Welcome to the HLC Podcast for September 22, 2015. It’s the Pope Drives a Shitbox edition.

Here are our topics for today:

Stopa was standing right near his buddy, the loser Donald Trump, when the questioner hit Trump with the loser Muslim question. We’ll get Mike’s perspective, and discuss the loser media coverage of the loser GOP campaign.

A loser drug called daraprim was bought by a loser entrepreneur who raised the price from 13.50 per tablet to $750 each. The loser left goes crazy, but do they really believe themselves?

Suddenly, all loser Volkswagens have a bug. And the Pope Mobile became a Loser Fiat. What’s with the war on loser German engineering?

WE’ll also have our loser thoughts

 

And we pay tribute to Ziggy Stardust in our today’s Hidden Gem. Released this week in 1972. No Loser.

Welcome to the to the Ben Carson Refugee edition of the HLC Podcast for Sept 15, 2015. We are Mike Stopa – nanophysicist and former congressional candidate and radio talk host Todd Feinburg. Find us online at harvardlunchclub.com, subscribe on itunes or any other podcasting platform. You can also find us on Facebook. Our twitter handle is @hlcpodcast

On this week’s podcast 

Donald Trump and Ben Carson are in a tight race all of a sudden – the latest national poll showing them at 27 and 23 percent of the vote. What does Carson’s success teach us about the Trump phenomenon? And Sanders too, for that matter.

Todd thinks the president’s offer to take 10,000 refugees from Syria is pathetic – and that the US should make room for 100,000. We find out what Stopa has to say.

 A Buddhist Monk from Louisiana has a gambling problem, so he embezzeled $150,000 to fund his blackjack. Can Monks be corrupt?

We’ll have our shower thoughts… Todd encounters a mother who turns all power over to her son, and Mike talks about life on the battle field.

Our Hidden Gem was supposed to come from Wilson Phillips, but it was so gross Todd panicked and threw on some Zep!

 

Welcome to the to the NPR NFL TRMP edition of the HLC Podcast for Sept 10, 2015. We are Mike Stopa – nanophysicist and former congressional candidate and radio talk host Todd Feinburg. Find us online at harvardlunchclub.com, subscribe on itunes or any other podcasting platform. You can also find us on Facebook. Our twitter handle is @hlcpodcast

On this week’s podcast:

The NFL goes back to work with Deflategate over and Tom Brady on the field and, labor is claiming this as proof of why workers need unions. 

NPR is for liberals. As is CNN, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the LA Times, ABC NBC CBS. Etc. Conservatives have? Fox. We discuss media bias.

Trump insults Carly Fiorina by attacking her looks – then says he didn’t. Sounds a lot like a politician. How Trump may self-destruct.

We’ll have our shower thoughts… Todd discusses Billie Jean King’s thought that Pressure is a Privilege and Mike shares his drunken conference of physicist conference.

Our Hidden Gem comes from the Kinks, who released You Really Got Me in the UK on this date in 1964. It went to #1 inEngland, Number 7 in the US.

 

Welcome to the to the Elite Donald Disdain or the General Gau for President edition of the HLC Podcast for Sept 2, 2015. Sorry, we’re a day late due to Todd’s vacay!

We are Mike Stopa – nanophysicist and former congressional candidate and radio talk host Todd Feinburg. Find us online at harvardlunchclub.com, subscribe on itunes or any other podcasting platform. You can also find us on Facebook. Our twitter handle is @hlcpodcast

On this week’s podcast:

 A Chinese American complains that the food of her youth, once mocked, is now appreciated, but not the way she wants it to be appreciated. We consider and mock. 

Harvard decides students need new gender pronouns to define their gender identities. Ze, hir, and hirs. They certainly deserve some new words for all their educations are costing them!

The GOP cognoscenti continues to freak over Trump. What exactly is making them so crazy?

We’ll have our shower thoughts… 

And our Hidden Gem

The song is Steely Dan’s Boddhisatva, which was on the album Countdown to Ecstasy released in July of 1973. We offer it up to get last week’s Steely Dan song dislodged from Todd’s brain – and yours.

 

Welcome to the to the Hillary’s Armageddon edition of the HLC Podcast for August 25, 2015. We are Mike Stopa – nanophysicist and former congressional candidate and radio talk host Todd Feinburg. Find us online at harvardlunchclub.com, subscribe on itunes or any other podcasting platform. You can also find us on Facebook. Our twitter handle is @hlcpodcast

On this week’s podcast:

Joe Biden meets with Liz Warren just after a column by Monica Crowley announces that Biden is running with Warren as his VP and that the whole thing is being orchestrated – including the investigation of Hillary – by the president, who wants to make sure he has a friendly successor. Would Warren as VP fuel Hillary’s collapse?

We listen to and discuss clips of predictable political pundits on Donald Trump’s immigration proposal and the effect on the GOP from Michael Gerson, Jamelle Bouie and Emily Bazelon.

We’ll have our shower thoughts…

And our Hidden Gem focuses on France (a little), since it’s such an exciting week in French/US relations!

