TMI with Aldous Tyler
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TMI 07/12/2024 – Uber Girl's Essay on False Prophets and the Murder of Pauly Likens, A Deep Dive Into the Future of President Biden's Campaign for Re-election, more
July 11, 2024 18:56 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBTMI starts differently than usual, with Aldous reading you a short essay written by Leslie "Uber Girl" James on how, far too often, we find people using religion to control, to harm, to encourage others to hate. She masterfully delves into how these false prophets and their twisted agenda led directly to the brutal murder of 14 year old Pauly Likens, a child who was not protected by the loving God these men claim to represent. Continuing the unusual episode, we then dive deeply into the leg...
TMI 07/05/2024 – SCOTUS’ Trump v. United States Takes Presidency Above the Law, Justice Kagan Dissents on Death of Chevron Doctrine, LA, TX and OK Place Christianity Into Public Schools at Once, more
July 05, 2024 12:11 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBOn this week's "TMI with Aldous Tyler", we kick off with a discussion on SCOTUS' July 1 ruling on Trump v. United States. This landmark ruling, which grants presidents immunity from prosecution when carrying out "official acts", has sparked a nationwide debate about the extent of presidential power, coming from sources as close as Justice Sotomayor. Next, we'll delve into Justice Elena Kagan's dissent on the death of the Chevron Doctrine. Kagan's scathing critique of her conservative collea...
TMI 06/28/2024 – Coastal Flooding Risk Has Been Underestimated by IPCC, AI Data Centers’ Hidden Power Use is Being Paid For By Us, What Do We Do When Digital News Archives Like MTV News Vanish?, more
June 27, 2024 03:16 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBOn this week’s episode, we look at a pair of new studies that have discovered a flaw in the UN’s IPCC models that predict how much sea levels will rise, and how horrific coastal flooding will get. Next, we examine the surprise unilateral move by media conglomerate Paramount Global to pull all MTV News (and CMT News) content offline – over 20 years of music and cultural reporting and history gone in a flash – and how it spells trouble fast if action isn’t taken to stop this from happening ag...
TMI 06/21/2024 - UN Women Declare TERF Groups Extremist Movements, Old Questions Underreport National Support for Abortion, A History of the 1918 Bird Flu, Archaea Processes Hydrogen Renewably, more
June 21, 2024 22:02 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBThis week, we look into the recent declaration by UN Women, categorizing so-called "Gender Critical" TERF groups as an extremist anti-rights movement. Join us as we unpack the implications of this landmark decision and its impact on the fight for gender rights. Next, we turn our attention to the underreported national support for abortion rights, questioning the efficacy of outdated polling questions. Then, we take a step back in time to explore the 1918 Bird Flu pandemic, drawing parallels...
TMI 06/14/2024 - Examining the Intersecting S-Curves of Change in Renewable Energy and Fossil Fuel Use and Technology, A Scientific Look at How to Have Better Conversations, more
June 14, 2024 20:52 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBOn this episode, we discuss how Bill McKibben lays out in his blog "The Crucial Years" the fact that advances in renewable energy technology and adoption are forming an "S-curve" where the slope of increase is moving sharply upwards, leading us into a future where the slope of decrease on reliance on fossil fuels will drop off just as sharply. Our goal now is to make these dueling curves meet in time to save ourselves from the worst of the climate catastrophe's effects. Then, we take a seri...
TMI 06/07/2024 - Big Food’s Stock Buybacks Cost Us More Than Inflation, Florida’s “Freedom Summer” Bans Pride Light Displays on Bridges, Lawsuit Makes Absentee Voting in Wisconsin More Complicated
June 06, 2024 15:30 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBOn this episode, we dissect the profit-driven machinations of Big Food (the grocery monopolies and fast food giants). While inflation is hitting us hard, these monolithic corporations blame supply chain issues, all while channeling massive profits into stock buybacks and dividends to make their shareholders rich at our expense. Then, we look at Florida’s decision not to illuminate bridges with rainbow colors during Pride Month under the guise of patriotic "Freedom" color displays being man...
