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Sunday, March 31, 2024

The Poetry Show: The Wind

 

 Enlighten Radio Presents

 

Searching for Calliope -- Mother of Muses

 

 

"Make me Invisible, like the Wind", South Wind especially.

Poems by Carl Sandburg, David Weissmann, Mike White, Octavio Paz, the Bob

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

Hosts: John Case

This Episode Recorded March 13, 2924

The South Winds Say So

by Carl Sandburg


IF the oriole calls like last year
when the south wind sings in the oats,
if the leaves climb and climb on a bean pole
saying over a song learnt from the south wind,
if the crickets send up the same old lessons
found when the south wind keeps on coming,
we will get by, we will keep on coming,
we will get by, we will come along,
we will fix our hearts over,
the south wind says so.

 

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Winners and Losers: ”The will to do bad things” LIVES in Mississippi

 

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Winners and Losers: "The will to do bad things" LIVES in Mississippi

The Bob: To the Mother of Muses: Give me Calliope?

 

Winners and Losers:

 

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

Hosts: John Case

 

The Bob, from Rough and Rowdy

John's take on the Trump catastrophe. The arrest of Mississippi Rankin County Sherriff's officers on charges of torture, rape, corruption -- and that'Thes not the bottom.

This Episode Recorded March 22, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Saturday, March 30, 2024

Labor Beat Radio: Liberal Billionaires don’t think their wealth should be taxed

 

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Labor Beat Radio: Liberal Billionaires don't think their wealth should be taxed

After a year of strikes, and a season of political division and dysfunction -- the youth are rising!

 

Labor Beat Radio: Liberal Billionaires don't think their wealth should be taxed

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern

Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall

Description: John, Scott and JB discuss the pros (mostly) and cons of recent WV AFL-CIO candidate interviews in the Eastern Panhandle. Promising young candidates -- very tough challenges.

This Episode Recorded March 19, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Turd Sandwich Café: ISIS Joining Your Dinner Party?

 

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The Turd Sandwich Café: ISIS Joining Your Dinner Party?

Bullshit is among the Tastiest of Turds: Prepare Thyself.

 

The Turd Sandwich Café:  ISIS Joining Your Dinner Party?

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:15 AM Eastern

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case

The roundup in basketball, a sirloin steak, descends steeply to those nasty Shitburger rumors about gambling in baseball. Pretty soon ISIS is contributing to what you thought was a charitable event.... Check out our menu at the Café before you can be sure nothing worse will happen for the rest of the day.

This Episode Recorded March 25, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Poetry Show: The Cherry Blossom

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Be patient -- you have an ancient beauty.

 

Cherry Blossom

 

A venture into ancient Haiku, David Waggoner, AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL, A.E. Houseman, and Toi Derricotte, searching for the perfect blossom.

Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM Eastern Time

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded March 27, 2024

Cherry Blossoms

 

by Toi Derricotte

I went down to
mingle my breath
with the breath
of the cherry blossoms.
There were photographers:
Mothers arranging their
children against
gnarled old trees;
a couple, hugging,
asks a passerby
to snap them
like that,
so that their love
will always be caught
between two friendships:
ours & the friendship
of the cherry trees.
Oh Cherry,
why can’t my poems
be as beautiful?
A young woman in a fur-trimmed
coat sets a card table
with linens, candles,
a picnic basket & wine.
A father tips
a boy's wheelchair back
so he can gaze
up at a branched
heaven.
All around us
the blossoms
flurry down
whispering,
                        Be patient
                                 you have an ancient beauty.
         

                                              Be patient,
                                                            you have an ancient beauty.

 


via the Poetry Foundation

 

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Labor Beat Radio: Running Progressive in a Red District


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Labor Beat Radio: Running Progressive in a Red District

Troy Miller Raises Labor Hopes in a Red District

 

Labor Beat Radio: Running Progressive in a Red District

 

Broadcasts Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern Time on player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall

Guests: Troy Miller






Description: A local race for the West Virginia House of Delegates (District 98) demonstrates important solidarity principles at stake as political divides widen.

