Thom Hartmann's completely articulate voice & extensive knowledge & insights all combine to insure his place as the USA's #1 progressive talk show host. His more than 30 books are equally compelling, and today we talk with Thom about his latest, The Hidden one of the most articulate voices of progressive radio in the USA, and he's a compelling writer as well. His most recent book is The Hidden History of Big Brother In America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy and it combines history, current events, & clear-sighted analysis or the way forward.
Ruth Wyand, of Kill Devil Hills, NC, is a wonderful songwriter and performer, with magic in her tunes and lyrics, though it was really her guitar work that first riveted our attention, complete with soul-captivating finger-picking and bottleneck slide flourishes. Though of a genre all her own, she channels elements of blues, jazz, & Americana - and much more. In addition to her own musical creations, she breathes new life and identity into the tunes of other musicians, making them all her own.
Past/Present Religious/Spiritual Influences: Catholic, Yoga, Meditation, Non-affiliated
Casting out the chest-beating & shade-throwing from the Bible with the skills & insights of a Jewish Trans Educator (Liam Hooper) and a Cantankerous Hermit-ish Mendicant Farmer (Don Durham) is an important goal of Bible Bash.
Starting in high school, Doug Alan Wilcox has been in a variety of bands, including names like Black Jack, Logix, So What Band, and Friends, transitioning from pop/rock/dance (and much more) music to a solo performing singer/songwriter career around 2000. Doug's influences are far and wide, including Bob Dylan, Robert Frost, and Buddha's Minivan. He hails from Haggarstown, MD.
Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Lutheran, Unity, Non-affiliated
One of the issues we face in dealing with problems in the USA is the frequent divide between “the common folk” - rural, often farm folks - and the urban populace, often dismissed from the other side as “ivory tower intellectuals”. This is often far from the truth, and today's guest, Daniel O'Connell, raises up the lives of those scholars who have bridged the gap and used their knowledge to even out the economic & political turf in California's San Joaqin Valley, in his thesis-turned-book, In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness In California.
Peterson Toscano of Citizen's Climate Radio guest-hosts today, with poignant, inspirational, & intriguing visits with Flannery Winchester, Krisa Hiser/Ultimate Cli-Fi Book Club/Stations Eleven,
Aaron Steinberg is Captain Danger, flanked by Keith “E-Day” Eaddy & Roger “Joose” Benford. Aaron has done so much with music, starting very young with bands like The Studmuffins, Wabbit, Uncle Dad, and was he and is part of The Televisionairies whose role in life is to make music out of television theme songs that is part Dr Demento meets Gilligan's Island. Aaron has ranged widely, but funk in deep in his bones, move is in his fingers, and humor is in his broken heart.
All songs in this program are written & performed by Aaron Steinberg/Captain Danger (and with others, as noted):
A visit to an event, "Beyond the Books: A Way Forward for White Allies in Democracy", and some time with the event's main presenter, Gerri Williams. Gerri has been involved in a number of forms of activism, but, as a woman of color and inspired by the book, Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone and How we can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee, she's also aware of the need for white allies to step forward and lead a change among their peers.
Deborah Silverstein is a gem and a beacon. She started out musically in the heady early days of women's music, in the 1970s, as part of the Red Basement Singers, and the New Harmony Sisterhood Band. With a winding path including decades as a psychotherapist, she always came back to her music, leading to many years with Taproot, and The Band of Erics. Her current excitement is a yet-to-be-produced musical called Riveted, as in Rosie The Riveter.