The Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show: Recent Episodes
Rob Kall
Rob Kall Interviews some of the world's smartest, most dynamic people on his Bottom Up Radio Show with the goal of getting them to share their wisdom and knowledge AND to stretch their vision.
Rob explores the bottom-up revolution, bottom-up mind and their patterns and ideas. His guests often appear on Bill Moyers, The Daily show and MSNBC shortly before or after being on Rob's show. They have included Bernie Sanders, Daniel Ellsberg, Howard Gardner, Arianna Huffington, Joseph Nye, Clay Shirky, Frans de Waal, Phil Donahue, Greg Palast, Rob Hopkins, Paul Craig Roberts, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Dennis Kucinich, Jeff Sharlett, Riane Eisler, David Korten, Ethan Zuckerman, Douglas Rushkoff, Jean Houston, Thom Hartmann, John Dean, Scott Horton, Mike Medavoy, John McTiernan, Ann Marie Slaughter, Sen. Arlen Specter, Cindy Sheehan, Sibel Edmonds, Ray McGovern, Bruce Fein, Wendell Potter.
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Thom Hartmann is one of the smartest, wisest people I know, a true renaissance person.----He' s the author of a new book, The Hidden History of American Healthcare
There's a very exciting progressive coalition building zoom meeting happening, The National Justice Roundtable.----Joel Segal has been on the forefront of the forefront on climate change, health care and civil rights.
Chuck Collins is the director of the Program on Inequality at the Institute for Policy Studies, and author of the new book, The Wealth Hoarders; How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Billions, released the following statement:---- ' -Taxes have become almost optional for the super-rich. President Biden' s plan is a welcome first step in reversing wealth hidding and tax avoidance by billionaires and multi-millionaires.
Vincent James has created a special day of the year and a week of the year' -for music for kids. That got me thinking of how late congressman John Conyers created Martin Luther King day as a national holiday' - an endeavor which took him years to accomplish.----I explored with Vincent steps he' s taken to create such a day. Since I believe there are probably many other people who want to make special days for special reasons
Charles Eisenstein is an author and speaker, known for his books The Ascent of Humanity, Sacred Economics, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible and Climate' -A New Story--Website: charleseisenstein.org----He offers a message and vision that we need a new story or stories.
Ed Frauenheim is Co-author of the book, Reinventing Masculinity; The liberating Power of Compassion and Connection. ----He discusses the differences between Confined masculinity--and liberating masculinity ideas essential to making a better future
This interview will explore the Native American wisdom of Sitting Bull, based on the book, Sitting Bull' s Words, for a world in Crisis, by Wahinkpe Topa, AKA Four Arrows, AKA Don Trent Jacobs Ph.D., Ed.D.,
IN this second segment we talk about the Hero's Journey, about dimensions of archetypes, about how archetypes apply to politics, to authoritarianism, conservatism, narcissism and making change happen.
The stories you tell yourself define your life and how you see and relate to the world. What stories are YOU living?
Cindy Watson, Attorney social justice attorney for 30 years------She' s on a mission to reframe ' -negotiation' : how we think of it and how we do it ' - moving away from the traditional competitive model to recognize the power of persuasion through ' -feminine' traits to help leverage our innate power. She says negotiation is one of the most important skills
Shelly Golden is a Zoom makeover expert, certified color consultant, and certified color consultant.----She talks about:----Professional Screen presence--Increasing engagement and rapport--Improving camera angle, lighting and background--Lighting tips.--Colors to avoid, colors that work--Zoom specific make-up--improve your personal brand--Biggest zoom mistakes, problems
Thom Hartmann discusses the hidden history, power, threat and dangers of Oligarchy and how to deal with oligarchy and oligarchs.
Paul Hetznecker is a radical defense attorney who has defended hundreds of progressive protesters. I asked him how the right wing, white supremacists who invaded the Capitol would be treated in terms of legal defense..----He discussed the difference in the way police behave, as compared to dealing with progressives or BLM, and speculated on who will go to jail and who won't based on the charges that will be leveled against them
Religion, throughout much of the world, is fading.----That' s what author Ronald Inglehart' s book, Religion' s Sudden Decline: What' s Causing it and What Comes Next, tells us.----Professor Inglehart has based his conclusions on a massive study' -The World Values Survey, which tracks responses to people in 100 societies representing 90% of the world' s population. It' s a study that they' ve been doing the past forty years.
