Taste - "Life Is The Beautiful Catastrophe..." Episode 638 features a philosophical conversation with Homesteader, Sensei, Winemaker, and Our Reluctant, Resident Philosopher - Almighty Todd. The Almighty talks with us from his place in Vermont. We Discuss: Into September, Pessimism Alla Schopenhauer, West vs. East, Suffering Alla Thich Nhat Hanh, Spirits in the Material World, the Joke About Woke, How All Is Flux, Free Will, Pan Philosophy, Nepo Babies, Werner Herzog, Little Dieter, a Buddhist Monk as a Prisoner, Droughts and Wildfires, Breaking Things Being Easier Than Building, Awareness of Abusive, Oppressive Behavior, Being Awash in the Confusion and Chaos of Pop Culture, Physics and Allusions of Reality, Staying Grounded, Getting Your Sweaters Out, Looking For Small Gains...

Taste - "Hope Is A Discipline." "Resistance Is Skillwork." Episode 637 features a compelling conversation with Campaign Director for the Pennsylvania Policy Center - Dwayne Heisler And Policy & Political Director at Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates - Adam Hosey. Dwayne and Adam Talk With Me About: Putting Resistance In Our Daily Practice, Struggles With Money, Political Accountability, Gerrymandering, Affordable Housing, Healthcare, Education, Medicaid, False Narratives, The Big Ugly Bill, Working Families, Enriching Billionaires, Diminishing Hospitals, Slashing Public Services, Budget Deficits, Jobs, How to Counter Lies, Congress and the Stockmarket, the Rights of Women to Control Their Bodies, Feeding Children Who Are Hungary, Investing In People And In Their Communities...

Taste - "This Person Understands The Sordid Underbelly Of The American Psyche..." Episode 636 features a grand conversation with Fiddle Player, Ax Aficionado, Educator & Our Resident Historian - Serf William. The Serf talks with us on location as he travels through Germany. We Discuss: Azz, Drinking on East Mountain, a Tie Dyed Motorcycle, Breaking The Rules, Fighting The Fight, the Lonesome Cowboy, the Plight of the Working Class, Dr. Pavese, Sticking To Your Guns Until the End, the History of the Mafia, Being the Strongest & Most Ruthless, Political Systems, the Brutality of the Church, Humanity & Compassion, American Ideals, Intelligence, Suckers & Vulnerability, People Having the Power...

Taste - "I Believe That The World Should Be Made A Much More Inclusive Place And That People Shouldn't Go Without..." Part Two of our grand conversation with Acclaimed Professor of U.S. History and African American Studies, Award Winning Author - Daryl Scott. Professor Scott talks with us from his place outside of Washington D.C. We Discuss: Teaching As A Graduate Student At Stanford, Descendants of Confederates, Texas Gerrymandering, Being a Traditionalist in a Pluralistic Society, Wanting to Be Accepted, Techno Liberals of the Silicon Valley in the 1980s, LGBTQ Issues, Acculturation, AI and Inequality, Post Inclusion, President Obama, Racism, Bargaining for Rights and Opportunities, How Excesses Are Killing Us, Immigration Tendencies Serving Capitalism, the Future for Younger Generations, The Political Courage to Find a Solution, Making Peace...

Taste - "...And They're Raising Their Kids To Be OK With Man's Inhumanity To Man." Episode 634 features Part One of a Two Part conversation with Acclaimed Professor of U.S. History and African American Studies, Award Winning Author - Daryl Scott." Professor Scott talks with us from his place outside of Washington D.C. We Discuss: Growing Up in Chicago's South Side, Being a Faculty Member at Columbia, Howard and presently at Morgan State University, Integration, the Chance at a Utopian Society, AI, Neoliberalism, UnAmerican TechnoFacists, Techno Fuedalism, Cyborgs, Master Race Theory, How Even the KKK Believed in Democracy (for White People), the Purpose of DEI, Why People Are So Vehemently Against It, the Post World War II Rights Revolution, Assimilation, Being a Southerner... Part 2 of our conversation will be featured next week in episode 635.

Taste - "It Has Inspired People All Around The World To Deal With Their Emotions...Then We Can Really Hear Each Other And Move Forward Together. " A wonderful conversation with Activist Researcher, Spoken Word & Sound Artist, and Our Resident Anthropologist - Louise Romain. Louise talks with us from her place in Southwest England. We Discuss: British Summer, A Recent Gig in London, Her Time at the U.N. Ocean Conference in Nice, France, Biodiversity, Whales, Sound Pollution, An Upcoming Stint Working at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Fooling, the Sarcastic and Laid Back Ocean, a Chapel in Stroud, the Blue Zone Elite, the High Ambition Coalition, Beyond National Jurisdictions of Oceans, the MAGA Mindset as a Drag on Tending to International Environmental Issues, France's Bottom Trolling, Destroying Corals, Being a Keystone Species, Gratitude, the Work That Reconnects, the Sound of Ants Walking Around a Tree... Louise also shares an original poem titled, "A Roar For Revolutionary Times."

