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Bourbon 'n BrownTownEp. 118 - The Wrap Up: "One Million Experiments" (2023) ft. Damon Williams & Daniel Kisslinger of Respair Production & MediaBrownTown brings back Damon A. Williams and Daniel Kisslinger of Respair Production & Media, a movement journalism and media hub creating and supporting the media needed to reshape culture toward liberation. The double duos discuss the creation, process, and impact of their half hour experimental documentary One Million Experiments (2023). Stewarded by Interrupting Criminalization and built out of AirGo's podcast series of the same name, the film showcases a collection of community-based safety projects that explore how we define and create wellness and reduce harm in a world without police and prisons. This is the inaugural episode of a new BnB...
2025-06-122h 44
AirGoEp 369 - Stanley Howard, Chicago Police Torture Survivor Behind Abolition of IL's Death PenaltyDame and Kiss have the honor and pleasure to talk with Stanley Howard, a survivor of torture at the hands of the Chicago Police Department and a brilliant force for justice in the struggles for both torture reparations and the abolition of the death penalty in IL. As a self-taught jailhouse lawyer Stanley created the Death Row 10, a group of torture survivors on death row who began the collective push for both their freedom and the end of state-sanctioned murder. Since getting out a little over a year ago, Stanley has been actively advocating for and supporting people on the...
2025-04-171h 12
AirGoEp 368 - W. Kamau Bell, Legendary Comedian and United Shades of America HostThe guys get to chop it up with legendary comedian, author, producer, and commentator W. Kamau Bell on this episode! A renowned standup and TV creator, Kamau has been guiding USians through the nuances, dark corners, and contradictions of our relationship with racial difference and power. For seven seasons, he was the host and executive producer of the five-time Emmy Award-winning CNN docuseries United Shades of America, and won a Peabody Award for his Showtime docuseries We Need To Talk About Cosby. He's back on the road doing standup across the country, including in Chicago on April 25 and 26, and he t...
2025-04-101h 09
AirGoEp 367 - Maya Schenwar & Kim Wilson, Abolitionist Parents and Editors of We Grow the World TogetherHow do our models of care and freedom inform, contradict, or help us understand what it means to raise young people? How does the experience of caring for young people fundamentally shift what we mean by abolition? You might be thinking "damn, those are good-ass questions–hopefully someone has compiled a beautiful anthology of writers and organizers reflecting on this!" If so, Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson have got you covered. Both longtime abolitionist organizers, media-makers, and writers, they are the co-editors of We Grow the World Together, a new anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition. Featuring essays from...
2025-04-031h 36
AirGoEp 366 - Trina Reynolds-Tyler, Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Covering Missing Women & Police MisconductOn this episode we popped over to the crib of AirGo fam Trina Reynolds-Tyler, who was last on the show back in 2019 (https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2019/4/25/episode-185-trina-reynolds-tyler). Over these past six years she has continued to be a vibrant, impactful force for justice and liberation in the city–from her work contributing the People's Grab'n'Go during the pandemic to her PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING project "Missing in Chicago," a seven-part investigative series from the Invisible Institute and City Bureau that reveals how Chicago police have routinely violated state law and police procedure, delaying and mishandling missing person cases. The report revealed a...
2025-03-2054 min
AirGoEp 365 - Adom Getachew, Scholar of Decolonization and Worldmaking in 20th Century AfricaWhat happens when an international order comes to an end? What gets built in its shadow? This week's guest, Adom Getachew, digs deep with us into the attempts at worldmaking that were led by anticolonial leaders in the mid-20th century, who fought for different visions of liberation as they fought to dismantle Europe's colonial empires on the African continent and across the Caribbean. We break down what we can learn from these attempts at worldmaking, the range of different possibilities that were on the table, and how we might hold their determination to upend structural power in our work...
2025-03-131h 20
AirGoEp 364 - Fighting Through the Overwhelm with Asha Ransby-SpornAirGo is back, and we're kicking off our 2025 season by welcoming our pal Asha Ransby-Sporn back to the stu. Asha recently published an essay entitled "In the Face of Overwhelm," which serves as a sobering and pointed analysis of how we as a liberatory movement can make sense of and move through the inundation of structural dismantling and violence that the Trump/Musk conglomerate is reigning down on us everyday. We talk about what we can learn from our opposition, the value of studying those we disagree with, the complicated role of a movement home, and much more....
