In the Cab with Dream Queen

Hawt Diggity (“Welcome To Heck,” KMRD-LP) and Little Queen Trash Mouth (“The Hatch Attack Hours,” KMRD-LP) join me for a “Radical Roundup” of the week’s headlining events. We chat about Mamdani and 45/47’s visit, socialism vs. communism vs. Democrats, striking Starbucks workers, 45/47’s recent Truth Social posts about Dem’s “SEDITION”, and some stuff about CERN and Godzilla. Join us. We’re hilario...

My cohort, Little Queen Trashmouth (host, “Hatch Attack Hours” on KMRD-LP) joins me to talk about the history and present state of SNAP, the news this week regarding benefits and the government shutdown, the SCOTUS decision on releasing funds, and local food programs. LQTM’s alter ego works in an administrative capacity for a statewide nutrition program, and has valuable insight on how the system...

Political organizer/activist Helen McCloskey returns for a conversation covering the basics of US Civics and voting in a way that is interesting, inspiring and easy to grasp. We also talk about the relationship between Israel, Palestine and the U.S. from Helen’s own experience as a community organizer, staff-member and traveling companion to Rep. Pete McCloskey. Helen and Rep. McCloskey made sever...

Political organizer/activist Helen McCloskey joins me to talk about the current social & political crisis in America, threats to the US Constitution, Middle East relations past and present, environmental issues, voting and action, and how to stay engaged and avoid burnout. Helen is a lifelong organizer, writer, editor, educator, child of a US diplomat and artist, wife and former staffer for th...

Babblin’ on in Babylon is the official segment title for my solo live show musings. Keeping it real for better or worse. Today’s reflections are on the No Kings rallies taking place across the country, the explosives launch at Ft. Pendleton, the government shutdown and how it relates to what we’ve covered in our current book club selection, “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis and t...

Travis makes a surprise visit. What a relief! We talk a lot about what I am now calling “bubble casting,” the mindful art and mysticism of blowing bubbles. The metaphors are enlightening: bubbles inside of bubbles, without and within. Also, personal and political posturing, and what all of this has to do with the movie “The Labyrinth.” Please join us. Visit the Linktree below or in the bio for whe...

ITC Book Club continues with “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)” by Dean Spade. Travis joins me to discuss chapter 1: “Three Key Elements of Mutual Aid.” Topics include what can be expected of us when our basic needs are not met, consolidation and dispersal of resources, and working together while working on ourselves. Please join us. “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarit...

A somber show. I talk about the violence in America this week: Trey Reed, Cory Zukatis, the two homeless encampment shootings in Minneapolis, Brian Kilmeade’s words, and the history of state sanctioned violence against marginalized people. Also, story-time about “Strange Fruit,” the song’s author, Abel Meeropol, and Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam," the unedited recording from Westbury, NY. Than...

The voices in my head urged me to pull a thread on a Marvin Gaye t-shirt. I followed it down a rabbit hole and learned about what we know as The Vietnam War, Marvin Gaye, his brother, his fighting spirit, and how the album “What’s Going On” almost fell into a hole of its own, possibly never to see the light of day. Did you know Berry Gordy hated the song and the whole concept of “a protest record?...

“Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)” by Dean Spade is the current ITC Book Club selection. Travis joins me to talk about the Introduction of the book, what mutual aid is and why we need to practice it. We also chat about burn out, anxiety, and combating an overarching agenda that seems rooted in fraud, waste, and the abuse of people. “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity...

My friends and fellow radio hosts Hawt Diggity & Little Queen Trash Mouth join me to talk about Palantir’s broad launch of Gideon: an AI threat detection software reserved exclusively for American law enforcement. On his website, Peter Thiel said it “…signals the entry into an era of algorithmic pre-crime policing.” Starting this week the software will scour websites including Reddit, Discord,...

Oriana Lee is a person undefinable within a social media word count. In this episode we explore Oriana’s gifts to The Collective in the modes of therapist/wellness coach, MC, parent, visual artist and teacher, among several other roles. We discuss Oriana’s work with Wise Fool New Mexico, experience homeschooling and within the field of education in general, philosophies regarding therapeutics and...

