The Mop Up For May 13, 2022
Here's the latest from The David Feldman Show
It’s been awhile since I sent out my newsletter.
I’m writing to tell you about Office Hours, and provide you with some quick links to enjoy highlights from this week’s shows.
I’m hosting Office Hours tonight starting at 8:00 PM Eastern, and I hope you can join me. This happens every Friday. I talk to my listeners during the first hour. And then I turn the rest of the evening over to our community of activists, writers, musicians, artists, teachers, chefs, carpenters, comedians and other assorted lowlifes.
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We have been doing this ever since the Covid lockdown. And I have met a group of indispensable people who I feel like I’ve known all my life.
If you’re shy, keep your video off and just lurk. When my segment is over, that’s exactly what I do. I hop into bed and just watch until I fall asleep.
We screen episodes of the Twilight Zone and documentaries. We meet candidates and raise money for them. There are cooking, music and drawing lessons. And lectures on everything from David Bowie to John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry.
Now, let’s turn to episodes 1337 and 1338 of my AMAZING podcast. I want to give you a quick and easy way to navigate hours and hour of content by providing you with individual time stamps so that you can pick and choose what you want to watch and when. Please let me know if this helps.
Highlights from Episode 1338:
May 13, 2022
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00:35 David Does the News: Infant formula shortage; Starbucks fires union organizers; Record gun deaths in America; Record drug overdoses in America; Inflation; ICE is America's Gestapo
1:07:01 "Turtle" written and performed by Professor Mike Steinel
1:11:57 Jason Myles (co-host of "This is Revolution" podcast)
1:28:34 Professor Ben Burgis (his new book is "Canceling Comedians While The World Burns")
Professor Burgis talks about his new piece in The Daily Beast “J.D. Vance’s Unbelievably Phony Populism”
He writes,
“J.D. Vance is many things. He’s a bestselling author. He’s a venture capitalist. He’s the founder of an “anti-opioid” nonprofit that spent more than 95 percent of its 2017 fundraising on staff salaries and overhead, and $0 on charitable activities or grants. One thing he can’t be called with a straight face is a “populist.”
2:02:16 The Herschenfelds: Dr. Philip Herschenfeld (Freudian psychoanalyst), and Ethan Herschenfeld (his new comedy special "Thug, Thug Jew" is streaming on YouTube)
We talk about that female prison guard who helped her lover escape. Some say she suffered from Hybristophilia. What is hybristophilia? Are women turned on by bad guys? Also, Mayor Ed Koch's bizarre tombstone
2:39:20 Jose Arroyo (Two time Emmy award winning Comedy writer and cartoonist for The New Yorker)
Jose treats us to a series of cartoons rejected by The New Yorker
3:07:00 Quizmaster Dan Frankenberger questions our knowledge about The Price Is Right
3:20:26 The Rev. Barry W. Lynn (Americans United for Separation of Church and State) w/ Reverend Rob Schenck (founder of The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute in Washington, DC, and author of "Costly Grace: An Evangelical Minister’s Rediscovery of Faith, Hope and Love")
Reverend Schenck offers a heartfelt apology to The Rev. Barry W. Lynn. This is a deeply moving conversation between two men who once found themselves on opposite ends of the political spectrum. In this talk, we learn change is possible.
4:21:45 The Professors And Mary Anne: Professors Mary Anne Cummings, Jonathan Bick, Ann Li, Adnan Husain
PLUS: ASMR for your eyeballs - Kitchen ASMR with Joe in Norway
5:14:19 Professor Harvey J. Kaye ("FDR on Democracy") and Alan Minsky (executive director of Progressive Democrats of America)
6:18:20 Emil Guillermo (host of the PETA Podcast, and columnist for The Asian American Legal Defense And Education Fund) w/ Kathy Guillermo from PETA on The Kentucky Derby and how horse racing is the sport of sadists.
Highlights from Episode 1338
May 9, 2022
We take a look at all the Republican candidates accused of rape, assault and murder and how their violence against women relates to the GOP's position on abortion; David de Jong, author of Nazi Billionaires, tells us how Germany's wealthiest families hide their lucrative Nazi past; We meet Joe Thompson, a 19-year-old Starbucks union organizer who's now a candidate for California State assembly; Jason Myles explains how exactly the CIA was able to fund the Contras by dumping cocaine into America's inner cities; Peter B. Collins outlines the twenty countries where Joe Biden's foreign policy has made things worse; Professor Adnan Husain tells us what happened in France's presidential election, and why it's bad news for Muslims and McKinsey; Dr. Harriet Fraad says overturning Roe is a giant leap towards fascism; Texas Tom Webber offers consensus on a woman's right to choose.
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4:00 David Does the News: Governor Greg Abbott; Eric Greitens; Max Miller; Charles Herbster
1:05:05 "Turtle" written and performed by Mike Steinel
1:10:19 Joe Thompson (organizer w/ Starbucks Workers United, candidate for California State Assembly District 28) Joe Thompson is a 19-year-old non-binary, UC Santa Cruz Student, a Starbucks Union Organizer, and a progressive candidate for California State Assembly District 28. Joe uses they/them pronouns and, if elected, they would be the first nonbinary official elected to statewide office in California. Donate: https://joeforassembly.org/about
1:40:59 Jason Myles (co-host of "This is Revolution" podcast) According to Jason, the functionality of any law enforcement agency is simply to police poverty and protect capital regardless of race. This is a problem that can’t be ‘reformed’, there isn’t enough anti racist implicit bias training in the world that can mitigate the basic realities of capitalism.
2:00:50 David de Jong (author of "Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties") along with Howie Klein (founder and treasurer of The Blue America PAC and author of Down With Tyranny) David de Jong is a journalist, who has covered European banking and finance from Amsterdam and hidden wealth and billionaire fortunes from New York for Bloomberg News. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the Dutch Financial Daily, and he’s the author of the new book Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties.
2:37:35 Mark Breslin (founder and president of Yuk Yuk's, largest comedy chain in North America) Abortion! And Mark's birthday. And why they are often mentioned together.
3:06:51 Dr. Harriet Fraad (host of "Capitalism Hits Home") Why outlawing abortion is a giant leap towards fascism.
3:33:17 "USA Of Distraction" written and performed by Professor Mike Steinel
3:38:57 Professor Adnan Husain ("Guerrilla History" and "The Majlis" podcasts) French election analysis/consequences; McKinsey-gate; governing for the rich; Islamophobia and the new Crusades
4:20:01 Peter B. Collins (Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame) Biden/Blinken's bungled foreign policy, naming 20 countries where Trump policies are unchanged or things have gotten worse (not including Russia and Ukraine).
4:56:03 Professor Mary Anne Cummings (physicist and parks commissioner Aurora, Illinois)
5:40:16 Abortion with “Texas Tom” Webber (“Spirituality and Activism”)
Thanks for reading this. Please stay in touch. And please join me tonight for Office Hours!
Your Buddy,
David Feldman