurricane relief, methane madness, Russian reactors, building a new grid, Amazon BS, the dieback, climate denying Pentecostals, the DNC cop out, G7 embarrassment, because of sex, opioid fines, Death Row, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle bad algorithms, Brazilian bees, burping cows, guerilla gardening, the Ok memorial, buying Greenland, the National Security Eagle Award for Bigotry, sick Supremes, animal overpasses, botched castrations, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle the inner ear, killer algae, earthquake foreshocks, snow droughts, plastic rain, wind power, identity extremists, Turkmenistan, Russian Pathology, the banana crisis and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle water shortages, food shortages, land management, brain drains, solar shakes, Joshua trees, Ethiopia, Kashmir, FedNow, keeping cool, insurance love, 547 teeth, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle humanimals, inter-species sex, Asteroid 2019 OK, Climate Crisis Part One, the Beatrice offshore wind farm, the capital gains tax cut for the wealthy, white Americans, the new Toady of National Intelligence, Marianne Williamson, robot cage fights, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Facebook fines, man in the middle, heat, superbugs, California’s Clean Air deal, microplastics, Dishonest Donald, what we already knew about the Mueller Report, Republican election interference, Sleepy Wilbur, feeding humans, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle meth-gators, our facist racist rapist, heat indexes, climate crisis denier research, climate action co-benefits, the debt ceiling, stacking the courts, the Religious Freedom agenda, Heirs' Property expropriation, election hackers, black holes, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle crickets, maggots, bees, the University of Alaska, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador digs coal, multi-stage membrane distillation, diplomats, the racial wealth gap, the FCC, the tampon tax, average lifespans, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle the decline of coal, USA plastics, bio-based recycling, iguanas, running out of water, desalination, Big Oilgate, the Arctic ring of fire, student loan debt vs Republican tax cut, HIV CRISPR, HOV Las Vegas, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle brain energy, suing Universal, Canafornia, a screaming heat skull of death, continental shelf aquifers, Republican terrorists, emoluments, the Trump Leadership Council, satellite spies, the Fair Pay To Play Act, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle skeletons, EmDrive, the Recycling Update, fossil fuel subsidies, Boaty McBoatface, permafrost, anthrax, the EPA, Jared Kushner, Deutsche Bank, a shrinking moon, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Silk Road potheads, Neolithic artificial islands, Saudi Salvator Mundi, the Arctic Circle, DOD climate change, McConnell Chao, the NRA sinking, Eric Princes Gulf of Tonkin, Karl Malone, corruption in Brazil, a win for No More Deaths, the biggest disaster in the history of the music business, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle brain cells, Mount Everest, radioactive coffins, the unsinkable aircraft carrier, European elections, the master of gerrymandering, busy Democrats, molecules of US freedom, Fakebook, insect aliens, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle stainless steal rabbits, holes in the Milky Way, photosynthesis, killing your lawn, pardoning war criminals, legislative function, the last slave ship, Baltimore hackers, Oreos, LSD, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle talking to God, creating life, melting icebergs, hate for profit, illiberal democracy, the Christchurch call to action, the postwar order, North Korean missiles, the Families Over Fees Act, facial recognition, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle magic mushrooms, mass extinction, the climate gap, the bug apocalypse, California trumps Trump, coral reefs, Jay Inslee, fetuses in jail, obstruction, grifting, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle the Human Driving Association, offshore drilling, the Arctic Council, Jakarta underwater, Carbon-sucking plants, DDoS attacks, Oliver “Crack Whore” North, Deutsche Bank subpoenas, very fine basketball people, marijuana atheletes, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle synthetic speech, the first molecule, Alaska’s warmest spring, floatovoltaics, sexual violence in war, the citizenship question, Russia in Kentucky, the renter vote, the California Consumer Privacy Act, Ice Nine, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle BrainEx, fundamentalist brain damage, cloud forests, the blob, the boy, the Progressive Caucus, ethical concerns, the Three Stooges of John Bolton, Trump’s malicious veto, Billy Barr’s dog and pony show, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle, fake black holes, a solid liquid, methane suckers, thermal batteries, Norwegian crude, Chinese lumber, Dark Patterns, Cuban baseball, LACMA, a psilocybin playlist, and more.
Special guest host Claudia Shambaugh, Nathan, and Mahler tackle the Three Stooges, the Great Barrier Reef grief, carbon capture, wind, contaminated pork, cruel, unusual, stacking the courts, schoolyard debate, Mitch the Xitch, trading avocados, Anita Hill, groove research, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle The Scream, strobe lights, velociraptors, deep trouble, Obama-fixation Care, White House redactions, The Sackler Drug Cartel, AI predictions, ethical EVs, speeding up baseball, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle cheese, the lungs of the planet, waves in the mid-west, drilling dangers, impeaching Brett Kavanaugh, the Fox News Bubble, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, Goggle bad, the Stoned Ape Hypothesis, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle picking your nose, coal ash, honey, the climate window, basic income, the “Save the Internet Act,” breaking up monopolies, sound proofing, actors, rich bastards, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle toilet paper, Corinthian Colleges, ocean oxygen levels, the March 15 School Strike for Climate, Nafta 0.8, the fringe presidency, sociopathic behavior, another nuclear option, the Tinderbox of Europe, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle dumb seniors, stratocumulus clouds, photosynthesis, carbon to coal, Israeli snipers, India v Pakistan, the Poor People’s Campaign, tax returns, student loans, ignorant SUV owners, distracted pedestrians, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle young blood, dirty water, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Citizenship test, zombie deer, hanging all of them, domestic terror, holding the bag, the witch hunt, genetically modified brains, polypropylene, light-sabers, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle phony presidents, insect Armageddon, Australian cattle, carbon footprint Coke, semitism, payday loans, civil service, the Great Firewall of Russia, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle God, Antarctica, Davos, oligarchic money laundering, Trump vs Intelligence, Mitch McConnell, Venezuela, the Hillbilly Heroin Family, Pai’s Net, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle the statistic of the year, groundwater, teachers, global antacid, melting carbon, dying of thirst, rich bastards, erectile dysfunction, President Goodbrain’s inaugural, Have I Been Pwned, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle pollinators, warming oceans, Theresa May, @WomenForCohen, Putin’s favorite industrialist, Russian Home Schooling, Zero Tolerance, Free Cash Flow, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle frustration, cybersecurity shutdowns, The Apprentice, Manafort’s lawyers, California FEMA funds, Facebook, the Right to Repair, THC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle New Year’s resolutions, solar farms, rolling coal, copyrighting Mickey Mouse, Louis C.K. WOKE, Saudi child soldiers, the deadly desert, 9/11 victims, small robots, the Chinese moon, Clark the eagle, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle subterranean farms, hypersonic military budgets, Shanahan, Mattis, bonespurs, suckers, the shutdown, Anak Krakatau, genocide, Oumuamua, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Dermophis donaldtrumpi, solar tariffs, Donald’s foundation, Christian nationalists, a privatized VA, Texas judges, pulling out of Syria, Mueller’s moneymaker, cannabis, Farout, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle chickens, the Family, deep life, clean water, internet ignorance, gambling with your pension, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Albert Einstein, Crabs, Fukushima, holiday fruitcake, hamburgers, crab fishermen, deafening seismic surveys, Fukushima Foods, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Hitler, springtime growth, tsunamis, Okinawa, we fell in love, tagger drones, the Trump Death Cult, Stormy, Brett, Bart, the GRU, USMCA, Wilbur Ross, Amazon, a small loan of a million dollars, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle caterpillar robots, storm surge, coal ash, Acapulco cartels, drone hobbyists, blacking out, the 25th Amendment, green cards, grizzly bears, bomb trains, cartoon evidence, a “sexually violent predator,” stoned lobsters, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle octopuses, nuclear pasta, the marathon, waste lagoons, the Korean War, Fort Trump, mind drones, a high school party, intelligence, tariff rates, refugees, Wilbur Ross, the Music Modernization Act, the Texas State Board of Education, The Uranus Examiner, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Pussy Riot, pig shite, a grotesque parody of justice, a pot smoking hippie, methane gas, 12,800 migrant children, shekels, sex for influence, Dasani on Mars, used jets, capricious DeVos, Moonves, orgies, bear repellent, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle female monkeys, Brazil’s National Museum, Elephant poachers, Kinder Morgan, Fear, Duterte, Venus Drone Traps, Kavanaugh’s dodging, Booker’s dare, crazytown, The Stop Bezos Act, sleeping on the streets, Kaepernick, The Village Voice, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle CBD, monster galaxies, carbon-freedom, coal, a grave scandal, NAFTA, Daniel Ortega, elephant drones, a fantastic job, Mexican heritage, Andrew Gillum, Kenneth Starr, superdelegates, rats, pool noodles, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Neanderthals, moon ice, Catholics, coffee drones, Trump sex, criminal conspiracies, flipping, Pecker, a brave man, Kavanaugh’s question, the Steele dossier, Duncan Hunter, the Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act, arming schools, throttling firefighters, boa constrictors, and more.
Nathan, Mike, & Mahler tackle robots, cell phone addiction, drone tort laws, the opioid epidemic, the Unite the Right protest, Catholic priests, Christine Hallquist, Omarosa, fentanyl, your Google location data, environmental terrorism, pizza, & more.
Nathan, Mike and Mahler tackle auto racing, abortion in Argentina, Russian poisonings, glowing orbs, assassin drones, Donny Jr., tax fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, insider trading, the “blue wave”, Alex Jones, wildfires, public defecation, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler, tackle water vapor, WhatsApp, Chinese censors, Spanish cabbies, the pope, the Nevada Drone Center of Excellence for Public Safety, tariffs, emissions, the religious liberty task force, plastic guns, the enemy of the people, Henry Kissinger, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Martian microbes, the Arctic Circle wildfire, ticks, Mexican journalists, a former cricket star, a missile-engine test site, origami drones, soccer balls, security clearances, when the grid goes down, the fixer, tariffs, Ivanka, “Who Is America?”, toad licking, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle crocodiles, ghost particles, Android, the Taliban, rescue drones, intelligence, the Magnitsky Act, Maria “NRA” Butina, Dark Money, mass deportations, coal, Kushner, meat inspections, dividing California, bone-dry pine needles, woodchucks, and more.
Nathan, Mike, & Mahler tackle Santa Claus, breastfeeding, gangster nukes, the best jets, the best missiles, the best guns, the best everything, business boy Brett, the Flores agreement, Manafort’s jump suit, pardoning arsons, 4,000 horny soldiers, & more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Superman, fisheries, wildfires, AMLO, Pinochet, Open Arms, Novichok, Poland, war, potholes, meddling, a Russian asset, Justin Kennedy, zero ICE, the fixer, Pot Screw-It, plastic straws, Taco Bell, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle the marshmallow test, God as a son of a bitch, Little Rocket Man, the Dove drone, Goodbye Roe v Wade, the credit card tax, tactical pants, Harley-Davidson, Ocasio-Cortez, Disney, marijuana, civility, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle avocados, nocturnal animals, Canadian weed, hydrogenated nanodiamonds, human rights, separating families, Droney the Bear, the Space Force, the farm bill, firefighting foam, internet taxes, blood-testing, Tronc, and more.
Special guest Claudia Shambaugh, Nathan, & Mahler tackle LSD, plastics pollution, the Island of Death from Behind, Reykjavik drones, JeffBo Sessions, an alternate universe, London Breed, Hillbilly Heroin, not net neutrality, & more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle lizards, Mars, plastics, fruit bats, Slovenia, Daniel Ortega, AI drones, God Bless America, the primaries, EPA Chick-fil-A, gay cakes, pardoning yourself, migrant children, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ZTE, FEMA, Miss America, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle rice, Irish abortion, Pakistan trans, the EU, Brazilian truckers, FARC, the resurrected journalist, Mano Dura, volcano drones, gambling banks, a real catastrophe, tariffs, the Environmental Pollution Agency, JeffBo’s orders, no spy, Martha Stewart, the ERA, porn, flame throwers, Alexa’s screw-up, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle drug sniffing dogs, the world’s biomass, Saudi feminists, the not-so trade war, tremendous anger, open hostility, a glider drone, Dodd-Frank, risky loans, barring journalists, separation of powers, Trump blocks, Ollie’s Ritalin, kneeling for the anthem, alligators, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle cute puppies, cocaine, Europa, Catalan, false positives, Ebola, ZTE, Jerusalem, the not-so summit, Flight Goggles, torture, net neutrality, immigrant children, carbon monitoring, a public relations nightmare, The Cambridge Analytica Family, DeVos DeVry, and more
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle nudists, air pollution, the world’s oldest prime minister, Iran, Black Cube, test drones, Russian oligarchs, Essential Consultants, AT&T, dirty boy, torture, zero tolerance, TPS, Pot Screw It, Schneiderman, primaries, Be Best, Ollie’s NRA, McCain, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle mice, the New Arctic, the Windrush generation, a bad day for journalists, Hobby Lobby smugglers, Droney the Bear, the Questions, Giuliani’s flub, Dr. Ronny, Dr. Deadhead, “Screw it” Pruitt , ICE, Uber, Roy Moore, Charlie Rose, parasites, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle chocolate, bats, rising sea levels, Macron, Armenia, the world's first penis and scrotum transplant, a wedding party, King Salman’s drone, the Fixer, the Travel Ban, Dr. Ronny, the NASA climate change denier, fajitas, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle lifting your leg, sunset, Polish logging, Kinder Morgan, the Castro’s, Pompeo, Russia sanctions, being the drone, Hannity, Stormy, a hoax, moral fitness, arbitrary power, auto lenders, a cone of silence, an act of conscience, Alabama’s accomplice law, the father of gynecology, hemp, Starbucks, and more
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Night Owls, the Gulf Stream, Kinder Morgan, interfaith marriage, Gaza, major decisions, Access Hollywood, retiring Ryan, Brown v. Board of Education, Pruitt’s death threats, Zuckerberg, the Tribune, the Post, Blazing Boehner, Backpage.com, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle galaxies, flat earth surveys, Antarctica, caravans, el-Sisi, Kashmir, Syria, Google drones, trade wars, dead DACA, firing Pruitt, targets and subjects, qualified immunity, de Lozada, Sinclair lies, democratic wins, necessary force., and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle rubber duckies, a falling Chinese satellite, expelling diplomats, de-nuclearization, drone escorts, CPR, the second amendment, Saudi Arabia, Trump’s thought processes, the Census, abortion death penalty, Kusher, Transgender troops, Stormy, sexual harassment, ICE, Facebook, Offspring, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Kahlo Barbie, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the last male northern white rhinoceros, Putin pine nuts, the United Nations' World Happiness Report, Trump tariffs, the budget, McCabe, Dowd, Kushner the landlord, FEMA deniers, Fox News, Uber death, iPhone gun, Republican Nazi, Cambridge Analytica, Oprah, and more.
