TMI with Aldous Tyler

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You might not be aware of it, with Elon Musk and Donald Trump taking virtually all the air out of the news lately, but the State of Wisconsin has one of the MOST important elections in the USA for 2025 coming up in just over a month! On Tuesday, April 1st, Wisconsin's GOP wants to pull the most cruel April Fool's joke ever by ripping control of our state's Supreme Court away from us af...

Ezra Klein typically has good instincts when it comes to political analysis, often proving to be correct when countering "common sense" views that don't fit reality. Sadly, this time his attempt to be the calm voice of reason has backfired, as he has woven a rosy picture about how Trump has limits to what he can do - limits that often don't exist, with a hard look at what has hap...

Investigative Reporter Greg Palast has recently been on The Thom Hartmann Program to give the news that Trump and his allies STOLE the 2024 Presidential Election, just as Greg had predicted with his documentary on electoral shenanigans "Vigilantes Inc". He joins us today to get the most airtime ANY program has yet given him to go over the hard numbers that took MONTHS to fully compile -...

We are joined once again by Professor Clara Mattei, Director of the nascent Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE) at the University of Tulsa . CHE's entire mission is formed around breaking the grip of the exploitative model of economics we are all too familiar with and finding a better path. Listen in to give the middle finger to Adam Smith's Invisible Hand. Then, we look at how the histor...

Bishop Mariann Budde is being attacked mercilessly for calling for mercy. We start this episode with something her detractors in the Trump Administration and the media won't give you: her own words. You can judge for yourself if anything she gave in her appeal to President Trump for mercy was remotely "nasty" or even vaguely wrong. Next, We look at how SCOTUS has rejected Montana&#39...

We start this episode with an interview of Amanda Moore , freelance journalist specializing in exposing the far right in the USA, as she alerts us to how the normally difficult life of freelance reporting is being made all the more tenuous by the incoming Trump Administration - even before inauguration! Next, we head to SCOTUS, where the Justices have cleared the way for Hawaii to continue their l...

Rebroadcasting the first TMI for 2025, we look at how the arguments being used to take rights away from trans youth would, if allowed to be the basis by SCOTUS for their decision, also decimate rights for all women in the United States, cis and trans alike! Next, we move over to Finland, who in investigating the damage caused to the power cable that connects Estonia to their grid, took in a tanker...

On the first TMI for 2025, we look at how the arguments being used to take rights away from trans youth would, if allowed to be the basis by SCOTUS for their decision, also decimate rights for all women in the United States, cis and trans alike! Next, we move over to Finland, who in investigating the damage caused to the power cable that connects Estonia to their grid, took in a tanker that had a...

Despite full page ads taken out by lobbying groups in USA Today and complicit articles in the Wall Street Journal decrying the maneuver, the Minimum Wage increase in California for fast food workers appears to have been an unmitigated success. We look at who exactly is behind the spin and why we need to be careful who we listen to when it comes to things that benefit the working class, not the bil...

In this episode, we show that even the most sacred of American cows, George Carlin, had his limitations when it came to the wisdom to be found in his humor. Jessica Wildfire's piece at The Sentinel Intelligence takes on his famous comedy routine about germs and the immune system, where Carlin proposed that exposing yourself to germs helps your immune system "practice" and become stronger. This fun...

On this episode of TMI, we explore one of the fundamental misunderstandings about health care in the USA: that the bills we receive are the ACTUAL cost of the care. Going through a number of examples, we see that what is being billed is often ten times the cost OR MORE. Because of this deceptive pricing, many people are genuinely concerned when universal coverage comes up and they ask "HOW will it...

As the Cure for the Common Media, TMI aims to be an effective media watchdog, holding it to account for distortions and omissions... which means the piece from Jessica Wildfire on how human beings associate the ones giving bad news with badness itself was deeply troubling. We go over it all, showing how human cognition often serves us poorly when the news goes against what we WISH were true, even...

