After a 22-year talk-radio career, TD Mischke escapes his soundproof booth and hits the road in search of adventure, eccentrics, whimsy and insights. Instead of bringing life into the radio studio, he decides to head out and meet it on its own terms, letting the gypsy call guide him. The Mischke Roadshow features podcasts, videos, writing, and photography. Find it all at www.mischkeroadshow.com @tommymischke on Twitter.
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 175 / The Corner Bar
An American institution, and a cure for what ails us.
10/1/2024 • 57 minutes, 22 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 174 / The Neighborhood
A stroll through a world within a world, within a world, within a world.
8/30/2024 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 56 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 173 / An American Life
A poor boy in the 40s finds his salvation in baseball and radio.
8/1/2024 • 57 minutes, 58 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 172 / Strangers
Thoughts from the world of anonymity.
6/29/2024 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 29 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 171 / Pops
A man who's been a commercial fisherman for over 80 years presents a meditation on the concept of work.
5/31/2024 • 54 minutes, 25 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 170 / Awe
Following hundreds of thousands of Americans on their great pilgrimage to the total solar eclipse.
4/30/2024 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 17 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 169 / The way, way back machine
Taking a trip in time, to a golden age of radio.
3/31/2024 • 1 hour, 44 minutes, 32 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 168 / Midnight
Midnight: No time of day comes with more meaning, mystery, lore, or emotion.
2/29/2024 • 1 hour, 1 minute
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 167 / The River
When life hands you what you're never looking for.
1/31/2024 • 57 minutes, 26 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 166 / "Once You've Had an Experience..."
Pondering the universal human experience of feeling lost, or losing something.
10/31/2023 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 30 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 163 / Before Sunset
The life affirming high of romantic intimacy in one's 80s and 90s
10/1/2023 • 1 hour, 59 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 162 / Leonard
A depressed old man seeks renewal and transformation at the State Fair
9/1/2023 • 58 minutes, 38 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 161 / Turn it up, Radio
A look back at those grand old radio days.
8/1/2023 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 11 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 160 / Tales from the Toilet
For a decade, it's been a part of every single road trip, but I've not spoken of it until now.
7/1/2023 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 46 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 159 / Time
Looking for our place in time, while being rushed through an all too brief existence.
6/1/2023 • 54 minutes, 22 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 158 / The Dissonance
Pulling aside the cardboard sign, once again, and sitting down with the person behind it.
4/30/2023 • 1 hour
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 157 / Jingle Jungle
We've been serenaded by ads all of our lives. Music and merchandise, a marriage made in hell.
3/31/2023 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 22 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 156 / Space Cowboy
Buckle up, and come marvel at the life of a mystical artist, maverick scientist, and genius mathematician.
3/1/2023 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 34 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 154 / Promise Potential & Possibility
Creating in the sandbox of a friendly universe.
1/1/2023 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 8 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 153 / Moose
The story of a dog, a neighborhood, and a family.
11/30/2022 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 13 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 152 / The Canadian
A trip to Nova Scotia brings a visit with a Canadian who has a whole lot to say about that big ol' neighbor to the south.
10/31/2022 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 51 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 151 / Shetland Girl
A young woman grows up with two worlds competing inside her, and plants a flag in the world that won.
10/1/2022 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 53 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 150 / That Montana Feeling
A nostalgic return to America's "last best place."
8/31/2022 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 11 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 149 / Into the Great Wide Ocean
A summer trip to Martha's Vineyard offers a rare opportunity to take the Roadshow out of an old beat-up vehicle, and into an old beat-up boat.
7/31/2022 • 50 minutes, 59 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 148 / Ridin' with Jack
On the road, with the ghost of Kerouac, 100 years after his birth.
7/1/2022 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 18 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 147 / Story Town
The music here is all about the stories, they say. So, sit back and hear a tale or two.
5/31/2022 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 22 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 146 / Appalachia
Pointing my car toward the Southeast, and allowing the wheels to roll me back to another time, another place, another sound.
5/1/2022 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 39 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 145 / The Playground of Radio
Turning the dial to the station of my imagination
3/29/2022 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 34 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 144 / The Cemetery
Getting far more comfortable with the graveyard. Perhaps it's time.
3/1/2022 • 1 hour, 40 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 143 / Blurred Lines
Agreeing to pretend: Our unusual relationship with TV and film
1/31/2022 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 39 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 142 / The Freemasons
A peek inside the world's oldest fraternal order.
