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CinemafileGroup: The Schopenhauer Effect - Director Alexis LloydA real psychoanalyst and eight actors… GROUP: THE SCHOPENHAUER EFFECT drop us into the center of a weekly group run by Dr. Elliot Zeisel, a real New York psychoanalyst with more than 50 years of experience. Dr. Zeisel intervened and reacted in real time as he would in his actual daily practice. His presence intentionally blurs the line between performance and reality, creating live tension where fiction feeds reality and reality feeds fiction. When newcomer Alexis (Thomas Sadoski) joins a Manhattan therapy group and reveals he wants to write a TV series based on their sessions, it threatens the group’s ba...
2026-03-1018 min
CinemafileCrime & Parody - Director Will ThwaitesNearly a decade before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert came under attack for their political humor, an unknown comedian from Ohio finds himself in even more serious trouble for making fun of the government. Crime & Parody follows the story of Anthony Novak, an amateur comedian who creates a parody Facebook page mocking his local police department. The page is satire, but the police take it very seriously. They raid Anthony’s home, throw him in county jail, and charge him with a felony punishable by up to 18 months in prison. Soon national headlines mushroom and The Onion head writer Mi...
2026-02-1922 min
CinemafilePlymptoons - Animator / Director Bill PlymptonOur interview was recorded for a tribute show at NYC's Metrograph Theatre in June of 2025... Awarded by the Academy and the Festival de Cannes, a staple of Spike & Mike’s Festival of Animation programs, guest couch gag contributor on The Simpsons, and a fiercely independent artist, one-man industry Bill Plympton is the American underground animator par excellence, his meticulously hand-drawn style, with its fluid, distending line and voluptuous figures, one of the most immediately recognizable in the business. The legend himself will be joining us in the theater for two programs of his features and shorts—and will...
2025-12-2724 min
CinemafileThe Window on Death Row - Director Linda Freund & Executive Producer Mike FarrellThe Window on Death Row tells the story of Joaquín José Martínez, a Spanish citizen, who at the age of 24 was convicted of a double murder in the state of Florida. He spent the next five years behind bars, three of those on death row. With the help of the Spanish government and many of his country men, he was eventually exonerated of all charges against him. The case pitted the U.S. courts against that of the European Union and their ban on the death penalty. Nearly 20 years after his exoneration, Martínez transforms his personal trau...
2025-12-2220 min
CinemafileSwamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted - Co-directors Isaac Gale & Ryan OlsonSWAMP DOGG GETS HIS POOL PAINTED is a wildly entertaining and fittingly unconventional documentary about convention-defying singer, songwriter and record producer Jerry Williams, aka Swamp Dogg, one of the great cult figures of 20th-century American music whose singular voice and ideas have shaped the history not merely of soul music, but of country, hip-hop and a dozen other genres. In SWAMP DOGG GETS HIS POOL PAINTED, the titular artist and his “bachelor pad of aging musicians”, including the charming Guitar Shorty and lovably quirky Moogstar, navigate the tumultuous music industry, transform their home into an artistic playground and invite fell...
2025-09-0422 min
CinemafileArtfully United - Producer Chris WaltersProducer Christopher Walter’s ARTFULLY UNITED, the first feature-length documentary from his own productions company, is a celebration of the power of positivity and a reminder that hope can sometimes grow in the most unlikely of places. ARTFULLY UNITED springs from the imagination and artistry of Mike Norice who’s simple, but brilliant idea to paint striking images and messages, designed to engage and inspire, on walls and storefronts strategically located in and around distressed Los Angeles area communities. The project brought together dozens of artists and activists with a clear mandate to heal and uplift the city they call...
2025-08-0120 min
KUCI: Weekly SignalsWeird ObsessionsOn this week’s episode, a 78-year-old billionaire, a weird obsession with crowd sizes, “happy Trump” or “angry Trump,” a staggeringly dishonest debate performance from former, Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady, 3 on 1, Abdul, strongmen, and so much more
2024-09-1948 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsHold On, I’m Comin’On this week’s episode, posting absurd memes, stolen valor, combat service, a laughable and even pathetic clown, true evil, MAGATS, Isaac Hayes, copyright infringement, a COVID memorial, Roger Stone, Russia, if you’re listening, crowd size, objective journalism, and so on.
2024-08-1653 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Feast of the GodsOn this week’s episode. “Meet the Billionaire,” reality TV fail, say it to my face, Citius, Altius, Fortius, Communiter, dismantling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Project 2025, Trump’s Egyptian heist, and so on.
2024-08-0951 min
KUCI: Film SchoolEdge of Everything / Film School Radio interview with Co-directors Sophia Sobella & Pablo FeldmanStraddling the line between childhood and adulthood, 14 isn’t an easy age for anyone, least of all Abby (Sierra McCormick, The Vast of Night), who’s forced to find her way in the world after her mother’s death. On the cusp of turning 15 and at a delicate moment in life, she’s forced to move in with her father (Jason Butler Harner, Ozark) and his younger girlfriend (Sabina Friedman-Seitz). Feeling alone in the world, the angry and determined teen strikes up a possibly dangerous friendship with the carefree and rebellious Caroline (Ryan Simpkins, The Fear Street Trilogy, The House), while expl...
