30:04 – Father Coughlin returns, this time in book form. Dave in Kentucky relates Coughlin’s views on fractional-reserve banking to Adam Fergusson’s book about hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic following World War I. Could it happen again in 21st Century America, just as it happened again in 21st Century Zimbabwe, or 21st Century Venezuela? And could going totally cashless accelerate the process? Inquiring minds want to know.
30:16 – Dystopia, anyone? Dave in Kentucky continues his looks at books that are only one degree of separation from being burned — or at least fried like Bacon. This episode finds common ground between the ultra-capitalist Ayn Rand’s Anthem and the inexplicably-socialist George Orwell’s 1984.
30:18 – Dave in Kentucky launches yet another new show, this one based on the “dangerous” books he is reading or has read. Will this be another abortive attempt, or will he actually make it to double-digit episodes this time? Only the alien time-travelers know for sure.
59:08 – Dave in Kentucky plays an original song about a fictional close encounter and talks about an actual one he had back in the Seventies. Also: a slightly-reedited “sex scene” featuring Joe Besser and Lou Costello, from 1949’s Africa Screams, plus more from the Ethiopic Bible, including The Book of Jubilees as well as The Book of Enoch, the Nephilim or Watchers, Azazel the metallurgist / jeweler / cosmetologist, Semjaza the community organizer / horticulturist / hoodoo man, the sons of Anak (the Anakim) and the Anunnaki, Heather Lynn’s The Anunnaki Connection, the survivors of the Great Flood, Unidentified Submersible Objects (USO’s), the Thule Society and the Master Race, the three types of aliens (Greys, Reptilians, and Nordic), Dietrich Eckart and the German Messiah, Rudolf Hess, Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, Aryan race theory, the Spear of Destiny, the Holy Grail, the Ark of the Covenant, Indiana Jones movies, Subaru cars and the Pleiades star cluster, Pleiadians, Zecharia Sitchin, V-2 rockets, the debunking of pseudoarchaeologists, and the source of the Spanish flu.
59:20 – Dave in Kentucky plays another of his songs and talks about minor-key blues, Lisa’s fifth round of chemo, THX1138, George Lucas, artificial intelligence, neXt, propaganda, Big Sky, David E. Kelley, Picket Fences, Elon Musk, freedom passes & nudge units, carrots & sticks, Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners, compensated emancipation, the tyranny of the majority, Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican Party, suggestions for future elections, Nixon vs. Kennedy, the Bill of Rights, the Moon, The Watchers in The Book of Enoch, Carl Sagan, Kindle books vs. physical books, changing history, the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987, the Tobacco Buyout of 2004, John Milton, the First Amendment and more.
1:00:39 – Dave in Kentucky plays another of his songs, and talks about hokum in general and Tampa Red & Georgia Tom in particular, plus: Thomas A. Dorsey, fourth round of chemo, canceling the concealed carry class, flattening & widening the curve, Elvis’ TVs, the election, “faces†and “heelsâ€, All in the Family, USA Red & USA Blue, nullification, Hammer’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, the documentary Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, Jack & Bobby Kennedy, George Wallace, Arthur Bremer, Taxi Driver, John Hinckley, Jr., rights vs. powers, taxidermy, Sumatran tigers & giant rats, Indonesia’s Pres. Sukarno, Komodo dragons, RFK Jr., Jeremy Bentham, utilitarianism, the panopticon, Spock’s “the needs of the many,†democracy, spasmodic dysphonia, vaccine choice, Taco Bell’s beef quesarito, Five Easy Pieces, “nudgingâ€, the “nationwide coin shortage,†roundup accounts, Amazon Rewards Points, Marlboro Miles, loyalty cards, information & privacy, cashless societies & barter, different panopticons, Nicholas Katzenbach, The Anunnaki Connection by Dr. Heather Lynn, The Book of Enoch, and much more.
58:16 – Just in time for the Halloween season, Dave in Kentucky unveils another morbid curiosity from Ye Olde Morbid Curiosity Shoppe. Topics include: Robert Johnson, cremation vs. burial, crowded family plots, cancer, mummification vs. embalming, reanimation, Steve Martin’s “King Tut”, Viking funerals, Valhalla, Jurassic Park, pyramids, secret burial chambers, curses, the importance of a Christian burial, predestination, whether the Pope is Catholic or not, the gyp of resurrection, Star Trek, Kirk and Scotty, the transporter paradox, the Nuremburg trials, transhumanism and posthumanism, Ted Williams’ frozen head, cryogenics, Sears catalogs, downloading consciousness, Glock Perfection range bags, CCW Breakaways jeans and jean shorts, pocket holsters, debasing the currency, hyperinflation, gold vs. silver, prepping, hoarding, panic buying, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem, the Nolan Chart, Dead of Night, Michael Redgrave, Twice-Told Tales, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Beverly Garland, Black Sabbath, Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Aleksei (not Leo) Tolstoy, Boris Karloff, Mario Bava (a “gialli” good fellow), Peter Cushing, Dr. Who & the Daleks and Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Christopher Lee, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Jeremy Brett, etc.
58:05 – Dave in Kentucky sings, plays and talks about health issues, life expectancy, pollution of the gene pool, Genesis, the plural Jahweh, the Trinity, polytheism vs. monotheism, Southern Baptists, Zecharia Sitchin, Frank Edward Nora, the Anunnaki, genetic engineering, Adam & Lilith & Eve (oh my), opposite-sex cloning, different varieties of giant, the Great Flood, Noah’s barbecue, Erich von Däniken, the History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” series, the Protestant Reformation, the priesthood of all believers, BLM, the Great Commission, slavery, Missionary Baptists vs. Primitive Baptists, predestination, mostly-peaceful riots in Louisville, secession, Andy Beshear, the First Amendment, C.S. Lewis, Ben Franklin, two types of turkey, drink recipes, Martin Luther, science and pseudoscience, archeology and pseudoarcheology, PCs and the Internet, Rev. Michael J.S. Carter’s Alien Scriptures: Extraterrestrials in the Holy Bible, Elohim and Nephilim, the Travel Channel’s “Dead Files” series, Amy Allan, Steve DeSchiavi, etc.
1:18:46 – Dave in Kentucky presents the final four chapters of the 1942 BBC serial Paul Temple Intervenes, starring Carl Bernard as Paul and Bernadette Hodgson as Steve, plus: the nature of language and whether the rules of grammar can or should take precedence over common usage, communication protocols on The X-Files, the manipulation of language for political purposes, the conflation of sex with gender, the cancellation of J.K. Rowling, poisons unknown to modern science and their anecdotal antidotes, and more, all packaged neatly and efficiently into one rip-snorting good time.
1:00:53 – Dave in Kentucky begins yet another new series, in which he plays some blues, expresses some views, and reviews some of his favorite things, including in this episode: the Generac whole-house standby generator, the Nutrisystem-D Uniquely Yours Plan for Men, Bragg’s Organic Apple Cider Vinegar (with the Mother), the 9mm Glock 19 Gen5 and Glock 43X, the Smith & Wesson .380 M&P Shield EZ, the Crimson Trace LaserGuard Green Laser, the LaserMax Guide Rod Laser, Azula gunbelts and holsters, and the Duluth Trading Company Longtail Tees.