Nathan, Mike, & Mahler tackle a $100,000-a-month cocaine habit, an eye-roll, a badge of honor, a fairy tale, chemical weapons, pollination drones, subpoenas, Dodd-Frank, Russian hackers, Conor Lamb, the Space Force, Broadcom, drug dealers, Toys R Us, & more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler reconfigure body odors, the moon, Archbishop Óscar Romero, Sri Lanka, the Koreas, Tantalum, the clueless, the careless, the criminal, a piece of the Oval Office, drunken live interviews, hazardous waste, gun control measures, Jeffbo, Stormy, severe turbulence, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle the universe, Uber, Emperor Xi Jinping, Taliban peace talks, more Yemen, nuclear weapons smorgesborg, Hope Hicks, a bad family owned business, a $5,000 chair, afraid of the NRA, Trump the racist, Unions, Hurricane Maria, killing drug dealers, Feinstein, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle curling, the Arctic, Rio de Janeiro, McMaster, fat America, Russians, Manafort, Junior in India, pornography, arming teachers, impeding critical infrastructure, toxic water, copyright infringement, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle chickens, Alzheimer's, Oromo, Oxfam, Duterte, Korea, the Red Pheasant First Nation in Saskatchewan, Benny Netanyahu, Syria, Infrastructure Week, food stamps, guidance documents, Russian meddling, DACA, ICE, domestic violence, Stormy Daniels’ payoff, gun control, Title IX, Anglo-American heritage, Mark Twain, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle tigers, crayfish, super-wood, dog meat, the Dow, Tesco, Ernst & Young, street drones, the budget, the memo, FEMA fraud, a man of true integrity and honor, good global warming, the deferment parade, cake, and more.
Nathan, Mike, & Mahler tackle Nutella, carnival beads, ivory, Nazis, black site jogging, the Drone Lab, FBI kerfluffles, oligarchs, sex drug tests on children, CDC tobacco, SOTU, resigning Republicans, mental healthcare, oil extraction, deepfakes, & more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle botox camels, Lula, Davos, Saudi arms, smog drones, women marching, DACA, Ty Cobb, morons, sanctuary cities, the Federal Reserve, solar panels, job experience, gerrymandering, OxyContin, USA Gymnastics, net neutrality, inciting violence, golden toilets, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle musical brains, Team Korea, sea lions, saiga antelopes, Cape Town, drunk droning, nuclear cyberattacks, false alarms, DACA, White Norway, Mute Bannon, National Parks, action plans, net neutrality, Trump Porn, perfect health, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle butterflies, turtles, bats, mudslides, abortion, Kushner, Libor, gerrymandering, coal, immigration, 7-Eleven, Fusion GPS, Bye-Bye Bannon, surveillance, Medicaid, racist sheriffs, blackmail, a full rack of ribs, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle women in Iceland, banished words, desertification, Ethiopia, Iran protests, Palestine, big buttons, flying a blender, cracking an egg, voter suppression, marine monuments, offshore drilling, Orrin Hatch, ICE, the 2020 Census, fracking, marijuana and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle blue super moons, extreme precipitation, high humidity, ocean Armageddon, the Rohingya, the disappeared, Fujimori, suicide bombs, Mubarak, Sea Shepherd, nursing homes, McCabe, Republican pedophiles, “a lot richer,” Trump lies, whistleblowing, travel bans, Miss America, Library of Congress tweets, Point Conception, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle the Supreme Leader's birthday, the Global Warming Winter Olympics, ballot counting, Refugees welcome, Maria’s death count, Aung San Suu Kyi’s genocide, execution Chinese-style, Argentina, Ukraine, shark spotting drones, The Loot the Treasury Act of 2017, DREAMers, Mueller stay, Uranium One, word bans, no experience necessary, UFOs, The Cliven Bundy clan, net neutrality, de-carbonization, frozen embryos, and more
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle synesthesia, upstream oil, Honduras, Duterte, Ethiopia, the Gaza Strip, edible drones, a tax deal, Alabama, Special Counsel II, Net Neutrality, Mars, unqualified nominees, sexual harassment, 21st Century Fox, dead trees, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle black holes, de-evolution, wildfires, Nasralla, Olympic drugging, cluster bombs, the Anti-Christ, Jerusalem, drunk droning, sex allegations, CVS, avocados, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle smart dogs, The Climate State, Mount Agung, poison cocktails, the Pope, death flights, Somalia, North Korea, fragmenting drones, the crappy tax code, the State Department, guns, cell phones, Britain First, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Pocahantas, Koch Time, inappropriate behavior, Project Veritas, Word of the Year, butt selfies, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Cockatoos, the flat earth, cigar asteroids, loss of the night, Mugabe, Merkel, Rohingya, Ratko, Putin’s win, net neutrality, sanctuary cities, Keystone XL, census fools, Trump’s thank you, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle bagpipes, plastics, marriage equality, fascists, Duterte, a secret deal, Martian drones, tax reform, UrineGate, Trump Jr., groping, elephants, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the “untold story,” Napolitano cheating, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle sheep, genetically modified skin, dinosaurs, the “Heavenly Palace,” the ozone layer, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, an “act of war,” Trump in China, Uber Elevate, Blue Tuesday, the Paradise Papers, inequality, AT&T’s choice, chunky soccer moms, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Neanderthals, the Pliocene epoch, sexual harrassment, breast measurements, body parts, the Green Zone, nuclear attacks, peeping drones, bond007, UrineGate, the Diversary Lottery, transgender troops, the Book of Joshua, Robert E. Lee, Castro, Whitefish, OxyContin, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle roadside prayer, Bad Rabbit, climate ignorance, Whitefish Energy, Article 9, Michel Temer, Burma, Niger, drones aplenty, sin, suing banks, the budget, the main studio rule, the dossier, the GEO Group, opioids, DeVos, David Cop-a-Feel, white nationalism, MBAmerica, and more
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle kilonovas, insect biomass, WPA2, Catalonia, Togo, indiscriminate killings, Mogadishu, Larry Flynt, the travel ban, the ACA, the DNC, the opioid epidemic, climate change denial, jailing journalists, Peter Navarro, deranged animals, Bergdahl, the necessity defense, nonbinaries, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle the ozone layer, Catalonia, Putin’s birthday the sonic hoax, the Sixties Scoop, the Red Cross, the nuclear deal, the White Widow, the Clean Dirty Plan, junk insurance, UNESCO, Puerto Rico, adult day care, the First Amendment, unraveling, Russian agents, Blackwater, the Boy Scouts, California fires, Weinstein, Pence, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Snakes, Greenland, fracking, Catalonia, Aung San Suu Kyi, anal examinations, sonic attacks, morons, CHIP, net neutrality, Murphy Oil, the NSA hacks, Ivanka and Donnie Jr.’s shenanigans, a real catastrophe, bump stocks, EPA pesticides, abortion hypocrisy, sanctuary states, love, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle women drivers, Angela Merkel, Interpol, drone sabotage, taking a knee, Graham-Cassidy, the wall, Puerto Rico, a tax plan for the wealthy, blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, infrastructure, Zinke action, private email servers, Flat Earthers, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Samueli’s gift, Mexico’s quake, Suu Kyi, cholera, Military money, barking dogs, the Iran nuclear deal, stomach-tubing, the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill, DACA suit, Manafort, Rose Atoll, Equifax, Satan's plan, Fox News rape footprints.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle monkey selfie settlements, Chinese typhoons, Irma, Elon Musk, Aung San Suu Kyi, rabid dogs, Guantánamo, Bahrain, drone taggers, Jemele Hill, Medicare-for-all, DACA tweets, civil asset forfeiture, Russian Trump Facebook events, the health institutes, the Hopester, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle canine self-awareness, 27 distinct categories of emotion, Harvey, Irma, wildfires, chemical weapons, the Rohingya, space drones, fake facebook, DACA, Chuck and Nancy, NASA, sexual assault, blood samples, and more.
Nathan, Mike and Mahler tackle Buddhist robots, Fast Radio Bursts, plastic bags in Kenya, Climate Change flooding, drug wars, freedom of the press, Bangladesh, the Taliban, not talking, beer drones, Trump Models, Harvey, Fire Ants, Arpaio’s concentration camp, sanctuary cities, ICE sexual assaults, DACA, militarizing the police, Blackwater in the Grey Lady, transgender follies, Sater, Schneiderman, Apple, Nazi sheriffs, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Permafrost, nationalizing banks, the Gaza Strip, Okinawa, the USS John S. McCain, Afghanistan, meth drones, the American Dream Beauty Pageant, clean coal, Christopher Columbus, Oath Keepers, Stephen the Barbarian, Trump golf cart rentals, the transgender ban, Energy Transfer Partners, Juggalos, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Pantone Prince, insect meatballs, a hot July, an Amazon Highway, Duterte’s War on Drugs, "foolish Yankees”, Dog Drones, Charlottesville Nazis, Robert E. Lee, #TrumpTrain!!, “radical changes”, business councils, Bannon clowns, the Klan, Arpaio, TrumpCare, DreamHost, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle chimpanzees, piglets, sweltering heat,Maduro, Uhuru Kenyatta, fire and fury, Mosul, Yemen’s blockade, war crimes, genocide, Blackwater, gun-wielding drones, climate change, the Manafort raid, an inflatable chicken, race traitors, leaking, genitals, "the most hated man in America," and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle cat food, Steve Bartman, planetary protection officers, dead zones, Temer, Maduro, missiles, diplomats, golf, Scaramucci, the Trump police, Health Care, the RAISE Act, anti-white bias, the Dump House, dysfunctional collusion, Seth Rich, Arpaio, marijuana, UCI admissions, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle personal chip inplants, the robot debate, cholera, Duterte’s bombs, Israel’s metal detectors, Afghanistan’s mineral deposits, defibrillator drones, the Boy Scout Jamboree, the transgender military ban, skinny repeal, “crazy” Trump, same sex civil rights, The Mooch, the ambassador to Religious Freedom, football brains, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle brainwaves, teleportation, Fukushima waste, Venezuela, Saudi miniskirts, the great firewall of China, Gaza, Bashar al-Assad, collective punishment, drone noise, Wealth Care, an eighth person, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, NAFTA, election security, student debt, liquid meth, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle caterpillars, DNA, gonorrhea, the Earth’s sixth mass extinction, the G20 summit, Putin hacking, Lula, Mosul, Libya, Blackwater, tree drones, Junior’s emails, impeachment, Health Care redux, Comey’s replacement, Republican education, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, net neutrality, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle class looks, phonograph records, millipedes, the kilogram, Quatar, Omar Khadr, the Group of 20, Nicolás Maduro, Western civilization, North Korea’s gift, Pesticide drones, the Declaration of Independence, Justice Department resignations, Betsy DeVos,and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle chocolate, lobsters, cyberattacks, hanged in the Netherlands, nuclear reactors, Venezuelan terrorism, gearing up for war, Wienerdrones, Wealthcare, the Russia Probe, the refugee ban, church v state, Scaramucci, the EPA, Carrier, Reality Leigh Winner, the Ten Commandments, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle memories, heartbeats, tiny crossbows, climate change, Cuba, King Salman, Kushner, the Great Mosque of al-Nuri, Georgia 6, poor people, Comey tapes, lawyer up, Flynn blackmail, RNC hack, gerrymandering, trademarks, Philando Castile, Uber Goober, Ken dolls, and more.
Special guest co-host Claudia Shambaugh joins Nathan and Mahler to tackle London burning, Russian protests, cholera, Qatar flip-flop, white phosphorus, troops in the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, dragonfly drones, obstruction of justice, suing Trump, high praise, retro-Cuba, Sessions v Harris, the “COVFEFE” Act, net neutrality, Flint, Standing Rock, Wells Fargo’s crime, Puerto Rican statehood, religious warriors, Julius Caesar, and more.
Nathan, Mahler, and Mike tackle human fossils, T. Rex, the cat serial killer, massive floods, Agua Zarca, London tweets, Qatar, illegal logging drones, loyalty, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, Reality Winner, the FBI, impeachment, air traffic control, Eric’s rip-off, body slamming, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Trump the Climate Clown, Uber strikes, Palestinian prisoners, Colombia, Duterte the rapist, murder, mayhem, amorous camels, Komrad Kushner, Flynn, Nunes, Nigel Farage, covfefe, Merkel, Cuba, Wells Fargo, LeBron James, Portland, Tamir Rice, TigerSwan, fake tweets, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle elephants, the european link, Vatican Trump, the CIA in China, the DEA in Honduras, Rouhani, Duterte, Kashmir, Pentagon hijinks, the Padre drone, Russia in the White House, Comey’s mistake, the Budget, Notre Dame, Body Slam Gianforte, gerrymandering, pigeon mules, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle orangutans, microbubbles, WannaCry, the global gag rule, Javier Valdez, cholera, drone geese, Comey, Russia, Flynn, “no politician in history,” Erdogan thugs , "subhuman creeps,” Chelsea, Puerto Rico, voter suppression, the EPA, Target balls, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler tackle Poopootov cocktails, glaciers, Macron, investor visas, blasphemy, Mogadishu, cholera, Black Mamba, Yates, the FBI, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, a showboat, Kislyak, an "idiot," calling the Department of Justice at 202-353-1555, 13 White Republicans, methane, the travel alert, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the austerity, Putin, chemical weapons, famine, drone injuries, health care, standing by nothing, the Civil War, political churches, James Comey, mass surveillance, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about reen women, baby blood, France, abortions in international waters, the Poconos, Nuclear Korea, Mad Dog, Mar-a-Promo-Lago, net neutrality, sanctuary cities, Michael Flynn, Ivanka’s crap, UC Ripoff, NAFTA, national monuments, Luciano Pavarotti, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Theresa May, ExxonMobil, Somalia, Jehovah's Witnesses, Trump/Erdogan, the armada, terrorist drones, Ivanka’s crap, visitor logs DREAMers, Chaffetz, Ossoff, White Devils, Arkansas, faking drugs, radicals, Patriots, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about cannibalism, Britney Spears, Rex T, Shell Oil, the mother of all bombs, Kashmir, real estate drones, Bannon, Hitler, unmasking, Manafort, Carter Page, reaccomodation, clawback, prejudice, voter ID laws, education privatization, X-Men, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Ecuador, El Salvador, badgers, dogs, self-repairing smart phones, Syria, Mosul, areas of active hostilities, St. Petersburg, the Putin gay clown meme, Russian Jehovah’s Witnesses, Bannon, Blackwater, Nunes, immunity, Gorsuch, Gorka, federal consent decrees, unmasking, the NCAA, O’Reilly, Cherry Coke, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about black holes, Brexit, beer on the moon, French Guiana, Cajamarca, Houthi rebels, Dogdrones, Climate Change, Obamacare, the Wall, sexual assault, Mnuchin, the "bathroom bill," Kushner Companies, Westinghouse, fake condoms, and more.
