Monsoon vs drought woes, megaflood warning, sewage fish kill in SF via red tide, technology review including chatbots/AI and voter manipulation, Covid origin controversy

More crypto woes, and more on corporate socialism/ financial chicanery, follow-up items French language; canoing in the Pacific, MDMA, January 6th commission advice, Trump gets nuttier yet, the Economist looks back at its predictions and 2022 news, cover-ups, more Delta Tunnel machinations and the continued destruction of the ecosystem for the benefit of developers and agribusiness

GB&U, Americas Frontline Doc indicted, Greg Palast observations on Georgia voter suppression - contrary to what the MSM has reported, Jefferson Morley on the continuing failure of the CIA to obey the law and release hidden JFK records, the insanity of quantum computers & SNDL and PQC, fusion advancement, fentanyl ODs and school responsibiity, desk bombing, the yeast that gave us lager

Motion picture mentions, space news, tech follies, the JCPA and ripping off journalists, AM radio elimination in elecrric cars, GB&U, phone call from Mitch McConnel

Isolated phone call from McConnel from segment 1

The history of Ukraine vs Russia, background data provided by Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, who discusses the Holodomor Joseph Stalins starvation of Ukraine, special mention of how coverage of the events was manipulated

A chat with Mat Kaplan the excellent, but soon-to-be retired host of the terrific program Planetary Radio, which will continue next year

Mars opposition 12/07/22, Asimov quip, dodging waves, soccer, GB&U, Venzuela money deal, evil energy lobbying from Texas Public Policy Foundation, more crypt woes, the story of Gareth Jones and the murderous Ukranian Holodomor

Reprise program - our 2007 interview with Steven Etlinger on his book Twinkie Deconstructed , a look at what goes into that snack food, surprise call from Senator Mitch McConnel

James Brown PSA, Reprise of our 2009 interview with Kurt Ebsmeyer about his book Flotsametrics , tales of thngs floating on the high seass