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Not Your Average Joe

Joseph Paul Wright

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Joe is not an expert at anything, but he loves to learn about stuff, and he really, REALLY loves to talk about stuff. An author, journalist, producer, and consultant, Joe looking to provide the world with perspective. Join him as he (inconsistently) attempts to do just that. Featuring a wide variety of guests, ranging from his 9 year old son, to journalists, lawyers, filmmakers, other experts in various fields, and many more random people that he knows (or maybe really doesn't). Support this ...
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Felony Miami is a show about injustice in America told through real conversations between real people. We explore the disparities in the criminal justice system and the intersection of those disparities and the arts. In this exploration, Felony Miami seeks to educate, entertain, enlighten and contribute towards the improvement and fairness of the system. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/felony-miami/support
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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #6 Focus on poets Dennis Cooper, Sparrow, Quincy Troupe, Joseph Brodsky, Miguel Algarin and John Trudell. The podcast is co-produced by Ram Devineni. Find more episodes at https://www.bowerypoetry.com/By Bowery Poetry
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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #3 Focus on poets Tracie Morris, Amiri Baraka, Pearl Cleage, Paul Beatty and Indran Amirthanayagam. The podcast is co-produced by Ram Devineni. Find more episodes at https://www.bowerypoetry.com/By Bowery Poetry
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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #2 Focus on poets Thylias Moss, Pedro Pietri, Emily XYZ with Myers Bartlett, Matt Cook and Ruth Forman. The podcast is co-produced by Ram Devineni . Find more episodes at https://www.bowerypoetry.com/By Bowery Poetry
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Episode 9 of “Poetry is Bread” with host Bob Holman and Joy Harjo, an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022. Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni.By Bowery Poetry
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Episode 8 of “Poetry is Bread"with host Bob Holman and Beau Sia — a Tony Award winning poet and world-renowned performer, featured on all 6 seasons of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry and the winner of two National Poetry Slam championships. Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni.…
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Host Bob Holman on the "Poetry of Possibility," with Edward Hirsch and Idra Novey -- two poets whose sensibilities encompass both the lyrical and the socially conscious. So much to talk about from Pablo Neruda to Clarice Lispector. The art of translations to the power of duende. Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni.…
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Episode 4 of “Poetry is Bread” with host Bob Holman and poets Naomi Shihab Nye and Mosab Abu Toha on the resilience of poetry during war and conflict in #Gaza. Poetry of everyday life when everyday is like no other day. Download more episodes at Bowery Poetry . Producer Ram Devineni.By Bowery Poetry
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Episode 2 with host Bob Holman and poet, translator and musician Haleh Liza Gafori about her translation of Rumi, and why he is so popular now? She also talks about the process of translating a beloved poet, and her own Iranian heritage, and the power of music in her life. Download more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni…
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In this episode, Joe has a conversation with a very special guest about generational mental health problems, overcoming stigma to realize it's ok to not be ok, and pushing forward through life, even when it feels like everything is falling out from under you.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-paul-wright/mes…
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In this episode of Not Your Average Joe, Joe talks to two of the filmmakers behind the movie, Loners, a film about being alone... together. They discuss the play that inspired the movie, the situation that inspired the play, and how it all fits in to the current mental state of the US. Being an introvert in the 20-teens is not easy, --- Send in a v…
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You know that little box you check when you create an account, or subscribe to something, or enter a contest that says you agree to the "Terms & Conditions" that you never had any intention of reading? Well guess what, there are Terms & Conditions to every aspect of our lives and we hardly ever look at them just like you never look at the "Terms & …
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Today's episode is about mental health and Fatherhood! Joe dives into his paternal family history of mental health and how that affected his Dad and how it affects himself as a father. It's an emotional episode about 3 generations of fathers dealing with their various mental health disorders and the impact that has had on their children, all the wa…
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I hate being told I'm good, but not good enough. That's worse than just straight up being told I suck. If I'm not good enough, than tell me why, right? Help me improve. But we can't really control what people think or say about us, so let's focus on what we CAN control. It'll really help us get through those depressive funks that we all find oursel…
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Welcome to the FIRST EPISODE EVER of "Not Your Average Joe"! In this episode Joe Wright gets right into the heart of it with three stories about his own experiences dealing with ADHD and Clinical Depression. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-paul-wright/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotif…
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Trauma, hate, distrust, fear, frustration, tears, disgust, abuse, resentment. These are some of the effects of doing time. For every Malcolm X, there are ten million felons whose names you’ll never know, who never shake their past. Society breeds impropriety; and careless citizens through the infected soul of American democracy.--- Support this pod…
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Broke, busted, tapped out, lost in the woods, dissolute, naked in the winter wiped out, over lev’d, indigent, penniless, gone fishin’, in the poor house, itinerant, rambling, povertized, compromised, chaptered, scrambling, crumbling … Bankrupt! Where there is injustice for one, there is injustice for all. Welcome to Felony Miami. Let’s air it out.-…
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Four walls, steel bars, and a saline drip. Concrete bed, bologna sandwich, convulsions, embolism, heart rate speeding like a freight train through your chest plate. The fear is gripping and real. It's not just that you are going to jail, it's that you might have a medical issue. And the thought of going into the prison health care system is causing…
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Private prisons are the scourge of civilization. The food is awful, the water tastes like it came from a gutter in Flint, Michigan, and sending an email costs more than a Rolls Royce lease payment. The U.S. the number one spot for the most people in cages. Where there is injustice for one, there is injustice for all. Welcome to Felony Miami. Let's …
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There’s a reason that South Florida is the fraud capital of America, and it’s all built on a house of cards that the contractor skipped out on after an all cash transfer from your bank account to their sense of moral bankruptcy. Where there is injustice for one, there’s injustice for all. Welcome to Felony Miami, let’s air it out.--- Support this p…
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