Aaron and Ira embark on the project of finding out just what their new podcast, Jiggle It A Little It’ll Open (JIALIO), is or might be. (SPOILER ALERT: They come to no conclusions and have no plans to do so, but will return to the topic often.) Along the way they reveal the origins of the title, consider the benefits of embracing irrelevance, and brainstorm a needlessly complicated promotional fundraising gift as complicated and impractical as JIALIO itself.  

Music:
JIALIO presents the debut our brand new theme music! A cover of Roger Miller’s “Open Up Your Heart,” which features the show’s namesake lyric. This version was arranged and recorded especially for JIALIO by 80 Foots, Chicago’s only End Times Vocal Trio.

“Open Up Your Heart” by Buddy Killen + Roger Miller
Arranged and recorded by: 80 Foots (https://www.facebook.com/80FPM)

December 2018 — It was the last time I was in the United States. I had come to San Francisco to apply for my visa to return to live and work in France. After breakfast avec an ex (with whom I had once lived in Paris), I bumped into William Birdwood. He is preoccupied by a desire to see his abortion amendment to the U.S. Constitution taken seriously. Years later, Ealy Mays and Toma Kukenyte speak over the phone...though both were in Paris it was (and is) Covid. Summertime in the Jardin Luxembourg she confesses sins and sexual crimes. With the powers not vested in me by no one, I do not absolve her.

Rasa Yoga + radio KAHNtents
present:  From Darkness to Light / From Death to Immortality — The Story of Nachiketa’s Journey in The Katha Upanishad

Written by Tonia Mayerle
adapted for the radio by Aaron Kahn. 

Produced by radio KAHNtents
for Rasa Yoga Rive Gauche during quarantine
December 2020 — Paris, France

Performed by
Rajeev Kahn and Adah Dylan 

This radio play premiered at Mount Madonna Center for The Creative Arts and Sciences in Watsonville, California during the 2018 New Years Ashtanga Yoga Retreat. The cast included Ryan Bell, Erin Fitzgerald, Hamsa Heinrich, Soma Goresky and Rajeev Kahn. 

radio KAHNtents , like Rasa Yoga, and Mount Madonna Center are supported by our communities and are grateful for your sustaining patronage.Please consider supporting us this holiday and in the new year. Thank you, OM!

An episode of radio KAHNtents featuring Black and Brown voices from The American States formerly known as United.

Ealy Mays

Bridge Hill Kennedy 

Avi Valerie Kruley

Kimberly Jones

Episode image "White Voodoo" by Ealy Mays.

Three voices in my head on November 16, 2016, remixed in 2020.

The traditional Samogitian folksong "Bernelis supava" is used by permission from the singer, Loreta Mukaitė-Sungailienė (b. 1977 Skuodas, Lithuania). Would my great grandmother, Sarah Levy (b. 1857 Skuodas, Lithuania) have sung this tune? The episode image is from The Lithuanian National Drama Theatre production of Mūsų klasė (Our Class) by Tadeusz Słobodzianek directed by Yana Ross. The photo is used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Anagnorisis (/ˌænəɡˈnɒrɪsɪs/; Ancient Greek: ἀναγνώρισις) is a moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery. Anagnorisis originally meant recognition in its Greek context, not only of a person but also of what that person stood for. Anagnorisis was the hero's sudden awareness of a real situation, the realization of things as they stood, and finally, the hero's insight into a relationship with an often antagonistic character in Aristotelian tragedy.

Paris, FR — Brattleboro, VT 23.04.20

Featuring Jerry Levy