TMI with Aldous Tyler

A full year after the murder of George Floyd by a sadistic police officer, we look at the state of policing in America by race: has it changed? What has been attempted in the meantime? How far do we have to go? Then, there have been studies done on how creative thinking works: sure some are more talented than others, but there's a definite skill to it, and that skill can be TAUGHT. Find out! Final...

AI - artificial intelligence - is an amazing tool, yet still in its infancy as far as development goes. You'd think that might give people pause before using it on life-changing decisions like who gets accepted to a college or university, but this (and far more) is precisely what we've discovered it is being used for. We discuss. Then: Just as soon as Millennials became old enough that it could no...

We all should be getting vaccinated against COVID-19, without a doubt, but what do you do when you have over 99% of your population fully vaccinated and yet are still facing a growing resurgence of COVID-19? That's what he nearly 100,000 people in Seychelles are having to ask themselves. We discuss how this came to be. Next, we talk about how new studies are showing that the once-indomitable psych...

Madison, like many cities, struggles with how to solve its homelessness problem. Especially in the brutal Wisconsin winters, we don't want people to freeze to death, but we need to be able to afford the solution. Finland knows a thing or two about Winter AND about homelessness, and their solution: make giving the homeless housing the FIRST thing you do, not third or fourth step down the line. Whil...

If you knew your worth to your employer, you'd almost certainly not put up with the sliver of that worth that they pay you to work for them. One of the tricks used to keep you from demanding more for the hours of your life you spend laboring is to call MANY jobs "low skill". We examine this falsehood that is meant to make you feel bad for wanting to have your needs met while making the boss rich....

The Minneapolis Police Officer who murdered George Floyd, as captured on live video, (whose name I use as little as possible) faced a historic verdict as all three charges came down as Guilty. We examine just how unprecedented the verdict was and how that directly shows how deeply corrupted and harmful our current system of policing is. Then, we investigate how, across the USA, BLM protestors were...

TODAY IS A BEST OF TMI EPISODE, ORIGINALLY BROADCAST FRIDAY, APRIL 09, 2021: John Beacham, author of 2020: Socialism and the Coming Great Crisis and podcaster at mass-action.org joins us to discuss Socialism and how a better understanding of it could impact the multitude of ills society faces. Then, we explore the various reopening plans being implemented by those who call the shots as they get im...

John Beacham, author of 2020: Socialism and the Coming Great Crisis and podcaster at mass-action.org joins us to discuss Socialism and how a better understanding of it could impact the multitude of ills society faces. Then, we explore the various reopening plans being implemented by those who call the shots as they get impatient with the restrictions of the pandemic, and examine who will face the...

As efforts by the workforce at Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama facility to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union ramp up, Amazon has been engaging in dirty tactics to frighten, intimidate and bully their workers out of voting yes. While these tactics are used far too commonly nationwide against unions. Amazon was using their immense power to involve local police, the postal service and...

Once upon a time in Melodia, one would dream of putting together a band, playing somewhere that would get you noticed by someone who would call up someone else to come see you play elsewhere, and suddenly you had a contract with a record label, a musical industry conglomerate who would promise you fame and fortune. Maybe something would come of the radio airplay you gained from it, or the tours yo...

Weekends, employer-provided health coverage, overtime pay, a ban on child labor - these are all benefits to society as a whole thanks to unions. Faiz Shakir , formerly of the Bernie Sanders campaign, knows all too well about how unions have been falling in membership size and power, and seeks to restore them via the More Perfect Union project . We discuss. Then, we look seriously at what it is goi...

Donald Trump promised to "drain the swamp" but conversely filled Washington DC with people loyal not to doing their job the best they can or to a sense of service to the Constitution, but to him and him alone. Finding these people and replacing them has become a major chore for the Biden administration, and we'll discuss how. Then: recent investigations into the tax filings of corporations, many o...

Donald Trump is out of office, no matter what Q Anon wants to claim, but his influence over the GOP remains strong... though not strong enough to have it entirely under his thumb. The tension is tearing the once-might GOP apart, and we discuss how. Then, Neera Tanden, vocal opponent of the GOP and vicious enemy of the progressive movement in the USA is facing consequences for making very few frien...

