TMI with Aldous Tyler
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TMI 10/01/2021 - Amazon's Company Town Solution is a Horrible Idea, COVID-19 Killing More US Conservatives Than Ever, Trump's Lawsuit to Hide from January 6, 2021
October 02, 2021 04:00 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBAmazon says it has the perfect solution to the housing crisis: why not let them house their workers in affordable housing near their workplaces, allowing them to also help control costs by supplying transportation, food, and other needs? Why? Oh, we'll tell you, and the answer is to be found in the old classic "Sixteen Tons". Then, COVID-19's path of death has shifted its focus: as more of your centrist-to-leftward population in America has gotten vaccinated versus the conservative side, mo...
TMI 9/24/2021 - 'I' vs. 'We' in the Fight Against Climate Change, Billionaire Taxation is Key, More than Gabby: Native Women Need More Attention When They Go Missing, News in Brief
September 24, 2021 21:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBGlobal Warming's "tipping points" like Fires, Floods, Permafrost Melt, and other catastrophes appear absolutely unstoppable when framed with the oft-asked "what can _I_ do about it?" We show why this is the WRONG framework to use when tackling climate issues. Then, we further go into how (MMT be damned) possibly one of the most KEY parts of solving the crisis is the taxation of the BIllionaire class. Finally, we shed light on how, while it is perfectly good that Gabby Petito got the attent...
TMI 09/17/2021 - Delta Breaks Through the NY Times' Bad Statistics, How to Tell the 'Build America Act' Apart From the 'Build Back Better Act'
September 17, 2021 21:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBAdding to the long list of publications and sources that MUST be double-checked before reporting from, the New York Times published an article citing bad numbers for the chances of getting a breakthrough COVID infection as if they were valid. According to that, you had a 1 in 5,000 to 1 in 10,000 chance of getting a breakthrough COVID-19 infection if you were already vaccinated, a number that was ludicrously off the day it was published and continues to be more inaccurate as the pandemic rag...
TMI 09/10/2021 - BEST OF: Nine Terrifying Words, Alabama's Coal Strike and the History Behind Leaving Afghanistan
September 10, 2021 20:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBWith your host down for the count with COVID-19, please enjoy a repeat of last week's episode of TMI: Ronald Reagan gave us his "nine most terrifying words in the english language" 40 years ago - we examine how this devious concept has insidiously corrupted our ability to function as a government, even when it comes to responding to immediate threats like Hurricane Ida. Then, we talk about the strike down in Alabama by miners of Warrior Met Coal, and the similarities to some historically v...
TMI 09/03/2021 - Nine Terrifying Words, Alabama's Coal Strike and the History Behind Leaving Afghanistan
September 03, 2021 20:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBRonald Reagan gave us his "nine most terrifying words in the english language" 40 years ago - we examine how this devious concept has insidiously corrupted our ability to function as a government, even when it comes to responding to immediate threats like Hurricane Ida. Then, we talk about the strike down in Alabama by miners of Warrior Met Coal, and the similarities to some historically violent coal strikes that rocked the USA roughly 100 years ago. With luck, maybe we can protect workers'...
TMI 08/27/2021 - Get Vaxx Get $100, Collectivo Unionizes, Wind Turbine Size Matters, and Holy Flaming Chevy Bolts!
August 27, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOn today's episode of TMI: WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?? Will you at LEAST get vaccinated if the State of Wisconsin PAYS you $100? If you don't live there, don't worry - we cover a number of other incentives that are being issued to coax reluctant citizens into doing what THEY SHOULD DO ANYWAY. Then, we celebrate the successful unionization of Collectivo Coffee, the effort to do so first referenced here on TMI on the March 19th episode with Faiz Shakir. They are the first coffee chain to d...
TMI 08/20/2021 - Best of TMI 2020
August 20, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBThree favorite segments from TMI 2020: You’ve heard how birds and other animals migrate because of climate, but what about people? We look into how the current rise of ocean levels, persistence of horrific wildfires and battering by terrible storms will be shaping where people choose to live – if they CAN choose to. Then, billionaires get compared to a lot of naturally occurring niches in the ecosystem: predators, sure or parasites, even. However, I make the case that they are far less nat...
