KUCI: Weekly Signals

On this week’s episode, a 78-year-old billionaire, a weird obsession with crowd sizes, “happy Trump” or “angry Trump,” a staggeringly dishonest debate performance from former, Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady, 3 on 1, Abdul, strongmen, and so much more

On this week’s episode, posting absurd memes, stolen valor, combat service, a laughable and even pathetic clown, true evil, MAGATS, Isaac Hayes, copyright infringement, a COVID memorial, Roger Stone, Russia, if you’re listening, crowd size, objective journalism, and so on.

On this week’s episode. “Meet the Billionaire,” reality TV fail, say it to my face, Citius, Altius, Fortius, Communiter, dismantling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Project 2025, Trump’s Egyptian heist, and so on.

On this week's episode, neokayfabe, Mr. McMahon, the best humane alternative to genocide, the Thielverse, J.D. Vance’s weird, terrifying techno-authoritarian ideas, and the Republican 2025 plan for menstrual surveillance, sexual assault, intimate-partner violence, and general stupidity.

On this week’s episode, “It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,” a fascist who tried to overthrow the US government, the Trump Supreme Court’s contempt for facts, banning the AR-15, a hillbilly hypocrite, Appalachian stereotypes, infinite timelines for the Pool Shed Papers Case, and so on.

On this week’s episode, media bias, Republican incoherence, a basket of deplorables, the eco-disaster of Project 2025, Trump the racist, Trump the felon, Trump the liar, Trump lies constantly, Trump lies every time he opens his mouth, and Trump lies because he can.

On this week’s episode, educator and self-proclaimed hermit who lives under a rock Athena Greene talks to Nathan about artificial intelligence, irony, artifice, thoughts, the creative process, muses, Netflix, ChatGPT, copyright infringement, electricity consumption, disturbing clichés, and so much more.

Claudia Shambaugh, the host of KUCI’s Ask a Leader, joins Nathan to discuss The Newport Beach Public Library board’s decision to move “Melissa” – a book about a 10-year-old transgender child — from the children’s section in a new appeal process that has been offered to reactionary patrons wanting to challenge decisions on where books should be shelved.

Joining Nathan is Claudia Shambaugh of KUCI’s Ask A Leader to talk about AI generated post-death time travel, grief bots, and Laurie Anderson’s Lou Reed bot; Mike Kaspar of KUCI’s Film School discussing The Balboa Cinema, The Pussycat Theater, I am Curious Yellow, and his life as a projectionist; and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog howling about wishing someone was dead.

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about crucifixion, dog language, armadillos, the Fescue Belt, left-wing stuff, dealing with cows, simpler songs, Joni Mitchell, disasters, Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, engagement farming, Ronna McDaniel, strange metals, sports gambling, River Action, Martha Stewart, Godzilla, and so on.

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about seeding the grounds, leftover pizza in a refrigerator, giant sequoias in the UK, asbestos in the US, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, outrage, Trump the Transgressive Comic, plausible deniability, malign Russian influence, waterfront property, the iPhone monopoly, rats eating our marijuana, sleeping on...

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about constitutional abortion, non-existing unidentified anomalous phenomena, alien technology, Amazonian drought, altered rain gauges, German Chocolate Cake, lead in drinking water, TikTok, car apps, robotaxis in L.A., Standard Daylight Savings Time, Miami in Alaska, football frostbite, the world’s largest chocolate foun...

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about, 2 drugs in 1, de-extinction, lone orcas, dzuds, the Anthropocene, MethaneSat, losing trillions of gallons of drinking water, junk fees, high wealth tax cheats, Allen Weisselberg, anti-vaccination bullshit, the rotating detonation engine, lost scholarly articles, alarm fatigue, loud fish, an Elon Musk Tesla Cybertru...

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about sweating thistles, snake diversity, the National Eagle Repository, wildfires in Texas, boiling microplastic, women who are psychopaths, self-immolation, presidential immunity, the Comstock Act, GenAI political ads, mixed-reality, dead rockets, Major League Baseball’s new uniforms, the Boebert family, and so on.

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about artificial intelligence-driven hiring platforms, the end of all things, the truth about Luddites, Exodus, Locust, nonnative earthworms, SoCal coastal radioactive waste, Sponge City, The Election Outcome Pledge, preregistration at 16, student loan forgiveness, spies in the skies, J0529-4351, Alzheimer’s Stage 1, a ch...

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about applied logic, poop on Everest, polluting fragrances, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, single-use plastic bags, the desecration of historical memory, the leading source of goods imported by the United States, the right to disconnect, women umpires, Waymo fires, a hidden ocean, compassionate cannibali...

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about profane parrots, wind turbine installation vessels, the Right to Mine law, high-risk A.I. systems, veterinary cannabis, stoned empathy, Russia’s accidental bombings, Takata air bags, Martian gridlock, public tippling, no parking zones, Dorothy’s ruby slippers, and so on.

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about reusing graves, Uno, gas station heroin, cancer immunization, Sports Illustrated's troubles, The Baltimore Sun's troubles, Los Angeles Times' troubles, Pitchfork's troubles, machine-translated garbage, the human behavioral crisis, parking lots, student debt cancellation, the California State University strike, facia...

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about ashes to ashes, the world's five richest men, Eastern monarch butterflies, illegal sand mining, Greenland’s ice sheet, the blood brain barrier, death in the Rio Grande, exorbitant overdraft fees, the right to vote for 16 year-olds, a primordial galaxy, a cloned rhesus monkey, recycling wine and liquor bottles, a blo...

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about the American Dialect Society Word of the Year, effective altruism, our growing country, feral peacocks, bad dogs, a whale Fibonacci, orange rivers, bottled water nanoplastics, internal displacements, the sacredness of the Moon, lightless craters, replacing lithium, beat perception, OCD mouse, Alabama diving, and so...

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about the state bat, field pansies, aloe vera, powder power, marine mass extinction, wastewater heating in False Creek, Chief Justice John Roberts year-end report, a virtual sexual assault, TOI-1853 b, Mickey Ears, the Russian Federal Security Service 2024 calendar, and so on.

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about Tigger, Call of Cthulhu, venomous snakebites, raiding aquifers, wooden wind turbines, euthanasia, ChatGPT plagiarism, covert space missions, overmassive black hole galaxies, AI insider training, baseball rule changes, an “item of concern,” and so on.

On this week’s episode, Mike, Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog, and I talk about an Orca Update, tears, the air travel tax, hurricane microplastics, a repugnant ruling, a plutonium pit, the measles, money well spent, the Vatican’s plan for ending homelessness, pretextual stops, prescription meth, the emerging Coronal Mass Ejection, Commercial Lunar Payload Services, getting doored, Wilma Mankiller, t...

On this week’s episode, special guest co-host Claudia Shambaugh, Nathan, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about the Word of the Year Part 2, pure carnivores, Canadian tropical fish, the wet-bulb global temperature, COP28, La Posada at the U.S./Mexico Border, Pompeii’s bakery prison, Mississippi’s religious vaccination exemption, Americans’ prescription records, direct-sound printing, willful igno...

On this week’s episode, special guest co-host Claudia Shambaugh, Nathan, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about the word of the year, chinstrap penguin microsleeping, better coffee, methane digesters, net metering 3.0, rescuing the Marshall Islands, Cop28, nuclear energy, hydrogen from plastic waste, the LA to Vegas bullet train, old organs, anthrobots, wine fraud, 23and Me, Junior Walker and The...