Filed under: Radio | Tags: Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Barack Obama, John McCain, Claire Hagan, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani, Green Tree, Barry Goldwater, Compassionate Conservativism, Health Care, Medicare, Medicaid, The Revolution: A Manifesto, Lyndon Johnson, Bureaucracy, Lobbyists, Potomac Fever, Iraq War, Gay Marriage, Third Party Candidates, Scrabble, Paul Simon
- Ron Paul Humor
The election is long over, but the 2008 presidential candidates – and their supporters — persist. Republican Congressman Ron Paul didn’t make it on the ticket in November, but his appearances in the primary debates brought him a wide crop of new supporters – including Claire Hagan, a social worker in Baltimore.
After watching him face off with the other Republican candidates last year, she found him to be the only real conservative on the stage and has been a Ron Paul convert since. No matter his ‘out-there’ reputation, Claire believes in his program for cutting government agencies, pulling out of Iraq, and abiding closely to the Constitution. She’ll even buy you a copy of his book if you show any degree of interest in him.
Produced for The Politics Show.
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Cancer, Chemotherapy, Hair Loss, Haircuts, Human Hair, India, Mullet, Pittsburgh, Synthetic Hair, Wigs
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Filed under: Radio | Tags: Pittsburgh, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Democrats, Eyeglasses, Bridgeville, Bingo, Kawasaki
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Filed under: Radio | Tags: Pittsburgh, Terrorism, Drugs, Boredom, Choice, Japan, Addiction, Video Games, Gamers, Half Life 2, Counterstrike, Team Fortress, Guns, Resurrection, Game Design, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Killing, Evil, Psychology, Star Wars, Shooters, Oppressive Society, Aliens, Rock Band, Grand Theft Auto, Game Developers, Ricardo Washington, Valve Corporation
Rick Washington
Rick Washington, a video games designer and teacher at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, explains the psychology of popular video games. He also discusses the growing field of serious video games, the four personality types of gamers, and the morality programmed into the games.
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Ancient Order of the Hibernians, Belfast, Bikers, Hitchhiking, Ireland, Irish-Americans, Kornel Andrys, Mt. Lebanon, Normandy, Northern Ireland, Pittsburgh, Poland, Service Stations, Smoking, The Celtic Cross, Tom Macic, Truck Drivers
Kornel in Normandy
This summer Kornel Andrys quit his job as an architect in Belfast and hitchhiked back home to Poland. In today’s episode, he recounts his journey: how he found truck drivers to take him, which countries were best and worst for hitchhiking, how he stayed hygienic, and whether he’d ever trade office work for life on the road.
In the second half of the show, Tom Macic, the owner of The Celtic Cross, in the South Hills of talks about his Irish shop. He sells all kinds of Irish clothing, sweets, music, and miscellany to Pittsburghers and Irish and British expats. Tom explains what sells, what tea makes American tea taste like boiled popsicle sticks, and what the Irish American scene in Pittsburgh looks like.
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Catholic Church, Our Father, Pittsburgh, Poland, Polish Americans, Polish Food, Polish Hill, Polka, Polka Mass, Strip District
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Filed under: Radio | Tags: Baseball, Dance, Parrot, Peanuts, Pierogies, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Pirates, PNC Park, Stock Market
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Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Alcohol, BBC, Belfast, Bombs, Bonfires, Bushmills Distillery, Cregagh Road, Dublin, Ethnic Minorities, Glen Side, How Now Brown Cow, Immigration, Irish-Americans, Northern Irish Accent, Orange Order, Orangefest, Parades, Pittsburgh, Red Bricks, security, USA
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Filed under: Radio | Tags: Abortion, Adoption, Adoption Agency, Armhair, Attraction, Babies, Belfast, Birth Control, Birth Parents, Bitchiness, Boat Cruise, Boredom, Boyfriends, Catholic Church, Chatting Up, Chronic Fatigue, Concentration, Detroit, Diapers, Doctors, Downs Syndrome, Drugs, Energy Ration, Family, Flab, Flirting, Foster Parent, Gender, Grandparents, Health, HIV, Illness, Insanity, Love, Marriage, ME, Memory, Motherhood, Muscle, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Names, Night-feeding, Northern Ireland, Overbathing, Physical Therapy, Pittsburgh, Pregnancy, Prenatal Care, Race, Rape, Retirement, Russia, Sex, Social Life, Special Needs, Speed Dating, Students, Susan Darin Hagan, Swearing, Teenage Pregnancy, Travel, Urine, Vodka, Waitressing, Wheelchair, Yuppie Flu
The Chair
A young Belfast woman talks frankly about life with ME (or chronic fatigue syndrome) in the first half of the show. She discusses how the illness arrived, how it induced swearing and rattiness from her, and what the trade-offs have been. Also: whether she wants people to push her in the wheelchair, her plans for family or nunhood, and how she’s found men look at women in a chair.
In the second half, foster mother Susan Hagan talks about all the babies that have come in and out of her home. She, along with her husband and family, has been fostering newborns for the past seven years through a Pittsburgh agency. The babies stay for a weeks or months, and Susan describes what life with them (and without them) is like — including the health concerns, naming choices, attachment issues, and relationships with birth and adoptive parents.