The song is Steely Dan’s Pearl of a Quarter, which was on the album Countdown to Ecstasy released in July of 1973. We include it because of it’s French lyrics – “singing voulez voulez voulez vous.” The rest of the song is in English, so of no consequence for our purposes.

 

Welcome to the to the Trump Goes Bonkers edition of the HLC Podcast for August 18, 2015. We are Mike Stopa – nanophysicist and former congressional candidate and radio talk host Todd Feinburg.

Find us online at harvardlunchclub.com, subscribe on itunes or any other podcasting platform. You can also find us on Facebook. Our twitter handle is @hlcpodcast

On this week’s podcast

Donald Trump gets specific on Immigration- Trump’s Plan

Is Identity politics real? Will Will Latinos abandon GOP? Republicans?

The rest of the race – what’s happening while we all stare at Donald Trump’s Hair?

We’ll have our shower thoughts: Todd discusses vacation spot MaushopVillage, a planned community inside a much larger planned community on Cape Cod called New Seabury, while Mike vacations at a secret Maine location for nanophysicists and their families.

Hidden Gem – A tribute to summer from 1963 and a British folk duo called Chad & Jeremy Yesterday’s Gone

 

Welcome to the to the Trump Makes Nice edition of the HLC Podcast for August 11, 2015. We are Mike Stopa – nanophysicist and former congressional candidate and radio talk host Todd Feinburg. Find us online at harvardlunchclub.com, subscribe on itunes or any other podcasting platform. You can also find us on Facebook. Our twitter handle is @hlcpodcast

On this week’s podcast

Two part of Trump:

Following his normal worst instincts, Donald Trump made a mess of his first debate, then made matters worse on Twitter. But this week, he’s doing a sort of apology tour.

Is money in politics America’s big problem? Harvard Law professor Larry Lessig thinks so, and he’s launching a presidential run to make the point. If money is the problem, what’s the solution?

Hillary Clinton rolled out her New College Compact, a proposal that seeks to fix the problems caused by government programs by making bigger, less affordable and more destructive programs.

We’ll have our shower thoughts… and our

Hidden Gem – The greatest rock band ever rehearsed together in London for the first time this week in 1968. We play one of their early live recordings!

 

Mike Stopa and Todd Feinburg get together for a special Trump Implodes edition of the podcast to break down last night’s (August 6, 2015) Fox News Republican Debate! Todd thinks the debate hurt Donald Trump alot, Mike is not so sure, but both agree that almost everyone else did pretty well for themselves, except perhaps for Scott Walker or Rand Paul or John Kasich, depending on who you ask.

Welcome to the to the Uber Trump GOP Debate edition of the HLC Podcast for August 4, 2015. We are Mike Stopa – nanophysicist and former congressional candidate and radio talk host Todd Feinburg. Find us online at harvardlunchclub.com, subscribe on itunes or any other podcasting platform. You can also find us on Facebook. Our twitter handle is @hlcpodcast

On this week’s podcast:

 There is a worldwide war against Uber, the upstart monopoly that controls the ride share economy, which included a one day taxi strike in Cambridge, Mass, a center of the techonology economy (where Harvard and MIT are based!) Who’s right in this debate.

There’s chatter about Joe Biden getting into the race for president. If he gets in, will Elizabeth Warren too? Who else?

The first GOP presidential debate is Thursday in Cleveland, and it will be hosted by Chris Wallace and broadcast on fox News. We discuss who made the cut, and how will this debate change the race?

We’ll have our Shower Thoughts – Todd talks car repair rip-offs and Mike discusses Yo Yo Ma and smelling the roses.

Hidden Gem. We  revisit a Troggs song from 1966 that went to number 1 in England but only 29 in the US,  a nice alternative to their number 1 US hit Wild Thing. Troggs Factoid – original band name was The Troglodytes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the to the Harvesting Fetal Body Parts/Planned Parenthood edition of the HLC Podcast for July 28, 2015. We are Mike Stopa – nanophysicist and former congressional candidate and radio talk host Todd Feinburg. Find us online at harvardlunchclub.com, subscribe on itunes or any other podcasting platform. You can also find us on Facebook. Our twitter handle is @hlcpodcast

On this week’s podcast:

1) A video sting has caught a Planned Parenthood executive negotiating the price for fetal bodyparts – even though the organization swears it makes no profits, which might be unlawful, from the transactions. And a doctor talks about good looking fetal organs over fine wine and food. We’ll discuss the multiple tapes and what they mean.

2) Can we make a conversation about the import export bank and whether it should be renewed into an exciting segment? I say yes, Stopa says he’s done the math and it can’t be done. We’ll let you decide.

3) The city of Boston was dropped this week as the US choice to compete for the 2024 summer Olympics, the city’s elites in business and politics bungled the bid. Is the population’s lack of interest a sign of growing mistrust of our morbidly obese, unable to do anything well government?

We’ll have our shower thoughts:

And our Hidden Gem features another dreary, overly pretty 60’s drone of the type favored by our resident physicist. This one is by Laurie Anderson and it’s called Hiawatha.