Aug 8, 2025

From Railcars to Robotaxis: America’s Transit Transformation - From riding the Amtrak Empire Builder as a college student in the early 1990s to working on the launch of Albuquerque’s Rapid Transit system, Keith traces a lifetime of movement through America’s evolving transportation landscape.

Along the way: cable...

Jul 22, 2025

The geography of change, and what cities remember even when we forget.

In this episode, I revisit Phoenix, where heat, grit, and geography collide. Once the edge of the map and now one of America’s fastest-growing metros, Phoenix is where my adult life began.

Through memory, motion, and the lens of place, I reflect on...

Jul 15, 2025

At age 11, Keith Breitbach delivered newspapers through the quiet streets of Dubuque, Iowa, past freshly built homes, union workers, and a corner where men waited each morning for the yellow bus to the John Deere plant. Decades later, he’d watch another kind of worker, young tech professionals gathered at a different...

May 20, 2024

In this episode, we sit down with Max Lockwood, a New York City-based writer and social commentator whose thought-provoking insights are featured on his popular Substack newsletter, "America is." Max takes us on a journey through his freewheeling life, from his roots in Cambridge, MA, to his diverse roles as a park...

Feb 16, 2016

To Hell and Back, Part-1 features the compelling life story of actor/author Manny Fernandez.

Beginning in the late 1980's To Hell and Back is a wild tale of dysfunction and despair for a young boy as he navigates the poor relationship choices of his mother who divorces from Manny's father and takes up with a string of...