Justin Pogue is a former property manager and a real estate investor. ----He offers tips for people who are facing the end of the eviction moratorium and people who are renting who might be able to negotiate better deals given that millions of people are being evicted or leaving their apartments or rental homes.
I interview Watermelon Slime (watermelonslim.com) and he plays two songs: Corona Funk and Immortal. He's a bluesman Dobro slide guitar and harmonica player and singer, an activist, anti-war protester and writer for OpEdNews
Gary Rosenthal is the author of the book, Re-Visioning Narcissism: Healing Heresies for Polarized Times.----In this interview we focus on Why it's timely and necessary now to re-vision it. We start with the history of narcissism.
Barry Lynn's new book is Liberty From All Masters; The new American Autocracy Vs. The Will of the People ' - It' s a powerful analysis of the power of monopolies in the US and the world.
Matthew MacWilliams is an expert on Authoritarianism ----and Author of On Fascism; 12 Lessons for American History ----He is a long-time political professional, establishing MacWilliams Sanders Communications ' - a campaign- and issues-driven media strategy firm ' - more than 20 years ago. --He is also working with other countries, internationally, to identify authoritarianism and fascism and fight it.
Suppression of alternative medicine has a long history. We discuss that history, how it has been done and how it is being done down during the time of of Covid-19/Corona Virus.
Lois Farfel Stark has been described as a ' -female Joseph Campbell,' - She' s the author of an extraordinarily creative, visionary and beautiful book. The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing times, which won four book awards, including Best Nonfiction 2019, from Next Gen Indie Book Awards. ----She says, "To think out of the box, we need to see the _boxes we have been in. We shape our world and then it shapes us."
Steven Hassan is the author of the book, The Cult of Donald Trump; A leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control.----He's a former cult member who was de-programmed and who has helped thousands of others to be deprogrammed.----We talk about what makes a person vulnerable to being lured into a cult, how people are lured in, how people change when they are in a cult, how to help them to leave, and what is t
David Burns, MD wrote his book, Feeling Good forty years ago. It has sold over five million copies. ----Now he has a new book out, Feeling Great
Thom Hartmann, Greg Palast and Jonathan Simon predicted that Trump and the Republicans would try to steal the presidency. We discuss how and provide an update on their efforts and how what they've done applies to the Georgia Run-offs, how a red shift indicates that the elections were rigged against the Democrats down-ticket and how what's been done by Trump will affect the 2024 presidential election.
This is a short under 15 minute must listen interview --Greg Palast deserves a lot of credit for helping Joe Biden to win the election. He discusses what worked, what didn't, how Trump Can still steal the election and what needs to be done to insure fair January Georgia Senate runoff elections.
Egberto Willies is the host of Politics Done Right, which airs on KPFT radio and other podcast venues. He has a new book out, It' s Worth It: How to Talk to your right wing relatives, friends and neighbors.
An in depth conversation . We discuss his group's study of possible post election outcomes and about the state of the nation under Trump in general.
Thom's most recent book is The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream --We discuss how monopolies are bad for America, for the middle class and humanity. The automated transcript is at the bottom here.
My one hour interview with John Dean, former Nixon Whitehouse Counsel, of Watergate fame, about his new book that documents Donald Trump and his followers as Authoritarians. --The book comes out tomorrow. My interview is the first extensive interview that's on Youtube or Facebook about this book. --Great book, great interview.
The second session of my interview with Chris Vogler, talking about the roots and connections of story, about Shamans, neurobiology, the writer's contract with the viewer or reader. Valuable thinking about story.
Anne Nelson is the author of the book, Shadow Network; Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right
Mike Rivage-Seul talks about fascism and communism in the bible, about how Cuba's approach to Covid-19 is much more enlightened than ours and how to respond spiritually to Covid 19 ----Mike Rivage-Seul is a liberation theologian and former Roman Catholic priest. Retired in 2014, he taught at Berea College in Kentucky for 40 years where he directed Berea's Peace and Social Justice Studies Program.
We discuss Governor Don Siegelman's experience dealing with Karl Rove and repeated cases of injustice. We discuss what he's learned as a defendant, a prisoner and a victim of Karl Rove, who is now working for Donald Trump, probably focusing on vote theft, as Siegelman believes Rove did to his gubernatorial election. --He discusses ways he things our "broken justice system" must be fixed.
