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Disclaimer: These events are told from the viewpoint of this descendant of one of the first American families. One side came over on the Mayflower; the other to colonize for the crown, participate (on both sides) in the Revolutionary War, had Lincoln as an ancestor on one side; slavers on the other, Quakers, quaffers, and a cabal of creatives from TV, movie-making to radio.
Chapter 10: Founding Fathers — Enlightenment Thinkers with ...
Disclaimer: These events are told from the viewpoint of this descendent of one of the first American families. We settled in Maryland. I’ve just returned from Holland, where the pilgrims spent 12 little-known years before going back to England to then head to the New World. I spent the summer tracing the deranged footsteps of our ancestor pilgrims.
Chapter 1: How to Flee Every Country Until You Finally Find One Without Neighbors
Hist...
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You ever wake up, stretch, and realize the nation’s steering wheel is now in the hands of a man I’ll politely call His Imperial Kumquat —...
Why Upgrade? Now that government funding has been snipped like a spaniel’s scrotum, many of us public radio vets will continue to provide unfiltered insight, irony, and the kind of “why” reporting that refuses to kiss power’s ring. Corporate coffers can’t buy integrity, but your subscription can.
If Hollywood and Washington DC had a love child during a blackout, it’d still be less chaotic and more predictable than Karel Bouley. Thi...
Why Upgrade? Now that government funding has been cut like a spaniel’s scrotum, many of us public radio vets will continue to provide unfiltered insight, irony, and the kind of “why” reporting that refuses to kiss power’s ring. Volunteering in our own careers like cockeyed Paul Reveres to get the message out. Corporate coffers can’t buy integrity, but your subscription can.
You wake up to find that the White House — the supposed te...
Why Upgrade? Now that government funding has been cut like a spaniel’s scrotum, many of us public radio vets will continue to provide unfiltered insight, irony, and the kind of “why” reporting that refuses to kiss power’s ring. Volunteering in our own careers like cockeyed Paul Reveres to get the message out. Corporate coffers can’t buy integrity, but your subscription can.
You wake up in a country that can measure everything—your ...
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Welcome to the swamp.
Here we are, chest-deep in the digital muck, where everyone’s screaming that artificial intelligence has already packed up your job, sold your...
Welcome back to The Cary Harrison Files. First, we look at how history is quite literally repeating itself and asking "what would you do"?
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Welcome back to The Cary Harrison Files. We look at the conspicuous reboot of the Soviet Union by another name. We feature an exclusive video produced for the Russian Public.
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Welcome back to The Cary Harrison Files. Here we don’t serve comfort food. We serve raw meat. We take the headlines, wring them out like a wet rag, and show you the stains underneath. The politicians, the profiteers, the holy men with dirty hands—they all end up here, dangling in our little gallery of absurdity.
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Welcome back to The Cary Harrison Files—your weekly safari into the madhouse we call civilization. This is where the myths go to die, the spin doctors get their licenses revoked, and the high priests of nonsense are dragged blinking into the light.
For many of you it will be the first time you’ve heard the voices of the actual Japan
bombardiers plus the creators of the bombs, themselves. These are the parts left out by the Oppenheim...
Welcome back to The Cary Harrison Files, where reason’s still in hiding and truth’s been subpoenaed so many times it now answers to an alias. Today’s episode: a crime so vast, so bureaucratically polite, that it almost passes as democracy.
You’re told Washington “won.” Not because of a shining beacon of support from the citizenry, but because millions of ballots—legal, living, breathing, voting human ballots—were tossed in the elect...
Today, we ask the question: What does it take to make the Cult of Washington finally eat its own? Turns out, it might just be a name scratched onto a flight log bound for Epstein Island. Now, before you start thinking this is just another case of elite rot—and it is—let’s remember the foundation. Russiagate. The original Cold War cosplay revival. A slow-motion car crash in which Russian oligarchs, kompromat artists, and wannabe Bon...
