Yard Tales

🔥🔥🔈🔈⬆️⬆️ SOUND UP!! ⬆️⬆️🔈🔈🔥🔥 YARD TALES PODCAST - AIRTO MORALES: BEHIND THE WALL Multigenerational trauma and a life of violence led to many of Airto Morales' early years being incarcerated, ultimately landing him with a long prison sentence. But even after getting out from behind the wall, Airto never did leave the prison system. Airto is now an advocate and consultant at the Haywood Burns Institute in Oakland, where he continues to work with community to abolish carceral systems across the nation, targeting structural racism and supplanting it with structural wellbeing. "Not really understanding that at that point in time of where this was going to lead but just doing it for the love of learning you know, for the love of understanding. The transformation that was going on within me to really shift my consciousness man in terms of where I was, the state that I was in, when I was arrested till I hit those doors, right. And then even in the midst of the madness and the violence, you know, behind the wall. Being either in the dayroom or in the yard studying was like it was like a sanctuary. And I, and I think that I learned more incarcerated even than I did while I was studying, you know, at a four year university even doing my bachelor's or master's degree at an accredited institution." Contributors: Airto Morales @luzmob @cousinjacob @jamesjohnash @andyoutis @edmundjesse Davis Lloyd #yardtales #yardtalespodcast #airtomorales #burnsinstitute #haywoodburnsinstitute #wraparoundprogram #prisonindustrialcomplex #dismantlewhitesupremacy #dismantlesystemicracism W. Haywood Burns Institute

🔥🔥🔈🔈⬆️⬆️ SOUND UP!! ⬆️⬆️🔈🔈🔥🔥 YARD TALES PODCAST - CHRIS PAPE: FREEDOM TUNNEL First generation NYC graffiti writer, author, documentarian, archivist, and historian Chris Pape, AKA FREEDOM, tells his own surreptitious stories around the Upper West Side Manhattan train tunnel that was ultimately named after him. His decision to live on the streets and paint in the "Freedom" tunnel propelled him toward a career that he never could have imagined. "We went down there, we went into the bathroom and sure enough, just as it was told, there was a plank of wood there and there was a blown out hole in it. And you slide down to this embankment that, you know, it's just dirt and rats and stuff like that. And then you'd have like a six foot drop down to the train tracks eventually. And then there, they were five tracks across and freight trains and stuff like that. It was exhilarating. So we did that. We bought spray paint with us cause we were just getting into our graffiti thing. And this was a much, it just seemed like a much safer place to write than actually going to a real train yard where real kids could rob you and stuff like that. Then the next time we went down in there, somebody fired a shot at us. So there was a track security guy who had a salt gun, and we had been warned this, and he fired it at us. I fell, I hurt my knee, and then that kind of turned into the story that I got shot with a salt gun, which wasn't really true. But it was a great story, you know, when you're 14, so yeah, I got shot." @chrisfreedompape Contributors: @luzmob @cousinjacob @jamesjohnash @andyoutis Davis Lloyd #yardtales #yardtalespodcast #freedomtunnel #freedomtunnels #freedomtunnelsnyc #chrisfreedompape #freedom #oldnewyork #nycgraffit #murderexpress