Taste - "It's Like A Beehive Or A Wasp's Nest, But It Bubbles Out Of The Walls..." A wonderful conversation with Performing Artist, Visual Artist, Activist and Puppet Maker - John Bromberg. John talks with us from his place at PMS Farms in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. We Discuss: Collaboration, Getting Away From Your Ego, Finlandia, A New Path To The Waterfall By Artists Samuelle Green And John Bromberg, Coming Out Of Bellevue, Art As A Business Or As A Religion, Walking Naked In The Woods, Being Jolted By The Magic Of Nature, Arrogance And Ignorance, Traveling With Wallace Black Elk, Celebrating Peter Schumann's 91st Birthday, Locking Horns, A Shrine to Elka, Trudy Gerlach The Angel Of Truth, A Bridge To Nowhere, The Sludge That Technology Leaves Behind, Being Brought Up In Ozone Park, AI And The Water It Demands, Visiting A Monastery In Vermont, Dr. Michael Pavese, Praying, Three Graces, Grieving And Recovery...

Taste - "Rich People Always Get Taken Care of..." A vivacious conversation with Our Resident Urban Hiker - Travis Ignatowski. Travis talks with us on location somewhere in Long Island, Ny. We Discuss: Fear & Loathing Las Vegas, Different Generations, Phenomena of Privilege, a Couple in Ithaca, Los Angeles, Brothers & Sisters, Stranger Days, Penn's Acquiescence, the Spectrum of Insanity, PBS & NPR, Next Elections, Privilege Making Us Soft & Dumber, What To Do...

Taste - "If You Ain't Dead, Would You Care To Share A Drink With Me?" A grand conversation with Legendary British Music Journalist & Editor - Allan Jones. Allan talks with us from his place in Southwest London. We Discuss: The Melody Maker Crew, the State of the World, We Wonder Where All the Protest Songs Are, Springsteen Being Outspoken, What the MC5 Would Do, Elvis Costello's "Tramp the Dirt Down," Gaza, the Specials, the Young Johnny Rotten, Willie Nelson's Birthday Fireworks, Woody (aka Joe Strummer) as an Art School Friend, the Old Whistle Test, the 101ers, the Charlie Pigdog Club, Notting Hill, Diamond Dog, Joe Strummer Watching the Sex Pistols, the Royal College of Art, Pub Rock, Traveling With the Clash on their First American Tour, a Blizzard in Cleveland, Chatting and Drinking With Bo Diddley, When Mick Jones Gave Him a Couple of Joints to Relax, the Mescaleros, a Benefit Concert for Striking Firemen, a Last Conversation with Joe Strummer...

Taste - "There Is Going To Be A Massive Disillusionment. How Are We Going To Handle It?" An engaging conversation with Writer, Dramaturg, Professor, Baker & Candlestickmaker - Kitty Belle Burbank. Kitty Belle talks with us from her place in the West Side. We Discuss: Protests, Visceral Reactions to Politics, Tearing Each Other Down, Lifting Each Other Up, This Being a Great Time for Journalists, the Paramount Deal, NPR & PBS, Thinking for Yourself, Toxic Masculinity, AOC, How Women Are Nurturing, Community, How Love Is Stronger, Diversity, Looking for Helpers, the Beauty of Art & Empthy, What People Are Afraid Of, Expecting Politicians to Fix the Problems For Us, Grandma Grega...

Taste - "I've Met Me In Everyone I've Encountered..." A grand conversation with American Poet, Educator and Fellow Traveler - Craig Czury. Craig talks with us from his place in Dunmore, Pennsylvania. We Discuss: Being Stone Sober, the Handwriting on the Wall, the Gate of Heaven Parking Lot, Baseball Bats Reverberating on Asphalt, Being the Only Protestant in the Neighborhood, Unspoken Laws of the Hood, Writing the Negative Space Around the Issues, Being Shocked Into Awakening, Growing Up With Immigrants, the Art of Poetry, Bocce, 15yrs of Hitchhiking, Poets & Artists As Leaders of Social Movements, Pablo Neruda, Gorilla Poetry, Odd Jobs... Craig also reads three wonderful original poems at different points inside our dialogue.

Taste – "With Full Weaponry I am Ready To Quell My Anger..." 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: Language of Our Home, How We Say Things, Intonation, The Fight & the Fiddle, Feeling the Word, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the Value of Many Languages in a Community, Personal Sense of Peace, Gratitude, Immediate Needs, Continuing to Dig, Quessling One's Anger, Breaking Things, a Picture of the Eiffel Tower, Wholeness & Healing...