2024-06-2516 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Inevitable EndingJoining Nathan is Claudia Shambaugh of KUCI’s Ask A Leader to talk about AI generated post-death time travel, grief bots, and Laurie Anderson’s Lou Reed bot; Mike Kaspar of KUCI’s Film School discussing The Balboa Cinema, The Pussycat Theater, I am Curious Yellow, and his life as a projectionist; and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog howling about wishing someone was dead.
2024-04-1953 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe God Bless Hazel Motes BibleOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about crucifixion, dog language, armadillos, the Fescue Belt, left-wing stuff, dealing with cows, simpler songs, Joni Mitchell, disasters, Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, engagement farming, Ronna McDaniel, strange metals, sports gambling, River Action, Martha Stewart, Godzilla, and so on.
2024-03-3032 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Insurrectionist AnteaterOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about seeding the grounds, leftover pizza in a refrigerator, giant sequoias in the UK, asbestos in the US, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, outrage, Trump the Transgressive Comic, plausible deniability, malign Russian influence, waterfront property, the iPhone monopoly, rats eating our marijuana, sleeping on a jet, and so on.
2024-03-2233 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsShe Who SucklesOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about constitutional abortion, non-existing unidentified anomalous phenomena, alien technology, Amazonian drought, altered rain gauges, German Chocolate Cake, lead in drinking water, TikTok, car apps, robotaxis in L.A., Standard Daylight Savings Time, Miami in Alaska, football frostbite, the world’s largest chocolate fountain in the world, and so on.
2024-03-1635 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsFlushing Your BrainOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about, 2 drugs in 1, de-extinction, lone orcas, dzuds, the Anthropocene, MethaneSat, losing trillions of gallons of drinking water, junk fees, high wealth tax cheats, Allen Weisselberg, anti-vaccination bullshit, the rotating detonation engine, lost scholarly articles, alarm fatigue, loud fish, an Elon Musk Tesla Cybertruck, a hypervaccinated man, and so on.
2024-03-0935 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsHumpback SexOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about sweating thistles, snake diversity, the National Eagle Repository, wildfires in Texas, boiling microplastic, women who are psychopaths, self-immolation, presidential immunity, the Comstock Act, GenAI political ads, mixed-reality, dead rockets, Major League Baseball’s new uniforms, the Boebert family, and so on.
2024-03-0237 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Wrath of a Holy GodOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about artificial intelligence-driven hiring platforms, the end of all things, the truth about Luddites, Exodus, Locust, nonnative earthworms, SoCal coastal radioactive waste, Sponge City, The Election Outcome Pledge, preregistration at 16, student loan forgiveness, spies in the skies, J0529-4351, Alzheimer’s Stage 1, a chalk, a spark, a line, and so on.
2024-02-2435 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsDeaf RepublicansOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about applied logic, poop on Everest, polluting fragrances, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, single-use plastic bags, the desecration of historical memory, the leading source of goods imported by the United States, the right to disconnect, women umpires, Waymo fires, a hidden ocean, compassionate cannibalism, nosepickers, trash compactors, and so on.
2024-02-1641 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsYesterday’s CamelOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about profane parrots, wind turbine installation vessels, the Right to Mine law, high-risk A.I. systems, veterinary cannabis, stoned empathy, Russia’s accidental bombings, Takata air bags, Martian gridlock, public tippling, no parking zones, Dorothy’s ruby slippers, and so on.
2024-02-1036 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsPeter Navarro Behind BarsOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about reusing graves, Uno, gas station heroin, cancer immunization, Sports Illustrated's troubles, The Baltimore Sun's troubles, Los Angeles Times' troubles, Pitchfork's troubles, machine-translated garbage, the human behavioral crisis, parking lots, student debt cancellation, the California State University strike, facial unrecognition, lunar bottoms up, bricking HP printers, the sale of Vroman’s, losing your nose wheel, and so on.
2024-01-2737 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsAI RadioOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about ashes to ashes, the world's five richest men, Eastern monarch butterflies, illegal sand mining, Greenland’s ice sheet, the blood brain barrier, death in the Rio Grande, exorbitant overdraft fees, the right to vote for 16 year-olds, a primordial galaxy, a cloned rhesus monkey, recycling wine and liquor bottles, a bloody pig mask, a fetal pig, live insects, a funeral wreath, weather manipulation, and so on.
2024-01-2039 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsDark FleetsOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about the American Dialect Society Word of the Year, effective altruism, our growing country, feral peacocks, bad dogs, a whale Fibonacci, orange rivers, bottled water nanoplastics, internal displacements, the sacredness of the Moon, lightless craters, replacing lithium, beat perception, OCD mouse, Alabama diving, and so on.
