Currently reading Parting the Waters America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch with my friend Gabe. I usually drop music I write and record into the show, instrumental style. The PRC Show was created to entertain, make me a better person, and do something creative and constructive. Everyone now has a podcast, mine is mine, there are better. I'm a dad with two kids and work full time as a nurse.
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PRC Show Episode 59: Reading Parting the Waters 014
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Chapter 16 The Fireman’s Last ReprieveMy birthday show! Albany Part II.We go back to Albany, it's the summer of 1962. King is in Albany Georgia, fighting segregation. What we learn:-Why does King get let out of jail but is upset about it, and wants to stay in!-Someone pees their pants and says “Nobody but the laundry man will know how scared I was.…
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PRC Show Episode 58: Reading Parting the Waters 013
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Chapter 15 Hoover’s Triangle and King’s Machine Old Sourpuss gets a mention (WEB DuBois), Kennedy and Hoover battle, Mob and Sex Scandal, Shuttlesworth in jail, triple church bombing, King gives a negative speech, we learn more about who Jack O’Dell is, more on the tension and rivalry in the Civil Rights movement organizations, Who is Harry Wachtel…
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PRC Show Episode 57: Reading Parting the Waters 012
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Albany Georgia, mass arrests! Youth lead the charge, SNCC. We learn about the Albany Movement to end segregation, and it’s origin. Tension between King, SNCC, NAACP. We are introduced to a smart sophisticated police officer, Laurie Pritchett, non brutal. Is King a distraction to the Albany Movement? Does he help or hurt? And do we have victory or f…
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PRC Show Episode 56: Reading Parting the Waters 011
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Chapter 13 Moses in McComb, King in Kansas City We go deeper into the south, the deep deep south and try to do some voter registration. It does not go well. There is a debacle at the black National Baptist Convention which stains King’s reputation, and tragically there is violence in Mississippi resulting in a murder. Intro music by the Staple Sing…
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PRC Show Episode 55 Reading Parting the Waters 010
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Chapter 12 The Summer of Freedom RidesMaybe our best episode yet!More details on the Freedom rides, but thankfully less violent, back and forth contention between MLK and RFK!! Who says “they don’t even believe in the atom bomb,” we see a showdown between State Government and Federal Government, we learn about challenges to Martin Luther King from …
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PRC Show Episode 54: Reading Parting the Waters 009
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Chapter Eleven: Baptism on Wheels This is a sad and violent chapter, and exhibits both the best and worst of humanity. A chapter without King, but about SNCC activists and the Freedom Rides in May of 1961. Tidbits we learn in this chapter: Who used the excuse that he had to help a friend move furniture and avoid a major civil rights action (Freedom…
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PRC Show Episode 53: Reading Parting the Waters 008
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JFK is the president. We start with a terrible fumigating incident to civil rights activists. King goes on TV to debate a segregationist dumb newsman. We learn about another great Pennsylvania civil rights leader, from Uniontown PA, what was the name Journey of Reconciliation’s name is changed too…(this is an easy one), why does Daddy King get booe…
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PRC Show Episode 52: Reading Parting the Waters 007
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Chapter 8 Shades of Politics Who almost get's blackmailed, who I think is a slimy, but on the right side of history, we meet DSA founder Michael Harrington, we are going to learn about another saint type figure who is not religious, but is spiritual, and another Robert Graetz type character, a man doesn’t know what he’s getting into, and some NBC c…
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PRC Show Episode 51: Reading Parting the Waters 006
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Chapter Seven: The QuickeningSNCC! Back to some action after the slog of chapter six.We are going to learn what is a “Sit in.” What is SNCC and who really started it?What Mayor in the South actually, comes across as good? King’s Legal Troubles.Who Paul thinks is the best looking civil rights activist, and who is also a fearless an unsung hero! What…
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PRC Show Episode 50: Reading Parting the Waters 005
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Chapter Six: A Taste of the WorldThe Montgomery Bus Boycott is over, and King is firmly a national figure. In our longest episode yet, we learn who says “I don’t mind your criticizing my ideas. But I don’t like your criticizing my words, because I’m better at words than you are,” where in the world did MLK meet Vice President Richard Nixon, and wha…
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PRC Show Episode 49: Reading Parting the Waters 004
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Reading Parting the Waters Episode: 004 Chapter Five The Montgomery Bus Boycott Bus Boycott Part 2! We get more into the Bus Boycott and see how it ends, learn new characters like Bayard Rustin, learn who was asking for a better type of segregation, who is the first metro sexual in Montgomery Alabama, what FAKE NEWS incident almost ruins the Bus Bo…
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PRC Show Episode 48: Reading Parting the Waters 003
