The More Perfect Union Podcast

17/06/2024

This week, the More Perfect Union gang looks ahead to the first presidential debate and the momentous Supreme Court decisions that have yet to be announced this

12/06/2024

If you're voting for him/them, you're voting for crazy. I'm not saying YOU'RE crazy. Just saying, that's what you seem to want for your government.

https://x.com/JoJoFromJerz/status/1800560033651999197

07/06/2024

Makes as much political sense to me as Marco Rubio or Tim Scott.

03/06/2024

Rebekah, DJ and Kevin discuss their reactions to the Trump felony convictions, how they think the verdict will impact the rest of the presidential campaign, and

29/05/2024

Trump is rooting for hung jury, just like he was rooting for a hung vice president.

27/05/2024

On this week's More Perfect Union podcast, listeners serve as a mock jury to take us inside an on-air jury room where they deliberate the facts of the Trump vs. NY case as we listen in. See how a jury of regular voters would sift through the testimony and evidence to come to a verdict.

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/trump-trial-mock-jury-episode-386--60187199

The More Perfect Union: real debate without the hate!

In this episode, listeners serve as a mock jury to take us inside a simulated jury room where they deliberate the facts of the Trump vs. NY case as we listen in

25/05/2024

The MPU Podcast still has two openings for jurors on our Trump Trial Mock Jury episode. Come join us and deliberate the case with others on air. Sunday night, 9:00 Eastern.

PM me if you're interested.

20/05/2024

This week, the More Perfect Union podcast looks at the criminal indictments gifted to Rudy Giuliani at his 80th birthday bash, how Samuel Alito let his "Stop the Steal" freak flag fly, the Michael Cohen phone call that could make or break the Trump trial, and NFL kicker Harrison Butker's commencement kerfuffle.

The More Perfect Union Podcast: real debate without the hate!

This week, the gang looks at the criminal indictments gifted to Rudy Giuliani at his 80th birthday bash, how Samuel Alito let his "Stop the Steal" freak flag fl

19/05/2024

The More Perfect Union Podcast is planning a mock Trump jury deliberation episode, and we are looking for people of all political views to serve as mock jurors on air. If you'd like to be on our podcast and take part in a mock jury deliberation, comment below or PM me.

Real debate without the hate! ™️ © 2022 Kelton Media LLC

16/05/2024

Dow 40K. You're rich! A perfect day to buy my latest novel‼️📖🎈

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15/05/2024

This week, the gang looks at Michael Cohen's testimony in the Trump Trial and how Nikki Haley is till trolling Trump in the primaries. We also discuss a future

09/05/2024

This week, the gang looks at Stormy Daniel's testimony and how down-ticket Democrats are far out-raising their GOP opponents in key battleground states.

08/05/2024

You know what? I think they're right! Think about it. Presidents of both parties are always going into some midwestern industrial town and promising money to create new steel jobs, auto jobs, semi-conductor jobs, and train people for new high-tech jobs. DULL, DULL, DULL. I say, go to those same towns but promise to invest $3 Billion a year in new movies and TV shows to create movie star jobs. Announce you're partnering with dozens of independent studios to finance, like, 3,000 new low-budget movies or limited-run streaming series...each with a big, ensemble cast of, say, 10 or more featured rolls. So you're creating 30,000 new movie/TV stars. (Plus a thousand screenwriting gigs. Two thousand if you hire teams!) Voters could really get excited about that.

Job training: Give 'em all acting lessons and some career guidance. (Headshots, too. How much could that cost?) Make each one a SAG or AFTRA gig so they'd get healthcare for a year. Plus craft services to feed all those low-income actors. (Child actors eat free, too!) It's a perfect social welfare program!!! Then there's all the network and studio exec jobs that would be created, all the agents, all the set designers and gaffers and best boy jobs. All the stunt people. It's a job creator's wet dream! Sure, movie acting jobs only last 10-12 weeks. But hell, you'd be turning regular Americans into MOVIE STARS. Who's not gonna vote for that?!

30/04/2024

This week, the More Perfect Union Podcast hosts look at Gov. Kristi Noam's comments about shooting her dog, the effect of anti-Israel protests on the upcoming election, RFK Jr's potential impact on the November election, and how public opinion is shaped and moved.

This week, the More Perfect Union hosts look at Gov. Kristi Noam's comments about shooting her dog, the effect of anti-Israel protests on the upcoming election,

29/04/2024

24/04/2024

On this week's More Perfect Union podcast, I talked about JFK's 1962 press conference in which he took on U.S. Steel for price hikes that Kennedy believed were inflationary and anti-competitive. Here's a link to the audio of that press conference. It's an amazing performance by a president and you should give it a listen. If you are too young to remember JFK in office, you'll discover why he is so highly regarded by historians and those of us who do remember him.

In this press conference, which was very controversial at the time, the president wasn't afraid to speak out against corporate greed and how company's should act not just in the interest of profits, but in what's best for their country. He posed it as a question of patriotism – something I wish more recent presidents had done in similar circumstances. Inflation is caused 10% by presidential policy and 90% by world supplies, supply chains, materials shortages, and flagrant corporate greed. Capitalism suggests that the free market should be able to set whatever price they can sustain, but Kennedy said no, setting fair prices are as much a matter of honor and patriotism as going off to war for your country.

Check it out. I think you'll be glad you did.

Audio of the April 11, 1962 press conference in which President John F. Kennedy directly took on the executives of U.S. Steel for what he believed were unfair and u…

22/04/2024

On this week's More Perfect Union podcast, the gang looks at the potential ban of TikTok, the state of high-speed rail, pro-Palestinian protests and rising antisemitism on college campuses, and which celebrities the hosts would cast as attorneys in the Trump Trial.

https://www.mpupodcast.com/casting-the-trump-trial-episode-381/

On this week's More Perfect Union podcast, the gang looks at the potential ban of TikTok, the state of high-speed rail, pro-Palestinian protests and rising antisemitism on college campuses, and which celebrities the hosts would cast as attorneys in the Trump Trial.

21/04/2024

I bet you didn't know that Republicans have added two more solid EC votes since 2020. And Democrats lost two.

17/04/2024

This week's More Perfect Union podcast looks at the first two days of Donald Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan, how Congress is spending it's work days, the hot war between Israel and Iran, and the new TV game show, "Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity."

This week the gang looks at the first two days of Donald Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan, how Congress is spending it's work days, the hot war between Israel and Iran, and the new TV game show, "Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity."

06/04/2024

This Monday there will be a quick 4-minute event SO RARE it may never happen again in your lifetime: for four whole minutes Donald Trump will not be talked about on cable news!!!

05/04/2024

Spots still available in my Spring UCLA Extension ONLINE course in writing the TV comedy pilot. If you have taken the prerequisite Half-Hour TV III class and have an idea for a new pilot you'd like to write, come join us. Classes start Wednesday, April 17. This is an asychronous class, meaning you take the lessons on your own schedule – no formal class hours. And in ten weeks you'll have a new pilot script!

Finish your half-hour pilot script as you rework, refine, and revise your progress made until you reach the end.

05/04/2024

Some key facts about the strength of the American economy:
–More than 53,000 restaurants opened last year, up 10 percent from 2022 and exceeding pre-pandemic levels, according to data from online review site Yelp. That has helped boost hiring across the board, in entry-level positions as well as managerial roles.
–Americans are spending big on vacations, dining out and entertainment. And that demand is driving employers to hire in those sectors.
–Hourly wages have been beating inflation since last May, after years of falling behind.
–The unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent last month, extending the longest stretch of unemployment below 4 percent in decades.
–Construction added 39,000 jobs in March, more than double its monthly average gain of the past 12 months, showing surprising strength in the face of higher interest rates. Nonresidential specialty trade contractors led gains.
–Construction added 39,000 jobs in March, more than double its monthly average gain of the past 12 months, showing surprising strength in the face of higher interest rates. Nonresidential specialty trade contractors led gains.

So, if anyone tells you the U.S. economy is struggling or in free fall, they are lying to you. There are always - Always - pockets of concern in a national economy. But the American economy of 2024 is the envy of the world.

The jobs market is charging ahead in 2024 after a gradual cooling for much of past year in response to soaring interest rates.

