The Last Stop Cafe: ”The Nationals -- They’re Young, But Hard to Beat?”

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: "The Nationals -- They're Young, But Hard to Beat?"
 
Washinton Nationals Fans -- This is NOT OUR FATE!!
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
It is hard to overstate the Shakespearean pathos in Cuccherini's devotion to staying positive about one's ass getting kicked. Maybe Predator 3 needs to take over management of the Nationals. If we are going to lose, why not return to savagery? James takess us straight to the Ring, where fate awaits.
This Episode Recorded June 9, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: A Wandering Aengus

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And pluck till time and times are done...
 
 
Janet features Irish poetry -- surely the most verdant, lyrical and lush poetry of the modern era.
But I am biased!
WB Yeats, Eavan Boland, Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon top the selections for today.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded June 11, 2025
The Song of Wandering Aengus
by William Butler Yeats
 
I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were on the wing, And moth-like stars were flickering out, I dropped the berry in a stream And caught a little silver trout. When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire a-flame, But something rustled on the floor, And someone called me by my name: It had become a glimmering girl With apple blossom in her hair Who called me by my name and ran And faded through the brightening air. Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done, The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun. Source: The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Stop Kidding Yourself. This really could be the last stop....

 
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Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
Mike Cuccherini goes on the record as the Nationals are about to go into one of the longests losing streakes to a list of the nation's worsd profiessional baseball games in the history of Major League baseball, and perhaps all baseball. Still - no crying, please.
This Episode Recorded 6.2.25 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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 Yourself. This really could be the last stop....
Casey, once the mighty hope of Mudville, now a tragic oracle of endless defeat. Cuccheriniville, no one remembers anything.
 
 

Paris on the Potomac: Rubber Hitting Road

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Paris on the Potomac: Rubber Hitting Road
Don't drink the Blue Water
 

 
Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

Karen and John consider the Rubber and Road parable, which has diametrically opposed meanings. One person hears the drone of safe passage; another hears the vibrations of being run over thousands of times. Plus a Plug for Fair Trade and Friendship!
This Episode Recorded May 29, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Paris on the Potomac: If I had a billion dollars

 
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Paris on the Potomac: If I had a billion dollars
If I had a billion dollars, and the hospitals were closed, and I saw the Rough Beast of the Second Coming.....
 
That is no country for old men. The youngIn one another’s arms, birds in the trees—Those dying generations—at their song,The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer longWhatever is begotten, born, and dies.Caught in that sensual music all neglectMonuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,A tattered coat upon a stick, unlessSoul clap its hands and sing, and louder singFor every tatter in its mortal dress,Nor is there singing school but studyingMonuments of its own magnificence;And therefore I have sailed the seas and comeTo the holy city of Byzantium.
O sages standing in God’s holy fireAs in the gold mosaic of a wall,Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,And be the singing-masters of my soul.Consume my heart away; sick with desireAnd fastened to a dying animalIt knows not what it is; and gather meInto the artifice of eternity.
Once out of nature I shall never takeMy bodily form from any natural thing,But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths makeOf hammered gold and gold enamellingTo keep a drowsy Emperor awake;Or set upon a golden bough to singTo lords and ladies of ByzantiumOf what is past, or passing, or to come.
This poem is in the public domain.
Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
Karen and John : What did Jesus do after the Inns were closed at his birth? What will 'able-bodied' men do when rural WV hospitals close from defunding Medicaid, responsible for over half the births in this state?
This Episode Recorded May 16, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Is it Too Late to Stop Now?

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Is it Too Late to Stop Now?
Does Trump Want to Bring Back Dixie as the National Anthem?
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
James and John and Mike on a search for meaning: Women's professional sports?
This Episode Recorded May 12, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Paris on the Potomac: Turn Off Your TV -- The Data Center is Feeding.

 
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Paris on the Potomac: Turn Off Your TV -- The Data Center is Feeding.
A First Degree Ripoff of Jefferson County may be underway.
 
 
Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
 
Special Guest: Lucia Valentine
Lucia Valentine, a strong candidate for Delegate in Jefferson and Berkeley counties, and staff lobbyist for the West Virginia Environmental Council joins Karen and John to discuss the recent Legislative session, with emphasis on the multi-billion dollar data center investments being made in the Eastern Panhandle -- but what do the people of the Eastern Panhandle get from it?
This Episode Recorded Friday, May 9, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Labor Beat Radio: Back to 1935

 
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Labor Beat Radio: Back to 1935
The Return of "John L Lewis" is Imminent
 
 
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Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall
Description: JB John and Scott underscore the destruction of legal unionism by Trump and DOGE.
This Episode Recorded May 13, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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