2024-01-1234 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsCoral on the MoonOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about the state bat, field pansies, aloe vera, powder power, marine mass extinction, wastewater heating in False Creek, Chief Justice John Roberts year-end report, a virtual sexual assault, TOI-1853 b, Mickey Ears, the Russian Federal Security Service 2024 calendar, and so on.
2024-01-0528 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsCadmium CocoaOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about Tigger, Call of Cthulhu, venomous snakebites, raiding aquifers, wooden wind turbines, euthanasia, ChatGPT plagiarism, covert space missions, overmassive black hole galaxies, AI insider training, baseball rule changes, an “item of concern,” and so on.
2023-12-3029 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsFleecing the Holy SeeOn this week’s episode, Mike, Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog, and I talk about an Orca Update, tears, the air travel tax, hurricane microplastics, a repugnant ruling, a plutonium pit, the measles, money well spent, the Vatican’s plan for ending homelessness, pretextual stops, prescription meth, the emerging Coronal Mass Ejection, Commercial Lunar Payload Services, getting doored, Wilma Mankiller, the reverse cowgirl, and so on.
2023-12-2332 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsMagnolia SatellitesOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about canine infectious respiratory disease, coffee ground quantum dots, death metal orcas, Bolsa Chica Mesa, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Plant Hardiness Zone Map, the Fifth National Climate Assessment, not screaming into the void anymore, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, AI Controlled killer drones, the Kremlin’s crackdown, the International Space Station, marionette bowling pins, a 24/7 car chase channel, onanism, and so on.
2023-11-2533 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsA Green MonkeyOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about unpopular science, pet vaccines, the world’s largest insect farm, a flesh-eating fungus, the carrot boycott, Southern California Edison, the Supreme Court's Code of Ethics, hallucinations, Iceland’s volcano, gamma ray bursts, AI hyper-realism, tree theft, a dog named Simona, and so on.
2023-11-1832 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Flynn EffectOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about orcas having a bit of fun, culling cocaine hippos, the hottest year, power outages, the Jurupa Oak, insect extinction, a good day for democracy, Meta’s AI rules, the north hangar, robot homicide, Cruise’s recall, non-hallucinogenic psychedelics, AI golf, grenades, frozen turkeys, and so on.
2023-11-1137 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsSiren BattlesOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about vampire bats, California condors, thermoregulation, cooling a river, orca brains, lawn care pollution, Biden’s AI Executive Order, subpoenaing Crow and Leo, your noses, two mysterious “blobs,” the Chicxulub impact, light evaporation, and so on.
2023-11-0439 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsLow and SlowOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about fluorescent flying squirrels, platypuses, extinction, sunflower sea stars, the Mirounga-Nuyina Canyon, mosquitoes, malaria, vaccines, rapid intensification, Badwater Basin, irreversible tipping points, Mike Johnson, suing Meta, Alex Jones’s debt, the “Harlem Park Three”, The Debt Collective, Kamoʻoalewa, Cruise robotaxis, lowriders, one count of endangering an aircraft, a Halloween decoration, and so on.
2023-10-2829 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsArmy SurplusOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about talking to animals, hunters and gatherers, piston-engine aircraft, Green Mountain Power, San Onofre, Army surplus, ghost guns, rolling coal, teledriving, baby hands, the whole foundation stone of conceptual art, a possible bomb on board, and so on.
2023-10-2131 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsMartian Real EstateOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about space life, Martian real estate, crashing into buildings, pink river dolphins, a palm oil alternative, groundwater pollution, a “decades-long campaign of deception”, where petroleum comes from, China’s maritime expansion, a dam report card, net neutrality redux, student debt, magic mushrooms, World Athletic Shoe Regulations, a Stevie Nicks doll, stoned sheep, and so on.
2023-10-1432 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsFlowering Plants and Fire AntsOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about flamboyances, bait birds, fireflies, processed food addiction, night harvests, national hurt feelings, the Great Wall Society of China, Dimorphos’ orbital period, natural psychedelics, nonfunctional turf, autonomous trucks, Paw Patrol snacks, a ritual mass murder, a "biohazard issue," and so on.
2023-09-1632 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsA Good Deal on a Moon LandingOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, And Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about Earth perched atop two long, bright red legs, one bat hanging from the ceiling, the slick gene, olive oil, China’s summer, Groundwater loss, wetlands, photosynthesis fail, boat fuel cancer, virtual Putin, kidney vitrification, a 14-foot-long robotic snake, Elon’s Special K, fining the abused, a legitimate penological purpose, In-N-Out loyalty rally, an ejected umpire, and so on.
