After 15 years, residents of Hoboken NJ are still waiting for construction to begin on their 9/11 Memorial. With the help of local reporters and city council meetings, Never Forget Radio takes you into the room where it happened – or didn’t happen. With special guests Emilie and Frank Sinatra. Music by Snow Caps, Erica Rubin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ol…

Never Forget Radio causes a live audience to suffer through the pregame ceremonies, halftime show, and uncomfortable resonances of Super Bowl XXXVI (2/3/02). Ft. Mariah Carey, Paul McCartney, Bono, and many decades of interrelated catastrophes. Recorded live at the Philadelphia Podcast Festival on 8/27/16. Thanks to Tattooed Moms, Bridgeset Sound, …

The Directorate for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict cordially requests the presence of your company in the Pentagon Screening Room on August 27th, 2003: “How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas. . . . Children shoot soldiers at point blank range. Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon the entire Arab population build…

Can Marcel Ophuls’ 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” about the French resistance in Occupied France (1940-1944) help us understand the occupation of Palestine (1967-present)? Sibling pods Humble Mumbles and Never Forget Radio investigate in this joint episode. Featuring audio from the 1940s to the present, bombastic movie trailers, Suez Cr…

Can Marcel Ophuls’ 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” about the French resistance in Occupied France (1940-1944) help us understand the occupation of Palestine (1967-present)? Sibling pods Humble Mumbles and Never Forget Radio investigate in this joint episode. Featuring audio from the 1940s to the present, bombastic movie trailers, Suez Cr…

In this two part episode – two parts because I went on so long honoring twin obsessions with the Civil War and the Bush Family – Never Forget Radio examines the 1868 painting The Peacemakers and George H.W. Bush’s official portait, both which hang in the White House, as well as peace and peacemaking. Featuring President Bush, President Clinton, Pre…

In this two part episode – two parts because I went on so long honoring twin obsessions with the Civil War and the Bush Family – Never Forget Radio examines the 1868 painting The Peacemakers and George H.W. Bush’s official portait, both which hang in the White House, as well as peace and peacemaking. Featuring President Bush, President Clinton, Pre…

Never Forget Radio returns to Westchester, NY to examine its 9/11 memorial and the Bruce Springsteen song it’s named after. Featuring tasteful sculptures, a pyramidal dam, bike transport, grindr profiles, the uses of others, and an oasis of horror in a desert of boredom. Music by local legends. http://archive.org/download/19_the_rising/19_The_Risin…

“Attention Passengers: Look Up, Speak Up. You can report any suspicious activity at your station or vehicle by dialing #1776. Let’s help keep each other and our transit system safe, and secure.” An episode about this transit slogan. Recorded live at the 36th Street Septa trolley station in West Philadelphia Features “Suspicious Package” by No One a…

Never Forget Radio explores an unusual 9/11 memorial, the USS New York – a US Navy ship built with steel from the World Trade Center. Features 1940s alpha-narrators, Jacqueline the submarine, big sticks, tragedy branding, drone advertising, and a magic sword. Music by Andrew Keller. http://ia601402.us.archive.org/12/items/17_ship_of_state/17_Ship_o…

For WWI’s 100th anniversary, Never Forget Radio examines Walter Benjamin’s Angel of History, infirm empires, unconscious repetition, traumatic day residue, and the most wellknown American film about Iraq. Recorded live at the Philadelphia Podcast Festival, at Tattooed Moms on South St, on August 24th 2014. Special thanks to Nathan Kuruna, the Phila…

A collaborative series revisiting post-9/11 art begins with guest appearances by Marcus Brown and Rebecca Katherine Hirsch, examining a novel from 2003, a popular song from 1889, and the horrifying boredom and relentless terror of being alive. Music by Blown Away, Old Table, and found truck sounds. http://ia902302.us.archive.org/4/items/15_loomings…

The 9/11 Memorial Museum is finally about to open – but did you know that there has been a statue of a U.S. Special Forces soldier on horseback a block away from Ground Zero since 2011? “Sounds like something out of a movie. But this is real. This happened.” – Joe Biden, at the dedication ceremony for the America’s Response Monument. Music by Dave …

Never Forget Radio’s Post-9/11 Sports Quadrilogy (9/13/01-4/1/14) concludes with Irish Tenor Ronan Tynan’s rise and fall and rise. A year after the Boston Marathon Bombing, we revisit recycled baseball recovery narratives, regionalist sloganeering, and “God Bless America” (again). Music by fan recordings from stadiums, tributes, and parades, plus O…