2025-03-061h 11
AirGoEp 363 - Divest From Despair: EOY Check-in with the Respair CrewWe get topical with our last episode of the year. Dame and Kiss welcome a couple other members of the Respair squad. The crew talks about a lil’ Luigi Mangione gossip, the inspiring abolitionist projects we’ve seen on the road this year, how Trump’s election win has impacted us all, and much much more. SHOW NOTES Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio Find One Million Experiments on tour! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to your community by hitting us up - contact@respairmedia.com CREDITS Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger Associate Producer - Rocí...
2024-12-191h 40
AirGoEp 362 - Movement Journalism And The Fall Of Legacy Media, live @ Socialism Conference 2024We're excited to bring you this convo from this year's Socialism Conference, held in September 2024 here in Chicago! The last few years of political turmoil have unearthed the longstanding lack of public trust in the news media. As journalists who work in, outside and against legacy media, we had the opportunity to be in convo with some brilliant peers about the long and deep legacy of movement journalism that expands transformative, abolitionist, and antiracist movement building through truthful reporting. The session was captained by friend of the pod Lewis Wallace, whose book The View from Somewhere is a must-read about...
2024-12-1252 min
AirGoEp 360 - Rashid Khalidi, Historian Of The Hundred Years' War On PalestineOn this episode, the guys turn to legendary historian Rashid Khalidi to help parse and understand how we got here–a moment fourteen months into the escalation of genocidal violence perpetrated on the people and land of Palestine. The author of many books, including most recently The Hundred Years' War On Palestine, Prof. Khalidi talks about how he moves between the mind and body while witnessing and fighting against the destruction of his people, what he's learned from those who have engaged with his work, and how we must understand this escalation in the context of colonial violence and anticolonial st...
2024-11-141h 08
AirGoEp 359 - Maurice Mitchell, Electoral Alternative & Director Of Working Families PartyIn the fraught last week before the 2024 election, the guys search for some nuance with Maurice Mitchell, the National Director of the Working Families Party. A nationally-recognized social movement strategist, visionary leader in the Movement for Black Lives, and community organizer, Maurice breaks down the vision and approach of WFP’s strategy to electoral organizing and helps us parse the value and limitations of elections as a component of transformative change. We also learn that he is the cousin of the legendary MF DOOM–just a lil fun fact for y’all! SHOW NOTES Learn more about the WFP - https...
2024-10-311h 08
AirGoEp 358 - Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Reparations Reconsiderer And Liberation PhilosopherThe guys welcome Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, a brilliant philosopher and movement thought leader, to the pod. Táíwò is the author of Reconsidering Reparations and Elite Capture, two staples of the emergent abolitionist canon that have helped shape emergent movement ideology over the last decade. He talks with Dame and Kiss about who we mean when we say "elite," how the debate around identity politics obscures the ways power is being consolidated against us, and how we all are constantly philosophizing in our work as changemakers and living, breathing humans. SHOW NOTES Get his books - http...
2024-10-171h 10
AirGoEp 357 - Talking Chicago Housing And The Tenant Trap w/ Alejandra & Maya Of Injustice WatchThe guys talk with Maya Dukmasova and Alejandra Cancino from Injustice Watch about their new multipart investigation The Tenant Trap. The series, which is available now and linked below, found that tenants are regularly facing eviction and informal displacement at buildings with histories of serious safety violations, while the court system puts property rights above the rights of the people who live there. We talk with the dynamic investigative duo about their learnings, the two-tiered system of eviction and foreclosure court proceedings, and some pathways to address this chronic disposal and disregard of renters across Chicago. SHOW NOTES Dig into...
2024-10-101h 12
AirGoEp 356 - Yohance Lacour, Award-Winning Podcast Host & Reflective Chicago VoiceThe guys keep it within the medium, chopping it up with award-winning journalist and storyteller Yohance Lacour. Yohance is the host of You Didn’t See Nothin’, a Peabody and Pulitzer-winning podcast about a 1997 hate crime on the South Side of Chicago that introduced him to the world of investigative journalism, examining how its ripple effects have shaped Lacour’s own life over the past quarter-century. We talk about his relationship to the wonderful and challenging medium of audio, what he’s learned from bringing this project into the world, and a slew of Chicago gems that help us all see our...
