I Am Interchange

I Am Interchange Media House // Adventure Journalism Though a good mind flush of new ideas and creativity can offer wisdom and perspective to our own process and development.

Interchange is a humanities project and talk show style event where artists, activists & entrepreneurs with different ideas and perspectives come together to address multiple topics and provoke thoughtful dialogue. By doing so, we create a level platform for history, politics, religion, philosophy, criticism, ethics, self-consciousness, reason, creativity, human values and aspirations. We’ll develop our dialogue into a podcast that will be available worldwide.

05/28/2026

Benjamin Von Wong on his 4-story tall faucet with plastic flowing out of it at the United Nations.

Listen to the full episode of Notes from the Earth


05/25/2026

The greats in classical music wrote things that were specific to their time. I think the thing that is lacking in classical music is that people are not writing things that are specific for our time.

-BLKBOK

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There's a moment. A specific moment when someone decides to stop waiting for permission.Maybe it's quiet. Maybe nobody's...
05/12/2026

There's a moment. A specific moment when someone decides to stop waiting for permission.
Maybe it's quiet. Maybe nobody's watching. But something shifts — and the path they were supposed to take starts to look a lot less interesting than the one they're about to make up entirely.

Today, we're talking to two people who made that choice — in completely different directions, for completely different reasons, with the same kind of unshakeable commitment.

Benjamin Von Wong is an environmental activist and visual artist whose work is almost impossible to look away from. Giant, haunting installations built from plastic waste. Images that don't let you off the hook. His activism isn't about him — it never has been. It's about fighting for something so much larger than any one person that the work almost demands you forget who made it. He's trying to change systems. Actual systems. And he's using beauty to do it.

BLKBOK is a neoclassical pianist selling out concert halls and collaborating with some of the biggest names in music. Here's the thing though. Nobody taught him how to do any of it. No conservatory. No formal training. No one handing him a roadmap to the rooms he now walks into like he belongs there — because he does. He figured it out. All of it. And that self-taught, street-smart, stubbornly specific version of himself is exactly the thing that got him there. Choosing classical music when the world had a very different game in mind for him.

Two artists. Two completely different relationships to the word change. One fighting for the planet. One rewriting who gets to sit at the piano. And somehow, both asking the same question underneath it all — how do we show up and actually influence anything? Do we do it because someone is looking? Or do we do it anyway?

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04/27/2026

The story is the Boto.


04/22/2026

Somewhere from 5-15 years from now, we will reach a place where the Amazon is no longer sequestering carbon, it’s no longer recoverable…..

Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri

Listen to the full episode of The Amazon is Breathing


Here’s the thing about the Amazon basin. There’s a number scientists use when they talk about it — the number of species...
04/10/2026

Here’s the thing about the Amazon basin. There’s a number scientists use when they talk about it — the number of species living there that we haven’t discovered yet. And here’s what’s strange about that number: we don’t know what it is. We can’t know what it is. We only know it’s enormous. That somewhere in that forest right now, there are creatures going about their lives, doing whatever it is they do — and not a single human being on earth knows their name.

Think about that for a second.

We are losing something we have never even met.

The Amazon produces its own weather. It talks to the ocean. Indigenous peoples have lived inside it, and with it, for thousands of years — and they will tell you, if you ask them, that the forest is worth more standing than cut. That it is not a resource waiting to be used. That it is the resource. That it is the economy — if only we could learn to see it that way.

We think we know the Amazon. We’ve seen the pictures. We’ve heard the statistics. But we don’t know it. Not really.

Today on the show — what happens when a forest reaches a tipping point. What wildlife monitoring and illegal human activity in one of the most remote places on earth are actually telling us. And what a shift toward a bio-economy might mean for the future of a place that is, in some ways, the future of everything.

Tate Chamberlin is with Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri and Paola de Almeida.

Stay with us.

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04/08/2026

Don’t lose your language, don’t lose your morals or your values. Continue your relationship with Mother Earth, with Father Sky.

Listen to the full episode of Water in the West


04/07/2026

How do you operationalize addressing the basic human right to clean water?


03/31/2026

The tipping point on water is closer than you think. Some cities already hit Day Zero. More are counting down right now.

Check out the full episode Water in the West

Water doesn’t begin at the tap. It begins in the dark—underground, in aquifers older than memory. As snow in mountain ai...
03/17/2026

Water doesn’t begin at the tap. It begins in the dark—underground, in aquifers older than memory. As snow in mountain air. As v***r. As storm. Something that refuses to stay still. By the time it reaches us, it has already lived many lives.

There’s a saying in the West: whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting.

A line that carries history inside it—compacts, canals, courtrooms. Water hasn’t always been political. For most of human history, it simply existed. But today, especially across the western United States, it often is.
This episode begins in the Arizona desert, at Arcosanti.

And this story doesn’t stop in Arizona.
In the Andes, salt flats hold the lithium powering electric vehicles. In Bogotá, officials count the days in their reservoirs as the possibility of “Day Zero” enters the conversation.
Different places. Same question. What does it mean to live with water?
In this conversation, Tate chamberlin sits down with Michellsey Benally, David Purkey, and Joel Barnes to explore that question—what a water right really is, who decides, and what it might mean to remember that water was never just a resource in the first place.
Because water keeps moving. And the question is how we move with it.

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