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

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.

Latest Episodes
  • Commentator David Bouchier looks forward to the end of the hurricane season.
  • Commentator David Bouchier wonders what stories will be told around the Thanksgiving table this year.
  • Commentator David Bouchier speculates on what may be our last and most regrettable technological improvement.
  • Commentator David Bouchier finds a mixed message in the Veterans Day celebration tomorrow.
  • Commentator David Bouchier would like to give grades to political candidates before they are elected.
  • Commentator David Bouchier wonders what lies behind our fascination with Halloween.
  • Commentator David Bouchier suggests that some rules for political debate from the sixteenth century might be useful today.
  • Commentator David Bouchier finds something to admire about explorers like Columbus.
  • Commentator David Bouchier discovers some not very interesting ancestors.
  • Commentator David Bouchier is not looking forward to winter.