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Respair Production & Media

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Since 2015, a podcast reshaping culture for the more liberatory and creative. Listen to longform humanizing conversations with artists, organizers, performers, comedians, scholars, and more who are reimagining Chicago and beyond toward liberation. Hosted by Damon A. Williams and Daniel Kisslinger.

  1. Ep 387 - Renzell, Foundation of Chicago's Hip Hop Renaissance & StudioShapes Founder

    6D AGO

    Ep 387 - Renzell, Foundation of Chicago's Hip Hop Renaissance & StudioShapes Founder

    When we listen to the remarkable hip hop that emerged from Chicago over the last fifteen years, it may not always be clear just how many hands had central roles in shaping the vibrant sound and community that pushed the limits of artistry and industry and crafted some of the best music of the 21st century. Renzell has been at the keys, on the boards, and on the ground as a collaborator and visionary force for a lot of this music, and has now stepped into his role as a spacemaker and mentor at his wonderful recording spot StudioShapes. He breaks down the importance of an artistic home; his favorite collabs with artists like Mick Jenkins, Noname, Via Rosa, and theMIND; and the sacrifices artists and creators have to make to build strong bonds with each other. SHOW NOTES Get in tune with StudioShapes - https://www.studioshapeschicago.com/ Follow Renzell on IG - https://www.instagram.com/renzell.wav/?hl=en Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio bsky.app/profile/respairmedia.bsky.social Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to your community by hitting us up - contact@respairmedia.com  CREDITS Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger  Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles

    1h 23m
  2. Ep 386 - Bill Ayers, Legendary Leftist and Teacher for Liberation, Returns

    FEB 12

    Ep 386 - Bill Ayers, Legendary Leftist and Teacher for Liberation, Returns

    The guys are in a new studio with an old friend and mentor, the legendary Bill Ayers! A lifelong force for collective liberation, Bill was a cofounder of militant leftist group the Weather Underground, which was formed in opposition to U.S. imperialism in Vietnam and racial injustice. After living underground for years to avoid FBI arrest, he has been an engaged scholar and a peace and social justice activist who has written extensively about social justice and freedom, democracy and education, the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. He's also the host of podcast Under the Tree: a Seminar on Freedom, which Dame and Kiss helped him build, and a loving mentor to Chicago's movement community. He comes through to talk about the heightened contradictions of this political moment, the ways the Weather Underground lives on in popular culture, the pride he feels for his children's achievements, and much more. SHOW NOTES Subscribe to Under the Tree - https://underthetreepod.com/ Catch Bill in convo with Vijay Prashad on 2/15 at 3pm - https://pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/49500 Listen to Mother Country Radicals - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mother-country-radicals/id1625882016 Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio bsky.app/profile/respairmedia.bsky.social Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to your community by hitting us up - contact@respairmedia.com  CREDITS Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger  Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles

    1h 12m
  3. Ep 385 - Sarah Oberholtzer, Abolitionist Filmmaker of We Call Each Other

    JAN 15

    Ep 385 - Sarah Oberholtzer, Abolitionist Filmmaker of We Call Each Other

    AirGo is joined by Sarah Oberholtzer, a filmmaker, educator, community organizer, and Respair collaborator who has just put some excellent art into the world. Sarah is the creator of We Call Each Other, a heartfelt short film about a community moving through drought and environmental racism. Weaving nonfiction recorded audio into a scripted story, it features characters who lean on one another to build safety and repair without relying on prisons or police. Built through a collaborative abolitionist writers room, the project is a great example of what it looks like to make new political realities legible. Sarah and the guys talk about the evolution of the project, how we need your support to make the second installment of the series come to fruition, and the relationship between faith and abolition. Watch this episode on our Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4faVtfSDtJw SHOW NOTES Watch We Call Each Other - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqZ6G7OcvE4 Donate to make the next installment of the series a reality - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weneedeachother/we-need-each-other-episode-2?ref=card Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio bsky.app/profile/respairmedia.bsky.social Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to your community by hitting us up - contact@respairmedia.com  CREDITS Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger  Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles

    1h 18m
  4. Ep 384 - Dame and Kiss talk Kiss' BFF Zohran, ICE in Chicago, and Getting Buckets

    JAN 8

    Ep 384 - Dame and Kiss talk Kiss' BFF Zohran, ICE in Chicago, and Getting Buckets

    Dame and Kiss hop back into the AirGo studio to kick off a new year of conversations. They break down how it feels to have Daniel's high school BFF and AirGo alum Zohran Mamdani ascend to the NYC mayoral seat, the remarkable organizing that took place across Chicago in the face of ICE and CBP kidnappings this fall, and the athletic exploits of two thirty-something rec leaguers (on the basketball court and the softball diamond, respectively). Lock in for another year of interviews reshaping culture for the liberatory and creative! Watch this episode on our Youtube! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Skz4hd7GQ Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio bsky.app/profile/respairmedia.bsky.social Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to your community by hitting us up - contact@respairmedia.com  CREDITS Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger  Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles

    1h 7m
  5. Lineage in Detroit at The Boggs Center (Extended Interview) - One Million Experiments: In the Field

    12/23/2025

    Lineage in Detroit at The Boggs Center (Extended Interview) - One Million Experiments: In the Field

    We're hyped to share this interview that's part of a brand-new travel show we've created called One Million Experiments: In the Field! Check out the full episode here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckhn1KILcis Nurtured in the lineage of visionary organizers Jimmy and Grace Lee Boggs, Dame and Kiss connect with today’s reimaginers who are building possibilities and keeping the Boggs’ memory alive. You can check out the video version of this extended interview on our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@respairmedia One Million Experiments: In the Field is a travel show about how people create safety without policing and prisons. Since the 2020 uprising, One Million Experiments has been in the lab with organizers from across this land talking about what keeps us safe and inviting you to participate in the joyous work of liberation. Now, five years after uprising, hosts Damon and Daniel get out of the lab and into the field to make tangible and irresistible community-built strategies for safety that exist all around us, and serve as an antidote to the despair created when carceral systems are the only option. We don’t need one answer to how we get free–we need one million experiments. Subscribe to Respair on Youtube to catch the whole series - https://www.youtube.com/@respairmedia Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio bsky.app/profile/respairmedia.bsky.social Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to your community by hitting us up - contact@respairmedia.com  CREDITS Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger  Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles

    36 min
  6. Transformation in Seattle w/ Collective Justice (Extended Interview) - One Million Experiments: In the Field

    12/11/2025

    Transformation in Seattle w/ Collective Justice (Extended Interview) - One Million Experiments: In the Field

    We're hyped to share this interview that's part of a brand-new travel show we've created called One Million Experiments: In the Field! Check out the full episode here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki3rwqOQlRs In Seattle we cover the remarkable story of a duo, bound by deadly violence, who chose healing through transformative justice. You can check out the video version of this extended interview on our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@respairmedia One Million Experiments: In the Field is a travel show about how people create safety without policing and prisons. Since the 2020 uprising, One Million Experiments has been in the lab with organizers from across this land talking about what keeps us safe and inviting you to participate in the joyous work of liberation. Now, five years after uprising, hosts Damon and Daniel get out of the lab and into the field to make tangible and irresistible community-built strategies for safety that exist all around us, and serve as an antidote to the despair created when carceral systems are the only option. We don’t need one answer to how we get free–we need one million experiments. Subscribe to Respair on Youtube to catch the whole series - https://www.youtube.com/@respairmedia Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to your community by hitting us up - contact@respairmedia.com Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio bsky.app/profile/respairmedia.bsky.social Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to your community by hitting us up - contact@respairmedia.com  CREDITS Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger  Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles

    34 min
  7. Growth & Failure in LA w/ Ali of Feed Black Futures (Extended Interview) - One Million Experiments: In the Field

    11/27/2025

    Growth & Failure in LA w/ Ali of Feed Black Futures (Extended Interview) - One Million Experiments: In the Field

    We're hyped to share this interview that's part of a brand-new travel show we've created called One Million Experiments: In the Field! Check out the full episode here - https://youtu.be/0uDzr1_II5Q?si=dPc_QkfadDjYL42E From the back room of Noname’s Book Club HQ to the soil of an urban farm, the guys learn about the importance of failure as a necessary step in growing abolition. You can listen to the audio version of our extended interview with Ali Anderson of Feed Black Futures here, and check out the video version on Youtube. One Million Experiments: In the Field is a travel show about how people create safety without policing and prisons. Since the 2020 uprising, One Million Experiments has been in the lab with organizers from across this land talking about what keeps us safe and inviting you to participate in the joyous work of liberation. Now, five years after uprising, hosts Damon and Daniel get out of the lab and into the field to make tangible and irresistible community-built strategies for safety that exist all around us, and serve as an antidote to the despair created when carceral systems are the only option. We don’t need one answer to how we get free–we need one million experiments. Subscribe to Respair on Youtube to catch the whole series - https://www.youtube.com/@respairmedia Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to your community by hitting us up - contact@respairmedia.com Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio bsky.app/profile/respairmedia.bsky.social Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to your community by hitting us up - contact@respairmedia.com  CREDITS Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger  Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles

    12 min
  8. Scale in NYC w/ Friendly Fridge & Black Trans Travel Fund - One Million Experiments: In the Field (Extended Interview)

    11/13/2025

    Scale in NYC w/ Friendly Fridge & Black Trans Travel Fund - One Million Experiments: In the Field (Extended Interview)

    We're hyped to share this interview that's part of a brand-new travel show we've created called One Million Experiments: In the Field! Check out the full episode here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gB2PJ9Nq68 On the second episode we head to Kiss's childhood stomping grounds in the Bronx to explore how, when organizing for freedom, small sometimes equals strong.You can hear our extended interview with the Friendly Fridge founders Selma and Sara as well as Black Trans Travel Fund founder Devin Lowe here, and check out the video version on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf9-hUSYLNI), One Million Experiments: In the Field is a travel show about how people create safety without policing and prisons. Since the 2020 uprising, One Million Experiments has been in the lab with organizers from across this land talking about what keeps us safe and inviting you to participate in the joyous work of liberation. Now, five years after uprising, hosts Damon and Daniel get out of the lab and into the field to make tangible and irresistible community-built strategies for safety that exist all around us, and serve as an antidote to the despair created when carceral systems are the only option. We don’t need one answer to how we get free–we need one million experiments. Subscribe to Respair on Youtube to catch the whole series - https://www.youtube.com/@respairmedia Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio bsky.app/profile/respairmedia.bsky.social Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to your community by hitting us up - contact@respairmedia.com  CREDITS Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger  Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles

    21 min
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Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Since 2015, a podcast reshaping culture for the more liberatory and creative. Listen to longform humanizing conversations with artists, organizers, performers, comedians, scholars, and more who are reimagining Chicago and beyond toward liberation. Hosted by Damon A. Williams and Daniel Kisslinger.

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  • Creator
    Respair Production & Media
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2026
  • Episodes
    505
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Respair Production & Media
  • Show Website
    AirGo

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