2024-10-031h 35
AirGoEp 355 - Lester Spence, Hustle-Knocker And Scholar Of Black NeoliberalismThe guys lock in with Prof. Lester Spence, whose decades of scholarship about Black politic-building, hip-hop, and the sociopolitical turn toward neoliberalism help all of us make sense of the contradictions our culture, political system, and economy pretend don't exist. He's the author of Stare In the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics (2011), and Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics (2015). A longtime professor at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Lester breaks down how the turn toward neoliberalism affects all of us, the ways hip hop is still a battlefield for transformation of our culture, and...
2024-09-191h 27
AirGoEp 354 - John Perkins, Economic Hitman And Forging Force For A Life EconomyOn this episode, the guys welcome writer John Perkins. Best known for his politically and socially significant text Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, in which he describes playing a role in a process of economic colonization of Third World countries on behalf of what he portrays as a cabal of corporations, banks, and the United States government, John discusses how we can forge new systems of being and creating that prioritize long-term benefits for all life on the planet. He also breaks down the five questions that can help each of us as we figure out how to take...
2024-09-121h 03
AirGoEp 353 - Eric Williams, Silver Room Owner And Community JewelSometimes a simple title doesn't even come close to encapsulating who someone is or why they are important to the fabric of our city. This episode's guest Eric Williams is definitely one of those people. He is the owner of The Silver Room, a Chicago institution and brand whose mission is to create a global community through art and culture, as well as the owner of delicious South Side restaurant Bronzeville Winery. He talks with the guys about creating the iconic Silver Room Block Party (one of the most remarkable cultural gatherings in Chicago history), his long path from sidewalk...
2024-09-051h 16
AirGoEp 352 - Rev. Tanya Lozano Washington, Holder Of Health For The HoodThis episode's guest is Rev. Tanya Lozano Washington, the co-founder of community health and care organization Healthy Hood Chicago. Tanya talks about how she came to understand the links between personal and communal health, the lineages she stewards as a member of one of Chicago's most impactful movement families, and the complicated relationships that generations of sacrifice to liberation create. SHOW NOTES Get in tune with Healthy Hood - https://www.healthyhoodchi.com/ Come to a Sunday Session - https://www.healthyhoodchi.com/sunday-sessionz Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio Find One Million Experiments on tour! - www.respairmedia.com...
2024-08-291h 01
AirGoEp 351 - Sheila Bedi, Lawyer For LiberationAs Chicago gears up for the 2024 Democratic National Convention, we get in tune with movement lawyer and professor Sheila Bedi, who breaks down some of the changes in CPD policy that Chicagoans engaging in direct action should know about. We also talk about the beautiful, challenging, and important ways Sheila has provided care and protection for both organizers facing state repression and the family members of those who have been murdered by the police. Plus, some laughs through it all! SHOW NOTES NLG HOTLINE for DNC protest legal support - (872) 465 4244 Thread of support materials from NLG - https://x.com...
2024-08-1558 min
AirGoEp 350 - State Senator Robert Peters, Champion of Transformative IncrementalismIn this episode of AirGo, we sit down with State Senator Robert Peters for a deep dive into the current political landscape and the transformative initiatives he's championing. Senator Peters explores how he contributed to the abolition of cash bond in IL, his commitment to getting tangible policy passed in contribution to movement, and the approach of transformative incrementalism that can make participating in legislative process fruitful and worthwhile for those fighting for liberation. SHOW NOTES Get in tune with Robert - https://www.instagram.com/robertjamespeters Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio Find One Million Experiments on tour...
2024-08-081h 14
AirGoEp 349 - Manasseh, Singer Of Circles And SmilesSinger, songwriter, and dreamweaver Manasseh joins Dame and Kiss for this freewheeling kickback of an interview. A heartfelt vocalist with pipes that pierce through, Manasseh shares some vulnerable experiences that deromanticize the artist's life and show the day-to-day challenges of pursuing a life built around your craft. SHOW NOTES Get in tune with Manasseh - https://linktr.ee/yomanasseh Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio Find One Million Experiments on tour! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to your community by hitting us up - contact@respairmedia.com CREDITS Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger Associate...
