Rainstorm 🕉️ Brainstorm

Rainstorm 🕉️ Brainstorm

By Morgan BookshComedyImprov
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Rainstorm 🕉️ Brainstorm episodes

  • "Facing My Race (Listen Up Whitey)" - Stormfront

    "Facing My Race (Listen Up Whitey)" Rainstorm Brainstorm, Episode 7


    Cover Collage composites:
    Text taken from retelling of a folktale often told and referenced by poet Sterling Brown (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Allen_Brown) from an article on USPrisonCulture.com (https://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/2012/01/04/tales-of-injustice-black-storytelling-as-resistance/)

    People in the cover art, counter-clockwise(--> --^), starting from bottom left corner:
    Derrick Bell
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Bell
    Cornel West
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West
    Angela Davis
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis
    Gloria Jean Watkins (aka Bell Hooks)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks
    Juan González
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Gonz%C3%A1lez_(journalist)
    Richard Delgado
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Delgado
    Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeanga-Yamahtta_Taylor
    Professors Susana M. Morris (Right) & Brittney Cooper (Left)
    https://www.iac.gatech.edu/people/faculty/morris
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittney_Cooper
    Founders of Crunk Feminist Collective
    https://www.crunkfeministcollective.com/
    June Jordan
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Jordan
    Winona LaDuke
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winona_LaDuke
    Ana Castillo
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Castillo
    Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
    https://brownstargirl.org/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Lakshmi_Piepzna-Samarasinha
    Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Geok-lin_Lim


    A learning database on anti-racism:
    https://www.projecthome.org/anti-racism-resources
    Check out the Justice in June link at the very beginning of that database to find a map of how you can incorporate this dense sea of learning into your daily routine each month!

    Black life matters.


    51 min
  • "The Plot is Goddess" - Thunderstorm

    "The Plot is Goddess" Rainstorm Brainstorm, Episode 6

    • Time: Afternoon
    • Condition: Thunderstorm
    • Location: (Austin, TX)
    • Guests: none
    • Topic: The goddess as a symbolic reference to the tribal evolution of the humyn race.  

      • Narrative Abstraction: "Monogamy and Patriarchy are marketing tools meant to keep humans farm-able and divided."


      "Surprised by 2 days of rain in a row, Morgan hops outdoors and starts to ponder on how much better the world would be had the church not taken steps to massacre pagan, tribal traditions. He reflects on 'The Goddess' as a symbol for tribal support systems which focused on the wellbeing of the tribe, rather than the family unit.

      He recalls that monogamy wasn't common for the vast majority of human history, and how incredible a oppressive tool it has been made to be. Alas, hetero-normativity will be the end of us."
      END E

      29 min
    • "Education Transformation" - Sustained Shower

      "Education Transformation" Rainstorm Brainstorm, Episode 5

      • Time: Midday
      • Condition: Sustained Shower
      • Location: (Austin, TX)
      • Guests: none
      • Topic: Can Montessori educational teachings show us how to adapt to virtual learning environments?

        • Narrative Abstraction: Morgan combines what he's learned about Montessori education with what he knows about kids nowadays; they're better at the internet than adults.


        "As a long shower finally commences in the midst of a summertime drought, Morgan recalls conversations he's had with his father, a high school english teacher, and his step-sister, a professor's assistant and art teacher, have taught him about education in general and education during CoViD-19.

        He sips away at his coffee while pondering whether or not the faculties of ISDs could use the superior digital knowledge of its student-base to develop social networking systems specific to schools."

        END E

        41 min
      • Theme Song: "Whisper Weather" by The Bright Ambassador

        Host Morgan Booksh has a musical alter ego called 'The Bright Ambassador,' and the intro and outro music for the Rainstorm ⚡ Brainstorm podcast was taken from a song of his entitled 'Whisper Weather.'


        This is that song, feel free to download it and any other Bright Ambassador track from https://soundcloud.com/thebrightambassador

        Enjoy...

