"I I can't take a risk in my 20s, what are my 20s for?" #FollowYourPassion Hannah Cole on #MoneyUnplugged with @chrishillalx.bsky.social www.moneyunpluggedpodcast.com

Song - Ode to Billie Joe by Lucinda Williams "It was the 3rd of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day...." #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/m...

Morning Song - This One Don't by Eric Bibb "Some songs got complicated melodies...." masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/m...

Evening Song - Opus 53, No. 1 (Andante con Moto in Ab Major) by Felix #Mendelssohn "...a lovely palate cleanser..." masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/e...

Morning Song - Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty by Shirley Caesar “Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee….” #gospel #TrinitySunday masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/m...

Morning Song - St. Thomas by Sonny Rollins "...the last living link to the founders of #bebop..." #RIP #jazz masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/m...

Morning Song - Give Me One Reason by Junior Wells "But I'm too old to go chasing you around, Wasting my precious energy...." #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs #blues masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/m...

Morning Song - Stuck in the Middle with You by Stealers Wheel "Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, Here I am...." masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/m...

Morning Song - Introduction by @chicagotheband.bsky.social "If the goal of a band’s first song is to get you to listen to the second song, consider this “mission accomplished“." #FirstSongFirstSideFirstAlbum masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/m...

Morning Song - Route 66 by John Mayer "Let the summer driving season begin." #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/m...

Morning Song - John Brown's Body by Paul Robeson Happy #MemorialDay, y'all. masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/m...

Morning Song - Every Time I Feel the Spirit by the @Morehouse Glee Club Happy #Pentecost, y'all. masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/24/m...

"We were married, broke, and in college. All I was able to show her was: I think this job will pay for the rent & the food & the gas, & we'll figure the rest out." Joseph Moore on #MoneyUnplugged with @chrishillalx.bsky.social www.moneyunpluggedpodcast.com

Morning Song - Oops! by Albert Heath "...a sly and subtle bit of joy..." Enjoy. #jazz masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/m...

Morning Song - #Funk Beyond the Call of Duty by Johnny "Guitar" Watson "Gonna jump, gonna shout...." #FunkyFriday masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/m...

Morning Song - You Got to Know How by @bonnieraitt.bsky.social “You can make me cry, you can make me sigh but….” #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/21/m...

Morning Song - Boogie Woogie Stomp by Albert Ammons "...rumbling like a train in the night..." masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/m...

"I really was influenced by Richie Cunningham on #HappyDays." #journalism Marc Goldman on #MoneyUnplugged with @chrishillalx.bsky.social www.moneyunpluggedpodcast.com/episodes

Morning Song - It's Gonna Be by Norah Jones “‘Cause there’s a fine line between a skewer, And a decent sense of humor….” masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/m...

"Just like you automate your savings for retirement, you should automate your charitable contributions." @bencarlson007.bsky.social on #MoneyUnplugged with @chrishillalx.bsky.social www.moneyunpluggedpodcast.com/episodes

Moonfixer: The #Basketball Journey of Earl Lloyd "I was not going to give them the easy opportunity to send me away. Not on the court, or away from it." masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/m...

Morning Song - The Rollover by BIIRD "...just what you’d expect to hear during a late night seisiun at your local pub…if your local pub has a #goth lesbian vibe combined with a #cottagecore aesthetic." masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/m...

Morning Song - Get Up Child by Naomi Shelton & The #Gospel Queens “If you help me along, I just might rise up and carry on….” masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/m...

Morning Song - Woodchopper's Ball by Woody Herman "...delightful, tight-like-that, signature song..." #jazz masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/16/m...

Morning Song - Help Yourself by The Undisputed Truth “…to my love and affection, All you’ve got to do is start stepping in my direction.” #FunkyFriday masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/m...

Morning Song - Butterfly by Jon Batiste “Stay a while here with me, Up underneath the stars, When you go, you’ll be free, ‘Cause you know who you are, You’re a….” h/t: B&P masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/m...

