Virtually Speaking
651 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 7 years ago - ★★★★ - 14 ratingsInformal & informed conversations about politics, policy, economics, media, science and more. Sundays feature a panel of prominent members of the liberal blogosphere. Tuesdays, Jay Ackroyd talks public affairs, mostly with authors, mostly about progressive issues
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Culture of Truth: Law and Order
May 05, 2015 21:00 - 7 minutes - 5.69 MBPolitical satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations on Meet the Press and/or This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Using show transcripts, he creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays where two members of the VS media panel respond. This segment, drawn from the May 3 Bobblespeak Translations was created and aired on. Listen here to the complete May 3, Sunday episode, with commentary fromDave Johnson, Cliff Schecter andJay Ackroyd. Follow @Bobbles...
Dave Johnson, Cliff Schecter, Jay Ackroyd • VS Sundays
May 04, 2015 01:00 - 54 minutes - 48.8 MBBernie Sanders as the voice of broadly popular, bipartisan positions on Social Security, "free" trade (TPP), paid sick and maternal leave, minimum wage increases, overtime pay. Polling from populistmajority.org Innocence Project and our broken criminal justice system. Commentary from Dave Johnson, Cliff Schecter, Jay Ackroyd. Political satire from Culture of Truth. Follow @CliffSchecter @DCJohnson @JayAckroyd @Bobblespeak The 2015 Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Andrew Jerrell Jones, Avedon...
Per Stoknes: What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming
May 01, 2015 01:00 - 58 minutes - 52.9 MBWe discuss Per Espen Stoknes What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming. While evidence has accumulated about anthropogenic climate change, public concern has remained low. Other public policy issues are more pressing--even leaving aside those who could be called climate change deniers. Per discusses the psychology behind our unwillingness to face up to the changing climate, and proposes ways we can change public assessment of the risks posed by climate change.
Culture of Truth: Feeding the Aura
April 27, 2015 05:15 - 6 minutes - 4.78 MBPolitical satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations on Meet the Press and This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Using show transcripts, he creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays where two members of the VS media panel respond. This segment, drawn from the April 26 Bobblespeak Translations was created and aired on. Lisen to the complete April 26 Sunday episode, with commentary from David Dayen, RJ Eskow and Jay Ackroyd, here. Follow @Bobblespe...
Richard Eskow & Dave Dayen • VS Sundays
April 27, 2015 01:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBTPP. Why is the Transpacific Partnership the hill Obama is willing to die for? Why can't we have nice tihngs l? Why is it so difficult to implement obviously good public policy? Commentary from David Dayen and RJ Eskow. With Jay Ackroyd. Political Satire from Culture of Truth. Follow @DDayen, @RJEskow, @JayAckroyd @Bobblespeak The 2015 Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Andrew Jerrell Jones, Avedon Carol,Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McC...
David Brin: Living in the Transparent Society
April 24, 2015 01:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBDavid Brin, American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction, has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards. Jay Ackroyd talks with Brin about Brin's prescient and still relevant, book The Transparent Society. Cop cams, selfies, the evolution of embarrassment and the need for reciprocity from state actors. We'll also fit in a brief discussion of SETI--and whether it's a good idea to shout out our presence to aliens.
Spocko, Charles Lenchner • VS Sundays
April 20, 2015 01:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBCommentary on current events. A counterpoint to the Sunday morning network shows. Jay Ackroyd moderates.
Srdja Popovic: Blueprint for Revolution
April 17, 2015 00:00 - 51 minutes - 46.5 MBSrdja Popovic is the author of Blueprint for Revolution and founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), which has worked with pro-democracy activists from more than 50 countries, promoting the use of non-violent resistance in achieving political and social goals. He'll be In New York City on April 22 at the Carnegie Center, tickets still available. The publisher, Random House, summarizes the book: Blueprint for Revolution will teach yo...
Marcy Wheeler & Digby • VS Sundays
April 13, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBDomestic security is getting pretty complicated, what with miliarized police operations, cameras documenting events that were previously unaccessible, "non-lethal" weapons that aren't really, and a really extensive internal security system. Marcy Wheeler and digby discuss these issues. Marcy summarizes the current understanding of who and how American citizens are being surveilled. Digby has been on the taser front from the beginning. Crime rates are way down. Incarceration rates are a...
Dave Johnson & Stuart Zechman • VS Sundays
April 06, 2015 01:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBBankrupt American public policy: TransPacific Partnership (TPP); the Republican budget; Iran treaty. Clinton and the dominance of centrist policy and rhetoric in the Dem party. Commentary from Dave Johnson, Stuart Zechman, Jay Ackroyd. Follow @DCJohnson @Stuart_Zechman @JayAckroyd 2015 Media Panel Andrew Jerrell Jones, Avedon Carol,Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter,Marcy Wheeler,RJ Eskow, Stuart Zechman. Alternates: Susan Madrak, Sa...
Alan Boyle & Will Pomerantz • Virgin Galactic, SpaceShipTwo
April 02, 2015 20:34 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBWhat’s up at Virgin Galactic? Five months after the tragic loss of SpaceShipTwo and one of its pilots, the company is building a new SpaceShipTwo – and moving ahead with a project called Launcher One to put small satellites in orbit. Alan Boyle – Science editor, NBC News Digital – talks with Will Pomerantz, Virgin Galactic’s vice president for special projects, talks about the space venture’s next frontiers. Follow @b0yle @VirginGalactic @Pomerantz
Culture of Truth: Tolerance
March 30, 2015 04:00 - 5 minutes - 3.99 MBPolitical satire from Culture of Truth, who notes the most ridiculous moments of the Sunday morning political talk shows. Read his Bobblespeak Translations for March 29.Digby and Joan McCarter responded on VS Sundays. Listenhere.
Digby & McJoan • VS Sundays
March 30, 2015 01:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBDigby and Joan McCarter discuss the bind centrist Democrats, like Chris Van Hollen, have put themselves in by putting themselves on record in opposition to Social Security, how this helps Donna Edwards, and how we can help Edwards in her primary race. Joan provides a quick precis on the contest for Senate minority leader in the aftermath of Harry Reid's announcement not to run in 2016. Reproductive justice in danger and how this year's version of the doc fix is being hijacked by the House T...
Kelly Hills & Alice Dreger • Galileo's Middle Finger
March 27, 2015 12:00 - 1 hour - 88.3 MBAnatomy, identity, intersex. Medical historian/ethicist Alice Dreger (Northwestern) and Kelly Hills discuss Dreger's new book, Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science.
Nancy Altman: Social Security Works!
March 27, 2015 01:00 - 59 minutes - 53.7 MBNancy Altman discusses present day social insurance policy in the context of her new book Social Security Works! coauthored with Eric Kingson. From the Silent Generation to Baby Boomers, from Generation X to Millennials and Generation Z, we all have a stake in understanding the real story about Social Security. Critical to addressing the looming retirement crisis that will affect two- thirds of today’s workers, Social Security is a powerful program that can help stop the collapse of the m...
Susie Madrak & Michael Brooks
March 23, 2015 01:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBObama declaring he should have closed Gitmo on day one; Israel; Republican presidential candidates. Commentary from Susie Madrak (Managing Editor, Crooks and Liars) & Michael Brooks (contributor and producer for The Majority Report). Political satire from Culture of Truth. Jay Ackroyd moderates. The 2015 Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Andrew Jerrell Jones, Avedon Carol,Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter,Marcy Wheeler,RJ Eskow, Stua...
Culture of Truth: Absurd & Comical
March 16, 2015 04:56 - 5 minutes - 4.47 MBPolitical satire from Culture of Truth, who notes the most ridiculous moments of the Sunday morning political talk shows. Read his Bobblespeak Translations for March 15.RJ Eskow and Andrew Jerrell Jones responded on VS Sundays. Listen here.
RJ Eskow & Andrew Jones • VS Sundays
March 16, 2015 01:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBTonight we talk about the Ferguson Report and the persistence of institutional vestiges of Jim Crow--and its manifestation in Oklahoma. Iran negotiations and Bibi's visit and the Republican modern Know Nothings' grasp of "foreign policy." Vanishing email and the implemenation of government transparency laws, viewed through the prism of Hilary's, Jebs, and the State Department email systems. DoJ's Ferguson Report (pdf) Vanishing email Embarassing letter Poltical satire from Culture of ...
