In Episode Five of The Longwave Home, we step right up to the one and only Faire of Fairness as it rolls into Free River for a strange and reflective evening examining one of humanity’s oldest and slipperiest questions: What is fairness, anyway?

Through carnival tents, community voices, quiet confessions, and unsettling realizations, this transmission explores fairness in money, power, relationships, morality, health, luck, and the systems we build to make sense of them all. Along the way, listeners from across Nevada County weigh in with their own experiences, contradictions, and hard-earned truths.

Some fairness can be shaped. Some may never be fully understood. And some may not exist at all.

Fair enough?

The End Credits 

The Faire of Fairness was

Performed by The Free River Players 

Composed & Directed by d’Philip

Produced and Engineered by 

Griffin Rodriguez 

Additional Engineering & Production by

Phineas Taylor (and his dog Barnum)

Executive Producers Kelly & Maggie 

Created in The Guedenoff Audio Lab

at The Casa degli Alberi, Grass Valley California 

Music Included:

“Step Right Up” composed & performed by Tom Waits

“Unsquare Dance” composed & performed by The Dave Brubeck and his Quartet.

“Burning Coal” composed by 

Les McCann and his Quartet 

“Business is Business” composed & performed by Godley & Crème 

“Truckin” composed by Garcia/Hunter, Performed by The Marijuana Deathsquad

“Beatles Juice” composed by Derek Berg

Additional Music by The d’Philharmonius Orchestrange

Calliope music performed by Burnsly Cook

The Dedication:

This episode is dedicated to our sons, Cassidy and Julian… both navigating unfair roads of their own right now… yet still carrying the family banner:

Til Death, We Do Art.

Keep yer dobber up, boys… we look forward to welcoming you home again soon.