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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Episodes
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
I talked with Collin Fluke in this episode, a photographer and archaeology major who I've known for a few years and was very happy to get to talk with, even in this brief episode.
Links to Collin's Work:
Website: https://people.rit.edu/clf8924/portfolio/Pages/photo-genres.html
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cfluke.photos/
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
I'm pumped for this episode! I know him better as Mr St. Clair, he was my history teacher in high school, and even though I was only in two of his classes, his love for teaching, history, and theatre has a major effect on my life. I was super excited to be able to host this episode at my apartment, this is only the second episode so far I've done that for. I hope you all enjoy!
Some Things We Talked About:
Dungeons and Dragons
"Brave New World" Aldous Huxley
Tuesday Jan 14, 2025
Tuesday Jan 14, 2025
I took it off the beaten trail a bit with this one; I got together to talk with David and Riley who host a sports podcast, and I was definitely out of my comfort zone on the topics we discussed, especially with the UFC, but I think we got something special from it!
Thursday Jan 02, 2025
Thursday Jan 02, 2025
What a way to kick off the New Years! I loved getting to sit down with Andrew for this episode, he's been a good friend for quite a while now, so what better way to start off 2025. I hope you all enjoy!!
Some Things We Talked About:
Nosferatu
Twilight (reluctantly)
Beowulf (Jim Henson Company)
Dune
The Lighthouse
28 Years Later
It Comes At Night
Hamlet (1990 with Mel Gibson)
Artic Monkeys
Tuesday Dec 17, 2024
Tuesday Dec 17, 2024
Hello everybody! This week I talk to Kate Davis, my theatre director from high school, who has been a big inspiration in my creative life. Aptly, we spoke in a theatre, and hopefully that atmosphere carried over into our conversation. I had a great time talking with her and I hope you all will enjoy!
Some things we talked about:
“The Canterbury Tales" Geoffrey Chaucer
"Twelfth Night" Shakespeare
"Hamlet" Shakespeare
"She Kills Monsters" Qui Nguyen
Samuel Beckett
"Not I" Samuel Beckett
Bertolt Brecht
Henri Matisse
Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
I talked with Christopher Orozco this week, also known as wizardillustrator online! He's a great artist and had wonderful insights all throughout the episode. I loved the way he was able to compress the poorly worded, quasi-complex ideas I was throwing at him into super digestable concepts and applications -- check him out at...
wizardillustrator on Instagram
wizardillustrator2 on Tiktok
and his projects at linktr.ee/wizardillustrator
Things We Brought Up Throughout the Episode
Bug Boys - Laura Knetzger
Chris' "Mythic Ink" project that he is revitalizing!
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."