Here's What I Say by Sue Moresi

Canada has been our friend since, well, since, before there was a Canada. Until recently. Since the U.S.'s November 2024 presidential election, the relationship between the U. S. and Canada has "come under stress." This episode describes some of the history between the two countries, including the decades of the two militaries working together for the common defense, and the $2.4 BILLION daily tra...

Hear how, in 1951, Borge Madsen, a Dane, invented a way to "connect" two pieces of fabric without using a traditional zipper, but didn't know what to do with his invention. A very few years later, Max Auschnitt, having been stripped of his (extensive) property, riches, fled Romania for New York (Park Avenue), and with his son and brother, bought th rights from Mr. Madsen for his "separable fastene...

A very progressive woman named Lizzie Magie (MA-gee) worked for years to develop a board game that would teach that we really don't want people to own property, and then charge enormous  amounts of money to let others use it.  Although she did tons of work, (e.g. got a patent, then another  (on an updated version), and another, etc.)   The rights to it were (basically) stolen from her, and the  "t...

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and 2 others grew up in very racist, Apartheid-ish South Africa.  These 4 founded PayPal.  They are sometimes referred to as the PayPal Mafia.  In the 1930s and continuing, South Africa (and Southwest Africa) had a LARGE pro-Hitler population.  Elon's grandfather was the head of a pro-Nazi party in Canada in the 1930s, and went to prison once Canada declared war on Germany....

Two documentaries explain the Bombing of Pan Am 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in December 1988 (in retaliation for the U. S. accidentally shooting down an Iranian passenger plane earlier that year.)  It was an accident! Memphis, TN is allowing the building of an art museum right on the Mississippi River downtown, when there's supposed to be a public prominade along the river forever...

1)  Status of reproductive rights in Tennessee (pathetic); 2)  Federal Trade Commission's report "Behind the Screens," about personal information collection by on-line companies, e.g. Facebook, X, Amazon, TikTok, etc. (not good), and 3) information about Line 5, a 71-year-old oil pipeline that runs on the bottom of the Great Lakes, including in the straits of Mackinac, with potential to contaminat...

Public transit in Memphis is a mess.  Grass roots groups and the city are trying to fix it.  Other cities may be having these problems, re:  not enough money, city too large, not enough riders, etc.  Please try to help us fix this situation.  Also, I went to the park and got a surprise.

Why don't people introduce themselves? 2.  Ozempic and Magic Pill 3.  OJ and Nicole, issues toward the end of her life  4.  Why do people in Memphis love to park in handicapped spots? 5.  Thanks to the Memphis Public Library and Ms. Ena Esco

Season 1, Episode 1 discusses: 1.  Documentary:   San Onofre Syndrome - radioactive nuclear waste (all nuclear waste is radioactive) 2.  Viewing International Space Station from earth--anyone can do it--no telescope needed 3.  Sir Ernest Shackelton, antarctic explorer, one of the most grueling survival ordeals of all time. 4.  30th Anniversary of Nicole Brown Simpson's death--some ideas of what ac...