Radical Roots Podcast

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Season 2 Episode 58: The Enemy in Your House: Confronting Fascism at the Dinner Table📅 October 12, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCWe've been warning you. Now what? Season 2 isn't about predicting the collapse—it's about organizing through it. The alarm has been sounded. Now the real work begins. And it starts inside your home.🔥 What We&...

📍 Live from Union County, North Carolina 📅 October 9, 2025 In this bold and unapologetic episode, we tackle one of the most contested concepts in American politics: patriotism. What does it mean to be a patriot in a nation built on contradictions? Who gets to claim the flag, and who has been excluded from that narrative? ✝️The weaponization of patriotism by white Christian nationalists ✊🏾Black...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 56: Sexual Matador Unleashed: Steven Miller's Fascist Playbook📅 October 2, 2025 | 🕗 11:15 AM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCThe government is shut down. Pete Hegseth got silence from the generals. Steven Miller is unleashing ICE like it's 1939. Farmers who voted for Trump are losing their farms. And Bad Bunny just sent MAGA into a full racist meltdow...

🎙️ Radical Roots x Drawing Bigger Circles – Episode 55: America's Reckoning & Resistance 📅 September 28, 2025 | 🕗 Recorded Live in Monroe, NC This isn’t your typical political podcast. This was community in conversation . In a powerful joint episode, the hosts of Radical Roots and Drawing Bigger Circles sit down in Monroe, NC, to unpack the intersection of grief, memory, race, and power...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 54: Funeral for Free Speech📅 September 21, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NC From Charlie Kirk's vigil-turned-rally to rising federal overreach and political cowardice, this episode calls out institutional apathy, executive creep, and performative resistance—while offering real tools for action. 🔥 Tonight’s Breakdown: 🧎 The Vigil Heard &...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 53: The Social Contract Is Broken📅 September 14, 2025 | 🕗 2:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCThis isn’t a hot take—it’s a fire alarm. From Monroe to MAGAland, the social contract has snapped. In this episode, we go beyond punditry to confront what happens when local leaders lie, racists get a microphone, and white supremacy hides behind claims of “free s...

🎙️ Episode 52 — Remembering Charlie Kirk… and the Democracy He Helped Kill 📅 Thursday, September 11, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET We don’t just remember Charlie Kirk—we remember what he stood for: division, disinformation, and the slow erosion of democracy. This isn’t a eulogy. It’s a warning.📢 What happens when your legacy is lies? And what happens to democracy when that becomes enough? #CharlieKirk #D...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 51: The Opposition Illusion — When Resistance Becomes Routine📅 Thursday, September 4, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCThis week, we dive into a nation stuck in reruns: mass shootings with the same recycled headlines, power grabs wrapped in “public health,” and an opposition party that looks more like a performance troupe. If you're tired...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 50: Dead Silence: When Power Refuses to Speak📅 August 28, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCWhen children are murdered in a church and the President can’t even tweet, what does that silence tell us? When executive orders target protest, cash bail, and freedom of speech, what kind of nation are we becoming? This isn’t just a week in review. It’s...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 49: Entering the Breach: Soft Civil War in 2025📅 Sunday, August 24, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ETThis week, we ask: How far have we already fallen? And what does it mean to fight back before it's too late?🧭 Opening Reflection: “How Far Have We Fallen?”We begin by grounding in the reality of this moment:• What do we do when the systems meant to protect us betray us?•...

🎙️ Radical Roots — Episode 48: The Weight of Leadership: ICE, CMS & What Real Representation Looks LikeTheme: What does real leadership look like in a time of fear? We explore how rising voices like Liz Monterrey’s can reshape public trust, equity, and protection—especially for immigrant communities navigating institutional threats.📍 Live from Union County, North Carolina! Radical Roots is a...

🎙️ Radical Roots — Episode 47: Civil War or Civil Rupture? Theme: When social systems begin to weaponize against the safety net—what signals the descent into real civil breakdown?📍 Live from Union County, North Carolina! Radical Roots is a bold and unapologetic podcast where we dig deep into politics, community empowerment, and social change through the lens of history and lived experience. From...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 46: Captured Opposition📅 July 29, 2025 | 🕣 8:30 PM ETWhen the institutions meant to protect us become the threat—from within and above. From immunity deals to disappearing accountability, from broken party trust to exposed DOJ corruption—this week, we unpack the harsh reality: opposition is not always resistance. Sometimes, it's just captured. Who do you tr...

Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 45: Who’s Watching the Watchers?📅 July 24, 2025 | 🕣 8:30 PM ETIn a week full of power grabs—at the border, in our counties, and across state lines—we ask the urgent question: Who’s watching the watchers?🧭 Opening Reflection: Staying Awake in Dangerous Times• “Who’s watching the watchers?”• What does oversight mean when the overseers are complicit?• Your power che...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 44: Where Do We Go From Here?📅 Thursday July 17, 2025 | 🕣 8:30 PM ETIn a world defined by shifting narratives, blurred lines between media and manipulation, and rising political stakes, we’re asking the question that matters most: Where do we go from here? This episode grounds us in collective reflection and pushes us toward strategic clarity—because propaganda...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 43: Superpowers & Warning Signs📅 July 13, 2025 | 🕣 8:30 PM ETFrom Truth Social memes to billion-dollar box office stories, power is being marketed like a comic book fantasy—while real warning signs go ignored. This week on Radical Roots, we explore how political figures like Trump weaponize myth, how America redefines heroism through media, and how silence...

When systems stop even pretending to protect the people, we must ask: What now? In this week’s episode, we explore what it looks like when power no longer plays by its own rules—from the weaponization of religion and immigration to Epstein’s files being closed with a shrug. We go local and global, demanding clarity in a landscape shaped by manipulation, neglect, and sanctioned chaos.🔥 Main Topics...

Sorry for the delay folks! 🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 41: What Are You Doing With Your Power?📅 July 6, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET In a world on fire—politically, environmentally, and spiritually—we begin and end with one urgent question: What are you doing with your power? This episode calls for collective pause and personal reflection while dissecting power plays from billionaires, tech overlo...

BREAKING NEWS: Episode 40: Big Billionaire Bill Passes while Alligator Auschwitz Opens🔥 1. The 'Big Beautiful Bill' (BBL) from HellThe House has passed the $3.4 trillion "One Big Beautiful Bill," now awaiting President Trump's signature. Key provisions include extensions of 2017 tax cuts, significant reductions to Medicaid and SNAP, and increased defense and immigration enfo...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 39: Don't Sleep on Zohran!📅 Thursday, June 26, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCPower, Identity, and the Future of Democratic PoliticsAs a 33-year-old democratic socialist knocks out a political titan, the nation erupts—with hope, hate, and hard questions about the future of democracy in America.🌆 1. Zohran Mamdani’s Meteoric Rise: From O...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 38: Are We Cooked?📅 Sunday, June 22, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCResistance & Reckoning in a World on FireUnchecked domestic power. Diplomacy sidelined. Democracy unraveling at home and abroad. This week, we examine what’s happening when that power goes unchecked—and how it affects all of us.⸻🔥 1. Mahmoud Khalil Freed: A Moment of Re...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 37: Juneteenth Reckoning, ICE Overreach & Trump’s Iran Gamble📅 Thursday, June 19, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCThis episode cuts to the bone—probing how history, power, and performance shape our world. From Juneteenth's uneasy truths to federal overreach and a billionaire’s geopolitical game, we're not just talking—we're de...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 36: “We Refuse” with Author Kellie Carter Jackson — Resistance, Narrative, and the Power of Refusal📅 Sunday, June 15, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET 📗In Episode 36, following the No Kings Day nationwide protests, in a timely conversation, we sit down with Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson—historian, author, and chair of Africana Studies at Wellesley College—for a powerful conver...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 35: Senator Detained, Protests, & Parades 📅 Thursday, June 12, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NC In this episode, Parron and our new Producer, RC, have a casual chat, diving into the escalating tensions between federal authority and civil liberties: 🚨👮🏻Senator Alex Padilla's Detainment: We examine the incident where U.S. Senator Ale...

🎙️ Radical Roots Podcast – Episode 34: From Protests to Power: Billionaire Breakup & Politics of Privilege📅 Sunday, June 8, 2025 | 🕗 8:30 PM ET | 📍 Live from Union County, NCThis isn’t just a recap. It’s a reckoning. TIME TO GET UNCOMFORTABLE.This week, we dive into the high-profile fallout between Elon Musk and Donald Trump — a billionaire breakup in a wild week that reveals deeper cracks...