TMI with Aldous Tyler

Women's History Month isn't merely a month to increase awareness of women's historical accomplishments - it in itself IS a piece of women's history, being pioneered BY women. We give these brave historians their due and in so doing point towards the continuing struggle to have women's role in academia fully appreciated. Then, we discuss how microplastics have infiltrated the mo...

At 22 million people, situated on what was once a mighty lake roughly 700 years ago well over a mile above sea level, Mexico City has a lot going against it when it comes to keeping its citizens' water supplies well-stocked. Add to that a long climate-crisis exacerbated drought, and there is no small chance that by June there may come a day when most of the city has no running water - a "...

Black History Month often gives us memes and reminders of how Black people have contributed to the United States that we know today, but it encompassess much more than we often get. Black history, properly understood, shows that Black people haven't merely "contributed", but that their lives and efforts have been FOUNDATIONAL to the nation and the world we know today, going back much...

The Voting Rights Act has been the bane of racists in the United States since its inception, helping drive the Dixiecrats into the Republican Party some 60 years ago. It's no surprise, then, that the GOP and its allies have been attacking it relentlessly at every opportunity, and looking at the 2024 judicial calendar, we shine a light on four key ways that the VRA is in jeopardy this year. The...

We look back as recently as 1964 in Black History and see drinking fountains marked "colored" and "whites", and tsk at such blatant symbols of racial oppression. But the times haven't changed as much as one might hope. People of color are frequently among the homeless that many cities attempt to banish by using zoning laws capriciously against churches who are trying to hou...

On this episode, we welcome back Peter B. Collins , legendary talk radio host and media analyst, who goes over the state of the media that we are contending with in reporting on such topics as real voter suppression (NOT the MAGA "Stop the Steal" nonsense, which YouTube refuses to recognize is different), the war started by Putin in Ukraine, the continued genocide in Palestine that began...

The Illinois Petroleum Resource Board (IPRB) has been a gas tax-funded education and outreach program for 25 years, with a particular aim of providing science curriculum and professional development workshops for Illinois teachers. Nevermind that the information given is solely focused on making Big Oil look absolutely indispensable to the future of civilization, or even that Oklahoma, Kansas and...

Some bubbles crash and leave nothing but ruin in their wake, while others, like the dot-com bubble that burst in 2000, leave behind many valuable things that can be used to propel other, new things forward. So, the question is, which type of bubble is AI, which is, by all definitions, a bubble just waiting to crash. We investigate. Next, we look at the tragedy unfolding for dozens of vulnerable fa...

(This is a rebroadcast of the 1/12/2024 episode) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went to Washington hot to make change in a place devoted to preserving the capitalist status quo, often at the expense of everyone not rich enough to buy congressional influence. We look at how the combination of her rebuke from the powers that be and the fickleness of the more particular forces she wanted to represent pushe...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went to Washington hot to make change in a place devoted to preserving the capitalist status quo, often at the expense of everyone not rich enough to buy congressional influence. We look at how the combination of her rebuke from the powers that be and the fickleness of the more particular forces she wanted to represent pushed her away from continuing to fight for the ideal...

Ten years ago, Black Lives Matter was founded in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in shooting Trayvon Martin to death the year before, as well as the long history of the police and justice system failing to treat black lives with the same respect as others. The pressure caused by this rapidly growing movement forced police across the country to consider a new way to show that they too...

If you live in Minnesota, you stand a decent chance of having heard of Nellie Stone Johnson, but otherwise this pioneering black woman, born in 1905, is likely a complete mystery to you. We'll correct that injustice as much as we are able, as Ms. Johnson was one of the most important figures in labor and civil rights - mostly as she saw no reason the two causes should ever be taken on separate...

We've reported here on TMI on Eli Pariser's "Filter Bubble" concept since its debut in 2010 at his Ted talk: the idea that Google was selectively feeding results back to the user that the user agreed with, making it so that one person's search results were often vastly different than another's. Mr Pariser pointed out that by putting us all in these Filter Bubbles, we coul...

