I had the pleasure of guest hosting for Ed Schultz today on his radio show.

It was my first time hosting for Big Eddie, after being a guest on his show at various times over many years. We had much fun today in the bargain! My thanks to him and his crew for so generously and helpfully welcoming me aboard. My thanks also to the folks at my radio home base, KPFK/Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles, for helping us pull it all off at very short notice.

I hope you'll have fun as well, listening to the show, if you missed it live today. The entire program is archived below (sans commercials!)

My guests included three great, independent, progressive journalists (four, if you include Desi Doyen, who also joined us, as usual):

• MARCY WHEELER , from EmptyWheel.net with the latest on today's House Intel Oversight hearing on Edward Snowden's NSA disclosures.
• ARI BERMAN from The Nation to discuss the this week's Supreme Court rulings on Voting Rights and Voter registration.
• DAVID DAYEN, formerly of Firedoglake.com on his new, disturbing article in the New Republic on how mortgage service providers are strong-arming the victims of the Moore, OK tornado (and other recent natural disasters).
• PLUS! A whole bunch of other stuff, a lot of calls, and plenty of thoughts (and occasional rants) on the surveillance state and the politics of it all. As one very generous emailer wrote me after the show: "You cut right through this unfortunate 'where does that leave the President?' talk." --- Well, good! That was my hope!

The audio archives of today's show follow below. Enjoy!

(Each "Hour" actually 38 mins, now that commercials are removed.)

HOUR 1: I introduce myself to Ed Schultz listeners who may not know me. Much ranting ensues. Then, Ari Berman joins us to discuss SCOTUS and their voting rights rulings, and we fit in a quick call from someone who disagrees with me, kinda, on the NSA matter...
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HOUR 2: More NSA, as Marcy Wheeler checks in, followed by lots of phone calls for the rest of the hour!...
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HOUR 3: We talk with David Dayen about his disturbing new article; Desi Doyen joins us for some Green News Report; and we shoot it out with more callers...
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