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Friday Podcast 12/21

December 21, 2012 8:43 am by: Mike Lee

Photo by Michael Lee.

So it turns out the world didn't end this morning, even though lots of dimwits on the iterwebs told us it would. That's good news overall, I guess, but it also means that now we've got to slap together a podcast at the last minute. Luckily, we've got some cool audio biz lying around. This one is gonna follow a familiar format if you've been paying much attention to our podcasts in recent weeks (although really, why would you?). We'll kick things off with a new installment of Master Class and then follow that up with a homegrown hour from one of KUT neighbors. It seems like we're always mentioning some supercool factoid about our buddy John Pierson when we air one of his show, like his feud with Robert Redford or the fact that he's caught a piranha in the Amazon. So how about this one? A few weeks ago, John sent us an email to say he couldn't record voice tracks that week because he was flying off to the Canary Islands to hang out on the set of the new Vin Diesel movie....
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Tuesday Podcast 12/18/12

With Christmas just a week away, things are getting hard-core festive around O'Dark Central. There's mistletoe and holly all over the place, Hawk seems to be on an all egg nog diet, and David's been riding to work on a reindeer. But we're not letting the holiday cheer stop us from churning out podcasts like North Pole elves. Today's 'cast is an O'Dark style celebration of the holiday season. We'll start off with Not Quite Nutcracker (and way better than Christmas carols), a great yuletide piece from O'Dark favorite Emily Corwin. It's all about the folks who perform in a burlesque version of The Nutcracker Suite, and we love it because it's a great piece of radio and because our senior producer Mike Lee has a special connection to the world of burlesque. Fair warning,...
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On The Porch On Campus

Patrick talks about the front porch of his north campus home, used as a nightly meeting place for his friends while studying at The University of Texas. ...
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