Suburbural Tongue

I'm pumped for this episode! I know him better as Mr St. Clair, he was my history teacher in high school, and even though I was only in two of his classes, his love for teaching, history, and theatre has a major effect on my life. I was super excited to be able to host this episode at my apartment, this is only the second episode so far I've done that for. I hope you all enjoy!

Some Things We Talked About:

Dungeons and Dragons

"Brave New World" Aldous Huxley 

I took it off the beaten trail a bit with this one; I got together to talk with David and Riley who host a sports podcast, and I was definitely out of my comfort zone on the topics we discussed, especially with the UFC, but I think we got something special from it!

What a way to kick off the New Years! I loved getting to sit down with Andrew for this episode, he's been a good friend for quite a while now, so what better way to start off 2025. I hope you all enjoy!!

Some Things We Talked About:

Hello everybody! This week I talk to Kate Davis, my theatre director from high school, who has been a big inspiration in my creative life. Aptly, we spoke in a theatre, and hopefully that atmosphere carried over into our conversation. I had a great time talking with her and I hope you all will enjoy!

Some things we talked about:

“The Canterbury Tales" Geoffrey Chaucer

"Twelfth Night" Shakespeare

"Hamlet" Shakespeare

"She Kills Monsters" Qui Nguyen

Samuel Beckett

"Not I" Samuel Beckett

Bertolt Brecht

I talked with Christopher Orozco this week, also known as wizardillustrator online! He's a great artist and had wonderful insights all throughout the episode. I loved the way he was able to compress the poorly worded, quasi-complex ideas I was throwing at him into super digestable concepts and applications -- check him out at...

wizardillustrator on Instagram

wizardillustrator2 on Tiktok

and his projects at linktr.ee/wizardillustrator

Things We Brought Up Throughout the Episode

Bug Boys - Laura Knetzger

Chris' "Mythic Ink" project that he is revitalizing!

This is a seminal episode for the show - I talk to Mike Messina, a good friend of mine and owner of Chameleon Bookstore, whose work with the Johnstown Culture Crawl inspired me to start this podcast. This is one of the best (I love them all equally, but it's a good tagline)!!

Books We Mentioned:

The Bible, Colossians 3:23-24: "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving."

"The Good War" Studs Terkel

Welcome back to Suburbural Tongue! Strap in with some snacks for this episode, we hit the one hour mark! I loved getting to talk with Jeremy, he was a great host letting me come to his apartment to record this episode - I hope you all enjoy!

Some of the books we talk about (I think I missed a few):

The Gospel According To Luke

"Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail" Ray Dalio

"The Abundant Community" John McClain

"Ishmael" Daniel Quinn (I think this is what Jeremy was talking about, but he didn't give an author)

"Man's Search For Meaning" Dr. Viktor Frankl

"The New Jim Crow" Michelle Alexander

"Leaders Eat Last" Simon Sinek

"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" Malcolm X with Alex Haley

Malcolm Gladwell

"Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World" Adam Grant

"10% Happier" Dan Harris

This is one of my favorite episodes so far (that's a trick, they're all my favorite, but really, this one is super good)! I got to talk with Morgan Overton of the Pittsburgh Public Theater, CreatePA, as well as a solo art career, and political activist work; so needless to say, we had a lot of bases to cover, I hope you all enjoy!

Some of our interesting talking points to look into yourself:

   James Baldwin (author/activist)

   Pittsburgh Art Council - Creative Hive

   Belle Hooks (author/social critic)

   Jean Michel Basquiat's Essential Reading List:

        // Symbol Sourcebook - Henry Dreyfuss

        // Flash of the Spirit - Robert Farris Thompson

   August Wilson (playwright)

   Hozier “Butchered Tongue”

Autumn is here and so is another episode of Suburbural Tongue! In this one, I talked to Pamela Rossi-Keen who works with the Genesis Collective in Aliquippa, PA: an organization that helps local artists get funding and to get their work seen in public places. Pamela is also a big advocate for social and racial injustices, which we talk about in the episode as well.

Words to live by from Pamela:

"If you're surrounded by imagination, you start to trust your own imagination."

Back for another episode, this week with Phoenix Stratemeier of Morgainz Elite Cycle! Phoenix is a wonderful guy, his energy in this episode was very contagious, so much so that he might have just convinced me to switch gyms!

While editing this episode, I was reminded over and over of Dr. Viktor Frankl's philosophy, expressed in Man's Search for Meaning, which can be summed up beautifully with a line early in the book that I'll leave for you to think over; "Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."

Enjoy the episode!