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...

Taste - "How Do I Keep Doing Things I Love Without Having To Do Things That I Don't Love?" A wonderful conversation with Writer, Professor, Director, Baker & Candlestickmaker - Kitty Belle Burbank. Kitty Belle talks with us from her place in the West Side. We discuss: Being Exhausted, Part-time Work to Pay the Bills, Getting Older As a Woman, Challenging Authority, Being Depressed About the Government, Leaders Having Wisdom, Tricky Conversations, Journalism, Fairytales & Lies, Gate Keepers, Being Woke, Directing Her Friend Maureen's Play, Talking About the Dark Parts, Autumn Mornings...

Taste –"I've Met Some Interesting, Incredible People..." A great conversation with Writer, Editor & Educator - Jennifer Della'Zanna. Jennifer talks with us from her home across the Hudson from New York City. We discuss: Good Advice, Curiosity, Prudence, Following People On Their Journeys, Being a Columnist For a Gun Magazine, Correspondence School, Saying Yes to Every Opportunity, Connectors, Our Associate Producer Dr. Michael Pavese, Her Book "Making It in Country Music", Going to Nashville, Different Types of Country Music, the Creative Life, Her Newsletter "Beats", the Molly Maguires, Several Experiments, Anais Nin...

Taste - "I Am Willing To Concede A Certain Amount Of Authority In The Name Of Stability, Predictability And A Peaceful Existence..." A raucous conversation with Fiddler, Educator and Our Resident Historian - Serf William. The Serf talks with us from his office in Northern New Jersey. We discuss: Staying Ideologically Pure, Directives From On High, Bureaucracy, Raging Against the Machine, Compromise, the Ills of Our Political System, the Path of Least Resistance, Anarchy, Not Wanting Revolution, the Present Day Republican Party, Reductionism, Unions, Blue Collar Perspectives...

Taste –"Being Raised By Poets Can Be Tricky." Awonderful conversation with Painter Extraordinaire - Danielle Lehtinen. Danielle talks with us from her home in the Pocono Mountains. We discuss: Her Early Years in Poland, Her Famous Poet Parents, the Secret Police, a Bug on Her Phone, Independent Newspapers in Warsaw, Confiscated Farms, Her Nanny in Poland, Censorship, Writers' Union, Henry Kissinger & Allen Gingsberg Sleeping Over, Three Course Meals, Unloved Poets, Teaching Art, Jackson Pollack's Methodology, Dancing Around the Canvas, Sand Painting, Iowa, the Upper West Side, Sitting With Lech Walesa, Letters Under the Lamp From Her Mom...

Taste –"Self-Reflection Is A Life Saver. It Will Help Us Understand... This Is Who I Am." A beautiful conversation with British-Indo-American Poet and Visual Artist - Rhony Bhopla. Rhony talks with us from her home in Sacramento, California. We discuss: Her New Job Teaching Science, Being Happier, Our Responsibility to the Natural Environment, Falling Into Nature, Trying to Figure Out Your Path, Ageing, Wisdom & Innocence, Scattering Her Mother's Ashes in the Bay of San Francisco, Challenging Tradition For the Sake of the Future, Feeling Alive Versus Being Alive, Rituals, Acceptance Of Self, Trust, Healing, Positive Choices, Toxic Positivity, Balance...

Taste –"I'm Not Saying Cheating Is Right, But I'm Saying It's A Fact. It Exists..." A vivacious conversation with Writer, Social Critic & Baseball Fan- Bruno Milo. Bruno talks with us from his new place in Olyphant. We discuss: The Heat, Joints, His Dad The Secret Agent, Looking For A New Apartment, Landlords, His Bear, Moving His Pipe Organ Up The Stairs, The Cable Company, Being A Procrastinator, Watching Baseball At Neighborhood Bars, Tips, Spike Lee, Christy Mathewson, Local Newspapers, Objectivity...

