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  • The Last Stop Cafe: Stop Kidding Yourself. This really could be the last stop....
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    The Last Stop Cafe: Stop KiddingMondays 7:30 Eastern: player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
    Mike Cuccherini goes on the record as the Nationals are about to go into one of the longests losing streakes to a list of the nation's worsd profiessional baseball games in the history of Major League baseball, and perhaps all baseball. Still - no crying, please.
    This Episode Recorded 6.2.25 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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     Yourself. This really could be the last stop....
    Casey, once the mighty hope of Mudville, now a tragic oracle of endless defeat. Cuccheriniville, no one remembers anything.

     

     

    44 min
  • Paris on the Potomac: Rubber Hitting Road

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    Paris on the Potomac: Rubber Hitting Road
    Don't drink the Blue Water

     

     

    Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
    Karen and John consider the Rubber and Road parable, which has diametrically opposed meanings. One person hears the drone of safe passage; another hears the vibrations of being run over thousands of times. Plus a Plug for Fair Trade and Friendship!
    This Episode Recorded May 29, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    21 min
  • Paris on the Potomac: If I had a billion dollars
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    Paris on the Potomac: If I had a billion dollars
    If I had a billion dollars, and the hospitals were closed, and I saw the Rough Beast of the Second Coming.....

     

    That is no country for old men. The young

    In one another’s arms, birds in the trees
    —Those dying generations—at their song,
    The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
    Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
    Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
    Caught in that sensual music all neglect
    Monuments of unageing intellect.

    An aged man is but a paltry thing,

    A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
    Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
    For every tatter in its mortal dress,
    Nor is there singing school but studying
    Monuments of its own magnificence;
    And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
    To the holy city of Byzantium.

    O sages standing in God’s holy fire

    As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
    Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
    And be the singing-masters of my soul.
    Consume my heart away; sick with desire
    And fastened to a dying animal
    It knows not what it is; and gather me
    Into the artifice of eternity.

    Once out of nature I shall never take

    My bodily form from any natural thing,
    But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
    Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
    To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
    Or set upon a golden bough to sing
    To lords and ladies of Byzantium
    Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

    This poem is in the public domain.

    Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
    Karen and John : What did Jesus do after the Inns were closed at his birth? What will 'able-bodied' men do when rural WV hospitals close from defunding Medicaid, responsible for over half the births in this state?
    This Episode Recorded May 16, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    23 min
  • The Last Stop Cafe: Is it Too Late to Stop Now?
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    The Last Stop Cafe: Is it Too Late to Stop Now?
    Does Trump Want to Bring Back Dixie as the National Anthem?

     

     

    Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern
    Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
    James and John and Mike on a search for meaning: Women's professional sports?
    This Episode Recorded May 12, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    40 min
  • Paris on the Potomac: Turn Off Your TV -- The Data Center is Feeding.
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    Paris on the Potomac: Turn Off Your TV -- The Data Center is Feeding.
    A First Degree Ripoff of Jefferson County may be underway.

     

     

    Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

     

    Special Guest: Lucia Valentine

    Lucia Valentine, a strong candidate for Delegate in Jefferson and Berkeley counties, and staff lobbyist for the West Virginia Environmental Council joins Karen and John to discuss the recent Legislative session, with emphasis on the multi-billion dollar data center investments being made in the Eastern Panhandle -- but what do the people of the Eastern Panhandle get from it?
    This Episode Recorded Friday, May 9, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    26 min
  • Labor Beat Radio: Back to 1935
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    Labor Beat Radio: Back to 1935
    The Return of "John L Lewis" is Imminent

     

     

    Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays at 10 AM on player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall
    Description: JB John and Scott underscore the destruction of legal unionism by Trump and DOGE.
    This Episode Recorded May 13, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    44 min
  • The Poetry Show: Raven and Coyote
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    Is Coyote at Your Door?

     

     

    Janet has found a marvelous selections of poems on "The Trickster" -- an active character in Native American mythologies. Sometimes as a Raven. Sometimes as Coyote. Carolyn Dunn, Ben Stickle, Peter Blue Cloud, and Charles DeLint contribute.
    Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
    This Episode Recorded May 14, 2025

    Coyote, Coyote

    by Peter Blue Cloud

     


    Coyote, Coyote, Please tell me
    What is a shaman?
    A shaman I don’t know
    anything about.
    I’m a doctor, myself.
    When I use medicine,
    it’s between me,
    my patient,
    and the Creation.
    Coyote, Coyote, Please tell me
    What is power?
    It is said that power
    is the ability to start
    your chainsaw
    with one pull.
    Coyote, Coyote, Please tell me
    What is magic?
    Magic is the first taste
    of ripe strawberries and
    magic is a child dancing
    in a summer’s rain.
    Coyote, Coyote, Please tell me
    Why is Creation?
    Creation is because I
    went to sleep last night
    with a full stomach,
    and when I woke up
    this morning,
    everything was here.
    Coyote, Coyote, Please tell me
    Who you belong to?
    According to the latest
    survey, there are certain
    persons who, in poetic
    or scholarly guise,
    have claimed me like
    a conqueror’s prize.
    Let me just say
    once and for all,
    just to be done:
    Coyote,
    he belongs to none.

     

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    31 min

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