12/30/2021 • 59 minutes, 8 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 141 / The Falls
The death-defying, life-affirming, mysterious waters of existence.
11/30/2021 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 5 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 140 / The Old Country
Finding country music roads, and goin' back in time.
10/31/2021 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 27 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 139 / The Gig
The agony and ecstasy of making music.
10/1/2021 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 53 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 138 / Retrospective
A look back on the Roadshow years, as this monthly podcast nears its final program.
8/31/2021 • 59 minutes, 7 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 137 / Biggest Story Ever
The great paradigm shift. Who's ready?
7/31/2021 • 58 minutes, 33 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 136 / Life, Pain, Love
A dying man yearns for an elusive gift from his wife and his daughters.
6/30/2021 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 36 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 135 / The Final Frontier
Car broke down, so I'm taking out the spaceship.
5/28/2021 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 5 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 134 / This is Nowhere
The official state motto of Nebraska is, "Honestly, We're Not For Everyone." ...Well neither is this show.
4/29/2021 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 37 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 133 / Birth of an Artist
A Ugandan child, born in the slums, follows the sound of music, to salvation.
3/31/2021 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 26 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 132 / Monster Country
A tale from the alley, after dark...
2/28/2021 • 58 minutes, 10 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 131 / Car Stories
"Every car's a stage, and all drivers merely players." - Shakes beer
1/31/2021 • 58 minutes, 54 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 130 / Old Lost America
As the sun sets on our past, I chase it in my old Chrysler.
1/1/2021 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 45 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 129 / Magical Mystery Tour
...When life takes you for that ride you never saw coming
12/1/2020 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 14 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 128 / The Deer Hunter
A road trip into an American dream.
10/31/2020 • 57 minutes, 41 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 127 / The Basement
In this month of Halloween, a Saint Paul horror story from 1963.
10/1/2020 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 126 / The Trucker
Cowboys of the highway, riding high in the saddle.
9/1/2020 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 32 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 125 / Luck
An old car, an aimless road trip, and throwing one's fate to the gods.
7/31/2020 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 14 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 124 / Cowboy Sammie
In Prichard Alabama there's a man with a story to tell. It's worth hearing. No spoilers. Just listen.
6/30/2020 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 5 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 123 / Meridian, Mississippi
The "one who started it all," said Bob Dylan. How can so few be familiar with him?
6/1/2020 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 11 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 122 / Native Soul
A Dakota Indian is reborn into the soothing blood of his people, after years wandering in a bitter and foreign wilderness.
5/1/2020 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 34 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 121 / Alabama
A tormented preacher, and military man, saved by music
3/31/2020 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 23 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 120 / Retrospective
2/25/2020 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 31 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 119 / Groundhog Day
Everybody needs a buddy and Mischke finds his in a diminutive furry creature, and on a most auspicious occasion.
2/1/2020 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 30 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 118 / Whiteout
Your brain is messed with in a blackout. But it's messed with in a whiteout as well.
12/31/2019 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 37 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 117 / The Death Doula
One woman's intimate experience with death changes her life, and leaves her longing to change the way we die.
12/1/2019 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 49 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 116 / One Human Life
A brilliant and gifted artist has an extraordinary childhood in Harlem, followed by a dark and troubling descent, which culminates in a hauntingly brutal crime.
10/30/2019 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 50 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 115 / Music
Announcing the creation of a new spin-off podcast dedicated to the topic of Music.
10/1/2019 • 59 minutes, 38 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 114 / Minnesota Boys
A story of friendship, and fame.
8/31/2019 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 10 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 113 / Summertime
The sound, and celebration, of the season of life.
8/1/2019 • 55 minutes, 44 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 112 / Death So Fine
An Afternoon in a Mysterious Virginia Cemetery
7/1/2019 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 8 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 111 / Postcards from the Road
On the road, takin' notes, and snappin' photos.
6/1/2019 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 14 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 110 / Texas Revival
The extraordinary suicide story of Matt Lanier, and the unique role he's playing in the lives of those whose loved ones have taken their own lives.
5/1/2019 • 59 minutes, 4 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 109 / Jerry Lee America
A complicated rags to riches rocker, and the country he calls home
3/31/2019 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 11 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 108 / Dishwashers
Elbow deep in the suds; The lives of Twin City Dishwashers.
3/1/2019 • 53 minutes, 57 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 107 / Savannah Georgia
A college professor remembers a time, long ago, when he single-handedly changed the course of American music.
