The Longwave Home

InnerstandingWe say “I understand” all the time. But what do we really mean? Is understanding simply knowing the facts? Is it agreement? Experience? Perspective? And what happens when all the information in the world still doesn’t help something make sense?Episode Nine of The Longwave Home explores the curious, complicated and deeply human business of understanding ourselves, each other, and the world around us.The Longwave Home Episode #09“Innerstanding”Performed by The Free River Players Composed & Directed by d’PhilipProduced & Engineered by Griffin RodriguezExecutive Producers Kelly & MargaretArt Direction by CassDEDICATIONThis episode is dedicated to Understanding.
Wherever we may find it, may we always leave a little room for it.Feature Interviews:Chris Hawkings- Reel People/Real Stories www.voteforyourlives.orgDiana Arbux- Nevada County Arts & Culture www.nevadacountysrts.orgAnna Barney-Chalmers- Anna’s Sugar Shack, Nevada County, California www.senditfoundation.orgCarrie L’Esperance and YELLOWOOD, a rustic nature reserve and eco-retreat in Northern California. www.carrielesperance.comFOR DETAILED PROGRAM INFORMATION (Including music credit, cast, and legal information) PLEASE VISIT:https://www.dphilip.com/ep-09

“Did You Hear What I Heard?”The world is saying an awful lot, even when nobody’s talking. This time on The Longwave Home, we tune into the words, music, noise, silence, and everything in between.THE LONGWAVE HOMEEpisode #08 "Did You Hear I Heard?"Performed by The Free River PlayersComposed & Directed by d’PhilipProduced & Engineered by Griffin RodriguezExecutive Producers Kelly & Margaret Art Direction by Cass DEDICATIONBecause you’re tuned into The Longwave Home and you’re listening to it right now… we dedicate our efforts to be heard by you.Thank you.FOR MORE INFORMATION (including music, casting, and legal notice) PLEASE VISIT:https://www.dphilip.com/lwhep07

A river floods. A town begins to rebuild.In the aftermath, the people of Free River reckon with loss, uncertainty, change, and the stubborn human tendency to carry on. Along the way, we hear from people rebuilding their lives after disaster, recovering from addiction, caring for loved ones, pursuing social change, and facing the ordinary hardships that come with being human.Some challenges are personal. Others belong to families, communities, and even nations. Some arrive without warning. Others unfold over years. Yet beneath them all is the same enduring question: What happens after the crisis passes?Through stories, conversations, music, and reflection, The Longwave Home explores the many ways people persist, adapt, rebuild, and continue forward.How do people keep going after life doesn’t go according to plan?The Longwave Home Episode #07“The Wake of The Flood”Performed by The Free River Players Composed & Directed by d’PhilipProduced & Engineered by Griffin RodriguezExecutive Producers Kelly & Margaret Art Direction by CassDEDICATIONFor the survivors of tragedy and calamity, and for the people who keep showing up day after day…Your resilience, your perseverance, and your willingness to carry on inspire us more than you know.Thank you.FOR MORE SHOW INFORMATION (Including music credits, cast, and legal information) PLEASE VISIT:https://www.dphilip.com/ep07

What are we loyal to... and why?In Episode 6, The Company We Keep, The Flags We Fly, we spend some time thinking about loyalty; where it comes from, what it asks of us, and why it remains such a powerful force in human life.From the folks of Free River to the foothills beyond, this month’s transmission gathers stories, observations, questions, and a few surprises along the way.After all, loyalty has a way of revealing itself in the things we keep showing up for.The Longwave HomeEpisode #06“The Company We Keep, The Flags We Fly”Performed by The Free River PlayersComposed & Directed by d’PhilipProduced & Engineered by Griffin RodriguezExecutive Producers Kelly & MaggieArt Direction by CassCreated in The Guendenuff Audio Lab at La Casa degli Alberi, Grass Valley, CaliforniaTHE DEDICATIONThis episode is dedicated to our listeners, guests, and friends who are helping build the community we’re creating here at The Longwave Home.Your loyalty is never assumed and never taken for granted. It is earned one episode at a time.Thank you.FOR DETAILED PROGRAM INFORMATION (Including music credit, cast, and legal information) PLEASE VISIT:https://www.dphilip.com/lwh-ep-06

