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Chapter Seventeen: The Fall Of Ole Miss SNCC office attacked, the struggle of registering people to vote, more church burning, King attacked, all the and more and the sage of James Meredith and Old Miss In this chapter we learn: -Who says “they should point their guns at us and then we could step aside.” -What is the Council of Federated Organizations? -Another example of Bob Moses acting calm as...

Chapter 16 The Fireman’s Last Reprieve My birthday show! Albany Part II. We go back to Albany, it's the summer of 1962. King is in Albany Georgia, fighting segregation. What we learn: -Why does King get let out of jail but is upset about it, and wants to stay in! -Someone pees their pants and says “Nobody but the laundry man will know how scared I was.” -Incident of King jumping out a window… and...

Chapter 15 Hoover’s Triangle and King’s Machine Old Sourpuss gets a mention (WEB DuBois), Kennedy and Hoover battle, Mob and Sex Scandal, Shuttlesworth in jail, triple church bombing, King gives a negative speech, we learn more about who Jack O’Dell is, more on the tension and rivalry in the Civil Rights movement organizations, Who is Harry Wachtel, Wiretapping of Stanley Levison, NAACP Convention...

Albany Georgia, mass arrests! Youth lead the charge, SNCC. We learn about the Albany Movement to end segregation, and it’s origin. Tension between King, SNCC, NAACP. We are introduced to a smart sophisticated police officer, Laurie Pritchett, non brutal. Is King a distraction to the Albany Movement? Does he help or hurt? And do we have victory or failure in Albany, and how does this compare to Mon...

Chapter 13 Moses in McComb, King in Kansas City We go deeper into the south, the deep deep south and try to do some voter registration. It does not go well. There is a debacle at the black National Baptist Convention which stains King’s reputation, and tragically there is violence in Mississippi resulting in a murder. Intro music by the Staple Singers “Freedom Highway” 1965.

Chapter 12 The Summer of Freedom Rides Maybe our best episode yet! More details on the Freedom rides, but thankfully less violent, back and forth contention between MLK and RFK!! Who says “they don’t even believe in the atom bomb,” we see a showdown between State Government and Federal Government, we learn about challenges to Martin Luther King from students, and maybe some disappointments, possib...

Chapter Eleven: Baptism on Wheels This is a sad and violent chapter, and exhibits both the best and worst of humanity. A chapter without King, but about SNCC activists and the Freedom Rides in May of 1961. Tidbits we learn in this chapter: Who used the excuse that he had to help a friend move furniture and avoid a major civil rights action (Freedom Ride)! What city has the worst hospital in the wo...

JFK is the president. We start with a terrible fumigating incident to civil rights activists. King goes on TV to debate a segregationist dumb newsman. We learn about another great Pennsylvania civil rights leader, from Uniontown PA, what was the name Journey of Reconciliation’s name is changed too…(this is an easy one), why does Daddy King get booed, learn about the The Bathroom Incident, and a go...

Chapter 8 Shades of Politics Who almost get's blackmailed, who I think is a slimy, but on the right side of history, we meet DSA founder Michael Harrington, we are going to learn about another saint type figure who is not religious, but is spiritual, and another Robert Graetz type character, a man doesn’t know what he’s getting into, and some NBC corruption, not the TV network, the National Baptis...

Chapter Seven: The Quickening SNCC! Back to some action after the slog of chapter six. We are going to learn what is a “Sit in.” What is SNCC and who really started it? What Mayor in the South actually, comes across as good? King’s Legal Troubles. Who Paul thinks is the best looking civil rights activist, and who is also a fearless an unsung hero! What celebrity introduces JFK to MLK. All that and...

Chapter Six: A Taste of the World The Montgomery Bus Boycott is over, and King is firmly a national figure. In our longest episode yet, we learn who says “I don’t mind your criticizing my ideas. But I don’t like your criticizing my words, because I’m better at words than you are,” where in the world did MLK meet Vice President Richard Nixon, and what his thoughts on Nixon where, what Civil Rights...

Reading Parting the Waters Episode: 004 Chapter Five The Montgomery Bus Boycott Bus Boycott Part 2! We get more into the Bus Boycott and see how it ends, learn new characters like Bayard Rustin, learn who was asking for a better type of segregation, who is the first metro sexual in Montgomery Alabama, what FAKE NEWS incident almost ruins the Bus Boycott, and what character reminds me of the movie...

Reading Parting the Waters Episode: 003 Chapter Four, The First Trombone Bus Boycott Part 1! Branch takes us down into Montgomery Alabama where King establishes himself as the pastor of Dexter Ave Church. Bus Boycott background, origins and start of it. Learn what MLK adopts from his dad to help his Church increase revenue, what character Branch describes as offsetting psychopaths a notch in human...

Chapter 3: Neibuhr And the Pool Tables. Episode 002 Reading Taylor Branch’s Parting the Waters. Paul and Gabe go over chapter three, focusing on MLKs intellectual theological journey. We discuss the social gospel and Reinhold Niebuhr and King’s struggle with his own beliefs. Is Niebuhr a jerk? We remark on King’s time in Eastern Pennsylvania at Crozer. Our beloved old sourpuss comes back into the...

Episode 001 Reading Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch. A dive into the Civil Rights movement. Paul and Gabe discuss chapters one and two. A pre history to the civil rights movement. Find out what character throws themselves out of the window twice, who get’s criticized for selling vegetables in church, along with fish, what historical Black intellectual will be named Old Sourpuss, who we love an...

Brief discussion about Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe. New songs I recorded, one electronic, one rock, instrumental of course. Update on upcoming series we'll be making.

Short mini episode. Dragon talk with a 5 year old. Can the 5 year old take the tough questions about dragons. Listen for under 4 minutes and find out!

Paul, Jake, Greg, and Liam are back from Iceland to discuss Radiohead's follow up album to their genre bending Kid A: Amnesiac. Is this just a bunch of B sides from Kid A or is this much much more? Greg talks louder, and there may actually be more insightful comments than past episodes. Enjoy track by track commentary for Amnesiac, along with some thoughts on Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin, and of course...

Paul and Jake and special guests Greg and Liam join us to talk about Kid A, Radiohead's best album? We talk about their change in direction and discuss if this is only headphone music. That and much more including two songs by me to open and end the show, along with my 3 year old son singing about dinosaurs.

Paul and Jake talk about Radiohead's landmark album OK Computer, along with the Radiohead's connection to Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, and a Radiohead cover song by Gillian Welch.

Paul and Chris discuss Mark Greif's article Against Exercise. Read it here: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3428-against-exercise-by-mark-greif Should we exercise? Do you want to live? Is spending our time exercising taking away from us thinking? Is exercise good or bad, yes that's what we talk about, seriously, this is a smart and funny talk. Thanks for listening. More "A Complete Idioteques Gui...

The PRC Show is hijacked again for episode 2 of "A Complete Idioteques Guide to Radiohead." Paul and Jake are back to talk about Radiohead and the band's second album, the Bends. Does Jake like Radiohead? Does Paul like every song they make? How different is The Bends from Pablo Honey? Much extemporaneous talk along with a track by track review of this highly acclaimed album.

The PRC Show is back, but get's hijacked by A Complete Idioteques Guide to Radiohead, Episode 0001 On this show we’ll be going track by track through all Radiohead’s official albums from Pablo Honey to a Moon Shaped Pool. Along with the history of the band, it’s impact on our lives, and much more extemporaneous oratory! Paul and Jake discuss early Radiohead, the bands first album and their thought...

First show in over a year! I have a new computer and it works!

Recorded in late 2016, a talk with Frederica about the books we read and recommend in 2016.