Leading economics bloggers from around the country were in Kansas City on April 12, 2013, for the fifth annual Economics Bloggers Forum at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.  That evening, some of them, including UMKC economics and law professor Bill Black and UMKC economics department chair Stephanie Kelton, gathered for what was billed as a coffee house with food, drink, and discussion at a nearby restaurant, one of two such events sponsored by the Jobs Now Coalition and the UMKC Economics Club.  

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Bill Black came on the June 11, 2013 pledge drive edition of Tell Somebody to talk economics and regulation and to help ask for listener support of KKFI Community Radio.

Bill Black is an associate professor of economics and law. He was the executive director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005-2007. He previously taught at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and at Santa Clara University, where he was also the distinguished scholar in residence for insurance law and a visiting scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

Professor Black was litigation director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, deputy director of the FSLIC, SVP and general counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and senior deputy chief counsel, Office of Thrift Supervision. He was deputy director of the National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement. 

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On June 4, 2013, Tell Somebody talked to Mike Caddell about his internet radio show, Radio Free Kansas.

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On May 25, 2013, 2 million people in over 50 countries put on over 400 anti-Monsanto events.  The May 28 edition of Tell Somebody covered the March Against Monsanto event in Kansas City where a crowd of a couple hundred folks holding signs steadily built up, by some reports, at JC Nichols fountain to over 2,000 particpants. 

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On the May 21, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, hear Cecile Pineda, author of Devil's Tango - How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step.  

"An astonishing anatomy of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster..." John Nichols

"Pineda's masterful framing of the urgency for readers to learn from the Japanese nuclear disaster and the machinations of its industry handlers makes Devil's Tango one of the most important and required reads this year...." Jeff Biggers, Huffington Post

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The facebook event page for a KC MoveToAmend rally said "127 Years ago, on May 10, 1886, corporations began to finagle constitutional rights through the US Supreme Court. THAT was just the beginning! This year, on the 127th "birthday" of corporate persons, Kansas City Move to Amend will join activists all over the nation with a rally at the Nichols Fountain."  

After a reminder that the corporate personhood "ruling" wasn't even in Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad decision, but only in the headnotes written by the clerk of the court, the May 14, 2013 edition of the show consists of the remarks of eight speakers at the rally, including yours truly.

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Two of journalist Arun Gupta's latest articles are The Trouble With Professor Petraeus and Little Bagdhad, California. Gupta got on the phone with Tell Somebody for the April 30, 2013 edition of the show to talk about both of them. 

On April 29, 2013, I recorded a conversation with former CIA analyst and Presidential daily briefer Ray McGovern.  Ray held forth on some of the usual subjects, but with an added emphasis on the media.  Ray has said that in his 50 years of observing Washington, D.C., the biggest change he's witnessed is that we no longer have in any real sense a free media. On this show, Ray expands on that in the light of some of his recent interactions with university students, and talks about torture, detainess, and the conflict inherent in the CIA between intelligence analysis and operations directorates.

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On the April 23, 2013 editon of Tell Somebody Homelessness Marathon director Jeremy Alderson joined Gas Free Seneca co-founders Yvonne Taylor and Joseph Campbell to talk about the havoc being wreaked in the Finger Lakes area by Inergy LP, the Kansas City-based company planning to use 'fracking' in the area and to store explosive gases in empty salt mine caverns near Seneca Lake. Alderson was arrested for chaining himself to an entrance gate to the storage facility.

While preparing this show on April 23, I learned that Common Cause  President & CEO Bob Edgar had died suddenly that morning.  Edgar had been a guest on the show in May and October, 2012, and this show includes a portion of his October interview.

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The April 16, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody was the second of two parts on the Free Press National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, Colorado.  The show features excerpts from Free Press President/CEO Craig Aaron's opening and closing remarks at the conference, the remaining portions of an interview with Free Press co-founder Professor Bob McChesney, criticism from Project Censored's current and former directors Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips, and a response from Craig Aaron.

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