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Mike Kiniry
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Gulf Coast Life
Encore: The connection between increased CO2 levels and ocean acidification
When it comes to the ways global climate change impacts the world’s oceans things like melting ice caps and glaciers, and what’s called thermal expansion — that’s when water takes up more volume as its temperature goes up — are probably what first come to mind. Or how increased water temperatures impact sea life, like recent, widespread coral bleaching events off Florida’s coast and around the world. Or even how changes in temperature and salinity can alter ocean currents, which are crucial for regulating global climate and weather patterns. But, an overlooked aspect of this story is how increased le...
2025-07-14
23 min
Gulf Coast Life
The national debt: How and why the US government borrows money
Right now our public debt is about 97% of our GDP. The last time we had a ratio that high was around World War II. A key number that economists are focused on right now is how much interest the U.S. Government is paying to manage the national debt. Right now, we’re paying almost $1 trillion dollars per year in interest. That is more than we spend on the military budget and almost as much as we spend on healthcare, including Medicare and Medicaid, every year. So, in order to get an overview of how the U.S. national debt wo...
2025-07-09
30 min
Gulf Coast Life
Blood Battery Campaign takes aim at child labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The world filled with portable devices and electric cars that we’ve come to rely upon is mostly powered with lithium-ion batteries. Most of the lithium-ion batteries we use require cobalt. Most of the cobalt that’s being used in these batteries is extracted from the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and much of it is sent to China to be processed for the global market. The Blood Diamond initiative in the 1990s sought to raise awareness about, and eventually create systems to mitigate the use here in the U.S. of, so-called ‘blood’ or ‘conflict’ diamonds that were being m...
2025-07-07
25 min
Travel Tales with Mike Siegel
Laura Kiniry
Travel writer Laura Kiniry returns after 11 years(!) to fill us in on where she's been. Hint- it's a lot of places!
2025-06-26
1h 08
Gulf Coast Life
Double-blind study aims to help dogs with Thunderstorm Aversion
Thunderstorm Aversion or storm anxiety is when dogs experience significant fear or anxiety during storms. Loud noises are the most obvious trigger, but dogs can react to other storm-related cues like lightning flashes, the sounds of wind or rain hitting the home, changes in barometric pressure, and even static electricity in the air. We learn about Thunderstorm Aversion and ways veterinarians try to help dogs and their owners. And we learn about a three-year, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of a new treatment that’s hoping to become a medical solution.
2025-06-24
29 min
Gulf Coast Life
The long and challenging journey of being a dementia caregiver
We get some insight into the long and challenging journeys dementia caregivers are on from two men who became caregivers themselves after their wives were diagnosed with dementia. Dan Moser’s wife Maria was diagnosed with what’s called Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) in 2015 and he was her caregiver until she passed away about two years ago. During that time, he pivoted away from his work as a bike and pedestrian safety advocate toward dementia caregiving, a role he continues to this day. And Jeff Edwards’ wife Bunny was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2018 and he’s still taking care of her. Jeff...
2025-06-23
29 min
CBS Mornings on the Go
Carrie Coon Talks "The Gilded Age" | Noah Wyle on Caring For Health Care Workers
A passenger plane headed to London crashed in India shortly after takeoff with more than 240 people on board. CBS News' Ramy Inocencio has the latest. A jury found Harvey Weinstein guilty of criminal sexual assault, but it will continue to deliberate on Thursday. CBS News' Nikki Battiste and CBS News legal analyst Caroline Polisi discuss the partial verdict and what to expect next.Meta has announced a series of measures aimed at targeting the companies responsible for "nudify" deepfake ads. They use AI-generated software to turn regular photos into sexually explicit images. CBS News' Leigh Kiniry has more. ...
2025-06-12
42 min
CBS Mornings on the Go
Carrie Coon Talks "The Gilded Age" | Noah Wyle on Caring For Health Care Workers
A passenger plane headed to London crashed in India shortly after takeoff with more than 240 people on board. CBS News' Ramy Inocencio has the latest. A jury found Harvey Weinstein guilty of criminal sexual assault, but it will continue to deliberate on Thursday. CBS News' Nikki Battiste and CBS News legal analyst Caroline Polisi discuss the partial verdict and what to expect next.Meta has announced a series of measures aimed at targeting the companies responsible for "nudify" deepfake ads. They use AI-generated software to turn regular photos into sexually explicit images. CBS News' Leigh Kiniry has more. ...
2025-06-12
41 min
Gulf Coast Life
Immigration attorney weighs in on what he says is broken system
The fear of deportation is growing for hundreds of thousands of immigrants across the country after a recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, which allows the Trump administration to revoke their Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The Trump administration also continues efforts to make good on its pledge to deport 3,000 people per day. Florida leads the country in the number of local law enforcement agencies partnering with ICE to deport undocumented people. And recently, the Trump administration has enacted sweeping travel bans and restrictions on citizens from some countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. To help us understand...
2025-06-11
23 min
Gulf Coast Life
New WGCU documentary tells the story of Hurricane Ian and explores the reality of storm surge
This Thursday, June 12 WGCU’s Documentary Unit will premiere the new film “Rising: Surviving the Surge.” It features dramatic storm footage, powerful stories of resilience, and insights from scientists, first responders, and community leaders to provide a wake-up call to the reality of storm surge that we all now know is possible on a very personal level. And it offers a vital reminder to be prepared for when it matters most. We discuss the making of Rising and some of the lessons we've learned from the storm that forever changed Southwest Florida.
