“I feel; therefore I am.”
Emuse is a show composed of curiosity and sustained by song. Each show has a theme, and Emma incorporates songs, speeches, poetry, and stories to explore the theme from as many angles as possible within the three hours. Although the medium is audio, Emuse activates all senses, including humor!
This Emuse is THIQUE with MAGIQUE
songs and science about... SPELLS
Whippin up dishes for witches bout:
🪄spells vs prayers vs curses (f*ck FCC rules)
🪄the math of the perfect spell
🪄 what does it take to hypnotize you?
🪄 super-saturation, polymorphism, and potential
🪄 The Singing Revolution and other spells that changed the world
🪄Dolly Parton’s sorcery
🪄 the magic word
🪄the witch in you
and MORE
Featuring track attacks from:
🪄 Aretha
🪄 Hedwig
🪄 Queen Latifah
🪄 Fleetwood Mac
and other WITCHES
get ready for some bippity-bippity-BOPS
PSE*: MAGIC IS REAL!
PSE = Public Service E-nouncement
cover art by Jannelle Synclair
22 Aug 2026
SALT
Science and songs about our fave celebrity couple: sodium chloride
Songs from
- SAULT duh
- Salt n Pepa also duh
- Crystal Waters
- Inner Circle
- Chaka Khan
- Tank and the Bangaz
- Big Boss Vette
and MORE
Science bout:
- NaCl is basically romeo and juliet
- salt's relation to electrical neural firing
- Salt in the gut
- sea salt vs table salt
- why is pink salt pink?
- wait... what is a mineral?
- why SODIUM chloride and not potassium chloride for french fries?
and MORE
Learn, live, listen, lick
E out
7 Aug 2026
Your Wild
Take a walk on the wild side. Music and musings about the wild in you + me + everything we do and don't see
Music by:
- George Clinton
- TEMS
- Dido
- Roberta Flack
- Lou Reed
- Rick Ross
- SAULT
and more...
Musings on:
- the Wild Woman archetype
- Home vs. Wildnerness
- Fear vs. Faith
- being a bitch (the dog in me honors the dog in you)
and more...
Some fun facts for your beautiful, wild bitch asses:
- "wild" may come from the Old English root of "will", as in one's own will/fate
- besides humans, the only species to domesticate another are ants that "farm" aphids
- evolutionarily speaking, domesticated cats didn't become such because they were more tame necessarily; they just could tolerate humans better
- Wild mustangs in the wild west weren't actually wild-- they were feral, meaning somewhere along their lineage they were domesticated by humans, and then became free
- and as another type of Wild West (of the Yeezy variety) proclaimed: there's no church in the Wild
maybe because the Wild is the original Church
and more...
flow baby
26 Jul 2026
Messing Towards
Tired of messing around? Time to start messing TOWARDS
Yes- success doesn't preclude mess. In fact, it requires it. Here is 3 hours of radio around the science and songs of finding your purpose and staying on your path. Expect science like:
- E. Coli's toxic relationship patterns
- Vacuum powered transit
- Fungi as guardian angels
- Neuroscience of your literal "calling"
And MORE
Songs from:
- Alicia Keys
- Etta James
- Anderson Paak
- Mase
- Amber Mark
And MORE - duh! it's 3 hrs.
Come to learn, stay to come.
26 Jun 2026
Back to Our Bloodroots Part II
Part II!
Kait and I adventure into the Bloodroot collection and dust off some treasures.
12 Jun 2026
Back to Our Bloodroots
This special Pride episode of Emuse broadcasts from inside a piece of American queer history.
Emma and guest host Kait Torres sit down with Noel Furie, co-founder of Bloodroot — the feminist, lesbian, vegetarian restaurant and bookstore that opened in Bridgeport in 1977 and ran for 48 years, one of the longest-lasting feminist restaurants in the country.
Noel and her late partner Selma Miriam built a world by women, for women, outside the male gaze — no chefs, no waitresses, just food, books, and community as a radical act. With Selma's passing and Bloodroot's recent closing on the winter solstice, Noel reflects on the long arc of being "all on the outside," what's gained and lost as queer life moves toward the mainstream, and what it means to nourish each other in hard times.
A tender, funny, fierce conversation about feminism, food, and finding yourself in community with music from the movement.
Nourish yourself.
29 May 2026
Brain vs. Body
Brain v. Body: Who gets aux?
Science and songs about the brain-body connection and consequences of disconnection. Fun facts and figures:
- 90-95% of serotonin is produced in the gut
- you can SMELL fear (and then react to it!) without conscious perception
- ancient Babylonians thought consciousness was in the liver
- having butterflies is a physiological phenomenon
- accordingly, Sade's original banger was called "Liver's Rock"*
Music from:
- Sade duh
- James Brown
- Anita Baker
- Death Cab for Cutie
- The Temptations
- Billie Eyelash (ik- this is so rare that I don't even know how to spell this name properly but made it body part to be on theme)
- and MORE
Listen if curious
*this is a joke. But listen to the song thinking this and tell me you don't smile
15 May 2026
B-Muse: MY BDAY PARTAY
I'm turning 31 next Tuesday and decided to throw a b-day party for myself live on air! I went with my flow and spit out this show... Featuring:
1. My top songs each month for the past year and the story behind them
2. Science/spiritual lessons from quantum physics, Einstein, and the ocean
3. Who wore it better? Classic songs and their jersey club remixes
4. My fave songs of all we really got- THE PRESENT
5. So much freestylin I'm always wilin
AND WHATEVER THE FRIG I WANT!
Music from:
1. Bootsy Collins
2. Mary Jane Girls
3. Mase
4. Sean Paul
5. Leon Thomas
ET CETERAAAAA
1 May 2026
Mother Matrix
celebrate mother's day by taking the red pill- what's the REAL matrix?
17 Apr 2026
H2-Oh Yeah
In honor of Earth day, WATER!
3 Apr 2026
Fool's Gold
Songs by Fools for Fools.
Musings about:
- The History of the Fool
- The Science behind Beginner's Luck
- The Wisdom of Tarot Fool
- Fools around the world :)
Music By:
- Led Zep
- Ray Charles
- Masego
- Jill Scott
- Johnny Matthis
- Elvis Presley
- Missy Elliot
And more...
Stay updated on future Emuse episodes via instagram, @atmospeere.
20 Mar 2026
Her Highness
In celebration of Woman's History Month... All hail the Queen!
Musings about:
- overlooked/undersung historical queens
- queen bees
- what the heck makes a queen anyway, and is there room for more than one (spoiler alert: asbolutely)
- why the world would benefit from more BQE (Big Queen Energy)
Music from:
- the queens of funk, soul, hip-hop, rock n roll, pop and more
- Ayla Nereo
- Janelle Monae
- Sampha the Great
- Lianne La Havas
- Men who respect the queen (Bilal, Masego, Mountain, and... Queen)
- Pre-queens (a.k.a. Disney princesses)
- Leikeli47
LMK what you think! Bless up
16 Mar 2026
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Today's sonic journey explores heartbreak... and how we can end at heartmend. Musings include:
- real physiological consequences of a broken heart
- the stages of grief
- ancient and artistic wisdom around healing
Musics include:
- Beyonce's Lemonade duh
- Sampha
- Sade
- Tank and the Bangaz
- Leon Bridges
- Lorde
and more
A lot of freestyling on this one. Flow of epic proportion (perhaps the break in my heart made way for the flood)
20 Feb 2026
Box O Chocolates
Just like Mama said....
Life is like a box of chocolates-- you never know what you're gonna get.
Here's a box o' songolates for you featuring songs...
- Celebrating chocolate and all things sweet
- Sampling other great hits
- Honoring Black History Month
- Submitted by YOU, the listeners
And many more
Artists include...
- Aretha Franklin
- Lenny Kravitz
- Hiatus Kaiyote
- Chaka Khan
- The Notorious BIG
- Childish Gambino
- Outkast
And many more
With wisdom "Mama said" from listeners around the world
9 Jan 2026
RESOLUTE
🎶PUTTING THE FREAK IN FREAKQUENCY🎶
*Note: this episode has one of my favorite call-ins of all time
The theme is RESOLUTE, music and musings about setting your mind to something and seeing it through. Expect science and song and sauce and tunez from:
- Al Green
- Destiny's Child
- Earth, Wind, & Fire
- Eve
- Usher
and MORE
Something for everyone and everything for someone
27 Dec 2025
2025 Emuse
Big E and Big N (who let him back on) put a big phat bow on 2025, a true gift of a year.
Sets on:
-Rap and Unrapped
-Christmas bangers you've never heard
-Sonic gift exchange
-Stories of the year told in song
-Musical crossover episodes
-Illnesses such as Bieber fever and lovesickness
-Homage to amazing musicians lost in 2025
-Loving animosity
Featuring music by:
-James Brown
-Dijon
-Doechii
-Roberta Flack
-Snoop
- Robin Thicke
AND MORE duh it's THREE FREAKIN HOURS MERRY CHRISTMAS youre welcome and thank you and speak at you next year 🥹
12 Dec 2025
Mistle-Toe
I broke a leg and then I broke a toe. This very special Emuse episode is all about Mist-lil-TOE, featuring songs about kissing (soooooo many kisses- some WITH TONGUE 🤯), the bones and the body, the poems and that somebody....
I weave the story of the Poem that Broke My Toe throughout the sets and explore the many humbling lessons I'm facing through this period of stillness that is AFOOT.
Musical contributions from:
- Jon Batiste
- Ashanti
- Sade
- Doechii
- Maxwell
- The Killers
- Little Mermaid
and more...
29 Nov 2025
Whack Friday
Whack Friday. F*ck consumer culture. F*ck FCC rules. F*ck that guy who was driving round town with CeeLo's love.
Big N (a.k.a. Connecticut's Most Kissable, Bridgeport's hot new "It Boy", Prince of the East Village, Venmommy) joins E (a.k.a. E) on Emuse Whack Friday edition to talk about love, home, Thanksgiving and Thanksreceiving. In terms of music, expect:
~Daniel Caesar
~Marvin Gaye
~Erykah Badu
~The Temptations
~CeeLo Green
~ Ross Gay (poet) meets Bon Iver
kinda vibe
In terms of convo, expect:
~aggressive and competitive love
~stories about high school cars
~literal mind reading
~nostalgia, prestolgia, and being present
~ biggest laughs in radio history
kinda vibe
Pairs well with:
~weekend car rides
~cleaning
~Thanksgiving indigestion
kinda vibe
Share with people in need of love, laugh, and good kinda vibes.
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