Claudia Shambaugh, the host of KUCI’s Ask a Leader, joins Nathan to discuss The Newport Beach Public Library board’s decision to move “Melissa” – a book about a 10-year-old transgender child — from the children’s section in a new appeal process that has been offered to reactionary patrons wanting to challenge decisions on where books should be shelved.
The Inevitable Ending
Joining Nathan on this week’s episode are Claudia Shambaugh of KUCI’s Ask A Leader to talk about AI generated post-death time travel, grief bots, and Laurie Anderson’s Lou Reed bot; Mike Kaspar of KUCI’s Film School discussing The Balboa Cinema, The Pussycat Theater, I am Curious Yellow, and his life as a projectionist; and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog howling about wishing someone was dead.
The God Bless Hazel Motes Bible
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about crucifixion, dog language, armadillos, the Fescue Belt, left-wing stuff, dealing with cows, simpler songs, Joni Mitchell, disasters, Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, engagement farming, Ronna McDaniel, strange metals, sports gambling, River Action, Martha Stewart, Godzilla, and so on.
The Insurrectionist Anteater
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about seeding the grounds, leftover pizza in a refrigerator, giant sequoias in the UK, asbestos in the US, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, outrage, Trump the Transgressive Comic, plausible deniability, malign Russian influence, waterfront property, the iPhone monopoly, rats eating our marijuana, sleeping on a jet, and so on.
She Who Suckles
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about she who suckles, constitutional abortion, non-existing unidentified anomalous phenomena, alien technology, Amazonian drought, altered rain gauges, German Chocolate Cake, lead in drinking water, TikTok, car apps, robotaxis in L.A., Standard Daylight Savings Time, Miami in Alaska, football frostbite, the largest chocolate fountain in the world, and so on.
Flushing Your Brain
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about, 2 drugs in 1, de-extinction, lone orcas, dzuds, the Anthropocene, MethaneSat, losing trillions of gallons of drinking water, junk fees, high wealth tax cheats, Allen Weisselberg, anti-vaccination bullshit, the rotating detonation engine, lost scholarly articles, alarm fatigue, loud fish, an Elon Musk Tesla Cybertruck, a hypervaccinated man, and so on.