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The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Guest host Max Pringle speaks with British journalist and author Martin Shipton about his new book “Mr. Jones: the Man Who Knew Too Much. the Life and Death of Gareth Jones.”  The book explores the all too short life of the 20th Century Welsh journalist Gareth Jones who, in the early 1930s, exposed the Holodomor famine in the Ukraine that killed an estimated 4 million people.

Then, Consumer Watchdog’s President Jamie Court discusses the California Energy Commission’s consideration of a Windfall Profits Tax on big oil. Court argues that the evidence is in that the oil industry has been gouging consumers at the pump.

Finally, the Violence Policy Center’s Josh Sugarman talks about the gun violence issue and how citizens can pressure their representatives to pass sane commonsense gun regulations that could save lives.

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Guest host Max Pringle speaks with author and journalist Damien Lewis about his new biography of the Black-American French chanteuse, actress and dancer Josephine Baker, which focuses on her lesser known life as an Allied spy in Nazi occuped Europe during WWII. Then Max speaks with magazine publisher Andrew Gulli about a long forgotten John Steinbeck essay called “How About McCarthyism?” The essay appears for the first time since it was first published in 1954 in the latest issue of the Strand Magazine.

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Guest host Max Pringle speaks with UC Berkeley Political Science Professor George Breslauer about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Kremlin’s latest strategy of attacking Ukraine’s power grid as winter approaches. 

Also, a conversation with author and historian Andrew K. Diemer about his latest book: “Vigilance: the Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad.” The book examines the life of the fascinating African-American 19th century abolitionist.

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The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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