TMI 05/31/2024 - Joe Biden is Running Away From How He Fights Monopoly Power and That Could Cost Him Like it Did Feingold, The Real Carbon Footprint of EVs Versus Internal Combustion Cars and more
May 30, 2024 13:43 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBPresident Joe Biden's administration has taken numerous steps to fight monopoly power in the interest of the people, but at almost every turn, the White House Communications team refuses to comment on these positions and accomplishments, making it look like Biden is doing nothing for we, the people. The distinguished progressive Senator Russ Feingold lost re-election in 2010 with a similar "run away from your progressive bona fides" strategy - it might cost Biden similarly. Next, leave it t...
TMI 05/24/2024 - Medicine Scarcity in England Causes a National Emergency, RTO Mandates Lead to a Talent Exodus, and Magnetic Insights Give a New Understanding Behind Evolution on Earth and more
May 24, 2024 13:00 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBAs England grapples with dangerously short supplies of essential medications, pharmacists raise their voices in urgent warning. We dive into the crisis, exploring why patients face immediate harm due to unavailability of crucial drugs. From life-saving treatments to everyday prescriptions, we look at how Big Pharma and Brexit have combined to cause this emergency. Next, a recent study on Apple, Microsoft, and SpaceX shows that these top-tier tech corporations are losing senior talent due to...
TMI 05/17/2024 - BEST OF TMI: John Fugelsang Tells Us Everything About How to Be a Sexy Liberal, USA Shale Oil Drives Inflation Out Of Control, Congress Report Fracks Natural Gas Greenwashing and more
May 17, 2024 22:02 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBTHIS IS A REBROADCAST OF TMI for 5/10/2024 Today on TMI: John Fugelsang, host of "Tell Me Everything" on SiriusXM Channel 127 and proud co-founder of the Sexy Liberal Tour right here in Madison, Wisconsin twelve years ago talks to us about the return of the Tour to the Barrymore on Saturday, May 11, 2024, how Jesus was everything your stereotypical right-wing Christian loves to hate, and much more! Don't miss this amazing conversation! Next, we dive deep into the clandestine world of oil m...
TMI 05/10/2024 - John Fugelsang Tells Us Everything About Jesus and How to Be a Sexy Liberal, USA Shale Oil Drives Inflation Out Of Control, Congress' Report Fracks Natural Gas Greenwashing and more
May 10, 2024 19:39 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBToday on TMI: John Fugelsang, host of "Tell Me Everything" on SiriusXM Channel 127 and proud co-founder of the Sexy Liberal Tour right here in Madison, Wisconsin twelve years ago talks to us about the return of the Tour to the Barrymore on Saturday, May 11, 2024, how Jesus was everything your stereotypical right-wing Christian loves to hate, and much more! Don't miss this amazing conversation! Next, we dive deep into the clandestine world of oil markets, revealing how U.S. shale oil compani...
TMI 05/03/2024 - The World Ending Isn’t Enough to Alarm Many, Resident Owned Communities are Fighting Back Against Corporate Housing, Congress Releases Report Accusing Big Oil of Climate Conspiracy
May 03, 2024 17:01 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBIn a world teetering on the brink, why do some remain unfazed by impending doom? Delving into the human psyche we exploring the paradox of apathy and even reactionary anger in the face of global catastrophe. It's not just cognitive dissonance or existential fatigue, this process has been known as reactance. And despite that we have all the warning signs that we are entering the worst time period in over 1500 years, it has a chokehold on our ability to react as a society. Then, meet the unsu...
TMI 04/26/2024 - Louisiana's Tim Temple Teams Up with Climate Change to Leave Ever More Homeowners Screwed By Their Insurance, USA's First Electric Bullet Train Breaks Ground, more
April 26, 2024 15:14 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBOn today's episode of TMI, we find Louisiana's GOP lawmakers at a crossroads. The ongoing insurance crisis caused by devastating hurricanes has left homeowners at the mercy of companies that seemingly have none. Louisiana legislators are on track to repeal a consumer protection law adopted after Hurricane Katrina that stops homeowner insurance companies from canceling policies without good reason. The new proposals empower Republican Louisiana insurance commissioner Tim Temple to approve mas...
