Suburbural Tongue
Interviews with small business owners, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, and anybody with an interesting story to tell! Please get into contact with me if you’d like to appear on the show! I provide long-form audio podcasts and/or short-form video content to showcase you!
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Tuesday Nov 19, 2024
Tuesday Nov 19, 2024
This is a seminal episode for the show - I talk to Mike Messina, a good friend of mine and owner of Chameleon Bookstore, whose work with the Johnstown Culture Crawl inspired me to start this podcast. This is one of the best (I love them all equally, but it's a good tagline)!!
Books We Mentioned:
The Bible, Colossians 3:23-24: "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving."
"The Good War" Studs Terkel
Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
Welcome back to Suburbural Tongue! Strap in with some snacks for this episode, we hit the one hour mark! I loved getting to talk with Jeremy, he was a great host letting me come to his apartment to record this episode - I hope you all enjoy!
Some of the books we talk about (I think I missed a few):
The Gospel According To Luke
"Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail" Ray Dalio
"The Abundant Community" John McClain
"Ishmael" Daniel Quinn (I think this is what Jeremy was talking about, but he didn't give an author)
"Man's Search For Meaning" Dr. Viktor Frankl
"The New Jim Crow" Michelle Alexander
"Leaders Eat Last" Simon Sinek
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" Malcolm X with Alex Haley
Malcolm Gladwell
"Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World" Adam Grant
"10% Happier" Dan Harris
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
This is one of my favorite episodes so far (that's a trick, they're all my favorite, but really, this one is super good)! I got to talk with Morgan Overton of the Pittsburgh Public Theater, CreatePA, as well as a solo art career, and political activist work; so needless to say, we had a lot of bases to cover, I hope you all enjoy!
Some of our interesting talking points to look into yourself:
James Baldwin (author/activist)
Pittsburgh Art Council - Creative Hive
Belle Hooks (author/social critic)
Jean Michel Basquiat's Essential Reading List:
// Symbol Sourcebook - Henry Dreyfuss
// Flash of the Spirit - Robert Farris Thompson
August Wilson (playwright)
Hozier “Butchered Tongue”
Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
Autumn is here and so is another episode of Suburbural Tongue! In this one, I talked to Pamela Rossi-Keen who works with the Genesis Collective in Aliquippa, PA: an organization that helps local artists get funding and to get their work seen in public places. Pamela is also a big advocate for social and racial injustices, which we talk about in the episode as well.
Words to live by from Pamela:
"If you're surrounded by imagination, you start to trust your own imagination."
Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
Back for another episode, this week with Phoenix Stratemeier of Morgainz Elite Cycle! Phoenix is a wonderful guy, his energy in this episode was very contagious, so much so that he might have just convinced me to switch gyms!
While editing this episode, I was reminded over and over of Dr. Viktor Frankl's philosophy, expressed in Man's Search for Meaning, which can be summed up beautifully with a line early in the book that I'll leave for you to think over; "Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."
Enjoy the episode!
Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
Hi everyone! This is the first episode of Suburbural Tongue. My guest today is Troy Bugosh, co-owner of Cafe Dodie. Enjoy!