A Psychedelic New Year's Eve + Best of RadioACTive's Roundtable Tuesday

  • December 30, 2025
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Tuesday, December 30: Fresh for tonight, The Divine Assembly and Psychedlics in the Beehive with a New Year's Eve you won't want to miss. Then it's on to the Best of RadioACTive's Roundtable Tuesday with Risshan Leak.

Earlier this month, the roundtable convened to talk about hunger as a policy choice with Crossroads Urban Center and Utahns Against Hunger. Both are getting ready for the Utah Legislature's General Session in January, including a Rally for Housing and Services to End Homelessness. RadioACTive Dispatch Correspondent Tamrika Khvtisiashvili with an immigrant story ... from Latvia. Plus, Ducks and Clucks is watching the ducks and ICE. 

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Good Troublemaker: TJ of Ducks and Clucks

Meet TJ of Ducks and Clucks, a community group that rescues ducks and watches for ICE. In case of a wildlife emergency, TJ recommends Wild Life Salt Lake.

  • SEEKING GOOD TROUBLEMAKERS AND HELPERS: Do you know someone up to good trouble? RadioACTive wants to meet them and shine a light on what they do to make our community better. Call the RadioACTive hotline: ‪(385) 800-1889, or send a voice memo to radioactive@krcl.org. Either way, be sure to tell us your name and neighborhood, as well as details and contact info for you and your nominee. 

Hunger as a Policy

According to Utahns Against Hunger, approximately 54% of us say the cost of groceries is a major source of stress. As we saw with the federal shutdown earlier this year, more Utahns worry about the source of their next meal. Had SNAP benefits been stopped due to Congressional inaction, nearly 1 in 8 million people — including 16 million children and 8 million people with disabilities — could have gone without the food assistance they need. 

RadioACTive's Roundtable Tuesday explores hunger as a policy choice with Neil Rickard, Child Nutrition Advocate with Utahns Against Hunger, and Bill Tibbitts, Deputy Executive Director/FACE Hunger and Homelessness Director at Crossroads Urban Center. Count on both of these organizations to be active on Utah's Capitol Hill when the Utah Legislature meets in General Session starting Jan. 20. 

An Immigrant Story ... in Latvia

RadioACTive Host Emeritus Tamrika Khvtisiashvili joins via Zoom to share a story about immigrants. "While living in Latvia, I witnessed the unfolding of language policies predicated by the spread of nationalistic trends, largely fuelled by the war in Ukraine and U.S. decoupling with NATO," she says. "It explores how Latvia’s history of Soviet occupation, current language policies, and fears of Russian aggression have made language a deeply charged marker of identity, power, and belonging — revealing the moral dilemma of protecting a national language without denying minority communities the right to speak their own."

How You Like Us Now?

  • Share your thoughts, suggestions and observations by calling the RadioACTive hotline: ‪(385) 800-1889. Or, send a voice memo to radioactive@krcl.org. Tell us your name and neighborhood, and leave a short message that we may air on the show. 

  • The views, opinions and statements expressed on RadioACTive are solely those of the respective speakers and do not represent or reflect the views, opinions or positions of Listeners' Community Radio of Utah, nor its hosts, sponsors, or partners.

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