"Be Bold America!"

Produced by KSQD90.7FM KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 5:00pm (PT) Most Americans are worried about how companies, like Facebook, invade their privacy and harvest their data, but that many people don’t fully understand the details of how their information is being adapted and misused. Progressive radio host and author, Thom Hartmann will tell us how Big Brother invent...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 5:00pm (PT) Is there a larger problem than Donald Trump’s “Big Lie?” David Pepper’s “Laboratories of Autocracy” shows that far more than the high-profile antics of D.C. politicians like Marjorie Taylor Green or Jim Jordan that there is an even bigger challenge to American Democracy. It is the anonymous, often corrupt politician...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM “The Life of William Grimes: The Runaway Slave” KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 5:00pm (PT) “Let anyone s uppose himself a husband and father , possessed of a house, home, and livelihood: a stranger enters that house; before his children, and in fair daylight, puts the chain on his leg , where it remains till the last cent of his property buys fro...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM  Note: Show engineer did a role play with Dr. Tamerius to demonstrate the "Change Conversation Cycle!" “Smart Politics: Stop arguing. Stop avoiding. Start making a difference!”  Sunday, January 30, 2022 at 5:00pm (PT) Do you dread talking politics with your Republican family? Many of us hate the idea of having political conversations with our Republican family mem...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM (Note: We had a few technical difficulties, however, all content is available!) The “Defenders of Democracy Against Disinformation’s” mission is to identify, publicly call out, and reduce financial incentives to those sources – media, public officials, or others – who participate in disseminating lies and disinformation to the detriment of our national well-being. DDAD has...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM "Be Bold America!" Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 5:00pm (PT) Every day we are drifting farther to the political right as a minority of the country uses brute force to undermine the basic tenets of our democracy. This perspective is to win at all costs , as though we live in a zero-sum universe, rather than finding a balance on common ground when polar opposite perspectives exi...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM Note: Two days before the show, President Biden appointed two new members to the Post Office's Board of Governors but, as Porter McConnell points out, Louis DeJoy could still remain as Postmaster General. “Be Bold America!” Sunday, November 21 2021 at 5:00pm (PT) This is not what Ben Franklin had in mind. First Class mail is now moving more slowly than the 1970s.  Post...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM "The End of White Christian America with Robert P. Jones" Sunday, November 7, 2021 at 5:00pm (PT) For most of the country’s history, white Christian America – a cultural and political identity built primarily by white Protestant Christians – set the tone for our national policy and shaped American ideals. But in recent decades this has changed . Drawing on findings from one...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM   (Note: This live radio show was broadcast during a storm in Northern California. Power went out briefly. The audio file has been edited for smooth listening. Also, Frank Schaeffer's new book will be available on Amazon Nov. 2, 2021) “Fall in Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy” October 24, 2021 at 5:00pm “Frank Schaeffer has written a revolutionar...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM “The Decarbonization Imperative” KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, October 10, 2021 at 5:00pm “Climate change is a challenge of our lifetimes. If we fail to act, and act soon, we risk leaving our children a world in which humanity’s ability to flourish will be severely tested." – Michael Lenox & Rebecca Duff Time is of the essence. Climate change looms as a malignant f...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM “The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich” KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, September 26, 2021 at 5:00pm "The simple fact is that, were it not for slavery, white supremacy, and the legacy of 'scientific racism,' America would have had a national, single-payer healthcare system in 1915 ... ." - Thom Hartmann I...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, September 12, 2021 at 5:00pm (PT) KSQD 90.7FM ~ "Many voices. One station” ksqd.org/be-bold-america "You can observe a lot by watching." - Yogi Berra You have been watching, but have you been observing? If you have been observing and taking it all in, then you realize that our democracy is taking its last breaths. For over four decades, Republicans...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, August 29, 2021 at 5:00pm (Funny and delightful!) The Shariah-based system of laws and ethics would never have survived for a millennium had it not been equitable. Since the early 1990s, at least twenty-three Muslim-majority countries have become more democratic. Why isn’t the Taliban doing the same in Afghanistan? Sumbal Ali-Karamali w...