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Communications from the Anthropocene with Nathan Callahan
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Sep 19, 2024
Sep 19, 2024
48 min
On this week’s episode, a 78-year-old billionaire, a weird obsession with crowd sizes, “happy Trump” or “angry Trump,” a staggeringly dishonest debate performance from former, Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady, 3 on 1, Abdul, strongmen, and so much more
Aug 16, 2024
Aug 16, 2024
53 min
On this week’s episode, posting absurd memes, stolen valor, combat service, a laughable and even pathetic clown, true evil, MAGATS, Isaac Hayes, copyright infringement, a COVID memorial, Roger Stone, Russia, if you’re listening, crowd size, objective journalism, and so on.
Aug 9, 2024
Aug 9, 2024
51 min
On this week’s episode. “Meet the Billionaire,” reality TV fail, say it to my face, Citius, Altius, Fortius, Communiter, dismantling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Project 2025, Trump’s Egyptian heist, and so on.
Jul 26, 2024
Jul 26, 2024
51 min
On this week's episode, neokayfabe, Mr. McMahon, the best humane alternative to genocide, the Thielverse, J.D. Vance’s weird, terrifying techno-authoritarian ideas, and the Republican 2025 plan for menstrual surveillance, sexual assault, intimate-partner violence, and general stupidity.
Jul 19, 2024
Jul 19, 2024
48 min
On this week’s episode, “It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,” a fascist who tried to overthrow the US government, the Trump Supreme Court’s contempt for facts, banning the AR-15, a hillbilly hypocrite, Appalachian stereotypes, infinite timelines for the Pool Shed Papers Case, and so on.
Jul 12, 2024
Jul 12, 2024
22 min
On this week’s episode, media bias, Republican incoherence, a basket of deplorables, the eco-disaster of Project 2025, Trump the racist, Trump the felon, Trump the liar, Trump lies constantly, Trump lies every time he opens his mouth, and Trump lies because he can.
May 10, 2024
May 10, 2024
54 min
On this week’s episode, educator and self-proclaimed hermit who lives under a rock Athena Greene talks to Nathan about artificial intelligence, irony, artifice, thoughts, the creative process, muses, Netflix, ChatGPT, copyright infringement, electricity consumption, disturbing clichés, and so much more.
Apr 26, 2024
Apr 26, 2024
47 min
Claudia Shambaugh, the host of KUCI’s Ask a Leader, joins Nathan to discuss The Newport Beach Public Library board’s decision to move “Melissa” – a book about a 10-year-old transgender child — from the children’s section in a new appeal process that has been offered to reactionary patrons wanting to challenge decisions on where books should be shelved.
Weekly Signals
In the autumn of 2003, Nathan Callahan and Mike Kaspar created the first episodes of Weekly Signals — a news and interviews radio program broadcasting Tuesday mornings from the University of California at Irvine on KUCI 88.9 FM. Until the winter of 2009, the show included Callahan and Kaspar's take on the news of the week in a segment called Weekly Review followed by a talk with one of the world's most fascinating people. Included on the guest list were Seymour Hersh, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arianna Huffington, Joseph Wilson, Daniel Ellsberg, Errol Morris, Garrison Keillor, Helen Thomas, John Sayles, Lewis Lapham, Philip Glass, Frederick Wiseman, Thomas Frank, Paul Krugman, Terry Jones, Susan Jacoby, Chalmers Johnson, Haskell Wexler, Robert Fisk, Anne Lamott, and George McGovern. In the Winter of 2010, Weekly Signals moved from Tuesdays at 8 am to Fridays at 8 am. From March to October 2010, the Weekly Review segment was replaced by Time Out — a single topic audio diary. In June of 2010, Nathan Callahan began The SoCal Byte, a series of audio essays. In October of 2010, Weekly Signals Weekly Review was reintroduced with Mahler the Wonder Dog. In July 0f 2024, Nathan took over the reins of the program. Mike Kaspar can still be heard on KUCI's Filmschool Radio. Mahler can be heard barking in KUCI's backyard.