🔥🔥🔈🔈⬆️⬆️ SOUND UP!! ⬆️⬆️🔈🔈🔥🔥 YARD TALES PODCAST - CLAW MONEY: KEY TO THE CITY World renowned graffiti writer, fashion designer, and cultural icon Claw Money recounts the many borders she had to cross in order to land in the space that she calls Claw & Co. When life puts a fence in your way, you climb it. When it puts a second one, you rip your pants! "And I'm standing there and these dudes were like, “Yo, what's up mommy?” And usually I'd just be like, “Ughhh” But I was like, “What are you guys doing? Do you want to look out?” And they were like, “What?” And I was like, “Yeah, yeah, I want to paint that wall. Will you guys look out?” There were three of them. I was like, “You stand there, you stand there. And you watch all the cars that come up 4th Avenue and let's have a code word” Or something, you know, like owl, or something. “But like, If it's sketchy, but I want you guys to tell me every time a car comes. I don't care if it's not a cop car, just tell me because I got to just like be cool.” I threw my paint over. And I climbed the fence. So I'm painting, I’m painting and I'm like really going fast. I haven't stopped once I could see lights, but I'm just like, “Why aren't they saying anything?” Of course, they’re not saying anything they're staring at me painting because they're just like, “What the hell is going on? What are we doing here?” @clawmoney @clawclubworldwide Be sure to listen to the end for AROE77's own call-in Yard Tale. @samplecult77 Original music contributions from @jamesjohnash @eastrivercotton @jahtoworks @ip.mp3 @luzmob @monk_uno @nyctrust Big up @cousinjacob @andyoutis and Davis Lloyd for helping make it all happen! #yardtales #yardtalespodcast #clawmoney #claudiagold #keytothecity #nycgraffiti #oldneyork

YARD TALES PODCAST - BENNINGTON: GHOST STORIES 🔥🔥🔈🔈⬆️⬆️ SOUND UP!! ⬆️⬆️🔈🔈🔥🔥 Bennington alumni spanning four generations come together to share first person paranormal experiences and encounters they had on the small campus in Southern Vermont. As the stories unfold, striking parallels are drawn that prompt deep questions about space, who owns it, and who is not welcome to occupy it. "And as we're kind of watching this thing it sort of slowly forms that were looking at this skinny pale white body of what you would think of as a ten-year-old boy, essentially. And then the head was the skull of a goat. These big black cavernous eyes, you know, this pale skinny boy body, it was kind of hopping from one foot to the other back and forth, but in a way where it was so slow, it like stayed up in the air longer than would be humanly possible. And he had something, holding something in each hand sort of stick shape, but I don't, I don't know what it was. And we stood there and just watched this happening for a minute or so, and in shock and silence. And then I remember I said something like, “Are you seeing this?” And he's like, “Yeah!” And then I broke eye contact essentially, when we looked back it was gone." - Alex Pintair @burtonvault More stories from Lisa Sciandra, Jeremy Hulley, Robin Decker, Wendy Rosenfield, Kate, Melanie Fraser, Melinda Castriatta Avallino, Sibyl Kempson, Shawnette Sulker, Raven, Terry Lewin, Kerry Hart @kalihart , Brian Sangudi, and Maddy Wood @womanwood_ #yardtales, #yardtalespodcast, #bennington, #benningtoncollege, #benningtonghoststories, #ghoststories, #mrsjennings, #jenningsmansion, #jenningshall

YARD TALES PODCAST - SCOTTY HARD: THE HARD WAY 🔥🔥🔈🔈⬆️⬆️ SOUND UP!! ⬆️⬆️🔈🔈🔥🔥 Listen in as musician, producer, engineer, and all around master of sesh Scott Harding tells a life-changing story about a fateful night in Brooklyn in 2008. The line that Scotty crossed that night was a line that he never asked to cross. "Hey buddy, how you doing tonight? I'm going to 360 Metropolitan." Which is Black Betty and I kind of settle in a little bit and he just peels out and he turns really sharply onto Diamond Street, which is right down from where we are. And I kind of get thrown across the seat and, you know, I didn't have my seatbelt on because I had just got in and then we bombed down Diamond Street. And usually these guys, you know, these older dudes, they're just chilling and they're just driving 15 miles an hour all the way there, because they're not in a hurry. This guy was. So then instead of just going down Diamond all the way to get the BQE or get to Meeker Street to get to Metropolitan, he turns really sharply right on Meserole. And at that point, not only did I slide across the seat, but my phone went flying and I think my keys as well out of my jacket and I go sliding across the seat again, "I'm like, what the f**k?" And he's going towards McGuinness, which is a major street. So I'm like, "Oh sh*t, well, f**k this." I thought I'd better put my seatbelt on." @scottyhard @thescienceofsesh Contributors: @luzmob @eastrivercotton @cousinjacob @jamesjohnash @andyoutis Davis Lloyd @teacha_krsone @wearedelasoul @plugwondelasoul @djmaseo @tr_ultralife @the.real.official.cedgee @officialkoolkeith @emperor_middi @vancitocp @blacksheepdres @djprincepaul @nacaozumbioficial @mmwband @johnmedeski @illybeats @junglebrothers4life @gravediggaz_gatekeeper @rza @antibalas @martinperna @kingmarcoos @nagualsite @monk_uno @budschmeling @vijayiyer @diggingroots @bam_brooklyn @redhotorg @officialbizmarkie @mariocaldatostudio @laurieandersonof

