Jordana and Sean Williams (a director and an actor/musician/audio engineer respectively) are two of the creative forces behind Gideon Media, a production company focused on crafting riveting science-fiction and horror stories for the audio drama space. Their current project is the binge-worthy science-fiction podcast “Give Me Away” (written by past Radio Zamunda guest Mac Rogers). All we can say is that you need get that ‘ish in your earholes right now. Oh and when you listen, you may even recognize the voice of Radio Zamunda’s own Ato! But back to Jordana and Sean… This conversation gave us… as the kids say… Life. There is a pragmatic purity in their relationship that fertilizes not only their art, but also each other. It’s simple, beautiful, honest and -may we argue- the engine that drives their exquisite brand of story-telling. Please enjoy this fantastically inspiring conversation. A little taste… “You can say that you’re any number of things, but eventually how you spend your time is the truth of your identity.”-Jordana Williams.
PS. No Mac Rogers were harmed during the making of this podcast.
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Music by:
“I'm the Blood” - Boy Deluxe
“Being Alive” - Stephen Sondheim
“She Blinded Me with Science” - Thomas Dolby
“Summer Wave” - Johnny Borgos, Leo Coltrane
Perry Klebahn and Jeremy Utley are adjunct professors and Co-Directors of Executive Education at Standford's d.school. Together they teach "Leading Disruptive Innovation" which is described as a course "that teaches the coaching and leadership skills needed to drive good design process in groups." As potentially prosaic as that sounds, their methodology is quite iconoclast. Gone are the staid business plans and drab Powerpoint presentations traditionally used to motivate entrepreneurship. Perry and Jeremy are looking to inspire. More to the point, they are looking to facilitate and cultivate inspiration as a discipline in order to unlock the creativity that exists in all of us. Afterall creativity is not magic. It is simply a solution to a problem. The solution can be anything from a novel to a song to the Theory of Relativity or maybe even a pair of innovative snowshoes... Join us for a wide-ranging and truly inspiring conversation.
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https://www.jeremyutley.design/
https://dschool.stanford.edu/executive-education/dbootcamp
Music featured in this episode:
Blackstar - "Astronomy (8th Light)”
Bob Dylan - "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
Black Crowes and Jimmy Page - "What Is And What Should Never Be"
Postal Service - "Such Great Heights"
We’ve got a real one for you. OG guest Cassie Flynn (Episode 26 “What to do in a Prison in Tuvalu”) is the head of the United Nations Development Promise initiative. She's also one of the founders of the crowd funding community organizing site, IOBY (In Our Back Yards). “I spend a lot of time in rooms with those little translators in your ear listening to people negotiate and discuss how we deal with the climate crisis…” Yeah no big deal but Cassie is on the frontline in the battle against the single greatest threat to life on Earth. How’s it going? We’re not going to lie… It’s grim. We’re screwed. But there is hope… Cassie and her colleagues are making strides in figuring out ways to make climate change resonate with people. A couple hints. Baseball, cocktails and storytelling… “We need a renaissance…” says Cassie… We’re so lucky to have Cassie in this fight. Join us for a fascinating conversation.
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Links for Cassie: https://ioby.org/ IOBY (In Our Back Yards)
Music featured in this episode:
D'Angelo - "Ain't That Easy”
EMEFE - "Sun Spat"
Childish Gambino - "42.26"
Amy Winehouse - "Me & Mrs. Jones"
"What to do in a Prison in Tuvalu"
This episode we talk to the Cassie Flynn who's job involves no less than saving the world. Yup. Tune in... It gets fascinating.
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Links for Cassie:
Website
IOBY (In Our Back Yards)
Music featured in this episode:
Pimps of Joytime - "Dance Cardia (feat. Rubblebucket)”
Zach Winters - "If the Sun is Shining"
Alex Cuba - "Yo Sé Quién Soy"
Emefe - "Sun Spat"
“Maybe we can roll out/maybe never grow up/maybe you can be mine for a lifetime/Come a little closer/let me hear your secrets/tell me in a whisper/that i’m your favorite weakness… “ 'Beginning of the End' -Boy Deluxe
Listening to Boy Deluxe is like finding yourself in a dark enchanted forest. Drew Murray’s beats are thick and massive like old growth tree trunks. The ominous low end rumbles like the growl of a mythic beast- just out of sight. It all feels huge and deep and dangerous… Maybe too dangerous were it not for your guide, Hope Simpson, flitting through the murky sonic twilight like a folkloric will-o’-the-wisps. She’s holding your hand and keeping you close as she leads you through the lush aural underbrush. Her voice is paradoxically quiet and powerful; chaste and bawdy… And always vulnerable. Always intimate. It’s like she’s telling you alone a secret…
“Scratch at the surface/stay out of sight/hidden inside of it/afraid of the light…” 'Ashes' -Boy Deluxe
Join us a we talk art, intimacy and collaboration with these two fascinating humans.
