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Sunday, June 22, 2025

Paris on the Potomac: 20 June 2025

 

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Be a Tom Paine Reporter for Enlighten Radio

 

Paris on the Potomac: Be a Reporter for Enlighten Radio

 

Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

John and Karen assess the overall positive impact of the "No Kings" and Pride Day demonstrations this past week. Noting especially, the huge turnout in Shepherdstown. Noting too, the advancing Nazi outrages of the Administration and their flunkeys. Time for expanding a grass roots reporting network!! Sign UP!

This Episode Recorded June 20, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Saturday, June 21, 2025

The Last Stop Cafe: Want to End It All? Stop! Jody Kerns is HERE

 

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The Last Stop Cafe: Want to End It All? Stop Here.

Ghost Busters Needed: Who Ya Gonna Call When the Romans are Coming?

Special Guest

Jody Kerns

 



 

Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern

Hosts: "Echoes of Dread" star Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd

The whole End of the Road thing is Bullshit. 

There is no such thing as Final Defeat. 

Ask a loyal Nationals fan. Not those shapeshifting bean counters. Ask our "Losers Confidential" counsellor, Dr. Mike Cuccherini, for his personal injection of Pure Rock And Roll  Sports. Batter Up!

This Episode Recorded June 16, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Last Stop Cafe: ”The Nationals -- They’re Young, But Hard to Beat?”

 

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The Last Stop Cafe: "The Nationals -- They're Young, But Hard to Beat?"

 

Washinton Nationals Fans -- This is NOT OUR FATE!!

 

The Last Stop Cafe:

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd

It is hard to overstate the Shakespearean pathos in Cuccherini's devotion to staying positive about one's ass getting kicked. Maybe Predator 3 needs to take over management of the Nationals. If we are going to lose, why not return to savagery? James takess us straight to the Ring, where fate awaits.

This Episode Recorded June 9, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Poetry Show: A Wandering Aengus


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And pluck till time and times are done...

 

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Janet features Irish poetry -- surely the most verdant, lyrical and lush poetry of the modern era.

But I am biased!

WB Yeats, Eavan Boland, Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon top the selections for today.

Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded June 11, 2025

The Song of Wandering Aengus

('Aengus': rish god of love, youth, and poetic inspiration)

by William Butler Yeats 


I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.

When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And someone called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.

 
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.

 
Source: The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)

 

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The Last Stop Cafe: Stop Kidding Yourself. This really could be the last stop....

 

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The Last Stop Cafe: Stop Kidding Yourself. This really could be the last stop....


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Mondays 7:30 Eastern: player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd

Mike Cuccherini goes on the record as the Nationals are about to go into one of the longests losing streakes against a list of the nation's worst profiessional baseball teams in the history of Major League and perhaps all baseball. 

Still - no crying, please.

This Episode Recorded 6.2.25 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Casey, once the mighty hope of Mudville, now a tragic oracle of endless defeat. In Cuccheriniville, no one remembers anything.

 


 

Friday, June 20, 2025

Paris on the Potomac: Rubber Hitting Road



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Paris on the Potomac: Rubber Hitting Road

Don't drink the Blue Water

 

Paris on the Potomac: Rubber Hitting Road

 

Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

Karen and John consider the Rubber and Road parable, which has diametrically opposed meanings. One person hears the drone of safe passage; another hears the vibrations of being run over thousands of times. Plus a Plug for Fair Trade and Friendship!

This Episode Recorded May 29, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Friday, May 16, 2025

Paris on the Potomac: If I had a billion dollars

 

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Paris on the Potomac: If I had a billion dollars

If I had a billion dollars, and the hospitals were closed, and I saw the Rough Beast of the Second Coming.....

 

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That is no country for old men. The young
In one another’s arms, birds in the trees
—Those dying generations—at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.

O sages standing in God’s holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.

Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

This poem is in the public domain.

Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

Karen and John : What did Jesus do after the Inns were closed at his birth? What will 'able-bodied' men do when rural WV hospitals close from defunding Medicaid, responsible for over half the births in this state?

This Episode Recorded May 16, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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