Episode 241: Web of Lies!

September 2nd, 2026 – Theme: Web of Lies! (Web Requests + Bluffing Gameshow)

Feature: Meet the Shift Change volunteers! This semester’s team plays “Musical Lies,” a gameshow where they try to fool us about their music taste.

Episode 240: Adventure

August 26th, 2026 – Feature: Sadie’s Stories + post-story interview

Bonus Mini-Feature: Interview with Jeremy McGuire, Co-Founder of thePhoto Collective of Gainesville where he discusses the upcoming art show featuring Theo Cooper’s collection of work.

Episode 239: Soundtracks

August 19th, 2026 – Shift Change Volunteer Takeover!

Hosts: Alexis Crutchfield and Jailyn JosephFeature: Jailyn interviews Alex Rodriguez about the field of Arts in Health and her path in it.

Music as Medicine: Alex Rodriguez PLUS Mini-Mam by Amanda Bowen

Episode 238: Kitchen Takeover Part II

August 12th, 2026 – Kitchen Takeover Part 2!! Short interviews, more “Culinary Cabaret!”, and song requests from a bunch more folks working in the UF Health Shands Hospital kitchen.

Episode 237: Kitchen Takeover

August 5th, 2026 – Short interviews, Trivia Game (Food and music quiz called “Culinary Cabaret!”), and song requests from a bunch of folks working in the Kitchen at UF Health Shands Hospital.

Episode 236

July 29th, 2026 – Theme: Un-themed this week, like the old days. We asked what music healthcare workers love and are listening to.

Feature: AIM Practitioner Maggie Clifford, PhD, discusses how her work with a patient led to a song about a dog named Seaboard.

Music as Medicine: UF Health staff member Gonzalo

Episode 235: Mango Day

July 22nd, 2026 – Feature: ArtBeat– Engaging in the arts keeps you young ft. Natalie Rella. Bonus, Sheila from the Facilities Administration Building improvises a spoken word piece about fruit.

Music as Medicine: UF Health patient, Jon Skaggs

Episode 234: World Cup World Tour

July 15th, 2026 – Feature: Michael Claytor invterviews Tina Mullen and Yazmany Arboleda at the CHC Forum!

Music as Medicine: Molly MacClaren, AIM Artist in Residence

Discussion: Who’s your team? Who’s going to advance to the final rounds of the World Cup?

Even after the US elimination, healthcare workers are talking about the World Cup!

Our second (and final) episode inspired by the 2026 World Cup, “World Cup World Tour” features healthcare worker hot takes and one song from each of the 8 countries in the Quarterfinals.

Episode 233: Beach Playlist

July 8th, 2026 – Feature: Irene Iuliano reflects on her work and her time with AIM

MaM: Irene Iuliano

Poll: What did you forget at the beach?

Episode 232: LIVE music

July 1st, 2026 – Theme: LIVE music! What’s your dream concert? What’s your first concert?

Feature: Stirling Myles (The Listening Room, Bardo Booking) joins the show to talk about the biopsychosocial benefits of live music.

Music as Medicine: Stirling Myles

Episode 231: World Cup

June 24th, 2026 – Feature: Maggie Clifford songwriting feature about her song “Southbound Train”

Music as Medicine: Shift Change volunteer (aka “Shiftern”) Alexis Crutchfield

Game: “Can I Kick It” World Cup game

Episode 230: ______ Summer

June 17th, 2026 – Theme: ______ Summer (What should this summer be named?)

Feature: Interview with Expressive Arts Therapist Akshata Parekh

Music as Medicine: Akshata Parekh

Episode 229: The Right Temperature (Songs from the 60s to Mid-80s)

June 10th, 2026 – Feature: Re-run of Groundhog Day feature from 2025. You wrote:

“Also, hear former patient Ezra’s songwriting debut with her songs, “Everything Will Be Ok” and “Cotton Candy Love”. See the photos below of Ezra during her songwriting sessions with AIM musician Jahirah Williams and AIM writer Andrew Hix.” [photos]

Music as Medicine: Shiftern Julian Capella Dominguez

Game: The Right Temperature (Guessing historic highs and lows)

Episode 228: NBA Finals (Walk-out music)

June 3rd, 2026 – Feature: Victoria Blanchette’s Capstone Project

Music as Medicine: Jailyn Joseph

Episode 227: Prom

May 27th, 2026 – Feature: Anna Swygert, Clinical Program Coordinator with Streetlight, discusses her career with Streetlight. Then, she plays a trivia game called, “Why So Sad?”

Music as Medicine: Anna Swygert

Poll: Did you go to prom? Did you like it?

Episode 226: Creating Healthy Communities Takeover

May 20th, 2026 – We interview participants/guests at the Creating Healthy Communities Forum at Heartwood Soundstage about what brought them there. Then, we play radio games and take song requests!

Games: Creativity– an exquisite corpse*-style, one-line-at-a-time poem. Curiosity: guess what the object under the curtain is! Hint: it’s a _________ of a ___________ in a __________.