Taste – "I've Been Looking Up The Skirt of Politics..." A compelling conversation with Artist, Activist, Community Leader, Democratic Candidate for Mayor of New York City - Paperboy Love Prince. Paperboy talks with us from their place in Brooklyn, Ny. We Discuss: How Their Mayoral Campaign Is Going, FOIA, Their Utopia Plan for NYC, Representation Without Liberation, Record Profits of Major Corporations, Artists Being Pushed Out of NYC, Gaining Power Through Collectivism Vs.Through Division, False Narratives, Exclusion, Freedom & Love, Education For the Future, Why They Have Been Wearing Clown Make-Up and Clown Shoes During Campaign Events, Ending Homelessness, Corruption, Their Grandparents Starting a Church in Brooklyn, Their Parents Falling in Love at Howard University, Things That Make Us Similar, Being Ageless, Paperboy Performs Their Song "Clown World"...

Taste - "They're Cowards. You're Brainwashed..." Episode 625 features a dramatic piece of satire via a phone conversation with Writer, Satirist, Social Critic and Baseball Fan - Bruno Milo. Bruno talks with us from his new place in the Hill Section. We Discuss: Loud Music Bellowing Out of Passing Cars, The Podiatrist Next Store, Prince's Clothes, the Supreme Court, Manny Ramirez, Mikes Taylor, the Department of Homeland Security, ICE ICE Baby, Cowards, the Media, MAGA, the Democratic Party, Kissing Rings, Bending Knees, Freespeech, Musk, Johnson, Sanders, Millionaires, Billionaires, Everyday People, Status Quo No Mo, Staying Civilized, Institutions, Partisan Politics, Short Home Runs, Bosox, Pirates, Rockies, Staying Cool...

Taste - "I Went From Gifted To Buffalo Wild Wings..." A grand conversation with Writer, Park Avenue Doorman Extraordinaire - Stephen Bruno. Stephen talks with us from his place in the Upper East Side, Nyc. We Discuss: Being a Gifted Student, Dating the Prettiest Girl in High School, Moving to Minnesota, Being Depressed, Failing Out of College, Being Inspired to Go Back to NYC, Help From His Younger Brother, the Yankees & the Twins, Paying His Way Through College, Earning His MFA, Shaving & Cutting His Hair, Being a Doorman on Park Avenue, Thinking You Are Smarter Than Your Job, the Community of a Building, Poignant Moments, Keeping People Out, Third Party Embarrassement, His Acclaimed Memoir "Building Material," Hard Work Being Irreplaceable, His Family, Having a Sense of Purpose...

A Taste - "That is the Best Definition of Theater I've ever heard..." A grand conversation with Renowned Nyc Actor, Playwright, Director and Sage - Austin Pendleton. Mr. Pendleton was starring in "Choir Boy" at the Manhattan Theater Club at the time we talked. Austin and I discuss Being a Director, Being an Actor, Leaving Your Ego at the Door, Parallel Universes, Choir Boy, Pulling Them Into the Story, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, the Best Definition of Theater, David Mamet's Phone Calls, Art As It Relates to Human Understanding & Justice, the Angriest Play Ever Written, Ordinary Conversations, the Future of Theater...

Taste – "Being A Reporter Is Something I Held As A Goal From A Very Young Age." A great conversation with Journalist, Non-Fiction Writer, Magazine Editor- Vicki Mayk. Vicki talks with us from her place in Scranton, Pennsylvania. We Discuss: Growing Up In Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Asking People Questions & Hearing Their Stories, the Importance of Local Journalism, Being a News Reporter As Compared to Being a Feature Writer, Bias, NPR & PBS, the 4th Estate, Her Book - "Growing Up On The Gridiron: Football, Friendship & the Tragic Life of Owen Thomas," a Champion of the Bullied, Women Getting Divorced and Starting Over, How Humans Are Wired For Stories...

Taste – "It's No Starbucks. It's Better..." A philosophical conversation with Homesteader, Winemaker, Sensei and Our Reluctant Resident Philosopher - Almighty Todd. The Almighty talks with us from his place in Gaysville, Vermont. We Discuss: Moving To Notown, Inbetween Equinox & Solstice, Letting the Animals Out Into the Bigger Fields, Laughter, the Dominion Thesis, the Pope, Reason Being Bent Over Backward by Populism, Being Fully in the Moment, Encouragement &;Accountability, Environmental Activists Being Deemed As Terrorists, the Average Reading Level in the U.S ...