We start this week with a staple of TMI's Black Friday episodes, with Aldous giving the true story of how Black Friday got its name. Next, we note that no matter how bewildered we may be at Latino or Black support for Trump this year, White people have to face facts: there are too many of us to overcome if enough of us want something. Then, we look at how state abortion bans, like the one in Texas...

On this week's episode of TMI with Aldous Tyler, we look at how two books, taken together, help explain much of the ethos behind modern American conservatism. Not only do we speak to how Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" had been an obvious cornerstone of the "I've got mine, screw you" crowd, but how insidiously "The Secret" managed to creep in and influence our current state of politics. Next, we look...

This week, Congress voted on whether or not to fast track a bill that would hand the Treasury Department the ability to strip any nonprofit of its 501 (c)(3) status by declaring it a "terrorist" supporting organization. This was set to fly trough easily UNTIL Trump got elected and enough Democrats and even one Republican said it was unwise to hand him that power. Don't breathe too easily, though -...

On this episode, Aldous goes over the results of the 2024 Election and where we go from here. Then he takes a special look at the proposals of RFK Jr for how he intends to "improve" our public health systems, and finally we celebrate retaining Tammy Baldwin as the Senior Senator for the State of Wisconsin. All this and more on TMI for Friday, November 08, 2024 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Com...

OpenAI can't just rely on ChatGPT subscriptions to pay for everything, so they have other professional offerings, like their "Whisper" AI-powered transcription app. The problem is, like other AI Large Language Modeled apps, Whisper has an alarming amount of "hallucinations" - phrases or sentences it just randomly adds without regard to what it was actually supposed to be transcribing. When applied...

In a different turn for TMI, we invite creator JV Altharas, the force behind new multi-modal fantasy world Realm of Aeodar . He tells us how, inspired by the completionism Tolkien aimed to have, his plan enacts an immersive literary world via not just stories, but also music, cooking, and so much more. JV has a full, inclusive vision to share and we introduce you to it here. Next, we show how bein...

On TMI for October 18, 2024, we start off by going over a recent summary Bernie Sanders made of the political progress that we've seen here in the United States by examining the differences in the Democratic Party platforms from 2012 and 2024. A span of just twelve years provides truly encouraging contrasts that get lost sometimes when you are just fighting day after day to make things better. Nex...

On today's episode, we expose the GOP Congressional Representatives who ignore the needs of their constituents at the request of their Big Oil donors, calling the Climate Crisis a "false emergency" in legislation to try and prevent the President from acting to help curb the worst of it. Greg Steube and Byron Donalds represent the gulf coast of Florida from Tampa south through Cape Coral - some of...

On TMI for Friday, 10/04/2024, Norman Stockwell of The Progressive Magazine joins us to talk about how⁠ Greg Palast's "Vigilantes Inc." is coming to Madison, Wisconsin's own Barrymore Theater on Thursday, October 17th! We go over how this is a can't-miss opportunity to see Palast's investigations team bust the most brazen, racist attack on voting rights yet, with a Q&A session afterward WITH G...

You're heard of the conservative playbook "Project 2025", a top-down authoritarian guide to how they intend to restructure every aspect of our nation to cement their backwards vision of society - what if there was a book that took the entirely opposite direction? Joining us today, Ben Manski is a contributor to that book, "How We Win: Energizing Strategies, Voters, and Agendas" , a work that gives...

On TMI for Friday, 9/20/2024, Greg Palast tells us how his investigations team has busted the most brazen, racist attack on voting rights yet. We're introduced to a terrible new threat to the right to vote: “Vigilante” challenges by self-appointed vote-fraud hunters - not government officials - who are targeting well over ONE MILLION young voters and voters of color to block the counting of th...

Watching the media cover the rise of Kamala Harris and her debate with Donald Trump this week shows how blatantly both the enormous issue of the Climate Crisis and the human rights issues surrounding gender are treated to nothing short of journalistic malpractice. We go over the reality of Harris' climate positions (and the nightmarish alternative) and expose the hamfisted mishandling of her p...