TMI 04/19/2024 - Research Universities Join Big Pharma in Fighting to Keep Medicine Expensive, SCOTUS Allows Fifth Circuit to Kill Protests in Three States, Black Hole Discovered Near Earth, more
April 19, 2024 12:42 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBOn today's TMI, we pull back the curtain on how public universities such as UCLA, founded on land grants and given billions in tax dollars, are joining the huge pharmaceutical companies in fighting to keep the prices of the drugs they developed out of reach of most Americans, despite the massive support given those research facilities BY the people to begin with. Next, we reveal that if you plan on holding a political protest in Texas, Louisiana or Mississippi, you'll be on the hook if anyo...
TMI 04/12/2024 - How Gaza and Ukraine Are Alike, and How They Are Being Treated VERY Differently, Big Oil Fights Back Against Activist Investors Making Them More Climate-Friendly, more
April 12, 2024 22:02 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBIn this episode, we examine the parallels between the genocide in Gaza and the invasion in Ukraine, shedding light on how, despite having much in common, they are treated differently on the world stage. Then, we dive into the high-stakes battle between Big Oil and climate-conscious investment firms, and how the oil giants are trying to silence the dissent from within. All this and more on TMI for Friday, April 12, 2024 - listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!
BEST OF TMI 04/05/2024 - Examining the Real Factors of the Key Bridge Disaster, Argentina Confronts Historic Crimes Against Trans Women, How AI May Doom Efforts to Abate the Climate Crisis, more
April 03, 2024 14:33 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBTHIS IS A REBROADCAST OF THE EPISODE FROM FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2024. ENJOY! Today on TMI, we look at the tragedy of the Francis Scott Key Bridge Disaster that happened on Tuesday, reporting the facts that combat the conspiracy theories that immediately cropped up to confound our understanding of this horrible event. We go beyond the initial reports that crowded our airwaves and explore the underlying factors that contributed to the collision that toppled a mighty bridge, killed six people and ...
TMI 03/29/2024 - Examining the Real Factors of the Key Bridge Disaster, Argentina Confronts Historic Crimes Against Trans Women, How AI May Doom Efforts to Abate the Climate Crisis, more
March 27, 2024 21:20 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBToday on TMI, we look at the tragedy of the Francis Scott Key Bridge Disaster that happened on Tuesday, reporting the facts that combat the conspiracy theories that immediately cropped up to confound our understanding of this horrible event. We go beyond the initial reports that crowded our airwaves and explore the underlying factors that contributed to the collision that toppled a mighty bridge, killed six people and closed a highly significant seaport. Then, we shift gears to Argentina, f...
TMI 03/22/2024 - Fossil Fuel Dems Try to Stop Biden’s LNG Pause, FBI’s Crime Rate Stats Show Decline, Meet the Society for American Civic Renewal: the Vanguard of Christian Nationalist Fascism, more
March 21, 2024 16:19 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBIn this episode, we expose the treachery of "Fossil Fuel Democrats" as they brazenly join the efforts of GOP lawmakers to halt President Biden's pause on the expansion of liquid natural gas (LNG) projects. Beholden to the interests of big oil and gas corporations, these Dems tout themselves as champions of not only fossil-fuel based jobs, but even the climate, all while fighting the effort their own constituents are asking for to combat climate change. Then, we see a glimmer of hope as rece...
TMI 03/15/2024 - Women’s History Month’s Own History is Important Women’s History, Microplastics Present in Every Human Placenta, Global Freshwater Cycle Overwhelmed, February 2024 Sets Record, more
March 15, 2024 22:02 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBWomen's History Month isn't merely a month to increase awareness of women's historical accomplishments - it in itself IS a piece of women's history, being pioneered BY women. We give these brave historians their due and in so doing point towards the continuing struggle to have women's role in academia fully appreciated. Then, we discuss how microplastics have infiltrated the most intimate spaces of human biology, including every human placenta in a recent study. This, along with how micropla...
