Recorded just before Christmas 2025 at Cure Kaua‘i Sauna, this episode is a humble overture to my multimedia podcast exploring all things worldly and otherworldly, natural and supernatural, through arts & science as we travel around the planet.

In this inaugural chapter, I’m joined by my wife Racquel (and our mini schnauzer Tobi), as we introduce the vision behind the show: a project years in the making that brings together storytelling, singing-songwriting, science, sustainability, and grounded earthly living.

We share how we went from long-distance colleagues to life-long soulmates, solarpunk band-mates, and sauna owners; and how I went from Nikola Tesla biographer to writing sci-fi and researching UAP.

Inside the episode:

• How we met, our backgrounds, and the birthing and christening of Orbeterra and our music duo Volterra
• A trailer of the music-film Mission to Earth by Nyado (featuring Watly & Phy), filmed in Kenya and Italy
• Our 2020 Patreon song “From Ragtime to Riches” (Rocky Fox days)
• A live acoustic performance of “Panspermia” from our upcoming album
• A firelight reading of my original short story “The S.word” (about a future beyond speech), with sauna ambience + live ASMR with Pacific Ocean shells, Rudraksha seeds, and our retired wedding rings
• An introduction to Pscience, and why it’s important to bring everything back to Earth

I also want to express my deepest gratitude for the following people: Racquel, for loving me, harmonizing with me, falling asleep to my impromptu bed time stories, and helping me ground this project into real-world lived experience; our families, Rispoli-Segato and Martin-Figueroa, for unconditional love and support and for raising us, in spite of our high strangeness; Enrique Spacca for our brotherhood, inspiration in music, art, spirit, and managing your life with Notion; Idan Abrahamson for friendship, music, timeless dad jokes, and for co-creating Nyado and Mission To Earth (“we had to go back!”); Josh Schrei for his mythic wisdom and mentoring fellowship with the Emerald Podcast, and our first serendipitous Taco Tuesday; Kelly Chase and Jay Christopher King for inspiring me to start my own project and for unknowingly featuring my hometown in Cosmosis - UFOs & a New Reality; Dr Michael P. Masters for his friendship, support, humor, warm sweaters, chicken sauna and not quitting his mission; Edoardo Russo (CISU); Michael Cifone (Society for UAP Studies), Greg Bishop (Radio Misterioso), Frederik Uldall (DNUS); and many others. Last but not least, Marco Antonio Attisani: I wouldn’t be here without him, his trust, and his inspiring ideas, nor would I have met my wife. Thank you all!

If you care about ecology, UAP, consciousness, technology, indie music and hopeful, empowering storytelling, you’ll feel at home here. Subscribe, share with friends, leave a review, and drop a comment with your story and what you’d like to hear on Orbeterra.

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Mentioned in episode #1:

Volterra:  Website - From Ragtime to Riches

Nyado | Mission to Earth: Trailer - Full music-film

Tesla: Lo scienziato contro (Countercurrent)

NeedTeatro | Nikola Tesla. A Portrait: Trailer

My writings: Speculative short fiction -

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