Out of Trouble
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Dan The Cocaine Hurricane
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Email: I got into this crazy fucking situation when I was trying to score an interview with this wacko, right, and he makes it a condition of the interview that I join him for a dice game. That's how I end up hanging out with a group of drug dealers and miscreants at a gay bar in the Castro at 10 in the morning on a Wednesday. I show up not really knowing what to expect, and quickly realize my friend (the wacko) Gary has more or less set this whole thing up to put his seedy dice friends on display for me. It's a queerly deranged sitcom and Gary intends to be the star, until The Cocaine...
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Audio Poems
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Chill Vibes. Beauty. Art. Glorious Distraction. Venmo: @Nik-Harter Email:
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Find a Grave
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Dana Galloway reconnects folks with their deceased and estranged loved ones via . On this episode, I accompany her to Cypress Lawn Cemetery on one of her Find a Grave missions, just south of San Francisco. We tour the cemetery while discussing death, burial rituals, and bay area history. Dana shares how she became a grave hunter after someone found a lost family member for her. The music for this episode was done by Golden Living Room. Check him out on Spotify, or find him on Bandcamp. If you're interested in pauper's graves, cemeteries, taphophilia, ancestry,...
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Adult Learner
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In the “College Dropout” series we examined why the dropout rate stands at 47%, and how becoming educated is related to becoming an adult. But what if you’re already an “adult” when you go to college? In this episode we answer the question: are you behind in life if you go back to school in your 30s, 40s, 50s, or beyond? How can we can think about going back to school when you’re older in a way that’s not so discouraging? I’ll be presenting a series of interrelated interviews with some Adult Learners I met at the City College of San Francisco, along with an interview I...
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College Dropout Part 1
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One out of every two students who attend Community College drop out. Only 1 in 5 will get their degree in four years. Why? I’m Nikolas Harter, and in this three part series produced out of the KCSF studios at the City College of San Francisco, I interview students and administrators, and break down statistics to come to some surprising conclusions about our flawed system of higher education. If you don’t know what career you want to pursue, is going straight to college after high school really the best option? How is acquiring an education connected to success, happiness, and becoming an...
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College Dropout Part 2
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In Part 2, I explore the personal reasons for why a student might drop out with “F-Everything” Paul Lopez. Paul dropped out of school when he was 18. Back then, he didn’t know what he wanted to do, so he left school and moved up to the bay with his sister to get a full time job. Now he’s back, returning to school at C.C.S.F. at 22 years old. I told him about the high drop out rate at Community Colleges, and he told me he feels like a number. We’ll also meet the students from S.M.A.C. (students making a change), a student group on campus advocating for the rights of the...
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College Dropout Part 3
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In Part 3, I’ll share about my personal college experience, and square off with current C.C.S.F. student Brandon Powell. Is attending college about pursuing your dreams? Or making ends meet? Brandon shares some cockroach stories, and we debate what school and life is all about. Why should we value public schools? What’s the purpose of education, and how is becoming educated connected to success, happiness, and becoming an adult? All this and more on the final segment of College Dropout. I’m Nikolas Harter for KCSF. Music by
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Moldavia
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This is a non-narrated episode, with no formal introduction or outro. Please rate/review! Moldavia says she has "nine bloods in her." A black bigot who believes in radical multi-culturalism, supports Drumpf, and runs a 'foundation' which works to inspire Americans to learn more languages and cultures, Moldavia herself can say something in over 3,000 languages. I unpack my encounter with her, which I am calling "the most frustrating interview I've ever conducted" with a friend of mine, Stephen Williams. Stephen tells me a little bit about his experience growing up in the USA as an...
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Pan American Unity
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On this episode, we get a special tour of The Pan American Unity Mural with docent Vickie Simms. Vickie has given up her lifelong (30+ years) business career to go back to school and study Art History. We'll hear about what motivated her to trade money for art, and glean lessons from our shared American past, as Vickie tours us through this legendary painting. Check out the mural for yourself at
info_outlineFrom a music festival to a therapists couch, journey with me as I discover the real dangers (and benefits) of mind-altering substances, and meet the professionals helping users process their psychedelic experiences. I speak with the executive director of E.R.I.E. (Entheogenic Research Integration Education), the founder of psychedelictimes.com, a psychotherapist helping set up a Ketamine Clinic, and another offering Psychedelic Integration Services, mixed with stories from the festival grounds.
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Phalanges - G Jones and Bleep Bloop
Reach Out - Nphonix (Om Unit Remix)
WitchHunty - Bruxa
Hallucinations 2 - YUNG $AM V
Day n Days - Moresounds