Brian Gongol Show on WHO Radio - May 1, 2016
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Brian Dean is leaving us
Out with the usual programming this week, as it is our friend Brian Dean's last show. He is taking a well-deserved radio retirement.
We closed his time with us by reminiscing about some long-past episodes of the show. We've been around long enough that some things have changed a lot, others haven't changed at all, and plenty of things that worried us back then are haunting our world today:
September 28, 2003 (power outages and Iowa)
December 28, 2003 (Gephardt's laughable "international minimum wage")
February 29, 2004 (the lies behind Social Security)
February 20, 2005 (Iowa's community colleges a better investment than Vision Iowa)
August 14, 2005 (joking about the "freshman 15" can mean expulsion)
January 15, 2006 (socialism moves in down South)
April 2, 2006 (we're raiding the emergency fund)
July 30, 2006 (if home prices stay flat, will Americans keep buying stuff?)
November 19, 2006 (the passing of Milton Friedman)
November 4, 2007 (still no talk of Medicare reform...Federal spending...Citigroup CEO quits)
February 10, 2008 (President Bush goes "Brewster's Millions"...too much state spending...the end of Netscape Navigator)
May 18, 2008 (unemployment now lower than ever...recovering from a disasater...creative stop signs)
July 6, 2008 (fiscal independence for America...education in the future...Chinese troops on Segways)
December 7, 2008 (end of the Register's editorial cartoon...putting unemployment in perspective...saving the difference on gas prices)
Listen on-demand
- Podcast of this episode - segment 1 (Brian Dean's new car came with unexpected features)
- Podcast of this episode - segment 2 (Brian Dean is leaving us because his free time has increased in value)
- Podcast of this episode - segment 3 (Reminiscing over 13 years of programming together)
- Podcast of this episode - segment 4 (Brian Dean signs off)
- Official station page for this episode (forthcoming)