NEW PROBLEM RECORDS

This is about doubt. Geneva, Switzerland is where the radio station of your loneliness comes through too loud and too clear. Do not visit Geneva alone unless you're ready to accept how alone you truly are.  

NEW PROBLEMS vol. 1. THE FIVE HINDERANCES act 3. conclusion.

Upon the retirement of WFAN host Joe Benigno, a meditation on the foundational thing that makes me myself, in all its existential, working class glory: New York sports radio. 

NEW PROBLEMS vol. 1. THE FIVE HINDERANCES act 3. chapter 4.

Writing is an act of faith and discipline! Trust the process enough to throw shit away and remember short assignments and we are good to go.

This is an episode about the shame of knowing yourself too well, as seen through the eyes of the Prodigal Son and James Baldwin's classic, "Go Tell It On the Mountain." The promise of new life is exciting, until it's cruel. Because a 'man of God' is still mostly just a man.

NEW PROBLEMS vol. 1. THE FIVE HINDERANCES act 3. chapter 3.

This is an episode from the archives, 2013 -- young and broke and falling in love. Until the song ends.

NEW PROBLEMS vol. 1. THIS DATE IN OLD PROBLEMS #1 

Problems for the People are prayers on behalf of this podcast community. The yearning for certainty is a path that begins and ends in powerlessness. Faith is expectation without evidence. Faith, not facts!

NEW PROBLEMS vol. 1. unscripted #1

This is about envy.  This is a podcast that includes cameo appearances from O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Tinder, Fundamentalists. My denomination is filled with white men with Bibles and that bothers me. Thankfully, the Buddhist have a plan to keep me happy in the family of God. 

NEW PROBLEMS vol. 1. THE FIVE HINDERANCES act 3. chapter 2.

This is about sloth. Which is understandable. Any adrenaline I got from the pandemic is over. This is a podcast about what little is left.  

NEW PROBLEMS vol. 1. THE FIVE HINDERANCES act 3. chapter 1.

Some books are so in the scene I always assume to know what the author's argument is. But I read one. Reza Aslan's Zealot: the Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. As Senator Palpatine explained in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, there are some truths you'll just never learn from an Evangelical.