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Who’s afraid of Donald Trump? Not this rising star GOP governor.

Playbook Deep Dive - June 28, 2024 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Utah Governor Spencer Cox is a longtime Trump critic who is known nationally for his work to depolarize American politics.  This week, Cox easily defeated a far-right opponent in the Republican primary. So too did a slate of other Utah Republicans. While national Republicans continue to move in ...

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AfricaNow! - Wednesday, June 26, 2024

WPFW - AfricaNow! - June 26, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Mwiza Munthali/James Pope

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History of the West Side Community Garden

Bar Crawl Radio - June 21, 2024 14:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
For the past three years BCR podcast has recorded on Sundays in June from the West Side Community Garden, As usual, we talked with neighbors doing amazing work for their community and featured the music of local artists performing in the Garden during the month. For this BCR program we invited t...

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Scott Munson Jazz Quintet @ the West Side Community Garden / June 2024

Bar Crawl Radio - June 21, 2024 14:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Complete performance of the Scott Munson Jazz Quintet at the West Side Community Garden on June 16, 2024. CONTACT: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The man Democrats call to prepare for debate night

Playbook Deep Dive - June 21, 2024 09:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Bob Bauer is President Joe Biden’s personal lawyer and was general counsel to both of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. But over the last three decades, he’s developed another specialty practice: playing the role of his candidate’s rival during debate prep. Bauer has helped Democratic candi...

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AfricaNow! - Wednesday, June 19, 2024

WPFW - AfricaNow! - June 19, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Mwiza Munthali/James Pope

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Bible Mistranslations and LGBTQ Marginalization: A Pastor's Daughter Speaks Out

Wisdom Shared with Carole Blueweiss - June 16, 2024 04:00 - 37 minutes
Episode Summary  Sharon "Rocky" Roggio is my special guest - the producer and director of the award-winning documentary "1946: The Mistranslation that Shifted Culture." This film explores the profound impact of a mistaken biblical translation of the word "homosexual" and its consequences on cul...

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La Manga @ West Side Community Garden - Full Concert - June 2024

Bar Crawl Radio - June 14, 2024 14:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
A full length presentation of a performance by La Manga in the West Side Community Garden in June 2024. For a conversation with La Manga founder, Daniela Serna, go to BCR #230. Alan Winson [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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David Andersson of Pressenza @ the WSCG

Bar Crawl Radio - June 14, 2024 14:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
For the fourth time this summer Bar Crawl Radio podcast is not at a bar.  But we are continuing to have conversations with neighbors doing positive work for their community.  We will be talking with a citizen journalists who works in the field of peace activism and whose writing is published in ...

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Jim Clyburn’s advice to Joe Biden on the election and the Democratic Party's future

Playbook Deep Dive - June 14, 2024 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn is often considered the single most important person in helping Joe Biden win the Democratic nomination in 2020. Now, in 2024, Clyburn is one of Biden’s six campaign co-chairs.  On this episode of Deep Dive, Clyburn joins host and Playbook co-author Ryan Li...

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AfricaNow! - Wednesday, June 12, 2024

WPFW - AfricaNow! - June 12, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Mwiza Munthali/James Pope

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"So Many Roads" - The Complete David Browne Interview

Vegas Never Sleeps - June 12, 2024 16:02 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratings
Are you a "Dead Head?" Millions of people are! Devotees (and you don't get more devoted than "Dead Heads") travel with the band, hold festivals .... Fans of The Grateful Dead are different than your run-of-the-mill rock fans. David Browne, a Senior Writer at Rolling Stone Magazine, has written th...

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Walking for Peace in Inwood Park

Bar Crawl Radio - June 07, 2024 13:29 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
For this BCR conversation we were not at a bar having a conversation with people working positively for their communities – but at Inwood Park – in upper Manhattan – former home of the Lenape People. Catholic Worker, Anthony Donovan, opens this program as he talks to a group of about 20 people ...

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Chance & Choice @ the West Side Community Garden

Bar Crawl Radio - June 07, 2024 13:10 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
For this BCR conversation at the West Side Community Garden we investigated the stories of two ladies--one affected by chance--the other by choice. The first story is about a chance phone call that led to instant and fleeting fame – and the other -- a choice to help recently arrived neighbors wh...

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Chris Coons has thoughts on Gaza, the border and Biden’s age

Playbook Deep Dive - June 07, 2024 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), one of President Joe Biden’s closest foreign policy advisors, gives his assessment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial upcoming address in front of Congress, the politics of the Hunter Biden trial, why Coons thinks the president’s executive orde...

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AfricaNow! - Wednesday, June 5, 2024

WPFW - AfricaNow! - June 05, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Mwiza Munthali/James Pope

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Trump’s Guilty. Here’s what he shouldn’t do on appeal.

