Roam Schooled

Don't be shocked or surprised, Roam Schoolers.The email came in yesterday: "On Friday evening, administrators were informed of threats made against the school on social media by a high school student. Police were immediately notified, and the student was questioned by police. Due to privacy laws and the fact that this is now a police matter, we cannot provide more specifics on this case. We can assure you that this incident is a clear violation of the district’s safety policies and the student will not be on campus pending the outcome of the investigation."We respectfully re-offer episode12 from one year ago today. In search of some small steps, some common ground in the insanity. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We remember the lies we tell. Sometimes they stick with us for a lifetime. For guest Cheryl Strayed, lies were among the baggage that blocked her happiness until a long backpacking trip afforded her the strength to bring them in to roost somewhere healthy. “Why do we lie” was the initial question. More reasons that you might have thought. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We asked hundreds of people about how they encounter the animals they may (or may not) eat. So many conversations, all over the map. We chose these two: A farmer and a meat thinker. Meet Kyrie Eppley and Camas Davis. And be prepared for an "outside" discussion on some of the issue, both ancient and future, around one of our main sources of food: our animals. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In our Roams, we've met some people with widely varying concepts of home. Some, like Musonda, have taken an incredible journey to get there. The twists and turns in his story are, well, amazing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode we unpack some of the parcels Santa might not want us to consider, including a conversation with the creator of “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” AND a rapper in Northern Canada who actually got run over by Rudolph. Not your run of the mill holiday special. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode we take back “giving” - a term awash with holiday smarm. We dive deep into the nuance and complications of gifts and explore the nature of generosity with some listener stories and a case study: the “altruistic kidney donor”. You’ll never give a gift the same way again. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We continue our look at the real relationship between the Fourth Estate and the People in PART 2. We interview a public figure (Governor Kate Brown), we go behind the scenes at the New York Times The Daily (Lisa Tobin, Podcast Creator), talk to an Advance Press Lead for the HRC campaign (Natalie Sept, who basically INVENTED SHEETCAKING), and speak with Floyd Abrams, one of the great legal minds of our time, about the 1st Amendment. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We go deep into the relationship between the Prez and the Fourth Estate, spending time with two world-renowned journalists who share one common experience: being publicly scorned by a sitting president. We go behind the scenes with The New York Times' The Daily Host Michael Barbaro, and hear the story of Frank Snepp, who gave up everything in pursuit of getting the truth out there in 1975. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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In this episode we start with the basic question of WHAT scares us, what exactly fear IS, and what our bodies do when we’re experiencing fear. Several surprising revelations later, we are staring into the core of what memory is, and how we control our own thoughts, memories, and fears. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Flags: more complicated than we thought. Roam Schooled explores how God entered the pledge, flags, and currency. Special guests TBTL's Luke Burbank and Andrew Walsh think back to Pledge-related ponderings, we speak to world renowned vexillologist Ted Kay, and hear from Theo Shouse on assignment. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dana asks “what happens to Pets owned by people who can't take care of them?” Dad goes in search of the answer with Special Officer Ulli Neitch. What kinds of human animals will they encounter? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Love at first sight: two strangers meet at a baseball game game and become best friends. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 14 is one for our pets (it's the first of three episodes about animals). The deeper you go, the more interesting it gets when you talk to people who deal with the intricacies of pet issues on a day-to-day basis. Here spend time with a scientist who trains cats, a woman who helped eradicate dog and cat overpopulation, and an animal communicator. We try to get into the minds of the animals and in doing so take an unexpected plunge into our own psychology. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In a second episode about guns and the Second Amendment, we take unexpected turns, launching forward from the basic premise that the genie is out of the bottle. We go deep with two brothers who lost brothers, we go shooting, and we dive into the second amendment with eyes wide open to historical context and legal interpretation. It's not a show about statistics, but about using our higher brain functions to find solutions, middle ground, and a new way to look at the world of guns. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Roam Schooled approaches the seemingly impossible, polarizing issue of guns, the Second Amendment, and gun control by reframing the questions, turning them upside down, looking deep, and looking wide for common ground. This episode contains some profanity, and also very well may change the way you view the issues being discussed. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode we wonder why it is SO annoying when someone gets in your space, and we find our answer after talking with Dr. Temple Grandin, professional cuddler Samantha Hess, author Courtenay Hameister, and a therapist friend. We also relive a small part of the election. Contains adult language. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 10: Roam Springer Luddite by Jim Brunberg See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"The Truth Shall Make Who Free?" is the first of our occasional updates on questions and characters we've met on the show. An ongoing mystery involving a prominent former CIA agent, a woman's search for her birth parents, and the truth about the asteroid that may or may not hit the earth (spoiler: it probably won't). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

(Special, feature length episode). Being an easy rider is not always easy. The hippie scene is more than our senses at first convey. Our intrepid conversant investigators spend a day with Wavy Gravy, some modern hippies, and unveil a piece written especially for Roam Schooled by original Merry Prankster and Ken Kesey co-author Ken Babbs. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The girls turn seven in this episode. Seems like we spend a lot of time both contemplating the moment of our birth and pondering how we will die. Birthdays and End of Days are a running theme as we talk with an asteroid-hunter, an epidemiologist, and hear interesting stories about birth and near-death from those who have pondered it considerably more than we have (including Courtenay Hameister, Jeff Pehrson, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Matt Zaffino, and Laura Gibson). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jim and the girls jet to New York in search of an answer that leads not just to Ellis Island, but to Vietnam, and back through the years to an exceptionally complicated moment in time. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“What the heck is the Statue of Liberty there for?” And with that, we’re off, roaming the complicated landscapes of American identity, American dreams, American history and American politics. A first of a two-part series. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sometimes you choose to go it alone. Sometimes, this solitude is inflicted on you. In this episode we talk with people who are either born, or have spent considerable time apart from the pack. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Roam Schooled travels to the Southwest and talks to people about beliefs that are beyond science. We meet a renowned Bigfoot expert Thom Powell, Phoenix Lights filmmaker/author Dr. Lynne Kitei, musical giant Van Dyke Parks, and many others that uncover why sometimes we believe and other times we may not. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We listened as risk takers (a trapeze artist, a habitual gambler, a naked DJ, an extreme rock climber, a stuntman) address just what is at stake in their risks, and we examined our own thrill-seeking tendencies. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In our debut episode, we went in search of answers to seemingly simple questions: Why do people have tombstones? What is memorialization? From the tangible sculpted rock face of the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota to the personal accounts of a mortician in Philadelphia, we listen as people tell us why they remember. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.