TMI Special - Tribute to Peter Conover, Incl "Four Winds" and "The Wheel Will Turn" from his "Falcon" Album
August 13, 2021 19:55 - 22 minutes - 30.7 MBThis is the Tribute segment to Peter Conover originally aired 8/6/2021 along with the two musical breaks used for that episode of TMI with Aldous Tyler, separated out from the rest of the episode for easier sharing. Blessed Be, Peter Conover!
TMI 08/13/2021 - Olympic-Sized Apologies, Senate Progress, COVID Passports
August 13, 2021 18:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOn this episode of TMI, we talk about how the 2020/2021 Tokyo Olympic Games was NOT a good event, with NBC carrying a LOT of water for it, and the IOC refusing to acknowledge the many problems it had. Fine. WE will, and more, we'll issue an apology for it. Then, we look into how Bernie Sanders has managed to leverage his new Chairmanship in the Senate into a platform to push a progressive agenda for all of us. Finally, we check into how COVID passports are being required more and more to at...
TMI 08/06/2021 - A Tribute to the Passing of Peter Conover, Musician, Pagan, Friend; BEST OF: The Ethics of Forcing People to Work With the Unvaccinated, How Strategy Games Reinforce Colonialism
August 06, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBThis week on TMI, your host, Aldous, has lost a friend of his to suicide. We pay tribute to Peter Conover, his inimitable music, his vision of connectedness, and we also acknowledge that, for those who take their own lives, they had to fight to remain here as long as they did. We share resources to help those still with us, still fighting. Then, for the two musical breaks, we play songs by Peter, in tribute to his spirit and his voice. Needing to rest, your host replays two recent segments ...
TMI 07/30/2021 - Fishy Fish – How Subway's Tuna Scandal Isn't the Only Seafood Fraud, The Ethics of Forcing People to Work With the Unvaccinated, How Strategy Games Reinforce Colonial White Supremacy
July 30, 2021 19:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBWe've all heard of Subway's infamous tunaless tuna sandwich by now - researchers discovered no tuna DNA in the meat of Subway's famous offering, causing headlines across the country. What hasn't been reported nearly as much as this is likely not even Subway's fault: a staggeringly high amount of fish and seafood is being sold mislabeled. We explore the mystery of the fishy fish. Then, we discuss the ethics of being told that not only MUST you return to the office, versus being able to work ...
TMI 7/23/2021 - Attack of the Delta Variant, 50 Years of the War on Drugs, and How Both are Rather Similar
July 23, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOn this week's TMI, we sound the alarm on the attack of COVID-19's Delta Variant and show how it absolutely indicates that we opened too soon. Then we go over the 50 years of the War on Drugs, first declared by President Nixon, and how, by and large, the only lasting effect it had was the decimation of poor and minority-race families, communities and cities. Finally, we stop a moment and compare how both COVID and the War on Drugs hold a striking number of similarities. All this and much mo...
TMI 07/16/2021 - Why CRT is Under Attack in K-12, The Unreal Cost of American Infrastructure, and What GOP Obstruction in Congress Means for Next Two Years
July 16, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBGiven the complete ignorance almost everyone in the United States has about Critical Race Theory (except, of course, listeners of TMI), why is there such an outcry against it being taught in grade school? We examine. Then, we compare how little other countries spend compared to the USA for what amounts to better infrastructure, and why this is normally the case? Finally, we chart out the most likely course for the GOP and its devotion to Congressional obstruction over the next two years. All...
TMI 07/09/2021 - Exxon Tells On Itself: Public Deception by Denial of Climate Crisis, How Wall St Turns Worker Pensions Against Them, and a News-in-Brief on a Socialism Survey and NOAA's "Normals"
July 09, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOn this week's TMI, we report on how Exxon is now divulging how for decades it has known about its role in the Climate Crisis, and how it used deceptions, manipulations and denials to keep on making billions in profits while selling out our future. Then, we examine how Wall Street regularly turns the retirement pension funds that many American workers rely on against the best interests of those workers by investing in companies and policies that make life far more difficult for them by the t...
