The Turd Sandwich Cafe: The Olympics!

 

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The Turd Sandwich Cafe: The Olympics!

The Decimation of Trump, and the Rise of Cooperative, Olympic values, is at Hand. Else - make your reservation NOW for the TS Cafe.

 

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd

James Boyd, formerly of Berkeley County, WV joins our program as a co-host. James, a Vietnam veteran, has a long record working to save lives threatened by opioid addiction, prison and poverty. In both West Virginia and New Jersey. He now resides in New Jersey. Mike does the sports and Olympics report. Then we dig into the stakes for the US and the world in the next 100 day campaign to elect Kamala Harris. and decimate the Confederate forces behind the Trump phenomenon. Case goes to 1860, and Lincoln, searching for a comparable context.

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

 

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Winners and Losers: Hey Stranger!

 

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Winners and Losers: Hey Stranger!

Darkness Darkness: Take Me To The Light

 

 

Broadcasts LIVE Fridays 7:30 AM Eastern

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

Karen and John are feeling better! Kamala is uplifting our spirits, and hopes --- from the Bottom --- and a Handmaid's Tale

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

 

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The Poetry Show: West Virginia Poet Ruth MacQuade

 

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A Coal Country Requiem

 

 

Ruth MacQuade, -- a retired federal prosecutor turned short story writer and poet now residing in Shepherdstown --- joins us to share 3 beautiful poems closely tied to her West Virginia coal country upbringing in a family of 15 children.

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

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded July 23, 2024

The Making of a Family Portrait

by Ruth MacQuade

It was to be a festive affair.

Making a family portrait at the Greenbrier Resort.

Painted by the famous portraiture artist W.H. Anderson,

who, before us, painted the portraits of Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon.

Preparations for the portrait were hectic.

The girls needed permanents and matching dresses.

the boys, starched white shirts,

Mother, a new dress, Daddy, a new suit

Designed by my father, it was to be a symmetrical portrait.

The older children to be shown in four sets of three.

The youngest girl in the center, between my mother and father, and

the two youngest boys, at the bottom, facing each other.

Finished, the large 5-foot square family portrait

hung on the wall of my parents living room.

Proudly shown to anyone who wanted to see

the number of happy and healthy children my father sired and my mother reared.

But hidden behind the smiles are

the fearful face of my mother in the presence of my father,

the wincing faces of children caused by the belt lashing of their father,

and the sad faces of two brothers who died by suicide.

 

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The Turd Sandwich Cafe: Take that thing off yr EAR

 

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The Turd Sandwich Cafe: Take that thing off Your EAR!

Trump's Shit Sandwich for America:

Kamala Harris Responds: "NO One, NO American, Should Eat This"

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:15 AM Eastern

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case

Mike and John note improvements in the Nationals baseball team, while ordering up, from the 69 SDS convention an "eat shit and die, fascist-imperialist business administration majors" SOS breakfast sandwich. The Harris campaign is not planning to show up at the cafe. they have to save the country. She may even need OUR help.

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

 

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Winners and Losers Radio: The Presidential Fiasco

 

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Winners and Losers Radio: The Presidential Fiasco

"Canada must feel like they live in an apartment above a meth lab."

 

 

Broadcast Fridays, 7:30-is AM Eastern

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

The rise and normalization of Donald Trump and the Democratic Party crisis over Biden's alleged infirmities are setting our hair on fire.

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

 

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The Poetry Show: Poetry about Paintings: Go Van Gogh!

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Art as the subject of Art Yields Masterpiece's Multiplied

 

 

Janet introduces some poems about paintings and painters: Vincent Van Gogh, Rembrandt, and Monet. Poets include Robert Hayden and Robert Murre

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

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded July 17, 2024

Monet's Water Lilies

by Robert Hayden

Today as the news from Selma and Saigon
poisons the air like fallout,
I come again to see
the serene, great picture that I love.
Here space and time exist in light
the eye like the eye of faith believes.
The seen, the known
dissolve in iridescence, become
illusive flesh of light
that was not, was, forever is.
O light beheld as through refracting tears.
Here is the aura of that world
each of us has lost.
Here is the shadow of its joy.

 

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Labor Beat Radio: Sean O’Brien at the RNC

 

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Labor Beat Radio: Sean O'Brien at the RNC

Teamster President normalizes Trump: Good, or Bad?

 

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern

Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall

 

Special Guest: Joe Henry

Description: Special Guest Joe Henry joins the LB team to discuss the pros and cons of Teamster President Sean O'Brien's remarks and presence at the Republican National Convention. Joe is a retired Teamster active for many years and a former staff organizer for President Ron Carey, a legendary reformer in the Teamsters union.

 

This Episode Recorded July 16, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Winners and Losers: The Solar Farm Flap, Part 2

 

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Winners and Losers: The Solar Farm Flap, Part 2

Corporate Tax Breaks for Development -- Are they worth it?

 

 

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

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

 

Special Guest: Dr. John Aldis

Dr John Aldis appears and weighs in on the pros and cons of the Solar Farm projects ongoing in the county. Dr Aldis retired from Federal service as a physician at US embassies across the world. In retirement he has been an advocate for medically assisted treatment of addiction. He has been a frequent commentator on local media, and past versions of this radio program.

This Episode Recorded 07/12/1014 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Poetry Show: Hiram Larew -- Poems of Gratitude

 

 

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Special Guest -- Hiram Larew

 

 

Hiram Larew shares poems of gratitude and wonder, and a delightful tiptoe across images and moments as if they were jeweled islands in a sea of stars.

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

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded July 10, 2024

 

The Irish Potato Famine occurred from 1845-1849.

Achill Sound

by Hiram Larew

When the roads curve like sound

    and dip as if lifting to bow

Whenever all thoughts round or cluster

    or when hearts call down

        is Ireland

And as rich when poor was

    or as wise as bare heads in snow seemed

and as twigs so frail broke into song

    and as true as any blight or potato could be

        was Ireland

So when sand laps the senses

    or salt drips the edges as dreams

Whenever hope streams through such heavens

    and moss comes home

    or hearts beam down

            is Ireland.

 

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The Poetry Show: Poems with Questions

 

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Question: What Would Happen if This is the Answer?

 

 

Pablo Neruda, Rumi, Mary Oliver, Nancy Willard, Lawrence Raab get the READER directly involved in the Poem.

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

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded July 7, 2024

 

The Book of Questions, III
Pablo Neruda

https://poets.org/poem/book-questions-iii

Tell me, is the rose naked
or is that her only dress?
Why do trees conceal
the splendor of their roots?
Who hears the regrets
of the thieving automobile?
Is there anything in the world sadder
than a train standing in the rain?

 

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Winnes and Losers: The Solar Farm Flap, Pt 1

 

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Winnes and Losers: The Solar Farm Flap, Pt 1

Political Mud-fight Over Development while the whole Republic Burns Down?

While they weren't looking, debating other matters, this happened:

 

 

 

(The photo is from Haiti, so its cheating a bit, but does not overstate "What's going on!".). 

 

Broadcasts LIVE Fridays, 7ish AM

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

Economic Development. What are the right answers weighing jobs, environment, taxation? Another Jefferson County Flap over development that, in the absence of any comprehensive plan, will likely be settled by simple market forces. 

Will anyone pay attention to details with national politics so agitated and divided?

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

 

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