Taste - "All Of These Instruments Are Really Ancestor. They're not Objects. They're Sacred Tools..." Episode 696 features a wonderful conversation with Artist, Musician, Founder & Executive Director of The Black Banjo Reclamation Project - Hannah Mayree. Hannah talks with us from her home in the mountains of Northern California. We Discuss: Growing Up in Sacramento, Public Schools, Art Keeping Community Together, Being a Bridge, Black & Queer Identities, Safety in Numbers, Being a Cultural Worker, the School of Life, this Traditional Land, Data Centers & Oligarchs, the Little Engine that Could, Hippie Travelers, Crust Punks & Dirty Kids, Coming From a Musical Family, Being a Folkie, Profane Sass, Blow Gun, Mom Is Broke, Banjo as a Product of the African Diaspora, the Black Banjo Reclamation Project, Roots Music, Farmers & Weavers, Having a Baby, Autonomy, Conditioned to Be Just Like the Oppressors, Having a Heart Centered Lens With Some Militancy... Hannah also performs an original tune, playing one of her banjos and singing in her backyard.

Taste – “Woke-Ass Physics Out There, Man. They’re Re-Writing Our History…"Episode 695 features a grand conversation with Nuclear Physicist, Professor and Grower of Lilies – Dr. Declan Mulhall. Declan talks with us from his office at the University of Scranton. We Discuss: Summer Escapades, Tubes & Capacitors, the Physics of Ice Skating, Prague, Vaclav Havel, Milan Kundera, the Joke, Boorishness, Bewildering Stupid Ideas, Angular Momentum, Being Poor in the U.S., Snake, Triaxiality, Shenanigans of Atoms, the Rose Bowl Field to Capacity with Lead, Tactical Forbearance, the Density of a Nucleus, Symmetry, the Density of Water, Random Hamiltonians, Matrices, Teaching in Prison, Grand Intellects, Advocating for Foster Children, Particles As Waves, Energy & Society, What Existence Is on Earth…

Taste – “It Took Me Years Of Peeling Off All Of These Layers Of Excuses…" Episode 694 features a wonderful conversation with Obie & Emmy Award Winning Multi-Faceted Artist – Machine Dazzle. Machine talks with us from his studio in Brooklyn, New York. We Discuss: Painful Years in Texas & Idaho Public Schools, Being Bullied, Trying to Be One’s Self & to Fit In, Painting Classes Instead of Sports, the Nutcracker at 10-Years Old Changing Everything, Living in Fantasy, Studying at the University of Colorado in Boulder, a One Way Ticket to NYC, Working Retail, Nightclubs in the Mid-1990s, Exit Art, the Purpose of Art in the World, Cabaret, Stage As a Living Gallery, the Beauty of NYC, Seeing Art Live, Influences, Inspirational People, Running Away from Home, Taylor Mac Building World & Community, Concern for the Direction of the World, Serving As an Example, Experiencing Violence in Word Form, Picking Up On People's Vibes, Rob Roth, Upcoming Stage & Gallery Shows in NYC and in Europe, Being Yourself…

Taste - "The American Public Is Ready To Take Up Pitchforks..." Episode 693 features a grand conversation with Executive Director of Families Over Billionaires - Kristen Crowell. Kristen talks with us from her place in Chicago, Illinois. We Discuss: Early Years in Wisconsin, Mass European Strikes, Power of the People, Moving to Chicago, Budget Cuts in School Districts, Economic Disparity, Community Organizing, Mega Corporate Influence, Congress, Economic Relief to Regular People, Midterm Elections, the Extraordinary Spirit of Minneapolis, Standing Up to ICE, Clergy Getting Arrested, the Midwestern Work Ethic, Years of Grassroots Organizing, Trust, Being Ready for Action, Staying the Course, Relentless Optimism, Craving Community, Traveling 27,000 Miles in the Last Two Years Visiting Communities Throughout the U.S., Republican Commitment to the Rich, Democrats Leading in a Bold Manner, Affordability, Greed As A Sickness, Cutting Medicaid & SNAP, Data Centers, Corporate Tax Rate Increase, Minimum Wage Increase, FDR, What's at Stake, More of Us Than Them...