2023-09-0233 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsTexting with JesusOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about strange beings, participation, coffee grounds, skin vision, emperor penguins, Yasuní National Park, blocking news emergencies, the Judas Wolf Program, speaking through a digital avatar, regrowing teeth, stuck in the muck, AI personal life coaches, ChatGPT book bans, India on the moon, Luna-25, texting with Jesus, bad travel advice, and so on.
2023-08-2631 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsAnatomical and Pathological SpecimensOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about high-speed evolution, gray wolves, reviving redwoods, clean energy, heatstroke insurance, Montana’s clean and healthful environment, Heatwave British Petroleum, mifepristone, robotaxi porn, e-bike right-to-repair, the Mütter Museum, Pink Floyd’s neuronal patterns, digital funerals, Mookie Betts, Walter Johnson, and so on.
2023-08-1934 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsExperimental WatermelonsOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about medical aromatherapy, roasted nuts, future-climate-suitable seedlings, ecocide, six things to know about flying with the superrich, legal nicknames, Wisconsin’s dairy industry, Simon & Schuster, free-floating planets, the Tyre Extinguishers, Zoom unzooming, Antarctic berries, the Fermentation Association, and so on.
2023-08-1240 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsLeaning, Losing Arms and Falling OverOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about Neanderthals, cryptobiosis, virgin birth, a trillion trees, snow sublimation, Joshua trees, saguaro cacti, apologies, fighting defeatism, Meta news blocking, nine metric tons ten stories high, Aeolis, letting kids serve alcohol, the texting judge, a new California e-bike bill, Paris’ bouquinistes, Trader Joe’s Unexpected Broccoli Cheddar Rocks, family pets and so on.
2023-08-0538 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsWhat is Happening in Our Skies?On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about out-of-body experiences, a vegan planet, ticks, Lake Tahoe microplastics, toilet to tap, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, Hubris syndrome, turning cancer against itself, self-healing metal, We Agnostics, unidentified aerial phenomena, the Los Angeles Thread Millipede, pickleball Gandhi, and so on.
2023-07-2840 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsDamned FoolsOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about mammals eating dinosaurs, test monkeys, CRISPR poplar trees, hot oceans, the Saudi Arabia Arizona Alfalfa Corporation, Algal Greenland, the politicization of the weather, drinking water forever chemicals, repulsive taste, toxic flame retardant in human breast milk, child firearm mortality rates, the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, Dark Stars, Alzheimer’s in Southern California, union-busting, Union Beer, and so on.
2023-07-2142 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Billionaires’ ClubOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about unicorn meat, bird anti-bird spikes, a salmon’s sense of smell, methane-spewing holes, the Blackfeet Nation bison, Arkstorm, Farmers Insurance, solar geoengineering, superheroic white paint, over-the-counter birth control, the “thousand year veto,” cartooning industry shock waves, the lawful “thumbs-up” emoji, the richest 500 people on earth, the Week of Cone, sex at Wimbleton, and so on.
2023-07-1543 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsRolling a JointOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about the Orca Uprising, PFAS v pets, The Return of Tulare Lake, clear-air turbulence, the slo-mo universe, AI pollution, solar maximum, social media disinformation, Euclid, Africa’s split, Diego Rivera, postmortem sperm retrieval, smartwatching Parkinson’s, psychedelics, and so on.
2023-07-0732 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsRebranding AppleOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the fake news dog talk about gravitational wave background, pollinators, tilting the globe, toxic fish, white spots/dark wings, the U.S. Bicycle Route System, cumulative poverty, rail workers sick pay, self-defense, a corporation’s right to vote, selling body parts, the idiocy of fireworks, hell, and so on.
2023-06-3039 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsChatbot HallucinatingOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk animal fat flights, the baby bust/boom, dumbing down India, Winnie the Pooh, Labor profanity, insurance in the wildfire state, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the ChatGPT law practice, the Chatbot diet, AI Armageddon, Meta in California, the Digital Services Act, lighthouses for sale, draining the reservoir, sugar bears, and so on.
2023-06-0335 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsGoaty OdorsOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk nappie homes, underskin armor, cheetahs in India, Shamu’s revenge, e-skin, brain and spine implants, the death cap mushroom, the Colorado River Deal, the cooling stratosphere, which wetlands are covered by the law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, palm-print payment, correct creative thinking, hell on the rise, postdoctoral fellowships, and so on.
2023-05-2734 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Pasta CrisisOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the Pope’s pet problem, butterflies, flood gold, wildfire charges, the Chumash Sanctuary, Kevin McCarthy, air bag shrapnel, optical frequency combs, Lyme disease vaccinations, the AM for Every Vehicle Act, Warhol’s Prince, ruby red slippers, cell phone distraction, and so on.
2023-05-2036 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsFish BreathOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about moving to Russia, the oldest living dog, microbes digesting plastic, Turkmenistan’s venting, birds changing shape, Tornado Alley East, ocean deoxygenation, greedflation, a better genome, 3-way babies, self-checkout tipping, the Sexual Predator in Chief, surviving on wine, and so on.
