Chase Estes's guest appearances

Chase Estes

The Bent Fender Podcast

The Arise Podcast

Blake Smith

Rebecca Bender

Chris Anderson

Ken RIley

Josh Harris

Leticia Ochoa Adams

Bobby Martin

John Hayden

Eddie Campbell

Danielle Allen

Alex Jacobson

Michael Walker

Dan Taylor

David Hayward

Chris Bruno

OwlTail

Susan Cunningham

COUNTThe vote is precious. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society, and we must use it. ~John Lewis  (1940-2020) Votes are voices castUpon excruciating waterSplashed like dark oval notesIn bottles like ships illustratingHope thrown or sentOut to seaSee power Full votes cast oneBy one faces circulate inflowing lines — post officesPolling places voices waitingTo countChoices drawn drenchedUnder a midnight sun Say it you count youMatter democracy saturatingUnshiny wet ballots floatingSoaked precious truthDepth liberty history deathone voice one vote castIn the booth adding up who Will sit in the OvalClearly this mattersSo completely no wayTo be discreetFill the oval bubble withBlack ink black bodiesCount Susan Cunningham09.21.2020

COUNTThe vote is precious. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society, and we must use it. ~John Lewis  (1940-2020) Votes are voices castUpon excruciating waterSplashed like dark oval notesIn bottles like ships illustratingHope thrown or sentOut to seaSee power Full votes cast oneBy one faces circulate inflowing lines — post officesPolling places voices waitingTo countChoices drawn drenchedUnder a midnight sun Say it you count youMatter democracy saturatingUnshiny wet ballots floatingSoaked precious truthDepth liberty history deathone voice one vote castIn the booth adding up who Will sit in the OvalClearly this mattersSo completely no wayTo be discreetFill the oval bubble withBlack ink black bodiesCount Susan Cunningham09.21.2020

Season 2, Episode 5: Guest Susan Cunningham and Chase Estes collaborate - VOTE

Danielle Castillejo

What are you doing right now? Are you eating? Listening to a podcast? Out for a run or a walk? Heading home from work? Ready to fall asleep?  Maybe you are intentionally doing something to nourish your heart, your body, your mind— your self. Maybe some combination of all of the above. I’m writing at home, not thinking about safety. Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor were doing something ordinary when they were killed. Ahmaud was out for a run, Breonna was asleep. Their lives and deaths bring to mind too many other Black Americans and people of color doing ordinary things in America while facing increasing racial injustice and fear. Almost 65 years ago Rosa Parks wanted to do something ordinary too— sit in her seat on the bus home from work. Despite many decades since the modern civil rights movement, more attention is needed particularly from white and privileged christian communities who have been uneducated and silent.  Remembering Rosa Parks gives us an opportunity to learn and to pay attention to both history and current events. She is relevant in both. It does not need to be Black History Month to focus on Rosa Parks. It does not need to be February. We need Rosa Parks this summer and in every season. Her voice teaches us to be more fully human, honor and love God, and all human beings as ourselves. Rosa Parks invites us to listen, stretch, to become collaborators and to work for justice for everybody. FIRST MOTHER Roll. Roll, Rosa. Roll down, Rosa. Roll down where wheels roll on, Cleveland Avenue bus. Move. Move on, Mother. Move on back. Move back as this driver orders, Montgomery Police bust. Rosa rides the dented yellow, green and white bus home from work where she sews dignified defiance into every garment. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks rides. Sees through sound glasses in 1955, sensible dignity any day in the way she inhabits her rightful vinyl seat. First of December this mother is due. Tonight, she sits unmoved, no stopping here. So still, Rosa. Accepts deep breaths of arrest, receives this moment thrust upon her. Constant kicking, labor, pains, screaming. Undeserved delivery. Giving birth to a boy- cott, Rosa Parks, forbearing mother. Twelve years ago when that same bus driver pushed her off that bus, rain, not justice, rolled down. An ever-flowing stream ran over her, walking, buttoned up topcoat, soaked. What patience courage carries. The face that stops hundreds of busses, moves thousands of feet. Do nothing and change everything. Down the road for such a time as this, Rosa. Awaken the pastor, whose dream will preach. Feel an honest presence. Marchers swelling like an emotional river still. So many motherless. Stillborn, are too many children of God. Console, Rosa. Let my people roll. So far and we are not there yet. Go down, Rosa. Even so, Rosa. This is the long way home. Susan Cunningham ©Susan Haroutunian Cunningham 2019 

What are you doing right now? Are you eating? Listening to a podcast? Out for a run or a walk? Heading home from work? Ready to fall asleep?  Maybe you are intentionally doing something to nourish your heart, your body, your mind— your self. Maybe some combination of all of the above. I’m writing at home, not thinking about safety. Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor were doing something ordinary when they were killed. Ahmaud was out for a run, Breonna was asleep. Their lives and deaths bring to mind too many other Black Americans and people of color doing ordinary things in America while facing increasing racial injustice and fear. Almost 65 years ago Rosa Parks wanted to do something ordinary too— sit in her seat on the bus home from work. Despite many decades since the modern civil rights movement, more attention is needed particularly from white and privileged christian communities who have been uneducated and silent.  Remembering Rosa Parks gives us an opportunity to learn and to pay attention to both history and current events. She is relevant in both. It does not need to be Black History Month to focus on Rosa Parks. It does not need to be February. We need Rosa Parks this summer and in every season. Her voice teaches us to be more fully human, honor and love God, and all human beings as ourselves. Rosa Parks invites us to listen, stretch, to become collaborators and to work for justice for everybody. FIRST MOTHER Roll. Roll, Rosa. Roll down, Rosa. Roll down where wheels roll on, Cleveland Avenue bus. Move. Move on, Mother. Move on back. Move back as this driver orders, Montgomery Police bust. Rosa rides the dented yellow, green and white bus home from work where she sews dignified defiance into every garment. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks rides. Sees through sound glasses in 1955, sensible dignity any day in the way she inhabits her rightful vinyl seat. First of December this mother is due. Tonight, she sits unmoved, no stopping here. So still, Rosa. Accepts deep breaths of arrest, receives this moment thrust upon her. Constant kicking, labor, pains, screaming. Undeserved delivery. Giving birth to a boy- cott, Rosa Parks, forbearing mother. Twelve years ago when that same bus driver pushed her off that bus, rain, not justice, rolled down. An ever-flowing stream ran over her, walking, buttoned up topcoat, soaked. What patience courage carries. The face that stops hundreds of busses, moves thousands of feet. Do nothing and change everything. Down the road for such a time as this, Rosa. Awaken the pastor, whose dream will preach. Feel an honest presence. Marchers swelling like an emotional river still. So many motherless. Stillborn, are too many children of God. Console, Rosa. Let my people roll. So far and we are not there yet. Go down, Rosa. Even so, Rosa. This is the long way home. Susan Cunningham ©Susan Haroutunian Cunningham 2019

Season 1, Special Episode 35: Susan Cunningham, Danielle Castillejo and Chase Estes present "First Mother"

Third Generation racer and longtime friend of the podcast, Chase Estes stops by and it's another episode where the stories just keep coming. It's episodes like this where we are reminded that when you have people talking about things they love, conversation is gonna happen. 

Third Generation racer and longtime friend of the podcast, Chase Estes stops by and it's another episode where the stories just keep coming. It's episodes like this where we are reminded that when you have people talking about things they love, conversation is gonna happen.

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