        5 min
      • "Bus Fuss" - Thunderstorm

        "Bus Fuss" Rainstorm Brainstorm, Episode 4

        • Time: 5pm CST
        • Condition: thunderstorm
        • Location: (Austin, TX)
        • Guests: none
        • Topic:  Okayama bus driver strike as a template for workers strikes in the USA

          • Narrative Abstraction: US workers can learn from the Okayama bus-strike; show up to work & accept no customer pay


          "Morgan enjoys an afternoon shower with a cold mug of pulpy OJ and his last 2 cigarettes for a while. Having just finished a Persona 5 stream, his mind is on Japanese culture. Morgan recalls a bus strike in 2018 in Okayama, Japan. In this strike the bus drivers continued to work and drive their normal routes; they simply didn't take any fares from passengers and cut out the owners from the profits; the strike was successful.

          The host imagines a USA where workers for national conglomerates could strike in such a way; how quickly the knees of oligarchs would buckle to being cut out of their own profit models.

          As he exhales and watches the smoke blend into the grey clouds looming on the skyline he wonders how best to organize such a thing..."

          END E04

          25 min
        • "Election Deflection" - overcast, light showers

          "Episode Name" Rainstorm Brainstorm, Episode 3

          • Time: early afternoon
          • Condition: overcast, light showers
          • Location: (Austin, TX)
          • Guests: none
          • Topic: election fraud in the USA

            • Narrative Abstraction: Super Tuesday exit polling discrepancy is highest in US history; nobody talks about that.


            "A a stormfront rolls in and the east coast prepares for hurricane season, host Morgan laments the difficult situation Americans are in for their political future. While many conversations have been had about the impacts of algorithmic technology on industry in general, nobody seems to have brought up the elephant in the room; what it could do to our democratic tools.

            As the cloud lets loose only a brief sputter of rain, Morgan sighs and heads inside."

            END E

            34 min
          • "Viral Spiral" - Thunderstorm
            "Viral Spiral"
            Rainstorm Brainstorm, Episode 1
            Time: late evening 
            Condition: heavy thunderstorm 
            Location: front porch (Austin, TX)
            Guests: none
            Topic: Education & Communication during CoViD-19 
            Narrative Abstraction: Ideas as Viruses; Viruses as Tools
            During a powerful thunderstorm in the early summer of Austin TX, host Morgan Booksh reflects on the challenges which CoViD-19 poses to the schooling of his younger siblings; one in middle school and the other in high school. His brainstorm meanders on to ponder the viral nature of how humans share information online. He wonders if we might be spiraling into an era of rapid transcendent evolution wherein we intentionally create foundational systems for something like a 'Brain Conscious' to accompany the 'Body Conscious.'
            Chuckling to himself, he laments the upcoming brain-storm that CoViD-19 will bring to our culture, and relishes the rainstorm unfolding presently in his midst. Thus, the titular episode of the RSBS is conceived.
            As his thoughts wind down for the evening he spots a bug on the wall taking shelter from the rain.
            it reminds him of something he saw in a movie once...
            END E01
            18 min
          • "Demon Semen" - Light Rainfall
            "Demon Semen" Rainstorm Brainstorm, Episode 2
            Time: afternoon
            Condition: overcast, into light showers
            Location: (Austin, TX)
            Guests: ChuckyBlk
            https://soundcloud.com/chucky-blk
            https://twitter.com/chuckyblk
            https://www.instagram.com/chucky.blk/
            Topic: Magic, Mysticism & Music on the patio with a friend
            Narrative Abstraction: Determining the theoretical characteristics of Demon ejaculate among other topics.
            Host Morgan Booksh ventures to his previous workplace patio to enjoy a pleasant bout of conversation with Charles Stephens (aka @ChuckyBlk) after his shift ends. Although the rain had not yet started, the smell of it was in the air. Morgan lights a cigarette as Charles brings up that the POTUS has unwittingly retweeted a hydroxychloroquine-pushing doctor who's also a believer in Demon Sperm. Upon multiple reassurances the story was not a joke, Morgan questions Charles about what Demon Semen would be like assuming Demons were real.
            The companions, both on the patio of a Magic: the Gathering shop, naturally find their way to discussing various black majiks, gnostic creation myths & demonic theories.
            The rain is gentle and steady; the two enjoy a rare summer breeze...
            END E2
            47 min

          About Rainstorm 🕉️ Brainstorm

          From the publisher's feed

          Whenever there's rain in Austin TX, host Morgan Booksh heads outside and records an episode!