01/04/2024

As a writer, I always had this weird knack for tying threads of a story together. In standup and sketch comedy, they are known as callbacks. In literature, it's foreshadowing. But I found I could artificially create foreshadowing just by bringing back something or someone I thought was a one-off when I wrote it. In "Things We Shouldn't Do," I'm particularly fond of how I was able to tie all three separate novellas together into one by reintroducting characters from an entirely new perspective. I won't tell you which ones – part of the fun of the book is being surprised at who comes back and how. (I even surprised myself!) I hope you'll make it through all three stories because they really tie up nicely, if I do say so myself. And the journeys of the three FMC – one in her 20s, 30s and 40s – tie together in a unifying theme of how human sexuality changes as we age. Malone, Charlsie and Elle couldn't be more different. But their individual journeys blend into one seamless story of love and regret, mistakes and forgiveness, vanity and self-growth.

Things We Shouldn't Do: Romantic Tales of Love and Regrets

01/04/2024

Hear the story of two artists (one a dancer, one a writer) as they journey from childhood dreams to showbiz stardom and beyond. A coming-of-age tale for the middle-aged set.

Pas de Deux: (Dance of Two)

01/04/2024

This week, the MPU gang looks at Trump Bibles, the campaign cash race, NBC's Ronna McDaniel kerfuffle, the Gaza War, the Supreme Court hearing on mifepristone, and what Greg and DJ left out of last week's discussion about "Dune" remakes.

28/03/2024

I know that politics is hardball. But the blatant lie about the economy that the RW media has turned into an alternative truth is incredibly unfair. The US economy is thriving. And JB deserves credit for that. He also has the best legislative record of any president since LBJ, and a strong foreign policy record as well. Dems and progressives should be proud to cast their vote for him.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-fourth-quarter-growth-revised-up-weekly-jobless-claims-fall-2024-03-28/?fbclid=IwAR0MQFKwfvT3TEtKILfDQgJ6EgPCQXkyKfs4f27is81TO6CS3mgqoYu7CM0_aem_AW7oMKCkOzvJpGe6-D1YEriAMctAKud0CEAA6OCQzP9fUlgDIqIT0KFttbOIIIln6drl0-5kq7oOyJ_fOyxfqWnd

The U.S. economy grew faster than previously estimated in the fourth quarter, boosted by strong consumer spending and business investment in nonresidential structures like factories and healthcare facilities.

28/03/2024

What? You wanna be a cool, super rich TV comedy writer like Kevin Kelton? But how do I do that, you ask? Here's how...

New class starts May 1. Pick the show you want to write and I'll get you from story idea to completed script in 12 weeks. Be cool like me and sign up today!

Writing the TV Spec Script: From Outline to Script in 12-Weeks with Kevin Kelton is a two-part online course that will move students from a story idea to an outline (course 1) and script (course 2) and is targeted at writing a sample (“spec”) script for an existing comedy or dramatic series. Lea...

24/03/2024

This week, DJ, Greg and Kevin look at the ongoing tumult in the House of Representatives, the senate race in Greg's beloved state of Ohio, and Biden's untapped secret weapon. Finally, Greg and DJ give their reviews of two new movies "Roadhouse" and "Dune: Part Two."

22/03/2024

If the Special Counsel and Fulton County DA's office cannot bring DT in front of a jury of his peers before the election, here's my idea. Some Hollywood producers and actors should quickly produce a low budget docudrama acting out the trials using publicly available facts and evidence. Get a couple of courtroom sets, some actors like DeNiro and Mark Rufalo who would do it for free (as a public service), and produce a couple of mock trials. Imagine the potential stunt casting. Maybe even cast real attorneys who have some media notoriety. This same thing was done with the mock Lee Harvey Oswald trial that real DA Vincent Bugliosi prosecuted on TV. I'd do the three trials either intercut in one movie length production or in a three-part series.

Then stream it on Netflix or Apple and let the public SEE and HEAR the abundance of evidence that is publicly available. They can even use real cutaways of the real DT seated at a defense table, ostensibly following along, since those news clips are in the public domain under the Fair Use Doctrine. It's the best way to show the public what might have in a real trial and why it's relevant to their vote.

A real trial bringing real justice would be preferable. But absent that, this might be the next best thing.