TMI 07/02/2021 - Bipartisanship is Ruining the Climate, Firsthand Report on 2021 Ohio Trump Rally, New Study Shows TX Grid Failure is DESPITE Renewable Energy, not FROM It
July 02, 2021 16:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOn this week's TMI, we discuss how bipartisanship is being held up as more important than continuing to work on mitigating the disastrous effects of the climate crisis. We also air a first-hand report on the 2021 Trump rally in Lorain County, Ohio, and finally we examine a new study that illustrates how the collapse of Texas' power grid was DESPITE the use of renewable energy types like solar and wind, not, as the right-wing media tried to claim, BECAUSE of them. All this and much more on TM...
TMI 6/25/2021 - BEST OF TMI: Pride 2021 Special
June 25, 2021 16:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBON THIS BEST OF TMI EPISODE: Stormé DeLarverie threw the first punch at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York City on a fateful June night in 1969, and her cry of "WHY DON’T YOU DO SOMETHING!?" should be recalled among the most influential rallying statements of any modern rights movement. Find out not just why June is Pride Month, but portions of the origin story that you may never have heard before. Worldwide, many are turning away from organized political parties, feeling tha...
TMI 06/18/2021 - You Can't Be Against Critical Race Theory and For Good History, TMI's Top 10 Objective News Sources, and how Student Debt Relief is Being Used as Lottery Prizes for COVID Vaccinations
June 18, 2021 16:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOn this week's TMI, we examine what Critical Race Theory is, how it stems from a need to accurately report on the history of the United States' treatment of race, and how being against teaching it equates being against history teachers teaching history. Next, we go over some of TMI's favorite sources for news, due to these sources' ability to unclutter fact from opinion, and give you the most clear-eyed information available. Finally, we report on how Student Debt Relief, a promise of the Bi...
TMI 06/11/2021 - Pride's Stonewall Origins include Stormé DeLarverie, Political Parties May Be Doomed, Who Stormed The Capitol on January 6th?
June 11, 2021 22:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBStormé DeLarverie threw the first punch at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York City on a fateful June night in 1969, and her cry of "WHY DON’T YOU DO SOMETHING!?" should be recalled among the most influential rallying statements of any modern rights movement. Find out not just why June is Pride Month, but portions of the origin story that you may never have heard before. Worldwide, many are turning away from organized political parties, feeling that these groups have been usurp...
TMI 06/04/2021 - One Hundred Years After Tulsa Race Massacre a Memorial Retrospective on Black Wall Street, How Your Name Affects Your Personality, What If Trump Goes to Jail - and WILL He?
June 04, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBMonday, May 31, 2021 marked the 100th anniversary of one of the most horrible events in American History: the Tulsa Race Massacre. If you aren't familiar, please listen in as we recount the history of the Greenwood District of Tulsa, called "Black Wall Street", and how it was destroyed in one of the worst displays of hate in history. If you've ever wondered what upsets your fellow Americans so much when they get told there's no reason to feel oppressed, this will clear that up, fast. Next, ...
TMI 05/28/2021 - Policing by Race One Year After George Floyd, How To Think Creatively, ExxonMobil Forced to Go Greener
May 28, 2021 16:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBA full year after the murder of George Floyd by a sadistic police officer, we look at the state of policing in America by race: has it changed? What has been attempted in the meantime? How far do we have to go? Then, there have been studies done on how creative thinking works: sure some are more talented than others, but there's a definite skill to it, and that skill can be TAUGHT. Find out! Finally, Oil Giant ExxonMobil was forced by Engine No. 1, an activist hedge fund, to accept several ...
TMI 05/21/2021 - AI Goes to College, Millennials Become Geriatric, How Old Science Helped COVID Kill
May 21, 2021 15:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBAI - artificial intelligence - is an amazing tool, yet still in its infancy as far as development goes. You'd think that might give people pause before using it on life-changing decisions like who gets accepted to a college or university, but this (and far more) is precisely what we've discovered it is being used for. We discuss. Then: Just as soon as Millennials became old enough that it could no longer be denied they should be considered the mainstream voice of power, along comes the term...