TMI 03/08/2024 - WSJ Op-Ed Lies About Electric Cars Polluting Worse Than Gasoline-powered Cars, New Speed Record Broken in Glacial Fracturing in Antarctica, New Anthropocene Epoch Fails Vote and more
March 08, 2024 23:02 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBA recent Wall Street Journal op-ed falsely claims that electric cars pollute worse than their gasoline-powered counterparts, comparing incomparable metrics to come with their their supposed data. Meanwhile, amidst the frozen expanses of Antarctica, a chilling new speed record is set in glacial fracturing, highlighting the alarming pace of climate change. This harrowing event serves as a stark reminder of the urgent need for global action to address environmental degradation and preserve our ...
TMI 03/01/2024 - Mexico City Faces a “Day Zero” Water Crisis, Wisconsin’s Horrific Gerrymandering Ends with New Maps, Mike McCabe on How the Conformist Backlash to DEI is Fundamentally Un-American
February 29, 2024 15:00 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBAt 22 million people, situated on what was once a mighty lake roughly 700 years ago well over a mile above sea level, Mexico City has a lot going against it when it comes to keeping its citizens' water supplies well-stocked. Add to that a long climate-crisis exacerbated drought, and there is no small chance that by June there may come a day when most of the city has no running water - a "day zero". We discuss. Next, we look at the improvements made to the horrific gerrymandering that Wisco...
TMI 02/23/2024 - Black History Month Encompasses Further Back than 1865 or Even 1619, Earth is Getting Greener in a Bad Way, The Backlash to ESG Investing and How We Will Win Anyway and more
February 23, 2024 23:02 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBBlack History Month often gives us memes and reminders of how Black people have contributed to the United States that we know today, but it encompassess much more than we often get. Black history, properly understood, shows that Black people haven't merely "contributed", but that their lives and efforts have been FOUNDATIONAL to the nation and the world we know today, going back much further than just the end of the Civil War or even the first African slaves brought to the English settlement...
TMI 02/16/2024 - Four Key Ways That the Voting Rights Act Will Be Under Attack in 2024, Presidential Memo from the 1960s Shows How Long the Climate Has Been in Crisis and more
February 16, 2024 23:02 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBThe Voting Rights Act has been the bane of racists in the United States since its inception, helping drive the Dixiecrats into the Republican Party some 60 years ago. It's no surprise, then, that the GOP and its allies have been attacking it relentlessly at every opportunity, and looking at the 2024 judicial calendar, we shine a light on four key ways that the VRA is in jeopardy this year. Then, we go over how a Presidential memo just uncovered from the 1960s clearly outlines how long the h...
TMI 02/09/2024 - Are We Failing the Lessons of Black History Month by Using Zoning and "Crime-Free" Laws to Increase Homelessness Among People of Color?
February 07, 2024 16:17 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBWe look back as recently as 1964 in Black History and see drinking fountains marked "colored" and "whites", and tsk at such blatant symbols of racial oppression. But the times haven't changed as much as one might hope. People of color are frequently among the homeless that many cities attempt to banish by using zoning laws capriciously against churches who are trying to house and feed them. Worse, we see that laws against "nuisance" tenants in order to create "crime-free" communities are oft...
TMI 02/02/2024 - Interview with Peter B. Collins on the State of the Media (Including YouTube) : How It Is Failing to Present the Truth and more
February 02, 2024 23:02 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBOn this episode, we welcome back Peter B. Collins, legendary talk radio host and media analyst, who goes over the state of the media that we are contending with in reporting on such topics as real voter suppression (NOT the MAGA "Stop the Steal" nonsense, which YouTube refuses to recognize is different), the war started by Putin in Ukraine, the continued genocide in Palestine that began well before October of 2023, and much, much more. Peter's own podcast archives have a true wealth of well-...
