Rancho Thatchmo

A couple of things about making stuff.

Contributors: Alexandra Tatarsky, Demi Vera, Olivia Rosenberg, Deenah Vollmer, Sharon Mashihi, John Cleater, Jennifer Doyle, Cali Dewitt, William Powhida, Rachel Perry Welty, David Gordon, Shannon Lucy, Cooper Vasquez.

A self portrait told in the negative told through other peoples songs, poems, stories and warnings about the host.

Contributors: Dave Sewelson, Tom Roe, Lee Keitz, Sharon Mashihi, Larry Clark, Synn Stern, Abby Walker, Sarah Sloat, Shephanie Boyce, Scott Phillips, (Teresa Caruso), Karen Crumley, Jen Fisher, Laurie Collyer, and Adam Marnie.

A general stew of the weighty issues we are all contending with in mid-quar.

Contributors: Arjun Ram Shrivatsa, Dave Sewelson, Elizabeth Ammerman, Rachel Martin, Debbie Pastor, Laurie Henzel, (Dana), Julia Nightingale, Danny Arnold, Warren Sloat, Dick Monroe, Erica Castle, Derekk Gardner, Luisa Opalesky, Jason Tallon, Amanda Daisy Lees.

Artful, absurd, pervy and pent up phone messages from the days of yore.

Contributors: Larry Clark, Chuck Alberts, Johnny Hoppe, Karen Crumley, Sharon Mashihi, Vicki Deger, Kate Stafford, Jean Paul Grund, Steve Fitch, (Teresa Caruso), Synn Stern, Jerry Brady, Steve Nyquist, (The Manchild), Steven Keats, Karen Schiff, Josh Elrod.

Kids stumble through songs. Adults make their case in and out of tune. Groups sing as an expression of joy in this episode.

Contributors: The Manchild, Watts guy, School of Making Thinking, Sharon Mashihi, Alexandra Tatarsky, Sophie Traub, Josephine Decker, Olivia Rosenberg, Sunita Prassad, Bread and Puppet, Ron Cohen, Shirley Jackson, Brian Dolphin, Irving Place, Ed Marcus Davis.

Folks ponder the how, where and why of this thing.

Contributors: (Jason Edward), Arjun Ram Shrivatsa, Hannah Buonaguro, Mandy Babirad, Amanda Daisy Lees, Derrek Gardner, Maggie Tully, Jason Tallon, The Cathedral of All Saints, Josh Elrod, Sharon Mashihi.

This episode explores the ways quarantine is affecting our minds through journals, self discovery notes, poetic introspection, a dispatch and a divorce sermon.

Contributors: Joe Kirshner, Sharon Mashihi, Mary Reilly, Leah Dworkin, Jen Fisher, Jason Tallon.

This inaugural episode of Rancho Thatchmo explores how we are spending our time in quarantine. People share about screen time, kid time, what we eat, what we drink, a bucket list and Covid conspiracies. This spoken word podcast happens at the juncture of field recording and oral history. Hosted by Thatcher Keats.

Contributors: (Monte Capoletti), Ted Gusek, Dylan Chavles, Jamie Fletcher, Maggie, Elizabeth Ammerman.

Rancho Thatchmo collects stories, poems and lists from a wide and diverse group of people to paint little portraits on weekly themes. This is where the Lomax Smithsonian recordings meet Giorno's Dial-A-Poem. Hosted and contexturalized by Thatcher Keats.

Contributors: Jamie Fletcher, Arjun Ram Shrivatsa, (Claude Zachary), Olivia Zoe Rosenberg, Dan Colen, Pheobe, Amanda Daisy Lees, Sharon Mashihi, Kaitlin Prest, Tim Foljahn, Karley Sciortino.