The New Capital ShowTM with Leo Gold is progressive talk radio with a mission. The New Capital Show covers politics, environment, economics, business, science, religion, and philosophy. LISTEN Thursdays 3pm CST on Pacifica KPFT 90.1 Houston. Replays are available below with each show. 
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Stimulus Roulette
Randall Morton drops by and gives our listeners a rundown of what's in store this year at the Progressive Forum, including Larry Wilmore from the "The Daily Show" who will be here this February 25"th. For tickets and information, including upcoming speakers this year, see Progressive Forum Website.
Leo also notes that Houston will finally be having an official Earth Day event at Discovery Green and encourages you to keep Saturday Aprill 11th marked on your calendar. Earth Day Houston will be presented by GHASP/Mothers for Clean Air at Jones Lawn, Andrea & Bill White Promenade, Anheuser Busch Stage and Fondren Performance Space from 9:00am to 6:00pm. See Discovery Green Event Calendar website for more information (search for April 11, 2009). Admission is Free.
Today's show covers the economic crisis, which Leo declares is not a financial crisis but instead an investment crisis. He is uncertain whether this stimulus package will result in projects that will last a hundred years and provide returns or simply be a fiasco. But at least the Country is on track to grappling with investment decisions with a discipline that is being forced on us by the realities of economics. We do some news and take your calls.
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Painting the Picture
Leo wants Obama to keep on painting the picture of our future and keep us focused. Leo discusses our economic state and what could, and should be happening. We do some news and take your calls.
Whole Earth Economy
Join Leo as he hosts Peter G. Brown & Geoffrey Garver, author's of "Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy." His guests give an insightful view of our economy collapsing, how entangled the world's capital really is, and how we can correct these problems and indeed build a whole earth economy.
The Desk Tax
Harris County decides to tax Leo's desk. Can alternative energy efforts succeed if the Obama Administration doesn't step in to force the major energy polluters to pay their full cost? What happened to the PMI on our Nation's defaulted loans? Those topics and we take your phone calls.
New Year
Geoff Berg guest hosts a two hour New Year's Day special, the Israeli consul general for the Southwest drops by the studio to explain Israel's current military actions in the Gaza Strip, and not surprisingly the majority of calls question its wisdom. In the second hour Geoff takes more calls on Israel and drops the failure of the conservative movement's teenage sex abstinence efforts into the mix.
Merry Just Stop Day
Leo proposes more "just stop" days similar to what we all tend to do on Christmas, discusses the obscene argument over the toxicity of the Tennessee spill of coal ash, and decides that subsidizing professional sports teams is not quite worth depleting our local infrastructure. Finally, The New Capital Show ends the year with Playwright Harold Pinter's 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech. This riveting, painful, and exact speech is drawn squarely upon the United States' foreign policies since World War II.
Recycling Management
Leo discusses the Iraqi shoe thrower who aimed at George Bush. Leo hosts Houston's Solid Waste Director Harry Hayes to discuss the recovery effort from and impacts of Hurricane Ike as well as Houston's progress and plans in recycling. We do some news and take your calls.
READ: Leo's editorial Take Your Shoes Off
Electric Bill Trap
Leo's electric bill soars as he misses the deadline to re-contract with Green Mountain Power. Green Mountain provided no notice of expiration. Leo thinks this scam is costing Texas electricity customers lots of money, and is ditching Green Mountain for Gexa, which claims that they notify customers of the imminent expiration of their annual contract. Listeners and emailers say they've experienced the same thing.. Leo gets us up to speed on the financial state of the country and world and we take your calls.
Auto Bailout?
Matt Pawa visits NCS, and after solving a bad phone connection, talks about the lack of any proposed environmental requirements on the auto makers in return for their proposed lifeline. Matt wants the automakers to stop fighting the Pavley case (in which states' rights to establish greenhouse gas restrictions is not superceded by federal requirements). Also, Leo dispenses some year end financial planning recommendations, and Gary Edmondson of Urban Harvest describes how you can learn about food security as an issue and do something about it - in your own backyard.
Stuff Nobody Wants
Leo gives his view on how to get out of the current crisis. The ports piling up with automobiles that nobody wants. Lots of Houses piling up, that nobody wants. Televisions in warehouses, furniture, plenty of stuff that nobody wants. Our automobile industry leading the way with stuff that nobody wants. The numbers are staggering... what then, do people want? Leo takes a crack at the problems we are having and takes your calls.