TMI 01/26/2024 - Big Oil Uses IPRB to Miseducate Students, Data Combats the Myth of the Female Shopaholic, Kanter's Law Gives Hope on the COVID Pandemic and more
January 26, 2024 18:21 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBThe Illinois Petroleum Resource Board (IPRB) has been a gas tax-funded education and outreach program for 25 years, with a particular aim of providing science curriculum and professional development workshops for Illinois teachers. Nevermind that the information given is solely focused on making Big Oil look absolutely indispensable to the future of civilization, or even that Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas have similar petroleum-focused "educational" programs - that under-the-radar status is ...
TMI 01/05/2024 - Will the AI Bubble Leave Anything Behind, How a Madison Church's Decision to House the Homeless May Offset A Corporate Solution's Collapse, Octopi DNA and Antarctic Collapse and more
January 26, 2024 13:47 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBSome bubbles crash and leave nothing but ruin in their wake, while others, like the dot-com bubble that burst in 2000, leave behind many valuable things that can be used to propel other, new things forward. So, the question is, which type of bubble is AI, which is, by all definitions, a bubble just waiting to crash. We investigate. Next, we look at the tragedy unfolding for dozens of vulnerable families in Madison as we speak, who are losing their housing due to the mismanagement of a corpo...
BEST OF TMI 01/19/2024 - How AOC's Championing the Green New Deal in Congress Soured Her on Activist Support, Why a "Free Speech Specialist" Law Firm is Fighting Climate Activists Free Speech and more
January 19, 2024 23:02 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MB(This is a rebroadcast of the 1/12/2024 episode) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went to Washington hot to make change in a place devoted to preserving the capitalist status quo, often at the expense of everyone not rich enough to buy congressional influence. We look at how the combination of her rebuke from the powers that be and the fickleness of the more particular forces she wanted to represent pushed her away from continuing to fight for the ideals of the Green New Deal, even as it took fligh...
TMI 01/12/2024 - How AOC's Championing the Green New Deal in Congress Soured Her on Activist Support, Why a "Free Speech Specialist" Law Firm is Fighting Climate Activists' Free Speech and more
January 12, 2024 23:02 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez went to Washington hot to make change in a place devoted to preserving the capitalist status quo, often at the expense of everyone not rich enough to buy congressional influence. We look at how the combination of her rebuke from the powers that be and the fickleness of the more particular forces she wanted to represent pushed her away from continuing to fight for the ideals of the Green New Deal, even as it took flight internationally. Then, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher ...
TMI 12/29/2023 - An In-depth Look at the Decade of Police Bodycams, the Promise of Transparency and the Failure of Accountability
December 29, 2023 12:35 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBTen years ago, Black Lives Matter was founded in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in shooting Trayvon Martin to death the year before, as well as the long history of the police and justice system failing to treat black lives with the same respect as others. The pressure caused by this rapidly growing movement forced police across the country to consider a new way to show that they took being held accountable seriously: the bodycam. In 2014, President Obama requested $263 Million...
TMI 12/22/2023 - Why You Need to Know About Nellie Stone Johnson, Thunberg and Others Call COP28 a "Cop Out", the James Webb Space Telescope Targets Uranus and more
December 22, 2023 14:30 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBIf you live in Minnesota, you stand a decent chance of having heard of Nellie Stone Johnson, but otherwise this pioneering black woman, born in 1905, is likely a complete mystery to you. We'll correct that injustice as much as we are able, as Ms. Johnson was one of the most important figures in labor and civil rights - mostly as she saw no reason the two causes should ever be taken on separately. Then, with the 28th UN Conference of the Parties (COP28) finished, we'll check in to see how cl...
TMI 12/15/2023 - Is the Filter Bubble the Wrong Mechanism to Explain Social Media Toxicity?, How Trump's Project 2025 is a Next Level Disaster for the Climate and more
December 15, 2023 19:46 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBWe've reported here on TMI on Eli Pariser's "Filter Bubble" concept since its debut in 2010 at his Ted talk: the idea that Google was selectively feeding results back to the user that the user agreed with, making it so that one person's search results were often vastly different than another's. Mr Pariser pointed out that by putting us all in these Filter Bubbles, we couldn't agree on what was even factual. A new article published in the PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)...
