The forty-eighth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our August 2026 podcast features singer-songwriter, activist, and New York Society for General Semantics board member Michelle Shocked, and transmedia producer, director, writer, and sound designer Sue Zizza, owner of SueMedia Productions and RadioWaves Studios in New York City. In conversation with IGS President Lance Strate, they discuss their recently released podcast series, Bootleg This!, Michelle Shocked's audio memoir. Their discussion also covers the music industry, Google and YouTube, Nikola Tesla and Mark Twain, the Players club, podcasting, radio, the Firesign Theater, the Institute of General Semantics, the New York Society for General Semantics, the Media Ecology Association, the National Communication Association, and the New York State Communication Association. 

You can access Episode 48 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below: