Taste – “Rest Is a Form of Resistance... I Rollerskate for the Pain." A wonderful conversation with Historian, Activist, Founder & CEO of The Black Scranton Project – Glynis Johns. Glynis talks with us from her office in Providence Corners. We discuss: The Crown Act, the Politics of Hair, Fitting Into Society's Beauty Standards, Being a Black Educator, the School to Prison Pipeline, Different Tracks, Going to NYC, Flavors of Black Identity, Patriarchal White Supremacy, Chocolate Chips in White Cookie Dough, Moving to Queens, Struggling, Roadblocks, Proving Yourself, Gate Keepers, Ella Baker, Supportive Community, Creating Change…

Taste – “There's Gravity Pulling It In & A Nuclear Explosion Pulling It Out. Eventually, A Balance Is Reached, And That's The Sun..." A fascinating and somewhat raucous conversation with Physicist, Professor, and Grower of Lilies – Declan Mulhall. Declan talks with us from his home in the Hill Section. We discuss: Being Solipsistic, Burning Out Your Retinas, Eclipses, the Solar System, the Moon, Astrology, Black Holes, His Jowls, Mint Julips, Gravity, Nuclear Physics, the Sun, the Random Motion of Molecules, Fusion, Collapsing Into White Dwarfs, Super Novas, Neutron Stars, Spaghetti Stretches, Being a Gobshite, Event Horizons…

Taste – “It Was Really Rock-N-Roll, Baby, Here In The Eighties…" An insightful & compelling conversation with Post Modern Renaissance Woman, Model, Stylist, Event Planner, Film Producer: Man – Laï. Man – Laï talks with us from her home at the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan. We talk about: Her Journey, Being Born In Paris & Starting Out As A Model in Brussels, Being Fair & True, Feet Being Firmly Planted On The Ground, Having A Free Spirit, Taoism, Going With The Flow, The Chelsea Hotel, Jim Morrison’s Room, Pot Dealers Next Door, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith & Robert Mapplethorpe, Her New Documentary - “Ghosts of The Chelsea Hotel (And Other Rock-N-Roll Stories)”, Dee Dee Ramone As A Neighbor, Sid & Nancy, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, Oscar Wilde, Edie Sedgwick, Michael Imperioli, Her Memoir, Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone, Kabuki, Finding Your Living Spot, Hugging Trees, Standing Outside To Look At The Stars…

Taste – "I Am Getting Reacquainted With A Previous Life That I Continue Having..." A poetically insightful conversation with Poet, Educator and Raconteur - Craig Czury. Craig recently returned from teaching and writing in Northern Italia. We talk about: Walking Around, Wounds & Triumphs, Being Lazy, Catching Your Breath, Defeating a Sense of Fear, Oddballs & Eccentrics, Reading, Spontaneous Combustion With Strangers in Bars, Broken English, The Universe Inside, The Lost Art of Letter Writing, The Hunger Inside of Us, Holsters For Cell Phones, Six Months in Chile, Putting Together a Manuscript, Things We Have In Common... He also reads an original poem titled, "A Seat On The Bus."

Taste – "We Will Get Through Everything. This Country Has Been Around For A Long Time..." A bombastically fun conversation with Writer, Satirist, Cultural Critic & Baseball Fan- Bruno Milo.Bruno talks with us in from his place somewhere up the line about: the State of The World, Gaza, Ukraine, Ronald Reagan, Nalvany, Taking Land, Information Dissemination, Powerful People Being Bullies, the War of 1812, His Kidneys, Pain Killers, Insular Societies, Brothers & Sisters, Getting Along...

Taste – "You Have Too Much Liberty & It Borders On Chaos. You Have Too Much Oppression And Nobody Can Be Themselves..." An enchanted conversation with Progressive Medium at The People Power Academy of Hearts & Minds - Juniper Cool. Juniper talks with us in our West Mountain studio: Codependence, People Power, Liberty, Oppression, Reproductive Rights, Race, Intolerance, Casting Out, Great Hearts, The Collective, Doing Hard Things, The Most Important Thing, Feeding Lies, Bursting Bubbles, Jefferson & King George, The Temple of Goodness..

