Note from a new subscriber — "Your essential work under these digital conditions keeps my soul alive, my heart beating, and the flame for my hope in humanity burning. Your Covid Chronology is an historic work that focussed my perception towards reality and dusted off the digital fog I was swimming in. Your regular Planet Waves program is necessary fuel for my existence. Thank you Eric. Yours from Aotearoa New Zealand.” Scott Andrew

Greetings cousins and friends -- the program is on a one-week break -- this year is my first foray into a summer schedule. I plan to return next week, though I will be in transit on Friday so I may not be able to get to it -- though if possible I sure will. STARCAST is updated. Thanks and see you soon. — efc

I'll be taking another week off to catch my breath and reflect on life without a microphone in front of me. I am planning to be back Oct. 28 with a funtastic and spooky Halloween edition of the program. Catch you then. Meanwhile, there are hundreds of excellent programs in our archives, all free.

“If you go in a focus group and say, ‘Are you afraid of getting HIV if you’re at risk?’ ‘Oh, absolutely’. ‘Are you afraid of getting cancer?’ ‘Oh, absolutely’. Are you afraid of the flu? Don’t bother me’. I mean, that’s the reality of how people perceive flu.” — Anthony Fauci, October 29, 2019