[art by Mikhaila Markham; photos from Nashville on 4/6/2023 & from the summer of 2020, Teacher On The Radio with Justin Jones]
-aired on WTTU 88.5 FM The Nest on Saturday, April 8, 2023
-audio archive drops after live episode
Excerpt from Deadline with Nicole Wallace featuring John Lewis & Justin Jones
Violent Femmes - No Killing
Excerpt from students speaking in the rain, early in the morning, on Legislative Plaza on Thursday, April 6, 2023, recorded live by Teacher On The Radio
The Boomtown Rats - I Don’t Like Mondays
Excerpt from Charlie Kirk (founder of TPUSA) speaking on the calculated and “acceptable” fact of gun deaths for the alleged good having guns (this is the adversarial view contrast & context), retrieved from Twitter
Steve Earle - The Devil’s Right Hand
Excerpt from Justin Pearson speaking outside on Legislative Plaza after his expulsion, Thursday evening, April 6, 2023, retrieved from Twitter
Sage, Kesha, & CHIKA - Safe
Excerpt from House Speaker Cameron Sexton comparing March 30th, 2023 to January 6, 2021, from Deadline with Nicole Wallace, retrieved from Twitter
Sunny War w/ Allison Russell & Chris Pierce - Hopeless
Excerpt from Democracy Now on Friday, April 7, featuring Justin Jones and hosted by Amy Goodman, includes questioning from our Cookeville representative Ryan Williams
Crys Matthews - Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers
Excerpt from Democracy Now on Friday, April 7, featuring Justin Jones and hosted by Amy Goodman
Natalie Merchant - Tower of Babel
Crys Matthews - Changemakers
Excerpt of Justin Pearson speaking to reporters immediately after expulsion on Thursday, April 6, immediately after expulsion, retrieved from Twitter
Crys Matthews - We Must Be Free
Andrew talks back the first hour of this episode
Willie Nelson - The Troublemaker
Excerpt from Democracy Now on Friday, April 7, featuring Justin Pearson and hosted by Amy Goodman, includes questioning from representative Andrew Farmer from East Tennessee
Adeem the Artist - Heritage of Arrogance
Excerpt from my friend Jonathan Martin’s Zeitcast “Preaching to the Dead in a Graveyard on Good Friday Night,” in the section where he calls out the recent attacks on the trans community as demonic
The Mountain Goats - Solidarity Forever
(this song may switch the theme and vibe of this episode but I had to include it because I heard John Darnielle and the Mountain Goats perform this in deep red Alabama for the recent strike at Warrior Met Coal. Nonbinary “cast iron pansexual” Adeem the Artist was the opening act)
An excerpt of my friend David Dark doing a livestream on recent events, retrieved from Twitter
Eric Hutchison - Right Side of History
Possessed By Paul James - When It Breaks
TN Brando - “Stand With The Tennessee Three”
An excerpt from my friend and teacher Paige La Grone Babcock, speaking in the rain, early in the morning, on Legislative Plaza on Thursday, April 6, 2023, recorded live by Teacher On The Radio
Holly Near & Ronnie Gilbert - Singing for Our Lives
American Aquarium - A Better South
An excerpt of expelled representative Justin Pearson appearing on All In with Chris Hayes on Friday, April 7, 2023
The Lumineers - Democracy
Playing for Change featuring Keb Mo, Grandpa Elliot, & the Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Down By The Riverside
