This is the 300th episode!!! For this special episode I recruited longtime friend and radio host Scotty Hertz for a co-interview: He interviews me about the history of the show, its specific origins born out of covid, and the mobile community radio philosophies that led to it, and we talk about my ten+year mobile radio history at CFRU and what has been learned and expanded on along the way, in terms of creating radio opportunities for folks in our communities who may go underrepresented and/or experience barriers to access. And in turn I interview Scotty, because he has just started a project that is very much inspired by the same gaps and needs: “Down on the Corner”. Down on the Corner is a radio program, in the form of a radio show that airs Tuesdays at 1:30 on CFRU’s airways, but it is also a grassroots, hyper-local project aimed to get physical radios in the hands of our most vulnerable community members. They can listen to CFRU, and specifically Scotty’s show, to access crucial information about resources available in our community, to hear interviews radio docs on political issues, and/or to make requests and hear music they might enjoy - but they can also use the radios to listen to whatever they want.

This episode was originally recorded on May 11, 2026

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