Maggie Ogle is a movement practitioner receiving her MFA in Dance at CSULB. Together we chat about our dance journeys, artistry, and choreographic practices.

In this episode, Ricky and Ryanna discuss creativity, the arts, and how to live "all with heart".

You can find Ryanna's podcast at https://open.spotify.com/show/3f0RJyWlDvkcJwWGLTyicx?si=77e4dcdc4d3b4f25 and her website for All With Heart at https://allwithheart.com/

You can watch the dance performance that Ryanna and discussed at https://youtu.be/k2I8sNadfj4?si=SWU0hY_CjxXvBsd0

Mr. Ricky revisits a conversation with his first repeat guests of the podcast! Suri, Abi, and Arianna talk with Mr. Ricky about their reflections about middle school, and their upcoming plans for their high school careers.

In this episode, Ricky responds to some of the recent Hip-hop conundrums, including the 2024 Grammys, Killer Mike, Andre 3000's flute album, Lil Dicky, Yasiin Bey's opinions on Drake, and many more.

Apologies for the worst camera angle in this podcast's history.

In this episode, Ricky dives into the most important Hip-hop song of 2015.

This podcast series is inspired by the book "The Rap Yearbook" by Shea Serrano.

In this episode, Ricky shares some summer reflections, excuses, and some direction for the podcast in this next season.

Jessi Pontillas is a middle school dance teacher. She is an alumni from UCLA dance and Versastyle. Jessi and Ricky talk about their paths to becoming educators, as well as some of the challenges and joys that come with teaching dance to middle schoolers.

In this episode, Ricky sits down on a video call with educator, author, and advocate Isabel Brown. Mrs. Brown is the founder of Brown Crayon Advocacy (https://www.browncrayonadvocacy.org), an educational advocacy organization. She is also the author of "Advocacy ABCs: An Elementary Guide to Self Advocacy". You can order her book on Amazon, and you can find some instances of the services she provides on her Tiktok @isetheadvocate .

In this episode, Ricky sits down with three of his graduating 8th graders. Together they discuss what they've learned throughout their middle school experience, how dance class went for them this year, and what they're looking forward to in high school.