0. Welcome to Crawdads and Taters

Your Crawdads and Taters hosts interview each other to answer the question: Why this podcast, and why now? Erin McCarley is an independent photographer, journalist and filmmaker, based in the foothills outside Denver, Colorado. With a master’s degree in photojournalism from UT Austin, her still photography, videos and writing have been published by Common Dreams, CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, Due Dissidence, Yes! Magazine, the Denver Westword, TeleSUR, Free Speech TV in Boulder, CO, KLRU TV in Austin, TX, The Christian Science Monitor, the MIT Press, the Ford Foundation, Science Daily, The Daily Texan, the University of Texas, and various non-profit organizations. Bilingual in English and Spanish, she has worked as a freelance reporter in Mexico, Guatemala and Venezuela.  Birrion Sondahl is a former Bernie 2020 super volunteer, canvasser, text sweeper, and national delegate. He was also the campaign coordinator for Arn Menconi's 2020 State Senate primary. He is an activist currently living in Dillon, Colorado. He has a bachelor's degree in Military History from American Military University and has been published in Military History Online, Due Dissidence, Dissident Voice, and Real Progressives. He currently writes a column with Real Progressives. Please consider becoming a sustaining member of Crawdads & Taters at https://www.patreon.com/crawdadsandtaters