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  • The Last Stop Cafe: This Shit Has No Bottom
    Enlighten Radio Presents
    The Last Stop Cafe: This Shit Has No Bottom
    To Hell in a Handbasket

     

     

    Thursdays 10 AM on player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
    Mike, John and James depart from the sports, entertainment, and recovery culture discussions to take account of the horror show into which this country is being daily transformed.
    This Episode Recorded 3/25/2026 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    49 min
  • The Last Stop Cafe: Women’s Soccer Blowout Ed.
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    The Last Stop Cafe: Women's Soccer Blowout Ed.
    Big League Women's Soccer Champs!

     

     

    Thursdays, 10 AM on www.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
    Mia Hamm (Two-time World Cup & Olympic Champion) "I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion".
    This Episode Recorded Mar 18 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    1 hr 2 min
  • The Last Stop Cafe: Trades and Recruits
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    The Last Stop Cafe: Trades and Recruits
    And pluck till time and times are done...

     

     

    Broadcast LIVE Thursdays, 10 AM
    Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
    Are there more lawyers than players in  pro sports?
    This Episode Recorded 3/12/2006 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    41 min
  • Last Stop Cafe: When a Bat is a Weapon
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    Last Stop Cafe: When a Bat is a Weapon
    Rough Play!

     

     

    Thursdays, 10 AM
    Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
    After the game is over, and the bodies are removed from the arenas and grounds. The lions are satiated. The children who failed to go to bed on time have all been devoured. Play Ball!
    This Episode Recorded March 3, 2026 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    46 min
  • Last Stop Cafe: The Eisenhower Show 2/5
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    Last Stop Cafe: The Eisenhower Show 2/5
    Bombs Away

     

     

    Broadcast LIVE hursdays 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: James Boyd, Mike Cuccherini, John Case
    At the conclusion of WW2 Eisenhower visited the Nazi concentration camp, over 80 years ago now. This is what he repotedly said: “Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
    This Episode Recorded Feb 5, 2026 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    42 min
  • The Poetry Show: Safe Harbors

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    Unexpected Poetics -- Seeking, and Finding Safe Harbor

     

     

    Poets Dinah Hawken, Tracy K Smith, Ralph Williams, Don Hynes visit the peace of harbors.


    This poem by David Gregory, Reading the Bar/Whakatane Harbour, like the sea, does not encourage adjectives.

     

    Reading the Bar

    Whakatane Harbour

     

    Such a liquid language

    lisping between the headlands
    with a slight disturbance of syntax
    over the rocks, fresh and salt;
    the river knuckling under.

    Read the slurred waves.

    Air as braille
    against the skin, hair;
    always more episodes of driftwood.
    An interrogation of gulls
    demand their living
    off the backs of water.

    The sea is not

    contained by adjectives
    – sullen, playful, unforgiving –
    the insult of ignorance
    has a sure response.

    A woman stands alone

    literate in grief.

     

    David Gregory

    Based on a True Story, Sudden Valley Press, 2024

     

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    29 min
  • The Last Stop Cafe: Is it Really Over?
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    The Last Stop Cafe: Is it Really Over?
    How do you know its the End of the Road? 6 3 4 5 7 8 9

     

     

    Thursdays 10 AM -- player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, James Boyd, John Case
    Well, I started out down a dirty road; Started out all alone. And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up, the world got still I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, the good old days may not return And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn
    This Episode Recorded March 5, 2026 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    46 min
  • The Poetry Show: The Outer Planets
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    The Outer Planets and beyond: What are we really looking at?

    Sarah Doyle, David Sutton. Derek Walcott and Ada Limon answer.

    Broadcasts LIVE: Wednesdays, 10 AM Eastern Time.
    Hosts: Janet Harrison and John Case
    This Episode Recorded 2/17/2026

     

     

    In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa


    by Ada Limon


    Arching under the night sky inky
    with black expansiveness, we point
    to the planets we know, we
    pin quick wishes on stars. From earth,
    we read the sky as if it is an unerring book
    of the universe, expert and evident.
    Still, there are mysteries below our sky:
    the whale song, the songbird singing
    its call in the bough of a wind-shaken tree.
    We are creatures of constant awe,
    curious at beauty, at leaf and blossom,
    at grief and pleasure, sun and shadow.
    And it is not darkness that unites us,
    not the cold distance of space, but
    the offering of water, each drop of rain,
    each rivulet, each pulse, each vein.
    O second moon, we, too, are made
    of water, of vast and beckoning seas.
    We, too, are made of wonders, of great
    and ordinary loves, of small invisible worlds,
    of a need to call out through the dark.

     

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    35 min

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