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We've titled Disc Golf Live episode 53 “Return of the Champ” to recognize Ken Climo's quest for his first PDGA World Championship title in the Master's division. Our coverage includes footage from rain-soaked Renaissance Park as well as the Final Nine. Scenic Traverse City, MI, is the setting for the story of a disc golf course created from broken hearts.

This milestone episode kicks off coverage of the 2012 PDGA World Disc Golf Championship from Charlotte, NC, including early and final round action among the master and grandmaster professional women, and several junior and senior divisions. The Guardians of Recreation have provided a comprehensive tutorial called How Discs Fly, certain to entertain and enlighten. Finally, Disc Golf Me TV brings us more of the story from Charlotte and an interview with Ken Climo, disc golf's most legendary champion.

Guest David Cay Johnston, a prize winning investigative reporter and author of a trilogy of books on tax policy (his most recent is The Fine Print, How Big Companies Use “Plain English” To Rob You Blind) talks about how changes in the national and local tax systems has been gamed to benefit those who have the most already at the expense of all the rest of us. This is part 2 of a 2 part series.

Guest Zaher Wahab, Professor Emeritus from Lewis & Clark College and a native of Afghanistan, describes the current condition of and how the American occupation and other civil disturbances have harmed the Afghan educational system. The Afghan government is a puppet government and is seen as illegitimate by the people, in part because of the power of NGOs operating there. Reconstruction efforts have been a failure with most of the money going back to the donor countries or spent by donor country's own NGOs.