december 18

On this day in 1965, American speed skater Ken LeBel set a world record by jumping over 17 barrels while wearing ice skates.

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2-time Juno Award winner Canadian singer songwriter Kiran Ahluwalia talks about her new single "Dil" , which was first debuted as part of NPR's Tiny Desk globalFEST. Kiran’s new album Comfort Food  will be coming out April 2024.

Trumpeter, band leader and Composer Frank London of the Grammy Winning The Klezmatics just released a Chanukah Album, Chronika with his Klezmer Brass All Stars. The Healing Wisdom Radio Show speaks with Frank on WOMR. We talk about his teaching music in Crimea, what Klezmer has in common with the indigenous Tatar music, how he came to write his first soundtrack - the music for the John Sayles’ film, The Brother From Another Planet and so much more.

SEASON 2 EPISODE 58: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Sidney Powell has flipped on Trump in Georgia. And if she's flipped on Trump in Georgia, she has to have either flipped on him in Jack Smith's DC case, or is about to. Because otherwise anything she says on the stand in Atlanta could be used against her in federal court. And she may be, to quote Elmer Fudd, a scwewy wabbit, but she ain't going to Alcatwaz.

GOP's record 3793rd House Speaker vote, short version? Election denier denies election, loses by 22, convinces none of them to vote for him, decides to try it again anyway, is a f***ing idiot. It's so bad Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace have made inadvertent sex jokes about it.

GAZA LATEST: Joe Biden's speech is so unequivocal and strong it was praised by a Fox News stalwart. AND the Gaza Hospital Scam gets scammier: US Intel says the death toll is 100-300, but a European intel source tells Agence France Presse that THAT'S high and it could be as low as a dozen fatalities. Amazingly, some people will look at this as bad news.

B-Block (29:05) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Governor Jim Pillen of Nebraska, CNN trying to get a Republican debate, Iowa City banning books - but not enough.

C-Block (30:29) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: Hey, Flip My Kraken! To honor the Trump news, James Thurber's epic profile of Trump even though it was written 15 years before Trump was born: The Greatest Man In The World.

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We're taking December off to enjoy the holidays and research for next year. In the meantime, enjoy these classic episodes from the TDIHC vault, and we'll see you again on January 2nd with brand new episodes!

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