That Doesn’t Make Sense

06/09/2025

The Summer Gate: Fairyland Park & the Fight to Enter
At 75th & Prospect, Kansas City’s summer playground promised “family fun”—but for decades, Black families were turned away except on “private” days. This 20–25 minute episode walks you from the rides and bandstands to the picket lines: youth-led protests at the gates, the push that led to 1964 public accommodations, and the park’s final years after storms and new competition. We visit the jazz ties (Charlie Parker played here), the policy choices behind exclusion, and what stands on the grounds today. I open the door—you walk through it. Names, places, receipts… then go look them up.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3wOyMdKHAqP9raod7t6jB9

That Doesn't Make Sense · Episode

27/08/2025

Highway 71 was sold as progress. But for Kansas City’s East Side, it became a scar.

In this episode of That Doesn’t Make Sense, Michael Porter uncovers the story of how a federally funded highway carved straight through Black neighborhoods — displacing families, shuttering businesses, and dismantling churches and schools that once held the community together.

From the vibrant days of 18th & Vine to the bulldozers that leveled entire blocks, this is the history of a city divided by concrete. Featuring the voices of leaders like Pastor D.A. Holmes and Bruce R. Watkins, we examine how the scars of Highway 71 still shape Kansas City today — and the fight to reconnect what was lost.

Because what happened here wasn’t just about roads. It was about lives.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7jbt2a3WRIEJgkHdrcDwpr

That Doesn't Make Sense · Episode

25/08/2025

https://youtu.be/S8KK-_Jqie8

24/08/2025

In the heart of Kansas City once stood Steptoe—a thriving Black community born from freedom, filled with homes, churches, and schools. For over a century, families built lives here, but through fire, bulldozers, and development, Steptoe was nearly erased from the map.

This episode tells the story of what was built, what was taken, and why memory is a form of resistance. ✊🏾

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Steptoe was once one of Kansas City’s oldest free Black neighborhoods—built by freed men and women after slavery, filled with homes, churches, and schools. This episode uncovers how it thrived, how it was erased, and why remembering Steptoe still matters today.

19/08/2025

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That Doesn't Make Sense · Episode

13/08/2025

A towering silver arch rises over the St. Louis skyline — celebrated as a symbol of freedom, westward expansion, and American ambition. But under its polished curves lies a story the postcards never tell: a history of families uprooted, Black businesses demolished, neighborhoods erased, and entire communities silenced in the name of “progress.”

In this powerful, deeply researched episode of That Doesn’t Make Sense, host Michael Porter takes you behind the tourist photos, into the streets and riverfront life that existed before the Gateway Arch. You’ll hear about the jazz clubs that lit up the nights, the steamboat culture that fed the economy, and the corner stores where generations built their livelihoods. You’ll follow the trail from the destruction of the pre-Arch riverfront to the failed promises of Pruitt–Igoe, through the vibrant heart of Mill Creek Valley before it too was razed, and into the lives of the people who lived, worked, and fought to hold on.

With real resident voices, archival details, and unflinching truth, Beneath the Steel exposes the decisions — and decision-makers — who shaped St. Louis’s most iconic monument at the cost of its own communities.

This isn’t just history.
It’s the story of what was lost, who took it, and why that still matters.

13/08/2025

I know it’s been a while a long while since then you haven’t been able to hear anything from me well, let me explain myself. I felt like I was wearing from the point of my show so I stopped and I had to refocus, but I also had to take care of my family, but I’m back and I’m on fireand I have so much to share so every week you will hear about things that don’t make sense from your host, Michael Porter and thank you for your continuing support that you have had for me

16/05/2024

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06/04/2022

That doesn't make sense is a show about things going on in life that does not make sense to host Michael Porter. Join him as he takes you on a cool or heated trip to what doesn't make sense.

16/02/2022

Now on apple podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/that-doesnt-make-sense/id1605531483

‎Society & Culture · 2022

28/01/2022

Send me your Covid stories send me your strangest funniest or most horrible Covid story and I will stream it live on that doesn’t make sense where were you when you called Covid how did you catch Covid what about that didn’t make sense how many people were around you when you called Covid how many people were around you that didn’t catch Covid when you got it Audio recorded and send it in to [email protected]
And when I do my Covid episode I will pick a few of you to be on there

23/01/2022

Hello TDMS family 

I am happy to present to you coming soon you will be able to see it in me your story that just don’t make sense I will carefully listen to your story and pick which one will be on the podcast. So get ready pick up your hand recorder or your iPhone or smart phone and record an experience that you have had or Something that you heard that it’s brought you to the thought of that doesn’t make sense to you. Stay tuned in for more information