{"id":15279,"date":"2025-01-20T10:26:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T18:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15279"},"modified":"2025-01-20T11:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:07:29","slug":"2025-inauguration-counter-programming-special-bradcast-1202025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15279","title":{"rendered":"2025 Inauguration Counter-Programming Special: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 1\/20\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_CapitolRotundaDomeTop_InaugurationBW_012025.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, a dark echo of <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12003\">eight years ago<\/a>. Unfortunately, the update for 2025 was easier than one might have hoped. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>&#8220;There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can&#8217;t take part. You can&#8217;t even passively take part! And you&#8217;ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you&#8217;ve got to make it stop! And you&#8217;ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it &#8212; that unless you&#8217;re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!&#8221; &#8212; <i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mario_Savio\">Mario Savio, 1964<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/timothysnyder.org\/on-tyranny\"><i>Timothy Snyder, <\/i>On Tyranny<i>, 2017<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No. No one tells the guy who cleans the bathroom, &#8216;Wow, you must love it when someone has explosive diarrhea, there&#8217;s so much material for you to work with!'&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/tv\/news\/stephen-colbert-trump-election-monologue-late-show-1236203078\/\"><i>Stephen Colbert, 2024<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please &#8220;enjoy&#8221; our 2025 Inauguration Counter-Programming Special&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_2025InaugurationCounterProgrammingSpecial_012025.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s BradCast, a dark echo of eight years ago. Unfortunately, the update for 2025 was easier than one might have hoped. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] &#8220;There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can&#8217;t take part. 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