O Dark 30

Tuesday Podcast 5/22/12

May 22, 2012 12:01 pm by: Mike Lee

Photo by Michael Lee.

A happy May Tuesday to you all! It's starting to feel like summer up in here, what with the hot weather and the blockbuster movies coming out. But why spend all that money going to the movies when you can listen to this podcast for free? Sure, it's nothing like a movie, but it'll eat up some time and you can have some popcorn while you do it, so it's close enough, right? We've got two action-packed radio bits for you today, starting with Jake Warga's Funny Thing Being Mugged. Jake's a good guy and an O'Dark Hall-of-Famer, so we hate that he got mugged at all, but we're glad he made some radio lemonade out of that real world lemon. And then it's the 2011 PRPD Benediction from Jay Allison. Jay's a pretty big deal in the public radio world, and this is your chance to hear his cool speech from last year's Public Radio Program Directors' conference without all the shame and heartache of actually being a public radio program director....
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In Black America

In Black America Podcast: Dare To Take Charge – Part II

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. presents his second, and final, discussion with the Honorable Glenda A. Hatchett, author of Dare To Take Charge: How To Live Life on Purpose. Hatchett has seen more worst-case scenarios than the average person. As she metes out judgment from the bench of her courtroom, she witnesses tales of unimaginable heartbreak and strife. But this experience, coupled with her years as Chief Presiding Judge of the Fulton County Juvenile Court and Delta Air Lines litigator have also taught her that it’s possible for people to inject possibility into powerful, inspiring phenomenon as the basis for her newest book. Interactive as well as inspirational, Dare To Take...
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O Dark 30

Friday Podcast 5/18/12

Hello good people and welcome to the Friday podcast. We've got two little slices of radio pie for you today, both from a recent episode of the big big show. We'll kick things off with an episode of Saltcast, the show that later became HowSound. Both incarnations of this show...
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In Black America

In Black America Podcast: IAAF Hall of...

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Olympic champion and philanthropist. Having been dubbed ‘The Greatest Female Athlete of the 20th Century’ by » read more

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Friday Podcast 5/11/12

We're podcasting live from the KUT Capital Campaign Command Center, which is the name I just came up with for the room where all the volunteers sit and answer phones during our current drive. We're in the last day of our special five-day Capital Campaign drive, raising the last bit of money we need...
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In Black America

In Black America Podcast: Remembering ...

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with the late Ron Banks. Banks was one of the founding members of the Detroit vocal group, The Dramatics that formed in the mid-1960s and continued to play for...
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O Dark 30

Friday Podcast 5/4/12

Hoo boy, people. What a doozy we've got for you today. The two pieces on today's 'cast come from our recent inappropriately timed holiday show special. We'll kick things off with The Jingle Cats, from producer Julie Bruins. You know those Christmas songs that feature the standards as sung...
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In Black America

In Black America Podcast: The Seventh ...

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Paul J. Tagliabue, former NFL Commissioner; N. Jeremi Duru, Counsel » read more

O Dark 30

Tuesday Podcast 5/15/12

Hey, you know what our host Hawk Mendenhall really likes? Riding bikes. You know what else he likes? His friends (he seems indifferent at best toward his co-workers, though). That's why he recently devoted an entire O'Dark episode to talking about how much he loves riding bikes with his little...
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O Dark 30

Episode 127

Just when you thought O'Dark couldn't get any more self-indulgent, we go and put together a show like episode 127. This one's all about things with two wheels, with a few episodes of Two Wheels to Nowhere, Too Curvy with Not Enough Shoulder, How to Fix a Flat Bicycle...
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In Black America

In Black America Podcast: The Humility...

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Yiesha Beamon, founder of The Humility Project. The project started as a simple thought some years ago after Beamon was looking through a box full of memories...
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O Dark 30

Tuesday Podcast 5/8/12

If you're anything like me (and I know I am), you love the O'Dark podcast so much that your only complaint is that there just isn't enough of it. Forty minutes or so, twice a week? That's nothing! So you'll be pleased to know that today's podcast is a jumbo edition, clocking in at just under 90...
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Tuesday Podcast 5/1/12

Hey, it's May Day! We're not really sure what that is, but it sounds like a heckuva good time, and we're kind of annoyed that we didn't get the day off to celebrate it. Hopefully you're luckier than us, and heading out for a big May Day feast or decorating your Maypole or something fun like...
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Friday Podcast 4/27/12

It's the last podcast of the month, good people of the interwebs. That's the perfect time to reflect on the goings-on of the past few weeks, to weigh your wins and losses, to think about how you might have done things differently and what might have happened if you'd made better choices. Or you can...
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