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Old Mole Variety Hour

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KBOO Radio is a community-powered station in Portland Oregon

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What has Old Mole Variety Hour covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Old Mole Variety Hour for October 26, 2026" (26 October 2026), "Money in Portland Politics" (26 October 2026), and "Elakha Returning Sea Otters to the Oregon Coast" (26 October 2026).

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Old Mole Variety Hour publishes roughly weekly across 20 episodes.

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Booking probability for Old Mole Variety Hour is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Old Mole Variety Hour requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Old Mole Variety Hour's contact route on record: verified email.

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Old Mole Variety Hour is a news podcast with 20 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Oct 26, 2026—

    Frann Michel hosts this episode, with these segments: Money in Portland Politics: Big business and other moneyed interests have been funding anti-progressive campaigns in Portland this election season, and journalist...

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    Money in Portland Politics

    Oct 26, 2026—

    Big business and other moneyed interests have been funding anti-progressive campaigns in Portland this election season, and journalist Jeremiah Hayden has been reporting on it for the Portland Mercury, in articles like...

  • Oct 26, 2026—

    Artemesia reports on the historical loss of sea otters from the Oregon coast and how the indigenous-founded Elakha Alliance is working to return sea otters to habitats they once called home. image: Elakha logo design by...

  • Oct 19, 2026—

    Your Two Cents: Laurie Mercier speaks with Devin Ruiz of the Next Up Action Fund and Jim Labbe from Participatory Budgeting Oregon about the Your 2 Cents Ballot Measure 26-267 on this month’s ballot for Portland voters...

  • Oct 5, 2026—

    In the decade of the 2010s, more people took to the streets than in any other time in history. And yet those horizontal protests, often spread through social media, were frequently co-opted by the right — and the decade...

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    Book Mole: Braiding Sweetgrass

    Sep 28, 2026—

    Robin Wall Kimmerer is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation; she has dedicated her life to indigenous philosophies and ecological research. Her book Braiding Sweetgrass centers stewardship of the earth, evaluating...

  • Sep 28, 2026—

    Frann Michel hosts this show, featuring these segments: Left and the Law and Remigration: Less than a year ago, aggressive immigration raids in Democratic-led cities were drawing national headlines and sparking protests...

  • Sep 28, 2026—

    Less than a year ago, aggressive immigration raids in Democratic-led cities were drawing national headlines and sparking protests across the country, particularly in Minneapolis, Chicago and Los Angeles. But in recent...

  • Sep 28, 2026—

    Boots Riley's latest movie, I Love Boosters, is even more zany than his first feature, Sorry to Bother You. Frann Michel recommends it as a delightful, surreal, excoriation of capitalism, and a celebration of the...

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    A New Policy for Defense

    Sep 21, 2026—

    Laurie Mercier speaks with Josh Paul, the former US Department of State official who oversaw arms transfer and sales and famously became one of the first officials to resign in October 2023 in protest of Pres. Biden’s...

  • Sep 21, 2026—

    Jan Haaken talks with Joshua Frank about his new book, Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our Future, released this month through Haymarket Press. Joshua...

  • Sep 21, 2026—

    Frann Michel hosts this episode, featuring these segments: A New Policy: Laurie Mercier speaks with Josh Paul, the former US Department of State official who oversaw arms transfer and sales and famously became one of...

  • Sep 14, 2026—

    Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Coming to Terms with Israel and Antisemitism: Jan Haaken talks with Dr. Alissa Hochman about the struggle within the American...

  • Sep 7, 2026—

    Jon Nelson hosts this Labor Day Mole with a rebroadcast from Against the Grain: The rise and fall of unemployment, our dependence on the market for our livelihoods — such things are taken as a given. But economist Clara...

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    The Ross Island Fix?

    Aug 31, 2026—

    Earlier this year a group of anonymous investors calling themselves Heron Park surfaced a proposal to bury contaminated waste from the Willamette River Superfund site in the Ross Island Lagoon. It’s a scheme for private...

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    No to Big Oil

    Aug 31, 2026—

    In previous Left & the Law segments, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker have followed lawsuits against Big Oil that have been filed over the past decade by local and state governments, including here in Multnomah County. The...

  • Aug 27, 2026—

    Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes these segments: The Ross Island Fix? Earlier this year a group of anonymous investors calling themselves Heron Park surfaced a proposal to bury...

  • Aug 24, 2026—

    This week's show, hosted by Desiree Hellegers, features the following segments: In the Shadow of Fascism: Jan Haaken talks with Michael Fabricant about his new book, The Struggle for Public Goods in the Shadow of...

  • Aug 10, 2026—

    It’s been called a new gold rush, yet not of our external environment, but of our internal environment — of our minds and psyches. In this rebroadcast from Against the Grain, Sasha Lilley talks with historian of science...

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