PRAISE: A sampling of remarks from folks who've been on (and listen to) "RADIO with a VIEW:"                              home page

"Morning interview on Radio with a View was terrific. Smart guys. Smart questions."
Nancy Polikoff, Law Professor, American University Washington College of Law & author "Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under The Law (03/09/08)

"David and Marc are two of the best interviewers in radio. They are sharp, insightful and courageous. Over the years, they have interviewed dozens of my clients, cogently discussing a wide spectrum of topics. Their combined breath of knowledge and passion for justice is palpable. Progressives in the Greater Boston area (and indeed the plugged-in world) are richer for their program."
Gail Leondar-Wright, President, Gail Leondar Public Relations (11/12/07)

"Marc and David were terrific! It was a real pleasure to be part of the radio program Sunday..."
Norman Solomon, media critic and author of Made Love, Got War. (9/16/07)

"Ellen Bravo really enjoyed the interview on Sunday. Thanks for doing it. And please pass my thanks on to Marc as well. You guys are a Boston treasure."
Betsy Leondar-Wright, former Communications Director, United for a Fair Economy, author, and freelance publicist. (6/4/07)

"Sanjoy Mahajan and I had a great time being on your show and discussing the right of free expression.  It's amazing that most people go their entire lives without ever using this highly touted right. Your show's free-wheeling spirit encourages exercise of the right by demonstrating that doing so is not only good for society, but is also fun.  Thanks for having us."
Dr. Jeff Schmidt, former Editor of Physics Today, and author of the book, Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System that Shapes Their Lives. (5/28/07)

"This morning I interviewed at the MIT station. These two guys (Goodman and Stern) are very smart and well informed ... [their] questions were fantastic."
Yosef Grodzinsky, Professor of Neurolinguistics, McGill University and author of In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Story of Jews in displaced persons camps and their forced role in the founding of Israel (12.05.04)

Arrggghhh! I forgot the name of the show now...!! Anyway, I listened to a politically oriented program on the 'Net here at work and had a BLAST listening to it--very informative but also very playful! Forgot the name, though. BUT I loved it all the same and having stumbled on to WMBR (also by mistake) was the best part of being here all by myself, cranking out some overtime. I LOVE WMBR! (Here's a big, SLOPPY kiss! SWACK!)
Jonathan Steinke, a new listener from southern Illinois, in an email to wmbr's online guestbook (11/14/04)

"They had obviously read the book and raised some good issues. I felt that it went well--I talked a lot which seemed to be fine with them. One of the better interviews, I'd say."
Tod Ensign, Director of Citizen Soldier and author of
America's Military Today: The Challenge of Militarism  (11/14/04)

"On Sunday we got up early for an in-studio interview with Dave and Mark of the show "Radio with a View" on WMBR (the station farthest to the left on the dial). Most of our radio interviews this tour have been over the phone, so we'd forgotten how DJs are the red-headed stepchildren of the media world... But the interview was awesome... Mark and Dave introduced our segment with a hilarious folk song by Mark Levy called "Every Sperm Does Not Deserve a Name" (sample lyric: "If so, a man would found a nation every time he came"). Then we yukked it up about how Congress is so efficient at staying "abreast" of indecency issues like Nipplegate while taking years to address a minor issue like, oh, health care."
Emma Taylor & Lorelei Sharkey (aka EM & LO), authors of the The Big Bang: Nerve's Guide to the New Sexual Universe and on tour to promote awareness of sexual politics - sponsored by the NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation. (10/10/04)

"...I felt they got the essential points of the book, which not all [interviewers] have, and helped me speak to them in order to address the urgency
of the issue for the listeners..."
Richard Heinberg, author of
Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (9/21/04)

"I've done about 50 radio interviews on the Pullman book, and yours was one of the very few where the questions were fresh and interesting."
Larry Tye, author of Rising from the Rails: Pullman porters and the making of the black middle class (8/10/04)

"Those guys were great. Added a lot of important commentary of their own."
Steve Brouwer, author of Robbing Us Blind: The Return of the Bush Gang and the Mugging of America (03/30/04)

"Dave and Marc are the Click and Clack of liberal talk radio..."
Maria Aguiar, Director of Global Programs, Grassroots International (3/9/04)

"David and Marc are sharp and knew when to come in and what to ask, how much to offer their own views and how to advance the conversation. Really good."
Larry Everest, author of Oil, Power, & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda. (12/23/2003)

"Last night's interview was wonderful."
Jerry Lembke, author of CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth (10/21/03)

"I'm pleased to talk with you both; really to have a deep conversation rather than a sound bite about these very important issues."
Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, (D-District of Columbia) (8/12/03)

 

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Grassroots Community Radio Initiative / Peace Abbey Radio (sponsored by I.B.I.S.)
www.peaceabbeyradio.org

 

2006: It was a very good year ... for satirists and comics

 

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And you thought the year-in-review pieces had all been done? Not so. Dave Goodman and Marc Stern, who helm the 12-year-old WMBR radio show "Radio with a View," are taking their gig to the live stage Sunday January 21 at 4 p.m. They're at Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway, and they'll be presenting the 2006 Chutzpah Awards, or recalling "the most outrageous things said or done by public figures during the past year." Is it just us or is 2006 particularly fertile territory? Maybe, it's just that every year seems better/worse than the last, but we've got to figure hypocritical Republican congressmen and evangelicals take a bit of a thumping. "2006 was enormously fertile," says Goodman. "Almost every week on the air we say 'What the hell is going on?' It's never ending. I tend to be an optimist and see the light at the end of the tunnel, but I understand people who see the tunnel at the end of the light. I'm a card-carrying leftist, but it's not just leftys - it's conservatives, retired generals, people from all stripes saying we've been duped. Marc and I try to be somewhat entertaining and bring some levity to it. If you didn't laugh, you'd go out of your mind." Stern and Goodman will also bring on some like-minded souls, Singer-activist Dave Lippman and George Shrub (the singing CIA agent), comic Bartunde Thurston and our favorite local Bush supporter satirists Billionaires for Bush (in photo, during rally), It costs $20, which might seem steep but the bucks go to the Family Nurturing Center and the Poor People's Uniited Fund.

 

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