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The Red Shed Tapes: A McMenamins PodcastUFO Festival: Garrett Graff Examines the Government’s History of UAP SecrecyOn this B-side episode we dip into our archives to hear journalist Garrett Graff’s expert take on the government’s 80-year search for alien life. The Pulitzer Prize finalist explores everything from CIA insiders to the “summer of the flying saucer” to the odds of life out there. Check out the transcript & photos here on the BLOG Produced by McMenamins and Gretchen Kilby Host: Shannon McMenamin Sound design & audio editing: Gretchen Kilby Writing: Michelle Jacobson Robbins McMenamins’ production team: Kat Nyberg, Michelle Jacobson Rob...2025-05-0236 min
The Red Shed Tapes: A McMenamins PodcastUFO Festival: Kathleen Marden and the Abduction of Betty & Barney HillToday on the B-side… In 1961 a couple driving across New Hampshire spotted something unusual in the night sky. What happened next is the stuff of science fiction – only it wasn’t to Betty and Barney Hill. On this episode of The Red Shed Tapes, B-side you’ll hear the detailed account and evidence of their alien encounter from ET contact researcher and the Hills’ niece, Kathleen Marden. Check out the transcript & photos here on the BLOG Produced by McMenamins and Gretchen Kilby Host: Shannon McMenamin Sound design & audio editin...2025-04-2552 min
Better To... Podcast with D. M. NeedomA World So Kind - WonderlySend us a textThis week the Portland-based duo, Wonderly stopped by to discuss their latest album Wolves/ We also talked about the Low Bar Chorale, A new German Opera, and so much more.********Wolves is the culmination of a creative partnership that dates back to 2016. Brunberg and Landsverk debuted Wonderly with a self-titled 2017 collection; the unit continued with the post-pandemic release Story We Tell in 2022 and the covers collection Appropriate ’til Death in 2023. Their film scores have been featured on the soundtracks for the independent films Last Ferry, At the Video Store and ot...2024-12-201h 03
Porch TalkWONDERLYWonderly is a duo multi-instrumentalists, Jim Brunberg and Ben Lansverk, from Portland, OR. Jim and Ben share their insight on the American music scene from the venues and shows they are a part of in Portland. They share about their formative years, and the advice they'd give to their younger selves.Support and follow Wonderly here: https://www.wonderlymusic.com/Subscribe, rate, and review the show!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/porch-talk/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy2024-12-1959 min
Think Out LoudPortland band Wonderly releases new albumThe tune you hum along to from your favorite podcast may come from the Portland band Wonderly. The duo, made up of Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk, have recorded theme music for many podcasts, including the New York Times’ “The Daily.” They have also recently released a new album called "Wolves." Brunberg and Landsverk join us in studio for a performance and conversation.
2024-11-2229 min
The Red Shed Tapes: A McMenamins PodcastLet There be Songs to Fill the AirCreating a place to hear music is a lot like creating music itself: You have to know when to leave space for drama and resonance, and every decision counts. In Episode Two of The Red Shed Tapes, we’ll hear about reopening the legendary Crystal Ballroom during the height of Portland’s indie rock era. We’ll find out why curating playlists for each McMenamins pub is a lot like mixing the perfect cocktail, and Scott Avett of the Avett Brothers will tell the tale of a yearslong friendship that all started with a meeting at McMenamins. ...2024-01-3138 min
Stumptown SoundcheckEpisode 10: Have Our Stages Really Been Saved?Welcome to Episode 10 of Stumptown Soundcheck, entitled "Have Our Stages Really Been Saved?" In this thought-provoking discussion, host Jamie Dunphy explores the lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Portland's music scene and dives into whether the legislative efforts, including the celebrated Save Our Stages bill, have truly offered a lifeline to the struggling music venues across the nation.
In This Episode:
Jamie is joined by Jim Brunberg, owner of Mississippi Studios and Revolution Hall, and co-founder of the Independent Venue Coalition, and Stephen Parker, the executive director of the National Independent Venues Association (NEVA).
Discover the origins and outcomes...2024-01-2936 min
Oregon Music NewsSwatkins on his new album "Friends and Other Necessities"We’ll be back at The Café in Artichoke Music next week. Mean ole Mr. Covid laid me up for a few weeks but things are much better now.
