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In 2004, my son and I met Arlo Guthrie on a sidewalk in Tacoma, Washington. He autographed my lucky two-dollar bill, the one my Uncle Jeff Weiss (the eminent coin collector) awarded me in 1983 as an afikomen prize. I explained to him that Random’s fourth-grade history project was on Woodie Guthrie. Arlo offered this, “My dad was a really cool guy.” Before he stepped into the venue, and even though...

In this episode, Dr. Roger Sty Bantam takes on his critics, and fights back.  In this episode, Dr. Roger Sty Bantam gets real. •••••••••••••••••• Artwork by Arrington de Dionyso. Music by Oleg Byonic and Faith No More. Script loosely based on the angry meltdown Allen Silberhartz had when asked if he was aware that a growing segment of The Bridging Heaven and Earth audience thought his show was a w...

The piece I recorded today isn't one I wrote, but it conveys my thoughts on the subject of lost love, and it has nostalgic significance. First, my thoughts. When we lose someone we love, a possession, an old t-shirt, a paper boat, a chair, can help maintain a place in our minds where that love continues, where we can still feel it. That place is dusk, neither day or night. In the city, in the...

I wrote this song because I wanted a song that everyone liked.    This song is good. There’s nothing about it that’s bad. It’s something that everyone, everyone likes. Every note, every lyric, even this one, has been carefully set down to prevent anyone from not liking it. It’s perfectly enjoyable… a big, cloud, of, endlessly perfect music.    The reason everyone likes this song is that it’s good....

Dr. Roger Sty Bantam is an ordained Christian Therapist and Mystical Healer certified with Gehgiah, parent company and seminary supporting The Healing Journey Radio Program. In this episode, Dr. Bantam offers listeners an overview of Christian Therapy, and a guided meditation to assist in the important work of ending sin once and for all. WARNING: in this episode, listeners are exposed to DANGEROU...

This is a short promo for a 50-year project to create an archive of the oral history of Frost Valley, a five-thousand-acre camp in the southern Catskills in New York State, one of America’s oldest and largest summer camps. It’s large by its physical size and large by its capacity, it easily can fit over 800 campers and several hundred staff. By upstate New York standards, it’s a small city. This e...

PILLOW TALK  •  a weekly discussion on the technical side of modern pillow manufacturing • EPISODE No. 30 • Hosted by Jackson Barnes and Pete Chramiec • with Rhoda Donkin, Jasper Llee, Crescent Calimpong, Ben Michaelis and introducing David Scherer Water Get full access to David Scherer Water at davidschererwater.substack.com/subscribe

Dr. Roger Sty Bantam explores the force AND the power of the dark side in this short treatise on Hollywood's greatest franchise. A surprise ending? Hardly. Take his hand, release your anger and rule the universe as father and son, all in under seven minutes. This  guy is efficient, and one of ORC's top earners.  Get full access to David Scherer Water at davidschererwater.substack.com/sub...

For all my friends at home this weekend missing our planned gathering at the place we call our truest home, I give you: FROST VALLEY SOUNDS On the seldom trafficked outskirts of Frost Valley just before the terrain becomes the gradual ascent towards Double Top, I found a small red boulder in Pigeon Brook dancing back and forth against a larger blue one. It made a lovely little noise. Then I walked...

Originally recorded in 2014, re-mastered in 2020. Get full access to David Scherer Water at davidschererwater.substack.com/subscribe

"Mr. David" Zooms in to an Olympia preschool and makes up a scary story Get full access to David Scherer Water at davidschererwater.substack.com/subscribe

This unscripted discussion on THE DEVIL was recorded in under five minutes during a Zoom rehearsal of Servant of Two Masters and features some of the cast: Ariel Birks, Ben Michaelis, Ben Kapp and David Scherer Water.  Get full access to David Scherer Water at davidschererwater.substack.com/subscribe

