Category: Activists

Trump Leaks Like His Russian Hookers

Donald Trump leaks classified information to the Russians. Howie Klein from Down with Tyranny fills us in. How corrupt is Congress? On Monday, Politico released the results of its three-month study of senators and house members who continue to play the stock market, trading on what some might call inside information despite passage of a law five years ago specifically banning such activity. We talk with the author of that study Politico’s Maggie Severns. The reason radio and television stink is because the justice department wont enforce antitrust legislation and so television and radio remains in the rapacious hands of just a few corporations who care more about money than they do our democracy. Trump’s FCC is expected to allow media conglomerates to just get bigger, case in point– the conservative television group Sinclair broadcasting announced plans to buy Tribune’s television stations. David Dayen from The Nation and The Intercept joins us to talk about why the growth of large media giants is good for republicans but bad for what’s left of America’s critical thinking. Graham Ellwood is a hysterical comedian who hosts Comedy Film Nerds. His new documentary about podcasting has just been released. It’s called Ear Buds: The Podcasting Documentary. And then we discuss parenting, and mating with animal behaviorist dr. Dr. Jennifer Verdolin whose new book Raised by Animals is just out this month. We talk about that and her previous book Wild Connection: What Animal Courtship and Mating Tell Us About Human Relationships which tackles the wild world of romance. Here’s a hint, if you want to attract a mate, don’t use so much perfume and stop showering. Also we learn that the birth control pill may be leading women into picking the wrong mate.

Produced by Alicia Cordova

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Trump’s Comey Over

Is Trump guilty of a cover-up far more blatant than those lion pubic hairs stapled to the top of his skull? Comics Andy Kindler and Bruce Smirnoff along with National Security Reporter for The Intercept Mattathias Schwartz, Constitutional Law Professor Corey Brettschneider and Movie Critic Michael Snyder. Plus From The Vault: Robert Smigel is Donald Trump.

Andy Kindler regularly voices the character of Mort, a mortician and the Belchers’ neighbor, on Bob’s Burgers. He also stars on IFC’s Maron. His State of The Industry addresses make history at Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival and are now available for download on iTunes. Kindler is considered one of the funniest comic minds and the most daring, unafraid to attack comics, producers, agents and everybody else who can further his career. He is one of Alex Brizel’s all time favorite comics which makes David jealous.

Produced by Alicia Cordova

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Jackie “The Joke Man” & Sam Quinones

Comedy Writing Legend Andy Breckman, creator of Monk, Comedy Writing Legend Steve Young, Letterman & The Simpsons, Down With Tyranny’s Howie Klein and from World Politics Review Judah Grunstein.

Journalist Sam Quinones is author of “Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic” which details the relationship between Oxycotin and America’s growing opiate epidemic.

Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling is the world’s leading expert on jokes. There is no joke he hasn’t heard, and he is one of the world’s greatest joke tellers.

Andy Breckman’s radio show 7 Second Delay can be heard on WFMU and he recently won a Writers Guild Award.

Steve Young’s book is “Everything’s Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals” and it’s soon to be a documentary.

We talk healthcare, France, Trump remembering jokes and writing them.

Produced by Alicia Cordova

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Medicare For All

From The Vault: This is a bonus episode of the David Feldman Show on healthcare from July 29th, 2013 entitled “Obamacare Isn’t Enough”. Dr. Paul Song and Dr. Nancy Niparko from Physicians for a National Health Program explain why America needs a single payer healthcare system right now. Physicians for a National Health Program is a non-profit research and education organization of 18,000 physicians, medical students and health professionals who support single-payer national health insurance. For more information please visit www.pnhp.org. Also Mark Thompson and new music from Will Ryan And The Cactus County Cowboys. Medicare for all.

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