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ArchiverTranScript: Trans TeachersIn many states teachers are being attacked by politicians who oppose public education. In many states trans people are being attacked by politicians for, well, who really knows. So imagine you’re a transgender, public school teacher. How hard is that? In this episode we find out from Riley Long, a trans high school teacher in Kansas.2024-07-0300 min
ArchiverTranScript: Trans Issues in the MediaChances are whatever you know about trans issues in education came from reporters who cover the issue. The best education reporting starts with students and works its way out to larger issues. Few things have complicated education reporting more than trans issues. The reporting is complicated by state lawmakers and school board members who use it as a campaign issue. On this issue, we speak with veteran reporter and editor Barb Shelly who has been a journalist in Kansas City for decades.2024-07-0300 min
ArchiverTranScript: What’s Next In State Legislatures?With everything else they must deal with…law enforcement, taxes and economic development…state legislators spend an enormous amount of time on transgender issues in education.Why, is the most important question but also, are we done watching endless debates on trans students in statehouses?On this episode, we hear from Missouri state Sen. Greg Razor, a Democrat from Kansas City and the only openly gay member of the state senate.2024-05-2800 min
ArchiverTranScript: Being The Parent Of A Trans StudentIt’s hard enough being the parent of a middle school student. But now your child comes out as trans and you have to navigate the school district bureaucracy to make sure your child is safe. Add to that, many school board members lean towards anti-trans and that makes parenting even harder.In this episode, we hear from Virginia Franzese from Leawood, Kansas. She has faced all of these problems and more.2024-05-2800 min
ArchiverTranScript: How Did We Get Here?There are few education topics more heated than transgender students. Should teachers use preferred pronouns? What restroom should trans kids use? And the question that generates the most heat: should kids be allowed to play sports on the teams they identify with?In this episode, we ask two former school district superintendents how we got here. We hear from Cynthia Lane, former superintendent in the Kansas City, Kansas district and Bill Nicely, former superintendent in the Kearney, Missouri school district.2024-05-2800 min
Continuing Studies: for Higher Ed PodcastersThe University of Chicago: How (& Why) to Build a Podcast NetworkExplore the specifics of establishing and running a university podcast network, the purpose behind it, and the benefits to the shows who are a part of it with Matt Hodapp, Assistant Director of the University of Chicago Podcast Network. Hosts Neil McPhedran and Jennifer-Lee Gunson discuss the unique challenges and opportunities of academic podcasts with Matt, the importance of creating a distinct identity for university podcasts and the potential of collaborative efforts between academic institutions. Tune in to explore how networking, advocacy, and fostering a sense of community can benefit and increase the reach of university podcasts, reshaping their pl...2023-12-1235 min
ArchiverThe Man From Russell: Becoming Bob DoleWe start this season of Archiver in 1960 on the streets of Russell, Kansas—right there on the plains about half-way between Kansas City and Denver.It was a railroad town and an oil town but, for our purposes, it’s Bob Dole’s town.