This Episode Recorded March 26, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Winners and Losers: West Virginia: the promise, and the challenge.

 

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Winners and Losers: West Virginia: the promise, and the challenge.

Blessed?, or Cursed?

 

Winners and Losers: West Virginia: the promise, and the challenge.

 

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

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

Karen and John take note of the great promise reflected in youthful candidates for state elected offices. Add to that: Where is the wealth that can be taxed to uplift West Virginia?

This Episode Recorded March 29, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Winners and Losers: The Return of John Brown

 

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The Spirits of Revolution?

The Return of John Brown

If 'John Brown' returned, what would it mean?

 

Winners and Losers: The Return of John Brown

 

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

Hosts: John Case, Karen Valentine

 

Special Guest: Playwriter Gene Bruskin

Gene Bruskin, poet, playwriter, and labor activist, joins us to preview a new musical play,  Can you hang the same man twice? A performance of the play will take place May 4th and May 5th; 1PM at the Kennedy Farm, 2406 Chestnut Grove Rd, Sharpsburg, MD 21782. The Kennedy Farm is a national historic site, marking the headquarters of John Browns fabled, failed, but prophetic raid in 1859.

This Episode Recorded March 29, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

Labor Beat Radio: Public Workers on the Front Lines in West Virginia

 

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Labor Beat Radio: Public Workers on the Front Lines in West Virginia

West Virginia Public Workers Confront

the ALEC labor - hating Agenda

 

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern

Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall

 

Guests: Christopher Wolford, President of WVPW170.

Description: Christopher Wolford, President of the West Virginia Public Workers Union (WVPW.org) joins the discussion as the state legislature's super majority is doing everything possible to weaken the voice of public workers - the ones who actually serve the public.

This Episode Recorded March 5, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

The Poetry Show: Welcome Spring! Both the Good and the Bad.

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"We like March, his shoes are purple-"

 

Welcome March, Come In

 

Poets Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Amy Lowell, William Wordsworth and others deliver odes to Spring, March, the Moon.

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


Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded March 6, 2024


This Week's Poem

Welcome March, Come In

by Emily Dickinson

 

Dear March-Come in
How glad I am-
I hoped for you before-
Put down your Hat-
You must have walked-
How out of Breath you are-
Dear March, how are you, and the Rest-
Did you leave Nature well-
Oh March, Come right upstairs with me-
I have so much to tell-
I got your Letter, and the Birds-
The Maples never knew that you were coming-
I declare - how Red their Faces grew-
But March, forgive me-
And all those Hills you left for me to Hue-
There was no Purple suitable-
You took it all with you-


Who knocks? That April-
Lock the Door-
I will not be pursued-
He stayed away a Year to call
When I am occupied-
But trifles look so trivial
As soon as you have come

 
That blame is just as dear as Praise
And Praise as mere as Blame-

 

 

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

The Turd Sandwich Café: The Supreme Court Breakfast of ChampionsIgnore t

 

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The Turd Sandwich Café: The Supreme Court Breakfast of Champions

Ignore the Breakfast, if you will: Focus on the Women Heroes of Sport

 


 

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:15 AM Eastern

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case


The Supreme Court has ruled that if you elect a shit sandwich -- you have to eat it.

 

The Turd Sandwich Café: The Supreme Court Breakfast of ChampionsIgnore t

 

 

This Episode Recorded March 4, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Friday, March 1, 2024

Winners and Losers: Zach Shrewsbury for US Senate

 

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Winners and Losers: Zach Shrewsbury for US Senate

in the Democratic Primary

 

 

Bringing it All Home -- from the Bottom Up

 

Winners and Losers:  Zach Shrewsbury for US Senate

 

Fridays, 7:30ish AM Eastern

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

Special Guest: Zachary Shrewsbury

Zachary Shrewsbury, a veteran, activist and working class candidate for the US Senate from West Virginia

This Episode Recorded March 1, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

The Poetry ’Show: Threads

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Don't Ever Let Go of the Thread

 

The Way It Is

 

Denise Levertov, William Stafford, Hazel Hall, Jonathan Galassi, and Willy Blake explore the theme of threads: those that trail and those that lead. A human life -- a thread in a larger garment.