In Episode Five of The Longwave Home, we step right up to the one and only Faire of Fairness as it rolls into Free River for a strange and reflective evening examining one of humanity’s oldest and slipperiest questions: What is fairness, anyway?Through carnival tents, community voices, quiet confessions, and unsettling realizations, this transmission explores fairness in money, power, relationships, morality, health, luck, and the systems we build to make sense of them all. Along the way, listeners from across Nevada County weigh in with their own experiences, contradictions, and hard-earned truths.Some fairness can be shaped. Some may never be fully understood. And some may not exist at all.Fair enough?The Dedication:This episode is dedicated to our sons, Cassidy and Julian… both navigating unfair roads of their own right now… yet still carrying the family banner:Til Death, We Do Art.Keep yer dobber up, boys… we look forward to welcoming you home again soon.The Longwave HomeEpisode #05 "The Faire of Fairness"Performed by The Free River Players Composed & Directed by d’Philip Produced and Engineered by Griffin Rodriguez Additional Engineering & Production by Phineas Taylor (and his dog Barnum)Executive Producers Kelly & Maggie Art Direction by CassCreated in The Guedenoff Audio Lab at The Casa degli Alberi, Grass Valley California FOR MORE SHOW INFORMATION (Including music credits, casting, and legal information) PLEASE VISIT:https://www.dphilip.com/lwh-ep-05

What does it mean to create something… and then recognize yourself inside it?In this episode of The Longwave Home, we spend time with Nevada County artists—people who live inside the act of making… and unmaking… and making again. Through three conversations, we explore creativity not as a skill, but as a way of seeing… a way of becoming… a way of Life.And in Free River, creativity means different things depending on where you’re standing.For some, it’s a song taking shape in real time… a ukulele, a voice, a question that hasn’t quite found its answer yet. For others, it’s quieter… more personal. A moment of recognition. A shift in perspective. A self-portrait that isn’t painted, but realized… when Jake begins to see his sibling not as who they were, but as who they’ve been all along.And somewhere along the riverbank… there’s Old Roger. Still playing. Still reminding us that what we set out to create… and what we actually create… are rarely the same thing.This is an episode about that space in between… where identity, expression, and accident meet.No formulas. No instructions.Just the work. And the people who can’t seem to stop doing it.THE LONGWAVE HOMEEpisode #04 “A Self-Portrait, A Ukulele & Old Roger“Performed by The Free River Players Composed & Directed by d’PhilipProduced & Engineered by Griffin RodriguezExecutive Producers Kelly & Margaret Art Direction by CassDedication: This episode is dedicated to the human virtue of being creative in the way only a human being can be… Be Creative!FOR MORE SHOW INFORMATION (Including music credits, casting, and legal notice) PLEASE VISIT:https://www.dphilip.com/lwh-ep-04

Every plan assumes the world will cooperate. But sometimes the melody bends, the timing slips, or the path quietly forks. Episode Three reflects on the art of recalibration—pausing, listening, and finding a new rhythm when the one you expected no longer fits. Because moving forward often begins with learning how to start again.Featuring music and conversations with world-renowned local favorites, CHECKED OUT.Dedication:This episode is dedicated to the people who know how to pivot and those who are learning to adapt on a daily basis...Thank you.The Longwave HomeEpisode #03 "Forget It Jake, It's Free River"Composed & Directed by d'PhilipEngineered & Produced by Griffin RodriguezExecutive Producers Kelly & MaggieArt Direction by CassFOR MORE SHOW INFORMATION (Including music credits, casting info & legal notices) PLEASE VISIT:   https://www.dphilip.com/lwh-ep-03

In this episode The Commentator asks one simple question: What Does Integrity Look Like to You?” That question is pondered as we ride along in Free River, Nevada County, California and visit Caliente Hardware & Goods, the nearby local dollar store, and then take the long way home past Western Sierra Park to find The Italian Lemonade guy while enjoying the early spring afternoon…DEDICATION:This episode is dedicated to the people who keep integrity alive from the sidelines and margins of society. Thank You.The Longwave HomeEpisode #02 "A Kerfuffle, A Kindness, & A Kite"Performed by The Free River PlayersComposed & Directed by d'PhilipEngineered & Produced by Griffin RodriguezExecutive Producers Kelly & MargaretArt Direction by CassFOR MORE SHOW INFORMATION (including music credits, casting & legal notices) PLEASE VISIT:https://www.dphilip.com/lwh-ep-02