2/1/2019 • 56 minutes, 35 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 106 / Small Town Boy
A single life in small-town America moves in a meandering 70-year arc, culminating in a simple kitchen table chat on a cool winter day.
1/1/2019 • 1 hour, 36 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 105 / Baltimore
Stumbling upon two lives in Baltimore that reaffirm the town's claim as the East Coast Mecca of Eccentricity.
12/1/2018 • 59 minutes, 11 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 104 / The Hat Man
An unnerving trip into the world of a woman terrorized for years by a large, menacing, shadowy figure, always appearing in a black hat.
10/31/2018 • 55 minutes, 1 second
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 103 / Magic
Disappearing into the oldest magic store in America, and leaving the real world behind.
9/30/2018 • 55 minutes, 9 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 102 / France
A return to Nice, France, after three and half decades away, brings misty musings on the passing of time
9/1/2018 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 11 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 101 / Who Are We?
A passing snapshot of humanity, in the 21st century, taken from behind the wheel, at a red light.
7/30/2018 • 55 minutes, 9 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 100 / Stillwater Prison
The disturbing story of an art teacher's career at a maximum security prison.
6/30/2018 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 13 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 99 / Orcas Island
Stumbling upon the free, unique, eccentric residents of Orcas Island, in the Pacific Northwest. Another heartfelt celebration of humanity.
6/2/2018 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 30 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 98 / New Orleans
The Mississippi may connect my city to America's most exotic city, but New Orleans is another planet entirely.
5/1/2018 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 23 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 97 / Radio
One last trip back in time to the old days of radio. One last nostalgic visit to the world of the Mischke Broadcast.
4/1/2018 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 53 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 96 / Human Intimacy
A trip to the intimate, candlelit world of a Certified Cuddlist, followed by an exploration of the Cuddle Party phenomenon.
3/1/2018 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 2 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 95 / Ely
A visit with a lifelong Ely Minnesota resident who's nearing the end of an unusual, unpredictable, exhilarating, harsh and hardscrabble existence.
2/1/2018 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 23 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 94 / Wintertime
An ode to the mayhem, the mystery, and the magic of wintertime.
1/1/2018 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 52 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 93 / The Storyteller
Baptized by great trauma, Kevin Kling has emerged imbued with good humor, profound wisdom and deep empathy.
12/1/2017 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 9 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 92 / Colorado
The hard-earned, dangerous, rugged, and slowly fading world of the American cowboy, as viewed through the eyes of Western ranchers.
10/31/2017 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 21 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 91 / The Entity
A mysterious and disturbing coming of age story, from the woods of Northern Wisconsin.
9/29/2017 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 27 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 90 / Truckers
Climbing into the big rigs with a couple of long-haul lifers who have a lot to say about life on the road.
9/1/2017 • 54 minutes, 25 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 89 / Chicago
A visit with a lone worker from a thrift store broadens into a compelling tale of four expats from Louisiana bound together by music and rebellion.
8/1/2017 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 42 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 88 / Chase Bliss
An enlightening ride into the unfamiliar world of stuttering.
7/1/2017 • 59 minutes, 14 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 87 / Joshua Tree (and beyond)
A trip to the desert to visit three women who say they've been abducted by aliens.
6/1/2017 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 13 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 86 / Georgia
There are extraordinary and miraculous lives, and then there's the unfathomable unimaginable existence of Lonnie Holley.
5/1/2017 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 47 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 85 / Minnesota
The unheralded career of Mr. Paul Shepherd. He longed for a PGA trophy. But life had other plans...
3/31/2017 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 21 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 84 / Night Driving
Behind the wheel when the sun goes down: The mood, the mystery, the mayhem, and the magic.
3/1/2017 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 27 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 83 / Wyoming
He turned his back on modern urban life, with all it's rattling distractions, and escaped to a remote Yellowstone cabin. There he's lived for 43 years, a two-hour snowmobile ride from humanity.
1/31/2017 • 1 hour, 23 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 82 / Wisconsin
A trip across Wisconsin brings encounters with a restless hitchhiker and an eccentric man with the world's most unusual diet.
1/2/2017 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 47 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 81 (pt.2) / Austin Texas
A Texas Tale: The Gunshot
12/2/2016 • 32 minutes, 27 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 81 (pt.1) / Austin Texas
Willie Nelson strolls past me in an Austin airport and seems to bless the program with a flood of heavenly Texas tunes. This Roadshow celebration of song centers on the work of the next generation of Austin songwriters: Kevin Russell, a.k.a. "Shinyribs."
