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The online-auditory location for your favorite free coffee house, serving the student population of beautiful San Luis Obispo, California.
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In this long-awaited final installment of the staff spotlight series, Hailey is here to tell us about her new album, Dove. We talk about her artist name, Mr. Marigold, what it has to do with a fish-shaped purse, her creative process, and what it takes to make an album while working full-time at Front Porch.
Listen to Dove by Mr. Marigold on Spotify here.
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Theme song is by Lifegrid.
This week, on our penultimate staff spotlight, Front Porch's director Joel Drenckpohl hops on the pod to talk about his backyard, how to make radically inclusive space, and where we might find the modern commons.
Music on the episode is by QKSND, who you can find on Spotify, and our theme song is by Lifegrid, who you can find on Bandcamp.
Support Front Porch on our website or on venmo @frontporchslo
Keep up to date with all Front Porch happenings on our Instagram, @frontporchslo
For the second installment of our staff series, 2nd-year intern Emily Biekert jumps on the mic to talk about friendship in post-grad life. Where do we find them? How do we make them? When no longer in the controlled college environment where ANYONE in your proximity could reasonably be a friend, it takes a little more intentionality.
Music on this episode is by QKSND, who you can find on Spotify, and our theme song is by Lifegrid, who you can find on Bandcamp.
Keep up to date with everything going on at Front Porch on our Instagram.
Support our work on venmo @frontporchslo, or on our website.
This week, we are back after a little hiatus with the first installment of a new series. For the next few weeks, we will be put up some conversations with the staff of Front Porch on things they are passionate about, projects they're working on, or just subjects they think the people should know about. Up first is our Associate Director Dom Floyd on self-care, and the radical potential of incorporating such a practice into our lives.
Music on the episode is by QKSND, who you can find on Spotify, and our theme song is by Lifegrid, who you can find on Bandcamp.
Keep up to date with everything Front Porch is doing this quarter on Instagram @frontporchslo. Support our work here at Front Porch on venmo @frontporchslo.
What's the deal with Easter? Another holiday special with the director of Front Porch, Joel Drenckpohl.
Music on the episode is by QKSND, who you can find on Spotify, and Lifegrid, who you can find on Bandcamp.
Keep up to date with everything Front Porch is doing this quarter on instagram @frontporchslo.
Support Front Porch on venmo @frontporchslo, or on our website.
Dedicated to the memory of Kennedy Love, a forever friend of the Front Porch.
Why do we put kids in jail? What is restorative justice? Why does the US hold a quarter of the globe's incarcerated population? What does gardening have to do with any of this? Sarah Maloney talks about addressing these issues through her Landscape Architecture senior project, "A Garden Can Cultivate An Inmate: Reimagining Youth Incarceration."
Check out her project, and all the terrific work of the graduating Landscape Architecture students, at cplaseniorshow.com
Music on this episode is by QKSND, who you can find on Spotify, and Lifegrid, who you can find on Bandcamp.
Keep up with everything going on at Front Porch on our instagram @frontporchslo.
Support Front Porch on venmo @frontporchslo or on our website.
In the final installment of "White Christian Nationalist," we explore what lives on the other side of a church defined by white christian nationalism. Who is reimagining Christianities? Are we allowed to call it quits? What does a road trip tell us about Christianity and the GOP?
Our guests this week:
M'Lynn Martin
David Jackson
Mason Mennenga, host of A People's Theology Podcast
Matthew Melendrez, host of the Roll Down Podcast
Tyler
Mitch
Nadine and Theo
Our music this week is by QKSND, who you can find on Spotify, and Lifegrid, who you can find on Bandcamp, and our friend Chris, who used to sit down at the keys in Front Porch and provide delightful ambient jazz to accompany your studies.
Keep up to date with everything going on at Front Porch on instagram @frontporchslo. Support on venmo @frontporchslo or at frontporchslo.org/donate
This week in our miniseries, "White Christian Nationalist," we get into the history of the combining of forces of empire and Christianity, and how this fusion of systems has formed the unsavory threads of the Christian tradition that mobilized many of those who attacked the Capitol on January 6th of this year.
Our guests:
David Jackson, an artist and musician who you can find on Instagram @dayvidya and on Spotify at Day Vidya.
Matthew Melendrez, cohost of the podcast The Roll Down.
M'Lynn Martin, SLO county local and youth pastor in San Diego.
Mason Mennenga, host of the podcast A People's Theology.
Our music for the episode is by QKSND, who you can find on Spotify, and and
Our first installment of a three-part miniseries on white christian nationalism. Three guests, three stories of christian nationalism from California to South Dakota. What is christian nationalism? How does it show itself not just in those worst cases of an attack on a federal building, but in run-of-the-mill church culture throughout the US?
Over the next three weeks, we will be sharing stories and insights from people who have witnessed christian nationalism, how it got here, and how we might see a new sort of Christianity on the other side.
Guests this week:
Mitch F.
Mason Mennenga, you can find him on Twitter, or on his podcast, A People's Theology, wherever you get your podcasts.
M'Lynn Martin
Music on the show this week is from QKSND, who you can find on Spotify, and Lifegrid, who you can find on Bandcamp.
Keep up to date with everything going on at Front Porch on our instagram.
Support Front Porch on venmo @frontporchslo or on our website.
If you've been following along, we skipped episode 24. It was a timely one on the holidays with FP alum Sophie Carnevale, and I didn't get around to the edit in December. But here we are, and January already felt like it was 10 months long, so we're basically in the holidays again, right? A belated holiday special.