Special guest co-host Claudia Shambaugh, Nathan, and Mahler talk about Pluto, pornography, Arctic Ice, Duterte, the Taliban, London, river rights, TrumpCare, Gorsuch, Acosta, PEW PEW PEW, GCHQ, Manafort, Ivanka, Ballast Point, Dakota Access and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Martian potatoes, bright pink poop, a cosmic burp, the Netherlands, Cambodian loans, bad vibes, the Girl Guides of Canada, drone economics, U.S. attorneys layoffs, Western Civilization, Meals on Wheels, the swamp, Anschutz, State Department press, Andrew Jackson, Fat Leonard, Anbang Insurance Group, gerrymandering, sled dogs, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about a Day Without a Woman, Marines, nuclear China, Vault 7, THAAD, John Deere drones, The World's Greatest Healthcare Plan, refugees from the US, wire tapping, Russian hacking, slave immigrants, the United States of ExxonMobil, Trump trademarks, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about early spring, the Taliban, Palmyra, Columbian miners, Berta Cáceres, disposable drones, clean water, phone checks, the DNC, voting in Texas, draining the swamp, the generals, black school choice, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, the EPA, Muhammad Ali Jr. and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the habitable zone, 170 times faster, bombings, UNICEF, assassinations, the pink tide, drone eagles, the EPA, Dereliction of Duty, same-sex suicide, DREAMers, gravesites, town hall meetings, Planned Parenthood, the Trump Slump and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler get shocked and talk about sperm competition, cocaine, the Mariana Trench, Syria, Kim Jong-nam, Russian spy ships, Mar-a-Lago, drone taxis, Palestine, oil transparency, the foreclosure machine, Oprah, the WWE, Gateway Pundit, cults, Space Poop, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about geckos, Fukushima, Duterte, Afghanistan, Yemen, extermination, Le Pen, Gaga drones, Sessions, Puzder, ghost skins, Bolwing Green, "a dead end,” net neutrality, the Missouri River, Nordstrom, fascist loofa-faces, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about dark humor, the West Bank, white nationalists, dead Russians, Riemann surfaces, tethered drones, immigration orders, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, U.S. troops to Mexico, Steve Bannon, Frederick Douglass, Medicare, the nuclear option, religious freedom, Milo, the Boy Scouts of America, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the CIA, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Gambia, Tijuana, Brexit, “America first,” Daesh drones, "carnage,” pepper spray, the Wall, black sites, the TPP, the Badlands, the FCC, Flint, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about mice, climate change, the billion year president, Umer, the Sharp Sword, the highest I.Q., all talk/no action, approval ratings, the Foreclosure Machine, plagiarism, Chelsea, Dakota Access, dog poop, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the Butcher, bombs, Russia, Brazilian prisons, Pemex, Vatican McDonald's, drone swarms, garbage, the Affordable Care Act, Tillerson, Sessions, Carl’s Jr., wet foot, dry foot, Kentucky Republicans, Bill O'Reilly masturbating, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about fast radio bursts, Climate Change reality, Mosul, Manaus, rescue drones, Obamacare, the Holman Rule, Ethics, Sessions, Princess Ivanka, conflicts of interest, Assange, Jerusalem, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Hendrix, Putin deals, Kerry’s deal, Death merchants, FARC, Namibia, Repellent, airborne fulfillment centers, Greenblatt, Maxie, The Rockettes, Russian hacks, North Carolina, the Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act, Cub Scouts, Nazis, Walmart, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about female physicians, Chinese red alerts, Aleppo, the national registry program, Russia Through Turks' Eyes, Duterte, Okinawa, Game2: Winter, Cuban rum, stolen drones, the Electoral College, offshore oil, nuclear limits, Virtu, Death by China, influence peddling, T. Rump security, Uber running red lights, God’s intervention, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about The Spratly Islands, Aleppo, Burma, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Yahoo, an inflated sex doll, La Quema del Diablo, Prime Air drones, The Dukes, Podesta phishing, T. Rump’s tech conference, an enemies list, national unintelligence, diplomatic dimwits, Standing Rock, Flint, Roy Cooper, living will, the Crucifix Shooting, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about giraffes, dead geese, coprophagia, Aleppo, Duterte’s death squads, Austrian Green, Big Ben, Russian subs, anti-EPA, homeland security, communist countries, the Hamilton Electors, Bob Dole, Comet Ping Pong, Russian entities, Pentagon waste, forgiveness, heartbeats, total fear, and more.
Nathan, Mike and Mahler talk about Pope Francis, snakes, Aleppo, Kashmir, Trudeau’s pipelines, Kim Jong-un, the rupee, Apple drones, kakistocracy, Mnuchin, fake news, Carrier’s grift, selective attention, alt-Nazis, Rice Krispies, Pelosi’s finger, Standing Rock, EPA fracking, Keith Lamont Scott, Space Poop, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the North Pole, Mosul, Shell Oil, the Facebook drone, vote counts, The New York Times, Climate Change, the “king of bankruptcy,” identity politics Republican-style, hiring freezes, Trump U, Standing Rock, abortions, God, and more.
Nathan, Mike and Mahler talk about brains, the TPP, climate change, FARC, war crimes, plastic forks, biobots, deportation, the press pool, Keith Ellison, Facebook, the death funnel, & more.
Mike, Nathan, and Mahler talk about High beams, torture, Nazis, coal, Ortega, accordions, Shooting Stars, President Cheeto, Putin, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, safety nets, cannabis, Dakota Access, Oklahoma quakes, feces, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about millipedes, the radio frequency spectrum, toxic air pollution, nihilism, Mosul, Aleppo, Satan 2, the Jungle, the Pirate Party, the Cop Parrot Drone, Comey, Trump Rape, cheating at CNN, David Duke, Dakota Access, Colonial pipeline, Nestlé’s sucking, and more.
Nathan, Mike and Mahler talk about mass extinction, pirates, Syria, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, torture, CETA, suicide drones, Bush’s emails, muskets,Project Hemisphere, private prisons, Dakota Access the Susquehanna River, the Unaffordable Care Act, re-enlistment bonuses, Patient Zero, the George Washington Bridge, donuts and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about ExxonMobil, Mosul, hell in Aleppo, The Jungle, Russsian TV, drone cuts, bad hombres, election protection, Stuxnet, Wells Fargo’s identity theft, white terrorists, Dakota Access, bad police, facial recognition, the Salton Sea, Samsung, hot peppers, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler locker-room-talk about galaxies, Dylan, Putin, pounds, Samsung, bombs, cholera, the Persistent Surveillance System, Goldman Sachs, Russian hackers, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Stumpf, Dakota Access, Arpaio and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about abortions, nuclear nonproliferation, Aleppo, the Oromo people, FARC, Bell Pottinger, smiling in France, the Trump Tax, Dakota Access, Yahoo, exotic dancers, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Temer, Sanders, gold nuggets, Aleppo, Kashmir, FARC, the beer pipeline, the flim flam yam, Cuomo, Wells Fargo, EpiPen, rascist cops, murders, Standing Rock, cats, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about envy, giraffes, Swiss bank accounts, ethnic cleansing, ceasefires, hunger strikes, Bayer, Burma, Aerial Dragnet, Pterodactyl drones, deplorables, an international pariah, Eddie Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Dakota Access, unionized professors, farmworkers, Hinckley, Galaxy Note 7, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about new black holes, smog diabetes, sons of whores, G20, a big, new wall, Wal-Mart coke, burrito drones, Putin, Pence, Louisiana climate change, Oklahoma quakes, Dakota Access, Ailes, antibacteria, honeybees, and more.
Guest co-host Claudia Shambaugh joins Nathan and Mahler to talk about Apple taxes, WikiLeaks, cluster bombs, Brazilian coups, Cuba, burkinis, the Yam’s CEO, Pelosi’s PC, "the enemy" Dakota Access, Kaepernick, Georgetown University, Ashley Furniture, and more.
Guest host Claudia Shambaugh joins Nathan and Mahler to talk about Proxima b, climate change relocation, Oromo protesters, chemical weapons, Duterte, teachers on strike, drone rules, Nigel Farage, the king of debt, Grandma Nixon, cocks not glocks, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the Olympics, cholera, burkinis, vegan diets, bombing hospitals, Kashmir, Guantánamo, crystal meth, delivery drones, undisclosed cash payments, extreme vetting, tax returns, flooding, Zika, Aetna, first responders, Blue Cut, biofilm, bees, and more
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Camp Century, El Niño bleaching, a son of a whore, Ethiopia, rejuvenation, drone targets, Second Amendment people, Negroponte, emails, Kissinger, Ailes, Barclays, dildos, cannabis, french fries, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about orangutans, reindeer, honey bees, Korean missiles, gas, Dag Hammarskjöld, Project Wing, The Yam, SCOTUS goes transgender, nonviolent drug crimes, Bratton, equal pay, Flint, meth donuts and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about cockroach milk, CO2 reservoirs, Turkey, the 50,000th bomb, refugee hunger strikes, South Korean protests, sexual lubricants, doughnut drones, Bernie or Bust, Uber, food-stamps, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk Turkey, Syria, genocide, Zika, crossword art, Cyber Mission Force, jihadist porn, plagerism, tennis balls, America’s fracker in chief, misogyny, PTSD, a toy truck, voting rights, Ralph Nader, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Theresa May, Syria, enforced disappearances, the South China Sea, lobsters, Linux, Surveillance Capitalism, Mike Pence, RBG, robocops, Dylan Noble, Roger Ailes, Free the Water, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Juno, pee, Boris and Nigel, the West Bank, Baghdad, Pistorius, OFF!, intent, Petraeus, drones, the Star of David, Alton Sterling, Roger Ailes, Tesla, Old Sparky, bats, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Brexit fallout, suicide bombings, cocaine, KFC phone chargers, Dumb drones, Party platforms, Benghazi, the Supreme Court, Zika, Volkswagen, Oakland coal, recreational marijuana, and more
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about bears, xenophobia, migration, Brexit, FARC, Oaxaca, snooping, new drone rules, Sotomayor, gun control, rape, Flint, debtors’ prison, bark beetles, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about sausage links, explosions, crimes against humanity, a guaranteed basic income, student protesters, extraordinary rendition, passenger drones, Bernie, Hillary, Donald, bomb trains, McCarthyism, and more.
Nathan, Mike and Mahler talk about out expanding universe, same sex earthquakes, cats, Venezuela, Operation Condor, neoliberalism, Eddie Snowden, the Abortion Drone, shewing off Trumps leg, payday lenders, hypnotized witnesses, floppy disks, Heimlich, hot dogs, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about bright lights, glaciers, air pollution, deadly walking sticks, ISIS, Pinochet, Komagata Maru, deleted reports, rectums, spider drones, Democratic rule changes, Trump haiku, Attica Scott, overtime, Saudi terrorism, lethal injections, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about exoplanets, plant extinction, disappearing islands, bombs, immigration, sausage, the Filipino Trump, El Chapo, Chinese bananas, the Panama Papers, Clinton flip-flopping, Facebook, Kissinger, the bathroom bill, LSD, baby boxes, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about bees, dead fish, wildfires, Aleppo, soup, self-immolation, a sacred river, farting, the TTIP, MOTH, AirMap, Lee Harvey Oswald, Duncan Hunter, Bathroom Bills, medical errors, fracking, KFC, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about austerity, propaganda, body piercings, torture, dissent, hackings, beheadings, a magical fairyland, Lucifer in the flesh, voting restrictions, the longest-serving Republican child abuser in history, Tamir Rice, Transgender Target, rat meat, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about nanowire batteries, earthquakes, suing the Saudis, a new polio vaccine, bombs, the Pope, the dildo drone, irregularities, Democracy Awakening, the Danziger bridge, Harriet Tubman, Title IX, wildfires, Free the Water, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the Panama Papers, US Bombs, the IMF, screaming on rollercoasters, refugees, bloggers, Keystone, assassinating Snowden, WhatsApp, presidential qualifications, voter ID laws, the bathroom bill, Volkswagen, the minimum wage, parental leave, texting laws, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Arctic sheet collapse, Lahore, Palmyra, Rousseff, the Associated Nazi Press, Eddie Izzard, Tay, Unaoil, bat drones, tone, union dues, the Wal-Mart tax, Saudi water hogs, Kansas quakes, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about stairs, bombs, Zaman, closing borders, oil strikes, FBI BS, the drone death count, the primaries, Volkswagen, financial crimes, Freddie Gray, Oklahoma quakes, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about black holes, 3-way babies, Uber, bombs, ISIL, Syria, why we hate Reagan, Korean toilet paper, Chinese masculinity, pyro-birds, the Internet of Things, flying robot gas stations, feminism gone wild, climate change, New York, Quintonio LeGrier, solar powered space probes, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the reincarnations of the Buddha, Getty images in China, Zika, Cuba, First Nations, sea level, the Drone Racing League, the DNC, Planned Parenthood, solitary confinement, Highway 395, public urination, Rumsfeld Solitaire, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about electromagnetic propulsion, recycling light, nuclear war, Doctors Without Borders redux, false news, Catholic sex, Al Jazeera, El Chapo, the Anthropocene, encryption, Crackas With Attitude, tribal cow herders, hedge fund criminals, Dolce & Gabbana hijabs, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about chuchuk, Saudi terrorism, Chinese stocks, Mexican assassinations, Mayan murders, the Little Mermaid, the Geek Cross, cowherders, vegan jerky, gun violence, Keystone XL, deportation, Volkswagen, Colony Collapse, lead contamination, kosher marijuana, Mein Kampf, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Error Code 451, the GABA neurotransmitter, refugees, Juniper Networks, amphibious drones, Islamophobia, AZeducation, SpaceX, Porter Ranch, Moses-EL, Sandra Bland, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about how snakes lost their limbs, COP21, the ISIS anti-smoking campaign, Afghanistan luxury, Pistorius, transgender murder, lone wolf, Prime Air, power plant emissions, BP, San Bernardino, Chicago, Zuckerberg, house masters, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about malaria, deforestation, Islamophobia, apostasy, cyber espionage, Yola, Kano, Burma, Mali, School of the Americas, Laquan McDonald, Reggie Clemons, civil asset forfeiture, Pfizer, Candy the chimpanzee, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about hot planets, ISIL, Netanyahu, DynCorp, Catalonia, Cannabis, spies, Vatican thieves, minimum wage, oligarchy, racism on campus, student loan debt, attorney-client privilege, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about black holes, Mexican pot, the Love Hormone, Deso Dogg, Doctors Without Borders, Nokta, the Gayooms, alcoholic slurs, the Snoopers Charter, Election Day, Keystone XL, a $43 million gas station, paid-for patriotism, open carry, white people, Hobby Lobby, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about extra-terrestrial intelligence, why Exxon loves global warming, Afghanistan nonsense, Jerusalem nonsense, another wedding attack, Boko Haram, tax fraud, Tamir Rice, straw buyers, biker justice, Planned Parenthood, Playboy, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Wonky Horns, global bleaching, flame retardants, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Doctors Without Borders, Russia in Syria, Snowden in prison, targeting wedding parties, leafleting the NSA, tax breaks for fines, guns, a "real white president," assisted suicide, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about brain implants, toxic chemicals, Martian water, Putin, Boehner, the saint of genocide, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, shooting to kill, Metadata+, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about air pollution, climate change denial, marine vertebrates, prehistoric viruses, Paxil, sex parties, land mines, manipulated war reports, No Drone Zones, the Sierra Nevada snowpack, the Sandpiper oil pipeline, self exploitation and a horrible space creature.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about quantum theory, heat waves, the nuclear deal, the Temple of Bel, the FBI at Burning Man, drone tasers, Denali, Freddie Gray, enemy combatants, the Center for Medical Progress, and solitary confinement.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about life expectancy, saber rattling, corruption, Women in Saudi Arabia, anti-immigrant violence, Bundesverfassungsschutz, prison party packs, mass shootings, Jonathan Ferrell, Arctic visits, cannabis, fossil fuels, David Duke, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about vaping, Islamic scholars, Syria, Saudi cluster bombs, Germany vs Greece, protesters carrying spears, Korean gunfire, AT&T spying, the Drone Munition shot shell, Arctic drilling, Pink Viagra, wildfires, slaves for Costco, and more.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the yuan, things that go boom, the Arctic, sex with soldiers, migration, no-fly lists, Chelsea's expired tube of toothpaste, drones in the way, Oath Keepers, Amalgamated Bank, tortured psychologists, and Satan's holiday.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about GMOs, the Eurotunnel, the PKK, the TPP, the ESL, explosive chickens in Fallujah, Uber, secret stuff, dismantling the Constitution, the Santa Barbara slick, kayaktivists, urine-repellent paint, and so on.
