Sunday, January 26, 2014

Local Sports, Fantasy Leagues and Lingerie Football

As the sports world gears up for the bread and circus spectacle of Super Bowl XLVIII, we take a look at the benefits and importance of sports on a local level-where, unlike the NFL, it isn't ruled by money and corporate sponsorships.  Then we take a quick look at what sports fans could be doing with their time, brains and energy instead of "playing" fantasy sports.  And finally, at the end of the show, we play some audio from a "news report" on the Legends Football League (aka Lingerie Football League) and how the corporate media once again asks all the wrong questions. [Click to Listen]

Sunday, January 19, 2014

We're So F**ked

We (human beings) are quite literally fucked in numerous ways...on this episode we take a look at just a few of the main reasons.  Financial collapse, poor food quality, weather, climate, consumerism, garbage, diseases, air pollution, water pollution, industrialization, population growth, and just plain good old fashioned war (traditional, biological, nuclear, etc.). Oh, and solar flares, asteroids, earthquakes and volcanoes. [Click to Listen]

Monday, January 13, 2014

2013 Activist Cinema

A look at some of the great examples of Activist Cinema from 2013:
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99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film,
Fruitvale Station,
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners,
A Fierce Green Fire,
The East,
GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling,
Dallas Buyers Club,
Let the Fire Burn,
The Ghosts in Our Machine,
GMO OMG,
A Place at the Table
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