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

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded February 28, 2024

The Way It Is

by William Stafford


There's a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn't change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can't get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time's unfolding.
You don't ever let go of the thread.

 

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Labor Beat Radio: The WV Unemployment Outrage

 

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Labor Beat Radio: The WV Unemployment Outrage

Getting to Pocketbook Issues -- through the partisan FOG!

Leave No One Behind

 

Labor Beat Radio: The WV Unemployment Outrage

 

Special Guest: Andy Walters, Secy-Treasurer, WV AFL-CIO

Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern

Host: John Case

Description: Special guest Andy Walters,  discusses the sudden loss of nearly 2000 jobs while the WV legislature ponders reducing and shortening unemployment benefits.

This Episode Recorded February 27, 2924 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

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Monday, February 26, 2024

The Turd Sandwich Cafe: Give it Up For Rugby

 

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The Turd Sandwich Cafe: Give it Up For Rugby

 

Following the Rugby Report: 

Only our Fine Menu can arm you against the NEWS.

US Airman Sets Himself on Fire at Israeli Embassy

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:15 AM Eastern

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case

Mike crossed the West Virginia border into Younkin-land this past weekend. It's a good thing our virtual boundaries are infinite, cuz the Mikey may have been snagged by a state that never fully escaped the Confederacy. For those remaining in WV, prepare yourselves for repeated invites from the state government to emigrate ASAP.

This Episode Recorded February 26, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Sunday, February 25, 2024

The Winners and Losers Show: ”If We Were Republicans...”

 

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The Winners and Losers Show: "If We Were Republicans..."

If I had a Hammer

 

The Winners and Losers Show:

 

A Lincoln Parade Axe, campaign of 1860

 

Broadcasts Fridays at 7:30ish

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

Karen and John cast a Shepherdstown Eye on a Shape-changer campaign. A Vintage Lincoln to Stand Against a Confederacy of Edsels, and Buggy Whips

This Episode Recorded February 23, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Poetry Show: Mending Time - For My Country

 

 

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I Will Keep Broken Things

 

For My Country

 

The theme of this show is "Mending". Poems by Robert Frost, Alice Walker, Charles Simic, and David Mason explore the many rivers that draw water from Frost's famous 'Mending Wall'.

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

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded February 21, 2024

For My Country

by Alice Walker

 

for my country
I will keep
Broken
Things:
The big clay
Pot
With raised
Iguanas
Chasing
Their
Tails;
Two
Of their
Wise
Heads
Sheared
Off;
I will keep
Broken
Things:
The old
Slave
Market
Basket
Brought
To my
Door
By Mississippi
A jagged
Hole
Gouged
In its sturdy
Dark
Oak
Side.
I will keep
Broken
Things:
The memory
Of
Those
Long
Delicious
Night
Swims
With
You;
I will keep
Broken
Things:
In my house
There
Remains
An
Honored
Shelf
On which
I will
Keep
Broken
Things.
Their beauty
Is
They
Need
Not
Ever
Be
'fixed'
I will keep
Your
Wild
Free
Laughter
Though
It is now
Missing
Its
Reassuring
And
Graceful
Hinge.
I will keep
Broken
Things:
Thank you
So much
I will keep
Broken
Things.
I will keep
You:
Pilgrim
Of
Sorrow.
I will keep
Myself

 

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Monday, February 19, 2024

The Turd Sandwich Café: How Did Those Ball Players Get So Tall?

