Talkies – August 8, 2025
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Featured Episode
In what advocates call the most significant rollback in decades, California has enacted sweeping changes to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), a landmark environmental law that has shaped land-use decisions since 1970. These changes came as part of the 2025 state budget deal, with Governor Newsom signing state budget bills into law that exempt … Continued
Best Of Series Part 2: The Most Viewed Updates
This week on Economic Update, we revisit two of the most viewed episodes of Economic Update. The first features Professor Wolff’s analysis of the key changes driving the emergence of a new economic world order, and the second provides a look at the causes and effects of China’s economic achievements. Economics Professor Richard D. … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – August 8, 2025
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
Robert Reich on Robert Reich
00:08 Robert Reich, political economist who worked in the administrations of three presidents (most prominently as Secretary of Labor for Bill Clinton) now emeritus Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. His new book is Coming Up Short: a memoir of my America
Democracy Now 6am – August 8, 2025
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
David Salvo/Dr. Sumit Ganguly/David Bell
Low Expectations Among Experts For the Upcoming Putin/Trump Summit in the UAE We begin with the upcoming summit in the UAE between President Trump and President Putin in the hope we all share of ending Russia’s war on Ukraine that many experts on Russia and Ukraine think is unlikely to happen given Putin’s massive investment … Continued
Puzzling Evidence – August 8, 2025
Deranged “edits” segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities.
Over the Edge – August 8, 2025
Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air, consisting of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues.
Calling All Seekers – August 7, 2025
Hosted by Anthony Bonet, “Calling All Seekers” is a journey through sound and memory. No ads, no noise—just music that moves you. Each track opens a door to the past, the present, and the parts of ourselves we thought were long gone.