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Follow Boy Deluxe on instagram @BoyDeluxe_
Check out their new EP “I Woke Up Like This Again” on Spotify
Also check out the video for their single "Bundles"
Music by Boy Deluxe:
“Ride High”
“Weird Night”
“Spooky”
“Bundles”
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“Blackness isn’t about exactness, it’s about knowing… So that we can remember.” “Your home is wherever you plant your feet and your feet are imbued with the power of our ancestors…” These are just two out of the multitude of jewels dropped by our next guest Danny Dunson; an art historian, curator, writer and one of the brothers behind the @LegacyBros instagram account (follow it right now). Danny’s passion centers on the art and artists of the Diaspora. In 2020 he initiated “Legacy Brothers Lab” a global arts residency which grants endowments and mentorship to develop budding artists in places like Ghana, Morocco, South Africa, Senegal, Haiti and Brazil. Danny works to center the art and history of the Diaspora on its own, and entirely independent of the ubiquitous Eurocentric construct. We can’t stress this enough, Danny wore us out with his brilliant observations and whip smart humor. He took us on a journey of discovery and failure, rebirth and redemption. We came away stunned and honored to be in his presence. Also, we want him to be our personal interior decorator. Oh and our stylist. This dude is just dope. Tune in. #thedopeshit
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Music
“All I Ever Wanted” -The Black Keys
“Nnipa Rebre” -C.K. Mann
“Both Sides, Now” -Joni Mitchell
“Mississippi Goddamn (Live)' -Nina Simone
“The music takes off… Your soul takes off… Your spirit takes off with the music…” says actor and orchestral conductor Damon Gupton recalling the moment he heard John Williams' “Theme from Superman“ as a child. He was hooked on classical music from then on. Detroit born and raised, Damon (like Superman) may as well have been a lone alien from a strange distant planet as he pursued Stravinsky and Bernstein while his contemporaries sought LL and New Edition. Oh and he’s a hell of an actor too. Join us for a fascinating journey in art, passion, and finding the true authentic self.
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Music
“Places and Spaces” -Donald Byrd
“Theme from Superman (Concert Version)” -John Williams
“Solea” -Miles Davis
“Claire De Lune” -Kamasi Washington
"Under the Tuscan Gun”
“I’m so f*cked up I spend my life thinking: 'What if I’ve already died and I haven’t realized it yet?’” says Tess Rafferty, TV writer and author of the new novel “Under the Tuscan Gun.” Delightful and hilarious, "Under the Tuscan Gun" is a delicious Agatha Christie meets Nora Ephron ‘Whodunit’ set in fervently romantic Tuscany (available right now on Amazon). The novel is- to which Ato can personally attest- a perfect escape from the current galactic level of f*ckery that is our present day. Speaking of “the galactic level of f*ckery that is our present day," Tess wrote and performed the viral video “Aftermath 2016” which can only be described as a withering, dead-eyed, and frightfully prophetic polemic written and filmed a mere 48 hours after the election of our first orange president. She calls it like she sees it and we’re really, really glad she’s on our side. Tune in on all your favorite podcast platforms.
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Follow Tess on Twitter and Instagram @TessRafferty
Check her website at www.tessrafferty.com
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Music
“1918” -Ghost of Vroom, Mike Doughty, Andrew Livingston
“Can’t We Be Friends” -Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
“Volare” -Dean Martin
“Can’t Fool Me” -Bad Rabbits
“…Point B”
“I have a huge sweet tooth but I don’t like sweet things…” This enigmatic and off the cuff quip from Zabe Bent manages to unlock, or rather connect seemingly disparate ideas around transportation, urban planning, baking, storytelling and brown butter blondies in part two of our ranging discussion. We discovered some thangs y’all! Oh and Ato can’t say “Brown Butter Blondies” but he can attest to how delicious they are. You’ll see. Check out Radio Zamunda on all the podcast platforms. #thedopeshit.