Playbook Deep Dive - May 31, 2024 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
POLITICO’s senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney and legal columnist Ankush Khardori debrief on what happened at the Hush Money trial, how Trump’s team may have hurt its own case, and what their best plan is to win an appeal after Thursday’s massive guilty verdict.  Ryan Lizza is a Playbook ...

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Kumara @the West Side Community Garden Concert

Bar Crawl Radio - May 29, 2024 18:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Kumara is a uniquely global trio of musicians who create a synthesis of sound that is unique and beautifully inspiring across and within cultures and communities. I spoke with Samite who plays African Harps and the Kalimba and Shem Guibbory, a classical violinist the day before the WSCG concert....

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Stop the Chop & Kumara @ WSCG

Bar Crawl Radio - May 29, 2024 18:08 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
It was another post COVID, pre climate catastrophe Sunday on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Rebecca McKean and I – Alan Winson – co-hosts of BCR podcast – had erected our sound studio in the southwest corner of the West Side Community Garden and waited for our guests. Stop the Chop has worked ...

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"Professor Slots" - The Complete Jon Friedl Interview

Vegas Never Sleeps - May 29, 2024 17:13 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratings
He started out as an aerospace engineer developing new technologies for jet aircraft ... and then he started playing slot machines ... and then he started winning at slot machines! And now he teaches people how they can win at slots, too. Long story short: They don't call him "Professor Slots" fo...

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"The Keeper": Film about suicide in the U.S. military

Bar Crawl Radio - May 27, 2024 14:50 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
This BCR conversation talks about suicide in the U.S military.  A growing statistic: Women and men who had dedicated their lives and minds to the most destructive military ever – are killing themselves at increasing rates.  I spoke with Angus Benfield – an Australian actor – now working in the...

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Inside Rick Scott’s quest to be the Senate’s Florida man

Playbook Deep Dive - May 24, 2024 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) joins host and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza to discuss his entry into the Senate GOP leadership race to succeed Mitch McConnell. They discuss why Sen. Scott is running, what Donald Trump told him about his decision, his relationship with key Republicans such as McConnell...

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Kaoru Watanabe @ West Side Community Garden

Bar Crawl Radio - May 23, 2024 17:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
An unedited recording of Karou Watanabe's performance at the West Side Community Garden's 2024 Summer Concert Series -- May 19th. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Jody Sperling & Kaoru Watanabe @ WSCG

Bar Crawl Radio - May 23, 2024 17:10 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Kaoru Watanabe was the featured music artist of the first summer concert in the West Side Community of 2024. Rebecca and I got to the Garden early and set up our portable studio in a corner alcove to talk with Jody Sperling -- dancer and choreographer -- and the Artistic Director of Time Lapse...

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AfricaNow! - Wednesday, May 22, 2024

WPFW - AfricaNow! - May 22, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Mwiza Munthali/James Pope

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Ellen Jovin: "Rebel with a Clause"

Bar Crawl Radio - May 20, 2024 13:56 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
This is the first "Park Bench Chat" of the 2024 Summer Season – a production of Bar Crawl Radio. During the warming days of spring and summer, Rebecca and I sit at our favorite park bench in the “You’ve Got Mail” garden in Riverside Park on the Upper West Side and talk with our neighbors. Today’...

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America’s presidential debate boss thinks Biden upended tradition… and duped Trump

Playbook Deep Dive - May 17, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
On Wednesday morning, Frank Fahrenkopf received a letter from the Biden presidential campaign that ruined his day. Fahrenkopf is co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has produced 33 debates since 1988, the first election year it was in business. He was planning on four more ...

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“Political malpractice”: the Debate Commission chief thinks Trump blew it

Playbook Deep Dive - May 17, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
On Wednesday morning, Frank Fahrenkopf received a letter from the Biden presidential campaign that ruined his day. Fahrenkopf is co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has produced 33 debates since 1988, the first election year it was in business. He was planning on four more ...

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Love Your Street Tree Day -- Spring, 2024

Bar Crawl Radio - May 14, 2024 12:41 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
The majestic trees in front of Goddard Riverside on the Upper West Side of Manhattan were blushing brightly as the community gathered to learn about and spruce up the beds of our leafy neighbors for the seventh annual “Love Your Street Tree Day” – May 7th 2024.  Rebecca and I learned a lot abou...

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Mike Johnson told us what he really thinks about Joe Biden, Hakeem Jeffries and Donald Trump

Playbook Deep Dive - May 10, 2024 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Fresh off fending off a hard-right coup attempt, the House speaker opens up about his strategy and his future plans for the GOP Conference. Topics in this lengthy interview include: Johnson’s victory over the GOP radicals; Israel; Ukraine; January 6th; the Trump trials; abortion; and his relatio...