His first campaign for federal office featured four girls in homemade skirts called the Bob-O-Links, singing on the streets of western Kansas. In between numbers they handed out Dole Pineapple juice.“The thing that really strikes me about Dole is if you could somehow take the spirit of western Kansas...2023-02-1700 min
ArchiverThe Man From Russell: Mr. Dole Goes To WashingtonBy 1960 Bob Dole had his sights on a much bigger political stage. After his one term in the Kansas Legislature and five terms as Russell County attorney, there was a shake-up in the western Kansas political landscape starting in 1954. Dole saw his opening. There was a bitter three-way fight for the Republican nomination for Congress from western Kansas that year. In the race with Dole was Keith Sebelius, future father-in-law of Kathleen, who would be elected the Democratic governor of Kansas in 2002 and someone who felt he was the heir-apparent.He would finally win the...2023-02-1700 min
ArchiverThe Man From Russell: Here Comes The Hatchet ManWhen Bob Dole was sworn in as a member of the House of Representatives in 1961 it didn’t take the freshman congressman from western Kansas long to attack the Democrats. He opposed almost everything the new Kennedy Administration wanted.In March 1961, he voted against extending unemployment benefits. Democrats in Kansas immediately labeled him a reactionary. He also latched onto a controversy involving a Texas con man called Billy Sol Estes. So big was the scandal that a minor rock star named Jesse Lee Turner even wrote a ballad about Billy Sol.Here’s how the New...2023-02-1700 min
ArchiverThe Man From Russell: AmbitionThe 1964 election was a disaster for Republicans. Lyndon Johnson crushed Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater with 61% of the vote. Goldwater only carried six states. It was the biggest landslide since Franklin Roosevelt crushed Kansas Gov. Alf Landon in 1936. But, out in western Kansas, Bob Dole was bucking the trend as he sought another term in the House.Even though he was doing better than most Republicans, Dole was still in a very close race with a relatively unknown Democrat named Bill Bork.How close was it? So close that Dole barely won his home county of...2023-02-1700 min
ArchiverThe Man From Russell: The Move To The MiddleAfter Bob Dole’s victory in 1966 many political observers believe he started to move toward the middle.Hunger became an issue that Dole got deeply involved in. CBS showed the documentary “Hunger in America” on May 21, 1968 and it helped profoundly change how the U-S government dealt with hunger. It would also help solidify Bob Dole’s moderation.
No longer the Kansas Againster, as the Salina Journal called him, he was becoming more of a statesman. President Johnson would dispatch Dole as part of a four-member, bipartisan congressional delegation to India to see what the U.S. could...2023-02-1700 min
ArchiverThe Man From Russell: One Moment
In his first run for Senate in 1968, Bob Dole had no trouble winning. He crushed Gov. William Avery in the Republican primary with 68% of the vote and in the general election he beat Democrat William I. Robinson with 60%. It probably didn’t hurt that Tonight Show regular and Kansas City jazz singer Marilyn Maye sang his campaign jingle, a far cry from the Bob-O-Links in Russell. But Dole’s reelection in 1974 with Congressman Bill Roy from Topeka was a political knife fight.In 1971 President Richard Nixon appointed Dole Republican National Committee chairman. Then there was Wate...2023-02-1700 min
ArchiverThe Man From Russell: The National Stage
On August 20th, 1976 the new ticket of Gerald Ford and Bob Dole made their first campaign stop in Dole’s hometown of Russell, Kansas. It was the night before the two were nominated at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City.It was also Bob Dole Day in Russell, 95 degrees with a 20-mile-an-hour wind that can make the plains feel like a convection oven. Still, a thousand people showed up to hear Dole and see Ford. Dole choked up as he spoke to the same people who helped pay for his rehab after wounds suffered on hill 914 in...2023-02-1700 min
ArchiverThe Man From Russell: The Runs For The White HouseAfter losing as Gerald Ford’s 1976 vice presidential running mate, Dole made another run for the White House in 1988. It was a crowded GOP field that included Ronald Reagan’s vice president, George H.W. Bush.
The campaign started well enough with Dole winning in Iowa. But Bush started running ads in New Hampshire saying Dole helped raise taxes, and he won the primary.On TV that night, Dole ended up in the same segment with Bush and, when asked what message he had for the vice president, Dole snarled into the camera that Bush shou...2023-02-1700 min
ArchiverThe Man From Russell: Legacy
On November 8th, 1996 just three days after Bob Dole got pasted by Bill Clinton for president, he walked on stage at the Late Show with David Letterman to a standing ovation. There has never been a politician just as comfortable and formidable marking up legislation as they are on late night TV. He joked that he was making $200 for the appearance and it was the first work he’d had in sometime. While staff and reporters knew Dole was a very funny man, it was a side voters rarely saw.
