The Broken Voice

I look around me most days - at my relatives, at my phone, at the television murmuring to itself in the background - and what I notice is not malice so much as confusion. A kind of ambient bewilderment. Capitalism, in its infinite cleverness, has bui... more

Here is the link to Dr. Beatriz Villarroel’s piece in the Liberation Times, mentioned in the beginning of the episode.

Podcast transcript:

So I’ll just say straight off that the reason any of this matters is that, years before we put anything into ... more

In this episode, I try to do the calm, slightly sheepish thing that feels increasingly rare, which is to pause for a moment and ask what’s actually happening before deciding what to feel about it. Using a small, unpretentious framework meant mainly t... more

Picture this: It’s Christmas Eve in our new house, candles flickering like they mean business, everybody smiling the way people smile when they’re trying not to notice the slight smell of something burning in the kitchen, and suddenly I’m standing th... more

This episode is me, 13 days off cigarettes, trying to make sense of the raids that have turned neighborhoods into places where dawn knocks feel like threats. It starts with the facts: Renee Good shot dead by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week, fam... more

This is something I wrote years ago but never shared with anyone. It's a journal entry from the Mars rover called Curiosity. Not really, but use your imagination.

Get full access to Broken but Readable at gregscaduto.substack.com/subscribe

This is a story about driving through North Jersey to the place where I would tell the story of my worst little league game ever.

Get full access to Broken but Readable at gregscaduto.substack.com/subscribe

I begin with a soothing story to relax everyone.

Then I explain why Texas is the most overrated state in the country, and it’s not even close.

Finally, I recount an incident on X in which a grown man tried to tell me that my wife should not be on... more