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Reading Parting the Waters Episode: 003 Chapter Four, The First TromboneBus Boycott Part 1! Branch takes us down into Montgomery Alabama where King establishes himself as the pastor of Dexter Ave Church. Bus Boycott background, origins and start of it. Learn what MLK adopts from his dad to help his Church increase revenue, what character Branch des…
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PRC Show Episode 47: Reading Parting the Waters 002
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Chapter 3: Neibuhr And the Pool Tables.Episode 002 Reading Taylor Branch’s Parting the Waters. Paul and Gabe go over chapter three, focusing on MLKs intellectual theological journey. We discuss the social gospel and Reinhold Niebuhr and King’s struggle with his own beliefs. Is Niebuhr a jerk? We remark on King’s time in Eastern Pennsylvania at Croz…
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PRC Show Episode 46: Reading Parting the Waters 001
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Episode 001 Reading Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch. A dive into the Civil Rights movement. Paul and Gabe discuss chapters one and two. A pre history to the civil rights movement. Find out what character throws themselves out of the window twice, who get’s criticized for selling vegetables in church, along with fish, what historical Black intel…
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PRC Show Episode 45: Empire of Pain Brief Comments
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Brief discussion about Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe. New songs I recorded, one electronic, one rock, instrumental of course. Update on upcoming series we'll be making.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 44: Dragon Talk with a 5 year old
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Short mini episode. Dragon talk with a 5 year old. Can the 5 year old take the tough questions about dragons. Listen for under 4 minutes and find out!By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 43: A Complete Idioteques Guide to Radiohead Episode: 0005
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Paul, Jake, Greg, and Liam are back from Iceland to discuss Radiohead's follow up album to their genre bending Kid A: Amnesiac. Is this just a bunch of B sides from Kid A or is this much much more?Greg talks louder, and there may actually be more insightful comments than past episodes.Enjoy track by track commentary for Amnesiac, along with some th…
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PRC Show Episode 42: A Complete Idioteques Guide to Radiohead: Episode 0004
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Paul and Jake and special guests Greg and Liam join us to talk about Kid A, Radiohead's best album? We talk about their change in direction and discuss if this is only headphone music. That and much more including two songs by me to open and end the show, along with my 3 year old son singing about dinosaurs.…
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PRC Show Episode 41: A Complete Idioteques Guide to Radiohead: Episode 0003
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Paul and Jake talk about Radiohead's landmark album OK Computer,along with the Radiohead's connection to Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, and a Radiohead cover song by Gillian Welch.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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Paul and Chris discuss Mark Greif's article Against Exercise. Read it here:https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3428-against-exercise-by-mark-greifShould we exercise? Do you want to live? Is spending our time exercising taking away from us thinking? Is exercise good or bad, yes that's what we talk about, seriously, this is a smart and funny talk. Thank…
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PRC Show Episode 39: A Complete Idioteques Guide to Radiohead: Episode 0002
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The PRC Show is hijacked again for episode 2 of "A Complete Idioteques Guide to Radiohead." Paul and Jake are back to talk about Radiohead and the band's second album, the Bends. Does Jake like Radiohead? Does Paul like every song they make? How different is The Bends from Pablo Honey? Much extemporaneous talk along with a track by track review of …
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PRC Show Episode 38: A Complete Idioteques guide to Radiohead: Episode 0001
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The PRC Show is back, but get's hijacked by A Complete Idioteques Guide to Radiohead, Episode 0001 On this show we’ll be going track by track through all Radiohead’s official albums from Pablo Honey to a Moon Shaped Pool. Along with the history of the band, it’s impact on our lives, and much more extemporaneous oratory!Paul and Jake discuss early R…
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First show in over a year! I have a new computer and it works!By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 36: Book reviews with Frederica
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Recorded in late 2016, a talk with Frederica about the books we read and recommend in 2016.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 35: Heavy Metal, Metallurgist Tony G.
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Metallurgist Tony G. talks about his career in metallurgy, a little science on metals, and his start making manhole covers for the city of Buffalo at a radical hippy foundry collective in the 1970s! Also, update on my new lifestyle change, and a some sounds from my son. Sorry for the brief loud guitar playing at the beginning. Musical break: Rachel…
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PRC Show Episode 34: Marathon Running with Eric
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Talk with my friend Eric about Marathon expectations and my art, and a recap of the race. More McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom talk. Lower Dens musical break.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 33: Now in Pittsburgh, Let's talk Antebellum.
