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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Welcome to DOC TALKS FISHING, the podcast dedicated to exploring cutting-edge fisheries projects with renowned biologists from around the world. Join Liam Whetter and Gord Pyzer as they unravel the secrets that will help you reel in more and bigger walleye, bass, trout, salmon, muskies, pike and panfish. Tune in every second week as we unveil breakthroughs in fisheries science that will elevate your fishing game to the next level. DOC TALKS FISHING is your gateway to success. Let's make ever ...
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#14 || Christian Therrien: How Ciscoes Change the Life History of Predators
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Ciscoes —also known as lake herring and tulibees— are so favoured by walleye, lake trout, northern pike, bass and muskies that they seem to have a target painted on their backs. Absolutely every predator fish devours them every opportunity they get. Dr. Chris Therrien —who is known as The Cisco Kid— sits down with Gord and Liam on this week’s podca…
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#13 || Dr. Sean Landsman: Magnificent, Mysterious, Magical Muskies
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Renowned muskie scientist, Dr. Sean Landsman tells Liam and Gord on this week's podcast that he has observed muskies doing some mighty strange things. Using bio-loggers equipped with pressure sensors, Landsman says he is surprised at the number of muskies that frequent deeper water, lay on the bottom of the lake and suspend in the water column? Do …
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#12 || Becca Perry: Set Your Sights on Whitefish
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Few fish baffle anglers more than lake whitefish. They're found in countless numbers of lakes, often offering up staggering populations of big hard fighting delicious fish. But in other than a few well-known lakes in the winter, whitefish remain an enigma. Rebecca Perry is an instructor at Saskatchewan Polytechnic, who has studied lake whitefish ex…
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#11 || Barry Corbett: Tracking Bass Throughout the Seasons
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Imagine surgically implanting radio tags inside 38 smallmouth bass and then tracking them on a daily basis for up to five years. The details you would learn about their habits and habitats would astound you. Well, that is what OMNR biologist Barry Corbett did on one million acre Lake of the Woods, in one of the most monumental bass tracking studies…
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#10 || Dr. Paul Cooley: The Incredible Walleye / Shiner Connection
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Any day now, an amazing pre-summer peak walleye pattern is going to explode. And it is based on something few anglers understand — the shiner spawn. Dr. Paul Cooley is the fisheries scientist who discovered the phenomenon on massive Lake Winnipeg — but it happens in every lake where walleyes eat shiners — and he tells the boys where you’ll find the…
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#9 || Baccante, Whetter and Pyzer: Walleye Tactics, Tricks and Presentations
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Nick Baccante, the Senior Research Biologist in Ontario's renown Walleye Research Unit, recently shared some amazing early season science secrets. This week, Gord and Liam take Nick's walleye words of wisdom and show you how to prepare a foolproof game plan to put more and bigger fish in the boat. Jump in with the boys and learn how to combine stat…
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#8 || Tom Brooke Jr.: The Allure of Crayfish
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There are 669 different species of crayfish, including 400 varieties in North America. And every fish finds them finger licking good. Especially, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, walleyes, yellow perch and trout. Liam and Gord spend an hour brainstorming with crayfish biologist, Tom Brooke Jr., discovering what is happening on the bottom of our fa…
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#7 || Bev Ritchie: The Walleye / Mayfly Miracle
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If you fish for walleyes (bass, trout, pike, perch, even muskies) you won't believe what you're going to learn from biologist, Bev Ritchie, who discovered that the magnificent hexigenia limbata hatch so heavily in even numbered years - like this year — that the walleyes go berserk devouring them. There are as many as 120 mayfly nymphs crawling arou…
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#6 || Nick Baccante: Spring Walleyes
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Nick Baccante helped write the book on walleyes, studying the popular sport fish as the lead Research Biologist in Ontario’s esteemed, Walleye Research Unit and as the Fish and Wildlife Section Head, for the Peace Region in British Columbia. Nick joins Liam and Gord on this week’s podcast as they talk about early season walleye behaviour and fishin…
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#5 || Dr. Bruce Tufts: Why Big Fish Matter
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Liam and Gord sit down this week with Dr. Bruce Tufts, who heads up the prestigious Freshwater Fisheries Conservation Lab at Queen’s University. Tufts explains why big walleye, bass, trout, northern pike and muskies are the rock stars of the fishing world. A 12-pound female walleye, for example, lays exponentially more eggs than three four-pound fe…
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#4 || Rob Swainson: Saving Brook Trout
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If we’re lucky we get the chance, once or twice in our life, to cross paths with someone who changes the course of history. In Rob Swainson’s case, it is the celebrated brook trout fishery associated with Lake Nipigon, the Nipigon River and the north shore of Lake Superior. Gord and Liam interview the man this week, who wouldn’t accept the fact tha…
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#3 || Chris Therrien: The Incredible World of Lake Trout
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Gord and Liam sit down this week with renown lake trout scientist, (Dr.) Chris Therrien, who has spent years studying the habits and habitat of lake trout. Chris shocks the boys explaining how cold water loving lake trout will venture to feed into the last place you'd ever expect to catch them — hot shoreline water in the middle of summer. He also …
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#2 || Kamden Glade: What do Muskies Eat?
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Unbelievable ... amazing .... mind-boggling. Choose whatever superlative you want to use and it is appropriate for this week's guest, Kamden Glade, who works for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Kamden studied the diets of muskies (northern pike, walleye and largemouth bass) using gastric lavage - the same technique employed in hospit…
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#1 || Jeff Matity: The Fascinations of Burbot
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This week Gord and Liam sit down with biologist, Jeff Matity to discuss the amazing underwater world of burbot. Did you know that burbot communicate with each other when they spawn? And that the non-breeders guard and protect the spawning grounds against intruders. We also examine the ways you can use this cutting-edge science to increase your catc…
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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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