Recently in Radio Category

I listened to a fascinating podcast with the best interviewer in the English language, Chicago's WGN's Milt Rosenberg, interviewing a very smart and cogent Ron Rosenbaum with his latest book, _How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III_.

To find out how precarious nuclear strike can theoretically be and how, in fact, there have been near-misses, besides the Cuban Missile Crisis, makes me almost ill.

One story is a training program was mistakenly inserted in the Soviet computers. It appeared as though the USSR were launching 221 ballistic missiles. Leonid Brezhnev got the call in the middle of the night.

Knowing the US President would be in the dark for another four or five minutes if this were the case, Brezhnev didn't even wake his wife sleeping beside him. He thought the end was coming.

But he got a second call from his aide that it was a false alarm.

There are only three surgeons in all of the Sudan? A new country is on the cusp of being born there in the south.

Cooling "warming" global temperatures...because over half the Siberian (Russian) temperature stations were taken off line? I saw this crap displayed at the Smithsonian. Chan's been great debunking this leftist religion. A must-listen-to podcast with Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, author of Red Hot Lies, and G. Gordon Liddy.

Bangladesh--where so many annually die from the monsoons--has a population of 160 million. Wow!

Considering the heights this station achieved in the late 1980s with Gene Burns, the late Jerry Williams, and Janet Jaghelian, this amazes. How the mighty have fallen!