Alan Boyle, Seth Shostak & Don Lincoln • Aliens
March 11, 2015 00:30 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBWhat questions are scientists asking about the existence of intelligent extraterrestial life? Alan Boyle taks with Seth Shostak – Senior Astronomer and Director of the Center for SETI – and Don Lincoln –physicist at Fermilab, member of the science team for the Compact Muon Solenoid at the Large Hadron Collider. “Alien Universe” is Don Lincoln's book about the scientific as well as cultural aspects behind our interest in the search for extraterrestrial life. Seth Shostak is the author of Conf...
Culture of Truth: The Real Enemy
March 09, 2015 06:35 - 5 minutes - 3.91 MBPolitical satire from Culture of Truth, who notes the most ridiculous moments of the Sunday morning political talk shows. Read his Bobblespeak Translations for March 8. Gaius Publius and Marcy Wheeler responded on VS Sundays. Listen here.
Marcy Wheeler & Gaius Publius • VS Sundays
March 09, 2015 01:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MB1. Email scandals - what's important here? http://www.salon.com/2015/03/05/americas_real_secret_revealed_clinton_petraeus_how_elites_protect_their_legacies/ 2. Iran, Bibi & the Israeli elections. http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2015/03/if-netanyahu-speaks-before-congress-he.html 3. Selma, Cops and Ferguson. The prosecutorial mentality in the U.S. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-true-history-of-origins-of-police.html
Digby: Citizen Four
March 06, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBDIgby discusses Citizen Four, the 2015 Academy Award winning documentary featuring Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald. The program also includes an excerpt, and discussion of, the late David Carr's interview with director Laura Poitras, Greenwald and Snowden.
Culture of Truth: Delusional
March 02, 2015 21:28 - 5 minutes - 3.78 MBPolitical satire meets media critique. From the author of The Bobblespeak Translations come the most ridiculous moment in last Sunday morning's Meet the Press and Face the Nation.
Digby & Spocko • VS Sundays
March 02, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBMedia and the drum beats to war; Exporting homegrown torture. Use and abuse of the "political" celebrity. Remembering Leonard Nimoy. Political satire from Culture of Truth. Jay Ackroyd moderates. Follow @digby56 @spockosbrain @Jayackroyd @Bobblespeak More: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/tb-scheduled-for-500-spot-pls-forcing.html The 2015 Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Andrew Jerrell Jones, Avedon Carol,Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius,...
Kelly Hills & Glenn Cohen • Medical Tourism
February 28, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 176 MBI. Glenn Cohen talks with Kelly about the multi-billion dollar industry of medical tourism and his recent book Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law and Ethics (Nov. 12th; Oxford University Press) Cohen, Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School is a co-director of Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics.
Spocko & Jay Ackroyd - Who Funds Big Media?
February 27, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBSpocko posts at Digby's Hullabaloo, Firedoglake and Spocko's Brain. This episode he discusses 6 fun and easy steps to change the media and public's view of torture and war. Read the first three at Hullaballoo. Follow @SpockosBrain @JayAckroyd
Culture of Truth: Race to the Bottom
February 23, 2015 05:00 - 5 minutes - 9.21 MBFrom political satirist Culture of Truth
Avedon Carol & Stuart Zechman • VS Sundays
February 23, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBWill there be a new backlash against liberals if we don't learn how to talk to our (non-liberal) neighbors? Can we find our commonality and finally work together for the things that most Americans - whether they call themselves liberal or conservative or something else - really want? Commentary from Avedon Carol and Stuart Zechman. Political satire from Culture of Truth. Jay Ackroyd moderates. The 2015 Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Andrew Jerrell Jones, Avedon Carol,Cliff Schecter, David ...
Cliff Schecter: Choice in Danger in Ohio
February 20, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBThere are two Ohios--Lebron's Ohio and Marge Schott's Ohio. Tonight we talk with Cliff Schecter about Marge's Ohio, about why a woman's right to make her own reproductive decisions is endangered throughout Ohio. Cliff Schecter has been working on the policy and politics of choice in Ohio, and discusses the state of play with Jay Ackroyd. @cliff_schecter @jayackoyd
Dave Johnson & JoanMcCarter Virtually Speaking Sundays
February 16, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBWhich lies really matter, Brian WIlliams' or Dick Cheney's? GOP governors and Medicaid expansion encapsulated in King v Burwell and the tension in the party between doing as the Koch's command and what their constituents need. Joan McCarter — Senior Political Writer and regular front page contributor to Daily Kos. Joan writes about national legislative developments. Follow @joanmccarter Dave Johnson — Fellow with Campaign for America's Future and Senior Fellow with Renew California. Read Da...