TMI 05/14/2021 - The World's Most Vaccinated Nation Goes Back Into Lockdown, PTSD Meets Its Match in MDMA, The Current State of Israel/Palestine
May 18, 2021 14:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBWe all should be getting vaccinated against COVID-19, without a doubt, but what do you do when you have over 99% of your population fully vaccinated and yet are still facing a growing resurgence of COVID-19? That's what he nearly 100,000 people in Seychelles are having to ask themselves. We discuss how this came to be. Next, we talk about how new studies are showing that the once-indomitable psychological force of PTSD can be tamed with proper therapeutic use of MDMA. Finally, we outline th...
TMI 05/07/2021 - How Madison Can Cross the "Finnish" Line with the Homeless, How White Male Supreme Court Clerks Make a Less Representational Justice System, and How The House of Reps Needs More Reps
May 17, 2021 20:33 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBMadison, like many cities, struggles with how to solve its homelessness problem. Especially in the brutal Wisconsin winters, we don't want people to freeze to death, but we need to be able to afford the solution. Finland knows a thing or two about Winter AND about homelessness, and their solution: make giving the homeless housing the FIRST thing you do, not third or fourth step down the line. While not cheap, it is far more affordable than any other approach, and actually STOPS homelessness....
TMI 04/30/2021 - The Discrimination of "Low Skill" Jobs, Nonwhite Millennials Suffer Greater Wealth Inequality, and How City-bought Housing Actually Solves Housing Crisis
May 17, 2021 18:58 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBIf you knew your worth to your employer, you'd almost certainly not put up with the sliver of that worth that they pay you to work for them. One of the tricks used to keep you from demanding more for the hours of your life you spend laboring is to call MANY jobs "low skill". We examine this falsehood that is meant to make you feel bad for wanting to have your needs met while making the boss rich. Then, we look at the famous disparity of wealth between Millenials and past generations, and ho...
TMI 04/23/2021 - George Floyd's Murderer Faces Historic Verdict, BLM Protestors Falsely Arrested 90% of the Time, Ever's Budget Legalizes Cannabis, Mass Shootings Begin Again
April 23, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBThe Minneapolis Police Officer who murdered George Floyd, as captured on live video, (whose name I use as little as possible) faced a historic verdict as all three charges came down as Guilty. We examine just how unprecedented the verdict was and how that directly shows how deeply corrupted and harmful our current system of policing is. Then, we investigate how, across the USA, BLM protestors were arrested without cause or evidence simply to create the false impression that the protests wer...
TMI 04/16/2021 – BEST OF TMI – Socialism and the Coming Great Crisis w/ John Beacham, Pandemic Reopening and COVID’s Return, France Outlaws Accent Discrimination
April 16, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBTODAY IS A BEST OF TMI EPISODE, ORIGINALLY BROADCAST FRIDAY, APRIL 09, 2021: John Beacham, author of 2020: Socialism and the Coming Great Crisis and podcaster at mass-action.org joins us to discuss Socialism and how a better understanding of it could impact the multitude of ills society faces. Then, we explore the various reopening plans being implemented by those who call the shots as they get impatient with the restrictions of the pandemic, and examine who will face the consequences of t...
TMI 04/09/2021 - Socialism and the Coming Great Crisis w/ John Beacham, Pandemic Reopening and COVID's Return, France Outlaws Accent Discrimination
April 09, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBJohn Beacham, author of 2020: Socialism and the Coming Great Crisis and podcaster at mass-action.org joins us to discuss Socialism and how a better understanding of it could impact the multitude of ills society faces. Then, we explore the various reopening plans being implemented by those who call the shots as they get impatient with the restrictions of the pandemic, and examine who will face the consequences of their short attention span. Finally, we go to France, where in an attempt to re...
TMI 04/02/2021 - Amazon Fights Unionization, American Democracy Stressed by 2020 Election
April 02, 2021 16:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBAs efforts by the workforce at Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama facility to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union ramp up, Amazon has been engaging in dirty tactics to frighten, intimidate and bully their workers out of voting yes. While these tactics are used far too commonly nationwide against unions. Amazon was using their immense power to involve local police, the postal service and more. Then, we examine how the tumultuous election of 2020 has strained the very structure of ...
