Talk-It-Out Radio

Talk-It-Out Radio – December 27, 2024

A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.


Making Contact

Art from the Inside: Why We Need More Art By And About Incarcerated Women (encore)

On today’s show, we look at how art can highlight the struggles of incarcerated women, build solidarity with them across prison walls, and fight against the erasure and censorship inherent to incarceration. First, we’ll hear about a dance performance called “If I Give You My Sorrows” that’s built around the complex ways incarcerated women relate … Continued


Project Censored

Unplugging the News: The Fight for Local Journalism and the State of the Free Press (encore)

Project Censored’s new yearbook, “State of the Free Press 2025” is fresh off the presses. In the first segment, Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl talk with Mickey about the extensive process that culminates in the selection of the annual “Top 25” censored stories. They also speak about the need to extend media analysis beyond … Continued


Economic Update

How U.S. Capitalism Uses Nationalism (encore)

From 1945 to 1990, we were told a great struggle pitted capitalism against socialism/communism (chiefly the USSR and China). Yet still today, U.S. leaders demonize Russia and China, despite the end of communism in the USSR and a huge growth of capitalist enterprises in China. The explanation lies in U.S. capitalism’s long history of using … Continued