KUCI: Weekly Signals

On this week's episode, a 78-year-old billionaire, a weird obsession with crowd sizes, “happy Trump” or “angry Trump,” a staggeringly dishonest debate performance from former, Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady, 3 on 1, Abdul, strongmen, and so much more

On this week's episode, posting absurd memes, stolen valor, combat service, a laughable and even pathetic clown, true evil, MAGATS, Isaac Hayes, copyright infringement, a COVID memorial, Roger Stone, Russia, if you're listening, crowd size, objective journalism, and so on.

On this week's episode. “Meet the Billionaire,” reality TV fail, say it to my face, Citius, Altius, Fortius, Communiter, dismantling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Project 2025, Trump's Egyptian heist, and so on.

On this week's episode, neokayfabe, Mr. McMahon, the best humane alternative to genocide, the Thielverse, J.D. Vance's weird, terrifying techno-authoritarian ideas, and the Republican 2025 plan for menstrual surveillance, sexual assault, intimate-partner violence, and general stupidity.

On this week's episode, “It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,” a fascist who tried to overthrow the US government, the Trump Supreme Court's contempt for facts, banning the AR-15, a hillbilly hypocrite, Appalachian stereotypes, infinite timelines for the Pool Shed Papers Case, and so on.

On this week's episode, media bias, Republican incoherence, a basket of deplorables, the eco-disaster of Project 2025, Trump the racist, Trump the felon, Trump the liar, Trump lies constantly, Trump lies every time he opens his mouth, and Trump lies because he can.

On this week's episode, educator and self-proclaimed hermit who lives under a rock Athena Greene talks to Nathan about artificial intelligence, irony, artifice, thoughts, the creative process, muses, Netflix, ChatGPT, copyright infringement, electricity consumption, disturbing clichés, and so much more.

Claudia Shambaugh, the host of KUCI's Ask a Leader, joins Nathan to discuss The Newport Beach Public Library board's decision to move “Melissa” – a book about a 10-year-old transgender child — from the children's section in a new appeal process that has been offered to reactionary patrons wanting to challenge decisions on where books should be shelved.

