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Episode 5 - The Monkey Cage

Episode Five of The Monkey Cage takes on apemen, climate change, voter registration and suppression, Ted Cruz celebrities, Trump foreign policy, underground poetry, and Wisconsin ennui. With NYC broadcast veterans Andy Caploe, Cynthia Adler, and Frank Cipolla

Episode 7

Episode 7 of The Monkey Cage ranges from persistent malingering, the Sandinistas, superdelegates underground, the fight over the soul of the Democratic Party in the Empire State, the Inner Circle, to the Pope, the international monkey cabal, Mike Nesmith, the Rolling Stones, Smokey Robinson, Soffy Soffy, the Panama Papers, CaymanIslands, Podesta Blumenthal Inc., and Cynthia's groin pull.

Episode 8 - The Monkey Cage

Episode Eight of the Monkey Cage with Magilla Gorilla, Aliens for Cruz, Hillary and Remington, Helen Winstral for president, Frank's maiden voyage, Lally's after school Trump debate, Mad Schwarzman underground, Aria McKenna versus the fossil fuel legacy, Millie Glocken on Julian Castro, Kat Whatley on Tokyo protests, Strawberry Finkel on Occupy Low, Jimmy Yancey, Toots and the Maytals, Ray Davies' Apeman, all Jagger and Richards' friends are junkies, sergiomessina.com, Dave Bartholomew, Jacob's home remedy, and Ronee Blakley for Bernie!

Episode 10 - The Monkey Cage

Episode 10 of The Monkey Cage live from Katz's Delicatessen on Loisaida, NY: Frank on Fiorina, Alan from Akron, Sergio from Amsterdam, Mad from the Underground, Ary from Tel Aviv, Erdogan from Hamburg, Djem Turer from the knubblewurst line, Annelise Payton from San Francisco, 6.5 year old Lally from the Upper East Side, Howlin' Wolf from the South Side of Chicago, Herbie Hancock from Brooklyn, matzoh ball soup from hunger, and Jim Morrison from the great beyond!

Episode 11 - The Monkey Cage

Episode 11 of The Monkey Cage live from the food court at Costco with Robert Mitchum, Dr Larry Mudhead, sergiomessina.com, Dr Robert, Dudie K, slut shaming, Count Basie in Hoss's Flat, Jane Brill's godfather Sonny Payne, Frank Cipolla on Big Oil, Millie Glocken's Ostrich Effect, Steely Dan, aspiring Bodhisatva Gary Horn, Trump 'n' Rudy, Sherman Boim from Brooklyn, Ornette Coleman's jazz freedom, treasonous differential equations, unacceptable aerial hairstyles, Russian manicurist Ivinka Kordikova is soaking in it, oligarchic election fraud, and the Beatles.

Episode 13 - The Monkey Cage

Episode 13 The Monkey Cage broadcast live from Carmine's on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, NYC including Eddie Barbieri watching our back, Frank Cipolla on Hillary's disconnect, the Reverend Marc Time hungover at Willie Nelson's party, The Return of Aiens for Cruz, the Old Philosopher never gives up the ship, Anna Ziss Patton fighting deadhead, the Alpine boat basin political spectrum, Ashy Ashley, confused teenage altruist, Gary Horn on our dinner's suffering, Sherman Boim on the failings of Obamacare, a heartfelt plea from Susan in New Jersey, with Betty Harris, Howlin' Wolf, the Beatles, the Who, Spanish rap, Potato Caboose, and Creedence keeps on chooglin'....

Episode 14

Episode 14 of The Monkey Cage: Memorial (Decoration?) Day Barbecue Live from Riverbank State Park, Harlem NY. Who Won’t Get Who’s Next side two track four new surface noise relevance, illiterate alliterative Scrabblery, The Rev Marc Time predicts two-point Bernie in Mission Critical CA via Lalo Schiffrin, Bee Whiz with Kai Washington ReRuns Home the missing Yusuf paper data family harassment game bursting bubble babble in Chapter 25 of CA primary problematic progressive political pragmatics, Anna Ziss-Patton faces fatigue to rally CA Volunteers for America’s June 8th Revolution, Cynthia speaks directly to her NSA handler, Gary Horn does not necessarily prefer nonreligious non-blissful nonverbal numerical nasal breathing in Brother Chris MacGregor’s 'hood with the Third Zen Patriarch as a method of mass messaging redress, MilLIE Glocken fracks fire on Colorado Hickenlooper’s castaway pants, Dick Cheney’s White House Energy Task Force chemical makeup still secret after all these years, the toxic Garden State angle of Frank’s shriveled stone dangle dump, Superfly Curtis Mayfield, Miss Piggy for President, “La Connerie” stinks up the place at 9:53 (thank you to listener PLS), Susan from New Jersey’s allergic reaction to obsolete antibiotics in advance of the NJ primary, Jimmy Forest, Grant Green, Harold Mabern, Gene Ramey, and Elvin Jones.

