the blab: Recent Episodes
the blab
a weekly 60 minutes of pop culture, politics and p.o.v. from two guys who know their way around a discussion...award winning musician/songwriter/entertainer Dave Simmons...award winning broadcast personality/author/humorist/Grammy nominated songwriter Scott Edward Phelps...
...an encore presentation of an encore presentation of a fan favorite from last year...license to thrill, yeah, yeah, yeah.....
..politics, schmolitics....just two musical dudes talkin' music.....cue Sheryl Crow...."a change....will do you good...."
...give a mouse a cookie....and he morphs into a rat who will never....ever....turn loose of that cookie....
...if you're going to be an embarrassment to your nation, at least do it with a little talent and ability....
...after all this time...and all those light years...really sharp pictures is what we got? really?
...in which we solve all the problems we face...all the while keeping as straight a face...as possible....
...the first of the things they said they wouldn't do....and how they're about to start doing them....
...the password...is grandstanding....AND.....we need a superstar....no more stupid "stars".....
...raising the bridge ain't workin' all that hot....so, how about we lower the river for a change...
...the following story is true....only the names have been changed to...keep things current...
...big time rap and selling crap and there was some kinda ball game going on, too, we think....
...the Rogan rumble, the Pig rhythm...and the Donald dangle...just short one neck stretch...
...at some point, the lynch mob leader becomes irrelevant...and it becomes time to call the mob what they are....
...the brand new year...just like last year...and the year before that...and...Jane, stop this crazy thing...
from May 2019...a fan favorite...America...land of sunflower butter sandwiches...and subpoenas....
...if only for a night...some mirth, some merry...and a whole lot of music (with perhaps just a splash of myrrh...)
another season of joy...another shooter of students...some traditions just won't die...or can be killed...
magical music, classic composers....and what doesn't kill you...mutates and tries again..
PLUS a special episode of "S.E.P"....in the category of "...the gathering storm...."
...a listener favorite episode from June..
...just as fresh and fragrant now as it was then...if you like that sort of fragrance...
...ain't no law that kin protect ya....if'n there ain't nobody around willin' to step up and enforce it....
...it was horrific...and tragic...but not at all complicated...all we need is the answer to one question...
...how can we miss him when he won't go away...and what that not going away means to the future of Uncle Sam's neighborhood....
...in which we cheerfully predict the end of life in America as you have come to know it...
...it's time to stop needling people about needles...while we put the kibosh on this 'give me liberty' krappola...
...an "encore" broadcast....
...almost three generations later, those three shots still mystify...and fascinate...
from the archives...the post 2020 election show...memories...light the corners of a stable genius mind....