Morning Song - Better Cut That Out by Sonny Boy Williamson I “Well now, when you get high, you don’t know what to do, You say you get high because you’re feeling blue; Well, you….” #blues #harp masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/m...

Morning Song - Rush by Big Audio Dynamite "If I have my time again, I would do it all the same..." h/t: MPH masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/m...

Morning Song - Motorboat to Mars by Chicago "For most of the 1970s buying a Chicago album was like Forrest Gump’s mother’s description of life: you never knew what you were going to get." #drums masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/m...

Morning Song - Count Your Blessings by The Como Mamas "...and you'll see what the Lord has done." #gospel masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/m...

Morning Song - I Got Rhythm by Oscar Peterson "...exuberant and delightful..." #jazz Enjoy. masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/m...

Morning Song - Pump Me Up by Trouble #Funk "...answers the musical question: what would it sound like if Chuck Brown had cut a Sugar Hill record?" #FunkyFriday masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/m...

The #FugitiveSlaveAct - The Crafts Escape "...one of the most audacious acts of self-liberation in the antebellum US..." masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/t...

Morning Song - Superlover by @allisonrussell.bsky.social & Annie Lennox "There's no God of fire and blood, If there's a God, then God is love...." masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/m...

Vesper Flights by Helen MacDonald "#Swifts are my fable of community, teaching us about how to make right decisions in the face of oncoming bad weather, in the face of clouds that sit like dark rubble on our own horizon." masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/v...

Morning Song - I'm Ready by Muddy Waters "...as ready as anybody can be." #blues masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/m...

The #FugitiveSlaveAct - Media Matters "...it’s a form of #organizing malpractice not to experiment with new technologies and #media as means of communicating your message." masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/t...

Morning Song - Higher Love by Steve Winwood “I could light the night up with my soul on fire, I could make the sun shine from pure desire, Let me feel that love come over me, Let me feel how strong it could be…” masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/m...

The #FugitiveSlaveAct - Hindsight & Moral Ambiguities “It is too simple to tell this tale as a fable of good versus evil, not because of any ambiguity about the evil of slavery itself but because...it was far from clear how the evil could be destroyed." masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/t...

Morning Song - Yoda's Theme by John Williams Happy #StarWarsDay, y'all. masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/m...

Morning Song - Blessed Be the Name by the Pilgrim Travelers "The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh...." #gospel masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/03/m...

Morning Song - #Taurus by Mary Lou Williams "a gorgeous little sketch with two main motifs, both of which can linger with you long after the piece is over...birthing entire symphonic worlds as you go about your day." Enjoy. #jazz masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/02/m...

Morning Song - Music Is for Dancing by Rare Gems "...so let's get down." #FunkyFriday masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/m...

The #FugitiveSlaveAct - History Rhyming “The problem of the 1850s...was a political problem specific to a particular time & place. But the moral problem of how to reconcile irreconcilable values is a timeless one that, sooner or later, confronts us all.” masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

Morning Song -Honky Tonk Women by @eltonjohn.bsky.social "...a vocal performance equal to (but different from) Mick Jagger’s while replacing all of Keef & Mick Taylor’s guitar parts with his #piano." #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs h/t: @chrishillalx.bsky.social masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/m...

"I got into Rule Breaker #Investing because of the @grinnellcollege.bsky.social #basketball team." @brianstoffel.bsky.social on #MoneyUnplugged with @chrishillalx.bsky.social www.moneyunpluggedpodcast.com/episodes

Morning Song - Jazzin' Babies #Blues by Ethel Waters “I’d rather hear them than have a million dollars in my hand….” masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/m...

Morning Song - Sweet #Soul Music by Arthur Conley "Do you like good music?" masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/m...

Morning Song - Song of the Birds (El Cant des Oceils) by Yo-Yo Ma "...a song for peace..." #cello #instrumental masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/m...

Morning Song - Saved Sealed & Delivered by the Chicago Mass Choir #gospel masscommons.wordpress.com/2026/04/26/m...