2024-08-0157 min
AirGoEp 348 - Live with Akenya and Page May from 2019 (Dig in the Crates)This episode we dig in the AirGo crates back to fall of 2019, when we had the joy of hosting a live episode of AirGo with the brilliant organizer Page May and multihyphenate musical superstar Akenya, who will be performing this weekend at the always chill and fun Pitchfork Festival right here in Chicago. Enjoy this goofy and wonderful live episode (featuring a cameo from a newborn kitten) and come through both Pitchfork and Akenya's official aftershow 7/18 at Constellation. SHOW NOTES Akenya's Pitchfork After-Show - https://www.instagram.com/p/C8uIwakg-No/?img_index=1 Lock in with Akenya - https://www...
2024-07-181h 12
AirGoEp 347 - Ashley O'Shay, Unapologetic DirectorGrounded visionary and dope filmmaker Ashley O'Shay joins Dame and Kiss on this episode of AirGo. Ashley is the director of Unapologetic, an impactful and loving feature documentary capturing two fierce abolitionists whose upbringing and experiences shape their activism and views on Black liberation. The film premiered at the BlackStar Film Festival, broadcast on PBS POV, and was shortlisted for the International Documentary Association Awards. She's currently working on Southmont Drive, a film reflecting on the legacy of her family from Tuskegee, Alabama that's centered on her late grandfather and the 17 children he raised. She talks about the process of...
2024-07-111h 33
AirGoEp 346 - Senite, The.BlkRoom Co-Founder and Emergent StarThe guys head over to The.BlkRoom, a Chicago-based organization and co-creation studio facilitating opportunities for BIPOC artists and creatives across the city, to chat with the effervescent and protagonistic Senite! The vocalist, songwriter, and co-founder of this transformative community space talks about the grief rituals she's been moving through, the ways that exploitation in the music scene pushed her to step away for a while, and how she's finding her way back to the joy of creating. SHOW NOTES Tap in with The.BlkRoom - https://www.theblkroom.org/ Follow Senite - https://instagram.com/_senite Follow AirGo...
2024-07-0456 min
AirGoEp 345 - Live @ Stokely: The Unfinished RevolutionThe guys hop on stage at the Court Theatre in Hyde Park for a live conversation with writer Nambi E. Kelley and director Tasia A. Jones about their new play Stokely: The Unfinished Revolution. The production covers the life of visionary movement thinker and organizer Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture, whose work spans from the early work of SNCC across the southern US to decades of Pan-Africanist socialist organizing on the African continent. The creators behind the play talk about the frames they built for the story, the ways that Stokely's drive has impacted their lives, and the healing potential of...
2024-06-2027 min
AirGoEp 344 - Morgan Elise Johnson, Movement Journalism Leader & Co-Founder of The TriibeWe're joined by bonafide genius and bonafide friend Morgan Elise Johnson! Morgan's the publisher and cofounder of The Triibe, a digital media platform that is reshaping the narrative of Black Chicago and giving ownership back to the people. Their original works in journalism and documentary, alongside creative writing and video, capture the multifaceted essence of the Black experience in pursuit of truth and liberation. Morgan talks about the lessons she's learned pursuing acts of journalism in a media landscape that doesn't center integrity, the ways she's pushed herself and her colleagues to stay grounded in their values, and how she...
2024-06-131h 16
AirGoEp 343 - Dylan Rodriguez, Pt. 2 - Insurgent Scholar-ActivistNOTE - this is the second part of our convo with Dylan Rodriguez. Hop back to the previous episode to catch the first half of the convo! The AirGo crew is joined by a longtime thought leader in the global movement for abolition, Dylan Rodriguez. Dylan is a teacher, scholar, organizer and collaborator who has maintained a day job as a Professor at the University of California-Riverside since 2001. His lifework focuses on liberationist, anticolonial, and abolitionist confrontations with the antiblack, colonial, and white supremacist violences that permeate the ongoing Civilization project. A founding committee member of transformative organization Critical Resistance...
