Season 1

Nov. 20, 2020

Current: Mitch Sumner

Mitch Sumner, a young Hudson Valley musician, multi-instrumentalist and singer, is featured, along with his new album, CURRENT. Mitch's music defies easy categorization; it cuts across the decades in its use of sounds, layer...

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Nov. 3, 2020

Election 2020!

Nationwide coverage, featuring correspondents Joe Nolan (New Jersey), Lillian MacKenzie (Virginia), Maureen Gomeringer (North Carolina), prognostic/numbers guy Donnie Illinois (Chicago), Santo Ciccarello (Long Island), Mrs....

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Aug. 19, 2020

Want Hope?

A most hopeful discussion with the recently graduated senior class President of Warwick High School, in which experiences around racism, the intersection of conservative, libertarian and liberal democratic values and this cou...

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July 23, 2020

The Personal Is Political

In which an attempt is made to discuss larger implications of anti-racism work and the discovery is made that you can't talk meaningfully about the politics of it without talking about our lives in it. One woman's (Jamie Munk...

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July 1, 2020

Who Are We Again??

Reflections about our country's birthday, growing up white, stories our ethnic-groups-of-origin tell us about ourselves and our country and the blinders we wear when it comes to recognizing, and supporting, black people who'v...

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June 15, 2020

The Day After the End

An interview with California author Mike Chen, about his post-apocalypse novel, "A Beginning at the End"

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June 9, 2020

A Tipping Point?

My guest is Anastasia Shown, a lecturer/global educator who has worked at the University of Pennsylvania and in Ghana, Cameroon & Ethiopa for many years. She joins me for a discussion about racism, the implications of the eve...

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May 31, 2020

Lost Minds, Lost Hearts

A consideration of what is hurting us now, as Americans, with some hints of how to begin on a path of healing. Thinking about the reckoning that is coming.

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May 16, 2020

The Future That Just Happened

This episode considers the future as constructed by three sci-fi/dystopian fiction writers; myself (author of CONVERGENCE), Katie Delahanty (author of KEYSTONE), and educator/author Erika Kane (author of SELAH & THE BLOOD BAR...

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April 28, 2020

The Power of Pizza

Pizza is transformative. This episode looks at the effect pizza has had on several people's lives, including Long Islanders and New Yorkers. Discussion of regional variations of pizza are included, but the focus comes back to...

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April 21, 2020

Beyond The Tough Guy

How do guys learn how to treat each other? Are we doomed to remain 9th graders far into our adult years? Or can people change (even WITHOUT therapy)??? In this episode I go back to interview the person whom I …

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