 

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The Turd Sandwich Café: How Did Those Ball Players Get So Tall?

The "Wash Them Feet" Assault

 

The Turd Sandwich Café:  How Did Those Ball Players Get So Tall?

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:15 AM Eastern

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case

Mike Cuccherini Does a Double-Take on the Super Bowl

This Episode Recorded Feb 19, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Labor Beat Radio: The AFL-CIO Confronts the AI Challenge

 

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Labor Beat Radio: The AFL-CIO Confronts the AI Challenge

Will AI Impact Your Job? Yes.

Will Another Generation Be Left Behind?

 

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern

Hosts: John Case

Description: Reports by AFL-CIO leaders across the country demonstrate that Artificial Intelligence is already having an impact on work working conditions in many sectors of the US economy: manufacturing, health care, education, public and private services, many tech occupations. Nothing is likely to escape impact.

This Episode Recorded Feb 6 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Friday, February 2, 2024

The Winners and Losers Program: Team Training -- to do what?

 

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The Winners and Losers Program: Team Training -- to do what?

What Is Leadership? Can Someone Who Never Followed Ever Lead?

 

The Winners and Losers Program: Team Training -- to do what?

 

Broadcasts LLIVE 7:30-ish AM Eastern, Fridays

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

 

Special Guest: Greg Cronin

Guest Greg Cronin shares his experiences in team building at a variety of social and corporate levels: kids, sports, fears, blockers, inspirers, leaders and managers.

This Episode Recorded 2/2/2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Labor Beat Radio: $9800.00 Super-bowl cheap seats!

 

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Labor Beat Radio: $9800.00 Super-bowl cheap seats!

Sein Fain is Right: Build on solidarity! We are our own protection! Moving as One is Moving With Power.

 

Labor Beat Radio: $9800.00 Super-bowl cheap seats!

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern

Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall

Description: John and Scott review major challenges for labor and the country: The War Trap, The Immigration Trap, The Fascist Clap-Trap.

How Long for the Roaring 20's?

This Episode Recorded 01/30/2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Monday, January 29, 2024

The Turd Sandwich Café: Tragedy in the Conference championships

 

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The Turd Sandwich Café: Tragedy in the Conference championships

Blood on the NFL Tracks: The Hockey Puck Hypothesis.

 

The Turd Sandwich Café: Tragedy in the Conference championships

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:15 AM Eastern

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case

Mike has a few choice words -- if not charges!! -- about the "umping" in the NFL Conference championships. Enlighten Radio is a Free Speech Mouthpiece, and will mount a firm defense against any attempt to silence. Case explores the linguistic origins of the Hockey Puck. 

A bite of the turd sandwich takes the hunger away. Afterwards, viewing Middle East news will seem upscale.

This Episode Recorded 1/29/2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Sunday, January 28, 2024

Winners and Losers: Trumped, again?

 

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Winners and Losers: Trumped, again?

There is no Tellin' how Rough This Can Get

 

Winners and Losers: Trumped, again?

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

Karen and John join in a widely held lament over the degradation of US society, including women-hating fanatics, and science-hating losers currently running the WV legislature. Having said that, and having witnessed the farce and incompetence of the Republican led Jefferson County Commission -- what explains the failure of Democrats to attract, train or field candidates in nearly half the elected positions in the state? While clowns stroll in?

This Episode Recorded 1/26/2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

The Poetry Show: Doors and Thresholds

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Open the Door! NO -- Close IT!

 

Opening closing doors on us

 

"Maybe there is more of the magical in the idea of a door than in the door itself. It’s always a matter of going through into something else. But..."