2023-05-1332 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsChimpanzee BulliesOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Freya the walrus, the Subway Strangler, black smoker vents, another rapid unscheduled disassembly, climate crisis pileup, bidirectional charging, hugging Jesus, the Chevron Doctrine, an RSV vaccine, digesting a planet, near-death experiences, forbidden semen, banana art, and so on.
2023-05-0533 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsMore AurorasOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about feral cats, the global sea temperature, the Ispace lander, Red State gun violence, Trigger Time with Kyle Rittenhouse, Blue Checks, who killed the Chevy Bolt, suing over Climate Change, stealing a thumb, long intestines, Barbie Dolls, and so on.
2023-04-2936 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsA Rapid Unscheduled DisassemblyOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about shoplifting, fast fashion, Garbage Patch kids, slaughterhouses, the TransWest Express high-voltage transmission line, the Fox-Dominion settlement, Teargas Tuesday, very fine people on both sides, a bad boy military romance, unacceptable words, quesadillas, and so on.
2023-04-2238 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsNude HarpoOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about squirrel emigration, Killer whales, the Colorado River, Climate Crisis Fungus, the sea surge, an electric-vehicle revolution, gun rights politicians, free lunch Republicans, driverless car chaos, fake Basquiat, Art and Artifice, and so on.
2023-04-1533 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Early SpringOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about extreme polygamy, soundscape research, Climate Crisis Porn, LA DDT, Arms for Hostages, the Trump EPA, Just Say Gay, Huckabee Sanders’ “monument to the unborn”, Pornhub, IQ drops, Ai Weiwei Legos, loving Tofu, and so on.
2023-03-2532 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsMonkey LaborOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about what Caesar said, monkey labor, Brown Widows vs Black Widows, plastiglomerates, PFAS levels, death by Astroturf, The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, anti-union right-to-work laws, van Gogh in advertising, penis depiction ratios, flipping the bird, goods and chattels, and so on.
2023-03-1833 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Good Manners of a European GentlemanOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about vocal fry, eating moths, lichen sea-level readings, zombie forests, your bicarbonate of soda footprint, the new fatalism, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi, Satanist, jihadist group, unrelenting, dishonest, cruel attacks, social media abortion snitches, the Lunar Surface Electromagnetic Experiment, the good manners of a European gentleman, vegan chrism oil and so on.
2023-03-1132 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsEverything is MysticalOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about glassy-winged sharpshooters, urinating, lemon nanoparticles, the alpha wolf, laboratory monkeys, parking lot prices, recycled glass, public school teacher’s rent, greedy bastard CEO’s, Aluxes, dogs in cars, trains in tunnels, the kissing machine and so on.
2023-03-0436 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsClearly and Conspicuously LabeledOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about human hair, ants, the biggest animals to ever exist, duckweed, haemostatic microneedle technology, the Tongass National Forest, California toxic waste, Republicans cutting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, a melting liquid robot, a liquid telescope, a lunar oxygen pipeline, dog-bots, human fetal tissue, SUV pepper spray mirrors, where your rectum is, the newly elected serial liar, and so on.
2023-01-2839 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThere are No Awkward SilencesOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Peter the Anteater snot bubbles, floating farms, the Rio Verde Foothills, Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbits, the Lunar South Pole, Solar Cycle 25, Elaine Chao, compressed-air energy, your husband the polar bear, covering your arms, Ezekiel, UFOs, Times New Roman vs Calibri, fields, and so on.
2023-01-2037 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsElectric ChopsticksOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about banished words, the Weinermobile, noisy oceans, hot water, paleo valleys, the Great Salt Lake, the ozone layer, Feinstein’s seat, CUTGO, DALL-E proteins, a vaccine for honeybees, the right to repair, sugarware, Türkiye, and so on.
2023-01-1436 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsHurricane BirdsOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about a new migratory record, bison-vehicle collisions, Cape Cod septic systems, a once-in-a-career opportunity, water vapor harvesting, polling sucks, XBB.1.5, abortion pills, psychonauts, walking bacteria, melted butter, Thor, and so on.
2023-01-0639 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsHigher Than AcceptableOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the public domain, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, a Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit, beastiality, the Christian doctrine of the Sex Trinity, the George Santos Scam Culture, Covid in China, Southwest Airlines f-up, the Russian sausage magnate, pneumatic tube operators, cancer vaping, fentanyl busts, the methamphetamine library, a World War I artillery shell, and so on.
2022-12-3138 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe World’s Largest Shattered AquariumOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about spinach hallucinations, mosquitoes mutations, EU deforestation, rusting waterways, dead pool levels, J. Robert Oppenheimer, influential dimwits, hydrogel, the new state of San Bernardino, urine-adjacent aroma, unvaccinated drivers, the California Psychedelic Mental Health Bill, lead and cadmium in your dark chocolate, seeing your future in your smartphone, and so on.
