Making Sense and Nonsense

About Making Sense and Nonsense

Thoughtful and heartfelt and silly and goofy, with aspirations towards authentic mutual connection. Like if the children's television show "Mr Rogers' Neighborhood" were a podcast for adults, and people could talk back to each other and help each other through civilizational and ecological collapse. Light stuff, indeed! WITH COMFORT CONTENT ALSO! wemakesensepod@gmail.com Nonsensepodsense@gmail.com makingsensepod.substack.com (https://makingsensepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Heidi Juniper & Team

Category

comedy · education

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

26 Dec 2024

Latest episode

20 Mar 2025

Latest episodes

9 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Mar 2025

   6.5: What's Hurting? What's Helping?

   Welcome to this mini-episode of Making Sense and Nonsense! EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this episode, we make sense of: ~Where we’ve disappeared to, and why, and when we’re coming back! ~Link to the post full of updates about what’s been Hurting and Helping Heidi (the one mentioned in this mini-ep) is… https://makingsensepod.substack.com/p/the-way-is-long-the-path-is-mean (https://makingsensepod.substack.com/p/the-way-is-long-the-path-is-mean). ~To see photos of Heidi and Paul's yard and gardens, visit the substack page for this podcast. https://makingsensepod.substack.com/ (https://makingsensepod.substack.com/) ABOUT MAKING SENSE & NONSENSE: ~No Commercials Now or Ever! ~Release schedule: 2-4 Fridays per month, as Heidi’s health allows it. ADDING YOUR VOICE: To share back with us, you can write or even better yet, submit a voice message to: THEmakingsensepod@gmail.com OR nonsensepodsense@gmail.com. (Or comment on a substack post or in response to an email in your inbox.) Tell us what it’s like for you, in your life, wherever you are in the world—what’s hurting? What’s helping? And if you get stuck or have questions, feel free to reach out. CREDITS: ~Music by Jake Xerxes Fussell, Gonçalo Moreira (see below) and Jesse Welles (hellswelles on youtube). Gonçalo Moreira (talented jazz pianist/ Heidi’s friend) can be found on youtube under his own name.~Photos by Heidi! Kindfully & Devotedly Yours,Heidi Juniper & Crew This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit makingsensepod.substack.com (https://makingsensepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

2. 

   24 Feb 2025

   6: Your Second (2nd) Installment of Cozy Content!

   | The Comforting, Connecting Journey Continues!Welcome to the second installment of Cozy Content from your friends and allies at Making Sense and Nonsense! It has been restorative and joyful making it for you. Healing, even! (Every moment prepping this is a moment we’re not watching or thinking about the news.) EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this episode, we take a break from making sense of today and retreat to a long-ago, faraway and (somewhat) simpler time.ABOUT MAKING SENSE & NONSENSE: ~No Commercials Now or Ever! ~Release schedule: 2-4 Fridays per month, as Heidi’s health allows it. ADDING YOUR VOICE: To share back with us, you can write or even better yet, submit a voice message to: THEmakingsensepod@gmail.com OR nonsensepodsense@gmail.com. (And if you get stuck or have questions, feel free to reach out.) CREDITS: ~Music by Willie Nelson. ~Photos by Paul DeCoursey, and artists on pixabay and Unsplash. Kindfully & Devotedly Yours, Heidi Juniper & Crew This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit makingsensepod.substack.com (https://makingsensepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

3. 

   18 Feb 2025

   5: YOUR FIRST (1st) INSTALLMENT of COZY CONTENT!

   | OR: Surprise! Hope You Like It!Welcome to the long-promised first installment of Cozy Content from your friends and allies at Making Sense and Nonsense! We hope it’s everything you imagined it might be! EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this episode, we take a break from making sense of today and retreat to a long-ago, faraway and (somewhat) simpler time.ABOUT MAKING SENSE & NONSENSE: ~No Commercials Now or Ever! ~Release schedule: 2-4 Fridays per month, as Heidi’s health allows it. ADDING YOUR VOICE: To share back with us, you can write or even better yet, submit a voice message to: THEmakingsensepod@gmail.com OR nonsensepodsense@gmail.com. (And if you get stuck or have questions, feel free to reach out.) CREDITS: ~Music by Willie Nelson. ~Photos by artists on pixabay and Unsplash. Kindfully & Devotedly Yours, Heidi Juniper & Crew This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit makingsensepod.substack.com (https://makingsensepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

4. 