Two dueling politicized anthems face off at the Yankees’ first home game after 9/11. Will “We Shall Overcome” or “God Bless America” become the new tradition at sports remembrance ceremonies? Spoilers. Featuring Kate Smith, Richard Nixon, & Michael Bolton, who actually comes off quite well. http://ia601207.us.archive.org/21/items/12_while_the_storm…

“It Feels Like A USO Show”: Mike Piazza and the Home Run that Healed the City. With jokes, allegations, and queer meditations. Music by bagpipes. http://ia600506.us.archive.org/13/items/11_welcome_to_never_-never_forget_radio/11_Welcome_to_Never_Forget_Sports_Radio.mp3By Bookstyle Publications

NFR presents a long-threatened episode about a single tweet. Sappily celebrating ephemera, certain disaster and the Mountain Goats since 2013. #feelings. “Who, if he knew what 2013 will bring, would celebrate its arrival?” – Joyce Carol Oates, tweet, 12/29/12 http://ia601000.us.archive.org/25/items/10_who_if_he_knew/10_Who_If_He_Knew.mp3…

The first major spectator event to reopen after the attacks? WWF Smackdown, 9/13/01. Never Forget Radio begins a new series examining post-9/11 sports pageantry with this professional wrestling competition. Featuring President Obama’s first appearance on the show, bubbles, drapers, wakes, and music by Old Table. Special thanks to Corey Bechelli, Sa…

Never Forget Radio remembers what George Bush was reading in 2006. With Karl Rove as Polonius and music by TURBOSLEAZE. Special thanks to Mordecai Martin, Gatsby, Emilie Friedman, and Rebecca Katherine Hirsch. http://ia601900.us.archive.org/10/items/8_books_books_book/8_Books_Books_Books.mp3By Bookstyle Publications

A tribute to the Tribute in Light and New York, New York. Part 3 of Empty Sky Rising, an ongoing series that examines 9/11 memorials around the country. Music by Old Table, Cave Cricket, and No One and the Somebodies. Special thanks to Miles Donovan, Emilie Friedman, Gatsby, and Rebecca Katherine Hirsch http://ia601002.us.archive.org/20/items/7_the…

[Trigger Warning: Police Violence and Imprisonment.] Oral history interview with activist Emilie Friedman on her arrest and detention at the 2004 Republican National Convention. Part 2. Invest in Plastic Handcuffs by No One and the Somebodies It’s So Hard to Remember and Party Music by Old Table http://ia601009.us.archive.org/31/items/6b_definite_d…

[Trigger Warning: Police Violence and Imprisonment.] Oral history interview with activist Emilie Friedman on her arrest and detention at the 2004 Republican National Convention. Part 1. Invest in Plastic Handcuffs by No One and the Somebodies. Themes by Old Table. http://ia601903.us.archive.org/27/items/6a_plastic_handcuffs/6A_Plastic_Handcuffs-_Em…

Part 2 of an ongoing series that examines 9/11 memorials around the country. In this episode: The Empty Sky Memorial in NJ, “Empty Sky” by Bruce Springsteen, and an enormous unexpected explosion. Music by Cave Cricket, Old Table, and Bruce Springsteen. http://ia601002.us.archive.org/35/items/5_empty_sky_rising_p/5_Empty_Sky_Rising_pt_2_tunnel_of_fe…

Never Forget Radio presents part 1 of an ongoing series that examines 9/11 memorials around the country. This first installment features musings on conceptual art, Trayvon Martin, Percy Shelley, Maya Lin, Bruce Springsteen, and George Washington’s teeth. Music by Cave Cricket and Old Table. http://ia600906.us.archive.org/28/items/4_empty_sky_rising…

Unearthing Operation Red Dawn, the 2003 mission that captured Saddam Hussein, and its fictional antecedent, Red Dawn, the 1984 film starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. Plus, gay poetry & Soviet movie music. With Rebecca Katherine Hirsch as Mike Davis, John Milius, Captain Geoffrey McMurray, &co. Ft. Allen Ginsberg, George W. Bush, Jennifer G…

An examination of Bush’s autobiography Decision Points and the power of the redemptive protagonistic narrative. Ft. special guests Mo Tucker, Al Gore, and more! Music by Old Table http://ia800905.us.archive.org/20/items/2_congratulations_to/2_Congratulations_to_the_Class_of_2001.mp3By Bookstyle Publications

Introductory pilot episode, with Rumsfeld dictation, CFK-style Statement of Principles, and historiographical exhortation. Music by Old Table http://ia601901.us.archive.org/22/items/1_invocation_-_thing/1_Invocation_-_Things_Related_and_Not.mp3By Bookstyle Publications