Nathan, Mike and Mahler talk about mosquito eggs, neonicotinoids, pentaquarks, the nuclear deal, the bailout, cyberattacks, spy drones, clemency, trustworthiness, Planned Parenthood, the American Psychological Association, transgender troops, SeaWorld and the Boy Scouts.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about serotonin, dehydration, encryption, phthalates, austerity, Russian bombers, senility, blasphemy, drones, abortion, flags, fossil fuel candidates, and Mountain Dew.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about mass extinction, heat waves, the Eurozone, Chinese oil companies, Santiago smog, watermelon, North Korean miracle cures, spying on France, the abortion drone, fast-track, the Confederate flag, Jeff Bezos, defrauding Medicare, divesting from the private prison industry, and pot research.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about tiny frogs, suicide bombers, climate change, FIFA, Charlie Charlie Challenge, the USA FREEDOM Act, the FBI Air Force, Enrique Iglesias, the gaokao, algal blooms, The Combover Kid and female viagra.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about a new Australopithecus, gigatons of melting ice, Barcelona, unsold food, child jihadists, FIFA, MEDEA, the TPP, clean water, anthrax, Cleveland, anti-Semitism, Texas floods, and Boy Scout potato guns.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about negative validating, British values, art attacks, coca fumigation, nuclear disaster, airbag malfunctions, sex with Margaret Thatcher, bulk spying, Five Eyes, micro drones, colony collapse, meat, charity, oil spills, the minimum wage, assisted suicide, and fracking freedom.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about secondhand cannabis smoke, the Brazilian drought, El Nino, Osama bin Laden, bulk spying, environmental extremists, drone freedom, bad banks, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Big Oil, Jeb Bush, Wal-Mart, Father Serra, and Nature Valley cocaine bars.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about fat mice, hope in Alberta, banana laxatives, earworms, Greased Lightening, dead trees, torture in Chicago, Freddie Gray, bomb trains, rat poison, sex on the beach, and Deluxe Quarter Pounders.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about oxytocin, penis transplants, Mountain Dew, migrants, genocide, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Loretta Lynch, Comcast, hens, Wal-Mart, NFL Alzheimers, chimps in court, computer rage, and Hookers 4 Hillary.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Nile monitor lizards, skull-caps, BPA, Cuba, Russia, Blackwater, FARC, Google, encryption, the Patriot Act, LOCUST, minimum wage, gun violence, standardized testing, "Peaceful Easy Feeling" and trademarking smells.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about canine influenza, the Brontosaurus, models too skinny for the catwalk, Ebola vaccines, a national bank, Houthi rebels, Iranian diplomacy, Al-Shabab, Secret Service Party animals, deporting Salvadoran generals, the drought, Rolling Stone and Judith Miller.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the end-Triassic mass extinction, the brain of a female rat, Neo-nazification, a coup, a PR stunt, growing a beard, Goodluck Jonathan, NSA recruitment, Flimmer, dog unemployment, mandatory water restrictions, religious freedom, and teachers behind bars.
Nathan, Mike, and Maher talk about space, ocean circulation, deep-water fish, Houthi rebels, ISIS, 8 million eggs, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, broken drones, chemical weapons, firing squads, the Sodomite Suppression Act, and fossil fuel.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about narcissism, the Ledi-Geraru fossil, Netanyahu, Hamas, Nemtsov, Petraeus, Homeland Security, Ferguson, Obamacare, and Hillary.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about gerbils, craters, emulsifiers, airstrikes, Jihad, Syriza, sheep, racists, reindeer, peanuts, Netanyahu, fracking, the CIA cloud, GameOver Zeus, Keystone XL, net neutrality, and Bob Marley.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about short index fingers, sperm cells, the Krudttonden Cafe, Syriza, Coptic Christians, Yemen, Netflix, Miss Universe, Ganesh, the NSA, drone magic, immigration, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatograph procedures, and the first openly bisexual governor in U.S. history.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about bonobos, antibiotics, HSBC, Syriza, Hindu Mahasabha, Anonymous, drone racing, Keystone XL, parking spaces, unions, a fog of memory, a warty pig named Elvis, etc.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about microbes that "breathe" sulfate, human skeletal muscle labs, Boko Haram, Charlie Hebdo, Syria, the Cairo bathhouse acquittal, radical feminists, ISIS hackers, drones seeking drones, Ted Cruz at NASA, and fracking earthquakes
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Charlie Ebdo, Palestiine, Burundi, Royal Dutch Shell, Ebola, teixobactin, dubious drones, U.S. oil prices, Keystone XL, captive transactions, net neutrality, John Boehner and cow dung.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about bedbugs, skeletons, rising seas, Gambia, Putin, Israel, Sony, UFOs, Keystone, cops, and neo-Nazis.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about non-human persons, the Holy See, a stupid Dalai Lama, the Guardians of Peace, gay stuff, Jewel v. NSA, lack of eye contact, Christmas drones, the Keystone XL pipeline, shootings, blood donations, eBooks, and pool noodles.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about homo erectus, ghost troops, Baghdad, the Muslim Brotherhood, another super typhoon, Eric Garner, homophones, AURORAGOLD, American terrorists, and Orion.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Jerusalem, ISIS, FARC, Okinawa, cannabis, Patti Smith, The USA FREEDOM Act, dirtboxes, Trappy Pirker, immigration, the Keystone XL oil pipeline, synesthesia, and tuition.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about parallel universes, saliva, milk, ISIS, Egypt, Netanyahu, Boko Haram, Burkina Faso, ex-Nazis in the CIA, secret space drones, quantitative easing, Ebola, South Miami, Orbital Sciences, and Flood Wall Street.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about hot weather, Blackwater, Boko Haram, Ottawa, Syria, the Ebola czar, opium, the Philippines, torture, meat, air bags, and Nazis on Social Security.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about cave paintings, black holes, airstrike costs, Ebola, Uhuru Kenyatta, Kim Jong-un, breaking the Internet, aerial porn, same-sex marriage, fracking arsenic, smelling, Ferguson October, and reformed peni.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about walruses, peanuts, e-book readers, Hong Kong, a new Iraqi comedy series, Russian oil, secret stuff, US Ebola, the bag law, and drag queens on Facebook.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the God Damn particle, the Lord's Prayer, ISIL, Ebola, Cuba, type AB blood, Jagger's water nymph, Stellar Wind, Citizens United, immigration reform, miracle water, Ravens, Hawks, and decriminalization.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about pot violence, memories, indefinite ceasefires, Abdullah Abdullah, a Slavonic March parade, civil war, Ebola, ICReach, Disney drones, Deciding Force, @NRAWomen, Burger King, and war hawks.
Nathan, Mike,and Mahler talk about streamers, lizard tail regeneration, Carbon tetrachloride, the Gaza Strip, Ebola, the Islamic State, Indian drones, Ferguson, Kajieme Powell, Eric Garner, Paul Singer, Rick Perry, and GMOS.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about gas emissions, lucid dreaming, Gaza, Nouri al-Maliki, MonsterMind, Recorded Future, the Grand Prismatic Spring, Ferguson, Russian cybertheft, drought earthquakes, and a controversial ninth-grade health textbook.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about happiness, dead generals, Sunni militants, Ebola, dead bodies in Ikea bags, North Waziristan, algal blooms, baby oysters, the Grand Canyon, and the condom law.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about dinosaur feathers, Gaza tunnels, vulture funds, lost weapons, the Saudi Ministry of Interior, Hollywood drones, "Happy Birthday to You," the highest paid CEOs, fast food workers, and the direct oral-suction circumcision technique.
Nathan, Mike, amnd Mahler talk about neonicotinoids, CKDu, the earth's magnetic field, BRICS bank, Qatar, Concrete Donkey, Net Neutrality, smallpox, Six Californias, and the manipulation of cocks.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about birds, antioxidants, the Gaza Strip, Afghanistan, nice people, Jokowi, Caliph Ibrahim, the Mall of the World, Putin-Huilo, spy stuff, Martha Stewart's drone, immigration, Mars, and Lawrence, Indiana's 48,000-pound six-wheeled, mine-resistant ambush-protected investment.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about corneal tissue, Israeli teenage settlers, the Islamic State in Iraq, janjaweed, snake and bee attacks, Cullinan, Facebook, Hobby Lobby, the No Fly List, migrant children, Blackwater, the Highway Trust Fund, Target, GM, and the cannibal cop.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about metaphors, fungus, neonicotinoids, ISIS, coal, cellphones, Aereo, Risky Business, and drones in the campus library
Nathan, Mahler, and Mike talk about executive function, stress, ISIS, Fukushima, a dangerous superbug, Canada's Northern Gateway Fracked-up Pipeline, Devil Eyes bin Laden, the Skunk riot-control drone, the Washington R-word, and GM recalls.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about headaches in Iraq, the Arab winter, Boko Haram, NATO exercises, the World Cup, MagnetoSperm, @CIA, drones in Pakistan, Eric Cantor, Bowe Bergdahl, student loans, the Department of Veterans Affairs, NRA Victimhood, Slender Man, tenure, and LGBT conversion.
Nathan, Mike and Mahler talk about regenerating tissue, time running out, Egypt, a candy tycoon, Russian shale oil, Euroskepticism, a Russian circus crocodile, BlackShades, Sabu, core interests, death row guidelines, videotaping all gun sales, 9/11 dog vests, and Sriracha.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the Siberia to China pipeline, the Greenland Ice Sheet,Thailand, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Narendra Modi, titanosaur, The USA Freedom Act, High Assurance Cyber Military Systems GM, Mitch McConnell, AT&T, and FBI cannabis.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about West Antarctica, Syria, Boko Haram, South Sudan, Ukraine, water cannons, war crimes, energy efficiency, Oklahoma earthquakes, death row, feeding the homeless, and Oprah Winfrey.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about ravens, chromosomes, the Cumbrian coast, the Congo rainforest, Boko Haram, the Fotokite, the Keystone XL pipeline, net neutrality, drug laws, affirmative action, apartheid, the American middle class, and urinating on the Alamo.
Mike, Nathan, and Mahler mull roadside bombs, Syrian droughts, the PA, badgers, Heartbleed, regenerating a living organ, Russian moves in Ukraine, Comcast Time Warner, the pay gap, racial profiling, mental illness prisons, and wrongful convictions.
Nathan, Mike, and Mahler discuss modified yeast chromosomes, gene-editing, the Arctic soil, bat soup, Stephen Kim, Cuban Twitter, the USS Zumwalt, the US Supreme Court, abortion, Caterpillar, Robert Richards IV, and Tony the Tiger.
Mike, Nathan, and Mahler talk about Pussy Riot, North Korean Nazis, Beijing, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, homophobia, euthanasia, Beluga meat, Keystone XL, the global press, Duke Energy, Scott Walker, nuclear power, and presidential golf.
Mike, Nathan, and Mahler discuss ethnic-religious cleansing, chemical weapons, Skinny Puppy, the beauty of mathematics, stroke weather, plastic shopping bag fuel, the minimum wage, the debt ceiling, the Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger, C. Ray Nagin, Freedom Industries, mammograms, and America's Most Literate Cities.
Mike, Nathan, and Mahler discuss tree roots, humanistic androids, Bashar al-Assad, narcotics, El Salvador, the Holy See, the Turkish internet, Anonymous, Taranis, Keystone XL, food stamps, climate hubs, abortion, and Happy Meals.
Mike, Nathan and Mahler discuss dog food, Aleppo, Fallujah, the Polar Vortex, COINTELPRO, Janet Napolitano, Reprieve, Northrop Grumman, quinones, JPMorgan Chase, Janet Yellen, Boeing, Dow Chemical, and Lee Baca.
Mike, Nathan , and Mahler discuss clouds, Mohamed Mursi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, chemical weapons, the National Intelligence Estimate, Russian bombings, Canadian tar sands, Rob Ford, donkey meat, spyware, jam-proof drones, jobless benefits, Benghazi, evolution, peanuts during pregnancy, cannabis, and horse carriages.
Mike, Nathan and Mahler discuss ethnic Nuers, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Gaza Strip, the Caravan of Death, Pussy Riot, Alan Turing, drone cargo ships, the worst Congress ever, Secret Service misbehavior, A&E, Neanderthal genomes, and aging in mammals.
Mike, Nathan and Mahler discuss the WTO, the NSA, the TPP, PFTBL, GM, Putin, Thailand, the Central African Republic, the North Pole, the Ukraine, North Korea, schizophrenic signing, SkyJack, the Volcker Rule, antibiotics, memories, and blows to the head.
Mike, Nathan and Mahler talk Rick Warren, aboriginal brainwashing, Euro fines, Biden in China, Arafat polonium, Karzai, cobalt-60, anti-Dylan Croats, feral pig drones, Walmart crap, minimum wage, Martin Bashir, ALEC, anxious fish, cannabis strains, and Condomania.
Mike , Nathan and Mahler discuss carbon dioxide emissions, nutrient loading on coral reefs, peace talks in Syria, warplanes over Chin,. Pope Francis, IKEA, PTI, HealthCare.gov, fracking, Citizens United, drinking, one-night stands, and boredom
Mike, Nathan, and Mahler discuss the Cosmic Dawn, Fukushima, the Arctic 30, China, The Church of England, doorknobs, Jeremy Hammond, Bat drones, Sarah Palin, George Zimmerman, Wal-Mart and the world's very first recreational pot license.
Mike, Nathan and Mahler discuss lithium batteries, ocean acidity, thermodynamic changes, West Bank settlements, Pussy Riot , The A-Team, missing drones, fracking, Boeing, sharks and starfish.
Mike, Nathan and Mahler discuss greenhouse gases, jellyfish, Arafat, degenerate art, the West Bank, Pussy Riot, M23, election day, the TSA, SmartLight, SAC Capital, Rand Paul and smoking Cialis.
Mike, Nathan and Mahler discuss Fukushima, Syria, Palestine, SARS bats, snakes, cheating, Britney Spears, the NSA, drones in Pakistan, Healthcare, Koch pipelines, and GPS bullets.
Mike , Nathan and Mahler discuss the Arctic 30, Libya, Australian wildfires, methamphetamine, cheese. Loud Mouth, Fukuppy, Angela Merkel, the Next Generation Identification, drone strikes, the Export Control Reform Initiative, marijuana, agribusiness, GMOs, Bank of America, bird songs, the smell of the ocean, HIV, Instagram gun sales, and the deadliest substance yet discovered.
Mike, Nathan and Mahler discuss Iraq, biogeochemical changes triggered by human-made greenhouse gas emissions, Seventh Day Adventists, phages, Erich Priebke, Greenpeace, the NSA, Malala, the Matterhorn, JPMorgan Chase, Navy dismissals, Cory Booker, affirmative action, nuclear power plants, Bob Filner, and women's emotions.
Mike, Nathan and Mahler discuss service animals, Navy SEALs, Tripoli, Morsi, cholera, Greenpeace, ADRA2b, PSO J318.5-22, drones, the Shutdown, arsenic, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, Janet Yellen, fusion power, and dollop of peanut butter to detect Alzheimer's disease.
Mike, Nathan ad Mahler discuss Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan, Greenpeace, Netanyahu, fatbergs, deadly hornet attacks, knocking on wood, TomTatoes, Marina, Hydra, the shutdown, and Moore's Law.
Mike, Nathan and Mahler discuss, Pussy Riot, the Islamist Alliance, al-Shabab, the Muslim Brotherhood, Chiquita, Angela Merkel, Silvio Berlusconi, animal print clothes, child beauty pageants, the National Security Agency, the government shutdown, the Monsanto Protection Act, light sabers, statin medicines, and Cassidy Lynn Campbell.
Mike, Nathan and Mahler discuss nerve gas, nuclear weapons, greenhouse gas emissions, antibiotics, odor, guns, food stamps, the minimum wage, fecal matter, Tom DeLay and the second annual World Championship Squirrel Cook Off.
Mike, Nathan and Mahler discuss acidification, Syria, genitals, drones, Snowden, recalls, Voyager 1, New York City politics and drones.
Mike, Nathan and Mahler discuss Syria, Cluster bombs, nerve gas, enriched uranium faster, migraine headaches, the hippocampus, drive-in sex boxes, LOVEINT, fire drones, nuclear power, Double Stuf Oreos and THC.