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The show has moved to Pittsburgh! Thoughts on mowing a lawn. Thoughts on racism, and starting to read James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Ear (Chapter 1).Music break by Mouse on the Keys (Aom).By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 32: Tax talk and balls in the air
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Paul attempts to do a show while his 10 month old son destroys his studio, a story about challenging a well paid coworker complain about taxes, and why babies are like K-9s.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 31: Bernie Sanders Speech on Democratic Socialism
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I'm now 35! Some of Bernie Sanders's speech on Democratic Socialism, and thoughts on Pennyslvania's richest person, also a new original instrumental song.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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Back to work, FMLA is over, thoughts on Bernie Sanders, VOTE BERNIE SANDERS, sleep deprivation, live guitar playing, and my son interrupts the show to cry!By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 29: The 18 GOP Contenders, Sean Rowley
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An attempt at an encyclopedic compendium to all the 18 Republican presidential contenders, with PRC Show political expert Sean Rowley. Interruptions provided by my infant son.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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Talk about FMLA with 9 year old Lanky Jim, The World Turned Upside down segment (17th century England), music break from Land of Talk, Book Sponsor.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 27: Mark Golbach Vietnam War Conscientious Objector
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Conversation with Mark Golbach about becoming a Conscientious Objector during the Vietnam War, thoughts on American Sniper Chris Kyle, song by Joshua James, and some new tunes by me!By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 26: Assorted Chatting with Frederica
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Report back on being a vegan for several weeks, marathon training, Nation articles, infant bathing story, review of Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five and more.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 25: Wishing Ill Will, Phyllis T, Josh Ferris
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Update on my new roommate, discussion about climate change dinialist Willie Soon, talk with voracious reader Phyllis T about the Ben Winters Sci-fi detective novels, and Josh Ferris weighing in on my views on Fox News personality Megyn Kelly; also 3 new background tracks along with a Monsters of Folk song musical break.…
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PRC Show Episode 24: Happy New Year, Christmas Wrap Up.
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Discussion with my friend Frederica about the non-fiction book The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissenbaum.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 23: Lamaze, Police Brutality Protest, Kindle Voyage Review
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No guest this episode, but thoughts on my recent trip to a Lamaze class, my experience at a Harrisburg solidarity demonstration against racism and police brutality, and a review of the Kindle Voyage.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 22: Brian Windhorst, on the move and his Safari Trip
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Talk with Brian Windhorst about living in New York City and leaving, his world travels, and especially his fascinating Safari trip in South Africa.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 21: Josh Ferris, Should the Show Continue?
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A Seinfeld-esk discussion with Josh Ferris about 1 year of doing the PRC Show with thoughts on painting and art, and future episode ideas; your emails and this show's sponsor.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 20: Josh Ferris Jury Duty
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Conversation with Josh Ferris about his recent experience on jury duty from start to finish.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 19: Careers We Choose, Anthony Faino, Mae Whitt
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Two separate discussions with Anthony Faino and Mae Whitt about the careers we choose. Architect Anthony Faino answers questions about the impact of Bob Villa and the importance of Legos. Journalist Mae Whitt talks about the values and interests that drive one to choose their career, along with discussing with Paul why someone would want to be a nu…
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PRC Show Episode 18: Marina Antic and Bosnia protests; Memphis horse carriage drivers.
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PhD Marina Antic about the recent protests in Bosnia bit.ly/Mantic and her quest to go there and help out. A talk with Memphis horse carriage drivers www.carriagecomemphis.comBy Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 17 Diana Robinson Music Playing And Theory Talk
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Discussion with Diana Robinson about playing the violin and music theory; summary of the Book of Revelation; poem by Kate Buckley, some statistics; and sounds and music.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 16: 2013 Film Talk with Sean And Peter
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2013 Films, American Hustle, Wolf of Wall Street, Blue Jasmine, Gravity, Carrie, Blue is the Warmest Color, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Frances Ha, Only God Forgives, Monsters U., Blue Caprice, To the Wonder.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 15: Gabe Kramer, South Africa & Nelson Mandela
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Talk with Gabe Kramer about Nelson Mandela and South Africa, rant about ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council),and personal health talk (balls).By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 14: Josh Ferris, Letting go of the anger
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Conversation with Josh Ferris about anger and dealing with it regarding friends and or former friends and lovers. The World Turned Upside Down: Anabaptists.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 13: Erin Kramer, Prisons and Shawshank Redemption
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Talk with Erin Kramer about having a parent in Law Enforcement, prison talk and the overall brutality of them, and is the film Shawshank Redemption irresponsible?By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 12: Casey Mednis (O'Hara), Josh Ferris, Motherhood & Adulthood
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Discussion with Casey Mednis about little kids and becoming an adult. More fast food talk with co-host Josh Ferris. And questions I'd like to ask god.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 11: Sean Rowley, Rent or Buy
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Talk with Sean Rowley about the pros and cons of buying or renting a house. World Turned Upside Down: 17th Century England. Neko Case thoughts and more...By Paul Cooley Jr.
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PRC Show Episode 10: Anthony Faino, TV Talk Breaking Bad or Perfect Strangers
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Discussion with Anthony Faino about 1980s TV and the great theme songs. Discussion about how great Breaking Bad and how it could go wrong [no spoilers, do not worry], and a Perfect Strangers theme song tour. The World Turned Upside Down: Anti-Catholicism.By Paul Cooley Jr.
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