2022-12-2444 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsLaboratory SunOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the vagina on a chip, snake clitorises, P-22, Firmageddon, a regional drought emergency, stopping oil and gas projects, a fusion first, the cancer vaccine, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, the Mississippi River supply chain, the last 747, the Erie Basin Auto Pound, Thomas Pynchon, the oldest narrative scene on record, and so on.
2022-12-1743 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsDeath Metal BatsOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about motherforking shirtballs, sawfish denticles, the hemispheric storm discrepancy, Arctic beavers, the UC strike, Putin propaganda, biblical principles, keeping your nose warm, golfing the Grand Canyon, the baguette, fire brains, and so on.
2022-12-1038 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Armadillo Fountain of YouthOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about circling disease, longer-lived honey bees, ecological pawprints, mega-constellations, better space weather alerts, the nuclear bomb used-parts superstore, bad stick, RIP Medical Debt, a new “roaring 20s” age of decadence, Bob Dylan Scam Culture, headbanger rats, splashless urinals, and so on.
2022-11-2539 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsCows on CannabisOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Push Button Phone Day, parking lot solar panels, Coca-Cola COP27, La Brea Tar Pits, the UC Strike, the twerps who ruined student loan forgiveness for everybody, Larry David’s FTX, Luckey’s killer headset, Full Self-Driving, the crotch air-bag, ancient truth, and so on.
2022-11-1941 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Narco MuseumOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about crow recursion, the gloomy octopus, detachable penises, pig empathy, nighttime hula dances, the wood-wide-web, edible drones, 6 billion gallons of water, the red baby ripple, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Chuckwalla National Monument, rare pink auroras, Kristallnacht cheesy chicken, Canaanite lice, the “world’s dirtiest man”, toxic masculinity, and so on.
2022-11-1138 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Candy Inflation SchemeOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about candy gouging, insect electricity, the Mississippi drought, elephant justice, endangered penguins, New Jersey vs Big Oil, Shell’s inflation scheme, fascist ecology, polling crimes, Ye, a spaghettified star, maslins, ash bats, nose picking, and so on.
2022-10-2846 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsMercenary GeneralsOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about alligator lizards, taxing cow burps, the bird flu outbreak, snow crabs, a Sisyphean trap, offshore wind energy on the West Coast, backup batteries on wheels, the Kroger-Albertsons monopoly, student loan debt relief, keeping Daylight Savings, Idaho drag, ghostguns, Republican public masturbation, playoff baseball, making America more "sex positive," and so on.
2022-10-2241 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Las Vegas Mirage Hotel and Casino Dolphin Death PoolOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about organoids, bee CBD, Jute, Coalinga water, feeding on the forest floor, wildlife population drop, two sick piglets, Florida’s surgeon general COVIDiot, gene-edited sheep, humanity’s first planetary defense test, moai statues, bull sperm, digital license plates, Walk & Roll to School Day, a Russian astronaut wedding scam, and so on.
2022-10-1544 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsBunny LawsuitsOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Biden’s cannabis pardon, penis worms, mud dragons, California’s avian flu, Hurricane real estate, The Inflation Reduction Act, the bane of artificial turf, Oz the dog killer, STIR/SHAKEN, the world’s whitest paint, Barry Bonds, hearing with your teeth, friend-of-the-court satire, and so on.
2022-10-0839 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsMagnetic FieldsOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about mosquito color preference, ant counters, a magnetic liquid robot, eagles dodging wind turbines, vultures mitigating greenhouse gases, ships dodging whales, framing DeSantis’s stupidity, space junk, volcanic mass extinctions, organic compounds on Mars, giant African land snails, the Minor League Baseball Union, human composting, stealing your kidneys and so on.
2022-09-2443 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsBlotting Out the Night SkyOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Tyre Extinguishers, Patagonia, donkey penises, high seas’ genetic resources, community solar projects, stabilizing the grid, floating solar farms, Amazon, the Internet Archive, the smell of Parkinson’s, Captagon bowls, ribbon cutting out, fake profiles of attractive women, Probey McProbeface and so on.
2022-09-1749 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe John Bonham of the ForestOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Chichi the Kharkiv chimpanzee, California condors, anti-coagulant rodenticides, domoic acid, bugs in warm soil, a private microgrid, correcting the courts, Christian HIV, WNBA out of Russia, decriminalizing psychedelics, menstrual cramps for men, and so on.
2022-09-1047 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsWind Turbine Gummy BearsOn this week’s episode, Mike, Mahler, and I talk about sensationalized spider language, the solar panel aqueduct, getting off coal, the family forest owner carbon market, Jackson, Mississippi, an accident, a suicide, foul play, fat trucks, the Disclose Act, Big Gaming’s misinformation, exoplanet carbon dioxide, moss piglets on the moon, tragically ugly illustrations, emotional and social maturity, and so on.