   29 Jan 2025

   4: The World Will Never Take My Heart

   | OR: Welcome to the Black Parade/ Take the Soul Power Back! Welcome to another *Special Episode* for Making Sense and Nonsense. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this episode, we are offering a “comfort listen” in the form of songs (drawn from rock, folk rock, Americana, OLD country, R&B and jazz) that embrace the buoyancy of rebellion and the joy of arms locked in solidarity. (You can suggest your own additions and when we have a sufficient number, we will make a youtube/ spotify playlist of listener suggestions!)The episode title was borrowed from a line in the song Welcome to the Black Parade (written by My Chemical Romance). ABOUT MAKING SENSE & NONSENSE:~No Commercials Now or Ever!~Release schedule: 2-4 Fridays per month, as Heidi’s health allows it.ADDING YOUR VOICE:To share back with us, you can write or even better yet, submit a voice message to: THEmakingsensepod@gmail.com OR nonsensepodsense@gmail.com. For more info, see our google doc "Response Guide" at makingsensepod.substack.com. (And if you get stuck or have questions, feel free to reach out.) CREDITS:~Music: The songs in this playlist largely come from our own collection but any that we found on youtube that we didn’t already own, we have purchased a copy of (whenever available):*Postmodern Jukebox / Joey Cook Welcome to the Black Parade *Aretha Franklin RESPECT *Brandi Carlile Rise Again*Tracy Chapman Give Me One Reason*Sly & The Family Stone If You Want Me To Stay *Peter, Paul & Mary If I Had a Hammer *Bob Marley Get Up Stand Up*Sly & The Family Stone Stand!*Ben E. King Stand By Me*MASH UP (by Bill McClintock on youtube): Rage Against the Machine + James Brown + Van Halen Take the Soul Power Back *Neko Case Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth*Johnny Cash God’s Gonna Cut You Down*Carlos Santana Evil Ways *Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel Shame On You*Lucinda Williams Changed the Tracks *Brandi Carlile I Will *Joan Baez No Woman, No Cry*Willie Nelson Nothing I Can Do About It Now*Johnny Cash Time Changes Everything *Guy Clark Worry B Gone*Brandi Carlile A Promise To Keep *Odetta Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright *Stevie Wonder Tomorrow Robins Will Sing *Carole King You’ve Got A Friend *The Gabe Dixon Band All Will Be Well *Postmodern Jukebox / Morgan James Dream On *Jake Xerxes Fussel Jump For Joy ~Artwork: Photos by augustino, yiyiphotos, darvinsantos and PublicDomainPictures on pixabay. Kindfully & Devotedly Yours, Heidi Juniper & Crew This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit makingsensepod.substack.com (https://makingsensepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

5. 

