* "This is a perfect storm - There's so many things that are going on right now, I don't know where to begin..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon Goes Shopping - and what it has to do with the price of diesel, tomatoes, toilet paper, tractors, sidewalks, the midterms, the war on Iran, the new financial capitalism where you make money while asleep - and top secret empty grocery shelves in Ukraine...

'Bad News: Groceries are really expensive - Good News: None of them are safe to eat anyway.' Art Work: Laurie Lipton

** "It was like amazing for me to be able to learn the history of that relationship with Muhammad Ali. So for me it was just a great experience, and I just feel very fortunate that I got to have that experience - and now be part of that history and that legacy..."

Lawrence Gilliard Jr. Talks Resentment, One Night In Miami, Law & Order, Gangs Of New York...The African American actor revisits that dramatized historic meeting back in 1964 of Malcolm, Mohammad Ali and music legend Sam Cooke, and his portrayal in the Regina King directed film of Ali's trainer Drew Bundini Brown.

Currently up for new episodes of Law & Order, the actor discusses as well about his latest movie, Resentment - as a Wall Street player with some mysterious motive in mind. As he offers to finance the movie of an old high school friend, a broke and broken failed filmmaker.

Gilliard likewise has thoughts to share about his role in the Martin Scorsese screen classic, Gangs Of New York as Jimmy Spoils, the only black member of the real life Dead Rabbits Irish gang back then. And his upcoming Danny DeVito directed film, St. Sebastian, a mystery shrouded post-apocalyptic nuclear war thriller going down in Russia.

MAO-LANIA - after praising her Communist Yugoslavia childhood in an interview, she goes full fashion statement at the White House...

** "A testament to wit, intelligence and work ethic, perseverance and commitment to the end of empire. So let's begin..."

Arts Express Playhouse: 'Uncovering the real danger of AI is that it is run by evil war mongers...opposing the empire under which we live is the only path to dignity, the river of blood which feeds our way of life is always the loudest thing in the room...All it takes is one crack in the lie we've been sold...' Stay tuned and all will be revealed...

Plus...Trump, Xi, a dangerous dinner and testosterone...