Patt Morrison for Friday, May 28, 2010

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Friday, May 28, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:06 – 1:39

What’s does the BP spill mean, from the Gulf of Mexico to California?

Yesterday President Obama announced the results of his administration’s safety review of offshore drilling and extended a moratorium on new deepwater oil drilling permits for another six months while a commission investigates the causes of the April 20^th accident.  That moratorium will stave off controversial lease-sales off the coast of Alaska, the Western Gulf and Virginia, but how will it affect drilling sites off the California coast, such as the Venoco drilling plan up for vote on the June 8^th ballot in Carpentaria? And do President Obama’s announcements yesterday herald a sea-change in the administration’s stance on offshore drilling?

 

 

Guests:

UNCONFIRMED

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont; author of the “Clean Coasts & Efficient Cars Act of 2010” which will ban offshore drilling and increase fuel efficiency in cars

 

ON ENGINEERING

Iraj Ershaghi, Director of the Petroleum Engineering Program and the West Coast Petroleum Technology Transfer Council at USC,  and Executive Director of the Chevron–USC Center for Smart Oilfield Technologies.

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ON THE FUTURE OF THE OIL DRILLING INDUSTRY

Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute & professor of clinical finance at the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University

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ON CALIFORNIA’S OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING

Brian Baird, Assistant Secretary of Ocean and Coastal Policy for the Natural Resources Agency (NRA)

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ON THE SPILL’S IMPACT ON GASOLINE PRICES

NOT CONFIRMED

Sheridan Titman, director of the Energy Management and Innovation Center in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in Austin

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1:41 – 1:58:30

Tim O’Brien’s – The Things They Carried

Twenty years ago, years after returning home from his tour in Viet Nam, Tim O’Brien authored a book of short stories about a drastically unpopular war. Considered by many, to be the fiction counterpart to Michael Herr’s Dispatches O’Brien’s fictional account of Viet Nam serves as essential reading on the Viet Nam experience. As America finds itself deep into two wars Tim O’Brien joins us to discuss the “story truth” and “happening truth” of what his book says about where we were then and were we find ourselves now. 

 

Guest:

Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried

IN STUDIO

 

 

2:06 – 2:58:30

Comedy Congress from the Crawford Family Forum!

The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional.  Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.  Today we laugh at the asinine politics and blame game surrounding the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, we laugh at a Republican who thinks the Civil Rights Act was a bad idea and a Democrat who pretended to serve in Vietnam, and much more.  Tomorrow we’ll probably cry about our lost jobs, but today join us in laughing at the madness of it all—the truth hurts far less when it’s told by comedians.

 

 

Guests:

Greg Proops, regular actor & host of TV shows, movies and game shows—you can catch him on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” on the USA Network; he is a regular performer on both the American & British-original version of “Whose Line is it Anyway?”; he plays a recurring character on the HBO series “Flight of the Concords”; and he is a regularly touring stand up comedian, coming to a comedy club near you!

IN STUDIO

 

Alonzo Bodden, winner of season 3 of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” and host of the Travel Channel show “Worst Drivers in America,” premiering on March 14; regular performer and field correspondent for “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and guest star on several TV shows and movies

IN STUDIO

 

Ben Gleib, regular performer at the Hollywood Improv, on the CBS “The Late Late Show,” and on NBC’s “Last Call with Carson Daly”; named one of "Six Comedians who Could be Comedy’s Next Big Thing" in Esquire & a regular panelist on the E! Network’s “Chelsea Lately”

IN STUDIO

 

 

 

Jonathan Serviss

Producer, Patt Morrison Program

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