Chris Vogler became famous for popularizing and making digestible Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey. It landed him a job consulting for Disney on the development of the movie The Lion King. --A 25th edition of best-selling book, The Writer's Journey just came out. It's an extraordinary book I believe every person should read. While it's focus is on story, it's ideas are incredibly valuable to anyone who is going through change
Greg Palast is the investigative reporter for the Guardian, BBC television, Democracy Now and Rolling Stone who broke the story of how George Bush stole Florida in 2000 by purging thousands of innocent Black voters. He is the author of 4 NYTimes bestsellers including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.--He also studied economics under Milton Friedman. --his new book, just released, is HOW Trump Stole 2020
John Perkins is an author and activist whose 10 books on global intrigue, shamanism, and transformation including Touching the Jaguar, Shapeshifting and the classic Confessions of an Economic Hit Man have been on the New York Times bestseller list --We discuss his latest book, Touchiung the Jaguar
For this show we talk about connection to nature, with the show being inspired by Darcia Narvaez' s study, Indigenous Nature Connection: A 3-Week Intervention Increased Ecological Attachment.
I discuss living with Corona virus with Dennis Kucinich, former US congressman, former Democratic Presidential candidate, former mayor of Cleveland, and Ohio Democcratic gubernatorial candidate.
We discuss why billionaires are dangerous to democracy, freedom, economic justice and equality
PCR discusses the economic and social consequences of the Corona virus, and proposes some revolutionary ideas on how to deal with the problem, including health care for all, nationalization of big banks, forgiveness of debt to consumers... Fascinating conversation
Colleen Cowles is an attorney, an advocate, a Mom with personal experience, and author of the new book, War On Us: How the War on Drugs and Myths About Addiction are a War on All of Us
Jeffrey Sterling, former clandestine CIA Case officer, holds a law degree from Washington University.---- ----He is a formerly imprisoned whistleblower, who denies the charges against him and is the author of Unwanted Spy: The Persecution of an American Whistleblower
Michael Ventrella is an appellate and criminal defense attorney who has taught constitutional law at a number of colleges in the Philly and Boston areas.----He' s the author of the book, How to Argue the Constitution with a Conservative
NYTimes best-selling author Jonathan Maberry has had his book turned into a Netflix series, VWars. He talks about it, about his experience being the son of a Ku Klux Klan leader and about the life and work of writing.
Comedian Steve Bhaerman AKA Swami Beyondananda says, "Main thing I am focusing on that weaves both my humor and political / evolutionary brand is the connection between comedy and evolution, helping us evolve past the this or that, dueling dualities ... how "seeing funny" changes our perception, opens our hearts and minds..
Progressives need to work to fight Big Ag in rural areas. So says George Goehl,the director of People' s Action and the People' s Action Institute a federation of community-based organizations across the country that bring poor and working-class people together to win economic and racial justice.
Rupert Sheldrake has celebrated and vilified for his book, A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance, which proposes that when a behavior is manifested in the universe, the more it is manifested the more likely and more easily it will appear again.
Marc Guberti hosts Breakthrough Success Podcast --He has been blogging since he was 11, when he began writing about the Boston Red Sox. Now in his early twenties, he is also a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. More than 100,000 students in more than 180 countries have enrolled in his online courses. --Breakthrough Success reveals how listeners can win at business and life.
Ward Hayes Wilson is a Senior Fellow and director of Realist Revolt, which you can find at realistrevolt.org--Was funded with close to a million dollars, over six years by the Norwegian and Swiss foreign ministries.----He's the author of the book, Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons----Time for thinking is over"time to action
Riane Eisler's groundbreaking books include The Chalice and the Blade, Tomorrow' s Children, Real Wealtrh of Nations and she is co-author of her new book is Nurturing Our Humanity; How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future
David Renton is a barrister, historian and anti-fascist activist. He is the author of Fascism Theory and Practice.---- ----His new book is The New Authoritarians: Convergence on The Right---- ----What are the characteristics of authoritarians and authoritarianism?---- ----Are there authoritarians on both the left and right?---- ----What kind of person becomes an authoritarian---- ----What is the nature of today' s authoritarian movements?
Danny Haiphong is co-author of the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News-From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror.
