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Currently reading Parting the Waters America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch with my friend Gabe. I usually drop music I write and record into the show, instrumental style. The PRC Show was created to entertain, make me a better person, and do something creative and constructive. Everyone now has a podcast, mine is mine, there are better. I'm a dad with two kids and work full time as a nurse.
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Chapter 16 The Fireman’s Last ReprieveMy birthday show! Albany Part II.We go back to Albany, it's the summer of 1962. King is in Albany Georgia, fighting segregation. What we learn:-Why does King get let out of jail but is upset about it, and wants to stay in!-Someone pees their pants and says “Nobody but the laundry man will know how scared I was.…
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Chapter 15 Hoover’s Triangle and King’s Machine Old Sourpuss gets a mention (WEB DuBois), Kennedy and Hoover battle, Mob and Sex Scandal, Shuttlesworth in jail, triple church bombing, King gives a negative speech, we learn more about who Jack O’Dell is, more on the tension and rivalry in the Civil Rights movement organizations, Who is Harry Wachtel…
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Albany Georgia, mass arrests! Youth lead the charge, SNCC. We learn about the Albany Movement to end segregation, and it’s origin. Tension between King, SNCC, NAACP. We are introduced to a smart sophisticated police officer, Laurie Pritchett, non brutal. Is King a distraction to the Albany Movement? Does he help or hurt? And do we have victory or f…
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Chapter 13 Moses in McComb, King in Kansas City We go deeper into the south, the deep deep south and try to do some voter registration. It does not go well. There is a debacle at the black National Baptist Convention which stains King’s reputation, and tragically there is violence in Mississippi resulting in a murder. Intro music by the Staple Sing…
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Chapter 12 The Summer of Freedom RidesMaybe our best episode yet!More details on the Freedom rides, but thankfully less violent, back and forth contention between MLK and RFK!! Who says “they don’t even believe in the atom bomb,” we see a showdown between State Government and Federal Government, we learn about challenges to Martin Luther King from …
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Chapter Eleven: Baptism on Wheels This is a sad and violent chapter, and exhibits both the best and worst of humanity. A chapter without King, but about SNCC activists and the Freedom Rides in May of 1961. Tidbits we learn in this chapter: Who used the excuse that he had to help a friend move furniture and avoid a major civil rights action (Freedom…
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JFK is the president. We start with a terrible fumigating incident to civil rights activists. King goes on TV to debate a segregationist dumb newsman. We learn about another great Pennsylvania civil rights leader, from Uniontown PA, what was the name Journey of Reconciliation’s name is changed too…(this is an easy one), why does Daddy King get booe…
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Chapter 8 Shades of Politics Who almost get's blackmailed, who I think is a slimy, but on the right side of history, we meet DSA founder Michael Harrington, we are going to learn about another saint type figure who is not religious, but is spiritual, and another Robert Graetz type character, a man doesn’t know what he’s getting into, and some NBC c…
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Chapter Seven: The QuickeningSNCC! Back to some action after the slog of chapter six.We are going to learn what is a “Sit in.” What is SNCC and who really started it?What Mayor in the South actually, comes across as good? King’s Legal Troubles.Who Paul thinks is the best looking civil rights activist, and who is also a fearless an unsung hero! What…
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Chapter Six: A Taste of the WorldThe Montgomery Bus Boycott is over, and King is firmly a national figure. In our longest episode yet, we learn who says “I don’t mind your criticizing my ideas. But I don’t like your criticizing my words, because I’m better at words than you are,” where in the world did MLK meet Vice President Richard Nixon, and wha…
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Reading Parting the Waters Episode: 004 Chapter Five The Montgomery Bus Boycott Bus Boycott Part 2! We get more into the Bus Boycott and see how it ends, learn new characters like Bayard Rustin, learn who was asking for a better type of segregation, who is the first metro sexual in Montgomery Alabama, what FAKE NEWS incident almost ruins the Bus Bo…
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Reading Parting the Waters Episode: 003 Chapter Four, The First TromboneBus Boycott Part 1! Branch takes us down into Montgomery Alabama where King establishes himself as the pastor of Dexter Ave Church. Bus Boycott background, origins and start of it. Learn what MLK adopts from his dad to help his Church increase revenue, what character Branch des…
