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Sonic Café, that’s Laurence Jones with his cover of Stevie Wonders Higher Ground. So, hey welcome, thanks for stopping by the café, I’m your host Scott Clark and this is episode 192. This time the Sonic Café brings you an hour of cover tunes so great, they’re scary, we’ve got Pot Liquor covering the Beattles, Apollo 440 covering Blue Oyster Cult, Scary Pockets covering Radiohead… even David Byrne covering Whitney Houston … ahh to name just a few. Then later comedian Shayne Smith gives us pointers on how to handle a debt collector should he ever come knocking at your door, and finally a large Sonic Café welcome to our latest sponsor, Turlington’s Lower Back Tattoo Remover… ladies it seemed like a good idea at the time… now erase it with Turlington’s Lower Back Tattoo Remover. All that an more straight ahead as we bring you an hour of cover tunes so great they’re scary, from that little café on the Pacific Coast, we’re the Sonic Café.

Once, fishes as big as turkeys and sheep swam the seas. Now, most of their few remaining descendants would fit into a frying pan. Dr. Elliot A. Norse, president of the Marine Biology Conservation Institute in Redmond, Washington, believes that this radical reduction in the size and number of the world’s fishes comes not only from over fishing, the catching of fish at a faster rate than they can breed, but also from bottom trawling. Dr. Norse writes that bottom trawling crushes, buries, and exposes marine creatures like lobsters, crustaceans, clams, corals and sponges that live on or in the seabed, damaging or killing them. In August of 1999, Dr. Norse visited with Radio Curious to discuss the effects of bottom trawling, how and where it’s done, and some of the concerns and causes of global warming and the effects it has on the oceans. Elliott Norse recommends “The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction” by David Quammen. Originally Broadcast: November 27, 1998

An original radio theatre show each week, with most sounds culled from the previous week, about a fictional, theatrical presidency. Contradictions tell the story, with songs, skits, and clips from political news shows and late-night comedy routines. The definition of "radio theatre" is stretched here, with an updated Dickie Goodman and/or Richard Foreman-meets-mashup style sometimes, and a more straightforward take other weeks. Currently airing on 30 or 40 stations around the world, the network has ordered another 6 months of episodes. Anyone who would like to work on a production, or have their work air in this timeslot, should contact info@wgxc.org.

The opening hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ar; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; KOCF Radio, Vernan, Oregon; and others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room cyberband + other acts on the RWR Label on AppleMusic & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series for full archive.

The second hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ar; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; KOCF Radio, Vernan, Oregon; and others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room cyberband + other acts on the RWR Label on AppleMusic & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series for full archive.

The third hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ar; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; KOCF Radio, Vernan, Oregon; and others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room cyberband + other acts on the RWR Label on AppleMusic & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series for full archive.

The fourth hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ar; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; KOCF Radio, Vernan, Oregon; and others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room cyberband + other acts on the RWR Label on AppleMusic & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series for full archive.

Time for a Third Reconstruction; In Current Police Violence Protests Media Focus on Race but not Class; Kings Bay Plowshares Anti-Nuclear Weapons Defendants Face Up to 20 Years in Prison.

We're crackin open the CB mic with a couple 70s trucker songs from Dick Curless. The magic orgen grinder returns...and a catbox cover song that....well, we'll leave it to your ears to decide how painful it is, while we also da da dalight your ears with an infectious ear worm. From one extreme to another...yes, it's our show.

Coco Das on George Floyd and the need for people to stay in the streets to drive out the fascist Trump-Pence regime. Trevor Timm, the persecution of whistleblower Reality Winner, and hundreds of police attacks on journalists during the George Floyd protests. Bob Avakian, “Demonization, Criminalization And Deportations Of Immigrants,” and “Male Supremacy: Stitched Together With Capitalism.”

Dr. Michael Osterholm had told USA Today earlier this year: ‘We're just in the second inning of a nine-inning game’ That's why members of the Midway Chamber of Commerce in Minnesota met with him on line on June 12, 2020. He gave an update and they asked him questions. Dr. Osterholm holds many titles and functions at the University of Minnesota, among them Regents Professor in Public Health, and he is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP). They work to prevent illness and death from infectious disease. CIDRAP translates scientific information into real-world, practical applications, policies, and solutions. Osterholm is the author of the 2017 book, Deadliest Enemy - Our War Against Killer Germs. He not only details the most pressing infectious disease threats of our day but, most importantly, lays out a nine-point strategy on how to address them. Preventing a global flu pandemic is at the top of the list. Thanks to Chad Kudas, executive director of the Midway Chamber of Commerce. He hosted this interview with Prof. Osterholm on June 12, 2020.

Dr. Michael Osterholm had told USA Today earlier this year: ‘We're just in the second inning of a nine-inning game’ That's why members of the Midway Chamber of Commerce in Minnesota met with him on line on June 12, 2020. He gave an update and they asked him questions. Dr. Osterholm holds many titles and functions at the University of Minnesota, among them Regents Professor in Public Health, and he is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP). They work to prevent illness and death from infectious disease. CIDRAP translates scientific information into real-world, practical applications, policies, and solutions. Osterholm is the author of the 2017 book, Deadliest Enemy - Our War Against Killer Germs. He not only details the most pressing infectious disease threats of our day but, most importantly, lays out a nine-point strategy on how to address them. Preventing a global flu pandemic is at the top of the list. Thanks to Chad Kudas, executive director of the Midway Chamber of Commerce. He hosted this interview with Prof. Osterholm on June 12, 2020.

In his book "Lies My Teacher Told Me," James Loewen writes that "race is the sharpest and deepest division in American life." We recognize the peaceful protests that have emerged in the wake of the murder of George Floyd as a force for healing, and for addressing our nation's shameful history surrounding race. Millions of Americans of all ages, races, ethnicities, and identities are taking to the streets to support the Black Lives Matter movement. It appears that white America is finally waking up and acknowledging that being "not racist" won't undo the pervasive racism in our collective psyche -- rather, we must be actively antiracist. This week on Sea Change Radio, we welcome Castle Redmond, a senior program manager from The California Endowment to discuss why this moment feels different. He helps put the images of looting we're seeing on our TV screens into historical context, and we look at the places where the environmental and racial justice movements intersect.

Sustained Protests Demand Police Accountability and Reforms to Address U.S. Structural Racism; Trump Endangers Democracy with Militarized Response to Nationwide Protests Against Police Violence; Cuba Contains the Coronavirus Pandemic at Home, and Shares That Knowledge Around the World.

Australian DJ Sveta spins house music and activism; Larry Kramer’s ACTing UP lives on; a Dutch report reveals the continuing costs of conversion therapy, a Japanese prefecture outlaws “outing”, the U.S. Republican Party peddles Trump’s anti-queer record as Pride, Wheeling, West Virginia elects the state’s first transgender official, U.S. women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe joins other LGBTQ notables in Black Lives Matter support, and more news from around the world!

Phil discusses a theme during the Summer Fundraising 2020 program: The struggles against American unilateralism and for racial equality are the same.

Sylvia speaks to author, artist and educator Dr. Gregory Cajete, an elder with of the Tewa Peoples, about the ecology of Indigenous education. Faced with the affects of colonization on the lives of indigenous people, a dominant Euro-centric education system can no longer be called neutral. How do we build bridges to the many ways of knowing how we come to know what we know.