Nevertheless, I am using an ancient arcane device known as the telephone to talk with this week’s guest Steve Swatkins, he of the keyboards and voice box, a composer and bandleader as well as a member of Allen Stone’s band.
His new album Friends and Other Necessities is just out and it is both very funky and tremendously inspiring. Not religious, but just exactly what we need right now.
I reali...2023-01-1336 minOregon Music NewsJim Brunberg and his new "Songs of Stupid Hope" CC#363Jim Brunberg is back. He’s been here a lot during the pandemic because he was one of the folks who were responsible for getting federal and state money to our venues to keep them open.
We’re not going to talk about that today. We’re going to talk about his new album Songs of Stupid Hope. We need this album now and you can quote me.
We’ll find out why during our conversation which, if you know either one of us, goes off in fifty different directions.
The great Jack Casady appears on a couple of tracks. We’ll fi...2022-12-1748 min
Oregon Music NewsJim Brunberg & Landsverk: A new(ish) Wonderly album // CC#328We try not to bring our guests back too often, but in the case of Jim Brunberg, co-owner of Mississippi Studios, Revolution Hall, Polaris hall and point person in the fight to get federal and state money to our music venues…well you can understand.
This one is solely about music and Jim is joined by Ben Landsverk, the other half the band they call Wonderly.
They’re having a CD release on Friday, March 18 at the Show Bar at Revolution Hall. The album is called Story We Tell and some of the songs have been available for quite a whil...2022-03-0423 min
Oregon Music NewsJim Brunberg: Live music, where we stand + a new Wonderly album / CC#314Jim Brunberg is back with us in the Artichoke Music Café for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation.
His club, Mississippi Studios and concert venues, Revolution Hall and Polaris Hall are all open for live music.
He’s been a lynchpin for organizations launched during the Pandemic to get federal money in order to survive.
He has kept us all informed along the way and that’s why he’s here today, to give us his reading on how things are going and what the future may hold.
His group Wonderly, with Ben Landesverk also has a new album. We’ll hear a tune fr...2021-10-0736 min
Oregon Music NewsJim Brunberg on Oregon Arts Recovery and saving our venues. CC#295Just when we were thinking that tons of music was right around the corner we find out that there’s a ton of Federal money that could help venues….big and small…that isn’t being spent.
Enter a new organization called Oregon Arts Recovery, OAR, that has arrived to help matters.
Jim Brunberg, one of the leaders in our music industry, both as a musician himself and as a venue owner (Mississippi Studios and Revolution Hall) has been working non-stop for the past year to convince government that music and music venues are vital to the life of Oregonians.
He’s wit...2021-05-2726 min
Boju Bajai#45 2021 aayi bakshyosHere’s our haudey guff gaff welcoming 2021 with utmost respect cos ओल्बा said so (स्योस?). We talk about everything from what news from Nepal would sound like in the hit podcast The Daily, Boju Bajai’s plans for the new year and lastly, we try to imagine how life would be in utopian Nepal. Dhilaai bhaeni Happy New Year. We hope this year is mucho mucho better than 2020.
If you like our laugh and guff gaff, please do consider supporting our work on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/bojubajai
Subscribe to Boju Bajai podcast on Soundcloud @bojubajai or wherever you get your podcast. Follow @Bojubaj...2021-01-3023 minOregon Music NewsBen Landsverk: Telling stories in music and film / CC#277We’re Skyping again this week. We’ll be back in the Artichoke Café soon.
Ben Landsverk is with me today. He’s a composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist and one-half of Wonderly with Jim Brunberg.
They make music for other people’s films and have begun releasing their own films with their own music.
There’s one on DB Cooper on this page and a new song at the end of our conversation.
Ben has also transformed the Low Brow Chorale into an online Chorale.
Let’s meet Ben Landsverk.2021-01-1447 minOregon Music NewsLisa Lipton: One very busy clarinetist and executive CC#257The rather spectacular Lisa Lipton is in the Artichoke Café.
She’s the Executive Director of Opera Theater Oregon and their principal clarinetist and so much more. She’s a very busy human.