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM “The Web of Meaning” on "Be Bold America!" April 15, 2021 Who am I? Why am I? How should I live? These are some of the oldest questions humans have grappled with. In our modern, high-tech society we may seem to have the answers. After all, hasn’t science shown that humans are hardwired for selfishness? That we are separate from nature (which is ours to exploit)? That we do b...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM “Demystifying Shariah and How It’s Not" Taking Over Our Country” ~ “Be Bold America!” ~ August 1, 2021 Through scare tactics and deliberate misinformation campaigns, anti-Muslim propagandists insist wrongly that shariah is a draconian and oppressive Islamic law that all Muslims must abide by. They circulate horror stories, encouraging Americans to fear the “takeover of shari...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM ~ "Be Bold America!" on July 18, 2021 Fiery and passionate, 87 year old Dr. Jane Elliott can’t be more direct or blunt about race. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968 was the catalyst for a young elementary school teacher in Riceville, Iowa to want to teach her class the next day about diversity. The lesson plan she created to do so became known as...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, June 20, 2021  at  5:00pm “The real threat to our future is Biden and the well-heeled powerful forces who want us to lose sight of what made America great in the first place. It’s not our diversity. It’s our freedom.” - Laura Ingraham - Fox News What is freedom, really? It is when someone says, "It's my freedom to not get vaccinated"...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM “Democracy Abandoned with Governor Don Siegelman” Charles Blow, New York Times ~ May 14, 2021 opinion column excerpts: “Democracy cannot exist in a society in which nearly half the participants have abandoned it, a lie is elevated to the position of truth, participation becomes the thing being poisoned.” “The Republican Party is no longer simply a part of our political syst...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM on "Be Bold America! “My husband and I felt we were going to have a heart attack.” – Allison Guevara As a special Mothers Day program, we’ll be speaking with Allison Guevara who is a wife and a mother of three. She’ll be sharing with us her intense, traumatic and stressful pandemic year where both she and her husband felt they were going to have a heart attack. Allison will...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM This is a game changer.  Many people still believe that the transition to a green economy will involve high costs and fewer choices, but we are finding that the opposite can be the case. Our first guest,  Joseph Majkut , will discuss what that unexciting word, “infrastructure,” will really be leading to more exciting action and projects throughout the United State...

This astonishing interview of New Zealander, Pete Bethune was produced by KSQD90.7FM Capt. Pete Bethune , has been run over by Japanese whalers, shot at by illegal gold miners, knifed in the chest while following the illegal pet trade, and most recently nearly died after being bitten by south America’s deadliest snake. It is safe to say that Capt. Bethune is the Indiana Jones for saving endangered...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM Fox News spent more than twice as much time discussing Dr. Seuss being “canceled” as covering major news on vaccine distribution and the FBI Director’s testimony on the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Media Matter's determined that The Fox News Network covered Dr. Seuss and the “cancel culture” for 1 hour and 9 minutes, more than twice the time it spent covering FBI D...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM What does humility mean and why does it matter in age of golden escalators and billionaire entrepreneurs? How can the cultivation of humility empower us to see success in failure, to fight against injustice, to stretch beyond our usual ways of thinking, and foster a culture of listening in an era of digital shouting. Listen to the Editors of  Radical Humility: Essays o...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM “We the people must oversee what our overseers have been overlooking.” — Swami Beyondananda Now that the most toxic election of our lifetime seems to be resolved, let us congratulate ourselves on making the better of two binary choices, to take our country back from self-serving lies, divisive meanness, and autocratic rule. We have excised the malignancy, and now we must dea...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM (Podcast fact correction: 59% (not 49%) of Democrats view Republicans as the “political opposition.”) We have a crisis in politics that can’t be ignored. And! We have a crisis in acceptable character and principle-centered living that can’t be ignored either. How could Dr. Pettis Perry will be joining Jill Cody, to talk about politics, social justice, and how the individual...