Joining Nathan is Claudia Shambaugh of KUCI's Ask A Leader to talk about AI generated post-death time travel, grief bots, and Laurie Anderson's Lou Reed bot; Mike Kaspar of KUCI's Film School discussing The Balboa Cinema, The Pussycat Theater, I am Curious Yellow, and his life as a projectionist; and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog howling about wishing someone was dead.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about crucifixion, dog language, armadillos, the Fescue Belt, left-wing stuff, dealing with cows, simpler songs, Joni Mitchell, disasters, Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, engagement farming, Ronna McDaniel, strange metals, sports gambling, River Action, Martha Stewart, Godzilla, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about seeding the grounds, leftover pizza in a refrigerator, giant sequoias in the UK, asbestos in the US, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, outrage, Trump the Transgressive Comic, plausible deniability, malign Russian influence, waterfront property, the iPhone monopoly, rats eating our marijuana, sleeping on a jet, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about constitutional abortion, non-existing unidentified anomalous phenomena, alien technology, Amazonian drought, altered rain gauges, German Chocolate Cake, lead in drinking water, TikTok, car apps, robotaxis in L.A., Standard Daylight Savings Time, Miami in Alaska, football frostbite, the world's largest chocolate fountain in the world, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about, 2 drugs in 1, de-extinction, lone orcas, dzuds, the Anthropocene, MethaneSat, losing trillions of gallons of drinking water, junk fees, high wealth tax cheats, Allen Weisselberg, anti-vaccination bullshit, the rotating detonation engine, lost scholarly articles, alarm fatigue, loud fish, an Elon Musk Tesla Cybertruck, a hypervaccinated man, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about sweating thistles, snake diversity, the National Eagle Repository, wildfires in Texas, boiling microplastic, women who are psychopaths, self-immolation, presidential immunity, the Comstock Act, GenAI political ads, mixed-reality, dead rockets, Major League Baseball's new uniforms, the Boebert family, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about artificial intelligence-driven hiring platforms, the end of all things, the truth about Luddites, Exodus, Locust, nonnative earthworms, SoCal coastal radioactive waste, Sponge City, The Election Outcome Pledge, preregistration at 16, student loan forgiveness, spies in the skies, J0529-4351, Alzheimer's Stage 1, a chalk, a spark, a line, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about applied logic, poop on Everest, polluting fragrances, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, single-use plastic bags, the desecration of historical memory, the leading source of goods imported by the United States, the right to disconnect, women umpires, Waymo fires, a hidden ocean, compassionate cannibalism, nosepickers, trash compactors, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about profane parrots, wind turbine installation vessels, the Right to Mine law, high-risk A.I. systems, veterinary cannabis, stoned empathy, Russia's accidental bombings, Takata air bags, Martian gridlock, public tippling, no parking zones, Dorothy's ruby slippers, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about reusing graves, Uno, gas station heroin, cancer immunization, Sports Illustrated's troubles, The Baltimore Sun's troubles, Los Angeles Times' troubles, Pitchfork's troubles, machine-translated garbage, the human behavioral crisis, parking lots, student debt cancellation, the California State University strike, facial unrecognition, lunar bottoms up, bricking HP printers, the sale of Vroman's, losing your nose wheel, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about ashes to ashes, the world's five richest men, Eastern monarch butterflies, illegal sand mining, Greenland's ice sheet, the blood brain barrier, death in the Rio Grande, exorbitant overdraft fees, the right to vote for 16 year-olds, a primordial galaxy, a cloned rhesus monkey, recycling wine and liquor bottles, a bloody pig mask, a fetal pig, live insects, a funeral wreath, weather manipulation, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about the American Dialect Society Word of the Year, effective altruism, our growing country, feral peacocks, bad dogs, a whale Fibonacci, orange rivers, bottled water nanoplastics, internal displacements, the sacredness of the Moon, lightless craters, replacing lithium, beat perception, OCD mouse, Alabama diving, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about the state bat, field pansies, aloe vera, powder power, marine mass extinction, wastewater heating in False Creek, Chief Justice John Roberts year-end report, a virtual sexual assault, TOI-1853 b, Mickey Ears, the Russian Federal Security Service 2024 calendar, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about Tigger, Call of Cthulhu, venomous snakebites, raiding aquifers, wooden wind turbines, euthanasia, ChatGPT plagiarism, covert space missions, overmassive black hole galaxies, AI insider training, baseball rule changes, an “item of concern,” and so on.

On this week's episode, Mike, Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog, and I talk about an Orca Update, tears, the air travel tax, hurricane microplastics, a repugnant ruling, a plutonium pit, the measles, money well spent, the Vatican's plan for ending homelessness, pretextual stops, prescription meth, the emerging Coronal Mass Ejection, Commercial Lunar Payload Services, getting doored, Wilma Mankiller, the reverse cowgirl, and so on.

On this week's episode, special guest co-host Claudia Shambaugh, Nathan, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about the Word of the Year Part 2, pure carnivores, Canadian tropical fish, the wet-bulb global temperature, COP28, La Posada at the U.S./Mexico Border, Pompeii's bakery prison, Mississippi's religious vaccination exemption, Americans' prescription records, direct-sound printing, willful ignorance, emoji biodiversity, hurling a burrito, the importance of voting, and so on.

On this week's episode, special guest co-host Claudia Shambaugh, Nathan, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about the word of the year, chinstrap penguin microsleeping, better coffee, methane digesters, net metering 3.0, rescuing the Marshall Islands, Cop28, nuclear energy, hydrogen from plastic waste, the LA to Vegas bullet train, old organs, anthrobots, wine fraud, 23and Me, Junior Walker and The All Stars, and so on.