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Chapter 3: Neibuhr And the Pool Tables.Episode 002 Reading Taylor Branch’s Parting the Waters. Paul and Gabe go over chapter three, focusing on MLKs intellectual theological journey. We discuss the social gospel and Reinhold Niebuhr and King’s struggle with his own beliefs. Is Niebuhr a jerk? We remark on King’s time in Eastern Pennsylvania at Croz…
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Episode 001 Reading Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch. A dive into the Civil Rights movement. Paul and Gabe discuss chapters one and two. A pre history to the civil rights movement. Find out what character throws themselves out of the window twice, who get’s criticized for selling vegetables in church, along with fish, what historical Black intel…
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Paul, Jake, Greg, and Liam are back from Iceland to discuss Radiohead's follow up album to their genre bending Kid A: Amnesiac. Is this just a bunch of B sides from Kid A or is this much much more?Greg talks louder, and there may actually be more insightful comments than past episodes.Enjoy track by track commentary for Amnesiac, along with some th…
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Paul and Jake and special guests Greg and Liam join us to talk about Kid A, Radiohead's best album? We talk about their change in direction and discuss if this is only headphone music. That and much more including two songs by me to open and end the show, along with my 3 year old son singing about dinosaurs.…
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Paul and Chris discuss Mark Greif's article Against Exercise. Read it here:https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3428-against-exercise-by-mark-greifShould we exercise? Do you want to live? Is spending our time exercising taking away from us thinking? Is exercise good or bad, yes that's what we talk about, seriously, this is a smart and funny talk. Thank…
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The PRC Show is hijacked again for episode 2 of "A Complete Idioteques Guide to Radiohead." Paul and Jake are back to talk about Radiohead and the band's second album, the Bends. Does Jake like Radiohead? Does Paul like every song they make? How different is The Bends from Pablo Honey? Much extemporaneous talk along with a track by track review of …
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The PRC Show is back, but get's hijacked by A Complete Idioteques Guide to Radiohead, Episode 0001 On this show we’ll be going track by track through all Radiohead’s official albums from Pablo Honey to a Moon Shaped Pool. Along with the history of the band, it’s impact on our lives, and much more extemporaneous oratory!Paul and Jake discuss early R…
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Metallurgist Tony G. talks about his career in metallurgy, a little science on metals, and his start making manhole covers for the city of Buffalo at a radical hippy foundry collective in the 1970s! Also, update on my new lifestyle change, and a some sounds from my son. Sorry for the brief loud guitar playing at the beginning. Musical break: Rachel…
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The show has moved to Pittsburgh! Thoughts on mowing a lawn. Thoughts on racism, and starting to read James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Ear (Chapter 1).Music break by Mouse on the Keys (Aom).توسط Paul Cooley Jr.
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Update on my new roommate, discussion about climate change dinialist Willie Soon, talk with voracious reader Phyllis T about the Ben Winters Sci-fi detective novels, and Josh Ferris weighing in on my views on Fox News personality Megyn Kelly; also 3 new background tracks along with a Monsters of Folk song musical break.…
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No guest this episode, but thoughts on my recent trip to a Lamaze class, my experience at a Harrisburg solidarity demonstration against racism and police brutality, and a review of the Kindle Voyage.توسط Paul Cooley Jr.
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Two separate discussions with Anthony Faino and Mae Whitt about the careers we choose. Architect Anthony Faino answers questions about the impact of Bob Villa and the importance of Legos. Journalist Mae Whitt talks about the values and interests that drive one to choose their career, along with discussing with Paul why someone would want to be a nu…
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Discussion with Anthony Faino about 1980s TV and the great theme songs. Discussion about how great Breaking Bad and how it could go wrong [no spoilers, do not worry], and a Perfect Strangers theme song tour. The World Turned Upside Down: Anti-Catholicism.توسط Paul Cooley Jr.
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