Nathan, Mike and Mahler discuss feral cats, bombings in Iraq, West Bank settlements, the Pope, selfishness, the Cambrian radiation, false memories, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, XKeyscore, JPMorgan, student loan rates, Pegatron, fast food strikes, and the plague.
Mike and Nathan discuss one of the holy grails of modern evolutionary biology, the Law of Mother Earth, the Pine Island glacier, aid to Egypt, radio bursts, extremism as a mental illness, secret stuff, James Comey, Bradley Manning, sterilization, Rick Perry and male hawk moth genitals.
Mike, Nathan and Mahler the dog discuss exercise, Morsi, Syria, plants doing math, Edward Snowden, the healthcare law postponement, suicide subdivisions, Tribune TV, student loans, bees, horse meat, Michael Hastings, chalk vandalism, egg rolls, and, of course, drones.
Mike and Nathan talk the Taliban, Mogadishu, Brazil, Taksim Square, Rouhani, CO2, Apple's iOS, Clapper, US wages, the House farm bill, Bank of America, Michael Hastings and Tang.
Mike and Nathan discuss Syria, FARC, Facebook, cadmium rice, Monsanto, Liberty Reserve, Tailored Access Operations, Wal-Mart, Michele Bachmann and the blue-balled lesula monkey.
Mahler is wearing an aluminum pyramid on his head. Mike and Nathan discuss a grim climate milestone, a former cricket star-turned-politician, a meeting with Cameron, a two-month trial, a safety review, a wasp's nest, a controversial vetting process, a seizing of records, a unanimous ruling, a Wall Street pushback, a profit of $50.6 billion, and a gerbil pageant.
Mike and Nathan talk Pussy Riot, North Korean prisoners, solving hunger, Al Jazeera, Karsi bucks, Iceland, USAID, the ag-gag law, Bradley Manning as grand marshal, Crickett rifles, the FCC, Plan B One Step, Jamestown, Sulfoxaflor, Mark Ciavarella, women and climate Change, and Jason Collins.
Mike and Nathan move their mouths regarding escalating climate change, bombs, virus eating computer chips, Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead, Maduro, TorrentFreak , insider trading by members of Congress, patented genes, ricin-laced letters, and background checks.
Mahler is plays Stand Down Margaret. Mike and Nathan talk about brain games, North Korea, Anonymous, the bird flu virus, self-medication, immigration, Bradley Manning, ExxonMobil, the U.S. Postal Service, Plan B One-Step, the Boy Scouts of America, wind power, miniskirts in Uganda, and kimonos at Target.
Mike and Nathan talk coffee, North Korea, population, honeybees, radon, ogooglebar, ReDigi, Libor, stingray, gun-control, Stockton, California, and duck-penis plasticity.
Mike and Nathan discuss warming oceans, changing wines, BRICS banking, simmering nuclear war, money-laundering oligarchs, an evil genius, flapjacks, polluted rivers, outdated aircraft carriers, airport control towers, the Monsanto Protection Act, frozen meatballs, and game changing condoms.
Mike and Nathan discuss Obama in Israel, genocide in Guatemala, elections in Venezuela, drones in North Korea, Guns in Mexico, drones in Pennsylvania, Keystone XL, Freddie Mac, Weev, Steubenville, the Earth's mantle, overfishing and Immoral Productions.
Mike and Nathan discuss dead pigs, Venezuela, North Korea, the Taliban, Francis, panspermia, schaudenfreude, monkey brains, TB at the border, household guns, overseas tax havens, the budget, firearms in class, earthquake alarms, and dirty hippies.
Mike and Nathan talk about rats, Arafat Jaradat, the Democratic Republic of Congo,sU.S. special operations forces, junk food, hacking, cholera, domestic surveillance, Justice Douchebag Scalia, immigration, Blackwater, Monsanto University and barbecue-related activities.
Mahler is looking for flying monkeys. Mike and Nathan parse and fuss about Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, CIA agents, British tolerance, The Royal Bank of Scotland, extraordinary rendition, Standard & Poor, CIA torture, solitary confinement, the U.S. post office, the Boy Scouts, and Taco Bell Doritos.
Mike and Nathan discuss topsoil, Syria, Algeria, socks, drones, art, fracking, pipelines, inaugurals, Catholics, unions, Hillary, guns, memory, DNA, and sperm.
Mike and Nathan discuss gang-rape, Current TV, Iberdrola, Internet controls, tsunami bombs, Kim Jong Un, Yoko Ono, the National Defense Authorization Act, John Boehner, the Violence Against Women Act, the fiscal cliff, warrantless wiretapping and undiscovered fortunes.
Mahler bays at the full moon. Mike and Nathan bay at West Antarctica, cyberwarfare, defections, Holy See discounts, 3D queens, Welsh winter vomiting, Purple Urine Bags, and irresistible attractions.
Mike and Nathan discuss Chinese self-help manuals, Noah's Ark, Stop Green Suicide, the global telecoms treaty, vaccination attacks, Syria, obesity, guns, indefinite detention, Keystone XL, and Obamadon gracilis.
Mike and Nathan discuss Gaza, opium, Murdoch, Google, greenhouse gases, dogs, cornfields, lexicographers, Galapagos, minks, mortgages, Elizabeth Warren, Curiosity, Hostess and, of course, drones.
Mahler is relieved that he won't have to ride on the roof of the car in this very special Backyard Election Roundup Edition of Weekly Signals.
Mike and Nathan discuss earthquake convictions, radiation, Damascus, Bank of America, banning homework, Ulaanbaatar, panda eating men, the Five Second Rule, a game of Battleship, puberty, smuggling a Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton, Tony Scott and, of course, drones.
Mike and Nathan discuss TNT, cluster bombs, toxicology, elite commandos, iron sulphate, Norway, youthful blood, octopi, binders, trade wars, violent crimes, al-Qaeda and Citigroup.
Mike and Nathan discuss evacuating islands, the collapse of the rial, the global bacon shortage, Canadian cheese-smuggling, Big Bird, voter IDs, fusion centers, JPMorgan Chase, American Express, Bank of America, Jerry Brown, gun control and Ikea.
Mike and Nathan discuss 100 million people dying, Arctic sea ice melting, water on Mars, aftershocks, urinatinon, Belarus, damning you own soul to hell, restrictive voting laws, zombie bees, savages, freaking out and other newsworthy topcs.
Mike and Nathan discuss ice in the Arctic, Walmart in India, cannabis in Uruguay, GMOs in France, cyberspace in Iran, Mitt Romney in trouble, and Boy Scout abuse.
Mike and Nathan talk Syria, Tutu, enriched uranium, gene switches, eyes, Hitler, the Democratic National Convention, Citizens United, AntiSec, Navy SEALs and pilot whales.
Mahler howls at the Blue Moon. Mike and Nathan discuss hermaphroditic slugs, nuclear families, white-handed gibbons, Yasser Arafat, Chinese astronomers, Gaza, Romney , Ryan, Tom Head, Samsung vs Apple, and the Recording Industry Association of America.
Mike and Nathan discuss missile defenses in Asia, shale gas in France, a platinum mine in South Africa, a potent variety of cannabis, the last ninja, the Mississippi River, coal-burning power plants, and Augusta National.
Nathan and Mike gab about Syria, Pakistan, Assange, Greenpeace, glorifying war, Somali pirates, UAVs, Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand, evolution and Son of Sam.
Nathan and Mike discuss underground bunkers, Agent Orange, drones, Wade Michael Page, nuclear power plants permits, New Yorks new crime fighting system, Pfizer, Blackwater, Chevron, Curiosity, Jenna Jameson, Larry Craig and chalk.
Mike and Nathan talk food flavoring, Chik-fil-A , government waste, Antarctica, the coral sperm bank, Cuba, Ebola, bi-partisan strip clubs, and voter purges.
Nathan and Mike discuss broken icebergs, Chinese loans to Africa, oil pipelines, drones, drought, bombs, Capitol One, Rupert Murdoch, HSBC, Sheldon Adelson, the FDA, the Boy Scouts of America, Ralph Lauren, U.S. Bancorp, HIV and Joschka the ostrich.
Mike and Nathan thrash out a Pakistani doctor, Anonymous Operations, Canadian tuitions, energy collecting tiles, misogynist speech, an Israeli spy bird, vegetarian sharks, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the NAACP, NASA, NATO leaders, and offshore cannabis.
Mike and Nathan delve into Sarkozy, the Golden Dawn party, underwear bombs, flatulating dinosaurs, Fukushima Daiichi, talking about ourselves, ICBC, same-sex marriage, Google's robot cars, banning fracking, Kelly Thomas, budget cutting, bullying dolphins, and babies on opiates.
Mike and Nathan discuss cigarette labels, dementia in prison, Agent Orange, greed, Arctic drilling, Mitt Romney, James Murdoch, Cassava, Fukushima, Baltasar and clouds getting lower.
After a week of silence, Mike and Nathan discuss the Apple flap, desalination, more Keystone drama, Catholic Obama, ejaculation, Rick Santorum, dual-flush toilets, Bashar al-Assad, legalizing drugs, malnutrition, Anonymous, and Greece.
Mahler is fat. Mike and Nathan tighten their belts and discuss the U.S. banks settlement, Rick Santorum's contraception plan, the Proposition 8 ruling, the soldier of the future, Iraq cutbacks, the world's oldest works of art, and the European freeze.
Mike and Nathan react to SOPA, Guantanamo Bay, Standard & Poor, the Keystone tar sands pipeline, Mitt, Newt, Rick, the "Dirty Thirty" and the glazed-doughnut hamburger.
Mahler has been eating a lot of butter. Mike and Nathan discuss Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan, polar-bear cannibalism, Manuel Noriega, Russian rallies, SB 1070, Lowe's and cell phone panic buttons.
Mahler is getting a drone for Christmas. Mike and Nathan discuss Egypt, Japanese whaling, undercover American narcotics officers, Oscar Wilde, throwing feces, Herman Cain, the Muppets, and the world's first college of applied sexuality.
Mahler hates Terry Jones. Mike and Nathan hash over Occupy LA, New York fracking, imprisoning Al Qaeda, US bank profits during the recession, and the unusual occurrence of being incarcerated in a jail named after you.
Mahler is sad for his OWS friends. Mike and Nathan talk about Occupy Wall Street, Anonymous, Prop. 8, Newt Gingrich and China's trade practices.
Mike and Nathan discuss radioactive contamination, CIA drones, Occupy Wall Street, the Keystone Pipeline lobby, Tea Party fundraising, Rick Perry, the new Arctic ozone hole, robocalls, net neutrality, aid to Palestine, and happy Twitters.
Mahler is a big fan of Sly Stone. Mike and Nathan consider Mahmoud Abbas, Troy Davis, Wall Street, Neutrinos, bank fees, Chinese rat poison, panda breeders, hand grenades for children, and bottlenose dolphins.
Government shutdowns, deficit-reductions, nuclear withdrawal, bacterial infections, SpongeBob SquarePants, love triangles, the world's largest sperm bank, indeterminate gender, testosterone levels, overinflated beliefs, and prescription drug abuse keep Nathan and Mike on their toes.
Mike and Nathan reveal that America is the coolest, a pipeline exploded in Nairobi, a man slaughtered a cow in his driveway, a severely drunk Swedish moose got tangled in a tree, Google used more electricity than Salt Lake City, the Authors Guild and writers from Australia, Britain and Canada filed a copyright infringement suit against the University of California, and Bank of America is downsizing.
Is Mahler picking up P waves? Is an earthquake coming? Nathan and Mike discuss the National Zoo, the first hot meals, Muammar Qaddafi, Rick Perry, Ecstasy as a blood cancer treatment, a brain-eating amoeba, Steve Jobs, Lou Gehrig's disease, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Mahler cancels his plans for the 2012 Olympics. Nathan and Mike hunker down with the London bru-ha-ha, the Somalian famine, Standard and Poor's downgrade, Texans fasting, Ukrainian bears, Kids for Cash, Fukushima, Donald Rumsfeld, Bank of America and the Queen of the Pacific.
Mahler jumps off the roof. Nathan and Mike hash over the stock market, libertarians, and Chuck E. Cheese.
News and commentary for the week of July 23 - 29, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of July 66 - 22, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of July 8 - 15, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of July 2 - 8, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of June 19 - July 1, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of June 18 - 24, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of June 11-17, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of June 4-10, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of May 28 -June 3, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of May 20-27, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of May 14-20, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of May 6 - 13, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of April 30 - May 6, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of April 23-29, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of April 16-22, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of April 9-15, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of April 1-8, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of March 19 - 25, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of March 12 - 18, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of March 5 - 11, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of February 26 - March 4, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of February 19 - 25, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of February 12 - 18, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of February 4 - 11, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 29 - February 4, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 22 - 28, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 15 - 21, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 8 - 14, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 1 - 7, 2011 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of December 25 - 31, 2010 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of December 18 - 24, 2010 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of December 11 - 17, 2010 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of December 4 - 10, 2010 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of November 26 - December 3, 2010 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of November 20 - 26, 2010 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of November 13-19, 2010 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of November 6-12, 2010 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of October 30- November 5, 2010 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
Nathan thinks that Mahler and Mike are conspiring against him. Mike points to the grassy knoll.
Nathan is corrupt. Mike is not so sure about his corruptibility. Mahler east almond butter.
Sports is like fashion. The difference between a feathered boa and a reverse layup is moot. Both involve deception and flair.
Nathan thinks time moves slowly. Mike thinks the light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
Hallucinogens and their benefits somehow becomes the topic of conversation. Mike wants clarity. Nathan warns us about Pont Saint Esprit.
Hubris in ancient Greece was considered the greatest of all sins. "A terrible pride that caused harm to others... egotistical acts of vanity and exhibitions of immorality, arrogance and lack of humility." Nathan reminds Mike that he supported the new American King of Hubris, John Edwards. Mike reminds Nathan that he supported Bill Clinton. The hubris discussion suddenly focuses George Bush.
An interview with Sasha Abramsky the author of Inside Obama's Brain.
From the moment he burst onto the national political scene, Barack Obama has fascinated people more than any politician in decades. Many biographers have already retold his story, but no previous book truly explains how his mind works, what passions drive him, or what makes him such an effective leader.
Abramsky explores the ideas, inspirations, and experiences that have shaped the president. It quotes a wide network of sources, including many who broke long-standing vows of silence to offer their candid and surprising observations. Abramsky interviewed close to one hundred of Obama's current and former friends, colleagues, classmates, teachers, staff, mentors, basketball buddies, fellow Chicago activists, media consultants, editors, and even his next-door neighbors from Hyde Park. These people each know a part of Obama's life and career, which the author blends the pieces into a uniquely detailed analysis.
Abramsky explains the origins of Obama's extraordinary poise, focus, and self-confidence; his powerful storytelling and speaking skills; and his empathetic listening style. He shows why Obama's experiences as a community organizer are widely misunderstood and more influential than many people realize. And he explores how Obama found a unique way to bridge America's racial divides.
Abramsky is a freelance journalist. His work has appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, New York magazine, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone.
News and commentary for the week of December 16-22, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of December 9-15, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of December 2-8, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of November 25 - December 1, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of November 18 - 24, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of November 11 - 17, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Dahr Jamail the author of The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The U.S. project in Iraq has been condemned by a vibrant and vocal antiwar movement as illegal and unjust since before the invasion began. Since 2006, a majority in the United States have opposed the contination of the occupation, and reported to pollsters that they believe the invasion was a mistake. But how do the soldiers who carry out the occupation see the war?
