The Goldman State
Ed Goldman is a longtime newspaper and magazine columnist, the author of five books and creator of The Goldman State, a three-times-a-week online column with subscribers in 40 states, Canada and Europe. A professional playwright, composer and painter, Ed has also taught journalism at five California Universities and community colleges. His bucket list includes becoming the victim of a corporate takeover. This podcast is an extension of his unique take on the world around us and his interpretation, with all the creativity imaginable, of what that would literally sound like if he were to speak it.
Episodes
102 episodes
Episode 102: Failing the Grades
Choosing the proper schooling for one's future success is quite a feat. Somehow, I managed multiple colleges and some very "sobering" testing performances. Blame and embarrassment... well, you'll just have to listen.
•
4:48
Episode 101: Modify Me
Adjectives. Hidden tyrants of our language. I believe you'll find this to be one of the most amazing, wonderfully written, cleverly worded ... ugh, enough already.
•
3:00
Episode 100: Some Shrinkage May Occur
100. My centennial episode! Yes, of course it's a good one. Our cities are shrinking, sinking and settling. Let me share my thoughts on the possibility why.
•
4:33
Episode 99: Punishing the Envelope
Where are my discount coupons for those things that are the inevitabilities? Like cremation, or fire insurance or adult diapers? Why aren't those envelopes showing up in the mailbox? I have some thoughts...
•
3:49
Episode 98: The Irrational Inquirer
Yes, the BBC. Why are you surprised? The pictures... courtesy of the paparazzi.
•
2:42
Episode 97: Behind Closed Doors
Have you been to the grocery or drug store lately and find your item under heavy security? For no good reason? I now know the answer.
•
Episode 97
•
4:42
Episode 96: The R Word
Seriously? What did you think I meant? I don't ever see myself doing that... ever. You do what's best for you. I'll take care of myself, thank you very much.
•
3:44
Episode 95: New Agencies and Language to Memorize
Rebranding our parks, monuments and beloved entities more correctly, per Trump at least, and the reshaping of our Constitution for a "grave new world" are both examined in this episode.
•
Episode 95
•
5:03
Episode 94: It's Genius!
Einstein, yes. Wrinkle cream, uhhhhhh, not so much. I really do have something to say about it that I think you're going to find, well, brilliant.
•
Episode 94
•
4:17
Episode 93: Of Mice and Scientist
Rodent revelry in neuropathway discovery. What we can learn from mice and men.
•
Episode 93
•
3:07
Episode 92: Metrics, Schmetrics: It's Time for Bullshetrics
Does anybody really know who my podcast listeners are? Or how many or them I reach and oh, what's their socioeconomic makeup? How about why should anyone care?
•
4:35
Episode 91: Mid-East Travel Tips For The Tone-Deaf
While travel to the middle-east might not be the current popular destination of choice, it is important if you are considering a trip there that you're prepared. For example, how would you address a sheik... with a shake? That's just one little...
•
Episode 91
•
4:39
Episode 90: My Honey Can't Do List.
Who decides what makes a day productive? You do. I do. So if I only get one thing of my choice done for the day, who's to say it wasn't productive? Even if it was from yesterday. At least it got crossed of...the list.
•
4:34
Episode 89: A Hospital is Not a Home
Ensuite facilities, food service, 24 hour service at your beck and call. What more could one ask for? Plenty, I might suggest.
•
Episode 89
•
4:23
Episode 88: Megan Markle, The Love Cook
Deliciously deceptive dishes from some of the most unlikely and, in some cases, unliked leaders of the world. With a little of my own spice added.
•
Episode 88
•
5:16
Episode 87: When You Wish Upon a Czar
Pardon czar, affordability czar, expense czar, what's next? Oh, surely I have some observations worth noting that you may be surprised to hear - or not.
•
Episode 87
•
4:05
Episode 86: Just Park It, Man!
A recent report from a respectable organization sites 7 parking spaces exist for each vehicle in the country. Now how can that be and what can we do to ensure we maximizing this incongruency state to state?
•
4:34
Episode 85: DIY-Not?!
Tech quandries abound yet we're still doing far too much ourselves in my opinion. Why is it some technologies advance in the blink of an automated eye, yet others that should be advancing, languishing and causing us, to do-it-ourselves. You go ...
•
4:58
Episode 84: A Man for No Seasons.
As a self-proclaimed 'man for no seasons,' and I mean seasons of all types, from weather to astrological, how is it one is able to survive? And given my astrological sign of Scorpio...
•
Episode 84
•
4:27
Episode 83: They Went Which-a-Way?
Ever gotten lost in a maze of buildings on a campus of sorts? C'mon now, I know you have. What if we had our own personal sherpas to guide us? This episode I share my concept in full detail for those of us more prone to "lost" than "found."...
•
4:41
Episode 82: Your 2025 Political Glossary
Let's review the language of politics through my homonymic dictionary of terms, if you please.
•
Episode 82
•
4:38
Episode 81: Dying to Share This Stuff.
What is it with the dead? Why do obituaries hold such a secret allure for many of us? Growing up in New York, surrounded by the clamor of daily newspapers, my fascination with obituaries was ignited and flame has never flickered and likely, as ...
•
Episode 81
•
5:08
Episode 80: Sprout of the Closet at Last!
Finally! The incredible transformation of Brussels sprouts from a culinary outcast to a star on the dining scene has occurred. But how, you might ask? Better yet, why? Let me fill you in on their little secret.
•
Episode 80
•
4:15