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This week on Truth to Power, we bring you highlights from the third hour of our special live broadcast from the 2026 Louisville Veg Fest, held on Saturday, September 12th at the Mellwood Art Center. Today we bring you the third speaker, Reya Andrews on "The Plant-Based Nutrition Prescription!" Reya is a licensed nutritionist and Assistant Professor of Food and Nutrition at Eastern Kentucky Univers...

We continue the discussion of AI from our last episode. What is Artificial General Intelligence, and how is it different than Superintelligence? How does the tech industry get to AGI, from where AI is today? And what are some ways that AGI could cause planet-wide catastrophes? Also, what planets, stars, and meteor showers can we see in the night sky during the month of October? ‘Bench Talk: The We...

Solutions to Violence features James Orlidk. James Orlick is a higher education leader, first-generation college graduate, and Ph. D. candidate in Educational Leadership and Organizational Development at the University of Louisville. His research examines the legislative process, enactment, and institutional compliance with Kentucky’s anti-DEI law, House Bill 4 (HB 4). Using Kentucky’s Open Record...

This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, sits down with two of the panelists in the upcoming Policy & Science Forum, Amber Duke & Tom Fitzgerald. Amber Duke serves as the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky (https://ACLU-KY.org). She recommends that anyone facing barriers to voting dial the national Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE. Tom...

#267 Critical Thinking for Everyone! | Adam Deitz and Eastern Ideas | October 1, 2026 by Forward Radio

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you highlights from the second hour of our special live broadcast from the 2026 Louisville Veg Fest, held on Saturday, September 12th at the Mellwood Art Center. Today we bring you the second speaker, Kim Giovacco, founder of Veg Jaunts and Journeys. Kim presented on “Creating Community through Vegan Travel.” As vegans, one of our favorite parts of traveling i...

Rich Logis was an activist member of MAGA and promoter of Donald Trump for 7 years before becoming disillusioned, dropping out, and creating a website, Leaving MAGA. He recently came out with a book, One Betrayal Too Many: Why I left MAGA. Here, he recounts his story of why he initially gravitated to MAGA, why he so fiercely promoted the MAGA movement and Trump, and why he started to have doubts,...

K.A. Owens comments on the origins of Rape, Racism and Homophobia in the United States of America. Recorded Wednesday September 30 2026.

Dee Pregliasco, former President of the Louisville League of Women Voters, retired attorney and mediator, discusses the status of voting rights in general and, in particular, restoring the voting rights of former felons in the state of Kentucky.

This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, grabs his toolbelt for a conversation with Shelby Rodeffer & Nick Garner, volunteers with the Louisville Tool Library! Operating at 1227 Logan Street on Wednesdays 5-7pm and Saturdays 11am-3pm, the Louisville Tool Library has been building community, knowledge, and resilience around repair and maintenance since 2022. Learn more and become a...

Kyle Ellison is a former Kentucky Corrections officer. In 1972 Kyle Ellison became a Kentucky Department of Corrections probation and parole officer in Louisville. He worked for the Department of Corrections for 16 years. Seven of those years were as a training officer for prison and jail staff all over the state, giving him the chance to research the prison history of Kentucky. Kyle Ellison is no...

This week on the Access Hour, your host Bob Cline is in conversation with Allison Leake & Graham Slaby, Communication Coordinator, with the Get On The Bus Campaign organized by the Louisville chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Just in time for the Week Without Driving (Oct. 1-8), we bring you a vital conversation about the people's demand for improved transit in Louisville. Sim...

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you highlights from the first hour of our special live broadcast from the 2026 Louisville Veg Fest, held on Saturday, September 12th at the Mellwood Art Center. Forward Radio was a proud media sponsor of Kentucky’s premier celebration of all things vegan, featuring over 19,000 sq ft of indoor space filled with over 60 vendors and additional food trucks bringin...

Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic in the news right now. In this episode (Part-1) we discuss some of the risks that have emerged in the development of AI. We present a timeline of some important events in AI this year. We discuss the Pope, 'recursive self-improvement', the Trump administration, the Hugging Face incident and other AI attacks, Jacob Coxon's alarming tweet about the risks of AI,...

September 21st, 22nd and 23rd Solutions to Violence Features Don Wagner. Don Wagner is a Presbyterian Minister, and the national director of the Palestinian Human Rights campaign. Don Wagner is also author of 6 books including Glory to God in the Lowest, Journeys to an Unholy Land and with Walter Davis coauthored Zionism and the Quest for Justice in the Holy Land.

This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, continues his series of conversations with local candidates who will be on your ballot in the November mid-term elections. This week we hear from Alison Brotzge-Elder, one of two candidates competing for the newly non-partisan race for Louisville Metro Council in District 9. Forward Radio does not endorse Alison nor any other candidates for...

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you an important conversation about Artificial Intelligence and the psychology around the adoption of AI in the workplace. Three guests joined Host Justin Mog for this conversation:
 1. Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is a behavioral scientist and CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts (https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/media/). He has been called the “Office Whisperer” by T...

Ky State Senator Reg Thomas discusses the effects of the Medicaid Cuts for Kentuckians and the rest of the country. Hosted by Paul Hoppe, Dr. Gene Shively, and Michael Flynn

This week on Sustainability Now!, we turn the microphone on your host, Justin Mog, as he sits down for another conversation with Barry Zalph, a retired engineer, environmental advocate, and fellow Quaker. Barry suggests that listeners to Sustainability Now! Would be curious to learn more about Justin’s childhood experiences that connected him with the natural world; what he studied at Oberlin Coll...

Listen to our LIVE broadcast from Louisville VegFest on Saturday, September 12, 2026 from noon-6pm at the Mellwood Art Center (1860 Mellwood Ave)! Learn more at https://vegkentucky.org Forward Radio was a proud media sponsor of Kentucky’s premier celebration of all things vegan! Our booth showed how you can turn all that plant-power into community radio! Participants enjoyed music, performances, c...

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you a vital community conversation called "Theater of War - On the Radio: A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem" From the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater in Brooklyn, NYC, on May 27, 2026, actors Bill Murray (Lost in Translation, Rushmore), Oscar Isaac (Frankenstein, Beef), and Lois Smith (East of Eden, Five Easy Pieces) p...

Patty, Brian, and Justin Mog come to you with a live remote broadcast from UofL's Center for Engaged Learning at the conclusion of Patty's retirement party! This special LIVE Critical Thinking for Everyone during Give For Good Louisville, encouraged YOU to donate to Forward Radio AND to all the other wonderful non-profits in our community! Donate through midnight to support Forward Radio at https:...

Today (Thursday, 9/10/26), Justin Mog hosted this special LIVE Access Hour for Give For Good Louisville, encouraging YOU to donate to Forward Radio AND to all the other wonderful non-profits in our community! Donate through midnight to support Forward Radio at https://www.giveforgoodlouisville.org/organization/wfmp-low-power-radio-inc On the show today were representatives from two other non-profi...

Hear about a hallucinogenic mushroom that causes the user to see little people, called the 'Lilliputian Mushroom'. Then, we discuss a species of Strangler Fig that not only kills other trees, but also serves as a community latrine for up to 17 animal species. Finally, hear about what planets, stars, and constellations can be seen in the night sky during the month of September. If you enjoy this sh...

On this Labor Day edition of Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, sits down with Dr. Phillip Kuan for a conversation about how the healthcare industry can reduce its environmental footprint without compromising patient care. Dr. Kuan is a quadruple board-certified anesthesiologist whose career reflects a deep commitment to the art and science of aesthetics. With a foundation of rigorous tra...