Taste - "The Kids Today They've Got The SnapChat. They Don't Know What, Like Ah, True Excitement Is..." A slick conversation with Our Resident Urban Hiker - Travis Ignatowski. Travis talks with us from his place in Philadelphia about: Social Habits, Bob Marley, American Fiction, Moral Victories, Bowling Alone, Beer Parties In The Woods, Pittsburgh, Boston, Columbus, Paris, Bird Nests On His Porch, Acute Dyslexia, Dichotomies, The German Village, A Coffee Shop in Mexico City, Brussels, Getting A Passport in Venezuela, The Logical Train...

Taste – "You Just Have To Keep Going, Almost As A Responsibility To Yourself..." A grand conversation with NYC Multidisciplinary Artist and Director - Rob Roth. Rob talks with us from his place in Manhattan about: His Father Being a Cop, Rural & Urban Living, Studying Painting at Pratt, Moving People, Challenging People, Butoh Choreography, Patience, Meeting Debbie Harry at Jackie 60 and Becoming Friends, Bezos & Musk, Joan Jett, CBGBs, Parker Posey, His Upcoming Art Collaboration with Rebecca Hall at Alchemy, Little Shrine Boxes in Brazil, Recovering From Catholicism, a Beautiful 90 Year Old Drag Queen, Exposing Yourself, Symmetry, Apocalyptic Hollywood, Screen Test, Theo & the Skyscrapers, Polaroid Pictures, Parker & Rob in Ms. Posey's Truck Riding Around Reflecting on Life...

Taste – "There Have Been People Who've Been Shut Out Of The Conversation..." A wonderful conversation with Writer, Professor, Director, Baker & Candlestickmaker - Kitty Belle Burbank. Kitty Belle talks with us from her place in the West Side about: Living In the Desert, Gender Roles, Self-love, Local Journalism, Being Alone As a Certain Kind of Freedom, Listening to the Community's Needs, Public Broadcasting, Mexico Suing U.S. Gun Manufacturers, the Border Problem, Making Up Stories, the Guttenberg Parentheses, Having Heart...

Taste – "I Am a Huge Fan of Fungi and Mushrooms. I Think They Have So Much to Teach Us..." A grand conversation with Anthropologist, Activist Researcher and Spoken Word Artist- Louise Romain. Louise talks with us from her home in Stroud, Southwest England about: Her Background, Lingering in Academia, Berlin, Copenhagen, the Cultural Revitalization of First Nations, Climate Change, Ecocide, Wonder & Curiosity, Anthropology, Traveling, Ancient Traditions & Wisdom, Being Born Into Privilege, Sense of Responsibility, the Insane Split Between Humans & Nature, Beautiful Human Culture, Decomposing Capitalism & the Patriarchy, EcoAcustics, the Language of Different Species, the Eastside of the Berlin Wall, Circle of Voices, ReWilding Our Ears, AND Louise Shares Two Original Spoken Word Pieces...

Taste – "You Are Always Going To Have The Indigenous Population Fighting Back As Much As They Can, Because They Are Being Oppressed..." A righteous conversation with Fiddle Player, Educator, Chicken Coop Builder & Our Resident Historian- Serf William. The Serf talks with us from his home in Bucks County about: Wood Stove Joy, Fiefdoms, Medieval Lords & Modern Day Crime Bosses, the Joy of Random Books from the Public Library, the Resources of the Colonized, Trees, Being Preoccupied & Being Privileged, Benjamin Franklin, Cleopatra...

Taste – "Every Day Above Ground Is A Good One..." A raucous conversation with Writer, Satirist, Cultural Critic & Baseball Fan - Bruno Milo. Bruno talks with us from his home up the Main Line about: Waiting for Baseball, God, Being a Born Skeptic, Drinking Beer & Never Getting a Hangover, the Roman Empire, Sensitivity, Self-indulgence, Paying Back Student Loans, the Best Country in the World, His Acumen with the Times Tables, Valentine's Day, Spring Training...

Taste – "... And I Struggle With Art That Is Beautiful, But It Comes From A Space & Time That I Abhor." A beautiful conversation with British-Indo American Poet & Visual Artist - Rhony Bhopla. Rhony talks with us from her home in Sacramento, California. We discuss: A Flight in From Oregon With Her Drum, Disclosure, the Space Between Contentment & Desire, the Political Landscape & Poetry, Wisdom & Perception, Pushing Yourself Physically, Ecstasy, Looking at a Glint of Light on Someone's Glasses, Giving Yourself to Another, Art that We Don't Like But Others Admire, Cultural Impearlism, Fashion...

