First of all, check out Cory's website at www.corygoodrich.com.

Born in Wilmington, Delaware and raised in Clarkston, Michigan, Cory Goodrich is a Jeff Award winning actress for her roles as Mother in Drury Lane Oakbrook’s acclaimed production of Ragtime, and as June Carter Cash in the Jeff nominated Johnny Cash revue, Ring of Fire at Mercury Theater Chicago, where she was also seen as Alice in The Addams Family, and Alma in The Christmas Schooner, and Carol Brady in the hilarious war between the Partridges and the Bradys in The Bardy Bunch. Most recently, Cory has been seen at Drury Lane as the onstage accordion player in Evita, and at the newly renovated Studebaker Theatre in the premiere of Skates, a New Musical, starring American Idol’s Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young.

A five-time Jeff nominee, Cory has performed in productions at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Chicago Shakespeare, Theatre at the Center, Ravinia, Candlelight and Drury Lane. A Graduate of Michigan State University, she is also a singer/songwriter, producer, writer, and mother of two, children's composer with her two award winning CDs, Hush and Wiggly Toes, and three solo folk albums: W.O.M.A.N, Wildwood Flower, a collection of traditional and original folk songs featuring the autoharp, and her latest project, Long Way Around, produced by Ethan Deppe of The Quiet Regret. She is co-producer of six Season of Carols CDs (Season of Carols, Holiday Music to Benefit Season of Concern, which garnered over $200K for the charity.) and The Second City Divas, Live at Mercury Theater CD with Eugene Dizon.

Her memoir, Folksong: A Ballad of Death, Discovery, and DNA is available on Amazon.

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Martin discusses the significance of the anniversary of the start of the Civil War with the firing on Ft. Sumter. How the war, which focused on the elimination of slavery, was also a war about class power, in this case, the Southern elite. The slave owners were determined to hold power and economic power by keeping people enslaved. Once the war ended, the next approach was to disenfranchise the newly freed Americans through Jim Crow. This was successful for almost a century until the rise of the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr. With civil rights came again the war on poverty which was truly an attempt at equality among the classes. This attempt was ultimately thwarted in many ways with the rise of the Republican party persuading Southern Democrats to switch. The rise of partisan politics, the Tea Party and eventually MAGA has been the continuation of trying to maintain and expand the 1% of society. Like their plantation forebears, these politicians have managed to persuade some of the yeomanry to "arms" on their behalf. While not exactly an overt war, it is nonetheless a war on equality: economic, rights and social standing. This has spilled into the 2024 election. Holding the funds for Ukraine, under the idea guise of border safety (in spite of a bipartisan compromise earlier this year) has endangered not Ukraine, but the standing of the United States. The Gazan war and the extreme right government in Israel has furthered endangered the west. Israel's attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria has once again directly brought in the United States into conflict. Oddly enough, the need for funds for Ukraine and Israel are hostage due to the erosion of the Republican Party.

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David Rocco Facchini is an artist's artist. He's at once a visual artist, making amazing sculptures out of found objects, such as bits of old movie equipment, he's a storyteller, a stop motion movie maker whose most recent film was featured at the Cannes Film Festival, and also an adventurer of sorts. He recently set out in a Sprinter Van to explore the psyche of America. The result is a new film, USA2Z, which is in the final stages of production. Facchini has a fun website with a lot of examples of his film and art and interviews. Check out www.dellaroccostudios.com.

This episode continues to delve into the complexities regarding community. As Facchini did his social experiment of word association, he became aware of how people percieve themselves. That community, government, religion and other social gatherings are somewhat skewed in this era of sound bites, social media, talking points and anger. People seem desperate to hold onto something as their very sense of self is under attack from variety of sources, all intent on making that self, theirs. Tune in to a wonderful insight to the state our human condition--now.

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