YARD TALES PODCAST - GARTH MULLINS: A GHOST IN MY OWN LIFE 🔥🔥🔈🔈⬆️⬆️ SOUND UP!! ⬆️⬆️🔈🔈🔥🔥 Garth Mullins is a journalist and radio documentary producer who focuses on the decriminalization of drugs, issues of race, class, environment, capitalism, colonialism, and oppression. Listen in as he details the struggles he has had to work through in order to become one of the leading voices in the fight for a safe and legal drug supply. In his words, this could completely eliminate the overdose crisis as we know it. "If you see drug users on the street, that's a housing problem. There's way, way more drug users using inside in their houses. There's like between eighty and a hundred thousand people with what they call opioid use disorder in British Columbia. That's a big amount of people and most of us are at home. And when we die, we're mostly found at home and half of us, we’re getting up for work the next day. And the reason you need a safe injection site is because the whole world becomes an unsafe injection site because people die from this and this demand actually came from the last overdose crisis a generation ago in the nineties when we had, if you can believe it, an overdose crisis because of really strong heroin combined with an epidemic, a virus. So we got fentanyl and COVID now back then it was China white and HIV all at the same time and safe injection sites came about because of China white and HIV, because in a safe injection site, you always get, you know, a new syringe. Back when I was coming up, you couldn't get them, you know, we shared, I didn't understand how HIV transmitted. That's what safe injection sites are for is to prevent the transmission of HIV and also to give people Naloxone and reverse an overdose. They're a hundred percent effective at that, you know, like there, no one's died in a safe injection site. And the reason you need safe supplies because not everyone is in a safe injection site." @garth

YARD TALES PODCAST - SUSAN TRAN: CANADA IS RACIST 🔥🔥🔈🔈⬆️⬆️ SOUND UP!! ⬆️⬆️🔈🔈🔥🔥 Susan Tran is a Vietnamese Canadian who was kidnapped from her mother in Vietnam at the age of two. But she never knew that she even had a mother because her abductor was her own father, intent on keeping her abduction a secret. After immigrating to Canada, Susan discovered that her mother’s strength and resilience was the foundation for her own self empowerment. Which now allows her to fully embrace her own family and culture, and also empowers her to confront Canada’s special brand of deep seated racism head on without reservation. "And it was just so bizarre and the worst part about it is I only found out, I’d say decades later, that my dad had kidnapped me and that he had also kept my existence a secret from my mom. He had instructed everyone back in Vietnam to just tell her that I was dead. And I just can’t even imagine, just as a mother myself, what that must feel like. But, you know, my mom is such a strong person that I am so thankful for the person that she is, but yeah that was the first time I met my mom. And she’s just been my source of light and strength the whole time and a true.. she’s just such an inspiring person and she really shows me that when you have difficulties and hardships that you can overcome anything." @snbtran Contributors: @luzmob @cousinjacob @andyoutis @jamesjohnash @jahtoworks Davis Lloyd #yardtales #yardtalespodcast #bordercrossing #forbiddenspace #vietnam #vietnamese #canada #canadian #vietnamesecanadian #refugees #vietnameserefugees #canadaisracist

YARD TALES PODCAST - LUPE MARAVILLA: TRIPA CHUCA Renowned transdisciplinary artist Guadalupe Maravilla was among the first wave of undocumented immigrants to enter the US from Central America when he immigrated alone from El Salvador at the age of 8. In this audio narrative, Maravilla sensitively recounts harrowing tales of traumas experienced during the events leading up to and including his border crossings and how they later evolved into an illness he uncovered through experimentation with “ancient medicines” — eventually getting diagnosed with and then overcoming stage 3B colon cancer. "I incorporated the same Tripa Chuca technique into my new drawings that I'm making. The most important thing is that I'm still playing with undocumented immigrants, this same game. And it feels like we're mapping our journeys, that never connect, they never touch. The one kid that I play with he's eighteen years old and he just crossed two years ago from El Salvador. So his journey is very different from mine, but they're very parallel to each other." Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts. @guadalupe__maravilla #yardtales #yardtalespodcast #lupemaravilla #guadalupemaravilla #bordercrossing #crossingboundaries #immigration #hallucinogenics #shaman #elsalvador #civilwar #ayahuasca #immigrant #undocumented #undocumentedandunafraid #undocumentedimmigrants #tripachuca

YARD TALES PODCAST - LUZ FLEMING: POTREROS A story of finding family boundaries, fleeing danger, and the inescapable pull of graffiti. On a cold winter night in early 1990s San Francisco, a group of kids attempt to quench their insatiable appetite for bus yard destruction with an all-out assault that doesn't go the way they hoped. Storyteller Luz Fleming has to face the tension of touring his green suburban cousin through the bowels of the city while satisfying his own addictions for adrenaline. The Potrero bus yard’s boundaries that are meant to keep him out, might just end up keeping him in. Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and every other platform in the yard. Episode art features Cover One @ivoryserra @shelterserra @formoner #muni #munibus #munibusyard #transitgraffiti #sfgraffiti #sanfranciscograffiti #sanfranciscotagging #busyard #busyarddestruction #bushopping #bushoppersY

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Sound up!! Tune in on September 30th for the launch of the Yard Tales podcast!! Hear exciting stories about crossing boundaries and entering forbidden space. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and every other platform in the yard! #yardtales #yardtalespodcast #scottyhard #chrisfreedompape #freedomtunnel #guadalupemaravilla #crackdown #clawmoney #clawclub #trainyard #busyard #prisonyard #schoolyard #bordercrossing #crossingborders #crossingboundaries #boundaries #forbiddenspace

SOUND UP!! Yard Tales podcast launch September 30th on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts!! Tune in to hear tales of the train and bus yard, the tenement yard, and the prison yard. We tell stories about crossing borders, pushing boundaries, and entering forbidden space. Andy Outis logo design, Davis Lloyd animation, James Ash music, Luz Fleming music and sound design Be sure to give us a follow, and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts to help point more listeners to Yard Tales! Luke Talltree Scotty Hard Music Guadalupe Maravilla #yardtales #yardtalespodcast #scottyhard #chrisfreedompape #freedomtunnel #guadalupemaravilla #crackdown #clawmoney #clawclub #trainyard #busyard #prisonyard #schoolyard #bordercrossing #crossingborders #crossingboundaries #boundaries #forbiddenspace

Tune in to hear tales of the train and bus yard, the tenement yard, and the prison yard. We tell stories about crossing borders, pushing boundaries, and entering forbidden space. Andy Outis logo design, Davis Lloyd animation Be sure to give us a follow, and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts to help point more listeners to Yard Tales! #yardtales #yardtalespodcast #trainyard #busyard #prisonyard #schoolyard #bordercrossing #crossingborders #crossingboundaries #boundaries #forbiddenspace #theothersideofthetracks #traintracks #abandoned #abandonedplaces