   20 Jan 2025

   3: A Million Candles Burning For A Love That Never Came

   | OR: Everything Is Broken/ Playlist-As-Irish-Wake Mourning the End of America As We Knew Her Welcome to this *Special Episode* for Making Sense and Nonsense. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this episode, we are offering a “comfort listen” in the form of music that embraces anger and heartbreak. (You can suggest your own additions and when we have a sufficient number, we will make a youtube/ spotify playlist of listener suggestions!) ABOUT MAKING SENSE & NONSENSE:~No Commercials Now or Ever!~Release schedule: 2-4 Fridays per month, as Heidi’s health allows it.ADDING YOUR VOICE:To share back with us, you can write or even better yet, submit a voice message to: THEmakingsensepod@gmail.com OR nonsensepodsense@gmail.com. For more info, see our google doc "Response Guide" at makingsensepod.substack.com. (And if you get stuck or have questions, feel free to reach out.) CREDITS:~The songs in this playlist largely come from our own collection but any that we found on youtube that we didn’t already own, we have purchased a copy of (whenever available): *Leonard Cohen Everybody Knows (Live in Iceland)*Postmodern Jukebox / Joey Cook Ain't No Rest*Tom Waits Misery is the River of the World*Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds People Ain't No Good*Postmodern Jukebox / Hailey Reinhart Creep*Stevie Wonder He’s Misstra Know It All*Procol Harem Whiter Shade of Pale*Warren Zevon Numb as a Statue*Lucinda Williams Not Dark Yet*Leonard Cohen You Want it Darker*Tom Waits Everything Goes to Hell*Lucinda Williams Everything is Broken*Gilliam Welch The Way it Goes*Gordon Lightfoot Circle of Steel*Lucinda Williams American Dream*Lou Rawls You Can't Go Home*Stevie Wonder Village Ghetto Land *Richard & Linda Thompson Withered & Died*Gordon Lightfoot Too Late for Praying*Etta James God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)*Tom Waits God's Away On Business*Chris Cornell Black Hole Sun (Live in Vancouver) *Gillian Welch The Way the Whole Things Ends ~Photos by Miriams-Fotos on pixabay. Kindfully & Devotedly Yours, Heidi Juniper & Crew This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit makingsensepod.substack.com (https://makingsensepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

6. 

   13 Jan 2025

   2: We Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Smell No Evil. We're Comatose for the Election!

   Welcome to the first hour-long episode of Making Sense and Nonsense! EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this episode, we make sense of:~Our immediate bodily and emotional responses to the US election news of Nov. 5, 2024, and compare them to our experiences of the 2016 election. We grapple with despair and disgust only (spoiler alert) to conclude that It’s All Going To Be Great! ~Although the guiding topic of this episode was serious, silliness and nonsense were had by all. Talking made us feel better. We hope listening is as helpful and/or relieving for you! ABOUT MAKING SENSE & NONSENSE:~No Commercials Now or Ever!~Release schedule: 2-4 Fridays per month, as Heidi’s health allows it. (Including Cozy Content Coming Soon!) ADDING YOUR VOICE: To share back with us, you can write or even better yet, submit a voice message to: THEmakingsensepod@gmail.com OR nonsensepodsense@gmail.com. For more info, go to makingsensepod.substack.com and check out our google doc "Response Guide." (And if you get stuck or have questions, feel free to reach out.) CREDITS:~The dropped-in audio portions of this podcast were drawn from the following sources:*Stay F. Homekins *Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso (featuring Astead Herndon) *Thubthumping by Chumbawamba ~The 2-minute explainer on the history of the Black Panthers, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., was taken from the YouTube channel Black History in Two Minutes or so. The clip is titled The Birth of the Black Panthers. ~The music was by Jake Xerxes Fussell, James Brown, and Chumbawamba. ~Photos by Alexas Fotos on pixabay. (Their moving pixabay bio begins: A life without animals is not worth living for me. Animal protection is very important to me…) Kindfully & Devotedly Yours,Heidi Juniper & Crew This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit makingsensepod.substack.com (https://makingsensepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

7. 

   6 Jan 2025

   1B: We're In This Together

   | OR: Ain't Ya Thrilled? Welcome!… to this audio collage of voices making sense of the US election 2025. In this episode, we make sense of: ~Right after the US election result of Nov 5, 2024: What the hell just happened, and why? The curated audio portions of this podcast were drawn from the following podcasts: *The Press Box *Stay F. Homekins *Open Source with Christopher Lydon (with Joshua Cohen) *Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso (with Astead Herndon) *The Daily (with the Women’s March organizers) *WTF with Marc Maron *The Sarah Silverman Show *Therapist Uncensored *Questlove Supreme (with John Oliver).The music was by Jake Xerxes Fussell and Joan Baez. The photos were from pixabay. To share back with us, you can write or even better yet, submit a voice message to: THEmakingsensepod@gmail.comOR nonsensepodsense@gmail.com. For more info, go to makingsensepod.substack.com and check out our google doc "Response Guide." (And if you get stuck or have questions, feel free to reach out.) Kindfully & Devotedly Yours, Heidi Juniper & Crew This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit makingsensepod.substack.com (https://makingsensepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

8. 

