{"id":20015,"date":"2024-05-23T20:37:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T00:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=20015"},"modified":"2024-05-24T12:32:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T16:32:19","slug":"pummeling-politicians-psychiatrists-and-other-rascals-on-chicago-radio-shaun-thompson-show-mp3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/23\/pummeling-politicians-psychiatrists-and-other-rascals-on-chicago-radio-shaun-thompson-show-mp3\/","title":{"rendered":"Pummeling Politicians, Psychiatrists, Etc. on Chicago Radio MP3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-meta\"><abbr class=\"date time published updated\" title=\"2024-05-01T23:03:17-0400\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-01-at-22-58-50-Jim-Bovard-The-Shaun-Thompson-Show.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19931\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-01-at-22-58-50-Jim-Bovard-The-Shaun-Thompson-Show.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-01-at-22-58-50-Jim-Bovard-The-Shaun-Thompson-Show.png 679w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-01-at-22-58-50-Jim-Bovard-The-Shaun-Thompson-Show-150x150.png 150w\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/abbr><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<section><strong>Shaun Thompson<\/strong> and I whupped a bunch of politicians, psychiatrists, and other rascals tonight on his program on\u00a0 Chicago\u2019s The Answer AM 560.\u00a0 Shaun, the host of the <a href=\"https:\/\/560theanswer.com\/radioshow\/the-liberty-hour-with-shaun-thompson\"><strong>Liberty Hour<\/strong><\/a> program, mentioned seeing drug advertisements on Chicago TV that always end with a high speed list of side effects. I mentioned that a dentist had prescribed Vicodin after a difficult extraction but I stopped taking it after reading that one of the side effects was sudden death. \u00a0 Talking about the epidemic of mental illness diagnoses, I tossed in a quote from my fav shrink, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2024\/05\/14\/psychiatry-is-vexxing-more-americans-than-ever\/\"><strong>Thomas Szasz<\/strong><\/a>: \u201cPsychiatrists manufacture mental diagnoses the way the Vatican manufactures saints.\u201d\u00a0 I heartily appreciated Shaun\u2019s kind words for my articles and my books, including the latest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty\/dp\/B0CP9VCNDH\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\"><strong>Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"entry\">You can download or listen to the 14 minute interview by clicking or <a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/the-liberty-hour\/jim-bovard-1\"><strong>downloading here<\/strong><\/a><\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<p>https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/the-liberty-hour\/jim-bovard-1<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaun Thompson and I whupped a bunch of politicians, psychiatrists, and other rascals tonight on his program on\u00a0 Chicago\u2019s The Answer AM 560.\u00a0 Shaun, the host of the Liberty Hour program, mentioned seeing drug advertisements on Chicago TV that always end with a high speed list of side effects. 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