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ArchiverKMBC WomenKMBC radio was headquartered atop the swanky Pickwick Hotel in downtown Kansas City. The Pickwick was the place to stay for men doing business with the city and county. It was a favorite of Harry Truman when he was Presiding Judge of Jackson County. And while there were probably plenty of deals made by men in smoke-filled rooms, at KMBC they were thinking about and celebrating, women.2020-02-1700 min
ArchiverBrush Creek FolliesWe kick off this season of Archiver on February 8th, 1941 at the Ivanhoe Temple in Kansas City. The Ivanhoe was home to much of the city’s musical talent but on Saturday nights it was home to the Brush Creek Follies which originated on KMBC in Kansas City.2020-01-1100 min
ArchiverKansas Voices Of The Vietnam War: LouIt's been more than a half century since the start of the Vietnam War. Vietnam changed American politics, changed the US military and most importantly changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.In this special Archiver series, we meet four Kansans who fall into that category. Four people who fought the war, not with claymore mines and grit, but with bandages, medicine, and pure compassion.2019-01-0822 min
ArchiverKansas Voices Of The Vietnam War: SusanIt's been more than a half century since the start of the Vietnam War. Vietnam changed American politics, changed the US military and most importantly changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.In this special Archiver series, we meet four Kansans who fall into that category. Four people who fought the war, not with claymore mines and grit, but with bandages, medicine, and pure compassion.2019-01-0821 min
ArchiverKansas Voices Of The Vietnam War: HCIt's been more than a half century since the start of the Vietnam War. Vietnam changed American politics, changed the US military and most importantly changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.In this special Archiver series, we meet four Kansans who fall into that category. Four people who fought the war, not with claymore mines and grit, but with bandages, medicine, and pure compassion.2019-01-0825 min
ArchiverKansas Voices Of The Vietnam War: RichardIt's been more than a half century since the start of the Vietnam War. Vietnam changed American politics, changed the US military and most importantly changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.In this special Archiver series, we meet four Kansans who fall into that category. Four people who fought the war, not with claymore mines and grit, but with bandages, medicine, and pure compassion.2019-01-0323 min
ArchiverThe A's (Big League Baseball is Gone, Long Live Big League Baseball)Literally from the moment Charles Finley bought The As, he wanted to move them out of Kansas City. He claimed otherwise but it was a lie. In 1967, he made it happen.2018-11-0816 min
ArchiverThe A's (A's On The Air)For most fans, it’s not just the players that conjure up memories of a team. The broadcasters are just as important.2018-10-0517 min
ArchiverThe A's (Charlie O' The Despised)You already know about Finley the showman; Charlie O The Mule, the exploding scoreboard, Kelly green and gold uniforms at a time everyone else wore white and gray, his lobbying for orange baseballs. Sounds like a real funster. But not at all. Finley had a mean streak, he was mercurial, dictatorial.2018-09-0612 minArchiverThe A's (Charlie O' The Showman)There just aren’t many songs about mules. But in the mid 60's (the exact release date is unknown) Charlie O' the Mule by Kansas City song writer and rockabilly performer Gene McKown was released. It’s about a Missouri mule that helped usher in a wild, complicated and, at times, maddening seven years of baseball in Kansas City.2018-08-0616 min
ArchiverThe A's (A Yankee Pipeline)In the 13 years the A’s were in Kansas City, they were simply terrible. But the A’s didn’t get this dismal without some help. It all goes back to the New York Yankees, and the unholy alliance between Yankee owners Del Webb and Dan Topping and their handpicked A’s owner Arnold Johnson.2018-07-1614 min
ArchiverThe A's (22nd And Brooklyn Ave.)The A’s were always an awful baseball team. But Municipal Stadium, well that was special to almost anyone who ever went. 2018-06-2514 min
ArchiverThe A's (Leading The Way)When you think about black major league baseball players—those who led the way in breaking the color barrier—you think Jackie Robinson of course. They even wrote a swing tune about Jakcie called “Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit that Ball” performed by Buddy Johnson and his Orchestra in 1949. It reached number 13 on the charts that year.