Taste – “Why Do They Have The Right To Cancel Anyone?…It's Very Judgmental And Very Much Like Banishment." Episode 692 features a raucous conversation with regular contributor Writer, Social Critic, Satirist & Baseball Fan – Bruno Milo. Bruno talks with us from his place in the Hollywood Section. We Discuss: Summertime Exploits, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Unique Odor of Nyc in the Summer, Early 20th Century Architecture, AI, Too Much Rain, Loving Your Work, Prices at the Ballpark, Raking Leaves, the Grocery Store Checkout, Cancel Culture, Chuck Taylors, Rebellion, a Hat Story Conspiracy, Midterm Elections, John Fetterman, Throwing Money at Social Problems, the MLB Playoffs…

Taste - "My Challenge To Myself Is To Build This Argument In Only The Way I Can..." Episode 691 features a wonderful conversation with Caribbean-American Writer, Educator & Activist -Lesley-Ann Brown. Lesley-Ann talks with us from her place in the United Kingdom. We Discuss: Summertime, Her Food Forest, Micro-Ecosystems, a Recent Trip to Trinidad, the Government, Corporations, Cultivating of Religion, Modernity Influenced by Colonialism, Sincere Communities, the Power of Family, Why Women Allow Themselves to Be Pimped Out, the Spiritual Disease Weitko, the Power of Family, Its Your Job to Check Yourself, Selfishness, Indigenous Societies, the Inuit People, Abuse of Children, Everything Being Hidden, Race Rights & Rebels, Whose a Human and Whose Not a Human, the Invention of Order, the Blameless & Innocent, the Violence in the New World Order, the Epstein Rupture, Sally Hemmings & Thomas Jefferson, Our Colonial School System, Building Your Argument...

Taste - "We Are Basically Living In A Fabricated Hallucination..." Episode 690 features a grand conversation with Homesteader, Sensei, and our Resident Front Porch Philosopher - Almighty Todd. The Almighty talks with us from his place in Central Vermont. We Discuss: Academic vs. Front Porch Philosophers, the Eternal Human Condition, Radical Change in the Last 200 Years, Apes Wearing Military Garb, Delusion in the Modern Age, Dialectical vs. Black & White Thinking, a Toilet Paper Roll From Many Angles, Ego Standing in the Way, Colonizing Realities of Other People, Wendell Berry, Walt Whitman, Dolly Parton, War, a Shared Economy, the Brett & Wood Agreement, Hegel, Critical Thinking & the Scientific Method, God, the Universe, Diversity, Dumb White Straight Men, Glass Sponges, the Parable of Eden, Dodgeball & Jarts, Humble Expectations, September in Vermont...

Taste - "When We Direct Our Conscious Mind On An Object There Is Intentionality..." A wonderful conversation with British Indo-American Poet, Visual Artist & Educator - Rhony Bhopla. Rhony talks with us from her place in Sacramento, California. We Discuss: Summer Break, Migration of Birds with the Changing Seasons, Listening to Spanish Radio in the Morning, Eco-Poetry, the Sacramento Bird Alliance, James Audubon Being a Slave Owner and Anti-Abolitioinist, Knowing History, Woke Art, Privilege, Gayatri Spivak, Edmund Husserl, Phenomenology, Forming a Circle, Self-Awareness, Gen Z in India, Intergenerational Cooperation, Reaching Out...

Taste – “It's About Making Sure That The Work Undermines Those Who Approach It On Some Level, That It Can’t Be Appropriated Into A Single Meaning Or Single Thrust Of Action..." A grand conversation with Acclaimed Author, Photographer, Poet & Philosopher - Steven Seidenberg. Steven talks with us from his place in Boston, Massachusetts. We Discuss: Loving but Volatile Parents, Free & Open Upbringing, Generation X, Intellectual Mischievous, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Reading, The Western Philosophical Tradition, Bard College at 16 Years Old, Philosophy As a Motivation, Immanuel Kant, Immigrant Enclaves in Nyc, How He Got Into Photography, Institutions Constraining Art, Uniformity of Practice, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Samuel Beckett, Don Quixote, Mode of Direct Address, Plato, Kierkegaard, Human Freedom, Oligarchy, Anatomy of Melancholy, Problems of Individuation, Counter Hegemony…

Taste - "We Absolutely Need Each Other... We Are Social Animals That Need To Have Other People Around." A great conversation with our Resident Urban Hiker - Travis Ignatowski. Travis talks with us on location in Manhattan. We Discuss: In the East Fifties, Mayor Mamdani, Democratic Socialists, Staten Island, the Strand Bookstore, Digs in Manhattan, Rent Control, Long Commutes, Free Buses, SEPTA, Progressive Initiatives Worth Trying, People in Ohio, the Humanizing of Capitalism, Stake Holder Mentality vs. Stock Holder Mentality, I.C.E., Plato & John Locke, the Odyssey, the Mayor of McDougal Street, Greenwich Village Bo Hos, Public Transportation, the Best Pizza...

