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What We Will Abide
by Sam Schindler
Conversations with people providing local solutions to systemic problems, mostly in my adopted hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania: a place that somehow blends rustic and traditional with urban and progressive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Nora Grace and me and Bob
After four years, the What We Will Abide podcast returns with this Short, featuring singer-songwriter Nora Grace. Her single "Good Dancers" is out now on Spotify. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#068 We Are Humans
I've been wrestling with my anger about the havoc Covid-19 has wrought in our country and the ineptitude that has typified how we've dealt with it. But, I still feel I don't know enough to have an opinion at all. So, in this episode, I turn to Michael Taylor, a Respiratory Therapist who works in...
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#067 - I Can, I Am: Jessica Edonick
Once an aspiring Medieval historian, Jessica Edonick now serves as Dean of Students at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design in downtown Lancaster, PA. She defines and redefines the position almost all the time, giving liberally of herself to students in need in a selfless, exhaustive way.…
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#066 - "I'm Still Black": Osmyn Oree
Osmyn Oree is an admissions counselor at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design (PCA&D) and is a gradate of the college. He is also a photographer and an activist. We talk about the evolution of his work, his political consciousness, and a bit about his inner life amidst this turbulent time....
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#065 - Don't Forget What Lenny Said
Of Lenny Bruce, Eric Bogosian said, "Saint Lenny, he died for our sins." Over 60 years ago, comedian Lenny Bruce cracked wise about racism, corrupt power and American culture. His critique still reverberates, which means not enough has changed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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#064 - Turn Around
Step 1: Unite. People of all skin colors, political agendas, genders and sexualities. All together as one. Step 2: Get the police to join in. Otherwise, it's utter bloodshed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#063 The Long Walk
My daughter records a message to herself at age 30 while getting trucks to honk at us; birthday present requests, and the glory of meatballs. Music by Eliot White and Eyal Marcovici. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#062 - Vulnerable to Demons: Leo DiSanto
At some point along the way, Leo DiSanto and I recognized we were dependent on alcohol and took steps to release ourselves from the hold it had on us. What we learned was that things got worse before they got better, Drinking quiets the hobgoblins of self-hatred, but only for a short while, and...
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#061 - The Whole Human: Dawn Cox from Prana PT
Dawn Cox at Prana Functional Manual Therapy (PranaPT.com) came to the PT profession later in her life, and brings to bear her experience connecting with human beings in various sectors of her life in her work now. At Prana, physical therapists treat the whole human being, and don't just reduce...
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#060 - The Most Dangerous Profession: Bob Fenster
Bob Fenster is a social studies teacher and a musician. I met him a bunch of years ago at aconference on the Arab Spring in Philly. He's a New Jersey boy, born and bred, but I still retain enough (professional) respect for him that I felt like asking him a few questions about how he addresses...
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Riverpod Crossover Episode—We're Still Here: Lee Francis IV
This is a crossover episode. These days I co-own 9 Panel Comics a comic book store with my friend Jon Darby. We buy and sell old and new comic books. We also produce a comic-related podcast. For this episode, I interview Lee Francis IV is the author of Ghost River, a graphic novel about the...
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#059 - What Makes A Canadian
While Part 1 focused mainly on mental health and constructive coping mechanisms to deal with anxiety and depression, in this episode we consider what so-called “American” values are —as opposed to Canadian values— and spend a good chunk of time critiquing the U.S. health care system. There's also...
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#058 - This Time is Different
I don’t know Sarah Jickling, but we talked for an hour about anxiety, depression, alter egos, pole-dancing, and just how goddamn big Canada is. I met her on Instagram, via the quirk of a misplaced hashtag. Not long ago, I loathed and readily excoriated social media and its tentacles, as they worm...
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SPECIAL - Come As You Are "Concert Album"
Here is a live album of sorts; Liz Fulmer and her band playing at Tellus360 on August 18, 2019, for the Come As You Are words and music event. This is just the music. SONG LIST 1) Come As You Are (Nirvana) Liz Fulmer: Vocals, Piano; Allan Dutton: Guitar. 2) Today (Smashing Pumpkins) Liz Fulmer:...