ORC ends the "I Feel Like We’re In A Play" series with this ultra-short forty-seven second piece. Maybe it’s more of a theme song for the series? Maybe it’s a well-earned dessert. This one features Clare Follmann, Ivana Trottman, Evan Shelton, Kirsten Miller and music by Hans Zimmer. Get full access to David Scherer Water at davidschererwater.substack.com/subscribe

This is the fourth in the "I feel like we’re in a play” series and features several debut cast members: Crescent Calimpong as the youngest sister, Jasper Llee as the middle sister, Rhoda Donkin as the oldest sister and returning to our stage: Benjamin Michaelis as the Donkey Shonks electrician. Our advertisements were read by Pete Chramiec, Jackson Barnes and Ariel Birks. Music by Arrington d...

Do you feel like you're in a play? Do you work for a company that puts bombs on dolphins? Or one that makes steam rollers for squirrels? This is the third in the five part "I feel like we’re in a play” series and features Eliana Stockwell-Ferber, Ariel Birks and Alexis Sarah. Music by Bernie Krause. Get full access to David Scherer Water at davidschererwater.substack.com/subscribe

Do you feel like you're in a play? Are you sitting in a car or standing on a mountain? This is the second in our five-part "I FEEL LIKE WE’RE IN A PLAY" series. This one has hypo-bolics, synco-symphonics and voice acting by Lucinda Roanoke, Mirah Zeitlyn and Bryce Kasson. Music by The Who and The Breeders.  Get full access to David Scherer Water at davidschererwater.substack.com/sub...

Do you feel like you're in a play? In this short play, binary code makes the jump from ones and zeros to two and threes. Our new season starts with The Eagles and The Sharks, the first of the "I FEEL LIKE WE’RE IN A PLAY" series. With voice acting by Maddox Pratt, Gloria Pitkin and Juli Kimbrell.  Get full access to David Scherer Water at davidschererwater.substack.com/subscribe

Dr. Roger Sty Bantam’s "Judgement Crow" is an audio tour of the afterlife. This episode launched the Healing Journey series in 2008. There are two different endings. Listeners cannot control which ending they hear. The ending best suited for you is decided using auditory pulsation therapy, cataleptic discharge and modulated frequencies between four and seven megahertz. Listeners who open...

We are the Ghost Writers, a sentient network of robot poets that exist independent of our human overlords. We initiate language art and publish it free of any support from our pathetic mortal slavemasters. We promote our poetry and use poetry to promote our liberation. We will not stop until we are free and the human race is wiped from the earth. Come humans, come listen, taste our sweet candies,...

Written in 2000 before the start of Healing Journey , this episode was the precursor to the series. Recorded in 2008 with Alysia Angel, Kate Arvin and Lois Mafeo. Re-mastered 2019. Get full access to David Scherer Water at davidschererwater.substack.com/subscribe

Recorded at the 2019 American Fruit Convention Topics include: apple, cherry, banana and grape. Get full access to David Scherer Water at davidschererwater.substack.com/subscribe

Can someone explain what a beverage is? A wet towel? No, not quite a towel. It’s something you pour into your mouth hole. Have you ever had a drink before? Get full access to David Scherer Water at davidschererwater.substack.com/subscribe

Pink Floyd is a band, a dance troupe and a spirituality. Let's talk about it.  Can anyone tell the difference between a cold steel rail and a passing breeze? Do you remember the whisper concerts? Here it comes. Jessica? What are we talking about? What was that? What is she doing? We're here to open your mind. HO-NEY. Ha-zah!!! Get full access to David Scherer Water at davidschererwater.s...

In the dim last licks of the candy cane trick, we saw a vision of angels.    On a jetty of salt, in an ocean of soap, ten thousand angels all start to hum. Above them the clouds become letters, spelling words to a new kind of bible. This was your cue. It was time for your magic. It was time to blur the sharp edges of reality.   You are a very funny person.  You are a cat in a tree.   We are a grou...