2024-06-0658 min
AirGoEp 342 - Dylan Rodriguez, Pt. 1 - Insurgent Scholar-ActivistThe AirGo crew is joined by a longtime thought leader in the global movement for abolition, Dylan Rodriguez. Dylan is a teacher, scholar, organizer and collaborator who has maintained a day job as a Professor at the University of California-Riverside since 2001. His lifework focuses on liberationist, anticolonial, and abolitionist confrontations with the antiblack, colonial, and white supremacist violences that permeate the ongoing Civilization project. A founding committee member of transformative organization Critical Resistance, Dylan dives deep into the necessary work of insurgency, points to the ways that higher education feeds the colonial project, and provides some wisdom that we find...
2024-05-301h 06
AirGoEp 341 - Nicole Humphrey of NAHCreate, Advocate and Collaborator for Chicago's CreativityThis episode's guest is Nicole Humphrey, a thoughtful and consistent figure in the city's creative arts scene for the past decade. Nicole is an advocate and ambassador to the Chicago arts scene, and a talented artist in her own right too. She's the founder of NAHCreate, a marketing and strategy firm that offers innovative solutions for creative marketing and measuring impact through collaboration. She chops it up about the value of showing up as a volunteer, what she's learned moving in and out of different spaces with the same ethic of care, her new podcast Positioning Your Passion, and much...
2024-05-231h 07
AirGoEp 340 - Frsh Waters, PIVOT Gang Deacon and West Side LegendThe guys head to LA to talk with rapper, community presence, and Pivot Gang champion Frsh Waters. Frsh brings his whole self to the conversation, shares some remarkable Pivot stories from the early days of one of hip hop's best groups, and reflects on how incarceration shifted his relationship to community, artistry, and himself. SHOW NOTES Follow Frsh - https://www.instagram.com/frshwaters/ Listen to his music -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_1aeMCrxc0 Come through his 5/22 concert! - https://lh-st.com/shows/05-22-2024-kingtrey-frsh-waters/ Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio Find One Million Experiments on tour...
2024-05-161h 13
AirGoEp 339 - Kahari Rastafari, Visual Artist and Familial CollaboratorThe AirGo crew is joined by pal and community stalwart Kahari Rastafari, a dope visual artist and wonderful soul who has been a participant in Chicago's creative and social movement communities for years. He is a part of the Mural Moves Paint crew which has designed and installed many large scale murals over the city of Chicago, and is a founder of Natty Bwoy Bikes & Boards, a free weekly youth program that leads and teaches skateboarding and basic bicycle mechanics to kids on the South Side. His art practice mainly comes from growing up in a creative household where visual...
2024-05-091h 03
AirGoEp 338 - Angel Bat Dawid, Black American Music OracleAirGo gets interdimensional this episode with the multispacial multihyphenate Angel Bat Dawid, a Black American Composer, Improviser, Clarinetist, Pianist, Vocalist, Educator and DJ. An unabashed and unapologetic creative force in Chicago and beyond, Angel is a bandleader and performer in the tradition of experimental Black American music. She chats with the guys about ownership of lineages, dissonance on and off the mic, and how to move through the limitations of this-here three-dimensional realm. SHOW NOTES Connect with Angel - https://www.instagram.com/angeltheoracle/?hl=en Follow AirGo - http://instagram.com/airgoradio Find One Million Experiments on tour...
2024-04-251h 24
AirGoEp 337 - Reginald Dwayne Betts Live!This week's episode features a convo with poet and writer Reginald Dwayne Betts, recorded live at the Logan Center in Chicago. For more than twenty-years, he has used his poetry and essays to explore the world of prison and the effects of violence and incarceration on American society. The author of a memoir and three collections of poetry, he has transformed his latest collection of poetry, the American Book Award winning Felon, into a solo theater show that explores the post incarceration experience and lingering consequences of a criminal record through poetry, stories, and engaging with the timeless and transcendental...
2024-04-1824 min
AirGoEp 336 - Rabbi Brant Rosen, Jewish Anti-Zionist Spiritual and Political North StarThis week's guest, Rabbi Brant Rosen, is the founding rabbi of Tzedek Chicago, a "Jewish congregation based on core values of justice, equity and solidarity." In the almost-decade of the reconstructionist congregation's existence, Tzedek has worked to build a Judaism beyond nationalism that centers solidarity, nonviolence, and spiritual freedom. Brant is also co-founder of Jewish Voice for Peace's Rabbinical Council, and a long-time spiritual and political leader in the struggle against the structural violence made possible by flattening Jewish life in service of white supremacy at home and in Israel/Palestine. He talks about his path to his politic, the...