Starting over 160,000 years ago, Abulafia shares his thinking on how the seas changed humanity. --David Abulafia is Emeritus Professor of Mediterranean History at Cambridge University. He is the author of many books, including The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean.--His newest book, which we' ll be discussing, is The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
Starting over 160,000 years ago, Abulafia shares his thinking on how the seas changed humanity. --David Abulafia is Emeritus Professor of Mediterranean History at Cambridge University. He is the author of many books, including The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean.--His newest book, which we' ll be discussing, is The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
A Democratic economy is the future we need and the great news is it is already beginning to happen. Marjorie Kelly cites examples of how people, companies and cities are already moving to the next economic phase
Peter Hawkins talks about the need for "WeQ" in leadership-- thinking about all the stakeholders-- management, employees, customers, community, ecology. This even applies to professional sports teams.
Darcia Narvaez and Four Arrows, among the co-authors of an incredible new book, Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First-Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing
Team human explores how humanity must return to the way humans were for most of human existence. Rushkoff offers a remarkably bottom-up view of his hope for the future.-- We discuss Douglas's book, Team Human, including, collectivism, distributed economy, blockchain, open source.. Socialism Fractal ...
Mike Gravel is one of my heroes, a former Senator from Alaska, and a presidential candidate in 2008 and for the 2020 election.----He' s my hero because he had the courage to release Daniel Ellsberg' s pentagon papers. He tells us what he'd have said if the DNC had allowed him in the debate and what he has to say to Donald Trump-- and who he endorses
Kelven Campbell has written a book, Massive Small Change, that is destined to become a classic, in same class as the book Small is Beautiful. We had such a good first article that we went on and did a second hour. This is the second hour.
Kelven Campbell has written a book, Massive Small Change, that is destined to become a classic, in same class as the book Small is Beautiful. We had such a good first article that we went on and did a second hour. This is the first hour.
Black Agenda Report Executive Editor Glen Ford. We discuss: Two corporate parties Duopoly capitalists; role in Black America--Black community response to politics"based on fear--Chris Hughes call for breakup of Facebook. Discussing Platform monopolies. --Need to cause the decline of capitalism and imperialism--Progressivism is declining"since dying of antiwar movement. --Sanders and AOC--Democrats--Liberals--Blacks and Biden
I wanted to interview to talk about what happens to people in congress who criticize or ask questions about Israel. --. AIPAC and her history with them--she was stalked--Truths about congress--AOC, Omar, Tlaib? Advice to them--Rohinga
I discuss the book The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts, with the author, Salvatore Babones
Jamie Suskind is a barrister, a past Fellow of Harvard University' s Berkman Klein Center for Internet an Society and author of the book, Future Politics; Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech. We discuss how tech is transforming the way we see, think, and approach politics.
Steve Kaplan is the author of The Comic Hero' s Journey. We discuss the difference between the dramatic hero's journey and the comic hero's journey.
Carol Gilligan is a writer, activist, NY University professor, and the author of In A Different Voice, one of the most influential feminist books of all time.----Naomi Snider is a research fellow at NYU, and founder of NYU' s Radical Listenting Project----They' ve co-authored the book, Why Does Patriarchy Persist?
Former assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts basically says that government has been taken over by corporations and lobbyists. We have to deal with government with that realization. He discusses the fed, single payer healthcare, money in elections, externalities , and more
Two experts on single payer, medicare-for-all discuss and debunk some of the common attacks and false claims made by critics. Wendell Potter is the founder of Tarbell.org, an investigative news site and he is president of the Business initiative for health policy. ----Chuck Pennacchio is a history professor at University of the Arts, Phila. and he is coordinator of Single Payor State Network.
an Hughes is the author of Disordered Minds; How Dangerous Personalities are Destroying Democracy----He's a research fellow at the Environmental Research Institute at University College, Cork, Ireland. His blog, disorderedworld.com focuses on dangerous personality disorders and their consequences.
I met Paul Hetznecker when he represented protesters at an event OpEdNews covered, and our photographer was arrested for doing her job.
John Noakes, an internationally known scholar on the policing of political protests, is chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice. In addition to the policing of protests, Professor Noakes has also published research on the origins of the FBI and FBI surveillance of Hollywood in the 1940s. At Arcadia he teaches courses on Social Theory, Social Movements, Comparative Criminal Justice Systems
A wide ranging conversation, starting with the fact that among people born after 2000, White, non LatinX Europeans are a minority. So we discuss what it's like when a majority becomes a minority. Then we get into talking about Trans life and laws in the US and India. In India, Hijras are treated better than Gays.