Matthew Sutton: American Apocalypse
February 13, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBMatthew Sutton, Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of History at Washington State University, discusses his book, American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism. The book describes the rise of the pre-millenialist foundation of modern evangelicalism, and how it has affected social and political participation of the very large fraction of Americans who believe the Second Coming is something we can expect to experience in the next generation or so. Pew: By the year 2050, 41% of...
Jennifer Ouellette & L.A. Paul • Empathy & Identity
February 12, 2015 04:30 - 58 minutes - 52.8 MBLaurie Paul, philosophy professor at UC-North Carollina, Chapel Hill; 2014 Guggenheim fellow talks with Jennifer Ouellette about empathy, identity and whether having a child can be considered a rational decision (she’s pro-childless despite having two kids of her own). Per her website: "My main research interests are in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, especially temporal phenomenology, time, perception, the ontology of mental states, the philosophy of cognitive science, mereology, ...
Culture of Truth: Crusader
February 09, 2015 16:00 - 5 minutes - 4.43 MBPretty much every Sunday, Culture of Truth recounts the most ridiculous thing that happened on the Sunday Talk Shows. This weeks edition is called Crusader.
Cliff Schecter & Spocko • VS Sundays
February 09, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBThe Boehner-Bibi backfire Political satire from Culture of Truth. http://www.spockosbrain.com/2015/02/06/brian-williams-rpg-mistake-in-iraq-was-a-wartime-gift/
Alan Boyle & Don Lincoln • Restarting the Large Hadron Collider
February 08, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBA physicist at Fermilab, member of the science team for the Compact Muon Solenoid at the Large Hadron Collider and the author of two books about the LHC, “The Quantum Frontier” and “The Large Hadron Collider” Don Lincoln has also written a book about the scientific as well as cultural aspects behind our interest in the search for extraterrestrial life, titled “Alien Universe.” An enthusiastic science popularizer, he shares video, news and events through many media, including Facebook https:/...
Gaius Publius Interviews Alan Grayson
February 06, 2015 02:00 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBGaius Publius Interviews Alan Grayson: How To Be Effective In a Republican Congress Alan Grayson is a three-term Democratic congressman from Florida, having just been re-elected in 2012. Grayson is easily the most effective Democrat in Congress, progressive or otherwise, having passed 33 pieces of legislation in the previous House session alone. In this pre-recorded conversation with Gaius Publius, he reveals how he "cracked the nut" that allows him to get progressive legislation passed. P...
Charles Lenchner: Dealing with Corruption: New York and Beyond
January 30, 2015 02:00 - 59 minutes - 53.5 MBCharles Lenchner is a co-founder of Ready for Warren and a consultant for labor, political and nonprofit organizations, tweets as @clenchner. We will discuss the recent breaks in one of the most corrupt state houses in the land, Albany NY, where long-standing power magnate Sheldon Silver has been charged with bribery, following the investigations of the Moreland commission.Set up by the Governor Cuomo, the Commission's operations were halted by the governer when his staff was brought under ...
Kelly Hills & Medical Anthropologist Adia Benton
January 29, 2015 04:08 - 1 hour - 77.4 MBAdia Benton and Kelly Hills talk about Benton's new book and the spread of and response to Ebola. HIV Exceptionalism: Development through Disease in Sierra Leone an ethnographic account of how HIV exceptionalism -- the idea that HIV/AIDS is an exceptional disease requiring an exceptional response -- shapes local institutions, cultural and political idioms of development and the lived experiences of HIV-positive individuals. Follow @rocza @ethnography911
Sara Robinson & Gaius Publius • VS Sundays
January 26, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBSOTU: the Obama Strategy (read Gaius here); GOP Congress's assault on reproductive justice; Newsweek calling out "Christians" for trying to make policy based on a seriously faulty reading of their own book. Will non-fundamentalists – religious or not – take them on? Commentary from Sara Robinson & Gaius Publius. Jay Ackroyd Moderates. Follow @SaraRobinson @Gaius_Publius @jayackroyd. The 2015 Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Andrew Jerrell Jones, Avedon Carol,Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Da...
