After a 22-year talk-radio career, TD Mischke escapes his soundproof booth and hits the road in search of adventure, eccentrics, whimsy and insights. Instead of bringing life into the radio studio, he decides to head out and meet it on its own terms, letting the gypsy call guide him. The Mischke Roadshow features podcasts, videos, writing, and photography. Find it all at www.mischkeroadshow.com @tommymischke on Twitter.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 173 / An American Life
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A poor boy in the 40s finds his salvation in baseball and radio.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 172 / Strangers
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Thoughts from the world of anonymity.
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A man who's been a commercial fisherman for over 80 years presents a meditation on the concept of work.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 170 / Awe
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Following hundreds of thousands of Americans on their great pilgrimage to the total solar eclipse.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 169 / The way, way back machine
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Taking a trip in time, to a golden age of radio.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 168 / Midnight
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Midnight: No time of day comes with more meaning, mystery, lore, or emotion.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 167 / The River
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When life hands you what you're never looking for.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 166 / "Once You've Had an Experience..."
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It's awfully silly stuff, ...until it's awfully real.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 165 / What the...
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It's a weird wild wacky world.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 164 / Lost
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Pondering the universal human experience of feeling lost, or losing something.By TD Mischke
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 163 / Before Sunset
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The life affirming high of romantic intimacy in one's 80s and 90s
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 162 / Leonard
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A depressed old man seeks renewal and transformation at the State Fair
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 161 / Turn it up, Radio
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A look back at those grand old radio days.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 160 / Tales from the Toilet
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For a decade, it's been a part of every single road trip, but I've not spoken of it until now.
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Looking for our place in time, while being rushed through an all too brief existence.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 158 / The Dissonance
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Pulling aside the cardboard sign, once again, and sitting down with the person behind it.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 157 / Jingle Jungle
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We've been serenaded by ads all of our lives. Music and merchandise, a marriage made in hell.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 156 / Space Cowboy
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Buckle up, and come marvel at the life of a mystical artist, maverick scientist, and genius mathematician.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 155 / Music
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Forty shows after our last visit, another music confab with John Heidt and Brian Oake.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 154 / Promise Potential & Possibility
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Creating in the sandbox of a friendly universe.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 153 / Moose
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The story of a dog, a neighborhood, and a family.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 152 / The Canadian
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A trip to Nova Scotia brings a visit with a Canadian who has a whole lot to say about that big ol' neighbor to the south.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 151 / Shetland Girl
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A young woman grows up with two worlds competing inside her, and plants a flag in the world that won.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 150 / That Montana Feeling
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A nostalgic return to America's "last best place."
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 149 / Into the Great Wide Ocean
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A summer trip to Martha's Vineyard offers a rare opportunity to take the Roadshow out of an old beat-up vehicle, and into an old beat-up boat.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 148 / Ridin' with Jack
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On the road, with the ghost of Kerouac, 100 years after his birth.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 147 / Story Town
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The music here is all about the stories, they say. So, sit back and hear a tale or two.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 146 / Appalachia
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Pointing my car toward the Southeast, and allowing the wheels to roll me back to another time, another place, another sound.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 145 / The Playground of Radio
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Turning the dial to the station of my imagination
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 144 / The Cemetery
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Getting far more comfortable with the graveyard. Perhaps it's time.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 143 / Blurred Lines
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Agreeing to pretend: Our unusual relationship with TV and film
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 142 / The Freemasons
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A peek inside the world's oldest fraternal order.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 141 / The Falls
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The death-defying, life-affirming, mysterious waters of existence.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 140 / The Old Country
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Finding country music roads, and goin' back in time.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 139 / The Gig
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The agony and ecstasy of making music.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 138 / Retrospective
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A look back on the Roadshow years, as this monthly podcast nears its final program.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 137 / Biggest Story Ever
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The great paradigm shift. Who's ready?
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 136 / Life, Pain, Love
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A dying man yearns for an elusive gift from his wife and his daughters.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 135 / The Final Frontier
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Car broke down, so I'm taking out the spaceship.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 134 / This is Nowhere
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The official state motto of Nebraska is, "Honestly, We're Not For Everyone." ...Well neither is this show.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 133 / Birth of an Artist
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A Ugandan child, born in the slums, follows the sound of music, to salvation.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 132 / Monster Country
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A tale from the alley, after dark...
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 131 / Car Stories
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"Every car's a stage, and all drivers merely players." - Shakes beer
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 130 / Old Lost America
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As the sun sets on our past, I chase it in my old Chrysler.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 129 / Magical Mystery Tour
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...When life takes you for that ride you never saw coming
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 128 / The Deer Hunter
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A road trip into an American dream.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 127 / The Basement
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In this month of Halloween, a Saint Paul horror story from 1963.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 126 / The Trucker
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Cowboys of the highway, riding high in the saddle.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 125 / Luck
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An old car, an aimless road trip, and throwing one's fate to the gods.
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The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 124 / Cowboy Sammie
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In Prichard Alabama there's a man with a story to tell. It's worth hearing. No spoilers. Just listen.
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