Sep 27, 2022
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Topics: NASA’s DART mission crashes into an asteroid to defend
the Earth; Republicans celebrate Fascist Giorgia Meloni's victory
in Italy; Alec Baldwin sells $29 million home as lawyer bills
mount; Putin grants Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden; Adam
Levine's flirty texts; King Charles has more power than you
think
Guests/Topics With Time Stamps:
00:02:06 David hates the mice in his apartment
00:04:12 J.R. Majewsky says he saw combat in Afghanistan, but it's
"classified"
00:09:44 Rudy Giuliani is an inspiration to us all
00:14:35 Adam Levine's flirty texts
00:17:22 Brett Favre steals from the poor and gives to the rich
00:20:51 Roger Waters banned in Poland
00:27:04 Colorado cops leave handcuffed woman in back seat of
patrol car to be hit by a freight train
00:29:50 Alabama botches another execution
00:32:37 Alec Baldwin's legal woes
00:36:46 Chris Wallace fails to grill Tyler Perry on his union
busting
00:47:56 Italy votes for Fascism
00:49:57 Steve Scalise, GOP house majority whip, celebrates return
of Fascism to Italy
00:52:45 Abortion banned in Arizona
00:55:29 A quick primer on all the investigations in Trump
00:58:18 "I'm Traveling Light" written and performed by Professor
Mike Steinel
01:03:11 Professor Ann Li on the latest in Ukraine. Professor Ann
Li writes at The Daily Kos under the handle “annieli” — Her Twitter
handle is “eState4Column5"
Professor Li tells us Putin will only be able to muster 40,000
troops, not 300,000.
01:21:10 Professor Jonathan Bick on how nonprofit hospitals rip off
the poor
Professor Bick tells us about an article in The New York Times
entitled,
"They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to
Pay."
01:37:08 Royal Watcher Sir Arthur Greeb Streebling remembers his
favorite carrier pigeon.
01:50:17 Stump The Humps with Quizmaster Dan Frankenberger who
tests our knowledge of The Beatles.
02:00:43 Howie Klein author of Down With Tyranny, founder and
treasurer of The Blue America PAC, reviews the ten most important
races to watch ahead of this November's midterms.
02:31:14 David Cobb, who ran for president on the Green Party
ticket, warns of the rise of the far right in America and
abroad.
02:47:10 Dr. Harriet Fraad discusses the avalanche of propaganda on
Ukraine
03:30:52 SPECIAL GUEST: Professor Juan Cole in conversation with
Professor Adnan Husain
Professor Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of
History at the University of Michigan. Since 2002, he has written
and edited Informed Comment (juancole.com).
On today's show:
Professor Cole draws a comparison between Iran's theocracy and
theocrats within the GOP like Supreme Court Justice Samuel
Alito.
American theocrats, he says, have no problem controlling our
bodies.
Iran has no nuclear weapons program he says, and the CIA says
so.
Solar power is gaining momentum in America, quicker than you
think.
04:34:41 Peter B. Collins LIVE from NASA's Double Asteroid
Redirection Test, where they crashed a satellite into an asteroid
to knock it into a different orbit.
05:10:08 Professor Mary Anne Cummings, particle physicist, explains
how DART can change the orbit of a planetary body. Professor
Cummings explains how most Americans don't understand how "energy
dense" oil is, and why the only thing that comes close is nuclear
energy.
05:38:31 Professor Mike Steinel author of “Saving Charlie Parker: A
Novel”
06:13:58 Grace Jackson talks with Professor Sam Sam Wetherell
author of ‘Foundations: How the Built Environment Made
Twentieth-Century Britain’
How powerful could King Charles possibly get? Are there
constitutional safeguards to prevent him from becoming more than
just a gin soaked hood ornament who talks to its plants?