Today, we enjoy a fun, informative and insightful conversation with Walt Rubel, General Manager, KTAL music show host, and co-host of a show called Speak-Up Las Cruces. Walt shares a little about his personal and professional history, and his perspectives on our world today, journalism, government, our social circumstances, and our future.
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Randy Harris and Jack Turney explore their ideas, hopes, and concerns about what 2025 will bring to our country and the human experience at large. The conversation touches on potential harms in the making and what we can do as individuals to offset those harms - particularly at the individual scale.
Randy's conversation with Bill McCamley is a thought-provoking dive into a wide array of considerations, including:
Immigration The Covid Pandemic Cultural and Personal Transitions Politics Our Economy Education Youth and Elders Government Democracy White Men In America Today Potential Positive Actions in 2025 Today, we talk with Keith Whelpley - intermittent KTAL co-host and always a great guest. He offers his perspectives on the 2024 presidential election, on optimism and pessimism, and our thinking and emotions - past, present and future. Keith offers an exploration of the possible futures for our Democracy - for our children and grandchildren, and even touches on the possibility of expatriation for the youngers. He defines the human experience of today, the "Anthropocene" as a process. Always great fun to talk to Keith.
Our conversation with Bernie Digman explores some of the questions about what's happening in our country. Bernie points out that we seem to have failed to think critically. We touch on immigration, inflation, and economics. We wrestle with some of the ethical and moral questions expressed and implied in the stated intentions of the incoming presidential administration.
We're grateful for the outstanding KTAL volunteer, Cindy Smith. As an athlete, musician, theatre actor, singer, traveler, IT and website person, audio engineer at KTAL, service animal trainer and much more, she's an excellent example of the multi-dimensional volunteers that make KTAL work. In this delightful and uplifting conversation we learn a little bit about her history, including her role at KTAL, different kinds of things she's done in her life, and why she and her wife, Margaret, love Las Cruces. Cindy shares fascinating and inspiring considerations of how she thinks about risk taking, learning new things, and getting past the fear of making mistakes. A wonderful exploration.
Randy Harris and Jack Turney have a conversation about what's happening around and within us all, in these uncertain times. What are we seeing, thinking, feeling about our future as people and as a nation.
Prolific poet and retired English Professor, Joseph Somoza, joins us for a conversation about how our choices of words and language shape our perceptions of reality. We get to hear Joseph read some of his works aloud and explore the internal and external influence and impact of our word choices. We touch on the effects of applying meaning to words, with or without precision and accuracy. We look at how our individual ideas and feelings about reality sometimes reflect a common understanding, and sometimes a conflict, often driven largely by our word choices. Always a delight to speak with Joseph Somoza.
 Today's guest, John Cullen, explores elements of the body, mind, and spirit that affect people with Parkinson's Disease. His book Unbreakable: Surviving Adversity chronicles John's personal experience with Parkinson's. In his very moving documentary entitled It's Just Parkinson's (IJP) we get an up close and personal view of John's life and his battle with this disease.
The phrase and attitude "It's Just Parkinson's" is Mr. Cullen's way of putting Parkinson's into perspective as he diligently works to maximize quality of life for himself and others. We hear from John's good friend Ivan Suarez, and from John Mylius, (Cullen's uncle) who's an advocate for our own local Parkinson's groups. Cullen's informative, inspiring and motivating conversation can serve each of us in dealing with adversity of all kinds. Today, Jack, Randy, and a caller explore how we think about issues surrounding the presidential election, climate change, science, and human resiliency in the face of adversity.
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