Mandate From God

Ash enjoys incredible hospitality by Reed. Featuring an amazing charcuterie board, a curated living room, and two cute as button cats! She talks to Reed about interior design, the 'complications' of diabetes, jewelry design, the importance of community, and gets a personal tour of some amazing trinkets.

Ash & Dhiv meet up at the JP Pond to talk about JP, Hot Cheeto Girls, the rising trend of 'Unc', Veganism in America vs other countries, words that rhyme with 'Logo', Graphic design and the 'Blank Streetification' of brands, Boston Cafe interior design, and friendship :)

Ash sits down with Buh & Beh. As well as 'Boston's Sticker Lady' known as Mae. Who has used sticker art and her own raw power to start building community in Boston. The duo sit in her bedroom and talk growing up queer in Tennessee, working with JobCore, firefighting in Montana, how to fight apathy, HipHop, the video game Destiny, Christianity, personalization + how to let others in on the fun, and how to push oneself to pursue goals.

Ash meets in the middle of the Charles River the illusive artist currently known as 'Dog Shooter' They talk graffiti, UrbEX - Fashion- the ugly underbelly of being young & queer in Boston Mass, and exchange free style raps, as well as exchange a single braincell trying to come up with an 'S" word for 'Fake & Surface Level'

Ash seemingly talks to herself because the individual involved with this recording was a poor sport and wanted to scrap the recording the next day.. which is fitting with the themes revealed by the conversation.

Ash & J meet in a skatepark at midnight to talk music, The Beach Boys, self expression in relation to lyricism, and to share space with each other.

FOAM

Ash reunites with Patricia in Jeffery's Point East Boston to have a late night catchup over some diet coke. They talk ABBA, getting bumped into, glasses, style, and conversation itself.

Ash meets Rob- also known as Jackie Sparkles. They talk about Rob's history being a safe haven for kids and how that was influenced from their own life. Fighting games. Old fighting films. Archiving vinyl collections to pay heritage. And ways to be a community leader and fight loneliness with a joystick.

Ash & Alice meet in the hallways of the prudential center to talk about Boston/Inside scoops on Boston businesses/The validity of trust & the validity of language - purpose - and hiphop.

Foxes are cute and so is MIT hacking

After meeting for the first time over brunch, Ash & Paige talk audio gear, post rock, kendrick lamar, philosophy, and purpose.

Frankie or SpiTZ is a mixed media animator who is studying to become an art teacher.

Ash sits back with Tamari & Christian and joins in on their eternal jam session as part of Ash's mandate from god.

Alex Western is my roommate, my oldest friend, and a real smart cookie. For the episode 000 of my Mandate from God audio journey I tasked him to interview me about the project & we went from there.