** "There's no denying, he has become a very strong voice in my head. And a mouthpiece for thoughts I would normally censor for myself - so a very liberating force, this monkey..."

Sunlight, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. A Conversation with Nina Conti. And the UK puppeteer extraordinaire's venture getting into character literally for Sunlight - by climbing into her now plus size puppet suit Monkey - the melancholy masked persona kidnapping and hijacking a suicidal radio host for this anything but sunny New Mexico noir road movie.

Conti likewise delves into how her father, esteemed British actor Tom Conti who most recently portrayed Albert Einstein in Oppenheimer and previously Che Guevara - has influenced her own unusual creative journey.

Plus, what exactly Emma Thompson's brain has to do with conceiving Sunlight - and how with Father's Day coming up, the movie subversively expresses these two patriarchal damaged offspring finding borderline bizarre unlikely salvation together, in each other's broken lives...

** "This is a broken country - now let me go on..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on the Deep State Media, Musk, Operation Mockingbird - and 'when the fight's over, both of them are going to be billionaires, and people out here are still going to be broke...'

** "Imagine doomed to be thrown off Medicaid - before shuffling off to eternity..."

Broadcastiing From The Red Star Cafe, In Metaphorically Mixed Red Iowa

The One Minute Marxist. Heading towards the July 4th festivities broadcasting from Red Iowa, a look at the notorious extreme patriotic glee delivered by Iowa Senator Joni Ernst at a town hall meeting, where she proclaimed Medicaid cuts with protests shouted, 'people will die.' While that delightfully dedicated castrator of cattle on her Iowa farm declared 'we're all going to die.'

Though later in a surreal apology filmed while she wandered through a cemetery - Ernst advocated forgetting about seeking health care, and embracing eternal life with Jesus instead.

** "The sun was blazing, and so was the anger. This wasn't just a protest - taking out the trash of a decomposing democracy..."

UK Desk. The Birmingham garbage strike - 'broadcasting from a nation that still pretends it's running on Empire - when really, it's tripping over the trash...'