2024-04-1159 min
AirGoEp 335 - Robin DG Kelley, Movement Mentor and Brilliant Scholar-Organizer, ReturnsThe guys welcome back movement mentor and brilliant scholar-organizer Robin DG Kelley back to the show. Robin is a Professor of American History at UCLA and the author of seminal texts Hammer & Hoe, Freedom Dreams, and other offerings to the radical canon. He joins the show to talk about his personal path to his politic, the ebbs and flows of movement, and the reality of Palestinian solidarity in the belly of empire. SHOW NOTES Bring One Million Experiments to your space by hitting us up at contact@respairmedia.com! - https://www.respairmedia.com/one-million-experiments Subscribe to AirGo - https...
2024-04-041h 13
AirGoEp 334 - Shawnee Dez, Community Luminary and Vibrant Musical Artist, ReturnsThe AirGo stu is blessed by the presence of community luminary and vibrant musical artist Shawnee Dez. Shawnee, who recently released her full-length project Moody Umbra, talks about finding the trust to show all of her creative impulses, the joy of playing for her people, the unexpected power of her project the Black JoyRide, and much more! SHOW NOTES Listen to Moody Umbra now - https://unitedmasters.com/m/63d1c88150866754bd51dcf6 Link with the Black JoyRide - https://www.instagram.com/blackjoyride/ Follow Shawnee - https://www.instagram.com/shawnee_dez/ Bring One Million Experiments to your space...
2024-03-281h 10
AirGoEp 333 - Prentis Hemphill, Voice for Embodiment and Politicized HealerWe're fangirling pretty damn hard over here because we have the one and only Prentis Hemphill on this week's episode! Prentis is a therapist, somatics teacher and facilitator, political organizer, writer and the founder of The Embodiment Institute who has been a centering and leading voice in the work to create new pathways to healing conflict and harm. Their work is to disrupt the complacency and comfort of mainstream healing and therapeutic models and infuse what we know of justice, repair, and accountability into our deepest work of transformation. So, you know, kinda the type of thing we stay talking...
2024-03-2142 min
AirGoEp 332 - Kennedy Bartley, Don Dada of Chicago Progressive PoliticsThe Don Dada is on the air! We're thrilled to be rocking with Kennedy Bartley, who has been a steadfast leader through Chicago's progressive political victories as the Executive Director of United Working Families. Kennedy breaks down her Waukegan backstory, how she imagines electoral work as part of the fight for a public good, and a whole lot more. SHOW NOTES Find your Chicago election voting site - https://chicagoelections.gov/voting/your-voter-information Kennedy on Through the Portal - https://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/through-the-portal-episode-4-grassroots-organizing-with-kennedy-bartley United Working Families - https://www.unitedworkingfamilies.org/ Bring One Million Experiments to your space...
2024-03-141h 07
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersHelp This Garden Grow with Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger of AirGoWe were at the Winter Garden of the Harold Washington Library this month for the launch of “Help This Garden Grow,” a new docuseries that tells the story of Hazel Johnson, a visionary of the Environmental Justice movement and a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side of Chicago. “Help This Garden Grow” is a project of Respair, a liberatory ecosystem hub brought to life by an entire community, and spearheaded by my mentors in media, the visionaries Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger. Respair Production and Media (RPM) creates and builds media projects in partnership wit...
2023-08-2448 min
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AirGo#GoBack - Daniel Kay Hertz in 2016Each month this year, we're going to revisit an episode from the 200+ episodes in the AirGo Archives and bring that conversation back to the forefront. This month, we're revisiting our convo with author, urban planner, and policy maker Daniel Kay Hertz from 2016. Since we recorded this episode in Daniel's old apartment, DKH has become the Policy Director for the Chicago Department of Housing(!). He's also still a cutie-pie. Follow DKH on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanielKayHertz Rate and review AirGo on Apple Podcasts: geo.itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/air…016530091?mt=2Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio
2020-05-281h 11
Bourbon 'n BrownTownEp. 34 - Movement Media ft. Damon Williams & Daniel Kisslinger of AirGoBrownTown chops it up with Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger of AirGo Podcast about all things independent media-making, humanizing through subject-to-subject dialogue, and making equitable space in Chicago’s creative communities and social movements. Let’s get meta. Originally recorded April 22, 2019. The two duos cover the impetus of both podcasts as well as some emerging strategies and experiences of growth. AirGo elaborates on their humble beginnings, physical/digital platforms they’ve traversed, and their fake-to-real beef with the FCC while BrownTown breaks down episode 8.3 and their working relationships. The gang unpacks the power dynamics inherent in our...
