Episode Details

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Shaenah Batterson, Dennis Riches. Subjects covered: What has been lost with the loss of handwriting and letter writing, looking back at “the covid years” and their ongoing effects, induced food scarcity, performance enhancing drugs in sports and other competitive endeavors, missiles “find” a refugee camp, an atom bomb “fell” from the sky—how language use strips of acts of war of their human agency, as in the bland official pronouncements on the Hiroshima memorial day, August 6, 2024. Music track "Baby Love" by Jack Littman, used with permission.