2022-09-0348 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsBusted and DisgustedOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler, talk about dog tears of joy, the Australian rabbit invasion, variegated snailfish antifreeze, kelp forest otters to the rescue, endangered trees, the California Air Resources Board, the Marble Freedom Trust, Saudi groundwater hijacking in Arizona, improving photosynthesis, meth-addicted dogs running wild, smuggling reptiles, poor, broke, busted, disgusted, and so on.
2022-08-2649 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsForever ChemicalsOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about hybrid species, Tasmanian Tigers, a potentially fatal herpes virus, k-leather, illegal wildlife products, Freya the walrus, taxing the Trump Organization, Fix libel, the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, Gravity Payments, two overbearing imbeciles, and so on.
2022-08-2046 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsSpider DreamsOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about sponge sneezes, hot female turtles, mad honey, a beluga swimming to Paris, restored electrical activity in human retinas, euthanasia for criminals, Emmett Till, climate change diseases, the Webb Space Telescope color wheel, electricity from perspiration, point-and-shoot cameras, stick shifts, Cracker Barrel sausage, and so on.
2022-08-1247 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Case of the Missing Climate Bike BenefitsOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about scent appeal, pig organs, mouse embryos, smothering seaweed, vanishing snow, managed retreat, Big Oil’s big profits, space debris pollution, QAnon candidates, rainwater PFAS, the Cartwheel galaxy, and so on.
2022-08-0548 min
Making Waves with Mike Pontillo#8 - David KasparIn this episode, Mike talks with David Kaspar. David has a PhD in Philosophy and is the Founder of High-Performance Stoicism.
Topics discussed are: The Philosophy of Stoicism, Stoic Principles, and how to apply them to your life.
Contact David Kaspar by email at: dkaspar@highperformancestoicism.com
Or visit his Facebook group here: https://highperformancestoicism.com/
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2022-08-022h 35KUCI: Weekly SignalsRepeatedly PeckedOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the corvid palace, the North American beaver, the hot Tour de France, heat wave Zoe, the Tyre Extinguishers, algal blooms, floating pathogens, the church over the university, necrobiotics, Alzheimer’s fraud, the Line, psychedelic naiveté, parentese, a repurposed Ferrari, robots at the Moscow Open, emu enforcement, and so on.
2022-07-2949 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsWoodpecker ConcussionsOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Moss Piglets, the cure for heart attacks, a long, never-ending plateau, COVID-19 for at least 471 straight days, Putin’s Best Ally, giant sequoias in the pyrocene, rewriting our weather history book, California gun laws, the first things to come out of the Big Bang, bananas, duct tape, and so on.
2022-07-1648 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsAn Illegal Body Part SchemeOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about accidentally legalizing edibles, Hamptons Bladder, COVID boosters, COVIDIOTS, wildfires in Alaska, evaporative demand, involuntary relocation, a gun insurance mandate, Griffith Park Drive, the Center for the Prevention of Distracted Driving, the modifiable risk factor movement, dinosaur feathers, the celebrity peanut vendor, Wax Boris, and so on.
2022-07-0946 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsTop Ten Reasons to Hate FireworksOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the Top Ten Reasons to Hate Fireworks, GanjaChicken, jumping genes in octopuses, waiting for the green man, the Golden State’s great drying, a major setback for the EPA, how to move to Canada from U.S., Snake Island, Mrs. Roy Bryant, Bruce's Beach, Ecstasy and psilocybin at the V.A., a missing flash drive, hearing dead relative's voices, Killing in the Name, Burger King, and so on.
2022-07-0145 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsA Stroller Full of AmmunitionOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about success, luck, unintended vasectomies, scammer personas, sucking up all the energy from the Sun, the Corvid Palace, the independent nation of Texas, Canadian plastics, the Kitt Peak National Observatory, origami robots, Herschel Walker, surfer scholarships, firewalking, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog’s arrest, and so on.
2022-06-2549 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsTalking Trash CansOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the popcorn shortage, catnip, phylogenetic trees, the Mr. Trash Wheel Family, how a U.S. single-payer health care would have saved 338,000 lives from COVID-19, the Colorado River system, the Yellowstone National Park flood, a trans-continental aquifer system, microplastics in fresh Antarctic snow, PlookGanja, cow burps, and so on.
2022-06-1749 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsUnidentified Aerial PhenomenaOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the James Webb Space Telescope Micrometeoroid Collision, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed, South Coast hydrologic region water-hogs, hot schools, planet-warming carbon dioxide, Social Security success, rectal cancer, Covid-sniffing dogs, the vast international horse trafficking network, the Taser drone, protecting kids from drag shows and other inappropriate displays, the human meatball, and then some.
2022-06-1147 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsEvolution’s Headbutting ChampionOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about automated voices, Corny Johnson’s oak, Poseidon’s ribbon weed, mango shortages, allergies without COVID, asteroid algorithms, your liver, the Queen’s Guard’s hats, bad hamsters, Howard Johnson’s, Mona Lisa, ElliQ, hot dog debris, and then some.
