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 Randy Harris welcomes Rob Baur, owner of Toucan Market, and much appreciated KTAL underwriter. Toucan Market is an independently owned specialty grocery store in Las Cruces, NM. With 30 years of experience in both large corporate and independent groceries, Rob shares his perspectives on the grocery industry. We touch on market forces that affect our current food costs, corporate mergers, our economy, and the values that drive the food and other industries.
Jeffrey Field, retired educator and journalist shares his harrowing experience with phone scammers.
He talks about his experience in detail. He describes how it unfolded, how they manipulated his emotions, how it progressed and how he addressed and resolved the subsequent issues without losing any money. Jeffrey shares with us the thoughts and feelings he experienced in the process, and how he came to see through it and took prompt and appropriate action. Today, we had a delightful and informative conversation with Katie Stone, Executive Producer of an acquired program called The Children’s Hour airing Saturdays on KTAL at 9:00 am. We explored one episode of a recent four-part series called Communication Nation addressing how youngsters interpret and relate to media, media literacy, languages, social and emotional life, and more.
Today's guest, Justice Smith, shares her experience-based insights on important considerations of medical and recreational cannabis production, sales and consumption. She offers perspectives on the initial hot expansion of producers and dispensaries, and the recent cooling and contracting trend. We give some attention to the projects underway for releasing people imprisoned on minor cannabis infractions. We touch on the shift in the general public's thinking about the medicinal use of the plant and hear a little bit about the effects of recreational consumption in our community. We explore a little of the history of cannabis in cultural context, and the ebb and flow of acceptance and prohibition, past and present.
Jack Turney and Randy Harris have a wide-ranging conversation about how words, language, thinking, emotions and actions are influenced by our thinking and our word choices. It's an exploration touching on considerations of truths, the humility of agnosticism, hubris, pride, arrogance, and how our language and perceptions of reality shape the ways in which we see and relate to ourselves, others, and the world around us.
Our guest today hails from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Clarissa Wolatz is a longtime friend of co-host Jack Turney, and a student of Epistemology.
Our conversation today touches on the evolution of their relationship, and her personal process of transitioning from Atheism to Catholic beliefs, and a little bit about her work with a non-profit called Morning Star Pregnancy Services. The conversation with she and Jack explores lightly, questions of thinking, language, religion, and politics in 2024. We touch on considerations of right- and left-wing positions she considers extreme, the meanings of the phrases "Pro-Life" and "Pro-Choice", as well as the surge in support for Christian Nationalism, White Christian Nationalism, and autocracy in our country today. Today, our guest Shahid Mustafa prompts a multi-dimensional conversation about immigration and migration. Exploring the history of immigration policy and practices in the U.S. and the forces and factors that have influenced the movement of people throughout time. Nuanced, complex, and complicated, the topic is of course very relevant today as we move into an election with candidates and parties who seem to hold very differing views.
 Today, Jack Turney and Randy Harris have a bit of bouncy conversation about language choices, the words we choose to use. We look at words like Truth - Belief - Reality. We explore how our word choices affect us, influence the nature of our relationships with others, and actually shape our perceptions of reality.
Today, Prof. Mark Lusk, shares some of his experience-based insights on migration and immigration in the U.S. and abroad. Encouraging us to recognize migration as a global issue, he points to the impacts of war, poverty, political violence, and climate change as root causes of migration and immigration. Acknowledging the rise of "Authoritarian Nationalism" is the U.S. and abroad, he cites the importance of accurate information as an antidote to politically motivated fear and hate narratives, and suggests what we can do to reconsider our own thinking, biases, and assumptions.
Today's conversation with Keith Whelpley and Jack Turney touches on recent political developments in the U.S. and what they mean. We take the opportunity to acknowledge what's happening today, and what's at stake for our future in this unfolding presidential campaign. We explore the stability of our fundamental governmental structures, our individual and collective values, and how it all may shape and be shaped by our culture. We ask if culture is "upstream" of our politics, and whether culture informs politics, and/or inversely, do politics inform culture?
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