Fragmented reports of battalions refusing orders, of active duty soldiers signing antiwar petitions, of individual soldiers refusing redeployment and taking a public stand against the occupation have trickled into the mainstream reportage over hte last five years. But how deep does the current of resistance run? What makes soldiers deployed in Iraq decide to go AWOL, file for conscientious objector status, or even serve sentences in military prisons to avoid taking part in this unpopular engagement?
Dahr Jamail's comprehensive study of the today's military resisters sheds new light on the contours of dissent within the ranks of world's most powerful military, documenting the fight for justice inside the belly of the beast.
Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist who has covered the Middle East for more than five years. He is the author of Beyond the Green Zone. Jamail writes for the Inter Press Service and many other outlets.
News and commentary for the week of November 4 - 10, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of October 28 - November 3, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with James W. Loewen author of Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History.
Loewen takes history textbooks to task for their perpetuations of myth and their lack of awareness of today's multicultural student audience (not to mention the astonishing number of facts they just got plain wrong).
How did people get here? Why did Europe win? Why Did the South Secede? In Teaching What Really Happened, Loewen goes beyond the usual textbook-dominated viewpoints to illuminate a wealth of intriguing, often hidden facts about America's past. Calling for a new way to teach history, this book will help teachers move beyond traditional textbooks to tackle difficult but important topics like conflicts with Native Americans, slavery, and race relations. Throughout, Loewen shows time and again how teaching what really happened connects better with all kinds of students to get them excited about history.
James W. Loewen is the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Lies Across America. He taught race relations for twenty years at the University of Vermont and gives workshops for teacher groups around the United States. He has been an expert witness in more than 50 civil rights, voting rights, and employment cases.
News and commentary for the week of October 21-27, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of October 13 -20, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of October 7 -13, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of September 30 - October 6, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of September 23 - 29, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of September 16 - 22, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of September 9 - 15, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of September 1 -8, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of 26 - September 1, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of August 19 - 25, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of August 12 - 18, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of August 5 - 11, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of July 29 - August 4, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Fred Kaplan the author of 1959: The Year Everything Changed.
It was the year of the microchip, the birth-control pill, the space race, and the computer revolution; the rise of Pop art, free jazz, "sick comics," the New Journalism, and indie films; the emergence of Castro, Malcolm X, and personal superpower diplomacy; the beginnings of Motown, Happenings, and the Generation Gap-all bursting against the backdrop of the Cold War, the fallout-shelter craze, and the first American casualties of the war in Vietnam.
It was a year when the shockwaves of the new ripped the seams of daily life, when humanity stepped into the cosmos and commandeered the conception of human life, when the world shrank but the knowledge needed to thrive in it expanded exponentially, when outsiders became insiders, when categories were blurred and taboos trampled, when we crossed into a "new frontier" that offered the twin prospects of infinite possibilities and instant annihilation-a frontier that we continue to explore exactly fifty years later, at an eerily similar turning point.
Kaplan chronicles this vital, overlooked year that set the world as we know it in motion. Drawing on original research, including untapped archives and interviews with major figures of the time, Kaplan pieces together the vast, untold story of a civilization in flux-and paints vivid portraits of the men and women whose creative energies, ideas, and inventions paved the way for the new era. They include:
Fred Kaplan writes the "War Stories" column in Slate, contributes frequently to the New York Times' Arts & Leisure section, and blogs about jazz for Stereophile. A Pulitzer Prize winning former Boston Globe reporter who covered the Pentagon and post-Soviet Moscow, he has also written for the New Yorker, New York, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and other publications. He is also the author of Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power.
News and commentary for the week of July 22 - 28, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of July 15 - 21, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of July 8 - 14, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of July 1 - 7, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Mark Ellingsen author of Sin Bravely: A Joyful Alternative to the Purpose-Driven Life.
Ellingsen demonstrates that awareness of sin is shown to lead to freedom and joy, as the pressure is removed to do and be good all the time. The book's other primary aim is to flesh out an alternative approach to life to Rick Warren's and the dominant American Christian vision. This alternative, life of brave sinning, is rooted in the worldview of the Protestant Reformation (esp. of Martin Luther). When people sin bravely, believing everything done is done in sin, people can get out of the way and recognize that all the good done is done by God despite individual seedy motives. This awareness leads to freedom and joy, since the pressure is now removed to do and be good. In addition, total dependence on God entails a self-forgetfulness that leads to happiness.
The bolder one acknowledge's their sin, in failing to take credit for the good done, the more focused on God the individual becomes. Correspondingly this self-forgetful lifestyle is a promising counter-cultural alternative to the cultural Narcissism which so dominates in many segments of contemporary American society. Ellingsen provides practical ways to sharpen these insights, to 'own' them. He aims to clarify why the lifestyle of brave sinning and total dependence on God lead to happiness, with an emphasis on current neurobiological research on happiness and brain function. Ellingsen, then, demonstrates both the how and why brave sinning leads to joy, while in so doing offers readers practical advice on living this way.
Mark Ellingsen is Associate Professor of Church History at the Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta.
News and commentary for the week of June 24 - 30, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of June 17 - 23, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of June 10 - 16, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of June 3 - 9, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Sasha Abramsky author of Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger.
Trapped in a triangle of the housing market collapse, rising energy costs, and an increasingly dysfunctional healthcare system, America's working poor are now battling an even more formidable enemy: hunger. This time, the battle is taking place well outside of the media spotlight, which has focused on obesity, another food-related epidemic affecting the poor.
Breadline USA tells the stories of Americans in all types of communities who struggle to put any type of food on the table come the end of the month when money runs out and the social safety net isnt there to catch them.
Sasha Abramsky is a freelance journalist. His work has appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, New York magazine, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone. In 2000 he was awarded a Soros Society, Crime, and Communities Media Fellowship, and he is currently a Senior Fellow at the New York City-based Demos Foundation. He is the author of American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment and Hard Time Blues.
News and commentary for the week of May 27 - June 2, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of May 20 - 26, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of May 13 - 19, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of May 6 - 12, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of April 29 - May 5, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of April 22 - 28, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of April 15 - 21, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of April 8 - 14, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of April 1 - 7, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of March 25 - 31, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with P. W. Singer the author of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century.
An amazing revolution is taking place on the battlefield, starting to change not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war itself. This upheaval is already afoot -- remote-controlled drones take out terrorists in Afghanistan, while the number of unmanned systems on the ground in Iraq has gone from zero to 12,000 over the last five years. But it is only the start. Military officers quietly acknowledge that new prototypes will soon make human fighter pilots obsolete, while the Pentagon researches tiny robots the size of flies to carry out reconnaissance work now handled by elite Special Forces troops.
Wired for War takes the reader on a journey to meet all the various players in this strange new world of war: odd-ball roboticists working in latter-day "skunk works" in the midst of suburbia; military pilots flying combat mission from their office cubicles outside Las Vegas; the Iraqi insurgents who are their targets; journalists trying to figure out just how to cover robots at war; and human rights activists wrestling with what is right and wrong in a world where our wars are increasingly being handed over to machines.
Singer is Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution. His first book Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry pioneered the study of the new industry of private companies providing military services for hire, an issue that soon became important with the use and abuse of these companies in Iraq.
News and commentary for the week of March 18 - 24, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of March 11 - 17, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of March 4 - 10, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of February 25 - March 3, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of February 18-24, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of February 11-17, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of February 4-10, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 28 - February 3, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 21-27, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 14-20, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 7-13, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of December 31, 2008 - January 6, 2009 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of December 24-30, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Joe Allen author of Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost.
As the United States now faces a major defeat in its occupation of Iraq, the history of the Vietnam War, as a historic blunder for US military forces abroad, and the true story of how it was stopped, take on a fresh importance. Unlike most books on the topic, constructed as specialized academic studies, The (Last) War the United States Lost examines the lessons of the Vietnam era with Joe Allen's eye of both a dedicated historian and an engaged participant in today's antiwar movement.
Many damaging myths about the Vietnam era persist, including the accusations that antiwar activists routinely jeered and spat at returning soldiers or that the war finally ended because Congress cut off its funding. Allen reclaims the stories of the courageous GI revolt; its dynamic relationship with the civil rights movement and the peace movement; the development of coffee houses where these groups came to speak out, debate, and organize; and the struggles waged throughout barracks, bases, and military prisons to challenge the rule of military command.
Allen's analysis of the US failure in Vietnam is also the story of the hubris of US imperial overreach, a new chapter of which is unfolding in the Middle East today.
Joe Allen is a regular contributor to the International Socialist Review and a longstanding social justice fighter, involved in the ongoing struggles for labor, the abolition of the death penalty, and to free the political prisoner Gary Tyler.
News and commentary for the week of December 17-23, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of December 10-16, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Ariela J. Gross author of What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America.
Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away from her master and surrendered herself to the parish jail for protection. Blue-eyed and blond, Morrison successfully convinced white society that she was one of them. When she sued for her freedom, witnesses assured the jury that she was white, and that they would have known if she had a drop of African blood. Morrison's court trial-and many others over the last 150 years-involved high stakes: freedom, property, and civil rights. And they all turned on the question of racial identity.
Over the past two centuries, individuals and groups (among them Mexican Americans, Indians, Asian immigrants, and Melungeons) have fought to establish their whiteness in order to lay claim to full citizenship in local courtrooms, administrative and legislative hearings, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Like Morrison's case, these trials have often turned less on legal definitions of race as percentages of blood or ancestry than on the way people presented themselves to society and demonstrated their moral and civic character.
Unearthing the legal history of racial identity, Gross examines the paradoxical and often circular relationship of race and the perceived capacity for citizenship in American society. She reminds us that the imaginary connection between racial identity and fitness for citizenship remains potent today and continues to impede racial justice and equality.
Gross is John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History, University of Southern California.
News and commentary for the week of December 3-9, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of November 26 - December 2, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Tyler E. Boudreau author of Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine.
Boudreau is a twelve-year veteran of the Marine Corps infantry. He trained and committed himself physically and intellectually to the military life. Then his intense devotion began to disintegrate, bit by bit, during his final mission in Iraq. After returning home, he discovered a turmoil developing in his mind, estranging him from his loved ones and the bill of goods he eagerly purchased as a marine officer.
Packing Inferno is the story of the ordeal of a marine officer in battle and then coming home. It is the struggle with a society resistant to understand the true nature of war. It is the fight with combat stress and an exploration into the process of recovery. It is the search for conscience, family, and ultimately for one's essential self. Here are the reflections of a man built by the Marine Corps, disassembled by war, and left with no guidance to rebuild himself.
Boudreau, was deployed to Iraq in 2004 as Assistant Operation Officer for an infantry battalion. Following the deployment he was assigned as the Commanding Officer of a rifle company and was preparing to return to Iraq when he resigned his commission because of his growing reservations about the war. Today, he writes and speaks broadly on his experiences, and works with other veterans on many projects related to war. He is also the founder of Collaborative Revolution, a new not-for-profit humanitarian project to assist Iraqi refugees and immigrants resettled in the US.
News and commentary for the week of November 19-25, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An Interview with Chip Jacobs and William Kelly co-authors of Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles.
The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26, 1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes. Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. Were Japanese saboteurs responsible? A reckless factory? The truth was much worse--it came from within, from Southern California's burgeoning car-addicted, suburban lifestyle.
Smogtown is the story of pollution, progress, and how an optimistic people confronted the epic struggle against airborne poisons barraging their hometowns. With wit, verve, and a fresh look at history, California based journalists Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly highlight the bold personalities involved, the corporate- tainted science, the terrifying health costs, the attempts at cleanup, and how the smog battle helped mold the modern-day culture of Los Angeles. There are scofflaws aplenty and dirty deals, plus murders, suicides, spiritual despair, and an ever-present paranoia about mass disaster.
Brimming with historic photographs, forgotten anecdotes, and new revelations about our environmentally precarious present, Smogtown is a journalistic classic for the modern age.
News and commentary for the week of November 12-18, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Kevin M. Scott the co-author of The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go from Here.
From the popular Bratz dolls to the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, Scott reveals that porn has become the mainstream - and the mainstream has become porn. Carmine Sarracino and Kevin Scott argue that porn has seeped into and been absorbed by every defining aspect of our culture: language, entertainment, fashion, advertising, sexual behavior, even politics. Cultural absorption is so complete that we no longer have to purchase pornography to get porn because we increasingly live porn on a daily basis.
In The Porning of America, Scott profiles such "porn exemplars" - those who have been pivotal to the mainstreaming of porn - as Russ Meyer, Snoop Dogg, Jenna Jameson, and Paris Hilton; he documents how mainstream advertising uses porn culture to sell commercial goods now to an even younger, "tween" audience; and he poses crucial questions: How has porn shaped the way we view our own and others' bodies? Scott examined porned advertising of everything from Clinique to Orbit gum to Old Spice. How has porn influenced our relationships and how do current sexual behaviors, such as the "hookup," mimic porn? Scott looks to MySpace and Craigslist for answers. And how does porn shape our identity, as individuals and as a nation? Scott argues that the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib exposed our porned sensibilities.
Not an anti-porn diatribe, The Porning of America is resolutely pro-sex. Scott (with co-author Carmine Sarracino) contends that, to make the most of our hard-won sexual freedom, we must thoughtfully - and honestly - evaluate what might be liberating about porn as well as what might be damaging.
Scott teaches courses in American literature and culture and directs the English education program at Elizabethtown College. His scholarly work covers literature, art, and popular culture.
News and commentary for the week of November 5-11, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Martin Garbus the author of The Next 25 Years: The New Supreme Court and What It Means for Americans.
Renowned First Amendment lawyer Martin Garbus examines what will be the impact of the new Supreme Court on the future of our republic.
Drawing on extensive knowledge of Constitutional law and legal procedure, Garbus, one of our most astute legal historians, defrocks the executive branch's grip over the judiciary as an extension of its own executive powers. He warns of the threat of an incoming "textualist" bench that wishes to roll back more than a century's worth of hard-won reforms. And he offers the first clear-eyed account of how the coming bench may imperil our way of life and endanger the liberties you may have thought were our inalienable rights.
Named by Time magazine as "legendary . . . one of the best trial lawyers in the country," Garbus has appeared before the US Supreme Court and the highest courts throughout the nation. Newsweek, the National Law Journal, and others cite Garbus as America's "most prominent First Amendment lawyer."
News and commentary for the week of October 29 - November 4, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of October 22-28, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of October 15-21, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of October 8-14, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of September 24-30, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with John R. MacArthur, the author of You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America.
After the debacle of the 2000 presidential election, many Americans were asking themselves if their vote really counted anymore. Yet does the problem go even deeper than that? Is America really a democracy anymore?
In a rollicking piece of reportage based on years of reporting, Harper's Magazine Publisher John R. MacArthur examines how the system really works-and doesn't work-nowadays. Why is it that all the major candidates seem to be rich Ivy-Leaguers? Why is there so little difference between the Republicans and the Democrats on so many key issues? Does an outsider really have a chance?
Covering the recent candidacies of Ned Lamont and Ralph Nader, reporting on local efforts to effect change, and examining funding and influence in our electoral system in general, MacArthur presents a clarion call to restructure electoral politics.
MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper's Magazine, is an award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed books The Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington, and The Subversion of American Democracy and Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War.
News and commentary for the week of September 17 - 23, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Dexter Filkins the author of The Forever War.
Through the eyes of Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as "reporting of the highest quality imaginable," we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Filkins's narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing characters and astonishing scenes: deserts, mountains, and streets of carnage; a public amputation performed by Taliban; children frolicking in minefields; skies streaked white by the contrails of B-52s; a night's sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero.
We embark on a foot patrol through the shadowy streets of Ramadi, venture into a torture chamber run by Saddam Hussein. We go into the homes of suicide bombers and into street-to-street fighting with a battalion of marines. We meet Iraqi insurgents, an American captain who loses a quarter of his men in eight days, and a young soldier from Georgia on a rooftop at midnight reminiscing about his girlfriend back home. A car bomb explodes, bullets fly, and a mother cradles her blinded son.