Jackie spent part of the 1945 season with the Negro League Kansas City Monarchs before moving on to the Dodger organization. And while we all know the Monarch's place in baseball history—they won ten league championships and launched th...2018-05-2812 min
ArchiverThe A's (Kansas City Is A Cowtown No More)During those years, baseball fan emotions bounced from joyous to tumultuous to downright silly at times, but there’s no doubt the A’s moving to Kansas City from Philadelphia changed the city’s image from a cowtown to a metropolis.
“Well, we had a big parade, had a big crowd, drew a big crowd. It was a very exciting time for us to get a major league team,” says former Mayor Charles Wheeler. “It helped get the Chiefs, it helped get the Scouts, the hockey team. And we got a basketball team. So we became a major league c...2018-05-0410 min
ArchiverThe A's (Fleeing Philadelphia)It was one of the greatest conspiracies in sports history. One that would lead to turmoil in Kansas City, a congressional hearing and, eventually, one of the craziest owners in all of professional sports.2018-04-2315 min
ArchiverThe A's TrailerArchiver fans, get ready for a special season of the podcast. We’re leaving Kansas for now to tell a story that covers some of the most tumultuous years in baseball…but it’s more than just a sports story. This is about power, greed and corruption that went all the way to congress.2018-04-0303 min
ArchiverHow Did We Get Here?I want to take you back to August 19th, 1991. It’s 93 degrees and humid. Hundreds of anti-abortion protestors from around the country have gathered in Wichita. There’s nothing spontaneous about it, planning went on for weeks and eventually hundreds would swell to thousands. Most people, including the city’s three abortion clinics, the police and city officials, thought the whole thing would be done in a few days with a handful of arrests. But what came to be known as the Summer of Mercy stretched on for six tense weeks, resulted in 2,600 arrests and changed politics in Kansas in way...2018-01-0417 min
ArchiverThe Most Important Basketball Player You've Never Heard OfThe Globetrotters have always been innovators. But perhaps the greatest innovation was in 1985 when they signed a woman, the first woman to ever play professionally with men. That woman was from Kansas, and she would not only change the game but become a hero to female athletes, to be sure, and probably many other young women.2017-12-1818 min
ArchiverDerby Day In KansasWe’re talking horse racing on this Archiver, something not associated much with Kansas. But for an amazing two minutes and four seconds in 1938, a horse from Johnson County was the top three-year-old in the land. Owned by a man who was better known for suits than stallions, and who had an odd connection to Kansas City political boss Tom Pendergast.2017-11-2817 min
ArchiverFast Food KansasDo you know the 1946 musical “The Harvey Girls?” It stars Judy Garland and in the film she sings one of the most famous show tunes of all times “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe.” The movie is about Harvey House restaurants and the young women in their starched, white aprons and cuffs who went out west to feed hungry train travelers. The train must be fed, they sang in the movie. In fact, millions of people needed to be fed and, wouldn’t you know it, we figured out how to do it fast right h...2017-11-1218 min
ArchiverOut Whiting The White ManThis episode is about the Haskell Institute in Lawrence back when it was a boarding school for American Indians. Tens of thousands of school age Indians were forced into these boarding schools all across the country, many times kidnapped by soldiers or police. Kids would, naturally, run away from such semi-imprisonment. How could any of this be good? I have to admit upfront that I started out on this story absolutely sure how I was going to tell it. But I ended up in a very different place, and it’s a place that I’m not totally comfortable with...2017-10-2423 min
ArchiverWomen And Sunflower PoliticsThis Archiver starts in 1984. Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum is running for reelection. Now with Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, you may not realize the uniqueness of a woman in the United States Senate in 1978. Depending on how you define it, Kassebaum was the first or second woman elected in her own right to the senate. Women in Kansas politics go back to before women could even vote in most elections. And, wouldn’t you know it, the very first women to be elected mayor of an American city was from Kansas.2017-10-1120 min
ArchiverSmall But PowerfulNewspaper endorsements were crucial for political candidates, be it for president or city council. It’s less so now, but they’re still important. Even President Trump when he was a candidate met with the editorial boards of the Washington Post, New York Times and Chicago Tribune. 2017-09-2418 min
ArchiverThe Most Powerful Newspaperman In Kansas HistoryThis story starts with a tape that, until recently, was in a box at the Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas. Archiver historian Virgil Dean found it. 2017-09-1815 min
ArchiverThe Free State MythAnyone with a passing knowledge of the civil rights movement knows about the lunch counter sit ins at the Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina. But before Greensboro and Miami there was Dockum Drug Store in Wichita. 2017-09-1013 minArchiverSeason 3 TrailerArchiver fans, get ready for another season of audio gems that tell the most surprising stories from Kansas history. 2017-08-1602 min
ArchiverThe Beat Comes To LawrenceIf you look around YouTube, you’ll find no shortage of videos featuring William S. Burroughs, the famous beat writer. One of the best videos shows rock ‘n roll hall of famer Patti Smith playing the acoustic guitar in Burroughs tiny bungalo in old east Lawrence. That’s Lawrence, Kansas. River City. #LFK This episode of the Archiver podcast is just as much about #Lawrence as it is about Burroughs. According to his closest friends and confidants, he changed Lawrence and Lawrence, well, let Burroughs be Burroughs.2017-04-2413 min
ArchiverMidwesternish: The First Black Astronaut ... AlmostAs a kid, Ed Dwight never dreamed he might one day go to the moon, but he did fantasize about escaping life in Kansas. And it was that idea of escape that was so powerful for a young black man in the 50s.2017-04-1118 min
ArchiverThe Most Important Coach You've Never Heard OfJohn McLendon changed the way basketball is played forever with his "fast break" style, and he broke the color barrier for black athletes in the sport.2017-02-2718 min
ArchiverG.I. Joe From KansasWe start this episode of Archiver in 1918, the end of the first World War, because the way America treated those veterans would forever change the way the country takes care of its soldiers, sailors and marines. Make no mistake, it would take decades plus lots of pain and suffering to do the right thing, but it happened. And wouldn’t you know it, it took a Kansan to get it done. 2017-02-1313 min
ArchiverKansas Killers And Our Rocky Relationship With Capital PunishmentWhile the Clutter murders are the best known in Kansas history, they aren’t the most infamous and certainly not the most bizarre. The killers were eventually put to death, but the state hasn't always been in favor of the death penalty. In fact, Kansas has struggled with the capital punishment for most of its history.2017-01-1815 min
ArchiverDr. King's Last College StopFor most, 1968 would feel like the United States was coming apart at the seams: The Tet offensive in Vietnam, wild political conventions and assassinations: First King then Senator Robert Kennedy. Both great men would have ties to Kansas in 1968. Kennedy, as we talked about on a previous Archiver, gave his first speech in Kansas after he announced his presidential run. King would start his year at Kansas State University on January 19th at convocation in a jammed packed Ahearn Field House. King came away impressed and heartened by the students he met that day in Manhattan. But we didn’t k...2016-12-2019 min
ArchiverPresidential Politics And The Man From RussellKansas hasn’t produced the number of presidents and presidential candidates as Virginia or New York but Kansans, both famous and obscure, have played an important role. We’ve had a war hero, a millionaire, a prohibitionist and a communist run for president. We’ll talk about all of them, but we will focus on the 1996 Bob Dole campaign against Bill Clinton, which touched on things we’re still grappling with in 2016. It will sound familiar. Except for how it ends.2016-11-0300 min
