GOOD MORNING, JONN Q.
GOOD MORNING, JOHN Q. is a broadcast from somewhere between memory and forgetting.
Part commentary, part conscience, part late-night transmission, each episode is a short reflection on America, history, outrage, irony, and the fragile distance between what we once believed and what we are becoming.
No screaming. No manufactured outrage. Just a voice in the dark refusing to let memory die quietly.
You may turn it off -- You won’t shut it out.
Episodes
18 episodes
The Way We Were
What if the best way to understand America at 250... is to spend a few minutes remembering America at 200?This Independence Day, JQ isn't interested in telling you what to think. He's interested in helping you remember what you've forgot...
A Time For Choosing
Today's broadcast of Good Morning, John Q. may be the most unsettling—and thought-provoking—episode in the series so far.In A Time for Choosing: When Blinking Is Not an Option, J.Q. asks listeners to do something almost...
ISRAEL -- To Be Or Not To Be
Today's broadcast o Good Morning, John Q, is not a political podcast. It is a meditation on memory.It asks a question as old as civilization itself: What happens when two ancient peoples remember who they once were?One remembers P...
The Lion And The Sun
In a media landscape obsessed with headlines, polling data, and twenty-four-hour news cycles, The Lion and the Sun dares to ask a more unsettling question:What happens when civilizations remember?Part history lesson, part...
American Requiem
In this episode of Good Morning, John Q., the conversation turns from battles and headlines to something far more enduring: how history remembers wars.Drawing on two and a half centuries of American military tradition, American Requiem e...
The Handwriting On The Wall
In this episode of Good Morning, John Q., the laughter gives way to something far more serious.Drawing on history, mythology, and the timeless principle that you reap what you sow, The Handwriting on the Wall explores the difference betw...
You Reap What You Sow
Today's Good Morning, John Q. is called "You Reap What You Sow."It begins with a birthday celebration.Or at least that's what it appears to be.But somewhere between a cage fight on the White House lawn, a gold-plated...
I'll Cry If I Want To
What happens when an eighty-four-year-old man wakes up on his birthday and decides not to spend the day looking forward—but looking back?In this episode of Good Morning, John Q., a simple birthday reflection becomes something fa...
WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH?
If you've ever wondered whether America still knows how to ask uncomfortable questions, don't miss today's installment of Good Morning, John Q.What begins as a simple observation about wealth becomes something much larger—a medi...
Letters In A Bottle
What do Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, Che Guevara, a high-school term paper, an A-plus, and an FBI background investigation have in common?The answer begins in today's episode of Good Morning, John Q.Letters in a Bottle is the ...
Deal, Or No Deal
This may be the most disciplined and mature installment of Good Morning, John Q. so far because it never raises its voice. It doesn't need to. The humor is dry, the observations are deceptively simple, and the target is larger than any...
Mi Casa Es No Su Casa
What begins as a riff on architecture, spectacle, and political vanity slowly reveals itself as something deeper: a meditation on ownership, power, memory, and who the White House actually belongs to.With the dry wit of Will Rogers and t...
What's In A Name
What begins as a joke about names becomes a meditation on legacy, memory, and the uniquely American obsession with leaving your mark on history.
Love Is, What Love Does
Everybody says they believe in love.Everybody says they want love.Everybody says they value love.But love is not what we say.Love is what we do.In this episode of Good Morning, John Q., we explore the...
Hate Pays -- Memory Doesn't
Why is it easier to raise money for outrage than for understanding?Why can anger fill stadiums while truth struggles to fill a classroom?In this episode of GOOD MORNING, JOHN Q., we examine a troubling reality: America has become ...
White Is The New Black
In this episode of Good Morning, John Q., titled White Is the New Black, the broadcast examines the growing claim that white Americans are somehow becoming the new victims of racial oppression in modern America — and places th...