On this week's episode, special guest host Claudia Shambaugh, Nathan, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about a life-extension drug for big dogs, the Principal Odor Map, nanoplastics, the Crunch factor, the most invasive animal on the planet, flying disabled, a one-time stunt, a legal right to housing, reptile feed, Friends of Attention, CRISPR, Sports AI Illustrated, It's a Small World, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about canine infectious respiratory disease, coffee ground quantum dots, death metal orcas, Bolsa Chica Mesa, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Plant Hardiness Zone Map, the Fifth National Climate Assessment, not screaming into the void anymore, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, AI Controlled killer drones, the Kremlin's crackdown, the International Space Station, marionette bowling pins, a 24/7 car chase channel, onanism, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about unpopular science, pet vaccines, the world's largest insect farm, a flesh-eating fungus, the carrot boycott, Southern California Edison, the Supreme Court's Code of Ethics, hallucinations, Iceland's volcano, gamma ray bursts, AI hyper-realism, tree theft, a dog named Simona, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about orcas having a bit of fun, culling cocaine hippos, the hottest year, power outages, the Jurupa Oak, insect extinction, a good day for democracy, Meta's AI rules, the north hangar, robot homicide, Cruise's recall, non-hallucinogenic psychedelics, AI golf, grenades, frozen turkeys, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about vampire bats, California condors, thermoregulation, cooling a river, orca brains, lawn care pollution, Biden's AI Executive Order, subpoenaing Crow and Leo, your noses, two mysterious “blobs,” the Chicxulub impact, light evaporation, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about fluorescent flying squirrels, platypuses, extinction, sunflower sea stars, the Mirounga-Nuyina Canyon, mosquitoes, malaria, vaccines, rapid intensification, Badwater Basin, irreversible tipping points, Mike Johnson, suing Meta, Alex Jones's debt, the “Harlem Park Three”, The Debt Collective, Kamoʻoalewa, Cruise robotaxis, lowriders, one count of endangering an aircraft, a Halloween decoration, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about talking to animals, hunters and gatherers, piston-engine aircraft, Green Mountain Power, San Onofre, Army surplus, ghost guns, rolling coal, teledriving, baby hands, the whole foundation stone of conceptual art, a possible bomb on board, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about space life, Martian real estate, crashing into buildings, pink river dolphins, a palm oil alternative, groundwater pollution, a “decades-long campaign of deception”, where petroleum comes from, China's maritime expansion, a dam report card, net neutrality redux, student debt, magic mushrooms, World Athletic Shoe Regulations, a Stevie Nicks doll, stoned sheep, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about flamboyances, bait birds, fireflies, processed food addiction, night harvests, national hurt feelings, the Great Wall Society of China, Dimorphos' orbital period, natural psychedelics, nonfunctional turf, autonomous trucks, Paw Patrol snacks, a ritual mass murder, a "biohazard issue," and so on.

