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Podcast for Octboer 8, 2011 [ 4:00:20 | 110.02 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1509)

Yesterday, Saturday, October 8, 2011, This is Hell! broadcasts live, completely unedited and uninterrupted four hour show beginning at 9 AM (US central time time) over-the air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast shortly after here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … live from London, [...]

September 24, 2011 - Hour Three - Sahr Muhammedally [ 47:09 | 43.17 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (782)

This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 24, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM. In the third hour, live from London, Sahr Muhammedally is a consultant in the Asia division of Human Rights Watch and co-authored the report, “Just Don’t Call it a Militia: Impunity, Militias, and the Afghan [...]

September 24, 2011 - Hour Two - Erica Gaston [ 1:10:24 | 64.45 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (878)

This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 24, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM. In the second hour live in-studio, Spencer ’Thunderball’ Thayer and Chuck talked about Positive Loitering and its racist implications in Chicago. Later we attempted to talk to Erica Gaston, a program officer for the Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Policy Initiative of [...]

Okay, so rather than figure out how to add a whole new correspondent category, I’ll just add here the links I mentioned on the show and a few more. That way they’ll stay connected to the show post, so that’s probably better anyway!

Vincent Bugliosi v. Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer [ 29:10 | 27.34 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (282)

Rough transcrip: So as I write this some moron is singing the national anthem at the Uptown Rib Fest just a few blocks away and the smell of dead pig marinated in sugar is wafting into my room. So I apologize if I am a little more harsh  on Mr. Bugliosi than I probably should be, but [...]

You watch too many movies, police don't need a warrant. [ 24:02 | 22.44 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (167)

Rough transcrip: One of my favorite parts of being a Copwatcher and a member of the National Lawyers Guild is a class I get to teach called “Know Your Rights.”* It’s great. I get to meet lots of people, learn from their experiences and generally get to blow their freakin minds… Seriously. You would be [...]

Folks, the Radical Pessimist is coming to a town near you!  Well, only if you are a member of the effete, sea-urchin eating, iPad for underwear, East Coast power elite in NYC or Washington DC.  But, hey, gotta start somewhere. I’ll be speaking at two events in February related to the release of The Iran Primer: [...]

Cameras Are The New Gunsa [ 18:50 | 17.52 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (125)

Rough transcrip: So, I have a confession to make. Not the kind you tell a Priest in a confessional, but the one you tell your lawyer when you’re in an holding cell.My lawyer advises me that it’s not a good idea to confess to a crime- on an international radio show, but I’m not one [...]

I was in Washington DC at the Stewart/Colbert Rally.  I went because I live in Baltimore and I was taking my Iranian friend to DC.  I showed up at the National Mall, caught whiffs of lots of doobies, and saw Dr. Rockso the Rock and Roll Clown live and in person.  But the minute I [...]

John McCain walked out of a Senate hearing last Thursday on the subject of financial fraud and abuse in the for-profit higher education industry.  The fact that I am writing the phrase “education industry” says something, doesn’t it?  You shouldn’t be surprised that McCain, from the state of Arizona, isn’t interested in hearing the sordid [...]

Chuck did a great interview with Fred Kaufman on July 10th about his article in Harpers’ magazine on the “food bubble” of 2008.  In the interview, Chuck wondered if the price hikes in basic food commodities in 2007-8 were unprecedented, and much of the interview went into detail about how the newfangled financial products on [...]