Sonic Café, where secrets hide in the static and danger lurks behind every login. That was Duran Duran’s electrified Bond theme A View to a Kill, I’m Scott Clark, and this is episode 480, This time the Sonic Café presents the return of Spy Guyz with a new digital twist—we’re calling this one Cyber Wars. You see the Cold War really never ended; it’s just gone online. From our little café out here in the Pacific Northwest, we’ll dive deep into the high-tech battlegrounds of espionage where firewalls replace safes and keyboard warriors wear no tuxedos. A place where China can spy on you through your vacuum cleaner, and packet sniffers run rampant across the Internet. Ahh yeah. Our music mix is packed with tracks any spy would love. Listen for the Luminol Test from The Woggles, Diamante from Blue States, also Chaz Jankel, Interpol, The Cure, New Order, The Killer Groove Formula and many more. So join us as we guide you through how espionage has evolved—where spies lurk in the shadows and follow every tap of your keyboard. Whether you're a seasoned secret agent, or just someone trying to remember their password, this one’s for you. So jack in, and keep that VPN close. This is Spy Guyz: Cyber Wars… and as always, we’re the Sonic Café.

Acknowledged as one of cinema's greatest productions, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now is filled with memorable dialogue, which helped the film earn its well-deserved reputation.  This week's resignations of former congressman Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzalez remind us of a specific passage in the movie, when General Corman talks about Colonel Kurtz

Ed Reinhart alias Earl Dixon, has been “boogying” his way around Mendocino County for over three decades. He has been calling himself “Rico Suave” since his last trip to Ecuador. Reinhart is best know as the king of boogie-woogie and blues. With his release in the mid 90′s of “Got Some On My Fingers”, which featured tunes he crafted, the CD was a regional hit with all of his fans and it established him as a musical force locally. He has been the front man for many local boogie/R&B bands including the “Burning Sensations”. Recently Reinhart has been living in Italy and Virginia, we began our visit by asking him what had taken him to live away from Mendocino over the last few years. Ed Reinhart visited the Radio Curious studio on the January 12, 2009. The book he recommends is “The Pillars of the Earth,” by Ken Follett.

A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. France 24, Cuba, and NHK Japan.

Join Celt In A Twist under the main tent for ScotFestBC, June 19 and 20 at Town Centre Park in Coquitlam for Celtic music you won't hear anywhere else. Plus, live entertainment from The Barra McNeils and more. Pipes and fiddles aplenty this hour with newcomers, Broom Bezzums, Haggis X-1, Cabbie Drennan + Dervish (April 26 @ The Rio) & The Ollam (April 27 @ The Pearl) You got yer Celt In A Twist!

Our ride on the global side takes us to Portugal, Brazil, Chad, Serbia, Mauritania, Mexico, Peru, Ethiopia, Dominica, Mali, Puerto Rico and Australia, touching home base in Canada along the way. Free passage, zero blockades. Call shotgun and join us for an hour of World Beat Canada.

US warships are threatening trade routes, a classic prelude to war.

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news from the week of April 9th to the 16th, 2026.

Audio interview with author Daniel Rachel, author of the new book This Ain't Rock n Roll - Pop Music, The Swastika and The Third Reich. (October 30, 2025 - Akashic Books)

The long thought lost feature "Retro Arcade" gets found again as we take a look at how old Pacman is....how gramdma may have heard the mellowed down version of some paul simon classics, and the Limburger Lounge woes a take of heart break....greasy style.

In the first half of the show, we share the latest coming from the White House beginning with the Doordash Grandma that grabbed headlines earlier this week. We then discuss Fox News’ obsession with running stories on trans people. We finish the first half by sharing the Trump administration’s thoughts on the President in their own words. For the second half of the show, we discuss Pew Research data showing an increase in unfavorable views of Israel and Netanyahu among younger voters in particular. We also discuss Kamala Harris teasing another White House run.

Trump Blockades Strait of Hormuz After Iran War Talks Collapse; US Faith Community Condemns Trump’s Immoral Iran War and his 'Blasphemous' Social Media Post; U.S. Corporate Media Fails to Call Out GOP Voter Suppression Campaign.

In 2014, Michael Slate interviewed Ilan Pappe, Israeli historian, and author of many works, including The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. This has renewed relevance today, in the context of the ongoing Israeli/US genocide in Gaza. The interview was conducted during an earlier Israeli assault.

Most of us aren’t aware of just how much carbon dioxide is emitted from biomass waste such as sawdust, forest thinnings, and agricultural residuals but woody biomass energy production emits roughly double the carbon pollution per unit of electricity of coal, and 4.5 times that of gas. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to Hannah Murnen, the Chief Technology Officer at a carbon dioxide removal startup known as Graphyte to learn more about the company and the industry as a whole. We discuss how their technology is able to safely store biomass waste that would otherwise decompose or be burned, and get a better understanding of how carbon offsets work.

Parenti quotes Winston Churchill who said to his fellow party members: "History will be kind to us because I plan to write it." Far from being an objective account of events history bears the mark of its writer, the omissions of the censors, and the interests of those who benefit from making it. Parenti shows how to take the recording of history back from politicians, the media, professors, clergy, and business people.

Judi Rever has written a very compact and readable book about Rwanda, called "Rwanda's 30-year assault on Congo." It addresses the military incursion into Congo in 1996 by Rwanda's Kagame regime. That intervention brought about the overthrow of the Congolese government of Mobutu, and set the stage for Rwanda's plunder, over the past 30 years, of Congo's natural resources on behalf of huge Western corporations. This includes Canadian banks and mining companies.

We come back in our usual stall to give you one hell of a show, filled with the weirdest news and Joe freaking out!