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

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded 01/24/2024

Opening closing doors on us

by Marge Piercy

 

Maybe there is more of the magical
in the idea of a door than in the door
itself. It’s always a matter of going
through into something else. But
while some doors lead to cathedrals
arching up overhead like stormy skies
and some to sumptuous auditoriums
and some to caves of nuclear monsters
most just yield a bathroom or a closet.
Still, the image of a door is liminal,
passing from one place into another
one state to the other, boundaries
and promises and threats. Inside
to outside, light into dark, dark into
light, cold into warm, known into
strange, safe into terror, wind
into stillness, silence into noise
or music. We slice our life into
segments by rituals, each a door
to a presumed new phase. We see
ourselves progressing from room
to room perhaps dragging our toys
along until the last door opens
and we pass at last into was.

 

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Labor Beat Radio: Reflections on Dr King

 

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Labor Beat Radio: Reflections on Dr King

"Let Us Develop A Kind of Dangerous Unselfishness"

 

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern

Hosts: John Case, Scott Marshall

John and Scott relfect on Dr. Kings impact their lives: 


Memphis

'That's the question before you tonight. Not, "If I stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to all of the hours that I usually spend in my office every day and every week as a pastor?" The question is not, "If I stop to help this man in need, what will happen to me?" "If I do not stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to them?" That's the question.'

This Episode Recorded Jan 23, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Monday, January 22, 2024

The Turd Sandwich Cafe: Sports Attack: The NFL finale approaches

 

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The Turd Sandwich Cafe: Sports Attack: The NFL finale approaches

The Championship Arrives

(Taylor Swift is not mentioned)

 

The Turd Sandwich Cafe: Sports Attack: The NFL finale approaches

 

The Turd Sandwich Cafe broadcasts weekly at 7:30 AM Eastern Time, MONDAYS

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case

Mike takes us on a round trip of NFL Planet. Taylor Swift is not mentioned.

Mike cannot suppress a short appearance by the former Word Salad Prez.

This Episode Recorded 1/22/2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Sunday, January 21, 2024

Recovery Radio: Conversations with Rodney: vol 1.

 

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Recovery Radio: Conversations with Rodney: vol 1.

After Rehab -- Then What?

 

Recovery Radio: Conversations with Rodney: vol 1.

 

Recovery Radio is broadcasting weekly at 5:30 PM Eastern

Hosts: James Boyd

Special Guest: Rodney

James introduces Rodney, a young victim of addiction in active recovery, with whom James acts as mentor in a New Jersey recovery and rehabilitation facility. The conversation reflects his journey and testimony.

This Episode Recorded 1/19/2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Winners and Losers: The Crisis in Higher Education

 

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Winners and Losers: The Crisis in Higher Education

The Only Way To Assert the Right to Free Speech -- Is To Speak!

 

Winners and Losers: The Crisis in Higher Education

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

 

Special Guest: Prof. Harry Targ

 

Professor Harry Targ joins our program to discuss the crisis emerging from billionaire and corporate donor domination of university boards, and not only on free speech.

This Episode Recorded 1/19/2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Turd Sandwich Cafe: Mr Irrelevant Takes the Field. Guess What Happens?

 

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The Turd Sandwich Cafe: Mr. Irrelevant Takes the Field. Guess What Happens

Commanders Collapse

 

The Turd Sandwich Cafe: Mr Irrelevant Takes the Field. Guess What Happens

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case

Sample Turd Sandwich Non-Sequitur Sauce --- 

Case: "Hey Mike, why can't other parts of the economy be run like professional sports instead of profit motivated billionaires? Oh...right..... "


Mike: "Nah, you got to have numbers to tell who wins and who loses...."

This Episode Recorded 1/15/2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Poetry Show: Winter Birds Two

  

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Winter Birds TWO

 

The Darkling Thrush

 

More Winter Bird Poems: Thomas Hardy headlines with "The Darkling Thrush"

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

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded 1/17/2024

The Darkling Thrush

by Thomas Hardy

 

I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.


The land's sharp features seemed to be
The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.


At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.


So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.

 

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Winners and Losers: The Return of Joe Gray!

 

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Winners and Losers: The Return of Joe Gray!