TMI 03/26/2021 - Music Makers are Being Swept Downstream (full episode analysis)
March 26, 2021 15:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOnce upon a time in Melodia, one would dream of putting together a band, playing somewhere that would get you noticed by someone who would call up someone else to come see you play elsewhere, and suddenly you had a contract with a record label, a musical industry conglomerate who would promise you fame and fortune. Maybe something would come of the radio airplay you gained from it, or the tours you would go on, or your second or third album, but eventually you'd be known from London to Topek...
TMI 03/19/2021 - The More Perfect Union Project w/ Faiz Shakir, What it Will Take for Post-COVID "Normal", Search Engines Spread Disinfo By Design
March 19, 2021 18:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBWeekends, employer-provided health coverage, overtime pay, a ban on child labor - these are all benefits to society as a whole thanks to unions. Faiz Shakir, formerly of the Bernie Sanders campaign, knows all too well about how unions have been falling in membership size and power, and seeks to restore them via the More Perfect Union project. We discuss. Then, we look seriously at what it is going to take to return to a pre-COVID normal - or if that is even possible. Finally we take on disi...
TMI 03/12/2021 - Trump's Traps to Trip Biden, Corporate Anti-Climate Spending Exposed, Billionaires Capture the Wealth We Need
March 12, 2021 18:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBDonald Trump promised to "drain the swamp" but conversely filled Washington DC with people loyal not to doing their job the best they can or to a sense of service to the Constitution, but to him and him alone. Finding these people and replacing them has become a major chore for the Biden administration, and we'll discuss how. Then: recent investigations into the tax filings of corporations, many of whom TALK about wanting to be greener, show that they give plenty of money to foundations, PA...
TMI 03/05/2021 - Trump Fractures the GOP, Neera Tanden Faces Consequences, Volvo and Others All-Electric in 2030, and the Defeat of the Flu
March 05, 2021 18:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBDonald Trump is out of office, no matter what Q Anon wants to claim, but his influence over the GOP remains strong... though not strong enough to have it entirely under his thumb. The tension is tearing the once-might GOP apart, and we discuss how. Then, Neera Tanden, vocal opponent of the GOP and vicious enemy of the progressive movement in the USA is facing consequences for making very few friends outside of centrist President Joe Biden, her nominator. Next, we talk about how the auto ind...
TMI 02/26/2021 - The Damage of Limbaugh w/ Peter B. Collins, Pop Culture's War on Peace
February 26, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBFor decades, a fellow from Missouri named Rush Hudson Limbaugh III dragged media standards away from objective reporting of factual events, past the realm of opinion and into the depths of slander and service to the darkest impulses of humanity's prejudices. But how did it all get that way? Joining us is equally-veteran in the radio industry Peter B. Collins, who will outline precisely how Rush came to prominence and even go over his own experience meeting Mr. Limbaugh early on in Rush's car...
TMI 02/19/2021 - Fossil Fuels' Failure in the TX Freeze, Cities Underreport Carbon Footprints, NYC Surveillance, Diagnosing You Under Your Skin
February 19, 2021 16:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBWhen Texas suffered catastrophic freezing, cutting power to much of the state, right wing media (followed all-too-predictably by mainstream sources) blamed the wind turbines that had locked up in the cold as being the reason why people were suffering and dying. But wind turbines function in much harsher cold than Texas offered just fine, pointing to a problem in cheaping out on their maintenance, and deeper infrastructural issues in the fossil fuel pumps that failed in much greater abundance...
TMI 02/12/2021 - Following Orders, Polite White Supremacy, Political Astrology
February 15, 2021 21:39 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBMany of the Capitol Rioters are now using the defense that they were just "following orders". Evidently not being pardoned by Trump made a number of them pretty sore, and they have no problem being very clear that as far as they were concerned, Trump was their leader and they did what they did at his behest. Then, we discuss a touchy topic for many of us: "Polite White Supremacy", or the tendency for an officer who arrests a white man with a screwdriver on him to call it just that, but on a...
