Live From the Margins RADIO SHOW is Back

Radio Dispatch 7 — The Maria Incident PROMO

After a short hiatus spent handling production work behind the scenes, Live From the Margins is back — and settling comfortably into its stride.

The show has always lived somewhere between formats. Part talk radio. Part music program. Part radio theater. A place where thoughtful, sometimes funny conversation collides with an eclectic mix of iconic tracks and forgotten B-sides — all pulled from a deep and carefully curated, 20,000-song library and spun legally under a full radio license. No algorithms. No playlists built for clicks. Just intentional listening.

This return episode drops into deep water.

Radio Dispatch 7 centers on The Maria Incident — Scene Five from The Mostly True Tale of Getting Roofied in Tokyo and Waking Up Married in Rural Thailand. It’s not a chapter about recovery. It’s about survival. Addiction appears here not as spectacle, but as corrosion. Slow. Relentless. Ego keeps the engine running. Love keeps you from leaving when you should.

The episode features a chapter reading framed by music and reflection, allowing the story to sit in the room without commentary or resolution. Some things don’t resolve cleanly. This is one of them.

Live From the Margins is built for people who still listen — people who value voice, silence, and the strange alchemy that happens when story and music are allowed to breathe together.

You can listen to this episode, explore past dispatches, and learn more about the project at oscarslamp.com/radio.