Stellan Vinthagen is a scholar-activist seeking to undermine white supremacist, capitalist, militarist, hetero-patriarchy--I met Stellan at the Peace and Justice Studies Conference, where I was also a presenter.
Repeat guest Pulitzer Prize and Emmy winning Chris Hedges, was a NYTimes foreign correspondent for 15 years. He' s a columnist for Truthdig and His new book is America: The Farewell Tour
Jai Sen is an architect and editor of the two volume book set, The Movements of Movements' ----He is also the editor of Interrogating Empires
Maxim Pozdorovkin has directed multiple documentaries, including Capital,[1] p*ssy Riot: A Punk Prayer, The Notorious Mr. Bout, Our New President and his most recent, now available on HBO, The Truth About Killer Robots. We explore how automation, AI, and robots are diminishing our humanity, not just killing jobs
The old way to get PR was to pay a high priced PR agency to book you on shows.----The bottom-up revolution has changed that. Now, people can do what previously only PR agencies could do.----Steve Harrison is an expert who teaches people how to do it.
Self-Publishing; The Bottom-up Route to Getting Published With Steven Spatz of Bookbaby Self publishing is the bottom-up way to get published. I talk with the CEO of one of the leading Self-publishing service companies.
Terry Patten is an old friend who has continually reinvented and evolved himself. We talk about his new book, which envisions what amounts to a new way of being, a new stage of human evolution and a new nation.
Lisa Yaszek is an expert on women in Science fiction, and wrote the chapter on time travel for James Cameron's book, The Story of Science Fiction
Curated Stories; The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling--In a way, Fernandez's book describes the gentrification of stories"just as neighborhoods are taken over, exploited and homogenized for profit, usually starting out with introduction of the arts, the world of story is going through a similar gentrification process that is exploiting stories using them, through a process of curation.
Ray McGovern, in his inimitable style, brings his rich history and experience to discuss Russia, Trump, Impeachment, the 25th amendment, Democrats, Israel, Syria and more.
Paul returns to get down to discuss some hot topics. We find agreement and disagreement.
People or organizations who criticize Israel or Zionism are being accused of anti-Semitism. Zionism is an ideology, not a religion. There are even efforts to punish speech which criticizes Israel or Zionism. This is a discussion between a jewish activist and a Jewish radio host, challenging labels of Anti-Semitism because people criticize Israel or Zionism or advocate for BDS.
Self publishing is the bottom-up way to get published. I talk with the CEO of one of the leading Self-publishing service companies
Michael Rivage-Seul has written a brilliant, must read, illuminating book that builds an incredible base of ideas and ways to analyze today's world. We spend an hour talking about the history of privatization, the women's holocaust.
Bernie Sanders' campaign manager discusses his new book, How Bernie Won, and we discuss how Bernie applied his thinking about Bottom-up.
Nathan Bomey is an award-winning business reporter for USA Today.----He's the author of a new book, After the Fact; The Erosion of Truth and the Inevitable Rise of Donald Trump
Mandy Bass is a success coach and author of Taming the Takalosh. She was brutally assaulted and injured, only to turn around and forgive and become friends with her crazed attacker.
Art professor Margaret Welty is on a mission to put drawing into all our lives. Why, because it empowers and potentiates who we are.
David Swanson's new book is Curing Exceptionalism; What' s wrong with how we think about the United States' - What can we do about it?----I love this book. It is so, so needed.
Dennis Kucinich is running in the Democratic primary for Governor of Ohio. We chat about his positions on issues and his relationship to the Democratic establishment
In Political Mind Games, psychologist Roy Eidelson presents a unique and illuminating framework for understanding and combating the manipulative ploys of the 1%. He explains exactly how the rich and powerful mislead the American people--about what's happening, what's right, and what's possible
John Trigonis is the author of Mastering Crowd Funding. A Filmmaker, Trigonis is Indiegogo' s head film campaign strategist, working behind the scenes on successful film, video, theater, comic book and gaming campaigns.---- ----He has helped thousands of filmmakers, artists and authors world wide create compelling crowdfunding campaigns that reach or exceed their goals.
Ben Berkowitz, co-founder of SeeClickFix.com discusses how his app and website is being used in over 300 cities around the world to help people connect more effectively with civic services, and make it a lot easier to report problems and see the progress on the problems being fixed. This is a very bottom-up service that enhances the connection of people and government.