Itty Bitty Kitty Corner Meow Mix

Itty Bitty Kitty Corner Meow Mix offers a zesty, crunchy mashup of pop music, soundbites and social commentary from host Kerry Trueman. Each episode explores a given topic through songs, snippets and tidbits tied together by Trueman’s compulsively alliterative analysis. Meow Mix is formulated to satisfy your craving for content that's thoughtful and tuneful: sometimes risky, sometimes frisky; never batty, rarely catty.

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 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. 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