Going west of the Mississippi, as Tony Zaret and Aaron Bleyaert call in from L.A. and Leonard Pierce calls from San Antonio. Olivia keeps it East Coast real. Topics: Souvenirs from Alabama; when does one cut off one's relatives, if ...Read More

The panel wishes everyone a happy Thanksgiving with discussions of memory erasure, 18th century technologies to which we should return, why certain samples are used in rap music, resurrection of the Neanderthal man and woolly mammoth, and why you can't ...Read More

This week, the Wasted Words Gang and special guest RJ White of The City Desk discuss our miserable cities, our miserable public transit systems, our miserable election, our miserable futures, and pagers. Read More