TMI 02/05/2021 - Go Big with Carl Gibson, Ho-hum COVID disaster, ICE has gone rogue
February 15, 2021 19:26 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBFriend of the program Carl Gibson of https://www.classwardaily.com/ joins us to discuss how the Democratic Congress and Presidency have an enormous opportunity to make a real difference... or, history shows, be destroyed. Also, Carl tells us how his recent stock purchase is going. Next, we compare the horrific daily death totals for COVID-19 aren't making us bat an eye, even as they stack up against and tower over other individual disastrous days in the history of America. We discuss why. ...
TMI 01/22/2021 - Pardon Me!, China and the Uighurs, the 1776 Commission Results, and Heat Kills More in Black Neighborhoods
February 15, 2021 18:58 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBThe list of pardonees and commutees from Donald Trump's last day in office was most interesting for who they included - and who they didn't include! Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was just one, while not a single member of the rioters at the Capitol Building was included. We discuss. Then, the Trump State Department leaves a "gift" for Biden's administration by condemning China's treatment of the Uighurs located in northwest China - rightfully so, but the timing is clearly an attempt...
TMI 01/29/2021 - Deb Haaland vs. Big Oil, Big Ag vs. Democratic Victory, Trump's Pentagon Withheld the Guard, and Undercounting COVID
January 30, 2021 22:30 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBNative American tribes have been brutalized, subjugated, cheated and mistreated by the Federal Government of the United States since the very beginning. With the nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland (D - NM), an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, to the office of Secretary of the Interior things could be looking up for tribal peoples of USA, and looking dicey for their latest abuser, Big Oil. We discuss. Then, we explore how it is that agricultural states like Wisconsin used to be reliab...
TMI 01/15/2021 - The Press Must Remain Free, COVID Goes Ape, Gov. Snyder May Face Justice
January 18, 2021 21:09 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBWhile people quake in fear of Senator Hawley's lost book deal and President Trump's banishment from many social media platforms, they often cite the First Amendment's guarantee to Freedom of Speech. Ironically, they forget the rest of the First Amendment's guarantees, including the part that protects Twitter, Simon & Schuster, Facebook and even TMItmiTMI.com from having to publish ANYTHING they don't want to be associated with. We'll discuss. Then, a pod of gorillas in San Diego have become ...
TMI 01/08/2021 - How the Capitol Attack Reverberated Elsewhere, Does the Climate Have a Finite Pool of Worry, Google Gets a Union, and some Truths 2020 Left Us With
January 11, 2021 14:07 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOn today's episode of TMI: The attack on the Capitol Building, spurred by noneother than Donald Trump himself, was a day of disaster in DC, but had consequences that reached far further. A friend in Connecticut sends in her striking tale of how events that transpired for her that same day, many miles away, were phantoms of the brutal riot happening in Washington. Next, we examine how a study over how concerned people are about the Climate Crisis was able to serendipitously discover if som...
TMI 01/01/2021 - New Year's Predictions for 2030, Why We Love Grifters and Ted Cruz is Scum
January 11, 2021 13:50 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBContinuing a tradition done on TMI first on the 1/1/2011 episode, we are not going to do a Year in Review, but rather we are going to do a decade in review for 2021-2030: checking in with expert opinion on where we can expect to be in 2030 and how we can get there! Why not review the future? We've already BEEN through the past! Next, we have a sincere look at why we're fascinated by grifters; people who play on our trust of our fellow human beings for their own benefit, often at our loss. De...
TMI 12/25/2020 - How to Have Holiday Conversations, Populism's True Meaning, and Farewell 2020!
January 11, 2021 13:31 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOn this Xmas Day episode, we get into some pointers on how to keep Zoom calls with loved ones over the Holidays from degenerating into the latest QAnon litany of nonsense. Then, I put to rest some unfinished business with some listeners from "across the pond" who wish to insist they know what "Populism" is. I insist that until they hear where it actually came from, they keep the word out of their mouths - this can be solved simply by listening as I go over the origins, history and the story ...
TMI 12/18/2020 - So Close to Peril, Mitch Can Be Ditched, How the Pandemic Wounds Society and the Season of Treason
January 11, 2021 13:18 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOn today's TMI: While everyone was watching the Electoral College cast their votes, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin put themselves ONE VOTE AWAY from leading us into chaos. We discuss. Then: even IF the Democratic Party loses either (or both) Senate seats in the upcoming GA runoff election, there's a way that Mitch McConnell could still be Majority Leader... and yet no longer be in the way of voting on key legislation. Next, we talk about the uneven burdens of the pandemic, specifically how t...