Taste - "There's Nothing Better Than Finding an Old Book that Speaks to You, And that Can Kind of Guides Your Thought Process Into Writing Something. It's A Form of Magic that I Really Cherish..." Episode 686 features a grand conversation with Acclaimed Italian Writer of Fiction, Non-Fiction, Journalism, and for the Screen - Chiara Barzini. Chiara talks with us from her place in the Roma, Italia. We Discuss: Her Childhood in Rome, Parents Moving Family to Los Angeles When Berlusconi Took Over, Being an Italian Valley Girl, Running with Renegades & Rebels, the Counter Culture of the 90s, "Reanimator," Stuart Gordon, Being a Part of "SLC Punk," Her Most Recent Book Titled, "Aqua: A Story of Water & Lost Dreams," William Mulholland, Aqueducts in Rome, Her Creative Process, the Importance of Art in Society, a Transformative Experience, the Written Word, Her Experience at UC Santa Cruz, the Direction of Dominant Forces in Our World, Her Next Book...

Taste - "People Doing The Good Work, Day By Day, Slowly Bringing Change About For The Progress of Humankind... It's Harder." Episode 685 features a wonderful conversation with Writer, Professor, Director, Baker, and Candlestickmaker - Kitty Belle Burbank. Kitty Belle talks with us from her place in the West Side. We Discuss: the Farm Arts Collective, Johnny Appleseed, Making Johnny Cakes, the Government Not Understanding Climate Change & Women, Woke & DEI, the First Amendment, Her Play "The Ferment," Shared Values, Peace & End of Violence, Imagining Different Futures, Storytelling, Fatalistic Vs. Pessimistic, Vulnerability, AI, Freeze Pops, Twistums, Clothes on the Line, Data Centers & Tech Bros, Greed, Spite Vote, Learning in the Garden...

Taste – “Sometimes You Have To Understand How Other People Live, And Then You Understand Better Who You Are..." Episode 684 features an exhilarating conversation with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer, Performance Artist, Activist, Educator and Band Leader - Du Yun. Du Yun talks with us from her place in Manhattan. We Discuss: Her Early Years in China, Studying in Shanghai, Discipline & Grit, Visas Turned Down Again & Again, Her Days at Oberlin College, New York Thriving With Immigrants, the Rainforest, the Sun Drum, Her Production titled -"The Ocean Etched in the Forest," Taking Care of the Land We Inherited, the Jino People, Reimagining the Jino 5 Totems, the Seashell Song, the Pride of Being from the Rainforest, Being Fascinated by a Pump Organ in Kindergarten, Excited at the Thought of Being a Composer as a Teen, a Schubert Story Her Dad Told Her, the Red Lantern, a Village in North China, NASA, Feeling Your Dream Is Closer, Her Grandparents & Parents Letting Her Soar, Hurdles, Assuming Things Will Never Work Out, Telling Her Mom She Won the Pulitzer, Curiosity, the Power of Being an Artist, Creativity Finding Solutions, U.S. Society Today, Patience, the Importance of Dialogue, the Process, Opening Yourself Up…

Taste – “The Frivolity of Some Festivals... It Misses An Opportunity To Come Together As People, And to Have Incredible Diversity, And Have Chances to Connect Much Deeper..." Episode 683 features a grand conversation with - Louise Romain. Louise talks with us from Paris, France. We Discuss: the World Cup, Market Consumption Vibes, Cultivating All Beings As a Part of the Community of Earth, Creating Festivals in Berlin, the Festival of Commoning in Stroud, the Ethos of the Commons, the Privatization of Water in England, Managing Natural Assets Naturally, Regenerating Town Centers, a Venezuelan Collective, the Long Table, How What You Give Your Attention Grows, the Principles of Burning Man, Citizen Assembly, Protecting Communities of Dreamers and Doers, How We Might Outsmart Violence…

Taste – “I Could Care Less What People Say. I Want To See What They Do..." Episode 682 features a grand conversation with Professional Counselor, Community Organizer, Activist, Musician & DJ - Jessica McGuigan. Jessica talks with us from her place in the Hill Section of Scranton, Pennsylvania. We Discuss: Growing Up As a Fundamentalist Christian, Fitting Into Spaces, Recovery & Faith, Being As Perfect As Possible, Gender Fluidity, Needing to Present Oneself As Normal, Being Queer, Public School, Attending Grove City College, Finding Your People, Teaching Music & Theatre Arts, Dealing With Crippling Anxiety, Going Into Therapy, Trans Folks, False Narratives, Being Told Difference Is Bad, Tools of Oppression, the Queen of Me Search, Expectations vs. Authenticity, Male Domination, Open Racism, Profound Loneliness, Building Community, Religious Trauma, Boot Straps, the Wholeness of Who We Are, Love & Acceptance…