Music on the show: QKSND, who you can find on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/artist/1KzHzwHQyxsmUgaUDpQkau?si=weWhTQfDRjinUxE-otJdow Our theme song is by Lifegrid, find his music at lifegrid.bandcamp.com
This week, we hear from Lisa Swartz who is running the campaign #DivestTheCSU to get the largest 4-year university program in the US to divest entirely from the fossil fuel industry. We talk university endowments, structural versus individual action, and how to create a new future not dependent on fossil fuels.
Their first coalition meeting is open to all on Monday, 2/8, at 6pm. Join via zoom here, passcode is 704842. They will meet every Monday thereafter at the same zoom link.
Join Divest the CSU's Slack here.
Join Divest the CSU's email list here.
Email Lisa at divestthecsu@gmail.com
Thanks to Ben Slope for his music on the show, you can find him as QKSND on Spotify. Thanks to Austin Gandler for our theme song, you can find his work under the name Lifegrid on Bandcamp.
Support Front Porch through venmo @frontporchslo, or on our website.
Content warning: this episode deals with themes of suicide and disordered eating that may be triggering to some listeners.
This week, sophomore Kallie Kidder hops on the mic to talk about eating disorders, what treatment looks like, and the structural causes of mental health crises. You don't want to miss this one.
Check out the book Kallie mentioned, Anti-Diet: Reclaim your Time, Money, Well-Being and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, by Christy Harrison. Available wherever fine books are sold.
Thanks to Ben Slope for his music on the show, you can find him as QKSND on Spotify. Thanks to Austin Gandler for our theme song, you can find his work under the name Lifegrid on Bandcamp.
Support Front Porch through venmo @frontporchslo, or on our website.
This week, FP alum Erik jumps on the pod to share his expertise in saying "I don't know," navigating the powers that be in Cal Poly engineering, and what the heck the "real world" is.
Music this episode:
opening track by QKSND, find him on Spotify.
Theme song by Lifegrid, find them on Bandcamp.
Support Front Porch on venmo @frontporchslo, or on our website here.
Lo-fi beats are made by humans, not robots! This week, we have Ben Slope on the show. Ben makes the lo-fi tunes that are featured on many episodes, and we talk about entering the largely anonymous world of lo-fi music, creating during the pandemic, and some of his inspirations. Check out his music under the name QKSND on Spotify here.
Want to know what Front Porch is up to this quarter? Head to Front Porch's Instagram!
Want to support Front Porch? Find us on venmo @frontporchslo or click here.
Our theme song is by Lifegrid, find him on bandcamp here.
Christmas in the midst of a pandemic--perhaps we can learn a little from the circumstances how absurd Christmas really is, and how it might provide new opportunities for our more rebellious energies.
Check out Field Day in SLO on Joel's recommendation!
A great book on Christmas is Christmas: A Candid History by Bruce Forbes.
Music this episode:
beats by QKSND, find him on Spotify
theme song by Lifegrid, find him on Bandcamp
This week--if after college is the "real world," then is during college...the "fake world"? What would make it so fake? And Danielle shares what she's learned from her time in start-up culture. Ben and Danielle are a couple of Front Porch alum's learning to navigate the "real world."
Check out Weyes Blood on Danielle's recommendation.
Support Front Porch on Venmo @frontporchslo, or on our website here.
Keep up to date with everything happening at Front Porch on our instagram.
Our music:
QKSND, find him on Spotify.
Lifegrid wrote our theme song, find him on Bandcamp.
Headspace, being (accidentally?) religious in college, and our general inconsistency as people. Mike is a Cal Poly/Front Porch alum, and resident expert on talking ad nauseam about things he knows nothing about.
Mike is reading Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff.
Find the Flat Earth documentary on Netflix.
Find The Root Beer Lover here.
For terrific short stories, Mike recommends George Saunders.
For everything Front Porch is up to--from free meals, to book clubs, to free coffee, to our weekly worship gathering, and everything in between--keep up on our instagram here.
Support Front Porch on our website here or through venmo, @frontporchslo.
Music on this podcast is by some lovelies in the Front Porch community--QKSND and Lifegrid. You can find QKSND on Spotify here, and Lifegrid on bandcamp here.
This week--what does depression look like during a pandemic? Among other things, like the Chicago Bean, a visit to Minneapolis, and going outside.
Donate to Tabitha's fund to get her a replica of the Bean on Venmo. Her handle is @tabitha-tolsma
Book referenced: How To Weep in Public by Jacqueline Novak
Keep up to date with all things Front Porch on our Instagram here.
Support Front Porch financially here or on venmo @frontporchslo.
Music/Sounds:
QKSND, find him on Spotify here.
theme song by Lifegrid, find him on Bandcamp here.
sounds of Minneapolis are from the All Gas No Brakes video of Minneapolis protests.
This week, former Front Porch intern, Ryan, and FP house alum, Sarah, jump on the pod to talk about self-doubt, growth, and post-grad outcome pie charts. What is self-doubt doing to us? How does it get in the way of our growth? Why should we bother with trying something new? What does phenomenology have to do with any of this?
You're invited to our Fall Fundraiser! Learn more here.
Support Front Porch
Keep up to date with everything the Front Porch community is up to every week here.
This week's music:
- "FEELING LONELY" by QKSND, find him on Spotify.
- Our theme music is by Lifegrid, find more of his music.
This week, Michael tells us what he knows about cultures of engineering, specifically at Cal Poly. How can engineers think in a way that takes into account their objects, inventions, and systems' impact on those who interact with them? How can a university with so much funding from the defense industry navigate "public welfare?"
Readings from the week:
"Do Artifacts have Politics?" by Langdon Winner
"Engineering Design for Social Justice" by John Leydens and Juan Lucena
"Normal People" from Technically Wrong by Wachter and Boettcher
"Culture of Disengagement in Engineering Education?" by Erin Cech
Support Front Porch here.
find more music by our theme song composer here.
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