Taste – "I Always Had This Kind Of Independent Streak. I was Always Curious About The World..." A wonderful conversation with Artist, Creative Director, Educator- John Tymkiw. John talks with us from his place in New York City. We Discuss: Growing Up in a Ukrainian Community in Ohio, Studying at Harvard, Launching One's Self Into the World, Going to Tokyo, the Arrogance of Youth, a Wool Suit on a Warm Day, Studying With Katsumi Asaba, Living in the Village, BBH in the Early 2000s, Teaching Typography in Tokyo, Using Creativity Effectively, Being a Creative Person for Hire, Advertising as Persuasion, Propaganda, Weird Foibles, Strange Creatures, Religion, Being Here Like a Tree, Food Coloring Into Music, What's Worthwhile...

Taste – "How Do We Face The Deep, Disturbing Challenges That We Are Witnessing?" A grand conversation with Sound Artist, Documentarist, Activist Researcher, and our Resident Anthropologist - Louise Romain. Louise talks with us from her place in Southwest England. We Discuss: Spring, Her Interpretation of The U.S. Political Situation as a European, Tarrifs, Oligarchy, Early Stages of Collapse, Fragility & Volatility, Things Running Their Course, Imperialism & Isolationism, Palestine, Peace As a Destination, Rise of the Far Right, How Everything Is Cyclical, Thinking In Non-Binary Ways, Compassion For Your Enemy, New Alliances, Keeping Faith, How the Universe Has Its Own Magic...

Taste – "The Spirit of Resistance Is Very Alive Right Now..."A great conversation with Acclaimed Playwright - Adam Szymkowicz. Adam talks with us from his place in Connecticut. We Discuss: His Background, Being An Actor, Loving Theater, Studying at Columbia University, Working at Julliard, His Book About Being a Playwright, Resistance & Fighting Against Oppression, Almost Maine, What Drives a Playwright, Introverts, Sell Outs, Snobbery in the Theater, All the Brilliant Things, Fat Cat Killers, Mobster Clowns, Such Small Hands, the Importance of Empathy, Hiding Behind Christianity...

Taste – "It Always Has Been Worse Than It Ever Has Been..." A grand conversation with Writer, Musician, Artist and Our Resident Global Hobo- JQ. JQ talks with us from his place in the South of France. We Discuss: The Revolution, Bernie & A.O.C., the Tea Party of the Left, Taking Power From the Oligarchs, Perpetual Crisises As a Strategy, the Depression Then the New Deal, Socialism Light, Education & Healthcare, the Golden Era of Capitalism, How We Exalt Competition Over Collaboration, the NBA As a Metaphor, the Dallas Mavericks & Luca Doncic, Tin-Foil-Hat Crowds, Sports Franchises As Tax Shelters, The People in the Streets, Positive Thoughts...

Taste – "It Was A Story About A Little Black Queer Boy In High School Finding His Way..." Episode 617 features a grand conversation with Highly Acclaimed Broadway & Screen Actor - Jonathan Burke. Jonathan and I Discuss: Growing Up in Baltimore, the Baltimore School of the Arts, Ithaca College, the University of the Arts, Theater vs. Screen, Mungojerrie, Experiencing a Live Audience, Playing Pharus Jonathan Young in "Choir Boy" on Broadway, Andre' De Shields, the Charm City Prince, the word "Queer", Managing His Diverse Career, Singing Coming From Acting, Being Rooted in Story, Finding the Truth, Stevie Wonder, Screen & Stage Projects in the Works, Art As Activism...

Taste - "I Am Concerned About Every Facet of What's Happening Now..." A metropolitan infused conversation with our Resident Urban Hiker - Travis Ignatowski.Travis talks with us on location in Los Angeles, California. We Discuss: Grand Poobahs & Lesser Poohbahs, Being An Importer/Exporter, Business & Pleasure, Being Downtown, a High-Rise With Graffiti & Squatters, Caracas, Real Men, Urban Areas for Immigrants, Small Cities, the Civic & Physical Make-Up of Our Country, Being Consumers to the Nth Degree, What Normal Is, Bernie Sanders, the Good Old Days, the Gulf of Mexico, Vegas...

Taste – "It Deals With How Absolute Power Corrupts And Keeping Our Leaders In Check..." Episode 615 features a great conversation with Writer & Educator - Nina Mansfield (together with her husband) Screen & Stage Actor - Joel Haberli. Nina & Joel talk with us from their place in Connecticut. We Discuss: How Nina & Joel Met, Moving to Nyc, Doing Off Off Broadway, Joel Directing Nina's First Play, Starting to Write, a Powerful Radio Station Out of Chicago, Cinnamon Toast & Milk, Writing Children's Plays & Having Them Staged Across the Country, Acting for Television Programs, Being a Zombie Dad for the Big Screen, Giving Each Other Feedback, Why the Arts Are So Important, Broadway Being Magical, Community Theater, The West Bank Cafe, The Artistic Temperament, Having Fun...