Cause and Effect World

Radio Show

The Samantha Clemens Show is on WMFO 91.5 FM Medford on Saturdays from 9 to 11 am EST!  We try to get to the bottom of things - talking about issues, meeting interesting people, and marveling at this wacky world, all mixed in with some of our favorite tunes.

email: sam [at] causeandeffectworld [dot] com 
AOL IM: DJWMFO
listener line: 617 627 3800
skype: samantha.clemens

Three ways to listen online:
live on the internet - http://www.wmfo.org/ (click on Windows Media Player or iTunes at the top)
live on iTunes - Radio - Public - WMFO 
live on Shoutcast - http://www.shoutcast.com/directory/?s=wmfo

Thanks to Bill Piacitelli for making it all possible.  If you want to hear from me about upcoming shows or have a topic idea, email me at sam [at] causeandeffectworld [dot] com.  I’d love to hear from you.

Scroll down to listen to previous shows.  Click here for a list of the most recent guests with audio.  Click here to see the topics we’ve discussed on the radio.  Click here for hi-lights from Sam on The Todd Feinburg Show.  Click here if you’re just looking for a two-minute air check.

For all audio files, it may be faster or work better to right-click and save the file to your computer (Save target as…).

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Interview with Mark Alston-Follansbee, Executive Director, Somerville Homeless Coalition

Mark tells us about the issue of homelessness:  who are the people, what are the causes, what can be done at the policy level, what individuals can do.  He also tells us how he got into the work in the first place - and it has to do with radio!

Left click to listen, right click to download:

• Marc Alston-Follansbee: Homelessness

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Interview with Sam Clark: Public Health in Ethiopia 
Interview with Sam Clark, ScD Public Health, on location in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Sam Clark tells us about work being done in Ethiopia to improve conditions there by the US, other countries, NGO’s and the Ethiopian government. 

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• Sam Clark: Ethiopia

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“Climate change skeptics - blind disbelief or critical thinkers?” 
Sam was a guest on WRKO 680-AM with Todd Feinburg who was filling in for Tom Finneran on Friday, July 6, 2007. 

They went hammer and tongs on global warming - why do conservatives have a blind spot when it comes to the science of global warming? 

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• Global warming Part 1
• Global warming Part 2

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“It’s Vega$ Baby - Gambling in Massachusetts” 
Sam monologues about a host of issues:

• Her trip to Las Vegas to attend a conference - the gambling, the casinos, whether the people playing slot machines are actually pod people whose electricity is being harvested to power the city a la the Matrix;
• Whether it’s a good thing for the Wampanoag Indians to build a 1,500 hotel room casino/conference center in Massachusetts;
• How does gambling affect the communities surrounding casinos.

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• Las Vega$ Part 1
• Las Vega$ Part 2

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“Nappy-headed ho’s, Snoop Dog, kissing, and how dairy products are related to bras” 
Sam monologues about a host of issues:

• Snoop Dog’s distinction between the Rutger’s basketball team members and ‘real ho’s’
• Richard Gere and President Mahmoud Ahmadinajad getting in trouble for kissing in public, the types of kisses from Roman times, and who, other than humans kiss
• How dairy products and bras are related - women in Japan are eating more dairy and red meat which is affecting the lingerie industry

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• Snoop Dog Part 1
• Snoop Dog Part 2

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“Freethinkers, secularists, humanists - a view from Texas” 
Interview with Becky Robinson, President of the Freethinkers of UTA (University of Texas at Arlington) and Executive Secretary of Student Secularist Alliance.  Becky recently attended a conference on Humanism in Cambridge, Massachusetts April 20-22 and shares her views on science, values and finding comfort in times of tragedy.  She also talks about cultural differences between living in Texas and the northeastern United States in terms of people’s relationship with the supernatural and where they find their values.

• Commentary on jokes about “nappy-headed ho’s” by Sam and audio excerpt of Sherwin Wine of the Society for Humanistic Judaism about humanism
• Robinson interview Part 1
• Robinson interview Part 2

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“Gay Men’s Domestic Violence Project”
Interview with Kate Moriarty, board member of the Gay Men’s Domestic Violence Project, about their work and what their work with gay couples has taught us about domestic violence in general and straight couples specifically.

• Gay Men’s Domestic Violence Project - Part 1
• Gay Men’s Domestic Violence Project - Part 2

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“The pleasure of flying”
Interview with John Urban who is writing a book about flying and how aviation has changed since he first began flying in the ’30’s.

• The pleasure of flying Part 1
• The pleasure of flying Part 2

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“What is real and how do we know it?” 
Interview with Tom Clark, Director of the Center of Naturalism, Naturalism.Org, and author of “Encountering Naturalism.” 

• Clark Part 1
• Clark Part 2

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Sam was a weekly guest on The Todd Feinburg Show on Boston’s WRKO 680 AM on Thursdays from 9-10 pm EST from May through December 2006.  Todd moved to the mid-day slot in January 2007.

To listen to hi-lights from these shows, click here (left-click to listen or right-click to download).

Todd is a conservative with an independent streak who is interested in ideas and current events.  We had lively discussions about issues ranging from teaching about homosexuality in the schools, to what kind of God Americans believe in (if any), to whether the former President of Iran should be permitted to speak in the United States.

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