The Turning Point

From Mike Feder, host of The Turning Point. As a lot of my regular listeners know, in the last few months my shows have been sort of intermittent. The reason for this is that I’ve been having a lot of trouble with my voice. Recently I went to a voice specialist who did a pretty thorough examination and some tests—and told me that if I wanted to get my voice back into shape— specifically, into the kind of shape where I could talk on the air without constant strain—that I’m going to have to have a couple of months of extensive voice therapy—maybe even have some medical procedures done. …I’ve been on the radio nearly forty years now, talking about just about anything—personal, political and cultural—and one thing I could always rely on was that I had the ability to use my voice any way I needed to express whatever ideas and feelings I had. In the last couple of months I haven’t been able to do that the way I want to.   Some of you have gotten in touch and told me that although you understand that I’m having some physical troubles—that my show is important enough to you so that you hope I can continue anyway. This means a lot to me—just it means so much to me that, over the years, some have you have told me how much my show means to you. …I think my time on the air was/is always about three things things; first of all, simple self-expression, second, the desire to entertain people, and third, the hope that I was saying things that in some way reflected what people were feeling or thinking— and maybe even that I was saying something that was actually helpful.…I still feel that way about the radio—but I need to feel that my physical health is good enough to keep doing this. Right now, it’s just not.   So, having said all this, I want to tell you that I’m going to take a couple of months off from the show to get treatment for my voice. In the mean-time, I don’t want to lose touch with you. I want to keep you up-to-date about what’s going on (and I might also have some stories to tell and opinions to share). So I hope that if you’re not already on my mailing list, you’ll sign up for it. If you want to do this, you can go to my website: www.federfiles.com and you’ll find a place there to put your name on the list. While I’m taking this time off during the next couple of months, you’ll be hearing the best of my past shows—  and anytime you want to hear these shows you can go to: theturningpoint.podbean.comAlso, I want to urge you to keep tuning in to PRN—There’s lot of great programming on this station.   Taking this time off is a hard thing for me to do but it’s necessary. I’ll be talking to you again as soon as I can.   Thanks, Mike

Oasis and Resting Up

 Helsinki and Helsunk

Bad Boys

 True or False—or What’s the Difference?

Dear Landlord, A Personal History of Grasping  

(Expletive Un-deleted)

Immortal remains 

The Israelis, featuring Yahweh vs. The Palestinians, featuring Allah

 1) Squeaky Axles 2) Trip to Maine

1) Teachers on Strike 2) Germans get Ugly (Again).

1) A Visit to The Sperm Bank; 2) Mama’s Boys and Real Men

Spring Flowers and Mourning Doves

Part 1, Martin Luther King; Part 2, A Story of Yapping Dogs and Predatory Politicians

It CAN happen here---Passover; Tyranny and Liberation

 Moral and Historical Ignorance; Pizza and Taking Responsibility

 Technology; The Two-edged Sword Gets Sharper

Istanbul—Life, Death, and Rebirth

Attack of the Giant Me-Monster

Can an Expert Make a Mistake? … The Shaky Science of Forensics

Love at First Sight or, Sympathy for the Visually Impaired

The Minister For Loneliness

Into the Light

Brain Damage, Paternity and Playing by the Rules

 Baby, It’s Cold Inside

 Christmas Music Torture, Santa and Harassment, Christmas and Jews, Tribalism  

This Land is Your Land… maybe Not; The Department of the Interior’s Plot to Loot America.  

 Out of the Darkness  

Men, Women and Sex, part 2

Men, Power, and Violence

America’s wars on auto-pilot; Why (and how) Americans lost touch with its military—Interview with historian Andrew Bacevich

 If We Reject Science, It’s Over; “Alternative Facts” in America. Guest: Dr. Joseph Chuman 

Weinstein/Trump, The Reign of Technology and, The Boy Scouts Accept Girls, Cultural Ignorance

 Moments of silence and waving flags—worse than useless

Sports and Politics—The stain of Trump keeps spreading

Hurricanes and Homeland Security, The New War at Home.

 Walls--keeping people out, keeping people in.

 Remembering 9/11/2001

 Harvey, Irma, Donald, and natural disasters

 Houston—an interview with an old radio colleague and current resident of Houston, Scooter Skutre

 Woodstock—peace, love and civil war

 Civilization and its Malcontents.