Ceasefire! -- Achilles Renounces War -- "I just died. that's all.."

acc. to B. Dylan

 

Winners and Losers: The Return of Joe Gray!

 

Confusion Reigns

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Fridays, 7:30ish AM Eastern

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

 

Special Guest: Joe Gray

Karen and John welcome Joe Gray, a former WSHC compatriot, back to the Eastern Panhandle. Other matters: Lucia Valentine's campaign1 Ceasefire!, Is Bill Gates going to buy WV? Time to reconsider communism? What's to Eat?

This Episode Recorded 1/12/2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Poetry Show: Winter Poems and Birds

 

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How Come They Stick Around?

 

Weird Bird

 

Jane Hirshfield, Robert Frost and More

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

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded 1/10/2024

Weird Bird

by Shel Silverstein

 

Birds are flyin' south for winter.
Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north,
Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin',
Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth.
He says, "It's not that I like ice
Or freezin' winds and snowy ground.
It's just sometimes it's kind of nice
To be the only bird in town."

 

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Sports Attack: From the Turd Sandwich Cafe

 

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Sports Attack: From the Turd Sandwich Cafe

AI Rewards and Punishments For Umpires 

Sports Attack: From the Turd Sandwich Cafe

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30-ish AM, Eastern

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case

In the tradition of Emile Zola's remedy for having to work in horrific, humiliating, inane, or dehumanizing environments through the dismal Dreyfus Affair, the Turd Sandwich Cafe offers the best available medicines to combat depression, anxiety, pessimism, and dread. After our invigorating breakfast, nothing will bother you the rest of the day.

This Episode Recorded 1/8/2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Winners and Losers: Karen and John attend the Jefferson County Commission Meeting.

 

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Winners and Losers: Karen and John attend the Jefferson County Commission Meeting.

OUCH. "Laughingstock"

 

Winners and Losers: Karen and John attend the Jefferson County Commission Meeting.

 

Winners and Losers broadcasts live Fridays at 7:30 ISH, Eastern time

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

We observed dysfunctional government, at the County level, in the extreme. OUCH!! OUCH!!

This Episode Recorded 1/5/2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

The Poetry Show -- The New Year Rises -- 2024

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"...our hopes such as they are invisible before us..."

 

To the New Year

 

Some of our favorite poets on the New Year: Naomi Shihab Nye, Jane Hirshfield, 

W S Merwin, and Denise Levertov.

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

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded 01/03/2024

To the New Year

by WS Merwin 

With what stillness at last
you appear in the valley
your first sunlight reaching down
to touch the tips of a few
high leaves that do not stir
as though they had not noticed
and did not know you at all
then the voice of a dove calls
from far away in itself
to the hush of the morning
so this is the sound of you
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this is
where we have come with our age
our knowledge such as it is
and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible

 

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Monday, January 8, 2024

Labor Beat Radio: New Years Predictions!

 

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Labor Beat Radio: New Years Predictions!

Solidarity is the Path:...laid with the bricks of unity

 

Labor Beat Radio: New Years Predictions!

 

Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern

Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall

Description: The LBR team scores the coming year for labor, including the elections, as well as college football, and whether there will be any election at all that a majority will respect, or defend.

This Episode Recorded 01/02/2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Winners and Losers: Karen and John Attend a Jefferson County Commission Meeting: Omigosh!

 

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Winners and Losers:

Karen and John Attend a Jefferson County Commission Meeting: Omigosh!

Something is NOT happening in County Government in WV

 

Winners and Losers: Karen and John Attend a Jefferson County Commission Meeting: Omigosh!

 

Broadcasting LIVE Fridays at 7ish AM, Eastern Time

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

A mouth-dropping experience with a theater of the absurd. There is a big struggle going on -- but over what, or on what planet, is unclear. A citizen called it a "laughing stock". Maybe: the old show the Honeymooners was funny -- but that was not a county government.

This Episode Recorded 12/29/2023 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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