Filkins, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, has covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. Before that, he worked for the Los Angeles Times, where he was chief of the paper's New Delhi bureau, and for The Miami Herald. He has been a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and a winner of a George Polk Award and two Overseas Press Club awards. Most recently, he was a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University.
News and commentary for the week of September 10 - 16, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of September 3-9, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of August 27-September 2, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Karl E. Meyer the author of Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East.
Kingmakers is the story of how the modern Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim); some forgotten (Sir Mark Sykes, Israel's godfather, and A. T. Wilson, the territorial creator of Iraq); some controversial (the CIA's Miles Copeland and the Pentagon's Paul Wolfowitz). All helped enthrone rulers in a region whose very name is an Anglo-American invention.
As a bonus, we meet the British Empire's power couple, Lord and Lady Lugard (Flora Shaw): she named Nigeria, he ruled it; she used the power of the Times of London to attempt a regime change in the gold-rich Transvaal. The narrative is character-driven, and the aim is to restore to life the colorful figures who for good or ill gave us the Middle East in which Americans are enmeshed today.
Meyer has written extensively on foreign affairs as a staff member of the New York Times and the Washington Post. His co-author, Shareen Blair Brysac, formerly a prize-winning documentary producer at CBS News, is the author of Resisting Hitler. Tournament of Shadows was their previous book together. The couple lives in New York and Weston, Connecticut.
News and commentary for the week of August 20-26, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of August 13-19, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Thomas Frank author of The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule.
From the author of the landmark bestseller, a jaw-dropping investigation of the decades of deliberate-and lucrative-conservative misrule
In his previous book - What's the Matter with Kansas? - Frank explained why working America votes for politicians who reserve their favors for the rich. Now, in The Wrecking Crew, Frank examines the blundering and corrupt Washington those politicians have given us.
Casting back to the early days of the conservative revolution, Frank describes the rise of a ruling coalition dedicated to dismantling government. But rather than cutting down the big government they claim to hate, conservatives have simply sold it off, deregulating some industries, defunding others, but always turning public policy into a private-sector bidding war. Washington itself has been remade into a golden landscape of super-wealthy suburbs and gleaming lobbyist headquarters-the wages of government-by-entrepreneurship practiced so outrageously by figures such as Jack Abramoff.
It is no coincidence, Frank argues, that the same politicians who guffaw at the idea of effective government have installed a regime in which incompetence is the rule. Nor will the country easily shake off the consequences of deliberate misgovernment through the usual election remedies. Obsessed with achieving a lasting victory, conservatives have taken pains to enshrine the free market as the permanent creed of state.
Frank is the founding editor of The Baffler and a contributing editor at Harper's.
News and commentary for the week of August 6-12, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with James Galbraith author of The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too.
The cult of the free market has dominated economic policy-talk since the Reagan revolution of nearly thirty years ago. Tax cuts and small government, monetarism, balanced budgets, deregulation, and free trade are the core elements of this dogma, a dogma so successful that even many liberals accept it. But a funny thing happened on the bridge to the twenty-first century. While liberals continue to bow before the free-market altar, conservatives in the style of George W. Bush have abandoned it altogether. That is why principled conservatives - the Reagan true believers - long ago abandoned Bush.
Galbraith first dissects the stale remains of Reaganism and shows how Bush and company had no choice except to dump them into the trash. He then explores the true nature of the Bush regime: a "corporate republic," bringing the methods and mentality of big business to public life; a coalition of lobbies, doing the bidding of clients in the oil, mining, military, pharmaceutical, agribusiness, insurance, and media industries; and a predator state, intent not on reducing government but rather on diverting public cash into private hands. In plain English, the Republican Party has been hijacked by political leaders who long since stopped caring if reality conformed to their message.
Galbraith follows with an impertinent question: if conservatives no longer take free markets seriously, why should liberals?
The real economy is not a free-market economy. It is a complex combination of private and public institutions, including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, higher education, the housing finance system, and a vast federal research establishment. The real problems and challenges -- inequality, climate change, the infrastructure deficit, the subprime crisis, and the future of the dollar -- are problems that cannot be solved by incantations about the market. They will be solved only with planning, with standards and other policies that transcend and even transform markets.
Galbraith teaches economics and a variety of other subjects at the Lyndon Johnson School of Public Affairs. He directs the University of Texas Inequality Project, an informal research group at the LBJ School, is a Senior Scholar of the Levy Economics Institute, and is chair of Economists for Peace and Security, a global professional association.
News and commentary for the week of July 29 - August 5, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of July 23-29, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of July 16-22, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barry Siegel author of Claim of Privilege: A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets.
Siegel unfolds the shocking true story behind the Supreme Court case that forever changed the balance of power in America.
On October 6, 1948, a trio of civilian engineers joined a U.S. Air Force crew on a B-29 Superfortress, whose mission was to test secret navigational equipment. Shortly after takeoff the plane crashed, killing all three engineers and six others. In June 1949, the widows of the engineers filed suit against the government. What had happened to their men? they asked. Why had these civilians been aboard an Air Force plane in the first place?
But the Air Force, at the dawn of the Cold War, refused to hand over the accident reports and witness statements, claiming the documents contained classified information that would threaten national security. The case made its way up to the Supreme Court, which in 1953 sided with the Air Force in United States v. Reynolds. This landmark decision formally recognized the "state secrets" privilege, a legal precedent that has since been used to conceal conduct, withhold documents, block troublesome litigation, and, most recently, detain terror suspects without due-process protections.
Siegel, a Pulitzer Prize winning former national correspondent for Los Angeles Times, directs the literary journalism program at UC Irvine where he is a professor of English. He is the author of six books, including three volumes of narrative nonfiction and three novels set in imaginary Chumash County on the central coast of California.
News and commentary for the week of July 9-15, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of July 2-8, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of June 25 - July 1, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of June 18-24, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of June 11-17, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of June 4-10, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of May 28 - June 3, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of May 21-27, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An Interview with Matt Taibbi author of The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire.
Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi set out to describe the nature of George Bush's America in the post-9/11 era and ended up vomiting demons in an evangelical church in Texas, riding the streets of Baghdad in an American convoy to nowhere, searching for phantom fighter jets in Congress, and falling into the rabbit hole of the 9/11 Truth Movement.
Matt discovered in his travels across the country that the resilient blue state/red state narrative of American politics had become irrelevant. A large and growing chunk of the American population was so turned off-or radicalized-by electoral chicanery, a spineless news media, and the increasingly blatant lies from our leaders ("they hate us for our freedom") that they abandoned the political mainstream altogether. They joined what he calls The Great Derangement.
Taibbi tells the story of this new American madness by inserting himself into four defining American subcultures: The Military, where he finds himself mired in the grotesque black comedy of the American occupation of Iraq; The System, where he follows the money-slicked path of legislation in Congress; The Resistance, where he doubles as chief public antagonist and undercover member of the passionately bonkers 9/11 Truth Movement; and The Church, where he infiltrates a politically influential apocalyptic mega-ministry in Texas and enters the lives of its desperate congregants. Together these four interwoven adventures paint a portrait of a nation dangerously out of touch with reality and desperately searching for answers in all the wrong places.
News and commentary for the week of May 14-20, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of May 7-13, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of April 30 - May 6, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of April 23-29, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Susan Jacoby author of "The Age of American Unreason."
Jacoby paints a disturbing portrait of a mutant strain of public ignorance, anti-rationalism, and anti-intellectualism that has developed over the past four decades and now threatens the future of American democracy. Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, she dissects a culture at odds with America's heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern knowledge and science. Jacoby offers an unsparing indictment of the ways in which dumbness has been defined downward throughout American society-on the political right and the left. America's endemic anti-intellectual tendencies have been exacerbated by a new species of semiconscious anti-rationalism, feeding on and fed by a popular culture of video images and unremitting noise that leaves no room for contemplation or logic.
Jacoby is the author of eight books. She is also program director of the Center for Inquiry-New York City, a rationalist think tank with offices in Lower Manhattan.
News and commentary for the week of April 16-22, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of April 9-15, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Nick Davies author of "Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media."
Davies names names and exposes the national stories which turn out to be pseudo events manufactured by the PR industry, and the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a new machinery of international propaganda. He shows the impact of this on a world where consumers believe a mass of stories which, in truth, are as false as the idea that the Earth is flat - from the millennium bug to the WMD in Iraq - tainting government policy, perverting popular belief. He presents a new model for understanding news. With the help of researchers from Cardiff University, who ran a ground-breaking analysis of our daily news, Davies found most reporters, most of the time, are not allowed to dig up stories or check their facts - a profession corrupted at the core.
Davies has been named Journalist of the Year, Reporter of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year for his investigations into crime, drugs, poverty and other social issues. He has been a journalist since 1976 and is currently a freelance, working regularly as special correspondent for The Guardian.
News and commentary for the week of April 2-8, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of March 19-25, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of March 12-18, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of March 5-11, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Charles Barber, author of Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation.
Public perceptions of mental health issues have changed dramatically over the last fifteen years, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the rampant overmedication of ordinary Americans. In 2006, 227 million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed in the United States, more than any other class of medication; in that same year, the United States accounted for 66 percent of the global antidepressant market. Barber provides a much-needed context for this disturbing phenomenon.
Barber explores the ways in which pharmaceutical companies first create the need for a drug and then rush to fill it, and he reveals that the increasing pressure Americans are under to medicate themselves (direct-to-consumer advertising, fewer nondrug therapeutic options, the promise of the quick fix, the blurring of distinction between mental illness and everyday problems). Most importantly, he convincingly argues that without an industry to promote them, non-pharmaceutical approaches that could have the potential to help millions are tragically overlooked by a nation that sees drugs as an instant cure for all emotional difficulties.
Barber was educated at Harvard and Columbia and worked for ten years in New York City shelters for the homeless mentally ill. The title essay in his first book, Songs from the Black Chair, won a 2006 Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times and Scientific American Mind, among other publications. He is a senior administrator at The Connection, an innovative social services agency, and a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine.
News and commentary for the week of February 27 - March 4, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, author of The Politics of Small Things: The Power of the Powerless in Dark Times.
Political change doesn't always begin with a bang; it often starts with just a whisper. From the discussions around kitchen tables that led to the dismantling of the Soviet bloc to the more recent emergence of Internet initiatives like MoveOn.org and Redeem the Vote that are revolutionizing the American political landscape, consequential political life develops in small spaces where dialogue generates political power.
Goldfarb provides an innovative way for understanding politics, a way of appreciating the significance of politics at the micro level by comparatively analyzing key turning points and institutions in recent history. He presents a sociology of human interactions that lead from small to large: dissent around the old Soviet bloc; life on the streets in Warsaw, Prague, and Bucharest in 1989; the network of terror that spawned 9/11; and the religious and Internet mobilizations that transformed the 2004 presidential election, to name a few. In such pivotal moments, he masterfully shows, political autonomy can be generated, presenting alternatives to the big politics of the global stage and the dominant narratives of terrorism, antiterrorism, and globalization.
Goldfarb is the Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of seven books, including On Cultural Freedom, The Cynical Society and Beyond Glasnost.
News and commentary for the week of February 20-26, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Robert Creamer, author of Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win.
Some people think that in order to win this November, Democrats need to move to the political center by adopting conservative values and splitting the difference between progressive and conservatives positions. History shows they are wrong. To win the next election and to win in the long term, progressives need to redefine the political center. Creamer, one of America s most experienced political strategists and organizers lays out a broad strategy for progressive victory and describes the tactics needed to win real-world political battles one at a time. He analyzes: The self-interests of voters; Targets for political communication; The principles of political messaging; The secrets of winning electoral and issue campaigns; What is meant by progressive values, and; How to describe a compelling progressive vision for the future.
Creamer has been a political organizer and strategist for almost four decades. He is a consultant to the campaigns to end the war in Iraq, pass universal health care, change America's budget priorities and enact comprehensive immigration reform.
News and commentary for the week of February 13-19, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Jonathan Simon author of Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear.
Across America today gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors. Social problems ranging from welfare dependency to educational inequality have been reconceptualized as crimes, with an attendant focus on assigning fault and imposing consequences.
Even before the recent terrorist attacks, non-citizen residents had become subject to an increasingly harsh regime of detention and deportation, and prospective employees subjected to background checks. How and when did our everyday world become dominated by fear, every citizen treated as a potential criminal?
Simon traces this pattern back to the collapse of the New Deal approach to governing during the 1960s when declining confidence in expert-guided government policies sent political leaders searching for new models of governance. The War on Crime offered a ready solution to their problem: politicians set agendas by drawing analogies to crime and redefined the ideal citizen as a crime victim, one whose vulnerabilities opened the door to overweening government intervention. By the 1980s, this transformation of the core powers of government had spilled over into the institutions that govern daily life. Soon our schools, our families, our workplaces, and our residential communities were being governed through crime.
Simon is Associate Dean of Jurisprudence and Social Policy and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
News and commentary for the week of February 6-12, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 30 - February 5, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 23-29, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 16-22, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Mark Winne author of "Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty."
Food activist and journalist Mark Winne poses questions too often overlooked in our current conversations around food: What about those people who are not financially able to make conscientious choices about where and how to get food? And in a time of rising rates of both diabetes and obesity, what can we do to make healthier foods available for everyone?
To address these questions, Winne tells the story of how America's food gap has widened since the 1960s, when domestic poverty was "rediscovered," and how communities have responded with a slew of strategies and methods to narrow the gap, including community gardens, food banks, and farmers' markets. The story, however, is not only about hunger in the land of plenty and the organized efforts to reduce it; it is also about doing that work against a backdrop of ever-growing American food affluence and gastronomical expectations. With the popularity of Whole Foods and increasingly common community-supported agriculture (CSA), wherein subscribers pay a farm so they can have fresh produce regularly, the demand for fresh food is rising in one population as fast as rates of obesity and diabetes are rising in another.
Winne addresses head-on the struggles to improve food access for all of us, regardless of income level. Using anecdotal evidence and a smart look at both local and national policies, Winne offers a realistic vision for getting locally produced, healthy food onto everyone's table.
For twenty-five years Mark Winne was the executive director of the Hartford Food System in Hartford, Connecticut. He now writes, speaks, and consults extensively on community food system topics.
News and commentary for the week of January 9-15, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 2-8, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
Ismael Hossein-zadeh discusses his book The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism.
Hossein-zadeh's wide-ranging, interdisciplinary analysis blends history, economics, and politics to challenge most of the prevailing accounts of the rise of U.S. militarism. While acknowledging the contributory role of some of the most widely-cited culprits (big oil, neoconservative ideology, the Zionist lobby, and President Bush's world outlook), this study explores the bigger, but largely submerged, picture: the political economy of war and militarism.
The study is unique not only for its thorough examination of the economics of military spending, but also for its careful analysis of a series of closely related topics (petroleum, geopolitics, imperialism, terrorism, religious fundamentalism, the war in Iraq, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict) that may appear as digressions but, in fact, help shed more light on the main investigation.
An Iranian-born Kurd, Hossein-zadeh came to the United States in 1975 to pursue his formal education in economics. After completing his graduate work at the New School for Social Research in New York City (1988), he joined Drake University faculty where he has been teaching classes in political economy, comparative economic systems, international economics, and development economics.
News and commentary for the week of December 26, 2007 - January 1, 2008 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of December 19-25, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
Robert Kuttner discusses his book, The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity.