For decades, a fellow from Missouri named Rush Hudson Limbaugh III dragged media standards away from objective reporting of factual events, past the realm of opinion and into the depths of slander and service to the darkest impulses of humanity's prejudices. But how did it all get that way? Joining us is equally-veteran in the radio industry Peter B. Collins , who will outline precisely how Rush c...

When Texas suffered catastrophic freezing, cutting power to much of the state, right wing media (followed all-too-predictably by mainstream sources) blamed the wind turbines that had locked up in the cold as being the reason why people were suffering and dying. But wind turbines function in much harsher cold than Texas offered just fine, pointing to a problem in cheaping out on their maintenance,...

Many of the Capitol Rioters are now using the defense that they were just "following orders". Evidently not being pardoned by Trump made a number of them pretty sore, and they have no problem being very clear that as far as they were concerned, Trump was their leader and they did what they did at his behest. Then, we discuss a touchy topic for many of us: "Polite White Supremacy", or the tendency...

Friend of the program Carl Gibson of https://www.classwardaily.com/ ​ joins us to discuss how the Democratic Congress and Presidency have an enormous opportunity to make a real difference... or, history shows, be destroyed. Also, Carl tells us how his recent stock purchase is going. Next, we compare the horrific daily death totals for COVID-19 aren't making us bat an eye, even as they stack up aga...

The list of pardonees and commutees from Donald Trump's last day in office was most interesting for who they included - and who they didn't include! Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was just one, while not a single member of the rioters at the Capitol Building was included. We discuss. Then, the Trump State Department leaves a "gift" for Biden's administration by condemning China's treatment...

Native American tribes have been brutalized, subjugated, cheated and mistreated by the Federal Government of the United States since the very beginning. With the nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland (D - NM), an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, to the office of Secretary of the Interior things could be looking up for tribal peoples of USA, and looking dicey for their latest abuser, Big Oil. W...

While people quake in fear of Senator Hawley's lost book deal and President Trump's banishment from many social media platforms, they often cite the First Amendment's guarantee to Freedom of Speech. Ironically, they forget the rest of the First Amendment's guarantees, including the part that protects Twitter, Simon & Schuster, Facebook and even TMItmiTMI.com from having to publish ANYTHING they do...

On today's episode of TMI: The attack on the Capitol Building, spurred by noneother than Donald Trump himself, was a day of disaster in DC, but had consequences that reached far further. A friend in Connecticut sends in her striking tale of how events that transpired for her that same day, many miles away, were phantoms of the brutal riot happening in Washington. Next, we examine how a study over...

Continuing a tradition done on TMI first on the 1/1/2011 episode, we are not going to do a Year in Review, but rather we are going to do a decade in review for 2021-2030: checking in with expert opinion on where we can expect to be in 2030 and how we can get there! Why not review the future? We've already BEEN through the past! Next, we have a sincere look at why we're fascinated by grifters; peop...

On this Xmas Day episode, we get into some pointers on how to keep Zoom calls with loved ones over the Holidays from degenerating into the latest QAnon litany of nonsense. Then, I put to rest some unfinished business with some listeners from "across the pond" who wish to insist they know what "Populism" is. I insist that until they hear where it actually came from, they keep the word out of their...

On today's TMI: While everyone was watching the Electoral College cast their votes, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin put themselves ONE VOTE AWAY from leading us into chaos. We discuss. Then: even IF the Democratic Party loses either (or both) Senate seats in the upcoming GA runoff election, there's a way that Mitch McConnell could still be Majority Leader... and yet no longer be in the way of votin...

On this Best-of episode of TMI, Attorney General Bill Barr denies Trump's allegations  that there was any electoral or voter fraud sufficient to change the  outcome of the Presidential Election - we discuss. Then, we talk about  what kind of God was compatible with a great scientific mind like  Einstein: specifically, the God outlined by Baruch Spinoza. It's not the  kind...