A Foster Baby
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Belfast, Communism, Diaspora, Ireland, Loyalism, Northern Ireland, Patrick Pierce, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Republicans, Students, Tony Novosel, Unionism, University of Pittsburgh
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More from Tony: http://anotherworldradio.com/2007/11/20/episode-1-tony-novosel-miroslav-budinski/
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Andrew Carnegie, Mon Valley, Homestead, George Wallace, KKK, Racism, Conscientious Objectors, Henry Clay Frick, Strikebreakers, Scabs, Amphibious Assault, Steel Mills, The Deer Hunter, Union, Pinkertons, Steel Workers, Labor Battles, Mob Rule, Allegheny County, George DeBolt, Martial Law, Amalgamated, Treason, Hippies, Flaming Moderates, Anti-War Protest, Vietnam War, Liza Minnelli, Martin Luther King Jr, Belize, Peace Corps, Draft Board, Mellon Bank, Gentrification, Reform Party, 1968, Steven Spielberg, Disney North, Buick World, Community Redevelopment, US Steel
Homestead Mills
George DeBolt takes us through the life and decline of Homestead, a town in the Mon Valley area of Pittsburgh, via his own life story. He recounts getting conscientious objector status in front of a conservative draft board, living in a prominent Protestant family in a working class Catholic neighborhood, and how he discovered his grandfather’s secret labor history. George also details Homestead’s radical labor activism as its steel mills closed in the 1980s, with protests involving hundreds of dollars in pennies, dead fish, skunk oil, safe deposit boxes, and Sunday school invasions.
As industry in the Mon Valley collapsed, its leaders did little to keep the neighborhood alive, instead relying on pie-in-the-sky schemes, involving Steven Spielberg, Buick World, Disney theme parks, Saudi sheikhs, and the state lottery. George describes all the schemes, along with his own attempts to improve the area, as well as invoking the wisdom of Liza Minnelli.
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Ascali, Dance, Family, Hillbillies, Ida Rizzo, Immigrants, Italy, Music, Pittsburgh, Tarantella
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Filed under: Radio | Tags: Activism, Baltimore, Crashdance, Exchanges, FBI, Flashdance, Football, Hollywood, Larry Evans, Millhunk Herald, Pittsburgh, Plastic Turf, Public Broadcasting, Reform School, Rust Belt, Security Threat, Serbia, Socialism, Spiro Agnew, Steel, Tony Novosel, Ukraine, Unions, Work, Writing
Larry with the Mill Hunk Herald
In the 1980s, Larry Evans was named a national security threat, Hollywood script writers were intent on telling his life story, he was crossing the Iron Curtain, and he was overtaking the Pittsburgh public television airwaves. As the steel mills were closing down in that decade, Larry ran the Millhunk Herald, a local journal, and was active in the efforts to keep the industry alive. He tells his story — how he got politically active, what’s happened to him since those activist days, and what it’s like to be classed a threat to society.
The video clip below comes from a documentary Larry made about his Millhunk Herald days. Tony Novosel stars in the 1983 Pittsburgh-made ‘Crashdance’, as a steelworker who turns to exotic dancing amidst the collapse of the steel industry in the city.
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Binghamton, Childhood, Family, FBI, Feminism, Great Depression, Guam, Haircuts, Kitchen Floor, Lunch, Mount Washington, Mt. Lebanon, Pittsburgh, Roller skates, Sisters, Syracuse, USA, Vietnam War, Washington DC, World War II
Dorothy Hagan
Dorothy Hagan died at the age of 87 this February. Episode 12 features an interview with her recorded in December. She recounts her life: growing up in Pittsburgh during the Great Depression, working for the FBI, starting a family while her husband was overseas in World War II, raising 9 children, and living through the upheavals of the past century.
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Ethnic Minorities, Pittsburgh, Politics, Social Problems, The Troubles, Tourism, Orange Order, Election, Campaign, City Council, Race, Parades, Superheroes, Baltimore, John Hopkins, Northern Ireland, Rust Belt, Gentrification, Community Redevelopment, Orangefest, David Hume, Patrick Dowd, Cronyism, Lawrenceville
Orangefest
Episode 9 considers local politics: of the Orange Order in Northern Ireland and the City Council of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the first half, David Hume talks about the future of the Orange Order, including its new superhero figure and tourism initiatives. Mid-July has been rechristened as ‘Orangefest’ and the Orange Order has big plans for brining more foreigners and locals together for the parades and activities around the 12th. Hume also discusses the Order’s international links, in Canada, the US, and Africa, along with its concerns for attracting young Northern Irish men to join its ranks.
In the second half, Patrick Dowd explains how he won a seat on Pittsburgh’s City Council and his plans for the city. He went from graduate student to teacher to politician, but his victory was not an easy one. Winning a seat as a Democrat but initially without the endorsement of Pittsburgh’s Democratic Party, Dowd had to mobilize the grassroots of the community, going from door to door to door and fount out a tremendous amount about the Pittsburgh neighborhoods he now represents.
