This week on Missouri Loves Company, Cynthia Fails teaches how to run a publication, write books for kids, and just be generally awesome. Thanks for checking in!By Brock Wilbur & Vivian Kane

Rachel McCarthy James (@rmccarthyjames) joins us to discuss her award-winning book The Man From The Train, and how her and her father solved a 100+ year old serial killer case. Then, there is a discussion of how axe murders are more common than you think. Because that's what Rachel does. She's an axe murderer. JK. Or maybe not? Tune in!…

Community organizer Leslie Butsch from Planned Parenthood Great Plains stops by to talk about talking to politicians, phone banks, holding rallies, and generally making sure people don't forget that reproductive rights are under attack. Viv and Brock talk about the highs and lows of lobbying at the state capitol with Leslie, and then some slightly …

Brock Wilbur and Vivian Kane are back, chatting with Adam Roberts who co-created KC's famous Panic Fest. The film festival runs this weekend and showcases international premieres for horror, sci-fi, and thriller films. We talk about the politics in flyover festivals, avoiding torture porn, Suspiria live-jams, rehabbing old theaters, and so much mor…

Author Orrin Grey stops by for a Halloween episode with Brock Wilbur and Vivian Kane. Yeah, our Halloween episode is coming out on November 7th. That's fine. We also talk some bad anger words about someone that we already know lost the election for their missteps. We're all bummed. This Halloween nonsense should be fun. Goddammit. Goddammit. Anyway…

Vivian Kane and Brock Wilbur do a rare call-in episode with Jonathan Bradley Welch. As a brutally informed, former political operative, he's the guest that this week requires. Issues from across the entire administration are tackled in order of crushing emotional pain, and then JBW discusses ways to get involved and/or an episode of Unsolved Myster…

Vivian Kane and Brock Wilbur are talking to folks about politics and politically charged activities in the KC area. Also they ramble about reality TV this week in A Diatribe. But the guest is incredible. Rachel Gonzalez, a 19-year-old from Kansas City, Mo., is one of the youngest delegates at the Democratic National Convention. She represented Hill…

Vivian Kane and Brock Wilbur are talking to folks about politics and politically charged activities in the KC area. Abby Olcese is a writer and critic for sites like Birth.Movies.Death and some outlets with a more religious bent on pop-culture. The group talks about finding common grounds and, you know, when you shouldn't. Then Trump's KC visit is.…

Vivian Kane and Brock Wilbur are talking to folks about politics and politically charged activities in the KC area. Matthew Hoppock is an immigration attorney who navigates the treacherous world of post-Trump legal nightmares, and all the extended issues that arrive from an administration in total disarray. The status of nationwide immigration law …

Vivian Kane and Brock Wilbur are joined this week by the team behind Flyover Indies: Charlotte Trible & Joe Hanna. They run multiple events each year, highlighting the indie game scene in KC and the Midwest, while also working on a diverse genre of creations together. Brock does his best to define all the gamer-speak you might not know and someone …

Welcome to Season 2! Vivian Kane and Brock Wilbur are joined this week by Edgar Palacios, who is THE non-profit guy in Kansas City. We talk about the Lantinx experience in the Midwest, how to best serve a community, and how much weight you can lose post-divorce. It's a fun time!By Brock Wilbur & Vivian Kane

Vivian Kane and Brock Wilbur are joined this week by Francis Horton of What A Hell of a Way To Die (https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/francis-horton/what-a-hell-of-a-way-to-die) podcast, where two leftist military dudes talk about what we're doing wrong as a country. Brock interviewed them (https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/03/what-a-hell-…

Jessica Hagge and Bryan Moses and two KC based improv actors, playwrights, comedians, etc. Vivian Kane and Brock Wilbur just got to Kansas City, and Bryan/Jess are headed from Kansas City to LA. We discuss what kind of confidence you need to make that commitment at this point and then Brock and Vivian try to both help and scare Bryan/Jess. There ar…

Kinzie Ferguson (The Empowerment Photographer) comes by to make Vivian Kane and Brock Wilbur look at their butts and do some giggling. We talk about her boudoir photography career, attempting to be better Wokelike white folks, meeting folks over spaghetti, and how to not let depression keep you from being a cool chill person. Check out Kinzie's wor…

KC Comedian Anna May Smith stops by the show to talk to Vivian Kane and Brock Wilbur about season depression, volunteering, the darkness the dwells within us, and so much more.By Brock Wilbur & Vivian Kane

Stephanie Carey and her husband Adam Carey have purchased the Kansas City alternative newspaper THE PITCH back from a media consortium, and now media nerds from KC own the local voice of the people again. Stephanie talks to Brock Wilbur and Vivian Kane about a life in media, including the worst first day on a job of all time, and the process by whi…

Philip Stewart Meyer is a local KC TV journalist who covers the Zoo and gets to pet penguins, but his main gig is working at the award-winning Boulevard Brewery where he gives tours and gets paid to do beer. So that's what he brought for show and tell to Viv and Brock's place. We sample an array of beers and Philip explains to Brock why he should s…

Tahir Atwater (@TahirKC) is a recruiter for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kansas City (https://www.bbbskc.org/) who has been working with the program for more than a decade. Now, he talks to Vivian Kane and Brock Wilbur about their process in getting a kid and shares stories about the highs and lows of what he's seen during his time, including the jo…

Kelly Jacobsen (@kansassy) has a very similar background story to Vivian and Brock, but she's been at it for a while. She bounced from Kansas to the East Coast and is now back and helping out on Democratic political campaigns. We ask what it takes to get people to keep chipping in for campaigns that have near guaranteed rate of failure in service o…

Brock's high school buddy Nik Stavropoulos is now a local lawyer trying to make KC a better place, so he sits down with Vivian Kane and Brock Wilbur to discuss what the heck is going on in local politics, including the Democrats running in Kansas' election next year and why the eyes of the country will be upon us. Also: jokes!…

KC film critic Adrian Torres (@YoAdrianTorres) joins Vivian Kane and Brock Wilbur to discuss films and critics and get critical about both. As Alamo Drafthouse is a good time. Honestly, there was some wine and I don't totally remember this one. I think it was pretty good. Also, politics is complicated still in the Midwest and we can do better? We c…

In an episode with just Vivian Kane and Brock Wilbur, the couple discusses mixing families (and politics) over the Thanksgiving holiday. Everyone tries their best with somewhat predictable outcomes. Mental Health: it can protec but also attac! We love our family very much please don't be embarrassed that we talked about you being people with people…

KC record store owner and life-long resident Marion Merritt (https://recordswithmerritt.com/) joins Vivian Kane and Brock Wilbur to discuss the vinyl industry, a history of loving music, Black Friday, the neighborhood they share, men behaving badly, David Bowie, and so much more. Like and support Merritt here (https://www.facebook.com/recordswithme…

Godfrey Riddle (http://godfreyriddle.com/) was just named to Kansas City's 30 Under 30 list for his work in volunteering for what seems to be absolutely everyone. From art, to literature, to women's shelters to the KC Ballet; Godfrey is the man behind the curtain on anything and everything in this city. The Group talks representation and taxation a…

New to the show? This is where to get started. Vivian Kane and Brock Wilbur got married. Now they've moved to Kansas City from Los Angeles and this is them figuring out what the show is going to be about (lots of things) and maybe fighting but like in a cute way that everyone finds enjoyable, right? Anyway, welcome... to the resistance. Or whatever…