Love and Radio: Blood Memory

Mike Norton has a change of heart. Produced by Noam Osband. Final song: Emblem by Colin Self. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Evan has a secret. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rob Navarro: gospel singer, the voice of Spanish-language Ronald McDonald, and one of the most successful gay pornographers in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Awkward, funny, and tragic. You tell us your deepest darkest secrets. Featuring totally original music from Build Buildings. Leave your own secret at +1 641 715 3900, extension 55403#. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Albert Woodfox lived in solitary confinement in prison longer than any other American, confined to a 6 foot by 9 foot cell for 23 hours each day—for nearly 44 years. Produced in collaboration with Amnesty International UK. Final song: It’s My Brown Skin by Helado Negro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Content warning! If you’re squeamish around violent stuff, you should skip this one. Will is a collector. Final song: Pour Endormir les Démons by Merle Bardenoir from Chants D’Avant L’Aube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meags loves photo booths. Final song: Laisse Autant Le Vent Tout Emporter by Les Breastfeeders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Karaoke is Alex’s main gig, but that’s not how he makes his money. Final song: Road Soda Reggae by Indian Agent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Adult content. Listener discretion is advised. Since a child, Sarz had a deep connection to the Lord of the Rings books. After the movie version came out in 2003, that connection went several layers deeper. Outro song: By Your Side (Sade cover), performed by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A preview of our next season, coming at you NEXT MONTH! Doug Williams has been waging a war for decades against the polygraph machine (aka the lie detector). Produced by Jacob McCleland and Ana Adlerstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Recordings from the Secrets Hotline, with original music and production by George Langford. Find more of George’s work at georgelangford.com. You can leave your own secret at +1 (641) 715-3900, extension 55403#. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With Carlos' enemies enraged, the Gomez family is forced into hiding with the Witness Security Program, or WITSEC. But making a clean break from the past is a lot harder than they expected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The story continues as Rocío Gómez divorces her husband Rodrigo, a master drug trafficker in Colombia. Rocío and her children move to Miami where she begins a relationship with a new man, Carlos, whose dangerous past with the mafia catches up with Rocío’s family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Colombia, Rocío Gómez marries into an empire of wealth and power. She is told the family operates a low-profile import/export business, and finds comfort in her role as wife and mother. However, she soon learns the family business is not what it seems as Rosio becomes entangled with drugs, money, and mafioso. Produced in … Continue reading La Retirada, Part One → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We revisit Daryl Davis and ask him, "how should we argue?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Mike comes home, his family is faced with a new reality and an impossible choice. Produced by John Fecile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Adam Zaretsky is a bioartist who explores the manipulation of DNA, the fringes of genetic modification, and butts up against the ethical boundaries of science and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Deep in the woods of Norway, a man from a strange, foreign land chops wood and reminisces over the love of his life from a bygone time. Produced by Sindre Leganger for NRK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Julie needed a fresh start, so she moved back home to the Bay Area, and made a new group of friends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A co-production with the podcast Reckonings. In the 1980s, Glenn Loury was one of the most prominent black conservative intellectuals in the United States, and was selected to be a top official within the Reagan administration. Unexpectedly, however, he withdrew his consideration before being appointed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jerome and Ana work a couple blocks from one another in Oakland, California. When Jerome called out to her in the street, she pulled out her microphone and asked if he could repeat what he said to her. This is the conversation that followed. And, the conversation that followed that conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From our friends at the Here Be Monsters podcast: Marlo Mack gave birth to a son. At least, she thought she did. But her son crawled towards dresses, wanted to be a princess, and asked to grow long blonde hair. At age 3, Marlo's son asked to go back into mommy's tummy, so he could come back out as a baby girl. Marlo thought it was a phase--it wasn't. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the remote, high deserts of New Mexico, Timothy Wyllie reflects on a life of testing the limits of reality and spirituality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Frank has been an advocate for the perhaps the most universally abhorred group in America: sex offenders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rachel Prince receives a mysterious letter from 1938. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For the last few years, Zoe Nightingale has been recording random, often hilarious, and sometimes harrowing conversations with people from all walks of life, exploring the balancing act of sin and virtue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul Wood was sentenced to life in prison for murder at age 18, and began his adult life negotiating the social dynamics of some of New Zealand's toughest prisons, including the maximum security wing of Paremoremo Prison (now Auckland Prison). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ceara Lynch has a ten year career as a self-described humiliatrix, catering to a wide variety of sexual fetishes over the internet, and gaining exposure to a unique part of the human psyche. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Diane's new neighbors across the way never shut their curtains, and that was the beginning of an intimate, but very one-sided relationship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jerome and Ana work a couple blocks from one another in Oakland, California. When Jerome called out to her in the street, she pulled out her microphone and asked if he could repeat what he said to her. This is the conversation that followed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An eruv is a ritual enclosure that allows religious Jews to negate rules against carrying certain objects (like housekeys or strollers) during the Sabbath. This conversation is not about that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tom Justice is passionate about cycling, and was on the shortlist for the US Olympic Team. Also, he’s a bank robber. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Charles Farrell was born to a sophisticated middle class family in Boston, but at age 12, he left home and came of age on the street, joining “low-life culture”, the underbelly of boxing, and avant garde piano. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We think of certain events as profoundly life-altering. Getting married or emigrating to a new country, say. But you can always get divorced, and you can almost always move back. Taylor is weighing a life decision from which there would be no turning back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The true story of Clyde Casey, a street performer who used surrealism and abstract art to fight crime in Los Angeles’ Skid Row in the 1980s, and the creator of a place called Another Planet. Also featuring the voices of Tim Robbins (yes, THAT Tim Robbins), Lonnie Johnson, Flame Simon, and Richard Haxton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Music is Daryl Davis’ profession, but extreme racism is his obsession. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is the founding fa/mo/ther of Industrial music, a performance artist, and a very, very, very devoted husband. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey kids, this interview isn’t for you. You should skip this one. Ellen was struggling for money, working as a Subway “sandwich artist” (yes, that’s a real thing). So she decided to find a new job, and settled on one that allowed her to make over $30,000 for just a couple hours of work each … Continue reading Jack and Ellen → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lewis Greenberg is an artist unlike any other, a winner of the coveted Geezer of the Year award, and a man on a mission–much to the chagrin of his Ballwin, Missouri neighbors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Andre Taylor identified strongly with Daniel from the Bible, who interpreted the visions and dreams of kings. And like Daniel, he spent 3 years in a Babylonian captivity of sorts. But Daniel never had quite the unorthodox career path of Andre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On a late night along an empty Utah highway, Melvin Dummar says he came across a bloodied man lying by the road. It’s cliched to say this, but it’s really true: the story of that discovery would profoundly alter the course of his life forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jay Thunderbolt’s business card is a little mysterious. It reads, “Thunderbolt – Party Naked” and gives a phone number. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amy was dead broke when she found a Craigslist ad looking for a balloon porn fetish model. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices