Venture into Provincetown, Massachusetts, a two-street beach town at the end of a sand spit, and meet the fascinating people who live there. Welcome to Provincetown encapsulates stories of artistry, sensuality, solitude, and serendipity. Listen to the sounds of hopes and dreams being carried through the summer breeze, the feeling of letting go, and the feeling of going all in. This is a place where you can find yourself or lose yourself.
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Mitra shares a new show featuring archival audio from The Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco, one of the first gay positive churches, and how it remembers all that was lost to AIDS.
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19 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT
Mitra Shares: Selects from Radiotopia
Mitra shares selections from Radiotopia, highlighting Lisa Dettmer's 2010 documentary, Beyond Gay Marriage, showcasing compelling audio storytelling.
2 Apr 2024
Mitra Shares: Creature Preacher
Pet Psychics are all the rage, and maybe you've been curious? In this episode of Creature Preacher, animal communicator Nancy Mello chats with Boomer the dog who shares a home with his dads, Jay and Joe. The problem? Boomer detests Jay with a passion! Can their relationship be saved?
Nancy Mello helps people see into the hearts and minds of their animals – alive and departed. In our first season, Nancy connects with pets of Margaret Cho and Timothy Simons. She also speaks directly to lost dogs, demanding rabbits, and even the world’s oldest land animal – Jonathan the tortoise – to share what they really think of us. There’s drama, jealousy, and juicy secrets…but definitely no BS.
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7 Sept 2022
Bonus: Summer of Sass Update
Mitra’s update continues, revealing Kristen’s last ditch effort to save the Summer of Sass work program, and we hear from Ethan who has made some big changes since his summer in Provincetown. Then, Mitra gets a surprising phone call.
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31 Aug 2022
Bonus: Sonny and Qya Update
Mitra writes a letter home with a surprise recording from her first trip to Provincetown after the summer. She catches up with Sonny and Qya. Well after all of the tourists have left, with some distance from the 2021 season, both reflect on what they want now.
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10 Aug 2022
Bye Bitches
Ethan and Kristen reflect on the summer, and check off one last item on their Provincetown bucket list. The town comes together for a fashion show, and Mitra walks the runway. Qya sends us off with a song. BYEEEEEE!
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3 Aug 2022
Burn Out
It’s nearing the end of the season and everyone is burnt out. We meet Natessa, a restaurant owner just trying to get through the day and ignore the agitation in town. Qya and Sonny are strung out but show no signs of slowing down, and Sonny wrestles with not having a plan for the fall.
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27 Jul 2022
Under The Rainbow
It’s Carnival! In a town that has an endless appetite for dress up, this is the event of the season. Ethan deals with life as an independent person.
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20 Jul 2022
Your Happy Place
We meet Brian, who moved to Provincetown to heal from a divorce; a timeless tale for this town at the end of the world. We look back at how Provincetown cared for its own at the height of AIDS. The season is threatened by a COVID outbreak.
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13 Jul 2022
It's Not Always Sonny
Sonny is partying his heart out, but he’s running on empty at the height of the season and with little rest, he’s facing his demons. Meanwhile, Ethan’s newfound freedom leads him to make a life-changing decision. Transcript (https://www.rococopunch.com/wtptranscripts)
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6 Jul 2022
Stacy Star Loves You
Star came in hot, crash landing in Provincetown with a lot of bravado. But as money troubles and personality clashes mount, things come to a head and Star settles her scores around town. Learn more about Summer of Sass at www.summerofsass.org (http://www.summerofsass.org/). Transcript (https://www.rococopunch.com/wtptranscripts)
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29 Jun 2022
Dumb Slut Summer
Sonny is living out his dumb slut dreams, but is it actually what he wants? With men having sex all around her, Mitra seeks a sapphic summer but wants to know: where are the women?
Transcript (https://www.rococopunch.com/wtptranscripts)
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22 Jun 2022
Keep Ptown Weird
Mitra searches Provincetown for that Cookie Mueller experience. We meet Jay, a longtime resident and conceptual artist with a septic tank performance space. Qya’s relentless summer schedule begins to take a toll, but time is of the essence.
Transcript (https://www.rococopunch.com/wtptranscripts)
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15 Jun 2022
Sassy
Local comedian Kristen introduces queer youth to Provincetown through the Summer of Sass program. In this year’s class, Ethan is looking for new experiences and personal growth, but Star only cares about the music. Learn more about Summer of Sass at www.summerofsass.org (http://www.summerofsass.org/). Transcript (https://www.rococopunch.com/wtptranscripts)
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15 Jun 2022
The Hustle
Welcome to Provincetown! Mitra arrives in town on assignment to unlock the secrets to growing old and gay. She meets performer and “It Girl” Qya Cristal who, after nine years of hustling in Provincetown, is finally getting her break. She also trails along with Sonny, the “new meat” just looking to have a dumb slut summer. Transcript (https://www.rococopunch.com/wtptranscripts)
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20 May 2022
Introducing Welcome To Provincetown
Host Mitra Kaboli, the award-winning documentarian and producer of The Heart and ESPN's 30 for 30, takes listeners inside this seaside town that grows from 3,000 to 60,000 over the course of the summer. Created by Room Tone and Rococo Punch, in association with Stitcher, listen to the series starting June 15th.
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Mitra Shares: When We All Get to Heaven
Published 10 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The people Jim's talking to are living or trying to live through the overlapping crises that were AIDS in the 1980s and the early 90s. The medical crisis of a novel, brutal, fatal disease with no treatment and no cure. The social crisis hitting mostly marginalized people, queer folks, drug users, people of color, with everyone else terrified of being next. The political crisis of a government that seemed indifferent to AIDS, contemptuous of people with it, and doing close to nothing to support sick people or the search for treatment. Especially in that first terrible decade. So what do you do if you're one of those people facing AIDS? […]
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