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#057 - Come As You Are Bonus Episode
In episode #56: Come As You Are: Words and Music, Jamie Beth Cohen and Liz Fulmer shared their thoughts on the live concert they gave at Tellus360. Here, What We Will Abide offers bonus material from the concert. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#056 - Come As You Are: Words and Music
Jamie Beth Cohen's Wasted Pretty is a YA novel set in 1992, a year in which grunge, indie pop, and new wave all seemed to get along. In a special live event at Lancaster's own Tellus 360 this past August, Cohen teamed up with local musician Liz Fulmer to present "Come As You Are," a concert…
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#055 - Waveland Chapter IV: Bridging Cultures
"If you want to see humanity at its most vulnerable, a refugee camp will give you that image." Mustafa Nuur immigrated to the US after a 10-year stay in a refugee camp in Kenya. He is originally from Mogadishu, Somalia and has lived in Lancaster PA since 2017. In chapter IV of What We Will…
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#054 - A WWWA Short (Person): JSS Takes a Seat
A certain 7-year-old explains his choice to sit out the Pledge of Allegiance at school. Music by Here Inside. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#053 - I've Got Work to Do: Rabbi Jack Paskoff
"It's all about the wrestling," Rabbi Jack Paskoff tells me, as we rattle up 95 North on our way home from Washington DC. He drives like a New Yorker: aggressive and confident with an air of 'I got this.' It's sort of the same way he serves his community–out front and fearless while also…
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#052 - Changing the World, One Taco at a Time
Though they were happy running Lancaster's favorite bottle shop and pizza joint, The Fridge, Zach Miller and Erin Schram decided to leave the United States after the election of 2016. Following a 2+ year sojourn in New Zealand, they have returned, seeking more time with family and the perfect…
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#051 - Waveland Chapter III: In One Place
It's easy to lose sight of privilege; if you're an American citizen, it's something you probably don't think about, ever. But Andrea Alarcon has thought about what it means to be a citizen every day of her life since she learned she couldn't get a driver's license at age 16. The obstacles only...
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#050 - American Cynic, Part 4
The fourth installment of the apparently ongoing series of interviews with my father, collectively entitled "American Cynic." In this episode, my father and I review an array of unpleasant encounters: with law enforcement officers; on the basketball court; and with mysterious, vehicle-napping...
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#049 - American Cynic, Part 3
The final installment of the American Cynic series surveys life in New York City in the first half of the 20th century: Mirrors shattered by errant baseball bats, squandered investment opportunities, and a street race for the ages. Also, why nobody is funny. Subscribe on iTunes Hosted on Acast.…
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#048 – American Cynic, Part 2
About year ago, I interviewed my father about his past, specifically his experience as a soldier in the Vietnam War. This time, I ask him to survey his 76 years as a lay critic of American foreign and domestic policy. The conversation ranges wide as my father ruminates on presidential doings and...
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#047 – On the Ground: Michael Deibert
Journalist Michael Deibert has called several countries --if not continents-- home, and has written several books, including In the Shadow of Saint Death: The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America's Drug War in Mexico, and most recently Haiti Will Not Perish: A Recent History, which came out…
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#046 – Am I Right?
In just a few short weeks the Stone Independent School will embark on our inaugural academic year. Two of the classes are my own creations: United States History through the lens of the economics of slavery; and the history of Israel/Palestine. I’m sharing my process for building these classes…
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#045 – Pain is Normal: Roey Shmool
This story is about pain, both mental and physical, and it’s about how these two kinds of pain are very much connected, despite our culture’s insistence that they’re not. It’s also about our unwillingness to admit that we’ve made mistakes, big mistakes, even though an admission would certainly…
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#044 – Anniversary
A year ago, I started this podcast, in which I interview people providing local solutions to systemic problems. My wife Jamie Beth, who has known me for nearly two decades, sees me as an introvert. So, to her, this has always seemed like a strange project to take on. In this episode, she asks me...
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#043 – A Working Government: Christina Hartman
I began my conversation with Christina Hartman as I always do, by telling the origin story of What We Will Abide, which involves seeing the world through despairing eyes. I was certainly surprised when she countered with a parallel story of her own that has played out along a similar timeline....
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#042 – Bill Maher Knows Nothing (About Islam)
Mahfuz Meherzad is the president of the United Islamic Association of Lancaster County and is an adjunct Political Science professor at Chestnut Hill College and Millersville University. Prof. Meherzad and I took part in a panel discussion back in May in which five representatives of different...
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#041 – Torah is Light: Aryeh Bernstein
Aryeh Bernstein is a Chicagoan, an Israeli citizen, a teacher, and a seeker of social justice. He wears his Judaism on his sleeve, as well as beneath his shirt. Each day he dons a “talit katan” with its fringes that hang from a traditional garment he wears beneath his outer clothing. It’s one of...
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#040 – Collapse Episode: Dr. Jim Delle
For a while now, I’ve frequently and ubiquitously espoused a theory derived largely from the work of Daniel Quinn which is this: Humans lived as hunter-gatherers for most of their existence on earth. Somewhere along the line, this way of life, built and maintained largely to be in harmony with…
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#039 – Character Assassination: Jeremiah Miller Revisits the Trial of Clay Shaw
Jeremiah Miller’s play, Guilty Parties of New Orleans, will be given a staged reading with seasoned actors this coming Friday night, April 28th, at Community Mennonite Church, as part of the Theater of the Seventh Sister Spoken Word series. It largely deals with the trial of Clay Laverne Shaw, a...