   4 Jan 2025

   1A: Someone's Looking Out For You

   | OR: The Body Doesn't Lie...Welcome to the first “half” episode for Making Sense and Nonsense! (One of a pair of episodes.)EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this episode, we make sense of:~The feelings and bodily impulses (for ex: wanting to Scream or Weep/ Get Me Outta Here) that came and are coming with the result of the US Election (2024).~Specifically, this is something of an “audio collage” to help you grapple with All The Feels in the aftermath of Nov.5, as you are surrounded by supportive voices from across the PodcastSphere. Soak up the kindfulness! Listen (if you’re like Heidi) on repeat for added help and support.ABOUT MAKING SENSE & NONSENSE:~No Commercials Now or Ever!~Release schedule: 2-4 Fridays per month, as Heidi’s health allows it. (Including Cozy Content Coming Soon!) ADDING YOUR VOICE: To share back with us, you can write or even better yet, submit a voice message to: THEmakingsensepod@gmail.com OR nonsensepodsense@gmail.com. For more info, see makinsensepod.substack.com. (And if you get stuck or have questions, feel free to reach out.)CREDITS: The curated audio portions of this podcast were drawn from the following podcasts:*The Sarah Silverman Show*Stay F. Homekins*Open Source with Christopher Lydon (featuring Joshua Cohen)*Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso (featuring Astead Herndon)*WTF with Marc Maron*The Daily (from The New York Times)*Therapist Uncensored (featuring therapist Michael Hilgers)*The Press Box (from The Ringer)The music was by Jake Xerxes Fussell and Brandi Carlile. Kindfully & Devotedly Yours, Heidi Juniper & Crew This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit makingsensepod.substack.com (https://makingsensepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

9. 

   26 Dec 2024

   0: Your Help For Election Stress...

   Welcome to the Origin Story for Making Sense and Nonsense! In this episode, we make sense of: ~What is this podcast and who is it for? How and why did it come into being? The curated audio portions of this podcast were drawn from the following podcasts: *Questlove Supreme (featuring John Oliver) *Open Source with Christopher Lydon *Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso *Therapist Uncensored *The Sarah Silverman Show *WTF with Marc Maron *Stay F. Homekins. The music was by Jake Xerxes Fussell and Stevie Wonder. To share back with us, you can write or even better yet, submit a voice message to: THEmakingsensepod@gmail.com OR nonsensepodsense@gmail.com. While leaving or recording a message, it's preferable to be sitting still in a quiet indoor space, not on the move near traffic! :D If you get stuck, feel free to reach out for help via email. There are no length minimums or maximums for responses. If you do NOT want an excerpt of your email/ voice message played on the show, please label your submission PRIVATE. Some prompts on what you might share: ~Your own feelings in response to the recent (2024) US election. ~Your bodily responses regarding it. ~Your perceptions about what is going on, why/ how it happened, etc. ~Your sense of what the meaning of this for your life/ for our shared life in the US or planetwide. These are just suggestions! If something in your heart wants out, share with us. If you have an inkling that you might be able to help someone else (via an area of expertise/ wisdom you have) or to help us make the show, please do say so! We are trying to go far deeper than an Opinion-based discussion... not trying to arrive at a singular Truth, but to share and witness and reflect, almost like in a Grief support group. But silliness and nonsense are also ALWAYS welcome! --Heidi & Team This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit makingsensepod.substack.com (https://makingsensepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

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