Susie Madrak & Jay Ackroyd • VS Sundays
January 19, 2015 02:00 - 59 minutes - 53.6 MBFrom Martin Luther King to Eric Holder.Commentary from Susie Madrak Managing editor at Crooks and Liars and Jay Ackroyd. Political satire from Culture of Truth. Susie’s blog is Suburban Guerrilla atsusiemadrak.com. Follow @SusieMadrak @JayAckroyd @Bobblespeak From Susie: Holder Limits Asset Seizures Under Federal Program
Tom Schaller: Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd
January 16, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBTom's new book: The Stronghold: How Republicans Captured Congress but Surrendered the White House is out today, and we're lucky enough to have an interview I recorded with Tom on January 13 . Follow @schaller67 Thomas F. Schaller is an associate professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Jennifer Ouellette & Ainissa Ramirez • Newton’s Football & Science Underground
January 15, 2015 03:14 - 1 hour - 54.7 MBPhysicist Ainissa Ramirez, co-author of Newton’s Football: The Science Behind America's Game talks wih host Jennifer Ouellette about Newton's Football, life as a science evangelist and Science Underground, her new micro-podcast with journalist partner, Bill Retherford. Follow @AinissaRamirez @JenLucPiquant
Culture of Truth: Clowns
January 12, 2015 14:01 - 6 minutes - 4.58 MBPolitical satire from Culture of Truth, based on the Jan 11 Bobblespeak Translations of Meet the Press and This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Stuart Zechman & Jay Ackroyd • VS Sundays
January 12, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBFrance declares war on terror http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/world/europe/paris-terrorist-attacks.html James Fallows on the military industrial complex http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/12/the-tragedy-of-the-american-military/383516/ NYPD vs the Mayor and the Commissioner. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/police-union-quiet-bratton-acknowledged-nypd-slowdown-article-1.2073467 Commentary from Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd. Political satire from Culture of Tr...
Alan Boyle & Marc Abrahams • Ig Nobel's & Annals of Improbable Research
January 08, 2015 03:04 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBMarc Abrahams, creator of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and editor of the Annals of Improbable Research returns to talk with Cosmic Log's Alan Boyle. B0yle on strange science. "Last, but not least, there are the Ig Nobel awards. These come with little cash, but much cachet, and reward those research projects that 'first make people laugh, and then make them think'" — Nature Follow @MarcAbrahams @B0yle
Culture of Truth: White and Black
January 05, 2015 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.81 MBEach week, Culture of Truth offers satirical commentary on the Sunday morning news shows, a segment we call The Most Ridiculous Thing That Happened This Sunday. This week's episode is called "Whte and Black."
Digby & Dave Johnson • VS Sundays
December 29, 2014 02:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBNYC, Las Vegas, police shootings. North Korea / SONY. What digby said. Commentary from @digby56 @dcjohnson @jayackroyd http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/when-authorities-get-hysterical-they.html http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-many-of-these-police-killings-are.html http://www.digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/is-gop-coming-around-or-just-changing.html North Korea / SONY https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/12/did_north_korea.html http://www.infowars.com/sony-hack-is...
Cliff Schecter & Jay Ackroyd • VS Sundays
December 22, 2014 02:00 - 59 minutes - 54 MBThe conflicting and conflicted faces of law enforcement; hacking Sony; the Innocence Project. Commentary from Cliff Schecter & Jay Ackroy. Political satire from Culture of Truth. https://www.emptywheel.net/2014/12/19/were-going-to-start-a-war-to-protect-a-negligent-corporations-property/
Stuart Zechman & Jay Ackroyd: What Is To Be Done?
December 21, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBCollaboration between powerful private and public interests has become the ruling force in the United States, and the OECD. This collaboration operates in conflict, and in oppostion to, the welfare of the general populace. This conflict and opposition is reflected in recent electoral results, in the formation of populist movements, and in polling data. Stuart Zechman discusses power and powerlessness.
Andrew Jerrell Jones & Jay Ackroyd • Virtually Speaking Sundays
December 15, 2014 02:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBThe Senate Intelligence committee report on the CIA and the use of torture. See The Intercept for coverage. And then, the continuing story of the role of race in the criminal justice system. Commentary from Andrew Jerrell Jones and Jay Ackroyd. Political satire from Culture of Truth. follow @sluggahjells @bobblespeak @JayAckroyd The 2014 Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Andrew Jerrell Jones, Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan ...