The Quiet Part Out Loud (TQPOL)

The Homebase Podcast returns with a powerful season premiere centered on Dr. Ricky Pope’s original poem The Quiet Part Out Loud (TQPOL) — a raw and resonant work about what it means to speak truth when silence feels safer.

In this episode, Dr. Pope invites listeners behind the creation of TQPOL, a poem born from years of listening to students’ unspoken struggles and navigating his own quiet battles as a psychologist, professor, and mentor. The piece gives language to emotions often buried — grief, anger, hope, and longing for belonging — and challenges the cultural an ...