Co-hosts John Dolan & Mark Ames

If you want to know if we're alone in the universe, who ya gonna call? We welcome back longtime friend of the show Chris Berube to discuss DAN AYKROYD UNPLUGGED ON UFOS (2005), a documentary that is, incredibly, not a bit. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://patreon.com/michaelandus Check out the official Michael & Us website and episode guide - https://michael-and-us.com/ Mike Bullard's beer promo fail - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iXgbWVcXFs Dan Aykroyd's insane Crystal Skull vodka commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwJmNaR_4hk

Both France and Germany are switching from US tech surveillance company, Palantir to French firm ChapsVision, citing a need for digital sovereignty amid security concerns over sensitive data being easily accessed by the US govt. France is also moving away from all Microsoft platforms, preferring to use software they have developed and can control. The push to divest from Microsoft was accelerated after the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor lost access to his Microsoft email account after the Trump administration sanctioned him for issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant on charges of war crimes.

• Guest: Océane Herrero, reporter for POLITICO in Paris.
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Josh Ettingermentum is back to recap Zohran’s hostile takeover of the New York Democratic Party, with his three endorsed candidates cruising to victory. We talk about this new wave of left insurgency throughout the country, what it means for the sclerotic Democratic establishment and the stillborn Abundance movement, and what we make of Zohran’s time in office overall. Plus: John Fetterman fires shots at Chapo and Hasan. Find the Ettingermentum newsletter here: https://www.ettingermentum.news/ Get CHUNKS here: https://www.patreon.com/chunkstv

Aaron is joined by Dr. Gary Aguilar to discuss the JFK assassination medical evidence and its strange history.

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“Max Holland Rescues the Warren Commission and the Nation”

‘Warren Report: The Garrison Investigation’ (CSPAN debate between Aguilar and Holland)

Special thanks to:

·         Dana Chavarria, production

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·         Michelle Boley, animated intro

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P.O.V. returns for a second series of sketches from the internet's best comedians. This week we hear a sports commentary for the green-fingered, a policeman who is very determined to tell you something, and a trailer for every true crime podcast ever.

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Recorded at The Soundhouse Studios and Guilt Free Post, London; Maximum Fun, Los Angeles; and Sonido Studios, Clydebank.

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Max Blumenthal discusses how the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran is impacting American politics and creating shocks throughout Israel. Blumenthal is the editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery. He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including Killing Gaza. The Grayzone: https://thegrayzone.com/Mysterious pay-for-play antisemitism attacks now targeting Canada. Who benefits? - https://thegrayzone.com/2026/06/22/mysterious-antisemitism-attacks-targeting-canada/Follow Prof. Glenn Diesen: Substack: https://glenndiesen.substack.com/ X/Twitter: https://x.com/Glenn_DiesenPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/glenndiesen Support the research by Prof. Glenn Diesen: PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/glenndiesenBuy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/gdiesengGo Fund Me: https://gofund.me/09ea012fBooks by Prof. Glenn Diesen: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B09FPQ4MDL

Krystal and Ryan discuss Trump holds housing bill hostage, Trump screaming match over war powers, NSPM-7 crackdown on ICE protesters, debate on AI hype.

 

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Randy Ridenour is living proof that you don’t have to be a young nerd to master Emacs and Elisp. Ridenour, a professor of Philosophy, has shown repeatedly that it’s possible for a nontechnical person to become sufficiently proficient with Emacs and Elisp to bend the editor to his will and make it work as he needs it to.

Irreal has recounted some examples of Ridenour’s past use of Elisp to customize his work environment and now there’s a new one. Lately he decided to try ghostel for his terminal emulator. He was already using ghostty as his macOS terminal emulator so the change made sense.

The change worked out well and Ridenour was pleased with the result except for one thing. With his previous Emacs terminal emulator, eat, he was able to toggle the emulator on and off easily but it didn’t work with ghostel. Rather than look for another package to solve this, he decided to fix it himself.

The desired functionality was

1. If no instance of ghostel is running, start one in the current window.
2. If there is already a ghostel instance running in another window, switch to it.
3. If there is a ghostel instance running in the current window, bury it.

Ridenour implemented that functionality with two functions. The first gets the active buffer of any running instance of ghostel or returns nil if there is none. The second function implements the three steps above in a straightforward way. The code is in his post and easy to understand so take a look if you have a similar need.

The Dead Ringers team are back to train their vocal firepower on the week’s news with an armoury of impressive impressions. This week: Andy Andy Burnham Bright, Thomas Tuchel talks tactics, and Curious Cases considers a conundrum.

Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis Macleod, Duncan Wisbey and Jess Robinson.

Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Produced by Jon Holmes Production Co-ordinator: Giulia Lopes Mazzu

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Chapo tech correspondent and AI skeptic Ed Zitron is back to mourn Our Keir, a good man struck down in his prime. What will the future hold for the UK, and are the writers foreshadowing 2029 in America? We then turn to the world of AI, where more and more companies are struggling to find an ROI on AI and OpenAI is burning unfathomable amounts of money. Plus: Elon Musk’s trillionaire status, the government banning AI models, and the cross-partisan desire to turn the clock back to 2014. Subscribe to Ed: wheresyoured.at  A discount link for 20$ off: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/oNV2MQLbgl  Get CHUNKS here: https://www.patreon.com/chunkstv

Co-hosts John Dolan & Mark Ames

Matt and Daniel are joined by Noah Kulwin and Brendan James of the Blowback podcast to discuss the US-Israel relationship with regard to their new miniseries “No Daylight,” in addition to Iran, Trump, Netanyahu, Adam Louis-Klein, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Jesse Brown, Naftali Bennett, and of course Sean Feucht.

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As you all know by now, I’m not a Google fan and generally avoid using their products. The one exception is YouTube for videos. Apparently, YouTube also has a radio channel, which is a sort of music streaming service. I listen to my music offline so I’m not interested in steaming services and even if I were, I’d probably use Apple’s or maybe the Amazon service that I get for free as an Amazon Prime member.

Still, lots of people don’t share my antipathy to Google and at least occasionally like to stream music. One such person is Álvaro Ramírez who sometimes has the urge to listen to YouTube radio channels and, being Ramírez, built an Emacs player, ytr, to do that. As usual, he built ytr to scratch and itch and is using it to experiment with its UI with the long term goal of possibly integrating it into his music player, ready-player.

Ytr is still at an early stage of development and will probably change as Ramírez gets more experience with it. It’s not yet in MELPA, of course, but you can get a copy from its GitHub repository where you’ll find installation instructions as well as a command summary.

If you have any interest in playing YouTube radio from within Emacs, take a look at Ramírez’s post and the ytr GitHub repository.

Update [2026-06-24 Wed 10:08]: Álvaro Ramírez reached out to me offline with a clarification. What ytr actually does is download the audio track from any YouTube video. As Ramírez says, often the video portion is secondary to the audio. I’ve noticed that that’s especially true for older recordings where the video portion may consist simply of a picture of the album cover or the artist.

We continue with Part 4 of our series on the Olof Palme assassination with the great and iconclastic scholar, Ola Tunander.

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Check out his series of articles on the Palme assassination, beginning here: “The Killing of PM Olof Palme: Part I (DRAFT).”

Ola is Research Professor Emeritus with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He earned his doctoral degree in 1989 with a thesis on US Maritime Strategy. Ola has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy and European security, submarine warfare, and deception operations (aka psychological operations).

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·         Casey Moore, graphics

·         Michelle Boley, animated intro

·         Mock Orange, music

 

We conclude (for now?) our series on the Olof Palme assassination with the great and iconoclastic scholar, Ola Tunander.

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Check out his series of articles on the Palme assassination, beginning here: “The Killing of PM Olof Palme: Part I (DRAFT).”

Ola is Research Professor Emeritus with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He earned his doctoral degree in 1989 with a thesis on US Maritime Strategy. Ola has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy and European security, submarine warfare, and deception operations (aka psychological operations).

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Special thanks to:

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·         Casey Moore, graphics

·         Michelle Boley, animated intro

·         Mock Orange, music

In a world of crossfit and kink-shaming, budgeting and meal prep, John Tothill presents the antidote to self-improvement.

In this episode John tackles the workplace - rejecting the nauseating barrage of self-betterment and productivity, in favour of your worst impulses and transgressions.

Listen, we all have regrets that make us wince to remember and consider booking a one-way ticket to Nepal. But do you know what the biggest killer in the UK is? That's right: shame. So come on in, darlings. Curl up with a lovely big pint of Negroni and share your naughtiest stories. John is here to celebrate your vices and absolve you of your sins. You have nothing to be ashamed of.

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Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, the former Finance Minister of Greece, and the author of numerous bestselling books. Varoufakis discusses the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and why it is likely to be implemented, how the Gulf States must adjust, and why Europe's growing irrelevance cannot be reversed with military Keynsianism and war.Follow Prof. Glenn Diesen: Substack: https://glenndiesen.substack.com/ X/Twitter: https://x.com/Glenn_DiesenPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/glenndiesen Support the research by Prof. Glenn Diesen: PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/glenndiesenBuy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/gdiesengGo Fund Me: https://gofund.me/09ea012fBooks by Prof. Glenn Diesen: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B09FPQ4MDL

Aaron and Bryce discuss recent political developments, including some spectacular examples of tolerated Israeli criminality.

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Historian Patrick Wyman returns to the show to talk about the deep history of human societies and how they can inform the current moment. The group discusses new ways of studying prehistory, the origins of agriculture, climate adaptation, the Clovis people, the long Neolithic, early farming societies, states and security, the Bronze Age collapse, and more.

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The iconic impressions show returns to lampoon the week’s biggest headlines. This week World Cup fever, Government resignations and a Downing Street haunting keep the cast busy.

Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis Macleod, Duncan Wisbey and Jess Robinson.

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A roundup of Interwar US imperialism in four Central American countries

Will and Felix are in person to celebrate two great victories this week: the IRGC and the New York Knicks. The two also review “UFC Freedom 250” on the White House lawn, with Will as our entry point into and Felix as our expert in the field of MMA. Plus: we also discuss Eric Trump’s brilliant plan to gamble on the fights.

