Itty Bitty Kitty Corner Meow Mix

Welcome to Itty Bitty Kitty Corner Meow Mix, the rarely salacious but always audacious audio odyssey steering you through these choppy times with poppy playlists, pithy pun-ditry & antic semantics. Host Kerry Trueman explores a given theme in each episode through timely & timeless songs, satire, & soundbites tied together by her caustically comic commentary.

Trueman is a writer / artist / environmental advocate and compulsive composter who finds purpose in repurposing.
Produced by Kerry Trueman and Matty Rosenberg @ Radio Free Rhinecliff
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Episode 9: The War on Thugs. Music from: the Rolling Stones; Paul Simon; Sting; the Gang of Four; the Ukrainians; Regina Spektor; Broken Bells. Snippets: Nope, you can’t expel hope; rubes, rubles & rubble; womb dis-service; do Americans love their children?; the perils of a self-driving clown car; Elon's enshitification; Shillers for Killers; weaponized white guys: don’t ring my bell; putting the demo in democracy. Soundbites: Jordan Klepper; SNL’s James Austin Jones; Ronald Reagan; Joy Reid; Gregg Popovich; Justin Pearson; Jeff Bennett.

Episode 8: Dying to Cry, or Crying to Die? Music from: Courtney Barnett; Neil Young; Taylor Swift & Bon Iver; the English Beat; Bronski Beat; Chris Thile; Stephen Colbert & James Taylor. Snippets: why are men so sad & angry?; why are women so sad & scared?; does estrangement lead to derangement?; Riling For Dollars; diapers for dipshits; deprogramming Tate’s Tater tots; how good parenting can break the chain of pain; a toast to water-cooler camaraderie. Soundbites: Leslie Jones; RIchard Reeves; Derek Thompson; Kara Swisher.

Episode 7: The Tool on the Hill. Music from: Lil' Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus; The Simpsons with Schoolhouse Rock’s Jack Sheldon; Florence & The Machine; Bobby Gentry; The Sundays; Stereophonics; Stephen Stills & Graham Nash. Snippets: The Gang That Couldn’t Count Straight; over-the-counter-insurgency pain relief; lawless lawmakers, mad haters, Screaming Mimis, & cornflake girls; knock, knock, knockin’ on Kevin’s door; George Santos—putting the dolt in La Dolce Vita. Soundbites: Adam Schiff; Seth Meyers.

Episode 6: Give ‘Em Enough Dopes. Music from: World Party; Neil Young; Living Colour; Michael Kiwanuka; Matthew Sweet; Crowded House. Snippets: January 6--the Day That’s Not Going Away; can we take the 'riot' out of patriot?; grifters ’n' drifters; unpistol-packing the National Guard; George Santos' pro-Putin puppetry; escalators versus de-escalators, two Capitol cops who helped stop the sur-real steal; the Capitol Hillbilly standoff; caustically optimistic for our democracy. Soundbites: Andrew Callaghan; Michael Fanone; Harry Dunn; Kara Swisher.
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Episode 5 - Bold Lang Syne. Music from: Travis; Phoebe Bridgers with Jackson Browne, Philip Glass & the Scorchio Quartet; Alt-J; Selena Gomez; the Verve; Father John Misty. Snippets: What does Auld Lang Syne even mean?; the ghost in your mirror; does the family ass deserve a pass?; the paradox of finding comfort in grief; smother the haters with a bottomless cup o’ kindness; dodge-a-bullet points to help you prep for 2023. Soundbites: Billy Crystal & Meg Ryan; Phoebe Bridgers & Amelia Dimoldenberg; Stephen Colbert & Anderson Cooper.

Episode 4 - Holiday Heroes & Villains. Music from: Aimee Mann; Randy Newman; Stevie Wonder; The Snuffs (featuring Benedict Cumberbatch); National Lampoon; Volodymyr Zelenskyy; Bad Religion; Brian Wilson. Snippets: skewering puffy marshmallow moguls; Trump: messiah, or hot mess? Super bad Superhero cosplay; could the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present & Future break the far-right fever dream?; Twitter: you say cesspool, I say manure lagoon; how Lisa Simpson melted Morrissey into a pity puddle; National Lampoon nails Neil, nicely; on vanity and insanity; nativist nativity; Beach Boy resurrection: out of the sandbox, back onto the stage. Soundbites: Aimee Mann & Jacob Weisberg; The Simpsons; Roz Weston.
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Episode 3 - We Gotta Get Outta Here!. Music from: The Kinks; Marvin Gaye; Serge Gainsbourg; The Diodes; Olivia Rodrigo; Drive-by-Truckers; The Partridge Family. Snippets: meet anomie, our collective enemy; the roadmap to dysfunction junction; Ray Davies takes a bullet, literally; the more things change, the more they stay the same; more sleep, less social media, please!; can we tame the media monster using the same sword that slayed Big Tobacco?; rerouting the path to the radicalization rabbit hole. Soundbites: Ray Davies; Jonathan Haidt; Tristan Harris.
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Episode 2 - Democracy’s Dance Floor. Music from: Heaven 17; Gil Scott-Heron; That Petrol Emotion; The Highwomen; Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit; Yola. Snippets: Ye-Less shoes; riffing on revolution; hot potatoes; Dan Quayle; the GOP’s fatherhood fumbles; on Donald, diapers and dogs.
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Episode 1 - Guns N' Poses. Music from: Drive-by Truckers; X; Regina Spektor; Neil Young. Snippets: litter box lunacy; drag queen demonizers; firearm fetishizers; Operation Wetback; Trump's obsession with violence; Matthew Shepard.

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Relevant advocacy groups:
Brady United
Moms Demand Action
Children's Defense Fund
Every Town
The Trevor Project
ACLU
glaad
Matthew Sheppard Foundation
NAACP
National Urban League
Race & Equality