Thursday Night

Program Notes S H 10-20-23



12 AM

Alan Watts

Review of A Kaplan’s The New World of Philosophy



12:30 AM

Sounds True -Tami Simon

Andrea Gibson: Facing Mortality and Being Adored and Cherished by the Universe

Great poets expand our view—of ourselves, of each other, and of the entire universe. Andrea Gibson was named Colorado’s 2023–25 Poet Laureate for their celebrated verses on love, LGBTQ issues, spirituality, mental health, social justice, and more. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Andrea about their approach to work and how their journey through cancer radically changed that approach.

Listen now to this poignant conversation featuring Andrea’s reading of their poem, “Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps” and exploring spiritual surrender, finding joy in every instant, facing challenges, moving through grief, the life force of the universe within us, self-love and loving the whole world, trying softer (not harder), the power of relaxation, identifying the keys that open your heart, staying with our fear, activism and loosening our attachment to desired outcomes, being yourself fully, the gift of mortality, giving the present moment the cold shoulder, why authenticity is the most important thing when it comes to writing, the pull of creativity, and more.

Note: This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.

Andrea Gibson is one of the most celebrated and influential spoken word poets of our time. Best known for their live performances, Gibson has changed the landscape of what it means to attend a “poetry show.” Gibson’s poems center around LGBTQ issues, gender, feminism, mental health and social justice. The winner of the first Women’s World Poetry Slam, Gibson is the author of seven award winning books and seven full length albums. Their live shows have become loving and supportive ecosystems for audiences to feel seen, heard, and held through Gibson’s art.



1:30 AM Old Radio Break

Lest We Forget: The Story of Joseph Pulitzer



2 AM

The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein

A Meditation on Play, Space and Risk for Americans Who are Nervous, Distracted and Afraid to Die with Amy Fusselman

Amy Fusselman is a writer, wife and mother, and the author of four books of non-fiction and a novel. Over the course of her career she has devoted herself to a range of interesting jobs, including guitarist in a punk band"all of which help to inspire her writing.

In this interview about her fabulous book Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space and Risk for Americans Who are Nervous and Afraid to Die, we delve into the way we relate, individually and as a culture to play, space and risk in the world around us, and especially with our children. And the unexpected consequences of that.

The Magical Mystery Tour is a show that dives into the heart of things exploring new ideas and new ways of seeing and being in this wondrous crazy world we share together. New shows are available weekly by Monday. Feel free to contact the host at 802-229-5123 or tonio@together.net



3 AM

Caroline Casey The Visionary Activist

https://coyotenetworknews.com/radio-show/

Pluto Eclipse Radio….

The dedication is more impossible and more necessary…So we convene back-stage in the participatory imaginal realms to conjure the impossible necessary miracle vision…that we then (a la Haruki Murakami) open the sluice gates, and let the desirable pour into incarnational actuality ….

Composting the addiction to having an enemy, on which tyranny feeds….Animating the vision of actual community (that tyranny has always attacked, replacing with the toxic mimic of cults…)

Caroline re-plays segments of July 17, 2008 show… Yehuda Atai, Israeli Peace Activist, Biblical scholar, alchemist, modern computer start-up wizard presenting the One State Solution – the Israeli-Palestinian Democracy!

Because this bold imaginative ingenious experiment will require metabolizing justified bitterness into forgiveness, Caroline welcomes Rod Suskin, traditional Sangoma to offer the medicine of South Africa into our collective brew that we may animate this desirable, and once we hear it, irresistible story.



4-6 AM

The Thom Hartmann Program

Final 2 hours from the non-commercial version earlier on 10-19-23