Spoiler alert: they guess correctly by the end!

*a collaborative, chance-based parlor game invented by Surrealist artists in the 1920s

Episode 225: Your Mom

May 13th, 2026 – Host: Andrew Hix (w/Michael Claytor)

Theme: Your Mom (Songs for HCW’s moms)

Feature: Bertis’ song + ArtBeat

Music as Medicine: Songs for Arts in Medicine Moms

Episode 224: WRP Celebration Takeover

May 6th, 2026 – On site at the Wellness Resource Partners’ Celebration for Nurses Week. We asked how people got their start in the work that they do, then played a game about how songs get their start. It’s a takeover show!

Episode 222: Rock Talk

April 22nd, 2026 – ROCK TALK! It’s Earth Day, Earth is made of rocks, what sort of rock music do our healthcare workers like? Rock Talk is our talkshow for this week.

Feature: Shiftern Sydney Barfus discusses her capstone research project about music in public spaces around our healthcare system.

MaM: Intro to Arts in Medicine Students share their “One Song”

Episode 221: The Cheese Tax (Cheesy Songs for Tax Day)

April 15th, 2026 – Feature: Michael Interviews “Kel” Kelly Jones about the poem she wrote with Andrew, “I Am Theirs”

Music as Medicine: Intro to AIM, Pt. 1

Bonus: The Limerick Game, Cheese Edition

Episode 220: Poetry Month

April 8th, 2026 – Healthcare workers were asked for songs with poetic lyrics.

Feature: Ravenna Raven, a Listener Poet who runs the training course for new Listener Poets, discusses “The Good Listening Project.” It’s an organization in which poets have listening sessions with healthcare workers and turn those conversations into poems.

Music as Medicine: Ravenna Raven

Episode 219: Shift Change Sends Healthcare Workers to Space!!!

April 1st, 2026 – April Fools!
Featuring interviews with Shands healthcare worker astronauts.

Episode 218: Charts Madness Week 4

March 25th, 2026 – Charts Madness, Genres Edition Week 4: We announce the winners of the whole competition

Game: “JohnRe”

Episode 217: Charts Madness Week 3

March 18th, 2026 – Charts Madness Genres Edition Week 3: We announce the winners of the Elite 8

Game: Fill in the Bop!

Episode 216: Charts Madness Week 2

March 11th, 2026 – CHARTS MADNESS: Genres Edition! We announce the winners from the round of 16 and feature the final 8 genres.

Feature: ArtBeat with Natalie Rella

Episode 215: Charts Madness Season 2: Genres, Round of 16

March 4th, 2026 – UF Health healthcare workers vote on their favorite musical genre. Which one will win it all?

Episode 214: Winter Olympics

February 25th, 2026 – Feature: Dr. Bill Slayton talks about his Memoir, “Stunt Mole,” and his Substack Blog

Music as Medicine segment: Intro to Public Health Students Volume 2

Poll: Favorite Winter Sport

Episode 213: Book Club! Recommend a Book, We’ll Play You a Song!

February 18th, 2026 – Jailyn interviews Shannon Kelly about her children’s book, “Disappearing Dump Trucks”

Music as Medicine: Alex Rodriguez’s Intro to Public Health Class

Poll: Fiction or Nonfiction?

Episode 212: The Lovestruck and the Heartbroken

February 11th, 2026 – Victoria Blanchette presents Album Architect Episode 2: The Art of Loving by Olivia Dean

Music as Medicine: Jade Hernandez (a pre-dental UF senior majoring in Nutrition Science)

Episode 211: World Cancer Day (and National Homemade Soup Day)

February 4th, 2026 – Short interviews with people working on UF Health Oncology units about working in Oncology and their favorite soup ingredients.

Feature: Andrew interviews Rayvon Rollins about his song, “Big Plans”

January 2026

Episode 210: Sample Platter

January 28th, 2026 – Theme: Sample Platter (A show about how artists re-use sound recordings)

Feature: Jahirah discusses the process of making ringtones and songs with patients and makes a ringtone with shifterns.

Music As Medicine: The sample platter continues with some of Morghan Golson’s favorite songs that she listens to in the hospital

Poll: What’s your favorite free sample?

Episode 209: Shift Change Flight 121

January 21st, 2026 – Shift Change Flight 121 with service to locations around the world! Healthcare workers selected destinations and occasionally songs to accompany those locations. We fly them around the world with music!

Feature: AIM musician Jahirah Williams visits Medellin, Colombia and speaks with Ana Isabel Arango about her work in Palliative Care at a local Medellin hospital and the ways in which she incorporates music into her care.

Episode 208: Warm Up from the Cold

January 14th, 2026 – Extra-long Music as Medicine: Max, former Shift Change volunteer

Poll: Favorite Article of Winter Clothing

Episode 207: New Year, New Nurses! (A Transition to Practice Takeover)

January 7th, 2026 – We asked new nurses for three artists they’ll be listening to more of in 2026 and for some words to live by in the New Year.