The Bat Segundo Show & Follow Your Ears

Our Correspondent, galvanized by the recent arrival of a pair of shorts with “extreme motion,” comments upon the terrible Abraham Knofler video, why the NYPD can’t be trusted, and the duty of all Brooklynites to serve as neighborhood bouncers. Read More

“Fame puts you there where thing are hollow,” sang David Bowie. Well, the paradox of fame is even deadlier now than it was in 1975. In our latest episode, our correspondent discusses Flatbush fireworks, oppressive fans, and the need for distinct voices. Read More

Two incidents. One in my early thirties. The other, last week, at the age of 45. Pain. Guilt. Loss. The universe holding up a mirror to all the beauty you believe in and having a callous and merciless laugh. Read More

People are fleeing New York City, afraid of the pandemic and the looting and the possibility of surviving. Our correspondent offers a passionate argument for why this city rewards loyalty. Read More

Our correspondent discusses how he found out about Al Jolson in a book, the circumstances that caused him to forgive and befriend his childhood bully, the ugliness of the n-word, on what happens when you live a life without explicit cues, the erasure of racist culture, the Bon Appetit scandal, HBO Max scrubbing material from Read More

As American protests escalate into heightened riots, our correspondent shares his thoughts on the real source of what’s going on, sharing some of the reprehensible conduct he observed from the NYPD on May 30, 2020 in the streets of Brooklyn. Read More

You’ve all seen the video of George Floyd’s murder. It is a snuff film, an abomination, an unacceptable watermark for the lies of white culture and the harm it does to America. This show ties all the lies together and calls bullshit on this cancer. The lies of police abuse, both with George Floyd and Read More

In which your intrepid rambler finds himself surprisingly addicted to Love Island and learns about pre-pandemic failings in human connection that we were in denial about, with some asides about dating, crossword puzzle magazines, loyalty, and guilty pleasures. Read More

In our latest episode, Ed Champion bemoans the plague of emotional inauthenticity that has become an increasingly common part of pandemic life, rails against Facebook avatars, remarks upon his own days of occasional paralysis, and commends the emotional truth of Marc Maron’s moving and heartbreaking tribute to Lynn Shelton. Read More

In our latest episode, Ed Champion answers the first batches of listener mail, reacts to the news from Germany that the infection rate is up after lockdown restrictions, and riffs on capitalism, smug politicians, CO2 emissions, Bananarama, the Broadway shutdown extending into Labor Day, the grim future of the job market, the Liberate protesters, and Read More

This morning, Senator Rand Paul falsely claimed to Dr. Anthony Fauci that COVID was mostly a New England problem and asked for humility. Well, Senator Paul, you want the facts? You want humility? I’ve got this for you. Read More

In our third episode, Ed Champion speculates on why violent videos — particularly videos with stylized moves — have been all the rage on the Interwebs as we are all holed up at home. It started with a drop kick at the Cumberland Mall last week. And it continued this morning with a video of Read More

In our second episode, Ed Champion discusses the difference between being kind and being nice, why honesty is a far more important pathway to empathy and compassion and connection, combating artifice, seeing the beauty in people even when they are difficult, pandemic breakups, illusory paradise, leaving Brooklyn for a month, the importance of social routines, Read More

This is an off-the-cuff series of thoughts of a Brooklyn writer and audio dramatist. A show that will be released every Tuesday and Friday until something close to normality returns. In this premiere episode, I discuss hope, how being part of something bigger on a quotidian basis is lost, certain sounds that are “media-proof,” abandoned Read More

Emma is a top-notch psychiatrist who can change the lives of the most difficult patients imaginable. But there's a great personal cost to her formidable talents that she's not telling anyone about, an internal torment eating away at her inner life that she's hiding from her patients and her professional peers and that a quiet survivor of an abusive relationship may just have the answer for. (Running time: 25 minutes) (This story contains intense and emotionally disturbing scenes that may unsettle some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.)