ArchiverThe Plow That Broke The PlainsIn 1936 the federal government released a film. They called it a documentary, but it was mostly propaganda. Many would argue that its cause was noble rather than sinister. Others, as we’ll see, would vehemently disagree. But to understand why the federal government got into the propaganda film business.2016-10-2117 min
ArchiverThe Battle At Tuttle CreekAfter the floods of 1951, a small valley in Kansas finds itself "invaded" when the Army Corps of Engineers decides to build a dam.2016-09-2918 min
ArchiverBasketball, Big Dollars, And The Man From Lawrence KansasWe take it as a matter of fact now that sports are big business. Professional sports are a huge business, but almost all the rest are at at least big. College coaches make millions of dollars for coaching and millions more for shoe endorsements, TV, and camps. But it wasn’t always this way. We were reminded of that by a recently discovered radio broadcast from New Year’s Eve, 1939 on WOR. 2016-09-0815 min
Ghost NotesCalvin ArseniaCalvin Arsenia is a vocalist, multi instrumentalist, music teacher, and performance artist based in Kansas City. He has performed internationally and lived and made music in Edinburgh, Scotland.2016-08-2523 min
Ghost NotesJeff HarshbargerJeff Harshbarger is a bassist, composer, and staple of the Kansas City music scene. Along with playing bass all over the globe in a variety of bands, he co-founded an artist run record label named Tzigane Music, and hosts Wednesday’s Jazz in the Afternoon on KKFI.2016-08-1923 min
Ghost NotesThe BuhsThe Buhs is an eleven piece pop group from Kansas City that fuses elements of hip-hop and soul. I spoke to lead vocalist Julia Haile and trumpeter Hermon Mehari.2016-08-1119 minArchiverSeason 2 TrailerArchiver returns September 8th for season 2.2016-08-1001 min
Ghost NotesYour FriendTaryn Miller is a musician from Winfield, Kansas who plays under the moniker Your Friend. She was signed to Domino Records, home of Animal Collective and Neutral Milk Hotel, in 2014. After the release of her first self-produced EP called Jekyl/Hyde. Since then, she's toured internationally, and put-out a full length album Gumption via Domino Records.2016-08-0420 min
Ghost NotesYes You AreVocalist Kianna Alarid and guitarist/songwriter Jared White lead the Kansas City Band Yes You Are. Kianna discuss the transition from the indie rock band Tilly and The Wall to the pop rock group, Yes You Are; and they both talk about how faith has shaped their music.2016-07-2119 min
Ghost NotesBarrel MakerMogan Cooper, also known as Barrel Maker is a Kansas City hip-hop emcee and filmmaker. A man of many talents and names, he usually goes by his last name, Cooper. He released his second full length album with producer Conductor Williams this year. It’s called "Blk Flan II: For The Imperfect. For The Diligent". Right now, he’s making music with LiON, a DJ based in Lawrence, Kansas.2016-07-1420 min
Ghost NotesEbony TusksMarty Hillard is a Topeka, Kansas native and founder of Ebony Tusks, a three piece hip hop group he formed in 2010. DJ Daniel Smith joined the group two years later. And Marty met his supporting vocalist Nathan Giesecke while "Geese" was running lights for the Lawrence Band Thieves. Marty joins us on Ghost Notes today at KCUR 89.3 studios.2016-06-1825 min
Ghost NotesThe PhilistinesCody Wyoming and Kimmie Queen have been creating music as a couple in Kansas City for 12 years. They have carefully selected four Kansas City musicians to join their heavy psychedelic infused rock group, The Philistines. Cody writes most of the group’s songs on guitar and sings. Kimmie is the group’s lead singer, and unofficial lead dancer on stage as well.2016-06-0232 min
Ghost NotesAmado EspinozaMr. Amado Espinoza is a Kansas City based composer and musician from Cochabamba, Bolivia. We’re joined today by Espinoza and his wife Karen Lisondra, who will jump in and help us translate.2016-05-1924 min
Ghost NotesMikal ShapiroMikal Shapiro is a Kansas City singer-songwriter-musician who grew up in suburban Johnson county and remembers never quite fitting in. Her mom studied occult science by mail, and her dad was known for telling extravagant tales. Mikal released her fourth full length album The Musical in April 2015. We’ll dive into her past and how it’s shaped her 20-year musical career.2016-05-0526 minGhost NotesStephonne SingletonGrowing up, Stephonne Singleton told people he wanted to play music. He’s black; he’s tall; he’s a dude, and he thinks that’s why most people responded saying: “So you wanna be rapper?” But people’s assumptions were far different from Stephonne’s true musical dreams.2016-04-2100 min
