Arms Around America
by Dan Froot & Company
This podcast is for everyone who wants to end gun violence, even if we disagree on how to get there. Each episode of “Arms Around America” features a short immersive audio drama based on stories of real families from around the country whose lives have been shaped by guns. Community leaders, scholars, activists, and the families themselves join Dan Froot & Company to unpack the questions and conundrums in each story.
Episodes
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Episode 3 - Patricia
At age 19, Patricia survived unintentional gunshot wounds resulting from intimate partner violence in a Tallahassee home. Since then, her lifelong healing journey has included becoming a birth doula, an urban farmer, an artist, a teacher, a spiritual seeker, and a homeschooling mom of six…
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Episode 2 - Tiffany
Recorded live inside UCLA's Royce Hall, the audio drama at the center of this episode takes place in southern California the immediate aftermath of the 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde TX. Tiffany struggles to balance the need to protect her young children with the urgency of...
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Episode 1 - Rich & Dave
Dan Froot and special guests, Refujio "Cuco" Rodriguez and Bryonn Bain, explore how guns shaped the lives of two brother living in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood. The jumping-off point for the converstion is Dan Froot & Company's short audio drama "Rich & Dave," based on the brothers' oral...
About this show
This podcast is for everyone who wants to end gun violence, even if we disagree on how to get there. Each episode of “Arms Around America” features a short immersive audio drama based on stories of real families from around the country whose lives have been shaped by guns. Community leaders, scholars, activists, and the families themselves join Dan Froot & Company to unpack the questions and conundrums in each story.
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