We recently completed our first season but with the holidays upon us, we wanted to put out a bonus episode focused on Halloween. We hope you enjoy this bit of fun from The Mike and Mari Show featuring our hosts, comedians Michael Bossier and Mari Magaloni Ramos. The Mike and Mari Show was recorded and broadcast during the pandemic and was on the air for three years. Here are a few sketches that we hope will make you smile and lift your spirits. As always, the lights are on. Come on in.

Here are few links to explore:

www.themikeandmarishow.com

With this episode we conclude our first season by talking with Bruce Neuburger, activist, educator and author of “Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California” and “Postcards to Hitler” which draws on his family’s extraordinary history of resistance to the Nazi regime and reminds us of the importance of confronting hatred and injustice in our own time. We also include a satirical sketch (just a hint: she's back...) and a musical segment. We end with a conversation with the podcast creators as they reflect on the season: what they learned, their favorite moments and what they will take with them from this work. We hope you enjoyed all of our episodes and would love to hear from you at podandcountry@uusf.org. For now, come and join us for our season finale. As always, the lights are on...come on in!

Here are a few links to explore:

Bruce Neuburger

https://sfseniorbeat.com/2024/10/21/bruce-neuburger-the-life-of-a-student-radical-turned-farmworker-turned-author/

Vanessa Ruth Southern

https://vanessarushsouthern.com/

The Mike and Mari Show

:www.themikeandmarishow.com

The Tiger Club

www.tigerclubband.org

First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco

https://www.uusf.org/

YouTube Channel Playlist

https://t.ly/Pod&Country-YouTube

Other Pod and Country episodes

http://bit.ly/3TDFpmv

Last month, we interviewed Professor Bill Ong Hing, founder of the Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic. Professor Hing had a lot to say about our broken immigration system. He suggested things we can do to participate in the fight against mass deportations including showing up for protests, accompanying immigrants to their scheduled court hearings and perhaps most important, to keep humanizing the issue by sharing the stories of the people most directly affected by the MAGA immigration policies.

So in addition to our usual satire, music and final reflection from Rev. Vanessa, we decided to devote this episode to sharing a few of these stories. We collaborated with Guillermina Castellanos and Francisco Herrera, Co-founders of Nuevo Sol Day Labor and Domestic Worker Center, who introduced us to some friends that generously agreed to share some stories of overcoming, of what it means to hope and dream, and what it takes to build a good life. Our goal isn’t to explain, or argue -for or attempt to prove the worthiness or the humanity of the people whose stories you will hear. What is in question at this moment in our history, is our own humanity.

So breathe, settle and come on in!

Here are a few links in case you want to dive a little deeper:

Nuevo Sol

https://www.instagram.com/nuevo_sol_sf/

“I Cannot Sleep” Jon Fromer and Francisco Herrera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNR2o2DPCrA

Francisco Herrera

https://franciscoherreramusic.com/

https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-immigrant-undocumented-workers-defend/

Jon Fromer

https://www.youtube.com/JonFromer

First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco

https://www.uusf.org/

Vanessa Rush Southern

https://vanessarushsouthern.com/

The Tiger Club

www.tigerclubband.org

The Mike and Mari Show

www.themikeandmarishow.com

Pod and Country YouTube Channel Playlist

https://t.ly/Pod&Country-YouTube

Other Pod and Country episodes

http://bit.ly/3TDFpmv