Radical Roots Podcast

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Sorry for late upload. 🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 82Who Gets Counted? Who Gets Erased? Who Gets Detained? Who Gets Represented? Who Gets to Call Themselves American?📅 June 7, 2026 | 🕘 9:00 PM ET📍 Live from Union County, North CarolinaThis week started with two stories dominating the national conversation: the cases of Cyrus and Karmelo Anthony. Beyond the headlines, both stories exposed...

Sorry for the late post. 🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 80: Orban Falls, Ceasefire Fails, and a Democrat in Handcuffs📅 Sunday, April 12, 2026 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from North CarolinaViktor Orban just lost after 16 years — and Trump/Vance backed him all the way down. The Iran ceasefire talks in Pakistan collapsed this morning. Israel killed 350+ people in Lebanon the day after the ceasefi...

Sorry for the late publish. 🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 80: Orban Falls, Ceasefire Fails, and a Democrat in Handcuffs📅 Sunday, April 12, 2026 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from North CarolinaViktor Orban just lost after 16 years — and Trump/Vance backed him all the way down. The Iran ceasefire talks in Pakistan collapsed this morning. Israel killed 350+ people in Lebanon the day after the ceas...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 79: A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight: Trump's Genocide Threat and the Fake Iran Ceasefire 📅 Thursday, April 9, 2026 | 🕗 9:00 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NC Trump threatened to eradicate an entire civilization. Hours after a ceasefire was announced, Israel massacred 254 people in Lebanon in 10 minutes. ICE deported two North Carolina children — U...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 77: Black Women and the Fight for Healing📅 Thursday, March 19, 2026 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from North Carolina🎙️ Tonight's Guest: Dr. Jennifer Montgomery, PharmD, MBA, LCMHCABridging the gap between physical and mental wellness for underserved communities. Black women are holding the movement, the family, the community — and their own bodies are screaming...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 76: Operation Epstein Fury📅 Sunday, March 1, 2026 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from North Carolina While American voters went to the polls for last day of early voting, Trump started a war. 153 children died in a school bombing. Have attacks on American soil followed? And a Trump megadonor is poised to acquire CNN, HBO, and Warner Bros. This is Operation Epstein Fu...

🔥The State of the Country with guest Mir Yarfitz (NC 10th District Candidate) 🚨 We're joined by guest Mir Yarfitz (@miryarfitz) tonight—running for Congress North Carolina 10th District. When the country looks like this, we need fighters everywhere. Mir Yarfitz, is a queer and trans man, tenured Associate Professor of History at Wake Forest University, published author, and Democratic candid...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 74: 🌊The Flood—When Too Much News Becomes The Strategy📅 February 1, 2026 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from SNOWY North CarolinaHAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!This week was a flood 🌊. So much news it's hard to even keep up. Government shutdown. 3 million Epstein pages dropped. Prominent journalists arrested. Liam finally came home. Greg Bovino demoted. February 13...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 73: The Murder of Alex Pretti and the Cowardice of our Democratic Partywith Guest: Chase Franklin (North Carolina Activist)📅 January 25, 2026 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from North Carolina👨‍⚕️His Name: Alex Jeffrey Pretti 💔-Saturday, Jan 24. Minneapolis. 37-year-old ICU nurse at VA hospital. U.S. citizen. Legal gun owner. NO criminal record.-Shot and killed by...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 72: 5-Year-Old as Bait—Minnesota Shuts Down Today📅 January 23, 2026 | 🕗 11:30 AM ET | 📍 Live from North Carolina👶 They used a 5-year-old as bait. Liam Ramos, age 5, taken from his car. ICE told him to knock on door. Using a child as bait. Now detained in Texas. Family came legally, active asylum case.⚖️ Nekima Levy Armstrong arrested for protesting at church...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 71: From Monroe to Minneapolis: Building Community Defense in Trump's America📅 Jan 19 2026 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCThey brought ICE/CBP terror to our doorstep. Monroe fought back. Tonight, local Union County activist Kara Ordonez joins us to talk about the incredible organizing work happening right here in Monroe and Union County—from...

We both hopped on Thursday morning to discuss and dissect clips from Democratic leaders. When those who are supposed to protect the people forgo that responsibility by offering up nothing more than hollow words. What then?

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 70: The Rule of Law is Dead, The Gestapo is Here, and Democrats are Hiding📅 January 11, 2026 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NC⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses state violence, murder, and systemic terror. Renee Good is dead. ICE Agent Jonathan Ross killed her January 7th. No charges. The FBI is covering it up. Democrats refuse to say &quot...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 69: “ICE Shot Renee Good” — The Domestic Front of Empire (ft. Kristie Puckett)📅 January 8, 2026 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NC📺 Streaming LIVE on YouTube, Instagram, and FacebookA 37-year-old mother of three, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, was fatally shot by an ICE officer in Minneapolis—caught in the same U.S. “security” machine that claims it’s...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 68: “We’re Going to Run the Country” — Regime Change Without the Mask📅 January 4, 2026 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from North CarolinaA U.S. strike in Caracas. Maduro captured and removed. Venezuelans feel freed in the aftermath. Trump says the quiet part out loud: “We’re going to run the country," "we have to do it again" and "No one can stop...

(sorry for late publish)🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – 2025 Year in Review: What the Hell Just Happened?📅 December 21, 2025 | 🕗 8:00 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCWe made it. Barely.2025 was a year. From government shutdowns to ICE raids in Charlotte, from the Epstein files exposing MAGA's hypocrisy to Nicki Minaj praising "assassin" JD Vance, and transitioning from a democracy...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 66: JD Mazuera Arias and the Future of Charlotte Politics📅 November 30, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCFresh off his Charlotte City Council appointment, JD Mazuera Arias joins us to again discuss Charlotte's response to Operation Charlotte's Web, economic boycotts, and what progressive local leadership looks like. Plus: DC National G...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 64 The Assault and Gaslighting of America📅 November 14, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NC🔥 What We're Covering:🏛️ Government ReopensWhat happened? Who won? What did we give up to get here?📁 Epstein & TrumpThe documents. The connections. The silence from those who claim to care about protecting children.🚨 ICE & CBP Come to Charlo...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 63: Dems Win, Dems Cave—Here's What WE Do Next📅 November 9, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCDemocrats swept major races—but what does victory actually mean when the system is still broken? We're back post-election with a LOT to unpack. From the government shutdown hitting Day 40 to Mamdani's NYC win, we break down what happened, w...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 62: From City Hall to Civil War: The Fight for Power Everywhere📅 November 2, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCLive from Union County, where one of your hosts just threw his hat in the ring for mayor—and we've got a LOT to unpack this week. From a write-in mayoral campaign in Stallings to hurricanes in Haiti and famine in Sudan, this episod...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 61: The Imperfect Ally📅 October 26, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCWhat does it mean to show up imperfectly? How do we confront the systems that shaped us? And how do we build real solidarity across race and class in red and rural America? Tonight we're having a raw, honest conversation about race, privilege, and allyship with William Re...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 60: When the Mask Slips: Teachers Strike, Political Betrayals, and Fascism Goes Global📅 October 23, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCLive from Union County, where teachers are on strike and politicians are showing their whole ass. This week is about betrayal and solidarity. Who shows up for workers when it counts? And who sells out the moment...