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David Bouchier: A Few Well Chosen Words
Mondays 7:45 AM & 9:45 AM (News/Talk), stream the podcast anytime
Hosted by David Bouchier

David Bouchier’s weekly essays are full of unexpected observations and whimsical opinions. Listeners will relish his entertaining, enlightening, and sometimes exasperated commentaries on the routines that carry us through the year, the surreal rituals of politics, the unsettling experience of foreign travel, and the confusions and comedies of everyday suburban life.

You can hear David Bouchier on-air Mondays at 7:45 a.m. on all stations and at 9:45 a.m. on News/Talk or by subscribing to this podcast.

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Latest Episodes
  • Falling towards winter
    Commentator David Bouchier is not looking forward to winter.
  • The summer of love
    Commentator David Bouchier remembers the amazing summer of 1967.
  • The price of free speech
    Commentator David Bouchier considers the various forms of censorship.
  • The ghost in the machine
    Commentator David Bouchier worries that his intelligence may not be artificial enough for the world of the future.
  • Take a break
    Commentator David Bouchier wonders how American vacations have become so short.
  • Back to school
    Commentator David Bouchier recalls some familiar wisdom about education and democracy.
  • All you can eat
    Commentator David Bouchier is impressed by how much we can eat.
  • Ordinary lives
    Commentator David Bouchier remembers a Superman we could all imitate.
  • Paradise gardens
    Commentator David Bouchier is impressed by the number of landscapers working in the suburbs.
  • Still waiting for the end
    Commentator David Bouchier thinks that the end of the world has been announced far too often.