During lockdown, our entire world has rediscovered the joys of breadmaking. But what is the supernatural phenomenon, indeed the Christian miracle, behind your sourdough starter? Why is baking bread a life lesson in death and resurrection?  And how does it celebrate bacteria, pathogens, and all those other disgusting microbes floating around us? Professor Eric Pallant, one of the world’s leading experts on the history and science of bread, joins us. Eric Pallant is Chairman of the Department of Environmental Science and Sustainability at Allegheny College. He is the author of the forthcoming book (2021), “The Culture of Sourdough: The History and Science of Sourdough.”

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The Irritable Immunologist; Professor Harvey J. Kaye; Dr. Harriet Fraad, host of Capitalism Hits Home; Animal Behaviorist Dr. Jennifer Verdolin; LGBTQ Activist Zack Ford; Down With Tyranny’s Howie Klein; Comedian Aaron Berg; Yuk Yuk’s Mark Breslin;  Comedy Writer Dave Sirus; Comedian Liam McEneaney; Comedy Writer Jon Ross; Comedian Kevin Bartini.

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Dr. Jay Sutay, hardest working pediatrician in comedy;  Michael Brooks’ new book is “Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right;” Journalist Tim Schwab, whose investigation into the Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation is this week’s cover story for The Nation Magazine; Animal Behaviorist Dr. Jennifer Verdolin; Investigative Journalist Pablo Gutierrez on the spread of the Coronavirus inside ICE detention camps; Martha Stewart (Martha Previte) offers quarantining tips; Emmy and Peabody Award Winning Comedy Writer Jim Earl; Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling with 18 more killer jokes; The Rev. Barry W. Lynn on the stimulus bill; Comedian Liam McEneaney answers listener mail; Citizen Bacon checks in; Comedian Kevin Bartini talks to us from the West Side of Manhattan; and The Ralph Nader Radio Hour crew tells us how their quarantines are going. 

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Congressman Alan Grayson talks Iowa, Impeachment and State of The Union; Down With Tyranny’s Howie Klein; Comedy Writer Dave Sirus; Kelly Stone who, besides being a comedian, is running for Texas’s Railroad Commissioner; David “Citizen” Bacon goes to Washington; Comedian Aaron Berg; Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling; Comic Kevin Bartini.

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Professor Simon F. Haeder on where all the candidates stand on healthcare; Down With Tyranny’s Howie Klein forgives Elizabeth Warren, but he’s still angry; Congressman Ted Lieu’s Chief of Staff Marc Cevasco gives us an impeachment update; Alan Minsky, the executive director of the Progressive Democrats of America, talks Iowa; Senator Susan Collins (Martha Previte) is drunk again; Peabody and Emmy Award Winning Jim Earl lashes out at Joy Reid; David “Citizen” Bacon talks to Bernie, Tulsi and Michael Bennet; Screenwriter and Comedian Dave Sirus on white nationalists marching in Virginia; Comedian Kevin Bartini on Ms. Paltrow’s vagina candle.

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Professor Simon F. Haeder offers a primer on Medicare For All; Congressman Alan Grayson author of “High Crimes: The Impeachment of Donald Trump;” Congressman Ted Lieu’s Chief-of-Staff Marc Cevasco; David “Citizen” Bacon talks to Tulsi, Klobuchar and gets into it with Joe Walsh; The Rev. Barry W. Lynn warns Pelosi not to trust the senate; Dr. Jennifer Verdolin on how animals self medicate; Comedian Kevin Bartini;  Liam McEneaney insults our listeners. 

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