TMI 12/08/2023 - "The Good Die Young - The Verdict on Henry Kissinger" with Jonah Walters, Jeff Bezos' Jekyll-and-Hyde on Homelessness, Jessica Wildfire's Guide to the Immune System and more
December 08, 2023 13:45 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBWe welcome Jonah Walters of Jacobin Magazine to discuss the new book he co-edited, "The Good Die Young - The Verdict on Henry Kissinger", and go over the broad influence Kissinger wove around the world in his over 100 years of life. You won't want to miss this, or the new book, which is available via https://jacobin.com/. Then we expose how Jeff Bezos' donations to organizations fighting homelessness across the USA sets up a horrific contrast to his 400% larger investment in a company that ...
TMI 03/22/2014: Fighting the Silencing Governor with Mike Crute of The Devil's Advocates Radio, and more!
December 07, 2023 20:40 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBBONUS! Check out THIS archive of TMI from 2014: Mike Crute, with his co-host Dom Salvia, run The Devil's Advocates Radio program on The Mic 92.1 FM here in Madison. It is designed to offer a place for differing points of view, and thanks to that managed to get an exclusive interview with GOP State Senator Dale Schultz, wherein Senator Schultz vehemently decried his own party's plan to suppress the vote. But that's not the only way Dom and Crute have been fighting Scott Walker's campaign o...
TMI 03/29/2014: Fugelsang on the Media, Horn on Energy, Aldous on Fire and More!
December 07, 2023 19:59 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBBONUS! Check out THIS archive of TMI from 2014: TMI today is on fire! Joining us live in studio are two friends of the program we're proud to welcome back: John Fugelsang, frequent commentator on life's absurdities and former host of Current TV's Viewpoint, and Steve Horn, investigative journalist and research fellow at DeSmogBlog. John always has great insights into how humanity seems to stumble into itself and even better suggestions on how to keep that from happening, and today we will ...
TMI 04/05/2014: McCabe on McCutcheon, You Have No Right to Vote, and Much More!
December 07, 2023 18:07 - 33 minutes - 31 MBBONUS! Check out THIS archive of TMI from 2014: In this week's Supreme Court ruling on McCutcheon vs FEC, we saw what many are denouncing as "the end of democracy in America" and "Citizens United on steroids" - it certainly looks bad, but what exactly happened, and what are the most likely repercussions? I'm brushed up on the issue, but I cannot match the years of campaign finance expertise of Mike McCabe, of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. He'll join us to give us a clear view of it all...
TMI 04/12/2014 - The Cowboy Indian Alliance vs. Keystone XL and Much More!
December 07, 2023 17:30 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBBONUS! Check out THIS archive of TMI from 2014: There's been a lot of talk in the news lately of the CIA, and TMI will join in... about a completely different CIA. The Cowboy Indian Alliance, a group of ranchers, farmers and tribal communities from along the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline route, are planning to ride into Washington DC and set up camp near the White House to tell President Obama to reject the pipeline. Joining us to talk about it is Maria Langholz, who is one of a multitude ...
TMI 12/01/2023 - UN Climate Conference COP28’s Hosting Nations Use It to Leverage More Fossil Fuel, The Key Role Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) Play in Skyrocketing Drug Prices and more
December 01, 2023 21:42 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBThe COP28 Climate Conference, the United Nations 28th annual meeting to try to coordinate efforts to mitigate the Climate Crisis found itself being used by the nation hosting it to secure MORE fossil fuel production. We go over how there seems virtually NO difference between big oil corporations and nations that rely on oil income when it comes to just how low they will go. Then, we peel back the veneer on PBMs (Pharmacy Benefit Manager organizations) and how, unlike their original intentio...
TMI 11/24/2023 - The Actual Origin of “Black Friday” and How it Has Nothing to Do with Profit, and More
November 22, 2023 17:54 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBThe retail establishment has long enjoyed spreading the myth that until the day after Thanksgiving each year, they are "in the red", or that they haven't made any total profit for the year until that very day. According to this, it is called "Black Friday" as that is when they are finally "in the black" financially, but that is far from the actual origin of the term. We go over how a certain football game's annual happening gave rise to it, and much more on this relaxed edition of TMI for "B...