Taste – “How Do We Work Together To Improve The State Of The Now?" Episode 681 features a philosophical conversation with Homesteader, Sensei, Winemaker, and Our Reluctant Resident Philosopher - Almighty Todd. The Almighty talks with us from his place in Central Vermont. We Discuss: Tornadoes in Vermont, the Bicentennial, Consciousness, Michael Pollan, Ken Wilber, Conscience, Understanding Consequences, Being Conscientious, Objective Reality, the Soul, Faith As a Mental Construct, the Western Mind, Science, Subjectivity, AI's Objectivity, Thinking About 7 Generations Down the Road, Naturally Trippin', Lantern Consciousness, Spotlight Consciousness, Buddhas, the Fear Machine, Forgiveness, Narcissism, Religion, the Allegory of the Cave, Organic Stupidity, Arcturus Rising, the Brightest Star of the Northern Hemisphere, the 1933 World's Fair, the Patriarchy, Oligarchy, Revolution, Robber Barrons, Jumpin' in the White River & Swimming Everyday…

Taste – “The Foundation of Fascism is Hate…" Episode 680 features a grand conversation with Educator, Ax Aficionado, Our Resident Historian - Serf William. The Serf talks with us from his place in Bucks County. We Discuss: Summertime, the Value of Structure in Life, Having an Agenda, Progressives and Democratic Socialists, Max Weber, an Explanation of Democracy, Maga, the Capitalist Ethos, Having No Room for Fascists, the Supreme Court, the Urban/Rural Divide, Lightning Bolts, Zues, Thor & Other Gods, Humans: a Species with Low Self-esteem, Ukraine and Russia, Education, Hope, Voting Rights…

Taste – “We Can Lament Things, But That Takes Away Our Agency…" Episode 679 features a wonderful conversation with Dancer, Teacher, Choreographer and Artistic Director of the Vangeline Theater in NYC - Vangeline. Vangeline talks with us from her place in Brooklyn, Ny. We Discuss: "Growing Up in France, Being Connected to Nature, Slowing Down, Being a Little Nerdy Intellectual, the Movie "Flashdance" as an Inspiration, Dropping Out of Dancing and Getting Depressed, Being a Translator for the U.N., Lineage, Teachers, Professors, Living in New York in the 1990s, Being Illegal for 5 Years, Bushwick, Being a Stripper for 8 Years, Burlesque, Ami Goodheart, Sloth, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Discovering Butoh as a Spiritual Experience, the Origins of Butoh, Being Typecast as a Pretty Woman, Bright and Darker Sides of the Human Psyche, Investigating What Makes Us Deeply Human, Trauma & Healing, Patriarchal Culture, Breaking Stereotypes, Containing Multitudes, AI, Challenges as Opportunities, the "Dream a Dream" Project, the Queer Butoh Festival, Her Choreographic Piece "Man/Woman", Performing at the Lincoln Center in a Few Months, then to Oxford and to Chile…

Taste – “...Even With Sid Vicious, He Thought He Was Nice, Was Cute, So Great…" An engaging conversation with Award Winning Documentary Producer, Official Storyteller for the Chelsea Hotel, Nyc Event Planner: Man-Lai. Man-Lai talks with us from her place (room 111) in the Chelsea Hotel. We Discuss: "Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (And Other Rock-N-Roll Stories)," Winning the Ny Independent Film Festival's Award for Best Documentary, Dee Dee Ramone Living Next Store, Janis Joplin in Cartoon, Max's Kansas City, French Architecture, Some History of the Chelsea Hotel, the Fillmore East, Stanley Bard, Sid & Nancy, Viva a Muse of Andy Warhol, "Not My Mother" by Alex Auder, Life at the Chelsea Since 1980, Danny Garcia, Susan Schlesinger, Marcia Resnick, Timothee Chalamet, Jackie Chan, the Cast of "One Battle After Another" Hanging Out at the Chelsea, the Costs Going Up, Artwork in the Halls by Keith Herring, Robert Mapplethorpe & Julian Schnabel, Prada Astronauts, Nicolas Winding Refn & Hideo Kojima, Satellites, Ethan Hawke, the Cast of SnL, Heroin Dealers Next Door, From Punk Rock to Hollywood, Room 111, Club Star, Exploring Love & Language, the Chelsea Feeding Our American Dream…

Taste - "It Wasn't Idyllic, But It Was Pretty Close..." Episode 677 features a bombastic conversation with Writer, Satirist, Social Critic and Baseball Fan - Bruno Milo. Bruno talks with us from his place in the Hollywood Section. We Discuss: His Dad, Three Square Meals & a Roof Over Your Head, Sitting in Back of a Station Wagon During an Oil Embargo, Ronald Reagan Ruining the 1980s, Rizzo & Goode, the Ukraine, Wall Street, Banksy, Bernie Sanders, U.S. at 250 years, Baseball, Data Centers, AI, Art's Purpose, Capitalism, Being Too Sensitive, Plans for the Summer...