My family arrived (Mayflower crashed into Cape Cod in 1620 - mother’s side) and settled on my father’s side - Maryland 1645. Subjects of the king; property of the Crown – but here to help develop and colonize for mother England. My ancestors were among the first families, signatories of the Mayflower Compact, and later framers of the constitution. But many myths have been taught to all of us about the curious witch’s brew that late...
CARY HARRISON: So here we are again!Last week, the DNC was forced to hold their first executive meeting in 5 months. You'd think they’d rally the troops, storm the gates, do something. But instead? Three hours of absolutely nothing—live from a beige room in Little Rock, Arkansas. BUT WHY? There's a reason they do nothing, have done nothing and are not seemingly planning on doing anything. It makes sense now, but it's not what you...
The recent fires and now military presence in Los Angeles, I now volunteer on our 212,000 Watt public radio station. Defunding, marines, wildfires… and here we are. I thank you for your direct support on this platform!
CARY HARRISON: So here we are again!On this anniversary of D-Day, we see a very different Democratic Party than the one that launched us into victory over the Nazis, many years ago. Picture it: This time, our own nat...
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CARY HARRISON: So here we are again!Apparently, women now trust bears more than men in the woods. Yes—actual apex predators are beating American males in the approachability Olympics. Why? Because bears don’t mansplain. They don’t run podcasts. And they sure as hell don’t send 3 a.m. “u up?” texts. This week’s mo...
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CARY HARRISON: So here we are again!Another fine morning in the land of the free—and by “free,” I mean surveilled, manipulated, and politely asked to applaud while Congress rolls out the velvet carpet for the next all-American power grab.
They’re calling it H.R.1. But around here, we call it what it is: the “One Beautiful Bill....
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CARY HARRISON: Well, here we are again, teetering on the jagged edge of progress like a drunk tightrope walker over a canyon full of terms and conditions. This is a special edition of the Cary Harrison File, still broadcasting from inside the belly of the algorithmic beast, armed with a microphone, a moral hangover, and just e...
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Welcome back to the only program brave enough to stare into the gaping mouth of modern society and say, “Is that breath or just moral rot?”
You’re listening to Unzipped’s Half the Effort, Twice the Nerve—the broadcast equivalent of a polite middle finger. Because these days, being helpful gets...
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The Burden is a documentary series that takes listeners into the hidden places where justice is done (and undone). It dives deep into the lives of heroes and villains. And it focuses a spotlight on those who triumph even when the odds are against them. Season 5 - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish? Season 4 - The Burden: Get the Money and Run “Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Bank, bank, bank, bank, bank. In season 4 of The Burden: Get the Money and Run, we hear from Joe who was once the most prolific bank robber in Southern California, and beyond. He used disguises, body doubles, proxies. He leaped over counters, grabbed the money and ran. Even as the FBI was closing in. It was a showdown between a daring bank robber, and a patient FBI agent. Joe was no ordinary bank robber. He was bright, articulate, charismatic, and driven by a dark rage that he summoned up at will. In seven episodes, Joe tells all: the what, the how… and the why. Including why he tried to murder his father. Season 3 - The Burden: Avenger Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At 19 years old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from a cargo plane into the ocean. Miriam, along with a handful of others, will survive the camp. Then as a journalist, she will wage a decades long campaign to bring her tormentors to justice. Avenger is about one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country. Season 2 - The Burden: Empire on Blood Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent seven years to answer that question. This is the story of one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. He may prevail, but someone’s gotta pay. The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic which reached #1 on the charts when it was first released half a dozen years ago. Season 1 - The Burden In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers who all say they are innocent. They turned themselves into jailhouse-lawyers and in prison founded a lway firm. When they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away, they set their sights on taking him down. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they have a chance. For years, Scarcella insisted he did nothing wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, where he started to talk..and talk and talk. “The guilty have gone free,” he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast. Welcome to The Burden.
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