Make this show your poison pill. It's easy to swallow. Take in Dear Abby, and learn how she bought a life of prestige but lost a sister. Then plunge into the delightfully random world of listener-land.

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Mischke cartwheels into the world of the imagination in an interview with Adam Zeman, author of The Shape of Things Unseen. This is followed by a somersault into the trusty Listener Directory and a back flip over a fence into the Dolphin, Bear, Turkey and Panda cage.

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Mischke escapes the States and finds an oasis in rural Scotland, on a farm. That's where Alistair Moffat is sitting with a cup of tea. He has written "The Secret History of Here." After Mischke's interview, it's obit time. They're dropping like flies out there. Finally, a dip into the listener phone directory and an interview involving a couple of real cool cats.

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Mischke spends the hour with Tom Barnard, one of the most listened to voices in the history of Minnesota radio.

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Mischke interviews James Barrat, author of "The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything." Then Tommy radically shifts gears and does a deep dive into the world of ex wives, before wrapping up the show with a lesson on phone usage and the sad pathetic maudlin end of news anchor Walter Cronkite.

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Mischke wades into the tattoo world and leaves his mark, then goes animalistic in his assessment of couples relationships. Finally he embraces the phone, so listeners might keep him company in his lonely studio. 

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Mischke spends the hour with a fascinating doctor of neurology. Pria Anand has written a brilliant book called "The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of our Brains" The discussion is wide-ranging and wonderfully enlightening.

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Mischke kicks up a storm over hurricane names and the failure to take the same approach with tornados. He also revives an old standby bit from his KSTP days, "Dear Abby." Finally, he uncovers a most unusual anti-depressant that's available to all of us and is without a single side effect, as long as one keeps the windows shut.

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Mischke delves deep into the 1960s and 70's world of professional bowling, comparing it to that same world today. And he grieves. He takes listeners on a ride to his childhood and a sleazy bowling alley where he learned the finer points of being a man. Finally, he concludes the podcast with an interview with Dave Hage & Josephine Marcotty, the authors of Sea of Grass, an extraordinary new book on the wondrous American Prairie.

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Mischke celebrates summer, Jaws, the 4th of July, and the American Revolution. His guest is Kostya Kennedy, author of The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America.

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