Episode 15

Monkey Cage Episode 15 live from NYC's Central Park's Summerstage VIP bar section: BeeWizz on Muhammed Ali's legacy of courage, Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of Silence, Fearless Uncle Freddie endorses Bernie from Cousin Tom's El Cerrito drum circle, Lynn Roth punts on idealism from inside the Hollywood bubble, The Who's Underture, the Reverend Marc Time fears an end to his Bernie obsession, Animotion, Michelle from CA brings realpolitik to the busted souls of Bernie feelers, No Time Left for the Guess Who, Betsy cousin Susan Milrod Cries Mingus Blues for Allard Lowenstein, the Supreme Court, and failed third party candidates, HER's imminent FBI criminal indictment, Anna Ziss-Patton turns her back on new underpants, Sly and the Family Stone Stand, Brenda Barista's subjective take from quirky Albuquerque, Buena Vista Social Club's Chan Chan, Lally Mullally reveals the truth about the MSM, Republican Nancy in NJ yearns for another one-syllable president, The Monkees's Goin' Down, Theo Croker wants a C Side schoolteacher, Amy Heller honors her zaide with her campaign for Freeholder in Bergen County NJ, Scott from NJ loves America fears right wing demagoguery and seeks full government disclosure, Talking Heads Life During Wartime, Nervous in NJ ventures HER should drop out before a Dem Wipeout, Krishna Das Forgiveness, Mahatma Gandhi and Gary Horn illuminate the poorest and weakest among us, and Aliens for Cruz.

Episode 16

Episode 16 of The Monkey Cage live from Roberto's II with John Coltrane, BWiz on Orlando, Full Mental Jacket, Manuel the waiter, Jacob's man bun training, Gary Horn on global/self transformation, Gnawa kindness, spinach with white beans, the nature of communication and judgment, New Mexican Brenda Barista serves the Love prescription, profits before people, Susan from NJ remembers the fear of southern segregation and how tolerating LGBT means underlying hatred, Cynthia remembers her High School of Performing Arts lunchtime dance-a-thons, the Reverend Marc Time smells that smell, the Diebold black box piece o' cake hack, Mingus's Crying Blues, HER nose clips, voter suppression by the Associated Press explained by ex TV broadcast producer, obtuse vegetarian lasagna, Anna Ziss-Patton counts on continuing CA county counting, the re-dawning of the Age of Aquarius, Sheldon Wolin's inverted totalitarianism, salsiccio con escarole, Mr Cynthia's revelatory resume, fiddler David Lynch surmises HER reasons for withholding leftist rapprochement from his remote western NC cabin, Millie Glocken stands by her HER, Henry Mancini's Father's Feathers, TPP emails quashed by Barry O, Lally Mullally dallies with the Muncie Monkeys, @life ofLyle, vegetarian pounded pork chop peasant style (it's done with artichokes), biscuit tortoni, Kally's disclaimer, gelati misti, silent Wu, melting spumoni, and Louis Armstrong.

Episode 17

live from The Peace Cafe (vegan) on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with self-obsessed Scrabble frustrations, fluffy quinoa, the drifting Anna Ziss-Patton On Broadway, Les Miz, Hamilton, 1776, Stanford and Harvard collude at Columbia, Cynthia's aroma, Jacob eats just dessert before his entree, the Reverend Marc Time counts on CA counting the uncounted, Kraftwerk's Numbers, birthday boy David Lynch's ballyhoos the right wing closet, Reginald in Harlem crushes on Wayne LaPierre's shooting position, Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys Machine Gun, FBI's facial recognition software, Eddie Barbieri switches his party affiliation, Renato Carosone Cirribirribin, Wikileaks, Guccifer, 2.0 promises HER's indictment, roasted Japanese pumpkin a la Hollywood bubblicious, Brenda Barista consumes the Effin' troll disinformation, Sun Ra's Space is the Place for Aliens for Cruz, Lally Mullally germalizes the Baby Elephant Walk, resident Buddhist Gary Horn on his imminent media fast, Max Roach's M'Boom Caravanserai, jazz nut MD chills in in Austin's jazz desert for Juneteenth, Kally, Alex, Jedi, Soo, and Dewey Redman's Body.

Episode 18

Episode 18 Chai of The Monkey Cage live from the Palm Restaurant NYC with literal and figurative political voices: BeeWizz mourns BWorrell proscribing the platform plank absent from the D & C ‘n’ TPP embearyassin’ fast trackin backing frackin prayin’ for unconfused Canova sharkin, Brexit via actual investigative journalist Robert Hennelly’s political resistance elucidates physics and contagion from the basement of NYC’s City Hall, Cynthia’s casa seconda Italiana currency destabilization report, Marvin Gaye Hollers, Greek debt austerity, refugee displacement eats diverse and local, Jacob digs his vegan cake, Andy leaves his phone on, 1% Gwendolyn Bradford’s lack of party preference gives little wining grandson Basie’s Harvard Blues with Jimmy Rushing, Cloudy Bay Kiwi Sauvignon Blanc, exceptional American Charles Ortel.com caters intel on the Clinton Foundation’s School for Charity Fraud Scandal, Reverend Marc Time holds his HER nose clip in James White and the Black’s Stained Sheets, David Lynch unleashes principled piney porch canned heat to roast our beets, Kally’s 3rd Class FCC jogging license, Alex’s smothered ribeye, Robert Faggen’s 8th grade oratorical edumacation, 15-year old Earth Keeper Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez activates Bill Maher and the U.N., Hathaway hath no friend like Anna Ziss-Patton a woman foresworn to feeling a Facebook fast foreboding, Curtis Mayfield’s Future Shocks the Aliens for Cruz, Cat’s Claw Kyle fixes ABC’s stylus, Mairetta’s Old and New Supreme Dreams delight in kicking Texas hair, lipstick and ass, goodbye Finlay, coordinated cycles in the corrupt vaginal White House, any given Monday resident Buddhist Gary Horn via Baba Ram Das straight outta media and gun violence takes a look with Eddie Russ at our heads, Rowan & Martin bestow the very first civil Fickle Finger of Fate disobience inside the walls of Congress, John Adams gives us the night off for fireworks and paradin’….

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