Taste – "It Was A Small Time Bookstore In The Middle of Manhattan, And I Loved It.." A grand conversation with NYC Director, Writer, Cabaret Critic & Activist - Gerry Geddes. Gerry talks with us from his home in Harlem, Ny. We discuss: Directing Tawanda as Lena in Los Angeles, His Memoir - "Didn't I Ever Tell You This?", The Nyc Gay Switchboard, Gay Pride, The Public Theater, Working With James Earl Jones, Being A Stage Manager, His Acquaintance With Meat Loaf, Working With Raul Julia, Hanging Out With Sarah Vaughan, Managing Bookstores, His Life Partner and Love Frank, Working With Cabaret People, Ed Koch Being Gay, Segregation, White Privilege, Interracial Relationships, Bleeker to Bourbon Street...

Taste - "What Becomes Queer Has A Lot To Do With How Strict Mainstream Society Becomes..." A wonderful conversation with Homesteader, Sensei, Winemaker, and Our Resident Reluctant Philosopher - Almighty Todd. The Almighty talks with us from his home in Stockbridge, Vermont. We discuss: Springlike Weather, Galactic Physics, Revisiting the Stoics, Our Solstice Tilt, Faith & Belief, Fear, Queerness, Rage Against the Machine, Mark Twain, Our Amazing Dance in Space, Trying to Figure Out How To Live a Virtuous Life, Being a Student of Natural Forces, Basing Our Actions on Emotion, Getting Deep, How Authoritarian Structures Don't Need to Make Sense, Head Mind & Belly Mind, Singing, Dancing & Reading Poetry Together...

Taste - "Some of The Best Bits and Wits from 2023." Episode 555 shares a medley of insight and personality with several of 2023's guests. Every guest was wonderful this year. We have but fifty-eight minutes per episode, so we had to choose. It wasn't easy, but here it is: We feature - Almighty Todd, Rhony Bhopla, David McDermott, John Shepherd, Kim David Smith, Iris Smyles, Kitty Belle Burbank, Serf William, Martyna Majok, Paperboy Love Prince, Allan Jones, Tawanda Suessbrich-Joaquim, Peter Marks, Dustin Pittman, Jennifer Homans, and Frederic Tuten.

Taste – "You Begin To Realize That The World Isn't Just Fun And Games. It's Not Pure. It's Not Innocent..." Episode 554 features a compelling conversation with Historian, Author & Professor - David Brokaw. David talks with us from his place in Tempe, Arizona. We discuss: Rod Sterling, Traveling the Southern U.S. and Europe, Understanding the World, Critical Thinking, The Twilight Zone, His Latest Book, Getting Around Censors, Happiness, Being Mentally Healthy, Subversive TV Shows, The History of Madness, Being a Humanitarian, War Making & Violence, Social Inequality, Norman Lear, Damned Eternal Questions, Homosexuality, The Loss of Sadness, A Cup of Instant Smile, The Dynamic Human Condition, Jordan Peele, Overmedicating...

Taste – "We Are Making Bad Choices Because We're Not Able To Act As A United Society Anymore..." A wonderful conversation with Writer, Director, Professor, Baker & Candlestickmaker - Kitty Belle Burbank. Kitty Belle talks with us from his place in the West Side. We discuss: Doppelgangers, The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Kline, The Dark Side, The Progressive Side, Getting Shamed, Conspiracy Theories, Going After the Moms, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Feminism, Adults, United Society, Personal Freedom, Absolutes, Our Grandmothers, Eastern European Culture, Wrapping Paper, The Holiday Cookie Run...

