Musician Jerry Chapman and Alternative Records’ Randy Layton come Back By the Woodpile to talk about the upcoming releases of unearthed recordings of Two Pound...
(artwork by Joseph Qui) Journey to the West researcher Jim R. McClanahan returns to the Woodpile, this time to talk all about Zhu Bajie aka...
Musician and poet Steve Scott is back, this time to talk about the cultural and spiritual developments that he got to witness in 1960’s and...
Musician and poet Steve Scott comes Back By The Woodpile to talk about not only the messages and history of the Gospel of John but...
Documentary director Jaime Prater talks about his film “No Place To Call Home” which explores the over 70 children and teenagers who claimed to have...
We’re back in the 1980s talking baseball, football, soccer, karate and one family’s escape from communist Vietnam. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To...
We’re back in our favorite decade to talk Prodigal, Bourgeois Tagg and Steve Scott, all with help from TrueTunes.com‘s John J Thompson! To hear on...
Artist and musician Jace Seavers tell his epic story of living nearly a decade in the Jesus People USA commune in Chicago. Consisting of good...
Law and Liberty‘s Brian Smith joins us to talk about religion, government, history, objectivism and integralism, how they can get along and how they often...
During the shelter in place mandate during the Covid-19 pandemic, one Chicagoan, David Greene, offers hope by serenading the city each night at 6 pm....
The nature of silence, not being fond of children, recognizing one’s own deficiencies, the laying-low wisemen and much more are what we get up to...
Knowing others through their written words, trapped inside of time within a small room, enemies using your past words against you and other troubles are...
The 1980’s had their share of parties, fights and bullies, of which we’re going to get a earful via another ensemble guest episode! To...
Like many of us during this crazy pandemic, we at the Brophisticate are often looking to our phones for means of escape. Being cooped up...
We’re back in Evansville, Indiana getting a tour of an long-gone electrical motor shop where the characters, life lessons and laughs were plentiful. To hear...
Jawa Script is an intergalactic DJ not good enough to turn down any gigs but seems to have a good time doing it all the...
There’s so many charities and government programs that might give some aid but in the process foster dependency or encourage fraud. One organization has become...
Just two short weeks ago, America ran on Duncan. Now, with coffee grinders at a halt, we’re asking #WTF since #WFH. It’s been over a...
Educator Derek Luptak lets us ride sidecar alongside Ulysses and his crew as he gets in a tangle with cyclops, sirens, goddesses, bad weather, time,...
German businessman Heinrich Schliemann was so obsessed by the epics of Homer that he read 100 hexagrams of the Iliad at his second wedding (not...
Lin Zhao was an enthusiastic member of the Chinese Communist Party but in time her comrades would sentence her to death. Professor Xi Lian comes...
Brenton Dickieson of A Pilgrim in Narnia comes Back By The Woodpile to talk about C.S. Lewis, his work The Great Divorce and how it...
Author Lisa See comes Back By the Woodpile to give us a history lesson on the Korean Jeju Island, the Haenyeo women divers and how...
Two cataclysmic events took place on this, the morning of March 9, 2020, which are sure to rock our world for some time. Firstly, the...
Just last week, while walking around C2E2, the preeminent comicon for comic books and entertainment in Chicago, we happened upon an inviting booth which contained...
We’re going back to school, sharing mostly stories of teachers- the good, the bad and the foxy- we had back in the 1980’s! To...
Professor Ricardo Pau-Llosa returns back to the Woodpile to share some of his poetry, his thoughts on some of his art collection and on the...
Stories of working in the 80’s! On farms, in restaurants, grocery stores and in even at space camp. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To...
Deferred dreams, liars enslaved by their words and the tyrants in all of us is what we’re talking about on this philosophical episode! To hear...
Taneya Koonce comes on the podcast to talk about her adventures in genealogy. We’ll talk about shaking stories out of the family tree, the challenges...