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Pop Icon with David Carson45 - Harris x Walz, Kanye West on Nitrous, It Ends With Us dramaThis week on Pop Icon: The Podcast, host David Carson dives into the Good, the Bad, and the Iconic Pop Culture for the weeks of August 1st to August 15th, as well as the Billboard Hot 100 & Box Office Top 10 of the week.
Billboard | Box Office | Destin Film Commision & PSA meeting | Cuckoo |
Good Pop Culture
1992 – Nickelodeon began airing their Saturday night
programming known as SNICK.
X-Men Scoop, Fortnite | Kamala x Tim Walz (Ellen Greenberg) | Welcome to Derry |Krysten Ritter Retreat | Meta working with Judi Dench, Awkwafina | Gypsy Rose gender reveal | The Creep Tapes heads to Netflix | Diet Pepsi Addison Rae | GTA 6 Fa...2024-08-1548 min
GradCastThe Scoop on SOGS | 2This is the second installment of our mini-series: the Scoop on SOGS! In this episode, hosts Brittany Melton and Ryan Baxter speak with Hannah Litchfield, the current SOGS Racial Equity & Inclusivity Commissioner. Hannah shares about her important work and some upcoming events to bring together the diverse cultures at Western.
Check out their Instagram page: @sogs.reic
Recorded on September 11, 2023
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson, edited by Jordan VanderBurgt
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
2023-09-2129 minGradCast431 | GradCast’s very own Dr. Laura swims off into the sunsetJoin hosts Charan Mandur and Brittany Melton as they chat with recent PhD graduate Laura Munoz Baena. Laura's research focused on virus evolution using bioinformatics. In this episode, they discuss essential tips for graduate students, including maintaining a healthy work-life balance through physical activity and navigating the uncertainties that come with graduation.
To find out more about Laura, find her on twitter @Laura_bam7
Recorded on August 31, 2023
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
2023-09-0449 minGradCast427 | Sports, Storytelling, and the Deaf CommunityThis week, hosts Mark Ambrogio and Brittany Melton interview kinesiology PhD candidate Thomas Irish. Thomas works from his own experiences to examine the sociocultural impacts of sports on the Deaf community. He also describes his path to Western, the impact sports have had on him, and how he uses storytelling to get his voice out into the world.
Follow this link to learn more about Thomas, keep up with his blog, or listen to his podcast.
To read a transcription of this episode, please find a pdf at this link (thanks to Mark Ambrogio for tra...2023-08-1529 minGradCastSpecial Episode: 5 Second Interviews at Science RendezvousIn this special episode, GradCast heads out into the field - literally! Hosts Amalie Hutchinson, Scott Walters, Jordan Vanderburgt, Carly Charron, Brittany Melton, and Mark Ambrogio do 5-second interviews with kids attending Science Rendezvous. They share what they want to be when they grow up, what the like most about science, and their favourite class at school.
Recorded on May 13, 2023
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson
2023-05-2625 minGradCast416 | Multilingual Marvels: Unraveling London’s Information PracticesSara Cornwell, PhD student in Library and Information Science (LIS), shares some of the many ways that Londoners who speak more than one language navigate daily information tasks. Listen in as hosts Brittany Melton and Laura Muñoz Baena try and get as many tips as possible!
Recorded on April 11, 2023
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
2023-05-1632 minGradCast#GradLife XVII: End of Term, Endemic Stress, Spending Summer as a GradOn this episode of GradCast, Brittany, Laura, and Charan talk about wrapping up the term, weddings, and how they plan to schedule their lives during the summer.
Recorded on April 11, 2023
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
2023-04-1830 minGradCastSpecial | What Tickles Your Peach?In this special episode Laura, Charan and Brittany are guests on What Tickles Your Peach, an undergraduate radio show. They talk about what it's like to be a TA and put their knowledge to the test in a fun game.
2023-03-3156 minGradCast#PostDocsTalk 3 | Interested & Interesting with Dr. Yimin ChenFor our third #PostDocsTalk episode, hosts Brittany Melton and Meghan Voll interview Dr. Yimin Chen, a postdoctoral fellow at Royal Roads University in BC, formerly a PhD from Western’s FIMS department. In this episode, Yimin talks about how to build your postdoc community by being social, gives us some tips and tricks for how to build your academic community, and use that as leverage to find your eventual postdoctoral fellowship.
To find out more about Yimin’s postdoctoral research, visit: @Shinypants0 on Twitter.
Recorded on March 21, 2023
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson
Theme song provided by https://freeb...2023-03-3031 minGradCast#GradLife XVI: Saying Yes and No, Getting Involved During Your Grad DegreeIn this special #GradLife episode hosts Amalie Hutchinson, Brittany Melton, Facundo Lodol, and producer Jordan VanderBurgt talk about getting involved in extracurriculars and how that impacts our grad experience. We chat about colour-coded calendars, if Jordan ever gets any nights off, and why saying "no" to some activities is just as important as saying "yes".
Recorded on March 21, 2023.
Produced by Jordan VanderBurgt.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
2023-03-2829 minGradCast406 | Going Retro(Viral): The Study of Nef, the Protein That Boosted HIVIn this episode, Mitch Mumby, PhD student in Microbiology and Immunology, talks to hosts Brittany and Laura about HIV, the virus that came to be one of the most successful pathogens known by humans. Tune in to learn about how Nef, a small and disorganized protein, conferred new abilities to HIV, and the impacts that studying such a delicate and controversial topic could have on someones relationship with knowledge.
To learn more about Mitch, find him on twitter as @mitchmumby
Recorded on January 17, 2023.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
Th...2023-01-2337 minGradCast398 | Till the Venture do us PartThis week, hosts Amalie Hutchinson and Brittany Melton sit down with PhD candidate Audra Quinn. Audra is studying entrepreneurship at Ivey Business School. We talk about one branch of her work: the interactions between co-founders. So, before you choose your business parter, give this episode a listen!
To find out more about Audra and her work, go check out her Twitter (@AudraQuinn) and website (https://audraquinn.com).
Recorded on November 1, 2022.
Produced by Jordan VanderBurgt.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
2022-11-0829 minGradCast396 | Slowly Finishing a PHD, Not for a Lac(Tate) Of TryingToday, host and past editor, Ariel Frame (PhD candidate in Neuroscience) joins hosts Laura and Brittany to discuss the final stages of his PhD research. Join us to learn more about lactate metabolism in the brains of mice and flies! For more of Ariel, check out Episode 267, The Super Secret Sex Life of Fruit Flies.
To keep up with Ariel, check out his Twitter @ArielFrame and on Google Scholar.
Recorded on October 18, 2022.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
2022-10-2436 minGradCast388 | Don’t Make Life Decisions at 2amIn this episode, Gradcast's new managing editor, Amalie Hutchinson, talks with hosts Laura and Brittany about her PhD studies in hummingbird physiology. Specifically, daily torpor and mitochondria. Tune in to learn about how birds cope with cold winter temperatures and get a glimpse of the day of a Biology grad student.
Recorded on August 30, 2022.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
2022-09-0629 minGradCast384 | A Balancing ActToday gradcast is joined by Hugh Samson, a first year PhD study in Library and Information Science, who shares with hosts Laura Muñoz Baena and Brittany Melton his research on balance and mindfulness. Hugh not only defines each term but situates them in his work more broadly at the crossroads of information and contemplation.
To contact Hugh and learn more about the importance of balance and contemplation, find him on the FIMS page.
Recorded on July 27, 2022.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
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To find out more about Jordan, you can find him on twitter as jvand222.
Recorded on June 28, 2022.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
2022-07-0430 min
Rabbitt Stew ComicsEpisode 357Non-Marvel/DC September 2022 Solicits Comic Reviews: DC: Aquaman and Flash: Voidsong 1 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Vasco Georgiev, Rain Beredo Black Adam 1 by Christopher Priest, Rafa Sandoval, Matt Herms Dark Crisis: Young Justice 1 by Meghan Fitzmartin, Laura Braga, Luis Guerrero Flash 783 by Jeremy Adams, Amancay Nahuelpan, Jeromy Cox Earth Prime 6: Hero's Twilight Milestones in History by Reginald Hudlin, Steven Barnes, Amy Chu, Melody Cooper, Leon Chills, Alice Randall, Toure, Tananarive Due, Pat Charles, Kathryn Parsons, Francesco Francavilla, Jamal Igle, Ray-Anthony Height, Denys Cowan, Eric Battle, Don Hudson, Ron Wilson, Arvell Jones, Maria Laura Sanapo...2022-06-253h 18GradCast#GradLife XIV: Live Chat about Semi-post-COVIDRecorded live at Radio Western 94.9 FM studio, hosts Ariel Frame, Elizabeth Mohler, and Brittany Melton discuss their grad life experience at different stages in their PhD programs.
Recorded May 18 2022
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
2022-06-0257 minGradCast374 | Explosive Environmental HistoryOn this episode of the GradCast hosts Laura Muñoz Baena and Brittany Melton chat with Charan Mandur, a first-year PhD student in the Department of History. They discuss the Halifax Explosion, environmental history, and Charan’s aspiration to blend the two.
Recorded on May 17th 2022.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
2022-05-2429 minGradCast372 | Bodies and Climate in 18th Century in Nova ScotiaIn this episode, Erin Isaac explains to hosts Brittany and Laura how race and climate were linked by 18th-century beliefs about the body. They also discuss how migrants who came to Nova Scotia in the 1780s (along with the colony’s existing populations!) contended with an unusually hostile climate following a volcanic eruption in 1783, and how this environmental history impacted different communities’ lived experiences.
To learn more about history, check out Erin's YouTube channel Historia Nostra
Recorded on April 26 2022.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
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Adventures Of Brittany & BrunoMy Grandmother Has Four TittiesThe class clown and the work horse exchange stories from their youth. Bruno briefly opens up and shares a personal story -- his grandmother has four titties... Also question of the day: Are Brazilians considered Latino?
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Adventures Of Brittany & BrunoThe Roast of BrunoOn the night Bruno introduced Brittany to the village -- Brittany posted a photograph on her instagram that ignited people to roast Bruno. Relive those hilarious comments as Brittany reads them to Bruno for the first time!
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brittany-hall--anthony-bruno/support2022-03-2316 minAdventures Of Brittany & BrunoCase Of The Falling Pu$$yBrittany shares her nightmarish experiences this past week... first she's pressured by Bruno into a project of producing 240 shirts within 48 hours. Then her cat falls out of a three-story window the night before the shirts is due.
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brittany-hall--anthony-bruno/support2022-03-2216 minGradCast366 | Gay Rights? Gay WritesAlex Prong, a media studies MA student, joins hosts Laura Muñoz-Baena and Brittany Melton this week to discuss queer literature in its many forms. Join us as we prod the Prong about their inspiration, book recommendations and how they go about researching indigiqueer literature to find alternative paths to chrono and homonormativity.
Recommended books: Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead and A History of my Brief Body by Billy Ray Belcourt
Recorded on March 15, 2022.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White...2022-03-1828 minGradCast365 | Reddit and Weep: Gender and Dating in Online CommunitiesThis week, we interview one of our own, Brittany Melton, PhD student in media studies! Brittany tells hosts Ana Moyer and Amalie Hutchinson about her research into some interesting communities on Reddit, and shares how dating and gender are represented, posted, and discussed online.
To hear more from Brittany, check her out on Twitter @realbritmelton or Instagram @britfitmeltfelt
Recorded on March 8th, 2022.
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
2022-03-1529 minAdventures Of Brittany & BrunoIt's All Down Hill, Once Your Pubes Go Grey...Brittany & Bruno bond over their fears of growing grey -- and open up about past experiences being bullied.
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Adventures Of Brittany & BrunoDash Of SaltBruno introduces Brittany to the podcasting world with her first podcast ever. Touching on a few different subjects that matter to them such as -- Valentine's Day, bi-racial dating, Black History Month, and "Where is the Black Lives Matter in the media these days?"
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brittany-hall--anthony-bruno/support2022-02-2711 minGradCast357 | A Bird Watcher’s ParadiseThis week, Amalie Hutchinson and Brittany Melton are joined by guest Soren Coulson, a PhD candidate in Biology. Together, they discuss Soren's research on the mitochondria (the powerhouse of the cell) in migratory birds and its role in energy metabolism in muscle. Soren shares with the Gradcast a day in the lab and his best advice for those interested in a PhD in Biology.
Recorded on December 14th, 2021.
Produced by Hira Nadeem.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
2021-12-2528 min
Grown Folks Music Show PodcastGrown Folks Music Podcast 36 Hosted By Sam SmithGrown Folks Music Podcast 36Hosted By Sam Smith1. Heartbeat - Taana Gardner2. Once In A Lifetime - Carvin Winans3. Roses Are Red - Mac Band 4. Just As Sure (Live) - Tori Kelly ft. Jonathan McReynolds5. Somebody - Al Hight Feat Sam Howard6. Here We Go 2021 - Stan Edward Moore7. Atomic Dog - George Clinton8. Before the Sun Comes Up - David Davis 9. Wonderful - Aretha Franklin10. That Magic - India Arie11. Money - The Shindellas12. Do You Like That - Tower Of Power13. Go Hard (liv...2021-10-112h 59