Lilly Whiteswan is known by many in the village of Madrid, New Mexico as a traditional healer, spirit worker, actor, poet, singer/songwriter and loving mother figure. I have been curious to learn her story and hear tell of her deeds first hand, as most of what I know of Lilly’s work has been from the people she’s helped. We've interacted many times, but never sat down for an in-depth talk. This we...

Ken Wolverton is a gifted visual artist, storyteller and a really interesting guy. He joins me to satisfy my curiosity about his life, including coming of age in the 60’s, his time in the US Army during the Vietnam War, the Military Industrial Complex, his travels as a civilian abroad and here in the states, what’s going on here and now, and his relationship to radio and what drew him to become a...

Bad DJ joins me for a conversation inspired by a life’s journey toward restorative relationships. She weaves together her life experiences and bell hooks’s book “Communion: The Female Search for Love.” Bad DJ says this book is good learning no matter what one’s gender identity. We discuss restorative versus punitive relations, the “multiplicity of self,” how abuse in the home manifests in our larg...

Michael and Travis join me for a casual chat. Topics include the metaphor of life as a stew and evolution involving cultivating the ingredients; how we mirror potential and care vibrations; which “likes” matter; decolonizing as we collect from the past to move forward. I also touch on the new ITC Book Club selection: “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)” by Dean Spade...

Documentarian Wendy Young ( www.wendyyoung.net ) and her daughter, my cohort, DJ Little Queen Trash Mouth (host, “Hatch Attack Hours”, KMRD-LP Fridays 10a-12p) join me to talk about the history and present day manifestation of White Nationalism in the U.S. Wendy has done extensive documentary work on the subject, and both Wendy and LQTM grew up in the American South. We discuss the “Long Slow Surr...

In this episode we close our book club conversation about Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet.” Travis and I read the final chapter, “The Farewell” in its entirety. It’s a bit of an emotional sendoff. Al Mustafa says to the people: “We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered… I go with the wind, people of Or...

We continue our analysis of “The Farewell,” the final chapter in Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet.” “We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel.” Kelly Ann returns to unpack this quote and talk more about dreams, death, the soul’s journey, interconnectedness, these tryin’...

On this Juneteenth I asked Travis to join me to share more about his experience as a White man in Jamaica, and he provides. Authenticity, cooperation, mutual respect and shared values were key, as much as a love of the music and culture. “Food, clothes and shelter got no politics,” is a line from Mutabaruka’s song “Any Which Way… Freedom.” Another inspiring story-time conversation. Join us. ***NOT...

Travis joins me on the morning of the “No Kings” protests to discuss “The Vibes.” We work on perspectives. He opens with: “We are not waiting for a miracle. We are the Architects.” I roll my eyes. We laugh. It had been a day already at 9am. We talk about resilience, staying grounded, when silence may be the best course and being in our mode during this time of upheaval and horrific events. Each of...

The ITC Book Club discussion of Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet” continues with another take “On Death.” Gibran says, “For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” DJ Kelly Ann joins me to share not only her insights on the poem and book, but also her experience at The Gate with her father through his cancer diagnosis, treatment, preparation for dying and his crossing over. She...

The ITC Book Club discussion of Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet” continues with the chapter “On Death.” Gibran says: “You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?… For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” Ancestral wisdom carrier, teacher, land steward, medicine carrier Aquia joins me in the studio to talk death, the...

The ITC Book Club discussion of Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet” continues with the chapter “On Religion.” A priest asks Mustafa to speak of religion, and he said: “Have I spoken today of aught else?… Your daily life is your temple and religion. Whenever you enter into it take with you your all.” We are the embodiment of our beliefs and have the potential to represent the Divine in every moment of ou...

Travis and Michael join in the ITC Book Club discussion on Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet” “On Beauty.” Gibran says: “…beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.” Of what do we speak when words fail? Gibran implies Beauty is an experience and the three of us find...