Taste –"Dualism Can Often Mean Opposition When It's Not In Balance..." Episode 539 features a compelling conversation with Homesteader, Winemaker, Sensei, and Our Resident Reluctant Philosopher - Almighty Todd. The Almighty talks with us from his home in Stockbridge, Vermont. We discuss: The Rain, Swimming in the White River, Climate Change, The Bastardization of Rational Thinking, Modern Christianity, The Bastard Sword, Loyalty & Morality, Polarization Fuel, The Moral Majority, Yin Yang, How Everything Is Progress, Rocky Mountain Oysters, Gardening Ethics, His Grandfather Vince, Tomatoes & Zucchini, Male Humming Birds...

Taste –"I Guess That's What Art Is... You Just Invest Your Whole Self Into It, Hopefully."Episode 538 features a great conversation with Jazz Singer Extraordinaire, Bandleader, Music Producer - Libby York. Libby talks with us from her home in Chicago, Illinois. We discuss: The Early Years, The Backporch, The Great American Songbook, Dreamland, Big Bands Coming to Town, Being a Late Bloomer, Learning On The Bandstand, Keeping It Fresh, Trust, Producing Music, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Being a Bandleader, Temp & Key, Swing, Favorite Lyricists, Johnny Mercer, Relating To An Audience, Noisy Bars, The Scene, Dear Head Inn, Randy Napoleon, The Microphone Whispering...

Taste –"There Is Something Very Inspiring About What These Punk, Angsty Kids Did In The East Village Together..." A grand conversation with Filmmakers - Heather Spore & Brian Vincent. Heather and Brian talk with us from their home in Manhattan. We discuss: Their Highly Acclaimed Documentary Film "Make Me Famous, " How They Met, Art & the Cultural Scene in the East Village, Studying at Julliard, Being in the Cast of Broadway's "Wicked," Being a Gen Xer, Artists Living Together in One Community, Shanty Towns on the Hudson, Avenues A, B & C, Basquiat, McDermott, McGough, Brezenski, Madonna, Bohemians, the Punk Scene, Indie Films, the Roxy, Richard Hamilton - the Godfather of Street Art, Keith Haring, Incredible Storytellers, Selling Out Or Not, Special Sauce, Their Next Project...

Taste –"You Start Humming. You Start Dancing. You Start Feeling These Things In Your Body ..." A wonderful conversation with Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist. Composer & Songwriter - Tawanda Suessbrich-Joaquim. Tawanda talks with us from her home in Los Angeles, California. We discuss: Her Family, Music At Home. Getting Into Jazz, A Harp From West Africa, Storytelling, How Cool Gerry Is, Round Midnight, Her Lyrics, Soul, Allegories & Metaphors, Being A Hippie Girl, Journaling In Nature, Collective Healing Through Music, The Sun Shining, How The Arts Are Essential, Higher Education, Access To Fresh Fruit & Vegetables, Controlling One's Reaction To Things, Civil War in Mozambique, Strength & Endurance, Gratitude ...

Taste –"Artists Are The Visionaries. People Will Come Around..." A wonderful conversation with Poet, Playwright, Professor, Baker and Candlestickmaker - Kitty Belle Burbank. Kitty Belle talks with us from her home in the West Side. We discuss: Surviving, Tension, Fear, Oppenheimer & Putin, AI Scariness, Being The Cook for FarmArts, The Writers and Actors Strikes, Optimism From Music, Her Daughter's Art Work, Being An Adjunct, Wanting Things Cheap, Quick & Easy, How Not To Panic When Feeling So Powerless, Changing Bad Habits, Pee Wee Herman, Being Weird, Algorithms, Addiction, Closed Public Pools, Talking To Strangers, Solving Problems...

Taste –"Through Love, Through Empathy, Through Compassion, They Were Able To Be Accepted In The World..." A grand conversation with Nyc Actor, Author, Motivational Speaker - Christopher Patrick Lucas. Christopher talks with us from his home in the Meadowlands, New Jersey. We discuss: His Dad Covering the Yankees, Auditioning for Broadway in High School, Acting for the Screen & Stage, Being a Tour Guide in NYC, His Love of Disney, Seeing a Movie as a Kid at Radio City Music Hall, the Actors' & Writers' Strikes, the Social Progressiveness of Disney Productions, Antisemitism, Coded Movies, His Books, the Ed Lucas Story, Jackie Robinson, Bob Hope, Richard Nixon, His Stage Piece "Of Mouse and Man," Guiding Lights, Never Giving Up...