This weekâs archive radio show â which originally aired on Donald Trumpâs Inauguration Day last year â tries to assure you that you shouldnât freak out even though actually you should be totally freaking out.
Then we contemplate our âexceptionalâ president who now claims an âexceptionalâ mandate if for no other reason than simply because he is so âexceptionalâ.
We then suggest that in spite of surface appearance, the Republican Party now resembles a dinosaur that â while still dangerous â is actually in the midst of its death throes.
Then we point out that âpolicyâ is not made on the news or even in the White House; âpolicyâ is determined in very secret rooms by some people that are themselves so secret that you almost certainly have never even heard of them.
You can find a directory of these people at www.theyrule.net
Next, we lament the heightened persecution of âalternativeâ performance spaces in lieu of the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland.
Then we end the News & Commentary section of this weekâs show with a somewhat comedic story from our local history about how just before the Civil War, the United States and England almost went to war over a frigging pig.
Pig Wars? Only in the Thunderbolt! Listen at your own riskâ¦
This is a production of Dancing Angel Media. There is also a written version of The Thunderbolt at http://dana98501.wordpress.com/
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All of the segments in this weekâs News & Commentary section originally aired on January 20th, 2017
Segments:
Station ID 00:00-00:27
TB Intro Music: Focus 00:26-02:13
Donât Freak Out! Music: American Inauguration Band â Jimmy Dore â Laurie Anderson â Trans-Siberian Orchestra â The Swingle Singers featuring Shlomo 02:13-15:31
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