Taste – “I'm Against The Idea That Leaving Your Comfort Zone Is A Good Thing…" A great conversation with Writer – Richard Klin. Richard talks with us from his place in the groovy Hudson Valley. We Discuss: Feeling Like An Old Roadie, Supporting Your Children, the Art of Transcribing Interviews, Howard Zinn, Adelle Waldman, Thurston Moore, Writing Fiction, Locus, Growing Up On The Jersey Shore, the Past Not Existing, Nabokov’s Speak Memory, Short Stories, Living in Nashville, they Gentrification of Park Slope Brooklyn, Fiction, John Sayles, Madame Bovary, Not Leaving Your Comfort Zone, the South Politically, Going Back in Time, Beckett, the Future…

Taste - "Tell Me With Whom You Walk & I'll Tell You Who You Are..." A wonderful conversation with British Indo-American Poet, Visual Artist, and Educator - Rhony Bhopla. Rhony talks with us from her place in Sacramento, California. We Discuss: Heating Up in Sacramento, Her Dog Sophie, Patrick at the Vet's Office, Being a Steward of Nature, Watching Tea Water Boil as Meditation, a Discontented Civilization, a Collage Marathon, Food Insecurity, Her Manuscript of Poetry & Prose, Her Writing Process, Writing Book Reviews, Poems of Witness, Prepositions, Clarence Darrow, Geese on Campus, Peace, Submission, Desire Rhony reads an original poem titled, "Celia."

Taste – “An Artist Is Just As Important As Your Ministers, Your Politicians, Your Farmers... Your Carpenters. The Artist Is Important." A poignant conversation with Artist, Educator, Co-Founder & Artistic Director of the Indigo Arts Alliance – Daniel Minter. Daniel talks with us from his place in Portland, Maine. We Discuss: Growing Up in Southwest Georgia, a System of Apartheid, Strict Codes of Segregation, White Public Swimming Pools, the School System After Brown v. Board of Education, Playing Baseball Together, Realizing He Enjoyed Art, Maps, Posters, Signs & Murals, Finding a Function Within a Community, Great Art Teachers in High School, Water Colors & Audubon, As a Child Not Having Access to Books with Pictures of People that Look Like Him, Langston Hughes, His Siblings, Meeting Marcia in Karate Class, the Activism in Art, Being a U.S. American, Benefitting the Community with Your Work, What Being Hopeful Is…

Taste – “This Is The Dystopia We Were Warned About..." A grand conversation with Writer, Professor, Dramaturg, Baker and Candlestickmaker – Kitty Belle Burbank. Kitty Belle talks with us from her place in the West Side. We Discuss: Cats & Dogs, Resting, Getting Married, It Being a Hard World to Live In By Yourself, Cultivating Good Values, Reconnecting with Friends, Trouble Asking People for Help, What the Fascists Don’t Want, Community Coming Together, Voting Rights, James Baldwin, Her New Radio Play, Restrictions, Protests, Rugged Individualism, Climate Refugees, Data Centers, Envisioning What You Want to Happen, Social Media, Gardening…

Taste – “One of My First Big Influences was this Book Called ‘The Mad Scientists Club’… I read That in Third Grade." A grand conversation with Artist, Filmmaker, Musician and Author – Cary Loren. Cary talks with us from his place, The Book Beat in Oak Park, Michigan. We Discuss: Growing Up in Huntington Woods, the Mad Scientists’ Club, the Magic Band, Reenacting Horror Films, Hitchhiking in His Teenage Years, Captain Beefheart, Getting Arrested as a Runaway, Spending Weeks in Solitary Confinement at Juvi, Hanging Out with Jack Smith, Getting a Post Card From Andy Warhol, Living in a Commune in D.C. with Niagara, Moving to Ann Arbor to Make Films, Underground Filmmakers, the Bed That Eats People, Avant Guard Music, His Space The Book Beat, Children of Mu, the History of Detroit Music, Leni Sinclair & John Sinclair, the White Panthers, I Rip You, You Rip Me, the MC5, Mythic Chaos, Zines, Ray Johnson, Mail Art, Destroy All Monsters, Lithograph, His Polaroids in Book Form, the Importance of Art, the Importance of Reading, an International Book Club, a Book He’s Working On…