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#038 – Rep. Lloyd Smucker Invitation: Extended
A couple of months ago I made an amateur overture to Representative Lloyd Smucker of the 16th Congressional district of Pennsylvania to be a guest on What We Will Abide, but didn’t get a response. Perhaps I didn’t explain myself well enough the first time, so I’m giving it another go. Music by...
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#037 – Who Am I Here: Jocelyn Park of Lancaster Transplant
Jocelyn Park is originally a street punk Quaker from Delco (Delaware County, PA). She arrived in Lancaster, PA five years ago by way of Sydney, Australia, and found that starting over socially was a daunting prospect. Since then, she has launched Lancaster Transplant, a local organization…
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#036 – A Ministry of Presence: Rev. Susan Minasian
Last month, after nearly a decade as Franklin & Marshall College’s chaplain, Susan Minasian has moved on, back to her home state of Virginia, where she will serve as pastor at Sojourners United Church of Christ in Charlottesville. Her tireless work on the college campus and all across Lancaster...
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#035 – Running & Riding to Recall a Rapidly Fading Past
The fundamental flaw in our civilization is that it’s convinced itself that it’s the best way to live. But there are cracks in the drywall. In a conversation that starts off about running, veers into politics and concludes with donkeys, Christopher McDougall and I examine the damage. Then, a…
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#034 – Condemnation
The real story is corruption large and small: A Conestoga Board of Supervisors chairman appropriates $69 worth of mulch and doesn’t pay for it until 5 months later; the zoning board slaps The Stand’s barn with condemnation notices, seemingly out of the blue. What do these two events have in…
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#033 – Places Unknown; People Like Us
In December of 2008, I interviewed my father about his experience in Vietnam. Just this past summer, I interviewed him again for What We Will Abide and it appears as Episode 16, “American Cynic.” But, back in 2008 I also interviewed my mother about how she experienced his time in the Army. After...
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#032 – Waveland Chapter II: Far Away Home
The BBC recently noted that, per capita, Lancaster, PA absorbs and resettles more refugees than any other city in the United States. In fact, it’s part of the city’s heritage. Madap Sharma was one of those refugees who came to the U.S. with his family after fleeing his home country of Bhutan....
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#031 – An Invitation to Congressman Lloyd Smucker
Dear Congressman Lloyd Smucker, What We Will Abide is a Lancaster-based podcast which serves to tell stories about people who are providing local solutions to systemic problems. You want to solve local problems – that’s why you ran for congress. I invite you to take part in an interview for What…
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#030 – Waveland Chapter I: Shadow Children
We’re well into Trump’s first hundred days, a period of time in which the new President insisted that he would do away with President Obama’s executive order called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), enacted in 2012. The orders Trump has signed so far indicate that he’s going to…
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#029 – That Which Lies Buried
The Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline, a Williams Partners natural gas pipeline project (they’re from Tulsa, OK), has been in the works for a while now. The planned project route, though altered now several times, still runs right through the heart of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The local movement...
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#028 – Waveland: An Introduction
There’s a great deal of hypocrisy that permeates the conversation about immigration – but I don’t want to get into that. Instead, three separate people, all of whom I would classify as “Americans,” speak candidly about their experiences connecting with or living as immigrants in the U.S.A. Here I...
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#027 – Unforgetting: Christopher McDougall
Chris McDougall is well known for his 2009 book Born to Run, which, among many other things, tells the story of the Tarahumara (Rarámuri), the tribe who (literally) ran away from the Spanish Conquistadors in the 16th century – and never came back. The book features the stories of several colorful...
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#026 – Not a Young Man: Louis Cheney
Social critics come in all shapes, sizes and ages. Music by Ton-Taun. http://samschindler.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WWWA_026_121416.mp3 DOWNLOAD this episode SUBSCRIBE to this podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#025 – Bread and Other Things: Jordan Capizzi of Ton-Taun
Jordan Capizzi’s septet Ton-Taun has, in one form or another, been around for a decade. They happily play local gigs and have produced four albums. Their most recent enterprise is an EP entitled Sorry Brian: You’re Derek Now which will be released this weekend by means of a musical theater...
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#024 – Brother, I’m a Man: Andrew & Isaac Schlager
These days “Millennials” take a lot of flak from older generations, but some of them are mature and attentive to the world around them – in ways I certainly never was as a teenager. Identical twins Andrew and Isaac Schlager are self-aware and zealous about matters pertaining to social justice,...
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#023 – Movement
One thing that’s happening these days is that people who are distraught by the election results are banding together. They seem to be setting aside ideological differences which they now agree ultimately led to the election of a president they vehemently reject. A theme that is emerging among…
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#022 – Okay, Now We’re Awake
Let’s imagine you and I are in an empty room. You approach me and ask, “What happened? What do we do now?” First, I shake my head in derisive disbelief. Then, I put my own crap aside, throw my arms open and give you a big hug and say, “let’s get to work.”...
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Conversations with people providing local solutions to systemic problems, mostly in my adopted hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania: a place that somehow blends rustic and traditional with urban and progressive.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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