The incomes of most Americans today are static or declining. Tens of millions of workers are newly vulnerable to layoffs and outsourcing. Health care and retirement burdens are increasingly being shifted from employers to individuals. Two-income families find they are working longer hours for lower wages, with decreased social support. As wealth has become more concentrated, the economy has become more recklessly speculative, jeopardizing not only the prospects of ordinary Americans, but the solvency of the entire system. According to Kuttner, what links these trends is Robert Kuttner in this provocative, engaging, and necessary book, is the consolidation of political and economic power by a narrow elite, who blocks the ability of government to restore broad prosperity to the majority of citizens.
A co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine, Kuttner writes for the magazine regularly on a variety of issues. Mostly, however, he focuses on economic policy, both domestic and international. His editorial column, which first appears in The Boston Globe, then on the Prospect website every Thursday, is distributed to 20 major newspapers nationwide. It was awarded the John Hancock Award for excellence in business and financial journalism. As well, Kuttner won the Jack London Award for labor journalism.
News and commentary for the week of December 12-18, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
Walter Russell Mead discusses his book God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World.
Mead, the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and one of the country's leading students of American foreign policy, contends that the key to the predominance of the two countries has been the individualistic ideology of the prevailing Anglo-American religion. Mead explains how this helped create a culture uniquely adapted to capitalism, a system under which both countries thrived. We see how, as a result, the two nations were able to create the liberal, democratic system whose economic and social influence continues to grow around the world.
According to Mead, the stakes today are higher than ever; technological progress makes new and terrible weapons easier for rogue states and terror groups to develop and deploy. Where some see an end to history and others a clash of civilizations, Mead sees the current conflicts in the Middle East as the latest challenge to the liberal, capitalist, and democratic world system that the Anglo-Americans are trying to build. What we need now, he says, is a diplomacy of civlizations based on a deeper understanding of the recurring conflicts between the liberal world system and its foes.
News and commentary for the week of December 5-11, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of November 28-December 4, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Christopher Ellinger of Bolder Giving. Christopher and Anne Ellinger were plunged into the philanthropy world when Christopher received an unexpected inheritance at age 21. After ten years of exploring the resources available for people looking to connect their money and values, they decided to put this knowledge to use by helping other wealthy people maximize their positive impact. In 1991, they founded More than Money, a nonprofit peer education network with over 2,000 participants nationwide. Through its publications, gatherings, and web resources, More Than Money helped people with significant financial resources to explore the impact of money in their lives and to act on their highest values.
News and commentary for the week of November 21-27, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of November 14-20, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Paul V. Dutton author of "Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France."
Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, while one in four Americans report difficulty paying for medical care. Indeed, the U.S. health care system, despite being the most expensive health care system in the world, ranked thirty-seventh in a comprehensive World Health Organization report. With health care spending only expected to increase, Americans are again debating new ideas for expanding coverage and cutting costs.
According to the historian Paul V. Dutton, Americans should look to France, whose health care system captured the World Health Organization's number-one spot.
Dutton debunks a common misconception among Americans that European health care systems are essentially similar to each other and vastly different from U.S. health care. In fact, the Americans and the French both distrust "socialized medicine." Both peoples cherish patient choice, independent physicians, medical practice freedoms, and private insurers in a qualitatively different way than the Canadians, the British, and many others.
Dutton is an Associate Professor of History at Northern Arizona University.
News and commentary for the week of November 7-13, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of October 31 - November 6, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of October 24-30, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Norman Solomon author of "Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State."
Since he was first under FBI surveillance at age 14 in the mid-1960s, Norman Solomon has been on a collision course with what he calls "the warfare state."
In his latest book "Made Love, Got War" Solomon recounts his controversial trips to Baghdad and Tehran with Sean Penn as well as televised showdowns with Judith Miller and other pro-war journalists before the invasion of Iraq. Made Love, Got War blends personal reflections with social commentary and firsthand accounts of Solomon's activism and reporting from the late 1960s to present-day Tehran.
In his foreword, Daniel Ellsberg writes that the book "helps us understand where we are now and how we got here." The Pentagon Papers whistleblower concludes: "I was born in 1931, and my generation had to reorient itself to the unprecedented threat of planetary nuclear suicide-murder. Norman Solomon was born twenty years later, and his generation has never lived under any other circumstance. The strands of this book form a unique weave of personal narrative and historical inquiry. 'Made Love, Got War' lays out a half-century of socialized insanity that has brought a succession of aggressive wars under cover of - but at recurrent risk of detonating - a genocidal nuclear arsenal. We need to help each other to awaken from this madness."
News and commentary for the week of October 17-23, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of October 10-16, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of October 3-9, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of September 26 - October 2, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of September 19-25, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of September 12-18, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of September 5-11, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of August 29- September 4, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of August 22-28, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
Elliot D. Cohen discusses his book "Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-hungry Government Are Turning America into a Dictatorship."
Cohen shows how mainstream media corporations like CNN, Fox, and NBC (General Electric) together with giant telecoms like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T have become administration pawns in a well-organized effort to hijack America. He details how incredible power, control, and wealth have been amassed in the hands of an elite few while the rest of us have been systematically manipulated, deceived, and divested of our freedom.
Cohen is the editor-in-chief of the "International Journal of Applied Philosophy," ethics editor for "Free Inquiry" magazine, and the author or editor of many books in journalism, professional ethics, and philosophical counseling, including "News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership and Its Threat to Democracy," and "Philosophical Issues in Journalism." He was the first prize recipient of the 2007 Project Censored Award for his investigative reporting on the corporate takeover of the Internet.
News and commentary for the week of August 15-21, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of August 8-14, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of August 1-7, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of July 25-31, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An Interview with Aviva Chomsky author of "They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration.
Claims that immigrants take Americans' jobs, are a drain on the American economy, contribute to poverty and inequality, and contribute to a host of social ills by their very existence are openly discussed and debated at all levels of society. Chomsky dismantles twenty of the most common assumptions and beliefs underlying statements like "I'm not against immigration, only illegal immigration" and challenges the misinformation in clear, straightforward prose. In exposing the myths that underlie today's debate, Chomsky illustrates how the parameters and presumptions of the debate distort how we think-and have been thinking-about immigration. She observes that race, ethnicity, and gender were historically used as reasons to exclude portions of the population from access to rights. Today, Chomsky argues, the dividing line is citizenship. Although resentment against immigrants and attempts to further marginalize them are still apparent today, the notion that noncitizens, too, are created equal is virtually absent from the public sphere. Engaging and fresh, this book will challenge common assumptions about immigrants, immigration, and U.S. history.
The daughter of Noam Chomsky, Aviva Chomsky is professor of history and coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State College. The author of several books, Chomsky has been active in Latin American solidarity and immigrants' rights issues for over twenty-five years.
News and commentary for the week of July 18-24, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of July 11-17, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of July 4-10, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of June 27 - July 3, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of June 20-26, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of June 13 - 19, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of June 6 - June 12, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of May 30 - June 5, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of May 23 - May 29, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of May 16 - May 22, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
George Monbiot discusses his book Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning. It now seems certain that we need a 90% cut in our emissions within 25 years if we are to stop ourselves reaching the point where the "climate feedback" becomes unstoppable, and our world becomes largely uninhabitable. Monbiot explains how this cut could be achieved. Combining his knowledge of political campaigning and environmental science, he analyses the possibilities and pitfalls of energy efficiency, nuclear power, renewable resources and new technologies, and applies them to our everyday lives, measuring the cuts that can be made.
Monbiot is a bestselling author and a weekly columnist for the Guardian. In 1995 Nelson Mandela presented him with a United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement. He has been named by the Evening Standard as one of the 25 most influential people in Britain, and by the Independent on Sunday as one of the 40 international prophets of the 21st Century. His books include Captive State: the Corporate Takeover of Britain and, most recently, The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order.
News and commentary for the week of May 9 - May 15, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of May 2 - May 8, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Andrew Koppelman author of "Same Sex, Different States: When Same-Sex Marriages Cross State Lines."
Americans are profoundly divided over same-sex marriage, and now that gay civil unions and marriages are legal in some states, the issue has become increasingly urgent. Koppelman offers a sensible approach that will appeal to the best instincts of both sides. Drawing on historical precedents in which states held radically different moral views about marriage (for example, between kin, very young individuals, and interracial couples), Koppelman shows which state laws should govern in specific situations as gay couples travel or move from place to place.
Koppelman is professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law and author of Antidiscrimination Law and Social Equality and The Gay Rights Question in Contemporary American Law.
News and commentary for the week of April 25 - May 1, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of April 18-24, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
Albert Bates, an influential figure in the intentional community and ecovillage movements discusses his new book "The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times." Over the coming years we will need to move from a global culture addicted to cheap, abundant petroleum to a culture of compelled conservation, whether through government directive or market forces. Bates takes a positive, upbeat, and optimistic view of "the Great Change," promoting the idea that it can be an opportunity to redeem our essential interconnectedness with nature and with each other. Bates is a lawyer, author and teacher. He has been director of the Institute for Appropriate Technology since 1984 and of the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee since 1994.
News and commentary for the week of April 11-17, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of April 4-10, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
Peter Navarro Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine discusses his book The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won.
China's breakneck industrialization is placing it on a collision course with the entire world. Tomorrow's China Wars will be fought over everything from decent jobs, livable wages, and leading-edge technologies to strategic resources such as oil, copper, and steel...even food, water, and air.
Navarro also reveals how China has become the world's most ruthless imperialist...how it is promoting global environmental disaster... and, perhaps most terrifying of all, how this nuclear superpower and pirate nation may be spiraling toward internal chaos.
News and commentary for the week of March 28 - April 3, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
Benjamin Barber discusses his new book Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole. A sequel to Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a portrait of how adult consumers are infantilized in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers. Driven by a frantic imperative to sell, consumer capitalism specializes today in the manufacture not of goods but of needs.
This culmination of Barber's lifelong study of and capitalism shows how the infantilist ethos deprives society of responsible citizens and displaces public goods with private commodities. Traditional liberal democratic society is colonized by an all-pervasive market imperative. Public space is privatized. Identity is branded. Our world, homogenized. Barber confronts the likely consequences for our children, our liberty, and our citizenship, and shows finally how citizens can resist and transcend the civic schizophrenia with which consumerism has infected them.
Barber is the Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos, and Director, CivWorld.
News and commentary for the week of March 21 - 27, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of March 14 - 20, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of March 7-13, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of February 28 - March 6, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of February 21-27, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of February 14-20, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of February 7-13, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 31- February 6, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 24-30, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 17-23, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 10-16, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of January 3-9, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of December 27, 2006 - January 2, 2007 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of December 20 - 26, 2006 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of December 6 - 12, 2006 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of November 29 - December 5, 2006 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of November 22-28, 2006 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of November 15-21, 2006 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of November 8-14, 2006 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of November 1-7, 2006 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of October 25-31, 2006 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of October 18-24, 2006 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Ronald Dworkin, author of "Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate."
Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before. The result, Dworkin believes, is a deeply depressing political culture, as ill equipped for the perennial challenge of achieving social justice as for the emerging threats of terrorism. Yet this need not be. Dworkin, one the world's leading legal and political philosophers, identifies and defends core principles of personal and political morality that all citizens can share. He shows that recognizing such shared principles can make substantial political argument possible and help replace contempt with mutual respect. Only then can the full promise of democracy be realized in America and elsewhere.
News and commentary for the week of October 11-17, 2006 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of October 4-10, 2006 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
An interview with Sidney Blumenthal, former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and the author of "How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime." In a series of columns and essays that Blumenthal wrote in the three years following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a unifying theme began to emerge: that George W. Bush, billed by himself and by many others as a conservative, is in fact a radical-more radical than any president in American history. Blumenthal argues that these radical actions are not haphazard, but deliberately intended to fundamentally change the presidency and the government. He shows not only the historical precedents for radical governing, but also how Bush has taken his methods to unique extremes.
Blumenthal is a regular columnist for the Guardian of London and for Salon, and has been a staff writer for the New Yorker and the Washington Post. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the New York University Center on Law and Security.
News and commentary for the week of September 27 - October 3, 2006 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of September 20-26, 2006 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
Mark Kurlansky, New York Times bestselling author, discusses his latest book, "Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea.
News and commentary for the week of September 13-19, 2006 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
News and commentary for the week of September 6-12, 2006 with Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.
David Frankfurter, Professor of Religious Studies and History at the University of New Hampshire, discusses his latest book "Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History."
The first work to provide an in-depth analysis of the topic, Evil Incarnate uses anthropology, the history of religion, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, to answer the questions "What causes people collectively to envision evil and seek to exterminate it?" and "Why does the representation of evil recur in such typical patterns?"
Frankfurter discusses such diverse subjects as witch-hunting, the origins of demonology, cannibalism, and the rumors of Jewish ritual murder, demonstrating how societies have long expanded upon their fears of such atrocities to address a collective anxiety.
Frankfurter is also the author of the acclaimed "Religion in Roman Egypt," which won the 1999 award for excellence in the historical study of religion from the American Academy of Religion.
Mary-Wynne Ashford, a leader in the international peace and disarmament movement for over 20 years discusses her book Enough Blood Shed: 101 Solutions to Violence, Terror and War. She confronts the reality of a world awash in weapons and the belief that war is inevitable with solutions based on the power of ordinary people to make a difference.
Political analyst and critically acclaimed author Michael Parenti discusses his latest book, "The Culture Struggle."
An interview with David Sirota, senior editor at In These Times magazine and author of "Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Have Taken Over Our Government and How We Can Take It Back."
Nancy MacLean, Professor of History and African American Studies and Chair of the History Department at Northwestern University discusses her new book "Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace."
Elizabeth Kolbert, winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science award, discusses her new book "Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man Nature and Climate Change."
Kevin Phillips one of the Republican Party's top theoreticians and electoral analysts of 1970s and 1980s discusses his new book American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century.
An interview with Robert Blair Kaiser author of "A Church in Search of Itself: Benedict XVI and the Battle for the Future." Kaiser spent ten years in the Jesuits before he left to pursue a career in journalism. He was a religion reporter for The New York Times, Time, and CBS, and is now a contributing editor in Rome for Newsweek. In "A Church in Search of Itself," Kaiser examines the most important and divisive issues confronting the Church: the sex abuse scandal, a shortage of priests due to the insistence upon celibacy, the ban on contraception, the roles of women and gays in the Church, the failure to reach out sincerely to other faiths, the increased participation of laypeople in Church affairs.
Leonard Steinhorn discusses his new book The Greater Generation : In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy.
An interview with Jim Lardner co-editor and a co-author of "Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences."
John Dean, former counsel to President Nixon discusses his book "Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush."
James Bamford, author of the first book ever written about the NSA discusses his most recent book, A Pretext For War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies.
Jeremy Leggett, an internationally renowned geologist and energy entrepreneur discusses his book "The Empty Tank: Oil, Gas, Hot Air, and the Coming Global Financial Catastrophe."
Seymour Hersh, Pulitizer Prize-winning reporter and author of Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib discusses Iran, Iraq, Bush and torture.
Scott Ritter, former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq, discusses his new book "Iraq Confidential : The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein.
Jennifer Harbury discusses her new book "Truth, Torture, and the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Torture."
David Vise, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from The Washington Post discusses his new book "The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time."
Barbara Ehrenreich, the author the New York Times bestseller "Nickel and Dimed". discusses her latest book, "Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.
Jesus Christ, the figurehead of hundreds of Christian organizations worldwide, talks about his mother, religious "pricks" and his upcoming birthday celebration.
Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent for Britain's The Independent, and one of the few Western journalists who has interviewed Osama bin Laden discusses his book "The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East."
Bruce Lawrence, Professor of Religion at Duke University, discusses his book Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden.
Investigative journalist Robert Parry discusses his latest book "Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq."