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.
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 forgotten. He takes listeners on a journey back to one extraordinary day—July 4, 1976—when the Tall Ships filled New York Harbor, the nation celebrated its Bicentennial, and, for one unforgettable evening, America seemed to remember she was one country. Not a red A...
25 Jun 2026
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 no one in today's media is willing to do: step inside the historical memory of two nations and ask how that memory shapes the way each sees the future. This is not a discussion driven by headlines. It is driven by history. J.Q. argues that nations, like people, remember—and t...
24 Jun 2026
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 Persia —a phoenix rising with visions of reclaiming its ancient throne. The other remembers Israel —a nation born from ashes, bound by a single oath: Never Again. This is not a debate about today's headlines. It is an exploration of the memories that shape nations, ...
23 Jun 2026
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 geopolitical meditation, and part cautionary tale, this episode of The United States of Amnesia moves beyond the daily arguments over Iran and Israel and instead explores something far older and far more powerful—memory itself. JQ argues that nations do not think like indi...
20 Jun 2026
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 explores the relationship between victory, sacrifice, memory, and national identity. What happens when a nation that has long defined itself through triumph begins asking different questions about the outcomes of war? What is the difference between success dec...
16 Jun 2026
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 between events and consequences, between headlines and harvests, and between what is celebrated today and what may emerge tomorrow. Part warning, part meditation, and part intervention, the episode examines how nations, like individuals, must eventually live with...
15 Jun 2026
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 green card, and the growing confusion between entertainment and governance, the conversation takes an unexpected turn. Rather than offering my own opinion, I decided to seek advice from someone who spent a lifetime observing American politics with humor, common sense, and a he...
13 Jun 2026
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 far more unexpected. What begins with an old song, an old memory, and a little self-deprecating humor turns into a meditation on time, wealth, power, gratitude, and the strange distance between the America we remember and the America we see today. Part memoir. Part obse...
12 Jun 2026
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 meditation on ambition, capitalism, power, and the frontiers that define every generation. With humor, self-deprecation, and the storytelling style of a modern Will Rogers, John Q. takes listeners from King Midas to railroads, from Silicon Valley to the stars. This isn't ...
4 Jun 2026
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 first installment of a three-part story that starts with a curious teenager looking for extra credit and ends in places neither he nor the FBI could have imagined. Along the way are Cold War dictators, family secrets, religious guilt, political irony, and one very ...
3 Jun 2026
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 politician or policy. The episode asks a question most people no longer stop to consider: How do we know when we've won? What follows is a witty and increasingly unsettling meditation on a culture that has blurred the distinction between victory and parti...
1 Jun 2026
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 the exasperation of a citizen who still believes the republic is worth saving, John Q. takes listeners on a tour through history, satire, and civic responsibility. The jokes land hard, but the target is never simply a politician. The target is our willingness ...
31 May 2026
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.
29 May 2026
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 difference between feelings and commitment, attraction and devotion, words and action. From beavers building dams to the teachings of Jesus, from marriage and family to country and service, the question remains the same: What does love actually require of us? Part personal reflection, part ...
28 May 2026
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 extraordinarily good at financing grievance, fury, and division — while memory, history, and truth are often left standing alone at the curb. This isn't a broadcast about left versus right. It's about what happens when a nation becomes more invested in defending it...
27 May 2026
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 that claim against the actual historical reality of Black experience in the United States. The episode argues that what many Americans are experiencing is not persecution, but uncertainty: the discomfort that comes when long-standing assumptions about cultural, political, ...
26 May 2026
A Memorial Day Requiem
Today's broadcast is titled A Memorial Day Requiem. Not because this country is dead. But because memory is dying. Every Memorial Day, America pauses briefly to honor the fallen — the young men and women sent off to fight wars, defend ideals, preserve unions, topple tyrants, and occasionally protect the interests of people who never once intended to step onto a battlefield themselves. Flags wave. Politicians speak. Old songs are played. Jets scream overhead. And for one long weekend, we prete...
22 May 2026
Freedom Of Speech -- R.I.P.
Last night, another late-night voice went dark. But this broadcast is not really about Stephen Colbert. It's about memory. About how every generation eventually discovers the same temptation: silence criticism in the name of crisis, fear, patriotism, or survival. From John Adams to Abraham Lincoln to the present day, America has wrestled with the same dangerous bargain -- restraining freedom in order to save freedom. This first broadcast of Good Morning, John Q. trave...
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