Old Mole Variety Hour

About Old Mole Variety Hour

KBOO Radio is a community-powered station in Portland Oregon

Publisher

KBOO Radio

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Feb 2024

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

340 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Old Mole Variety Hour for October 19, 2026

   Your Two Cents: Laurie Mercier speaks with Devin Ruiz of the Next Up Action Fund and Jim Labbe from Participatory Budgeting Oregon about the Your 2 Cents Ballot Measure 26-267 on this month’s ballot for Portland voters. They discuss the principles of participatory budget...

2. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Doom Loop

   As the saying goes: under the Republicans people exploit people; under the Democrats, it’s just the opposite. Award winning journalist David Sirota argues that not only are both political parties big money machines, but that the Democrats, by perpetually over-promising a...

3. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Your 2 Cents

   Laurie Mercier speaks with Devin Ruiz of the Next Up Action Fund and Jim Labbe from Participatory Budgeting Oregon about the Your 2 Cents Ballot Measure 26-267 on this month’s ballot for Portland voters. They discuss the principles of participatory budgeting, examples fr...

Who has been a guest on Old Mole Variety Hour

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jordan Karr-Morse
• Mary Hart-Landsberg
• Patricia Kullberg
• Dan Handelman
• Ussama Makdisi

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

393,516

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

19

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

50