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Music:
“My Sea” - CALLmeKAT
“Incantation” - The Oddysy
“Threemix” - Leo Coltrane
“A Spoonful of Sugar” - Julie Andrew
"Point A…”
“I hate this so much I need to fix it…” is one animating principle of Zabe Bent, Director of Design at NACTO (the National Association of City Transport). Another would be... “Everyone should have access to whatever they want to do or be…” The convergence of these two principles is what drives Zabe to imagine, guide, and advocate for truly equitable transportation and city design projects throughout the country. This conversation was so brilliant that we had to break it up into two episodes. Stay tuned for part deux next week where we dig into a whole other side of Zabe. #thedopeshit
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Music:
“Feel Good Inc.” - Gorillaz
“Le Claquer Des Doights” -Serge Gainsbourg
“Perdido” -Sarah Vaughan
“To Be Continued” -The Temptations
“Ikigai”
What do you get when you mix what you love, with what you’re good at, what you can be paid for, and what the world needs? “Ikigai." What if we ran the world that way? What if we grew society’s this way? People? What if this is how we raised our children? Educated them? What if? In this episode we kick it with Louka Parry a fascinating cat from Australia with a mind bending take on the ecology of social and educational systems.
Don’t miss it.
#thedopeshit on Apple, Spotify, Google and wherever else you get your podcasts.
Professional Profile
https://www.linkedin.com/in/loukaparry/
https://twitter.com/loukaparry
The Learning Future
https://www.thelearningfuture.com
https://twitter.com/learningfuture
https://www.instagram.com/learningfuture/
Karanga
https://www.linkedin.com/company/karanga/
https://twitter.com/karangaglobal
https://www.instagram.com/karanga.global/
Music:
“Bang Bang ” -The Oddysy
“Criminal” - Prophet Omega
“C-Side” - Leon Bridges
“Deathless” - Ibeyi
“Vote with Love”
“Don’t stay in unnecessary pain” It’s a mantra that our next guest, educator, designer, speaker, author, and creator of www.votebydesign.org, Lisa Kay Solomon leads with. Why do we stay in “unnecessary pain” when we have the agency to choose a better outcome? Further, are we even aware that we possess this agency in the first place? And as for choice, how do we make one if we lack the necessary information to make an informed one? And how can a focus on empathy, vulnerability and community help empower the agency we all have to make these choices? It gets deep. Tune in and vote (and if you need help with that last part votebydesign.org is a fantastic tool! Just sayin…)
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Links to articles
Music:
“A Piece of Light” -The Roots
“Time (You and I)” -Khruangbin
“53.59” -Childish Gambino
“Brand New Colony” - Postal Service
In these insane days of fear and plague we are forced to take stock in what we truly value and perhaps- in better times- have taken for granted. We at Radio Zamunda are fortunate to be able to continue these conversations which- if for nothing else- are a reminder that there are really good people in the world. This episode, the good person in question is Ray Panthaki, an actor, filmmaker and all around awesome cat. His path to finding his calling is downright cinematic. He’s an artist to watch. Trust us. Tune in on Spotify, Google, Anchor, iTunes or wherever you podcast.
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Watch Ray next up as Group Capitan Ram Arya on Netflix’s upcoming astronaut drama “Away.” (Oh yeah RZ’s own Ato is in it too)
Music
“Fly” -The Oddysy
“Life Itself” -Glass Animals
“Weird Fishes” -Lianne La Havas
“Thrill of the Arts” -Vulfpeck
We’re living in history right now. We’re tearing everything down in order to, hopefully, create something better. Artists have always been the shepherds of this re-creation. Our tools are always a bricolage (Kwaku’s favorite word) of disciplines and techniques to push newer and truer narratives of human existence. As such we are privileged to chop it up with the brilliant Leo Coltrane. Art is not an occupation for this cat. It is who he is and what he has lived. Please tune in. It gets deep.
- Ato & Kwaku
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Website: www.leocoltrane.com
Music Used: That Third Thing - Leo Coltrane
from brooklyn, new york: apple music, spotify, youtube
silver linings: apple music, spotify, youtube
silence: apple music, spotify, youtube
if you run: apple music, spotify, youtube
IG links:
pledge of amnesia
buggin out
original series: 8 To Leo
Other Links:
album title art from around the world
Hey Everyone,
Check out this classic episode of Radio Zamunda with our good friend Adrienne Campbell-Holt:
The Dorchester Hustler
How does one define the undefinable? In this episode of The Dope Shit, we attempt to do just that with the incomparable Adrienne Campbell-Holt, artistic director of Colt Coeur. Pass the prosecco.
Enjoy,
Ato & Kwaku
Links for Adrienne Cambell Holt:
Colt Coeur
The Make it Fair Project
Facebook
Twitter: @Colt_Coeur
Instagram: @ColtCoeur
Music featured in this episode:
Lettuce - Chief
A Tribe Called Quest - Show Business
Kamasi Washington - The Rhythm Changes
My Morning Jacket - Wordless Chorus