She has a live streamed event on her birthday, Tuesday August 25 at Polaris Hall which will feature Micah Hummel on drums, George Colligan on Piano, Mark Dubac on Clarinet, Camille Marie Sherman, Mezzo-Soprano, Daniel Mobbs, Bass-Baritone, Sequoia on Piano, and our friend Jim Brunberg on Guitar.
All kinds of music featured. It’ll be quite an event.
She absolutely loves the clarinet and related instruments. A lot.
Let’s m...2020-08-2039 min
Oregon Music NewsJim Brunberg on getting money to save Oregon's music venuesJim Brunberg on getting money to save Oregon's music venues by Oregon Music News2020-07-2417 min
The Local Water Crisis; Support for Arts and Venues Today on The Local: Your Quick 6 news headlines. An in-depth look at the current water crisis in the Warm Springs Reservation with Amanda Squiemphen-Yazzie of Weavers of Unity. And, an interview with Jim Brunberg, of Mississippi Studios and Revolution Hall, on the recent support from the OR Legislature for arts organizations and venues.2020-07-1632 minOregon Music NewsTony Starlight: The entertainer no quarantine could hold CC#248Unless there’s a change of some kind…always a possibility…this will be the last in the series of Skype-recorded Coffeeshop Conversations (Not) @ Artichoke Music.
Next week we’ll be back in the Café at Artichoke and I can be in the same room with the person I’m talking to.
Thanks to Storm Large, Terry Currier, Jim Brunberg, Jeremy Wilson, Lloyd Jones, Andrew Woodworth and the others who have been guests.
Therefore, we end this Skype series with the one, the only, your friend and mine, the inimitable, the sensational, the Tony Starlight.
Applause goes here.
We pick it up short...2020-05-2836 min
Radio8Ball hosted by Andras JonesScott Weddle of Amelia (Season Three-The Appening-011-May 15, 2020)SCOTT WEDDLE was in the band Portland band AMELIA when they were the guests on Radio8Ball on KAOS in Olympia in January of 2006. Their song "France" came up as the answer to JENNY JENKINS' question on last week's episode. It was a potent Mother's Day synchronicity. Scott joins this session with host ANDRAS JONES to talk about the song, the reading and his late songwriting partner TEISHA HELGERSON. Scott has his own question for The Pop Oracle and gets as his answer a song from our host in an episode that includes music from MIRANDA LEE RICHARDS, DAN...2020-05-241h 25Oregon Music NewsTerry Currier: Keeping Music Millennium afloat CC#246We’ve been checking in on folks to see how they’re doing during the current tribulations.
We checked on Jim Brunberg, Jeremy Wilson, Storm Large and others and today we’ve got Music Millennium’s Terry Currier on Skype.
They’re still open, doing curbside delivery but everything is tenuous. Life itself.
They’re still getting new product in every week at Music Millenium so let’s find out how their doing, what they’re doing and what are some good new albums.
Here’s Terry Currier2020-05-1438 minOregon Music NewsBrunberg: Fighting for our musical lives - A coalition of venues CC#241Hello once again from not at Artichoke Music. Hopefully we’ll be back there when this is over.
One of the busiest people during this thing who is not a first-responder is Jim Brunberg, who I’m sure you know is a musician and owner of Mississippi Studios, Revolution Hall etc etc etc.
I thought that combination of things would make him the perfect person to talk to about the current situation where we find doors closed and musicians scrambling to find an income.
He has been working on a new coalition of venue owners to try to keep them inta...2020-04-1523 min
Song ExploderWonderly - The Daily (Theme)The Daily is a hit podcast from The New York Times, hosted by Michael Barbaro. Every weekday, over 1.7 million people download the show. It launched in February 2017, and in honor of its two-year anniversary, we’re publishing a bonus episode about the show’s theme song, which was composed by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk of Wonderly. It was originally published on the New York Times website, in 2018.
