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- 09 / 01 / 09 -

Another school year has begun at Stony Brook, the plusses of a campus like this, Emmanuel remembers his first days as a freshman, advice to people who find themselves in a new and intimidating environment, the danger of too much common sense, some of the strange courses people can take, how failing a class made Emmanuel's academic experience much better, Gmail is down, the dangers of Gmail, World War Two started 70 years ago today, testing the phone lines, the case of a girl held captive in California for 18 years, what this story reveals about our culture, abuse that takes place on a daily basis without any crime being committed, another racial attack in Patchogue, the justification behind hate crime laws, the fallacy of hostility based on race, the oldest dog in the world who lived nearby has died, a letter from Mutant Rob in Scotland, it's the 40th anniversary of the Internet, the surveillance culture in England, Emma Nutt was hired by the phone company as the first female operator on this day in 1878.

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September 1
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- 09 / 08 / 09 -

Summer is almost at an end, a call for on-campus calls, Obama's speech to school kids and the controversy that preceded it, trying to understand where all the hostility is coming from, reading some of the objections to the notion of Obama speaking to schools, the accusations of socialism being introduced by the Obama administration, some of the comments from the schools, the fact that other presidents have done this in the past without this level of outrage, excerpts from a highly political Bush speech to school kids, what's disturbing about some of the opposition to Obama, an excerpt from a conservative newspaper, Emmanuel's problems with the Obama administration, a puzzling poll involving health care, the danger of pulling in too many directions at once, a major difference with the health care in this country, a listener recognizes the specific elevator Emmanuel made a recording in while visiting London.

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September 8
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- 09 / 15 / 09 -

The Joe Wilson controversy, the involvement of conservative radio talk show hosts in what's going on, why what happened during the Obama speech is a real piece of history, Emmanuel's view towards controversial speakers, a week of loudmouth idiots, the way Wilson apologized after his outburst, the amount of money Wilson raised after the outburst, injecting illegal aliens into the dialogue, the fixation on socialism, how the left constantly defeats itself, the risk of injecting accusations of racism too frequently, a movie called "Creation" which focuses on evolution is unable to find a U.S. distributor because the subject matter is "too controversial," a recent poll claims only 39 percent of Americans believe in evolution, people who "get it" who live in unlikely areas, how creativity can be ruined by trying to appeal to too many people, the idea of television programs geared towards regional audiences, how regionalism can be expanded to other parts of society, the case of Serena Williams mouthing off to an official at the conclusion of a tennis match, how the situation should be dealt with, the whole Kanye West situation, the bizarre case of a suspected terrorist attack in the Potomac River on September 11th, the Iraqi shoe thrower is out of prison at last, another listener recognizes a different elevator in London that Emmanuel recorded some sound in, a letter in defense of home schooling, why it's good for kids to get out into the world, the death of Jim Carroll.

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September 15
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- 09 / 29 / 09 -

An example of how dirty the board has gotten, the stream is broken tonight, how everything seems to happen on Tuesday, what happened to Emmanuel last week, the really bad day that Emmanuel's cat had a week ago, feline civil disobedience, what the animal emergency room is like, what species of animals are not accepted, comparing animal care to human care, Emmanuel's philosophy about other forms of life, a story of a spider attached to the Smart car in Brooklyn, its ultimate fate on the drive to Long Island, a series of recordings from Byron MacGregor, how Emmanuel came upon this while encoding some really old tapes, some of the weird hits from the 70s, an awful sound that came from Pittsburgh, what LRADs are all about, what the appropriate reaction to this should be, some of the devices being introduced, more words on homogenization, more from Byron MacGregor.

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September 29
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