No Way Out but Through
Monologues + Music. No interviews! No instruction! No heartwarming stories about personal growth! Scott Taylor is your unreliable narrator.
Episodes
15 episodes
After Long Winter
After long winter, giving each other nothing, we collide with blossoms in our hands. by ChiyoChiyo (1703-1775) was a Japanese poet of the Edo p...
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Season 2
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2:06
5. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
The Playlist:Thanks Gratefulness puts the pedal to the metal and crashes into the void in W.S. Merwin's poem Thanks.Once ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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12:50
Kindness
Kindness is the second single from my upcoming podcast episode, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, and an amazing poem by Naomi Shihab Nye...
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Season 2
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2:09
Once
Once is the first single from my podcast episode, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. OnceOnce I was in love with my future. It was lit like a Japanese city. My life was charmed.I g...
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Season 2
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2:03
October 20th
Excerpted from Separation EnergyIt is also included in my upcoming book, October.October 20thThe temperature has dropped, the const...
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Season 1
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0:55
Sweet Darkness
This is excerpted from Episode 4: Separation EnergySweet Darknessby David Whyte<...
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Season 1
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1:18
When Death Comes
This is excerpted from Episode 4: Separation EnergyWhen Death ComesBy Mary OliverWhen death comeslike the hungry bear in aut...
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Season 1
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1:45
Lines to a Poet
Lines to a Poetby Josephine JacobsenBe careful what you say to us now.The street-lamp is smashed, the window is jagged,There is a man dead in his blood by the base of the fountain.If you speak,You cannot be delicat...
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Season 1
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1:17
I am Waiting
A performance of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's great poem I am Waiting—excerpted from episode 4: Separation Ene...
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Season 1
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4:12
4. Separation Energy
Stories, poems, and monologues with music for that special sheltering-at-home time of your life.1. Messages (Taylor): A woman sends messengers into the afterworld 2. Sweet Darkness (David Why...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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11:39
The Race is On
An excerpt from Episode3: Matter The Race is On (after George Jones, with inspiration from Tom Durkin a...
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Season 1
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5:12
The Past Comes Calling
An excerpt from Episode 1: Past TenseThe Past Comes CallingThe past is the pitcherwho does not botherbacking you off th...
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Season 1
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3:39
3. Matter
Imagine yourself in the middle of a world-destroying catastrophe. Now imagine that we have a short quiz for you. It won’t take but a minute. The world is a dusty, dark chaos, and the trap our unreliable narrator finds himself in, gets more dire...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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21:43