2022-06-0345 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsCrazy Snake WormsOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler crab discos, mangroves, elephant eating habits, the rattlesnake boom, hanging Mike Pence, backdoor Baptists, the Supreme Court death panel, mandatory vasectomies, Foxy Biden, shoes for diabetics, app-based driver’s licenses, Vishnu, and then some.
2022-05-2846 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Anti-Science Supreme CourtOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about cat names, paying off all student loans, using your face to climb up walls, a mystery present of mystery spiders, biocrust, wet-bulb temperatures, birds with heatstroke, the future of Covid-19, active postmortem retinas, windowless cars, futbol flatulation, and then some.
2022-05-2047 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Vatican MetaverseOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about grilled cheese sandwiches, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, a downcast, straight-faced man brightened only by the yellow $34.99 price tag on his cheek, rejuvenating aging rodents, the Hurricane Gun, cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens, blank-check companies, meme stocks, California’s two largest reservoirs, nontoxic plywood glue, bats imitating hornets, Republican first-degree murderers, and so on.
2022-05-1343 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsBanning The BibleOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the lone star tick, the Lake Mead Mafia, portable desalination, visiting asteroids, India’s heat wave, Tulsa’s concentration camps, our sorry excuse for a Supreme Court, the “jack-in-the-box” flaw, releasing California condors, Democratic primary train wrecks, MLB collusion, odd and even numbers, and so on.
2022-05-0644 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsBirthday Party Panic AttackOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Oreology, depth of field, killing contests, reptile extinction, zoonotic spillover, the electronic Twitter machine, water restriction, the definition of the word “girl,” bailing out Bezos, vault toilets, and so on.
2022-04-3047 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsWind Power Holy WarOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Jack Dorsey’s crypto crash, compound eyes, catalytic converters, sinkholes in Alaska, In the Night Kitchen, Barnes & Noble, guns, ganja, typeface prohibitions, Loch Ness, and so on.
2022-04-2248 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsBlack Market CheeseOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about bull testicles, invisible art, trophy animals, the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker, saving water, your father the rapist, the San Bernardino County sheriff's marijuana pay-off, forged COVID cards, the Santa Ana Police copyright infringement trap, Hitler’s life on the street, and so on.
2022-04-1544 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Drunken Monkey HypothesisOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Darwin’s notebooks, laying eggs, Monkey Queen redux, the BirdBot, a river’s liver, marine snow, houses out-earning humans, child marriages, wired baseball, the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, meatballs, and so on.
2022-04-0945 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsKoons on the MoonOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about what's important, jazz cancelling cancel culture, Warhol’s Prince Series, Koons on the moon, mushroom leather, the most distant single star ever seen, cryovolcanism, the Conger ice shelf, Burmese pythons, Austria’s “right to repair,” The Rapture, and then some.
2022-04-0251 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Plastic in Your BloodOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about local mountain lions, supersized goldfish, climate change in Anza-Borrego, bugs in the trees, Antelope Valley going electric, the breadbasket of Europe, a grave failure of justice, our supremely inconsistent Supreme Court, pipeline punctures, getting high on toads, gay dogs, and then some.
2022-03-2544 minKUCI: Weekly SignalsThe Longest Night ShiftOn this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about allergies during climate change, cane toads, 5G versus weather reports, poisoning bees, Lake Powell, too many trees, Sarah Bloom Raskin, Chernobyl, being careful what you ask for, Standard Time, Ai Wei Wei, smuggling snakes, and then some.
2022-03-1945 min
SynGAP10 weekly 10 minute updates on SYNGAP1Support SRF this GivingTuesday! With guest host, Caitlin Kaspar, Syngap sibling, nonprofit professionalEpisode 37 of #Syngap10 - November 26th, 2021
Support SRF this GivingTuesday! With guest host, Caitlin Kaspar, Syngap sibling, nonprofit professional
- Getting diagnosed with Syngap1 as an adult
- It’s a fact; nonprofits have overhead
- SRF founders cover all overhead! www.syngapresearchfund.org/post/7-reasons-smartdonors-fight-syngap1-via-srf
- SRF is all about transparency syngap.fund/finance
- SRF has 600K out in grants in 2021 syngap.fund/grants
- End of Year Giving
- Shop and donate at Amazon Smile bit.ly/SRF_Smile
- Giv...
2021-11-2709 min
KUCI: UCI ConversationsMike Kaspar, former presidential campaign press secretary and long-time KUCI DJMike Kaspar has been a KUCI DJ for many years. He currently hosts 'Film School' and 'Weekly Signals' every Friday morning on KUCI from 8-10am. In 1991, Mike was former Irvine Mayor Larry Agran's Press Secretary in Larry's run for the White House. It is an amazing story and very insightful into big league politics.
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