songexploder.net/the-daily2019-02-0611 min
podcast de Junio GuerraWonderly - The Daily (Theme)The Daily is a hit podcast from The New York Times, hosted by Michael Barbaro. Every weekday, over 1.7 million people download the show. It launched in February 2017, and in honor of its two-year anniversary, we’re publishing a bonus episode about the show’s theme song, which was composed by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk of Wonderly. It was originally published on the New York Times website, in 2018. songexploder.net/the-daily2019-02-0612 min
Meena Lohar's podcastWonderly - The Daily (Theme)The Daily is a hit podcast from The New York Times, hosted by Michael Barbaro. Every weekday, over 1.7 million people download the show. It launched in February 2017, and in honor of its two-year anniversary, we’re publishing a bonus episode about the show’s theme song, which was composed by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk of Wonderly. It was originally published on the New York Times website, in 2018. songexploder.net/the-daily2019-02-0612 min
Oregon Music NewsJim Brunberg: CC#170 And another new venue, Polaris Hall!When the history of music at the turn of the century in Portland is written…IF it is ever written, they’ll write about someone who played a major role in it.
His name is Jim Brunberg and he’s with me in World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th & Glisan for this OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. Number 170.
There’s his own music, of course, and responsibility for Mississippi Studios, Revolution Hall, and a new venue Polaris Hall on North Killingsworth also the new Bar 101 at Revolution Hall.
I love talking to Jim. Let’s get started.2018-11-0152 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 12 Reaired: The Genie is Out of the BottleDon't be shocked or surprised, Roam Schoolers.The email came in yesterday: "On Friday evening, administrators were informed of threats made against the school on social media by a high school student. Police were immediately notified, and the student was questioned by police. Due to privacy laws and the fact that this is now a police matter, we cannot provide more specifics on this case. We can assure you that this incident is a clear violation of the district’s safety policies and the student will not be on campus pending the outcome of the...2018-02-2852 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 25: The Life of a LieWe remember the lies we tell. Sometimes they stick with us for a lifetime. For guest Cheryl Strayed, lies were among the baggage that blocked her happiness until a long backpacking trip afforded her the strength to bring them in to roost somewhere healthy. “Why do we lie” was the initial question. More reasons that you might have thought. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2018-02-1335 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 24: To Serve Man?We asked hundreds of people about how they encounter the animals they may (or may not) eat. So many conversations, all over the map. We chose these two: A farmer and a meat thinker. Meet Kyrie Eppley and Camas Davis. And be prepared for an "outside" discussion on some of the issue, both ancient and future, around one of our main sources of food: our animals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2018-01-3036 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 23: Home MusondaIn our Roams, we've met some people with widely varying concepts of home. Some, like Musonda, have taken an incredible journey to get there. The twists and turns in his story are, well, amazing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2018-01-1428 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 22: We Made Santa The JerkIn this episode we unpack some of the parcels Santa might not want us to consider, including a conversation with the creator of “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” AND a rapper in Northern Canada who actually got run over by Rudolph. Not your run of the mill holiday special. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-12-1828 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 21: The Terrible GiftIn this episode we take back “giving” - a term awash with holiday smarm. We dive deep into the nuance and complications of gifts and explore the nature of generosity with some listener stories and a case study: the “altruistic kidney donor”. You’ll never give a gift the same way again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-12-0659 min
OPB's State of WonderDec. 2: Five Oregon Podcasts You Have to HearThis time we live in is a feast of audio storytelling. You can find a podcast for any interest, from Harry Potter to stories of death-defying survival, and it turns out Oregon is a hotbed of homemade shows. In fact, several enterprising producers have joined forces to host the first-ever Portland Podcast Festival on Dec. 2 at the Hawthorne Theater.We’re taking this as an opportunity to talk to them about their shows, and to spotlight some more of our favorites made in Oregon. On this week’s episode:Minority Retort - 1:30Jason Lamb’s morn...2017-12-0251 min
Oregon Music NewsMichael Gibbons: CC#127 - Secrets to running a music venue in a restaurantWe're back in World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation.
We like to have some of the people who run and/or own music venues in here from time to time. We’ve had Nicholas Harris from Jack London, Jim Brunberg from Mississippi Studios and Revolution Hall…and a few other folks.
Today we have Michael Gibbons who owns Jo Bar and Papa Haydn. Jo Bar has music four or more times a week. And that’s where my full disclosure comes in. I DJ there on Saturday nights.