ArchiverThe Sudden Need To RunIf 2016 is the most tumultuous presidential election year you’ve ever seen that simply means you weren’t alive or paying attention in 1968. 2016-04-1919 min
ArchiverTV, The Triple Play, and the Man from DodgeI want to tell you about a scandal. Fred Hall was an ambitious but unpopular governor among the GOP elite in Kansas in the 50s. He would go on to find himself on the outskirts of the party. Hall would eventually go directly to the people on TV and he would change politics and the legal system in Kansas in a way we that we are feeling right this minute.2016-04-1918 min
ArchiverGoat Glands, Radio Waves, and the GovernorshipIf I were to tell you about a millionaire running for high political office that found his fame in the media, and financed himself through somewhat sketchy endeavors, a man who worked outside of the regular political channels and who seemed to be constantly battling the establishment, you would probably say, I know who that is, Donald Trump. But long before Trump, or Ross Perot, or Michael Bloomberg for that matter, there was Dr. John R. Brinkley.2016-04-1921 minArchiverWelcome To ArchiverArchiver is a tour through the most important moments in Kansas history with host, Sam Zeff. Using archival tape, our show will pull you into the world of these events while explaining how they still affect us today. The show is supported by a grant from The Kansas Humanities Council.2016-04-1901 minGhost NotesNoah GellerNoah Geller is the Kansas City Symphony’s concertmaster, also known as the principle solo violinist. He has won numerous awards for his performances all over the world. Noah earned his bachelor and graduate degree at Juilliard. During his time there, he also co-founded the Group Shirami, which is Hebrew for “Song Of Our People.” The group is still active, playing Jewish music that is often obscure and composed during the Holocaust era. On this Ghost Notes interview, Noah addresses the exclusivity of the classical music world, and how it has evolved throughout the centuries. The music you hear underneath the in...2016-04-0721 minGhost NotesSecond Hand KingJoe Stanziola, known as the rapper Second Hand King, remembers a time when no one came to his shows. That was three years ago. Now, he can't play a concert in Kansas City without the crowd singing his songs back to him. Joe says that in his early rap days after a show, most people would avoid him. But, there was always someone who would tell him, “dude, you got balls,” he said. What that person probably was hinting at, is the fact that Joe is a white rapper. Hear how people on the road react to Second Hand King’s musi...2016-03-2422 minGhost NotesJeff FrelingWe’ve all been wowed by a 6 string guitar player, but what about a sixty string guitar player? Jeff Freeling used to play the electric zither, a sixty string monter of a guitar used in his past career with The Blue Man group. In 2010, he quit his job with Blue Men to become the Victor of Victor and Penny, Kansas City’s own antique pop duo. He’s scaled back to a six string guitar and his parter Erin McGrane plays Ukulele.2016-03-1000 minGhost NotesErin McGraneThis week, we hear Erin Mcgrane, AKA Penny from Victor and Penny. She shares her journey towards their new album, Electricy, which is the first body of work Jeff and Erin have created with almost all original songs. That’s a great diversion from their previous work of covering American Jazz tunes they dug up through Sonic Archeology.2016-02-2522 minGhost NotesDominique SandersIf John Coltrane, one of the greatest horn players ever, was on stage trying to impress a crowd he would completely lose their attention if Ella Fitzgerald grabbed a mic and started singing next to him. That’s the power the human voice. Dominique Sanders is a bass player and producer who recognizes that power.2016-02-1121 minGhost NotesThe HeadlinerThis podcast tells the story of Kansas City’s musical landscape through in-depth, honest, and unpredictable interviews. Ghost Notes is a space where listeners, musicians, and the industry can have the uncomfortable conversations about music creation and consumption that often go unheard in the final product.2016-01-1502 min