Another collaboration with Portland-based storytellers Jerrel McQuen (writer) and Marc Rose (sound designer). Thirteen works of spoken word with an introduction and interview with McQuen and Rose. Like the 1961 movie, Breakfast at Tiffany's (whose title it puns) Breakfast @ Epiphanies examines conflict between stability and freedom, the struggle with loneliness and identity, and the fear of emotional vulnerability.

As with Frequency 43 in 2025; Night of the Eclipsoid Man, Part 1 and Part 2 in 2024; Asezhia in 2023; and their inspiration of Twisted Epiphanies in 2022—Breakfast @ Epiphanies brings to closure work begun by McQuen and Rose forty-plus years earlier. However, it is unique in its telling, using lyrics and poetry. From our Guest Producer series.

Premiere broadcast: October 19, 2026

Season 14, Episode 10

John F. Barber, writer, producer, and host

Marc Rose, post-production, original music, and sound design

Holly Slocum, creative management

Caitlyn Kruger-L'Esperance, projects management

Rylan Eisenhauer, YouTube channel production and management, and announcing

Claire Leyden, motion graphics designer

Audio File Name: rir-breakfast-at-epiphanies.mp3

Episode webpage: https://reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/breakfast-epiphanies/index.html

Tags: breakfast, epiphanies, spoken word, guest producer, Jerrel McQuen, Marc Rose, technology, ancestry, artificial realities, memory, existential questions, fear, inspiration, meditation, Halloween

Image Credit: Holly Slocum, Jerrel McQuen

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Celebrating 100 episodes!

Premiere broadcast: August 17, 2026
Season 14, Episode 08

John F. Barber, writer, producer, and host

Marc Rose, post-production, original music, and sound design

Holly Slocum, creative management

Caitlyn Kruger-L'Esperance, projects management

Claire Leyden, motion graphics designer

Rylan Eisenhauer, YouTube channel production and management, and announcing

Audio File Name: rir-100.mp3

Episode webpage: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/rir-100/index.html

Tags: radio, sample, episode, story, stories, storytelling, hundred, 100, listening, broadcast, drama, tribute

Image Credit: Claire Leyden and Holly Slocum