We welcome Jonah Walters of Jacobin Magazine to discuss the new book he co-edited, "The Good Die Young - The Verdict on Henry Kissinger", and go over the broad influence Kissinger wove around the world in his over 100 years of life. You won't want to miss this, or the new book, which is available via https://jacobin.com/ . Then we expose how Jeff Bezos' donations to organizations...

BONUS! Check out THIS archive of TMI from 2014: Mike Crute, with his co-host Dom Salvia, run The Devil's Advocates Radio program on The Mic 92.1 FM here in Madison. It is designed to offer a place for differing points of view, and thanks to that managed to get an exclusive interview with GOP State Senator Dale Schultz, wherein Senator Schultz vehemently decried his own party's plan to supp...

BONUS! Check out THIS archive of TMI from 2014: TMI today is on fire! Joining us live in studio are two friends of the program we're proud to welcome back: John Fugelsang, frequent commentator on life's absurdities and former host of Current TV's  Viewpoint,  and Steve Horn, investigative journalist and research fellow at DeSmogBlog . John always has great insights into how humanity se...

BONUS! Check out THIS archive of TMI from 2014: In this week's Supreme Court ruling on McCutcheon vs FEC , we saw what many are denouncing as "the end of democracy in America" and " Citizens United on steroids" - it certainly looks bad, but what exactly happened, and what are the most likely repercussions? I'm brushed up on the issue, but I cannot match the years of cam...

BONUS! Check out THIS archive of TMI from 2014: There's been a lot of talk in the news lately of the CIA, and TMI will join in... about a completely different CIA. The Cowboy Indian Alliance, a group of ranchers, farmers and tribal communities from along the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline route, are planning to ride into Washington DC and set up camp near the White House to tell President Obam...

The COP28 Climate Conference, the United Nations 28th annual meeting to try to coordinate efforts to mitigate the Climate Crisis found itself being used by the nation hosting it to secure MORE fossil fuel production. We go over how there seems virtually NO difference between big oil corporations and nations that rely on oil income when it comes to just how low they will go. Then, we peel back the...

The retail establishment has long enjoyed spreading the myth that until the day after Thanksgiving each year, they are "in the red", or that they haven't made any total profit for the year until that very day. According to this, it is called "Black Friday" as that is when they are finally "in the black" financially, but that is far from the actual origin of the te...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the largest health insurer in the state, has successfully stalled legislation that would force it to pay for medically necessary mental health care. We look at who this affects and how Governor Whitmer is closely tied to BCBSM. Then, the much-derided early reports that COVID could weaken our immune systems and make other diseases far harder to avoid have been vi...

Just when you've firmly wrapped your head around how human activity has upset the climate, causing a crisis in the skies, a new report tells us how, thanks to human activities, the amount of salts on the Earth's surface are dramatically out of proportion to what would naturally be there without our digging it up, causing further environmental calamity. Then, Bill McKibben wrote a piece on...

If you've never heard of Leonardo Leo and you believe that everyone, uterus-bearing or not, has the right to full bodily autonomy and access to health care (including abortion), then strap yourself in while you're given a quick tour of one of the biggest funders behind the SCOTUS majority that overturned Roe v. Wade and behind fighting Ohio from enacting a State Constitutional Amendment pr...

Back near the beginning of TMI with Aldous Tyler in 2010, we reported on Eli Pariser's Ted Talk that introduced the world to the "Filter Bubble". This phenomenon, he said, was caused by Google's search algorithms, which would selectively feed you results similar to ones you had interacted with before. That would cause your Google searches to no longer match anyone else's, and...

A tremendous amount of oil was discovered on the land belonging to the Osage Nation of Oklahoma. They were the richest people on Earth... until oil-greedy people KILLED them. But who? How did they get away with it? Investigative reporter Greg Palast has been on the hunt for this story for THREE decades! Where "KIllers of the Flower Moon" starring Leonardo DiCaprio ends, Greg Palast's...