TMI 11/17/2023 - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan vs. Mental Health Care, How Tuberculosis Used COVID to Soften Us Up, Put Sensational Headlines About Volcanoes (and Cows) in Context and more
November 15, 2023 20:39 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBBlue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the largest health insurer in the state, has successfully stalled legislation that would force it to pay for medically necessary mental health care. We look at who this affects and how Governor Whitmer is closely tied to BCBSM. Then, the much-derided early reports that COVID could weaken our immune systems and make other diseases far harder to avoid have been vindicated, and tuberculosis is ready to take advantage of our collectively weakened condition. ...
TMI 11/10/2023 - Earth's Salt Cycle Has Been Thrown Off Balance, Bill McKibben on Biden's Environmental Political Opportunity, the Struggle of Making Heavy Equipment Green and more
November 14, 2023 14:27 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBJust when you've firmly wrapped your head around how human activity has upset the climate, causing a crisis in the skies, a new report tells us how, thanks to human activities, the amount of salts on the Earth's surface are dramatically out of proportion to what would naturally be there without our digging it up, causing further environmental calamity. Then, Bill McKibben wrote a piece on how President Joe Biden could help not only the planet but his own re-election prospects by NOT allowin...
TMI 11/03/2023 - Leonardo Leo Funds Anti-Abortion in Ohio and Beyond, Biden Admin Executive Order Takes On AI, Health Network One Reinvents Profiting Off the Helpless and more
November 03, 2023 22:02 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBIf you've never heard of Leonardo Leo and you believe that everyone, uterus-bearing or not, has the right to full bodily autonomy and access to health care (including abortion), then strap yourself in while you're given a quick tour of one of the biggest funders behind the SCOTUS majority that overturned Roe v. Wade and behind fighting Ohio from enacting a State Constitutional Amendment protecting abortion rights. Then, in an enormous executive order, the Biden Administration is attempting...
TMI 10/27/2023 - Filter Bubble Redux: How Pariser’s Predictions Fell Short of the Real Outcome, Hurricane Otis Punctuates Release of New Climate Crisis Report, more
October 26, 2023 18:17 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBBack near the beginning of TMI with Aldous Tyler in 2010, we reported on Eli Pariser's Ted Talk that introduced the world to the "Filter Bubble". This phenomenon, he said, was caused by Google's search algorithms, which would selectively feed you results similar to ones you had interacted with before. That would cause your Google searches to no longer match anyone else's, and would feed you ideas you agreed with far more than those that would challenge your beliefs. Fast forward to today, an...
TMI 10/20/2023 - BEST OF TMI - "Until They KILLED Them." - Long Knife: Osage Oil and the New Trail of Tears w/ Greg Palast - Oil, Greed, Murder, Racism, Climate Crisis and more
October 20, 2023 19:56 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBA tremendous amount of oil was discovered on the land belonging to the Osage Nation of Oklahoma. They were the richest people on Earth... until oil-greedy people KILLED them. But who? How did they get away with it? Investigative reporter Greg Palast has been on the hunt for this story for THREE decades! Where "KIllers of the Flower Moon" starring Leonardo DiCaprio ends, Greg Palast's explosive documentary begins. Find out how the people behind the murder and the theft used that stolen money...
TMI 10/13/2023 - Denver’s Basic Income Experiment Shows Remarkable Results, Analysis of Fascism From 1939 Overlays Perfectly on Trump, Plants Have Lost Nutritional Value Over Past 50 Years and more
October 11, 2023 20:37 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBIt's Friday the 13th, but even more terrifying is the prospect of being homeless in the USA - but there are real solutions being researched, finally! Denver, Colorado has been testing the actual impact of cash payments with no strings attached, and the results show a true way forward. Next, an analysis of how fascism can be nurtured and grown from eighty years ago just so happens to perfectly encapsulate Trump's entire strategy, and paints a dark view of the coming election year if we aren'...
