Chase Madar
As the Justice Department vows to crack down on NSA leaks and Captain Bradley Manning’s court martial wraps up its second week we turn to The Nation’s Chase Madar, author of “The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower.” Also Bill Burr, Eddie Pepitone, Mark Thompson, Janie Haddad Tompkins, Jane Edith Wilson, [...]
David Mamet’s Lost World
Originally Broadcast June 14, 2013. Paul Dooley, Mike McShane, Hal Lublin, Eddie Pepitone, Janie Haddad Tomkins, Jeremy S. Kramer and Will Ryan. Today’s show is written by David Weiss, Guy Nicolucci, Mike McShane, Hal Lublin, Bill Dixon, Will Ryan, Eddie Pepitone, Paul Dooley, Janie Haddad Tompkins and David Feldman. We are produced by Alicia Cordova. Our [...]
Tim Murphy
Tim Murphy covers Washington D.C. for Mother Jones Magazine. During this conversation about the NSA he drops a bombshell that almost leaves David speechless. Tim also goes over his top five GOP lunatics who he thinks can fill Michele Bachmann’s shoes once she leaves Washington next year for greener($$$) pastures. Film Critic Michael Snyder joins [...]
Shonda Rhimes Keep Making Hits
Alyssa Rosenberg mentioned this great profile on Shonda Rhimes who runs “Scandal.” Listen to my talk with Alyssa, and then read this article in The New York Times. Network TV Is Broken. So How Does Shonda Rhimes Keep Making Hits? – NYTimes.com.
Second Tony For Second City’s Andrea Martin
Andrea Martin appears and writes on this program all the time, and tonight she won her second Tony. We are so happy for her. Listen to one of our episodes with her, and then read what they have to say about it from her hometown of Portland, Maine: Portland-born Andrea Martin won for best performance [...]
Speaking Truth To Austerity
Austerity is destroying Europe and the United States. The economic philosophy of cutting spending during a recession is based on a study conducted by two Harvard economists, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. Now it turns out they got it completely wrong because of faulty Excel spreadsheets. Bryce Covert covers economics for Thing Progress. Listen [...]
Would You Give The Shirt Off Your Back To Save Lives?
On Friday’s show Bryce Covert from Think Progress talked about the Bangladesh factory collapse where more than 1,000 workers died. Listen to the show, then check out this interesting article from The Guardian. Bangladesh factory collapse leaves trail of shattered lives | World news | guardian.co.uk.
Chuck Lorre’s ‘Mom’ Gets Series Order
Great news for our lovable adorable Laura House who will be writing on this soon to be hit. From Dateline Hollywood… Not that there has ever been any doubt that CBS would exercise its option to pick up Mom to series. Written on spec by Lorre, Eddie Gorodetsky and Gemma Baker, Mom has been [...]
Bryce Covert
Originally broadcast June 7, 2013. We discuss factory conditions in Bangladesh, austerity in Europe and how the weakest Americans are doing three months after we fell off the fiscal cliff with Bryce Covert. Also new music from Will Ryan And The Cactus County Cowboys. Bryce Covert is the Economic Policy Editor for ThinkProgress. She was [...]
David Feldman is an American comedy writer and performer. He writes for Comedy Central's The Burn and Joy Behar's Say Anything on Current. He's also written on ABC's Roseanne, HBO's Dennis Miller Live, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Fox's Talk Show With Spike Feresten. Feldman has also written for The Academy Awards, The Emmys, Triumph The Insult Dog Comic and countless roasts on Comedy Central. Over the past few years he has written with and for Steve Martin, Martin Short, Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Robert Smigel and Bette Midler. As a comedian Feldman has appeared frequently on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show and The Late Late Show as well as his own special for Comedy Central. Feldman has also done commentary for Salon magazine. Feldman began as a standup comic in San Francisco. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, children, three dogs, and three cats. In 2009, Feldman launched the popular listener supported 'David Feldman Comedy Podcast' which includes a diverse mixture of live and prerecorded content which can be downloaded from iTunes for free. For some reason Feldman spoke at Pitzer College's 2009 Commencement Ceremony. Feldman has won three Prime Time Emmys for comedy writing as well as three Writers Guild Awards. He is a Democrat who has written jokes pro bono for candidates he supports.