On this week's episode, special guest host Claudia Shambaugh, Nathan, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about, canine vaccine hesitancy, Asian hornets, invasive species, extreme heat, California's disappearing beaches, Crown Prince Mohammed bin (bonesaw) Salman, death for marriage, wage theft, meat hogs, NASA's crop monitor, the human ancestor crash, admission to Venice, Schedule 1 drugs, Mary Ann Gaido, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, And Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about Earth perched atop two long, bright red legs, one bat hanging from the ceiling, the slick gene, olive oil, China's summer, Groundwater loss, wetlands, photosynthesis fail, boat fuel cancer, virtual Putin, kidney vitrification, a 14-foot-long robotic snake, Elon's Special K, fining the abused, a legitimate penological purpose, In-N-Out loyalty rally, an ejected umpire, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about strange beings, participation, coffee grounds, skin vision, emperor penguins, Yasuní National Park, blocking news emergencies, the Judas Wolf Program, speaking through a digital avatar, regrowing teeth, stuck in the muck, AI personal life coaches, ChatGPT book bans, India on the moon, Luna-25, texting with Jesus, bad travel advice, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about high-speed evolution, gray wolves, reviving redwoods, clean energy, heatstroke insurance, Montana's clean and healthful environment, Heatwave British Petroleum, mifepristone, robotaxi porn, e-bike right-to-repair, the Mütter Museum, Pink Floyd's neuronal patterns, digital funerals, Mookie Betts, Walter Johnson, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about medical aromatherapy, roasted nuts, future-climate-suitable seedlings, ecocide, six things to know about flying with the superrich, legal nicknames, Wisconsin's dairy industry, Simon & Schuster, free-floating planets, the Tyre Extinguishers, Zoom unzooming, Antarctic berries, the Fermentation Association, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about Neanderthals, cryptobiosis, virgin birth, a trillion trees, snow sublimation, Joshua trees, saguaro cacti, apologies, fighting defeatism, Meta news blocking, nine metric tons ten stories high, Aeolis, letting kids serve alcohol, the texting judge, a new California e-bike bill, Paris' bouquinistes, Trader Joe's Unexpected Broccoli Cheddar Rocks, family pets and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about out-of-body experiences, a vegan planet, ticks, Lake Tahoe microplastics, toilet to tap, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, Hubris syndrome, turning cancer against itself, self-healing metal, We Agnostics, unidentified aerial phenomena, the Los Angeles Thread Millipede, pickleball Gandhi, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about mammals eating dinosaurs, test monkeys, CRISPR poplar trees, hot oceans, the Saudi Arabia Arizona Alfalfa Corporation, Algal Greenland, the politicization of the weather, drinking water forever chemicals, repulsive taste, toxic flame retardant in human breast milk, child firearm mortality rates, the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, Dark Stars, Alzheimer's in Southern California, union-busting, Union Beer, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about unicorn meat, bird anti-bird spikes, a salmon's sense of smell, methane-spewing holes, the Blackfeet Nation bison, Arkstorm, Farmers Insurance, solar geoengineering, superheroic white paint, over-the-counter birth control, the “thousand year veto,” cartooning industry shock waves, the lawful “thumbs-up” emoji, the richest 500 people on earth, the Week of Cone, sex at Wimbleton, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about the Orca Uprising, PFAS v pets, The Return of Tulare Lake, clear-air turbulence, the slo-mo universe, AI pollution, solar maximum, social media disinformation, Euclid, Africa's split, Diego Rivera, postmortem sperm retrieval, smartwatching Parkinson's, psychedelics, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the fake news dog talk about gravitational wave background, pollinators, tilting the globe, toxic fish, white spots/dark wings, the U.S. Bicycle Route System, cumulative poverty, rail workers sick pay, self-defense, a corporation's right to vote, selling body parts, the idiocy of fireworks, hell, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, special guest host Claudia Shambaugh, and Mahler the fake news dog talk about the virgin birth, lifelong feline birth control, OC Animal Care, Fairytale Dibrova, Sikh helmets, a new nuclear reactor, the curse of Proposition 22, Neuralink, banning books, “incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide”, the Bonesaw Tour, income-based utility bills, a lung cancer drug, Apple's auto-correct duck-up, Maryland's casino license plate, the marijuana pension plan, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk animal fat flights, the baby bust/boom, dumbing down India, Winnie the Pooh, Labor profanity, insurance in the wildfire state, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the ChatGPT law practice, the Chatbot diet, AI Armageddon, Meta in California, the Digital Services Act, lighthouses for sale, draining the reservoir, sugar bears, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk nappie homes, underskin armor, cheetahs in India, Shamu's revenge, e-skin, brain and spine implants, the death cap mushroom, the Colorado River Deal, the cooling stratosphere, which wetlands are covered by the law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, palm-print payment, correct creative thinking, hell on the rise, postdoctoral fellowships, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the Pope's pet problem, butterflies, flood gold, wildfire charges, the Chumash Sanctuary, Kevin McCarthy, air bag shrapnel, optical frequency combs, Lyme disease vaccinations, the AM for Every Vehicle Act, Warhol's Prince, ruby red slippers, cell phone distraction, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about moving to Russia, the oldest living dog, microbes digesting plastic, Turkmenistan's venting, birds changing shape, Tornado Alley East, ocean deoxygenation, greedflation, a better genome, 3-way babies, self-checkout tipping, the Sexual Predator in Chief, surviving on wine, and so on.

On this week's episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Freya the walrus, the Subway Strangler, black smoker vents, another rapid unscheduled disassembly, climate crisis pileup, bidirectional charging, hugging Jesus, the Chevron Doctrine, an RSV vaccine, digesting a planet, near-death experiences, forbidden semen, banana art, and so on.