TMI 10/06/2023 - Corporate “Medicare Advantage” Plans Bilk Billions from the Government, The Internet Archive’s Loss in Court Could Also Be Our Loss and more
October 04, 2023 18:38 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBStarting back in 2003, private health coverage companies like UnitedHealth, Anthem Blue Cross, Humana and others were allowed to offer "Medicare Advantage" plans to senior citizens and the disabled who qualified for Medicare. Since then, those corporations have figured out how to lie, cheat and swindle the US Government for well over $100,000,000,000.00 - we're talking the level of the net worth of people like Warren Buffet and Jeff Bezos - every YEAR, all while providing their members WORSE...
TMI 09/29/2023 - "Until They KILLED Them." - Long Knife: Osage Oil and the New Trail of Tears w/ Greg Palast - Oil, Greed, Murder, Racism, Climate Crisis and more
September 29, 2023 15:26 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBA tremendous amount of oil was discovered on the land belonging to the Osage Nation of Oklahoma. They were the richest people on Earth... until oil-greedy people KILLED them. But who? How did they get away with it? Investigative reporter Greg Palast has been on the hunt for this story for THREE decades! Where "KIllers of the Flower Moon" starring Leonardo DiCaprio ends, Greg Palast's explosive documentary begins. Find out how the people behind the murder and the theft used that stolen money...
TMI 09/22/2023 - How Ronald Reagan Planted an Inflation Trap for Joe Biden, Six of Nine Planetary Limits Are Outside the Safe Zone for Humanity, Planned Parenthood of WI to Provide Abortions and more
September 20, 2023 14:54 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBWhile Joe Biden campaigns on "Bidenomics", the rest of us look at the economy and wonder how he and others in the political class of folks in Washington DC could be so out of touch. Turns out, it's not entirely Biden's fault, as we discover that a method for looking at inflation begun under Ronald Reagan helps ENSURE that the view from the top is ALWAYS rosier than the one from our home towns. Then, an analysis of thousands of scientific studies, done to judge how the Earth is doing in nine...
TMI 09/15/2023 - Reining In the Anti-Union Media for the UAW, "Medicane" Daniel Tears Apart Greece and Libya, Secretary Granholm Experiences the Pioneering Pains of EV Travel and more
September 14, 2023 13:00 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBTMI with Aldous Tyler's entire mission is to be The Cure for the Common Media, and nowhere is that more necessary than with the coverage of union disputes. The UAW's upcoming strike is being presented only in terms of how bad it is going to make things for "the consumer", and when you realize the conflicts of interest these media giants have, being beholden to giant as campaigns from the auto manufacturers, it's no big mystery why. Find out what to be wary of, to inoculate yourself against t...
TMI 09/08/2023 - Fixing the Racism of Interstate Highways, Coiner of "Cisgender" Speaks Out on What it Really Means, How to Accurately Define "Gentrifying" and more
September 08, 2023 13:36 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBAs summer winds down and many of us take to the road before things cool down, we take a look at the Interstate Highway system, and how its planning and development were used to smash communities of color all across the USA - and what we can do now to fix the problems caused by that. Sixty years of suffering is a lot to make up for, but it's never too late to start. Then, we hear from Dana Defosse, the PhD who coined the term "cisgender" some thirty years ago, and why she is horrified by how...
TMI 09/01/2023 - BEST OF TMI - Barbie is About Liberation For All!; "There's No Right to a Sustainable Climate"; Be Alarmed by "Don't Panic" People; Masking is a Right and more
September 01, 2023 13:20 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBTHIS IS A REBROADCAST OF TMI WITH ALDOUS TYLER FROM AUGUST 25, 2023! ENJOY! Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" movie has been maligned since it debuted as being a film that is full of hate for men. We note that this distortion is from an inability to see the real message the film sends to men everywhere: be free to be who YOU are. Could it be that the key to a better world starts with you? Find out. Next, we look at the national version of the climate lawsuit that won its right to its day in court in...