Passport Podcast

Most of us will grow older, yet few of us are fully prepared for what it can mean–for ourselves or the people we love. In this episode of The Passport Podcast, host Keith Breitbach sits down with longtime elder-care provider Libby Christianson for a candid discussion about planning for later life. Drawing on firsthand experience, Libby offers practical insight for individuals and families dealing with changing needs, independence, caregiving, and difficult decisions. Whether you're helping a parent or loved one today or simply thinking ahead, Libby offers perspective that can help you approach the years ahead with greater knowledge and confidence. After all, if we're fortunate, we'll all get there someday. This interview originally aired on Community Chat on 103.1 KSCW in Sun City West, Arizona. Host: Keith Breitbach Guest: Libby Christianson

Late-night streets. Faint sirens. A city that never sleeps and never stops surprising you. From Washington, DC's unsolved murders to Seattle, San Francisco, and Albuquerque's notorious "Warzone," The Passport Podcast host Keith Breitbach shares unfiltered stories of beauty, danger, and the unreported side of urban life. Set against the backdrop of a national conversation on violent crime, homelessness, and public safety, this episode blends lived experience with vivid storytelling, revealing what it's really like to live in the heart of the city, walk these streets after dark, and why some of us never leave the places we love.

From Railcars to Robotaxis: America's Transit Transformation - From riding the Amtrak Empire Builder as a college student in the early 1990s to working on the launch of Albuquerque's Rapid Transit system, Keith traces a lifetime of movement through America's evolving transportation landscape. Along the way: cable cars in San Francisco, the rise of ride-share, and the arrival of autonomous vehicles in Phoenix. A first-hand look at how mobility is changing and what it means for the cities and communities we call home.

The geography of change, and what cities remember even when we forget. In this episode, I revisit Phoenix, where heat, grit, and geography collide. Once the edge of the map and now one of America's fastest-growing metros, Phoenix is where my adult life began. Through memory, motion, and the lens of place, I reflect on what it means to return to a city that once defined you. From biking wide streets to pondering desert skies, this is a story about growth, disorientation, and how places and people evolve across time and space.

At age 11, Keith Breitbach delivered newspapers through the quiet streets of Dubuque, Iowa, past freshly built homes, union workers, and a corner where men waited each morning for the yellow bus to the John Deere plant. Decades later, he'd watch another kind of worker, young tech professionals gathered at a different corner in San Francisco, bound for Silicon Valley on sleek commuter shuttles. In this reflective episode of The Passport Podcast, Keith reflects on the subtle, yet powerful parallels between two generations of workers - one shaped by labor, the other by code. Through personal memory and cultural observation, he explores how economic value shifts, how obsolescence creeps in, and what we can learn from the corners we've stood on. As AI and automation reshape today's workforce and our society, this story presents a quiet but urgent question: What happens to those the system no longer needs?