Thing is, I’ve alway...2017-11-3034 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 20: The Press VS The Prez PART 2We continue our look at the real relationship between the Fourth Estate and the People in PART 2. We interview a public figure (Governor Kate Brown), we go behind the scenes at the New York Times The Daily (Lisa Tobin, Podcast Creator), talk to an Advance Press Lead for the HRC campaign (Natalie Sept, who basically INVENTED SHEETCAKING), and speak with Floyd Abrams, one of the great legal minds of our time, about the 1st Amendment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-08-2845 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 19: The Press VS The Prez PART 1We go deep into the relationship between the Prez and the Fourth Estate, spending time with two world-renowned journalists who share one common experience: being publicly scorned by a sitting president. We go behind the scenes with The New York Times' The Daily Host Michael Barbaro, and hear the story of Frank Snepp, who gave up everything in pursuit of getting the truth out there in 1975. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-08-1041 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 19 PreviewEpisode 19 Preview Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-08-0201 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 18: Turn of a Friendly Clown - Fear and MemoryIn this episode we start with the basic question of WHAT scares us, what exactly fear IS, and what our bodies do when we’re experiencing fear. Several surprising revelations later, we are staring into the core of what memory is, and how we control our own thoughts, memories, and fears. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-07-1825 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 17: Dukes of HamburgFlags: more complicated than we thought. Roam Schooled explores how God entered the pledge, flags, and currency. Special guests TBTL's Luke Burbank and Andrew Walsh think back to Pledge-related ponderings, we speak to world renowned vexillologist Ted Kay, and hear from Theo Shouse on assignment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-06-301h 00
Roam SchooledEpisode 16: What Kind of Bird Are You?Dana asks “what happens to Pets owned by people who can't take care of them?” Dad goes in search of the answer with Special Officer Ulli Neitch. What kinds of human animals will they encounter? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-06-0845 min
Oregon Music NewsJim Brunberg: CC#73 - His music, venues and a podcast with his daughtersAugust 25, 2016
Welcome back to the Coffeeshop…World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland and another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation.
Today Jim Brunberg, musician, music venue owner and now a podcaster with his twin seven-year-old daughters Vern and Dana. You know him from his music, from being one of the founders of Mississippi Studios and Revolution Hall.
He’s a busy guy and we’re glad he took time to be here. His family podcast is called Roam Schooled, as he puts it, “a program about what happens when a father and his twin daughters put away their de...2017-05-1548 min
Live Wire with Luke Burbank"Off the Beaten Path" with James Lavadour, Jim Brunberg (of Roam Schooled), June Colony, and Rodney BoniferLive Wire travels east to Pendleton,Oregon! Abstract painter James Lavadour recalls growing up on the Umatilla Reservation and how his energetic connection with the land transfuses into his work, Roam Schooled podcasters Jim Brunberg and his twin daughters restore the wonder of searching for answers without a wifi connection, June Colony introduces us to her new breed of sheep, and local legend Rodney Bonifer teaches Luke how to yodel before taking us out on a ballad about the Pendleton Round-Up.2017-05-1456 min
Live Wire with Luke Burbank"Off the Beaten Path" with James Lavadour, Jim Brunberg (of Roam Schooled), June Colony, and Rodney BoniferLive Wire travels east to Pendleton,Oregon! Abstract painter James Lavadour recalls growing up on the Umatilla Reservation and how his energetic connection with the land transfuses into his work, Roam Schooled podcasters Jim Brunberg and his twin daughters restore the wonder of searching for answers without a wifi connection, June Colony introduces us to her new breed of sheep, and local legend Rodney Bonifer teaches Luke how to yodel before taking us out on a ballad about the Pendleton Round-Up.2017-05-1456 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 15: The Smell of the BallparkLove at first sight: two strangers meet at a baseball game game and become best friends. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-05-1309 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 14: The Dog Who Walks With His CatsEpisode 14 is one for our pets (it's the first of three episodes about animals). The deeper you go, the more interesting it gets when you talk to people who deal with the intricacies of pet issues on a day-to-day basis. Here spend time with a scientist who trains cats, a woman who helped eradicate dog and cat overpopulation, and an animal communicator. We try to get into the minds of the animals and in doing so take an unexpected plunge into our own psychology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-05-011h 12
