Humor

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My Father Knew A World War When He Saw it

Airs at: Tue, 12/06/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Earth Riot Radio
  The evil of Hitler and Hirohito was clear. In 2022, the investor class is openly reaping profits from toxic gasses and it is killing everyone. Every day the celebrity billionaires are in the news, unchallenged.   The Earth is the radical today. The Earth is doing things ... Read more

Holiday stories from Portland Story Theater's Lynne Duddy and Lawrence Howard

Airs at: Thu, 12/08/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
In the spirit of the holiday season, we're re-airing one of our favorite Jonesy episodes, which originally ran on December 23, 2021, the Eve of Christmas Eve. Our guests are master storytellers Lynne Duddy and Lawrence Howard.  Lynne and Lawrence are the founders of Portla... Read more

Black Friday, Earthalujah Sunday

Airs at: Thu, 12/01/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Earth Riot Radio
  The rapacious shopping economy has been our devil for 20 years in the Church of Stop Shopping. But that doesn't matter.   Because this week the zombie tsunami crashes on us all. The News from the Natural World in this Earth Riot episode is breath-taking in the finality o... Read more

How To Handle COP27: Despair, Panic & Cunning

Airs at: Tue, 11/22/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Earth Riot Radio
  The investor class is not just callous and probably criminal. They seem to have no idea what Justice means. The nations and tribal people of the global south, struggling with drought, floods, fires, mudslides, sea-rise, aka Climate Chaos... are in Egypt calling out to t... Read more

A Forest Lets Out the Liberators in Jails

Airs at: Wed, 11/16/2022 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Earth Riot Radio
  Brittney Griner and Alaa Abd el-Fattah speak to us in this Earth Riot, and two women from New Zealand follow up: India and Leila. My attempt to translate the Earth's language is guided by these special teachers. First, I try to leap over Trump's wall, where I have been t... Read more

Analog Media - Comics and Comix

Airs at: Thu, 11/10/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Ian Sundahl, Tim Goodyear, and Emily Nilsson are deeply committed to the preservation of physical media — film, video, comics, and underground newspapers. Ian is a cartoonist, filmmaker, curator, and the co-publisher of the Vision Quest free comics newspaper.  His long-... Read more

Whatever it Takes to Break the Trance

Airs at: Wed, 11/09/2022 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Earth Riot Radio
  The riddle of our time is, "How can we be passive in the face of the Earth's crisis?" The answer is, we are in a trance state induced by extreme Consumerism. We are coming to understand that Consumerism, the enforcement arm of Capitalism, is a very deadly situation.   ... Read more

David Hattner on Portland Youth Philharmonic's 99th Season

Airs at: Thu, 11/10/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
99 years is a long time, for people and orchestras, no matter how popular and well established. So when one or the other reaches that milestone of longevity, it’s cause for both astonishment and celebration. And that’s what we’ll be doing on today’s show for a very popular ... Read more

Dubya Re-Dub

Airs at: Tue, 11/08/2022 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  Vinyl Pajama Party
Return with us, won't you ? To a (somewhat) simpler time. It was election day November of 2004, and this was on your radio... Read more

Gratitude to the Earth Kills the Carbon-Heavy Gods

Airs at: Fri, 11/04/2022 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Earth Riot Radio
  How do we start actions over? Start by living in the present tense, that vivid moving thing. In consumer society, which imitates the old religions and fascism, we are distracted away from what we are doing now. Our present tense life is an infinite source and is where th... Read more