April 14, 2013 11:39 am by: John Hanson
On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Kevin Warren, Vice President of Operations and Legal Affairs with the Minnesota Vikings; Leslie Frazier, Head Coach with the Minnesota Vikings; Tony Wyllie, Senior Vice President of Communications with the Washington Redskins; and Marvin Lewis, Head Coach with the Cincinnati Bengals...
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So here's the deal with RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland - Documentary on One: they're from Ireland, they've got a really unwieldy name, and they produce some pretty great radio. The radio's so great, in fact, that we're willing to type in that unwieldy name just so we can bring you their stuff on this here podcast.
And it's also so great that we're going to bring you two, count 'em, two RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland - Documentary on One pieces in just one podcast. That's right, this podcast is all RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland - Documentary on One all the time. We'll kick things off with their piece Survival of an Island and then wrap things up with their Through a Chink Too Wide. And in between? Just a few short seconds of Hawk Mendenhall. A small price to pay.... » read more
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Today's podcast will be as comfortable as an old shoe, and twice as smelly. We'll enjoy visits from two O'Dark stalwarts, Jake Warga and Charles Spira. Dedicated listeners to the big big show will know and love these guys, 'cause we use their stuff all the time and they're both (as far as we know)...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with author, minister and gospel balladeer Earnest Pugh. Webster’s defines a “worshiper” as a person who gives reverent honor and homage to God. Simply put, Pugh is a worshiper. A superior vocalist, song stylist...
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Around here at O'Dark Central, we're all fans of Miles Davis, so we were pretty jazzed (get it? pun!) when the
Views and Brews gang decided to do an extra-long show about the making of his seminal album
Kind of Blue. That show was pretty great, featuring Rabbi Neil Blumofe and...
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Today on the podcast, we've got two pieces of audio goodness from O'Dark regulars.
The fine folks at Lean and Hungry Theater have become favorites of O'Dark host Hawk Mendenhall since he discovered their updated radio play takes on the works of William Shakespeare. We've brought you a few of...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Major General Dana J.H. Pittard, Commanding General of the 1st Armored Division and Fort Bliss, Texas. On July 9th, 2010 he assumed that command. He is the only African American to command a combat...
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We've got three little pieces of audio goodness for you today on the big podcast. Batting lead off is our old buddy Jake Warga, who headed down to Cancun recently to try and get to the bottom of this whole end-of-the-world-in-2012 thing. We won't spoil the ending for you.
Then it's another blast...
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Have we got a humdinger of a podcast for you guys today. Clocking in at a whopping hour and thirty-nine minutes, this thing is over half an episode worth of O'Dark, and all at the low, low cost of zero dollars.
We'll start off with KUT's recent
Views and Brews program which concentrated...
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You know, if there's one small downside to working in public radio, it's dealing with all the starstruck fans. "Your job is so glamorous and fascinating!" they say. "Tell us how you do it, and don't spare any details, because nothing's as interesting as you and people like you!" It's nice to hear,...
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Hello friends! What you are downloading and/or listening to today is the final O'Dark podcast of the Communication Building B era. Today's pod is being cast from the dark, subterranean office that has been home to the
O'Dark 30 bi-weekly podcast for lo these many years, but starting next...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Leonard Pitts, Jr. syndicated columnist and author of Freeman. In his new novel, Pitts takes us to the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of President Abraham...
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If you've been on YouFace or the interwebs lately, there's a pretty decent chance you've stumbled across a little viral audio tidbit about two little girls explaining the world's worst haircut. But keen-eared O'Dark listeners will recall that same little nugget of radio from its broadcast debut (we...
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Happy Friday the 13th, everyone! We're gonna keep it non-scary today, mainly because we put this podcast together before it occurred to us that it'd go up on Friday the 13th.
So no real frights for you today on the 'cast, but we do have a couple of new installments of a couple of our favorite...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with the late Rev. Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, distinguished minister, educator and author. During his lifetime he served as President of two universities,
Virginia Union...
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A happy July 3 to you all. You're probably getting ready for a big holiday celebration tomorrow, baking apple pies and preparing meats for the grill and buying fireworks and so forth. And if so, you probably need a little something to listen to while you do all that. Why not try this delightful...
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