TMI 12/11/2020 - BEST OF TMI: Barr Says No, The God of Einstein, and Unbiased Journalism Requires Truth
December 28, 2020 19:11 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOn this Best-of episode of TMI, Attorney General Bill Barr denies Trump's allegations that there was any electoral or voter fraud sufficient to change the outcome of the Presidential Election - we discuss. Then, we talk about what kind of God was compatible with a great scientific mind like Einstein: specifically, the God outlined by Baruch Spinoza. It's not the kind of God you'll find preached about in almost any church in America, and is compatible with critical thinking, so check it...
TMI 12/04/2020 - Barr Says No, The God of Einstein, and Unbiased Journalism Requires Truth
December 28, 2020 18:58 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOn today's TMI, Attorney General Bill Barr denies Trump's allegations that there was any electoral or voter fraud sufficient to change the outcome of the Presidential Election - we discuss. Then, we talk about what kind of God was compatible with a great scientific mind like Einstein: specifically, the God outlined by Baruch Spinoza. It's not the kind of God you'll find preached about in almost any church in America, and is compatible with critical thinking, so check it out. Finally, we talk...
TMI 11/27/2020 - "The People, No" with Thomas Frank
December 02, 2020 21:50 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOn TMI's most in-depth single interview to date, we discuss Thomas Frank's latest book, "The People, No - A Brief History of Anti-Populism", a revealing look at how unjustly vilified the notion has become of the people standing up and banding together to see that their needs are addressed as much as the needs of the elites are. Thomas and I go deep into the subject, exploring the fascinating connection between the nascent People's Party of the late 1800's to the Bernie Sanders movement, as w...
TMI 11/20/2020 - Misplaced Blame, COVID Helpline, Brain Fog and Biden Isn't Enough
December 02, 2020 21:42 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBWith the 2020 election in the rear-view mirror, it was alarming to see minorities of various kinds being blamed for how close it got in many states between Trump and Biden, as well as for the Senate losses that had been predicted to go the other way. We dissect this, and show just how distorted this kind of blame is, and where it actually belongs. Then, I go over a new COVID-19 hotline for the city of Madison, one that helps people navigate the financial difficulties the pandemic has wrough...
TMI 11/13/2020 - Steve Horn on Biden's Climate, Shrooms Curing Depression, and Trump's Dangerous Path Forward
November 18, 2020 19:31 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOn this episode of TMI, friend of the program Steve Horn joins us to discuss what President-elect Joe Biden's history with climate related issues, and what to watch for as we focus on forcing his hand to help the planet. Then, we discuss how studies are showing that single doses of Psilocybin ("shrooms") have an immediate and last effect on changing the brains of people who suffer from depression. Finally, we find Trump painted into a corner electorally, which means his only options left to ...
TMI 11/06/2020 - Post-election wrap-up, Early Wars of Humanity and Music for the Activist Heart
November 18, 2020 18:25 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOn today's episode, you'll get the wrap-up of the 11/03/2020 election as we know it by time of broadcast. Then, we go over how there are indications that versions of prehistoric humanity (Sapiens and Neanderthal) were at war with each other. Finally, in a rare TMI treat, we go over some tunes you will hear on the broadcast, and what they mean to your humble host. All this and more on TMI for Friday, November 06, 2020! Tune in for your Cure for the Common Media!
TMI 10/30/2020 - Astounding Early Voting, New Chilean Constitution, Arctic Ocean Methane, and Brain Mapping
November 03, 2020 14:36 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBWe go over the tremendous early voting that's occurred in 2020, unprecedented in the history of the United States, and the possible ramifications of it. Then, we talk about how Chileans have managed to not only force a vote on whether or not to completely scrap and remake their nation's Constitution, but the results of that vote. We go over the tremendous early voting that's occurred in 2020, unprecedented in the history of the United States, and the possible ramifications of it. Then, we t...