** "Let's talk about James Comey - when it comes to Comey, a couple of things..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on what all of this has to do with J.P. Morgan, Epstein, the board of directors of Lockheed Martin, some paper bags of money in some alley somewhere - and 'Dante's Inferno and the different levels of madness in the two parties...'

** "Well you know, a lot of people, they tell me that they watch the show, and they get a catharsis out of it. People say like - this is the only thing that gets me through these dark times..."

The Daily Show: A Conversation With Head Writer, Dan Amira. The Daily Show unmasked! Or at least who may be calling the shots behind the scenes, when it comes to writing the scathing satire that airs - and has somehow managed, along with South Park likewise at Comedy Central, to survive the current Trump censorship attacks. Unlike, say Zelensky impersonator, comic Max Komikadze, who has been added to the Ukraine Mirotvets Kill List.

Responding to how and who and more, that includes the satirical sorcery involved in turning all the grim news of the day into humor, Amira delves into the challenges of being funny for audiences faced with such a broken world. And which incidentally, just won the Emmy for Best Writing for a series...

** "In the cultural and political explosion that became known as the Sixties, music was an incredible unifier, and arguably the most important cultural and political form of expression - but what culminated in Woodstock, had its precursor at the Newport Folk Festival..."

Newport And The Great Folk Dream: A Conversation With filmmakers Robert Gordon and Joe Lauro. And a look back encapsulated in one memory lane recollection, 'I came in feeling I was isolated - and I left feeling there's a tremendous number of people who think like me...'

** "An even more massive French 'No' - this time joined by the combined might of the French unions..."

Bro On The Global Cultural Beat: Arts Express Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe with a second wave report from the streets of Paris - a mass movement uprising against austerity, state violence and war. Along with art essayist Shawn Grenier's then and now historical perspective on one of the most iconic revolutionary depictions on canvas, from the French barricades back then...