John Mearsheimer & Sergey Karaganov discuss why Russia is under mounting pressure to restore its deterrence, which will likely escalate quickly to a nuclear strike on Europe. Mearsheimer and Karaganov agree that a nuclear strike would likely be successful to restore deterrence as the US would not respond. Prof. Karaganov is an Honorary Chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense and was an advisor for Russia's political elites for decades. Prof. Karaganov wrote speeches for Brezhnev and advised Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin. Prof. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of ChicagoFollow Prof. Glenn Diesen: Substack: https://glenndiesen.substack.com/ X/Twitter: https://x.com/Glenn_DiesenPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/glenndiesen Support the research by Prof. Glenn Diesen: PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/glenndiesenBuy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/gdiesengGo Fund Me: https://gofund.me/09ea012fBooks by Prof. Glenn Diesen: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B09FPQ4MDL

Co-hosts John Dolan & Mark Ames

Democracy Now! 2026-06-17 Wednesday

• Headlines for June 17, 2026
• "The Point Is to Spread Fear": DOJ Charges 15 with Conspiracy for Anti-ICE Protests in Minnesota
• Has Trump Had Enough of Netanyahu? Israel Defies U.S., Vows to Continue War in Lebanon
• "Journacide: The War on Truth." New Film Investigates Israel's Killing of Reporters in Lebanon

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Over at Ray on Emacs, Raymond Zeitler writes about the Emacs Diary for the June Emacs Carnival. The June topic is underappreciated Emacs built-ins and for Zeitler that’s Emacs Diary. He was a little disconcerted at first by being offered a blank screen for each entry. He wondered where his previous material went but he came to appreciate the fresh start that that blank buffer gave him. He goes on to describes some of the functions and capabilities of Diary.

I recently started keeping a personal journal too and considered using Diary—it was, of course, going to be written in Emacs in any event—but decided to simply use Org mode instead. I have an Org capture template to start a new entry—just like Zeitler’s method—but I can, of course, just bring up the journal Org file directly to see or edit anything.

I’ve found that this works well for me. I don’t write in my journal everyday, just when something worth recording happens, so I don’t care about things like when the sun rose or set, what the temperature was on that day; just what happened that I felt was worth remembering. Of course, if I did care about such things it would be easy to arrange to add them.

Or I could just use Diary. That’s the beauty of Emacs: you can make it do pretty much whatever you need it to and very often what you need is already there.

Across this podcast's long existence, we have attempted to give you a magisterial study of the art and politics of the 2000s. And no comprehensive study of that time would be complete without Jerry Seinfeld's BEE MOVIE (2007). So here, friends, is what happens when the worker bees of the world unite. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - http://patreon.com/michaelandus Check out the brand new Michael & Us online database and episode guide - https://michael-and-us.com/

The terms of the peace deal between the United States and Iran included an immediate halt to fighting on all fronts, including in Lebanon; the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz; the lifting of sanctions on Iran; the unfreezing of Iranian funds; and a massive compensation scheme being set up for Iran. But Israel's Defence Minister, Israel Katz, says IDF security forces will remain in security zones in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza indefinitely, in defiance of the deal. 

• Guest: Laura Tingle, ABC Global Affairs Editor
• Producer: Jack Schmidt

Brighty’s holiday in Bath is interrupted by Babs insisting he make amends to his sister, Flan, after he ended her engagement with the entrepreneurial industrialist Mr Poach. Unfortunately the plan to fix the wrong of meddling in his sister’s life, involves more meddling in his sister's life. Meanwhile Churley has to contend with making ‘arrangements’ for an unexpected boxing match.

Lord Christian Brighty used to be the most notorious rake of the Regency. But after a hazing ritual for a new chambermaid led to a self-inflicted cannonball injury, Brighty, compelled by the chambermaid in question - the uneducated but forthright Babigail – resolves to mend his ways. Accompanying him in his quest are Babs (elevated beyond her station to a chambermaid-cum-adviser role), and his butler, Mr Churlington (although Churley would actually prefer everything to stay exactly as it used to be).

Written by Amy Greaves & Christian Brighty

Cast: Lord Christian Brighty ….. Christian Brighty Babs ….. Jessica Knappett Churlington ….. Colin McFarlane Lady Flan Brighty ….. Jodie Mitchell Lavinia – a boxing trainer ….. Chiara Goldsmith Mr Poach – an industrialist ….. David Reed Amelia – a lady at the spa ….. Amy Greaves Pierce Egan – a boxing commentator – Jason Forbes Bob Gregson – a boxing pundit – Joz Norris

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Christian Brighty and Amy Greaves’ viral sketches based on Bridgerton, Poldark and Jane Austen have catapulted them to viral stardom, securing Christian’s place as the internet’s answer to Mr Darcy and amassing 250 million views across TikTok and Instagram (@brightybuoy). Amy and Christian both have a deep love for the work of Jane Austen, traditional regency romance (not smut), and historical romance set in the regency (smut). The first series of The Many Wrongs of Lord Christian Brighty was nominated for Best Radio Show at the Chortle Awards 2025, and listed in The i's Best Radio Comedies Ever.