We've had non-stop guests and lots of news recently, so I thought we'd take the day to catch up and talk. Phone lines are open for you to weigh in on anything we've been talking about... from the Extreme Supreme Court, Trump Trials, College protests, Israel-Hamas, or anything else on your mind.
If you've listened to my show, you know that I often refer to myself as an "atheist Jew". My Judaism comes by way of heritage, family, generational stories and history. I have real disdain for organized religion of every stripe, and have often commented about how virtually every war ever fought had its basis somewhere in religion. I've been struggling since the news broke of the Oct 7 attack by Hamas terrorists with the images that play on a loop in my mind. Making it worse is the reception I've gotten from some listeners, former friends [...]
It's a Thursday, so Howie Klein takes a weekly break from writing at DownWithTyranny and vetting the best candidates for the Blue America PAC to support. There's no shortage of topics to discuss today, but I'm running late as I spent the morning at the doctors office and urgent care trying to figure out what's going on with my foot. (Stay tuned for another episode of the Mal-ladies, where we discuss what ails us. Ugh) I also have to share a few words from one of the people I most respect in this world, Chef Jose Andres. I'm [...]
Mondays. They happen like clockwork every week, coming right after the weekend to put an official end to our fun. So on Mondays, we check in with Jonathan Larsen of The Fucking News to help ease us back into the work week with an irreverent discussion of the serious shit happening in our world. Jonathan joins in at the bottom of the hour... And we check in with Spocko who fact checks the crazy rebuttal from Katie Britt who apparently learned one thing from the head of the Republican party: how to lie! While the rest of [...]
View on Zencastr Well, we're here! I'm still getting my bearings in Arizona, but we found a house to rent in the town of Chandler, Arizona. We'll move in on Wednesday. In the meantime, with all that's going on in the world, I couldn't imagine being off the air for another week. So I'll slide into YouTube whenever possible during our regular time of 5pm ET/2 PT while we continue getting settled. I jokingly quipped that it's a good thing not much happened in the past three weeks, but yeah, I picked the wrong time to be off [...]
https://media.zencastr.com/audio-files/5e0cc41aa9798f001400ff98/a6888879-fbd7-499f-b2c1-28dd20f14afd.mp3 Click the player above to play, right click the download button below to download the episode, scroll down for the video version It was one year ago today that Vladimir Putin's Russia invaded Ukraine and began the bombing. It's been a horrific year for the people of Ukraine, who did nothing to provoke that monster. But a year later, they're still taking incoming fire, living without reliable power and under the constant warnings of sirens. Yet the people are strong and aren't willing to give an inch. Today, we'll look back on a year ago, and [...]
Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!) I don't often get to question military leaders, either current or former. My track record isn't great. Consider the last time I spoke with General Wesley Clark. It was June of 2014. I was guest hosting the Randi Rhodes Show, and ISIS was gaining ground in Iraq, and it looked like we were going back in. So I asked the logical questions, and his responses shocked me. I let him know. Needless to say, it didn't end well! (Hear it for yourself if [...]
Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!) Many of us were riveted Friday, watching Marjorie Traitor Greene testify at a hearing in GA as she lied her way an unending stream of "I don't remembers" and I don't recalls" as she channeled other ethically challenged Republicans before her, like Alberto Gonzalez' famous 72 denials of memory. Today, John Bonifaz of Free Speech for People, the group representing the plaintiffs in this and other cases challenging members of Congress who participated in the 1-6 insurrection, returns for a recap of [...]
Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!) It's the Monday after a big holiday weekend and it feels like it should be a holiday, but it isn't. The news is awful, as it has been for the recent past, and there's no end in sight to the ugliness. We're seeing it in Ukraine as Russian bombs and soldiers reign their terror down on people who are no threat to them. And Putin's style of strong man governing seems to be spreading. Today, we'll turn the spotlight on China who's [...]
Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!) It's a busy Wednesday. I have Tulane Law Professor Amy Gajda coming on as today's guest. She'll tell us about her new book, Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy. Certainly an important topic, especially these days! But before I talk with Amy, I'll share the conversation I had this morning with Tanya, our friend from Ukraine. Since we met her six weeks ago when I cold called the Friends Forever Hostel in Kyiv, we've been communicating via [...]