12/2/2016 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 33 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 80 / Italy
A trip to Urbino, Italy is an American's musical homecoming
10/31/2016 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 26 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 79 / North Carolina
Getting hopelessly lost in the wilds of North Carolina leads to encounters with three eccentric mountain men.
10/2/2016 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 29 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 78 / Iowa
Three different Iowa towns offer three different portraits of eccentricity: A James Kirk groupie, the worst stage act in Midwestern history, and a farmer's quirky sex life.
9/1/2016 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 58 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 77 / South Dakota
A black man, growing up tough on the rough streets of San Francisco, becomes a local media celebrity, then abruptly escapes to a tiny all-white farming community in South Dakota. ...There's a story here.
8/1/2016 • 1 hour, 31 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 76 / Woodstock, New York
The air between the World Trade Center towers was this wonderful madman's playground. It was all illegal, of course. But this genius of creativity was not to be stopped.
7/1/2016 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 14 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 75 / Illinois
An old commercial fisherman invites me onto his porch, on the shores of the Mississippi, in Northern Illinois. There, he pours the wine, and talks of his calling.
5/31/2016 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 7 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 74 / New Mexico
A family tree of tragedy.
Three generations, three killings, three survivors. A Navajo
tale.
5/1/2016 • 52 minutes, 32 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 73 / Arkansas
Making friends in Fayetteville: Three women and two men invite me into a hidden little home, in an alley behind Maxine's Tap Room, for a night of Arkansas storytelling.
4/1/2016 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 31 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 72 / Paducah, Kentucky
Diverse musicians who find the irresistible call of home deep in the bible belt, and their very identity reflected in the rivers of their town.
3/1/2016 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 25 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 71 / Humanity
The People of the Road:
A Roadshow Retrospective
1/26/2016 • 56 minutes, 57 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 70 / Slab City, California
Deep in the Sonoran desert, in the far Southwestern United States, there is a world unlike anything else found on planet earth. It's a renegade outlaw community of outcasts, recluses, and "free-range humans." Welcome to the land of Slab City.
12/31/2015 • 58 minutes, 52 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 69 / Memphis
MLK's death sent the city into a decade long tailspin. Elvis's death marked the beginning of its rebirth. A wholly unique collision of converging influences leaves it unlike any other American city. Welcome to Memphis Tennessee.
12/1/2015 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 26 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 68 / Saint Louis
The best baseball town in America is overrun by cerebral chess fanatics, and it will never be the same again.
10/31/2015 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 35 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 67 Part 2 / Nashville
The second hour of a two-part Nashville Road trip: Interviews with the man behind the "Paul McCartney is Dead" rumor, and the 19-year-old boy-wonder who got the Beach Boys band rolling when they were all just kids.
10/1/2015 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 18 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 67 / Nashville
A road trip to "Music City" brings with it great stories of Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson and many others.
10/1/2015 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 24 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 66 / Military Man
An interview with career military man Tom Dunne: From his trip into New York harbor, as an Irish immigrant, through teen years on the streets of Chicago, and on into adulthood, in the jungles of Viet Nam.
8/23/2015 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 56 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 65 / Bonnie and Clyde
A visit with Boots Hinton, the son of one of the men who killed Bonnie and Clyde down in Louisiana, back in the 30's. Boots runs a place called The Ambush Museum. He said his Pop kind of liked Bonnie and Clyde, and was a little sad to have to "shoot 'em all to hell."
8/17/2015 • 39 minutes, 34 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 64 / The Showman
Actor, Dancer, Model, Cheerleader, Stripper, 3rd-Degree Black Belt, Hulk Hogan Imitator, Kid's Party Entertainer, Stand-Up Comedian....If the warm spotlight's beaming, David's rarely far away.
8/9/2015 • 52 minutes, 40 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 63 / Beating the Odds
Receiving the worst cancer prognosis you could imagine, and years later, being alive to tell your tale. Three different survivors recount their journey.
8/1/2015 • 59 minutes, 51 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Episode 62 / The KSTP Years
A brief look back at some memorable moments from Mischke's radio years at AM1500 KSTP.
7/28/2015 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 32 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Epi. 61 / Turtle Travels Part 2
A Summer Roadtrip with the Band Trampled By Turtles
7/15/2015 • 1 hour, 57 seconds
The Mischke Roadshow: Epi. 60 / Turtle Travels Part 1
A Summer Roadtrip with the Band Trampled By Turtles
