Iconoclast of Things

Iconoclast of Things

Iconoclast of Things is about people so committed to the beauty of the thing they imagine that they're doing whatever they can to build it. People working to build a home, a business or a life they believe may already be lost, but still working because of the beauty, grace, and humanity of the place they imagine.

Episodes

Episode 18 - Possibly the Complications

March 16, 2018 • 34 mins
Before he ever saw the ICE Warrant ordering his removal from the United State, Victor Herrera describes this one point in his life as an immigrant in the United States like this, "I feel like I'm in a bucket full of shit, and I'm drowning in it. His story is the messy reality of immigration and deportation. It begs us to have a grown-up discussion about these immigration stories. It asks us all kinds of questions. The biggest? Can ...
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Episode 17 - The Book I Read

February 13, 2018 • 49 mins
When I was in fourth grade, there was this box in the back of our classroom. It was filled with multi-colored tabs with stories and questions printed on each. Our teacher was Ms. Evans, yes, she was my mom — and that box was the SRA reading lab. Dr. Don Parker created the SRA reading lab in 1950 for 32 seventh graders in a cash-strapped rural Florida school. Parker wrote that he created the SRA lab to overcome what he called, "the ...
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Episode 16 - Looking through windows: a 4,000 mile walk to say I love you. Then 8,000 miles more

October 12, 2017 • 33 mins
This is the story of how Unbound, one of the midwest's largest non-profits, was formed from the vision of a man with a very different take on charity and giving. In November of 1981, Kansas City Missouri, Bob Hentzen and 3 of his 14 siblings, along with their friend Jerry Tolle, founded an organization known today as Unbound. Bob and his friend Jerry were former missionaries. They used the family Christmas card list to connect fami...
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Episode 15 - Washington Bullets: The Martyrdom of Father Stanley Rother

September 19, 2017 • 34 mins
On September 23rd Father Stan Rother will be the first American born martyr beatified by the Catholic church. Though it's the story of Father Stan Rother, this one doesn't end in death. Stan Rother was one casualty of the decades long Guatemalan Civil War. A war sparked in the halls of the US congress; fueled in part by our fear of communism and antipathy for any threat to American capitalism abroad. While the killers were Guatemal...
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Episode 14 All of God's Money - A Sofa, A Mass, and The 27th Out

September 7, 2017 • 25 mins
This is the first time I've uttered out loud these words: my lady has cancer.
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Episode 13 - I'll Be You; The Autistic, The Abolitionist, and The English Paper

August 4, 2017 • 35 mins
In 1917 a german man named Charles Huffman was making fabric dye in five gallon enamel pots in a vacant store in Chicago. He named his product RIT dye in honor of his friend, Louis Rittenhouse, a vice president his Sunbeam Chemical Company. Their slogan was, "Never say Dye, say RIT." When he was a kid, RIT dye fascinated 25 year old Phillip. This is the story of of Phillip and Paul, a 25 year old with autism and the father he lives...
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Episode 12 - An Interview with Mayor Sly James

July 17, 2017 • 29 mins
If you want to know what it's like to sit behind Mayor Sly James' desk, best not ask him; he'd have to find about 20 minutes in his schedule to clear the space to sit there. There's two-feet of work stacked on the chair and another couple feet stacked on the desk. Then there's work strewn across the meeting desk in the middle of his office on the 29th floor of city hall. If you haven't yet, listen to the previous two episodes of th...
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Episode 11 - Breaking Rocks in the Hot Sun Part 2

June 28, 2017 • 29 mins
To look at the future of Harrison Street DIY Skatepark, I need to be explicit about a few things: First, they did build on land they have permission to build on, but no real agreement. They choose a little strip of abandoned land with all kinds of forces tugging at it from different directions. Governing everything is a court order. Second, the Harrison Street crew didn't just build a skate park, they built a model to solve a probl...
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Episode 10 - Breaking Rocks in the Hot Sun, Part 1

June 12, 2017 • 31 mins
For 30 months, a crew of volunteers have been building the Harrison Street DIY skate park in an abandoned cul de sac in Kansas City's Columbus Park Neighborhood, at 4th and Harrison. What started out as a few bags of Quickcrete, mixed with shovels and formed into ramps on a few jersey barriers turned into yard after yard of truck-delivered commercial ready-mix concrete. These guys built ramps, a pool, quarter pipe and at least a ha...
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Episode 9 - Run Baby Run

May 29, 2017 • 34 mins
Since 2011 I've run a few thousand miles along the Indian Creek and Blue River Trail. I run this trail because it's safer here than running on the surrounding roads. As much as I think about my own safety when I run, the threats for me aren't as bad as they are for the female runners around here. A few months ago Runners World Magazine released a study that found 43% of women report experiencing some kind of harassment on their run...
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Episode 8 - The Silver Screen and All the Magazines

May 12, 2017 • 35 mins
The first Chapter of Lipstick traces is called "The Last Sex Pistols Concert." That show was on January 14th, 1978 at the Winterland in San Francisco. The opening band was this San Francisco punk rock group called The Nuns. In that chapter and his book, Marcus explains how people and events crashed together to tell the secret history of the 20th century. The book got me thinking about the music writers I've admired in my life and t...
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Episode 7 - Horizons Get Hazy

April 19, 2017 • 31 mins
Throughout human history, structures like the Lighthouse of Alexandria served as a welcoming beacon for the traveller, eaching out to guide them through the perils of a place they may have never seen, or one they may not recognize. In America - home of more lighthouses than any other country - though lighthouses aren't used much anymore, they still dot our coastlines and shorelines from the Great Lakes to both oceans. Few of them p...
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Episode 6 - The Distance Between You and Me, Part 2

April 4, 2017 • 28 mins
This second episode looking at refugee musicians in the US is the story of a Kurdish family. A musician father, his wife children and the story they share with one another — whether they realize it or not. They left Syria as refugees and continue the Kurdish tradition to define a home in the United States. Today's thing is Kurdistan and this episode is The Distance Between You and Me Part Two.
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Episode 5 -The Distance Between You and Me Part 1

March 20, 2017 • 33 mins
This is the first episode telling the stories of some musicians who've come to America as refugees. It's a creation odyssey. The creation of Kuomba Ministries. Like any odyssey, this one involves death, new life, near-death, and some inexplicable, supernatural forces inserting themselves in human events from one side of the planet to another. Today's thing is this building, the Wesley Heights Methodist Church in Northeast Kansas Ci...
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Episode 4 - Emotional Rescue #VeryImportantPicco

March 6, 2017 • 35 mins
If you've never had your heart broken and want to see what it's like, get a dog. Picco and I have run over 5,000 miles together. We've touched two oceans. He's been with me at shows in bars across the midwest, down the Eastern seaboard and Southeast. We've fought bigger dogs together - he won. Through all of it I've wondered; who rescued who? What can we learn about our humanity from our relationships with animals? This episode is ...
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Episode 3 - Everywhere At Once

February 19, 2017 • 44 mins
Over the past month, we've had a lot of activity around immigration and refugees and I've been thinking a lot about Presidents. So I started reading what past American presidents have said about it. What guidance is there for us in the past? While this episode is told through the words of some of the Presidents of our history, it's really a story about leadership. Not the kind of leadership you read about on those inspirational pos...
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Episode 2 - AmericanGuitars

February 2, 2017 • 36 mins
What can electric guitars teach us about the American economy? Big Box retail may have spurred some innovative manufacturing techniques. Automation, robotics, CNC carving; all of it means we can make guitars — or anything — to tighter tolerances and faster and cheaper than a human can. But automation and robotics at the big Guitar Makers mean fewer hands building guitars. Private Equity and financial manipulation are not sustainabl...
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Episode 1 - Houses of Concrete and Wood

January 3, 2017 • 29 mins
Our first Thing is Blue Dawn Manor, the neighborhood I grew up in. I used to play baseball in the Healys' back yard. It was the infield which made my back yard dead center field and the Smith's pool in Left Field the water spectacular. I knew all the neighbors, the Johnson's. the Belfontees, the Smalls, Hutchisons, Hupps, Cernich's, the Saladinos, the other Saladino's and the Domsch's. We had dirt clod fights and I split my head op...
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