2019-06-071h 46
AirGoEp 168 - #SurvivingLoudly: Damon and Daniel talk harm and accountabilitySpurred by the Surviving R. Kelly docuseries, many women in the creative community here in Chicago have brought forth memories and allegations of sexual assault, rape, and sexual violence by men in the scene. Damon and Daniel talk about the moment, what we've learned, how they've processed and understand their respective responsibilities, and some potential next steps. Recorded 1/7/19 in ChicagoFollow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to your community by hitting us up - contact@respairmedia.com CREDITSHosts & Exec. Producers...
2019-01-081h 11
DYNASTY PODCASTSChicagoverse 170 - Daniel Kisslinger x Damon Williams (AirGo Radio)Dynasty Podcasts
Chicagoverse 170 - Daniel Kisslinger x Damon Williams (AirGo Radio)
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Chicago broadcasters Daniel Kisslinger and Damon Williams of radio show and podcast AirGo visit Dynasty Podcasts to delve into all things broadcast, podcast, and Chicago music.
The radio and podcasts hosts speak on their respective broadcast backgrounds, with Williams offering insight into his political activism work, as well. The duo reveal how the AirGo project first came together, with the pair wanting to create a community driven conversation showcasing Chicago talent, which brought them to WHPK 88.5 FM, University of Chicago's college station...
2017-10-1537 min
Dynasty Podcasts: ChicagoverseChicagoverse 170 - Daniel Kisslinger x Damon Williams (AirGo Radio)Dynasty Podcasts
Chicagoverse 170 - Daniel Kisslinger x Damon Williams (AirGo Radio)
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Chicago broadcasters Daniel Kisslinger and Damon Williams of radio show and podcast AirGo visit Dynasty Podcasts to delve into all things broadcast, podcast, and Chicago music.
The radio and podcasts hosts speak on their respective broadcast backgrounds, with Williams offering insight into his political activism work, as well. The duo reveal how the AirGo project first came together, with the pair wanting to create a community driven conversation showcasing Chicago talent, which brought them...
2017-10-1537 min
AirGoEp 70 - Damon & Daniel Check InBecause of a last-minute cancellation, Damon and Daniel take the opportunity to check in with each other and share some ideas and stories, from sphinxes to imagining new futures to Daniel's contentious dilemma about a moose antler. Recorded live 12/8/16 at WHPK 88.5FM Music from this week's show: I Need to Know - @kanyewest Cha Cha - @BigbabyDRAM Zombies (feat. @karifaux) - @childishgambino Stranger - Paul Simon, @donnietrumpet, @alldayrecessFollow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to your community by hitting us up - contact@respairmedia...
2016-12-0943 min
AirGoEp 61 - Daniel KyriDaniel Kyri is an actor and space-builder who is the cofounder of The Dojo, a radically inclusive performance, art, and community space in Pilsen. Built in principles of communal accountability and free expression, the Dojo has carved a beautiful, slapdash space for the city's turnup. In addition to his work at the Dojo, Daniel has acted on stages across the city, including The Second City and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Recorded live 10/6/16 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago Music from this week's show: A Little Soul - Pete RockFollow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio Find us live...
2016-10-0758 min
AirGoEp 56 - Daniel Kay HertzWhy are your house, block, and city the way that they are? Daniel Kay Hertz has some ideas, and he's excited to share them with you. Hertz is an urban planner and Chicagoan who breaks down and reshapes housing and transportation policy in ways that illuminate how this city works, and often doesn't work. Get your crash course with the sexiest AirGo episode of all time. Recorded 8/25/16 in Chicago, IL Music from this week's show: #1 - @Lefty_LooseyFollow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us...
2016-08-251h 07