The Portland PodcastJim Brunberg of the Roam Schooled Podcastpdxpod.com // roamschooled.comSupport the show2017-04-1627 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 13: Reptiles Can't Train GeniesIn a second episode about guns and the Second Amendment, we take unexpected turns, launching forward from the basic premise that the genie is out of the bottle. We go deep with two brothers who lost brothers, we go shooting, and we dive into the second amendment with eyes wide open to historical context and legal interpretation. It's not a show about statistics, but about using our higher brain functions to find solutions, middle ground, and a new way to look at the world of guns. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-03-141h 03
Roam SchooledEpisode 12: The Genie Is Out of the BottleRoam Schooled approaches the seemingly impossible, polarizing issue of guns, the Second Amendment, and gun control by reframing the questions, turning them upside down, looking deep, and looking wide for common ground. This episode contains some profanity, and also very well may change the way you view the issues being discussed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-02-1351 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 11: Get Out of My SpaceIn this episode we wonder why it is SO annoying when someone gets in your space, and we find our answer after talking with Dr. Temple Grandin, professional cuddler Samantha Hess, author Courtenay Hameister, and a therapist friend. We also relive a small part of the election. Contains adult language. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-01-021h 04
Roam SchooledEpisode 10: Roam Springer LudditeEpisode 10: Roam Springer Luddite by Jim Brunberg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-11-281h 04
Roam SchooledEpisode 9: The Truth Shall Make Who Free?"The Truth Shall Make Who Free?" is the first of our occasional updates on questions and characters we've met on the show. An ongoing mystery involving a prominent former CIA agent, a woman's search for her birth parents, and the truth about the asteroid that may or may not hit the earth (spoiler: it probably won't). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-10-2658 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 8: Hippie Muggle Jesus(Special, feature length episode). Being an easy rider is not always easy. The hippie scene is more than our senses at first convey. Our intrepid conversant investigators spend a day with Wavy Gravy, some modern hippies, and unveil a piece written especially for Roam Schooled by original Merry Prankster and Ken Kesey co-author Ken Babbs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-09-201h 18
Roam SchooledEpisode 7: Your Days Are NumberedThe girls turn seven in this episode. Seems like we spend a lot of time both contemplating the moment of our birth and pondering how we will die. Birthdays and End of Days are a running theme as we talk with an asteroid-hunter, an epidemiologist, and hear interesting stories about birth and near-death from those who have pondered it considerably more than we have (including Courtenay Hameister, Jeff Pehrson, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Matt Zaffino, and Laura Gibson). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-06-281h 00
Roam SchooledEpisode 6: How Did I Get Here?Jim and the girls jet to New York in search of an answer that leads not just to Ellis Island, but to Vietnam, and back through the years to an exceptionally complicated moment in time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-05-051h 06
Roam SchooledEpisode 5: You Are Welcome“What the heck is the Statue of Liberty there for?” And with that, we’re off, roaming the complicated landscapes of American identity, American dreams, American history and American politics. A first of a two-part series. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-04-0551 min
Roam SchooledEpisode 4: The Lone WolfSometimes you choose to go it alone. Sometimes, this solitude is inflicted on you. In this episode we talk with people who are either born, or have spent considerable time apart from the pack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-02-101h 01
Roam SchooledEpisode 3: Beyond BelievingRoam Schooled travels to the Southwest and talks to people about beliefs that are beyond science. We meet a renowned Bigfoot expert Thom Powell, Phoenix Lights filmmaker/author Dr. Lynne Kitei, musical giant Van Dyke Parks, and many others that uncover why sometimes we believe and other times we may not. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-01-041h 01
Roam SchooledEpisode 2: Worth the RiskWe listened as risk takers (a trapeze artist, a habitual gambler, a naked DJ, an extreme rock climber, a stuntman) address just what is at stake in their risks, and we examined our own thrill-seeking tendencies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2015-12-081h 00
Roam SchooledEpisode 1: Remember Me?In our debut episode, we went in search of answers to seemingly simple questions: Why do people have tombstones? What is memorialization? From the tangible sculpted rock face of the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota to the personal accounts of a mortician in Philadelphia, we listen as people tell us why they remember. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2015-10-2758 min