Program Information

#589 -- George Carlin Memorial - Part 1

Series:

Subtitle:

First of 2 parts

Program Type:

Weekly Program

Featured Speakers/Commentators:

George Carlin

Contributor:

Kenneth Dowst Contact Contributor

Date Published:

June 16, 2019, 2:16 p.m.

Summary: On the 11th anniversary of his death we celebrate the political and cultural satire of the great comedian George Carlin. We focus on the last two decades of Carlin's long career--by which time his political views had moved well left of center.

Carlin is one of the most astute critics of capitalism, imperialism, and American arrogance--and certainly the funniest. He died on June 22, 2008.

This week's sketches:
1. Religion = B.S.
2. Airlines English
3. The War on Homelessness
4. Euphemisms

Credits: Thanks to Scooter, of "The innerSide" radio program (KPFT-FM, Houston), for some of the recorded material.

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "oppressive yoke") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

Notes: More details, photos, nice links, & other good stuff on the show's Web site: http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com

You can download this installment of New World Notes--in MP3 and other formats--also from The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). The page with the download links is here: https://archive.org/download/NWN589CarlinMemorial1192k

This installment of NWN, apart from sume introductory updates, has previously been broadcast.

SERIES OVERVIEW -- Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for. "Date recorded," below, = date of first scheduled broadcast.

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