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This episode originally aired February 21, 2026:

Lachelle Semanko, Executive Director of Rein in Sarcoma, joins Ken Haglind, host of “Living Healthy and Aging Well” radio show, to talk about Sarcomas, an uncommon and often misdiagnosed group of bone and soft tissue cancers that strike children and adults. Since 2001, Rien in Sarcoma has funded many research projects towards developing new treatments and finding cures for sarcomas cancers. This is just one part of their three-pronged mission to eliminate sarcomas. This mission includes education programs to increase awareness, and supportive events to provide connections between sarcoma patients, survivors, and those who have lost a loved one to sarcoma.

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Join host Laurie Fitz for a moving conversation with renowned artist Laura Migliorino about the power of visual art to document our shared human experience. They dive deep into Laura’s Ghost Shoe project, a community-driven installation placing painted white shoes around the Twin Cities to mark locations of trauma and spark meaningful dialogue. You’ll hear incredible stories about how public art projects not only honor those we’ve lost but also challenge us to build a more connected and compassionate community.

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Robert has his weekly Friday check in with State Sen. Mary Kunesh!

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It’s our monthly On Stage with Jim Pounds segment. He talks with Paul W Kruse who is the playwright of eelpout which is now playing at Chicago’s Witt Theatre. For tickets head to Shattered Globe’s website: https://shtheatre.org. Then he talks with John Heimboch from Walking Shadow in Minneapolis about the upcoming production of Perfect Arrangement. It runs May 30 – June 21, 2026 at the Crane Theater in NE Minneapolis. For tickets: https://walkingshadow.org.

THEN: Ilana Masad is back with her May book recommendations:

Dream Facades: The Cruel Architecture of Reality TV by Jack Balderrama Morley

Buy: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9781662602924

Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen

Buy: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9781638930518

Here for the Wrong Reasons by Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang

Buy: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9781639107094

Ilana is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and criticism whose work has been widely published. She holds a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and is the author of the novels All My Mother’s Lovers and Beings, as well as the coeditor of the forthcoming anthology Here for All the Reasons: Why We Watch The Bachelor. Get it here: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9781684426126. Connect with Ilana here: https://www.ilanamasad.com

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Joining Robert Pilot: Louisa Harstad (Director of Programs) and Delia Touche (Exhibits & Interpretative Programs Manager) and Robert Liligren of NACDI.

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Matt is back today! On the show:

Recapping Matt’s trip to western US and national parks; a summary of trump’s corruption over the last 10 days; updates on Operation Cluster; how Republicans have turned rural America into a wasteland; the ever increasing cost of groceries; Lisa Demuth’s stance on guns; the Feeding Our Future ringleader gets sentenced

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Host John Parker sits down with award-winning author and queer historian Hugh Ryan to unpack the pre-internet landscape of LGBTQ+ life in the 1990s. They dive into everything from the wild mega-clubs of New York City and finding queer history using the library’s Dewey Decimal System to the terrifying reality of the “second silence” surrounding the AIDS epidemic. Get ready to explore the analog era of the queer community before Ryan’s new book, My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer 90s and Beyond, hits shelves on May 26th.

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Joining Robert Pilot for a Little Moments Count segment, Shashana Skippingday is a member of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation, and Joe Tahdooahnippah is an enrolled member of the Comanche Nation. Tune in to Turtle Island Voices Rising on May 29th, 2026.

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Bruce Klopfleisch fills in for Matt today and talks about Trump’s slush fund, the corrupt SCOTUS, food stamp cuts, bad polling numbers for Republicans and more!

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John Parker and Jim Pounds sit down to honor the monumental legacy of the late Congressman Barney Frank and his barrier-breaking fight for LGBTQ+ rights on Capitol Hill. They also break down a flurry of trans healthcare lawsuits coming out of Texas and Kansas, exploring how these state-level legal battles impact queer communities nationwide. To cap things off, Windy City Times managing editor Jake Wittich stops by to share the latest on a major Chicago lawsuit against the Trump administration and drop a fun preview of their upcoming Pride Month coverage.

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