Taste – "The Thing I Love About Flaubert's Statement - He Said, An Artist Has To Think Like A Revolutionary And Live Like A Bourgeois - There Is Something About Stability. It Is Very Important." Episode 552 features a grand conversation with Writer, Artist, Scholar, Painter - Frederic Tuten. Frederic talks with us from his place in New York City. We discuss: Being Raised in the Bronx, Reading as a Child, Poverty & Love, the Yearning to See More Things, Greenwich Village, Robert Frost, Freud, Rimbaud, Thomas Mann, Meeting Hemingway in Cuba, the Lower Eastside in the 1960s, Writing for the Paris Review, Vogue and the New York Times, Being a Struggling Artist, Working With Susan Sontag, the Workshop Mentality, Painting vs. Writing, His First Novel, John Updike, Roy Lichtenstein, Bravery & Courage, His Next Novel, Being Drippingly Romantic, Not Being Famous...

Taste – "I Have A Belief That A Lot Of What Happens To Us In The World Is Random..." Episode 551 features a vivacious conversation with Writer, Satirist, Baseball Junkie - Bruno Milo. Bruno talks with us from his place up the line. We discuss: Irony, Impulsiveness, Emotion, the Vikings, the Brotherly Shove, Religion, Division, Amish Furniture, 3-Pointers, the Power of Mother Nature, Hopes & Solutions for 2024, Our Little Joys...

Taste – "... Living At The Edge of Chaos, And It's Only Through Your Technique & Form That You Hold Your Body & Your World Together." A wonderful conversation with American Historian, Author, and Dance Critic for The New Yorker Magazine - Jennifer Homans. Jennifer talks with us from her place in NYC. We discuss: Early Days, Watching George Balanchine Perform, the History of Ballet, An Avant-Garde Russian Artist, Ideas of Eroticism, The Human Form Deformed By War, The Edge of Chaos, Stravinsky, Matisse, Picasso, Socialist Realism, The Floor On Which We Dance, Writing About Dance, Choreographers, Baryshnikov, Bolshoi, Flamenco, AI, How Dancers Are Obsorbers, The Importance & Value of Art...

Taste –"You Just Roll With It... At That Time There Weren't As Many Boundaries As Now." A vibrant conversation with Iconic Fashion, Music & Art Photographer - Dustin Pittman (aka Dustin Pop.) Dustin talks with us from his place in Manhattan. We discuss: Growing Up in The Adirondack Mountains, Powdered Flash, Learning About Lighting From Old Movies, Barns, Heidi & Flower, Making Friends with Liza Minelli, Woodstock, the Electric Circus, Filmmaking, Candy, Jackie & Holli, Ingrid Superstar, Hanging Out with Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground, the Roxy Hotel, His Current Show, Max's Kansas City, the Cabaret Scene in NYC, Going Deeper Into the Underground, the Eighth Street Bookstore, Allen Ginsberg, the Bleeker Street Cinema, I am Curious Yellow and Blue, Life Magazine, Stonewall, Identity...

Taste –"Unknowable Spaces... When You Encounter Them They Can Elicit To You Something That Is Also Very Real And Knowable..." A wonderful conversation with Artist, Scholar, Poet - Julie Kantor. Julie talks with us from her place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We discuss: How She Came To Poetry, the Unknowable, Friction Between Virtual and Reality, Weird Punishment, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, the Magic of Poetry, Singing and Playing Guitar, Friends and Crazy Thoughts, Justice, Atonement, Being Curious, Dystopian Nightmares, the Perfect Bubble...

Taste –"On The Streets of Rome... It's Not a Bar Culture. It's a Cafe Culture." A great conversation with Our Resident Urban Hiker - Travis Ignatowski. Travis talks with us from his office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We discuss: Buildings Going Up On His Block, Venture Capitalists, Food Deserts, Society Hill, Diversity of Dining, Drinking Beer, Less Sun, The Plants in Front of His House, Rome, a Lot of Edifice, a Beautiful Bottle of Wine, Non-Linear Dynamics, Ashville North Carolina, Future Leaders, the Media, Everyday Life...

Taste –"For Me It All Starts With The Gut..." A grand conversation with Staff Writer & Chief Theater Critic for The Washington Post - Peter Marks. Peter and I discuss: His Background, Writing for the New York Times and the Washington Post, His Days in Theater at Yale, Writing & Observational Skills, Bringing Our Lives to the Theater, Theater Post-Pandemic, Twenty Percent Decline in Audience, Streaming a Series vs. Going to the Theater, Here Lies Love, Springsteen, Jukebox Musicals, the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeois, How People Want to Laugh Right Now, What Makes a Hit, Value of the Arts...