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  • Paris on the Potomac: Something is Broken
    Enlighten Radio Presents
    Paris on the Potomac: Something is Broken
    ...And It Seems Permanent....

     

     

    Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org

    Images via Gemini Chat Bot

    Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
    Karen and John do: ICE Terror in Jefferson County. A Fortune for a Rib Roast. Bad Santa and Riders on the Storm. Something is Broken.
    This Episode Recorded Dec 19, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    26 min
  • The last stop Cafe: Warning: NOTE Food Concern
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    The last stop Cafe
    Go to Other Peoples' funerals -- Otherwise they won't come to yours.
    Yogi Berra

     

     

    image courtesy of Ghat-GPT5
     
    Thursdays 10 AM
    Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
     
    Its over. The sex, political and otherwise, was disgusting. The name is forever banned in the Cafe. Once spoken, the customer is escorted over the back porch, whose bottom, is currently Unknown.

    Our food has been subjected to advanced AI programming. After consumption, any of the above poison will be completely eliminated at the cellular and nuclear levels. You will feel instantly better -- if there is any thing left. 

    Note the image you see is what OpenAI's ChatGPT5 sees when it reads Yogi Berra.
    This Episode Recorded Dec 11, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    40 min
  • The Poetry Show: Evening -- Star or Shroud
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    Evening: The Guardian of Dreams Takes Note.

     

    A number of 'ties' for first place in the "greatest poet" category compete this week to find out what happens as the sun goes down. Some stumble; some look to the West; some await the stars.

    The image is drawn by Gemini from the second verse of Rilke's poem below

    Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
    This Episode Recorded Dec 17, 2025

    Evening

    by Rainer Maria Rilke

    1875 -- 1926


    The bleak fields are asleep,
    My heart alone wakes;
    The evening in the harbour
    Down his red sails takes.


    Night, guardian of dreams,
    Now wanders through the land;
    The moon, a lily white,
    Blossoms within her hand.

     

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    33 min
  • The Last Stop Cafe: Dec 4, Year of the Bad Santa
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    The Last Stop Cafe: Dec 4, Year of the Bad Santa
    Mike and John in Gaza in Rare Footage from pyramid building times.

     

     

     

    Thursdays 10 AM
    Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
    Mike John and James Converse Upon the Past Before the 'Bottomless Future' Crevasse off the porch at the Last Stop Cafe.

     

    "The coffee is free if you're ready to make the trip."

    jcase

     

    This Episode Recorded Dec 4, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    38 min
  • The Enlighten Radio Poetry Show: Noon
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     Noon Time Gymnastics: Flex yr metaphors!

     

     

    The intensity and diversity of poems on the them of Noon will surprise you: Emily Dickinson, Henry Van Dyke, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Teddy Macker, Daniel Gabriel Rosetti
    Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
    This Episode Recorded Dec 3, 2025

     

     

    Noon Song

    by Henry Van Dyke

     


    There are songs for the morning and songs for the night,
    For sunrise and sunset, the stars and the moon;
    But who will give praise to the fulness of light,
    And sing us a song of the glory of noon?
         Oh, the high noon, the clear noon,
             The noon with golden crest;
        When the blue sky burns, and the great sun turns
            With his face to the way of the west!

    How swiftly he rose in the dawn of his strength;

    How slowly he crept as the morning wore by;
    Ah, steep was the climbing that led him at length
    To the height of his throne in the wide summer sky.
        Oh, the long toil, the slow toil,
            The toil that may not rest,
        Till the sun looks down from his journey's crown,
            To the wonderful way of the west!


    Then a quietness falls over meadow and hill,
    The wings of the wind in the forest are furled,
    The river runs softly, the birds are all still,
    The workers are resting all over the world.
        Oh, the good hour, the kind hour,
            The hour that calms the breast!
        Little inn half-way on the road of the day,
            Where it follows the turn to the west!

    There's a plentiful feast in the maple-tree shade,

    The lilt of a song to an old-fashioned tune,
    The talk of a friend, or the kiss of a maid,
    To sweeten the cup that we drink to the noon.
        Oh, the deep noon, the full noon,
            Of all the day the best!
        When the blue sky burns, and the great sun turns
            To his home by the way of the west.

     

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    32 min
  • Paris on the Potomac : The Early Thanksgiving
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    Paris on the Potomac : The Early Thanksgiving
    The Fat Pig Holiday -- I ain't shopping there anymore!

     

     

    Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
    Shit is Hitting the Fan: No turkey, only pigs.

    Is this a Harvest, or a Pestilence?

    Huh?

    This Episode Recorded 11/15 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    44 min
  • The Last Stop Cafe: ELDFIBAM!
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    The Last Stop Cafe: ELDFIBAM!

    The Nov 6 Show

    Forget it. It's Already Gone

     

     

    Broadcast Thrusdays 10 AM, unless we are asleep, or dead.
    Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
    What does it mean?: Million Dollar Reward For Who Gets It Right. Hint: '69 SDS'
    This Episode Recorded Nov. 6 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    44 min
  • The Last Stop Cafe: Halloween 202555555
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    The Last Stop Cafe: Halloween 202555555
    Commanders Aint Commanding Much

     

     

    Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
    Applications for suicide bomber jobs seem to be falling.....
    This Episode Recorded Halloween 2025, or thereabouts at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    38 min
  • The Poetry Show: Dawn
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    Night was her only Love. She keeps its mystery and its stars, for herself, all the long day.

     

     

    Poetry on the theme of Aubade: Song to Dawn. Joy Harjo, Elsa Gitlow, Helen Hunt Jackson, Paul Dunbar.
    Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
    This Episode Recorded November 12, 2024

    Aubade (1937)

    by William Empson

     

    Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake.

    My house was on a cliff. The thing could take
    Bookloads off shelves, break bottles in a row.
    Then the long pause and then the bigger shake.
    It seemed the best thing to be up and go.

    And far too large for my feet to step by.

    I hoped that various buildings were brought low.
    The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

    It seemed quite safe till she got up and dressed.

    The guarded tourist makes the guide the test.
    Then I said The Garden? Laughing she said No.
    Taxi for her and for me healthy rest.
    It seemed the best thing to be up and go.

    The language problem but you have to try.

    Some solid ground for lying could she show?
    The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

    None of these deaths were her point at all.

    The thing was that being woken he would bawl
    And finding her not in earshot he would know.
    I tried saying Half an Hour to pay this call.
    It seemed the best thing to be up and go.

    I slept, and blank as that I would yet lie.

    Till you have seen what a threat holds below,
    The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

    Tell me again about Europe and her pains,

    Who’s tortured by the drought, who by the rains.
    Glut me with floods where only the swine can row
    Who cuts his throat and let him count his gains.
    It seemed the best thing to be up and go.

    A bedshift flight to a Far Eastern sky.

    Only the same war on a stronger toe.
    The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

    Tell me more quickly what I lost by this,

    Or tell me with less drama what they miss
    Who call no die for a god for a throw,
    Who says after two aliens had one kiss
    It seemed the best thing to be up and go.

    But as to risings, I can tell you why.

    It is on contradiction that they grow.
    It seemed the best thing to be up and go.
    Up was the heartening and the strong reply.
    The heart of standing is we cannot fly.

     

     

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    32 min

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