2025-06-09
24 min
Gulf Coast Life
Former ACLU State Director speaking out about President Trump's 'Executive Overreach'
President Trump has signed 157 Executive orders since taking office in January. Many of them are well-within the authority of the President. But our guest is sounding the alarm about what he says are actions that exceed the authority given to the Executive Branch under the U.S. Constitution — powers meant to be shared with other branches of government, or that defy Supreme Court interpretations of what the law and the Constitution mean as historically understood.
2025-06-03
29 min
Gulf Coast Life
Rainy season is here so fertilizer bans are in place across SWFL
Back in the 1990s, as the southwest Florida population grew, it became apparent that local water bodies and waterways were being impacted — and impaired — by nutrient pollution. So, in the late 2000s several local governments began implementing ordinances that prohibited the application of lawn fertilizer during the rainy season, which generally speaking runs from June first through September or so. We learn about Lee County’s ordinance, and the importance of complying with these rules to benefit our waters and ecosystems.
2025-06-02
29 min
Gulf Coast Life
Ranger Toni retires after 23 Years of service, leaving a lasting legacy at the ‘Ding’ Darling Refuge
Toni Westland joined the federal workforce as a ranger with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers giving lock and dam tours on the Mississippi River. She then had a stint in north Georgia at Lake Lanier, then moved on to Lake Okeechobee and then Manatee Park in East Fort Myers. At some point she had vacationed on Sanibel Island so knew she loved the J.N. “Ding” Darling Wildlife Refuge, so when the opportunity arose in 2002 for her to join their team as an education specialist, she jumped on it and has been at Ding Darling ever since. Now, she...
2025-05-19
29 min
Gulf Coast Life
Maternal Mental Health and the systems in place to provide care
About 1 in 5 women experience some negative feelings after the birth of a child or a mental health condition during pregnancy. About three quarters of these women do not receive any treatment, especially in underserved communities. Untreated mental health issues can lead to things like disrupted child bonding, impaired infant development, and even some serious health outcomes for the child and mother – suicide and overdose are among the leading causes of maternal death in the U.S., especially in the late postpartum period. Since its founding in 1977, Healthcare Network of Southwest Florida has had a mission to provide quality healthcare that is...
2025-05-13
24 min
Gulf Coast Life
NASA Astronaut Winston Scott on his time in orbit and at the KSC Visitor's Complex
Winston Scott grew up in Miami and attended Florida State University to study music. While at FSU he started getting into engineering and at one point the word astronaut flashed briefly through his mind. So, after graduating in 1972, he entered Naval Aviation Officer Candidate School and two years later became a Naval Aviator and served as a production test pilot flying the F/A-18 Hornet at A-7 Corsair. Mr. Scott was then selected by NASA to become an astronaut and reported to the Johnson Space Center in 1992. These days he’s Director of Operational Excellence at the Kennedy Space Center Vi...
2025-05-12
31 min
Gulf Coast Life
Student project proposes ways to address the plastic problem
At the 32nd Annual Southwest Florida Model United Nations conference at Florida Gulf Coast University in March, high school teams were challenged to imagine solutions for the problem of land-based plastics and the micro and nano plastics that we now know are in the world all around us. Cypress Lake High School’s Model UN team took top honors and a $1,000 prize for their presentation proposing a creative and actionable — and ambitious — plan to address plastic pollution along Southwest Florida’s Gulf Coast. We learn about their plan from one of the team's members.
2025-04-29
29 min
Gulf Coast Life
Normal is Overrated 2025 helps young people open up about their own mental health
Normal is Overrated is an annual event designed to help young people break barriers and improve communication about their own mental health and well-being and open up about their own personal challenges and the kinds of help they’ve received. We get a preview of this year's event that's happening on Sat., May 3 from 11am to 2pm at Florida Southwestern State College in Fort Myers.
2025-04-28
25 min
Gulf Coast Life
Council for Responsible Social Media seeks to address the negative aspects of social media
Technological advances have brought much good to the world. But as ways to communicate have diversified and led to anyone being able to get their message out to the entire world, it seems undeniable that society has taken a turn toward hyper-polarization and partisanship – and the number of people – especially young people who are experiencing mental health issues has increased and the trendline is heading in the wrong direction. Our guests are part of a cross-partisan political reform group comprised a wide range of people, from elected officials and national security experts to mental health professionals and technologists who are tryi...
2025-04-23
27 min
Gulf Coast Life
PBS NOVA 'Weathering the Future' panel discussion at The Water School at FGCU
On April 10 WGCU hosted an event at Florida Gulf Coast University’s Water School that featured NOVA Executive Producer Chris Schmidt. That day we screened parts of the NOVA episode Weathering the Future for an audience of about 200 people. Between the segments we chatted with him, as well as two FGCU professors about issues raised in the film and the challenges we face in Southwest Florida when it comes to adapting to our changing climate. Chris talked about the challenges NOVA faces in communicating science to a broad audience, and Dr. Win Everham and Dr. Molly Nation helped tie it al...
2025-04-21
29 min
Three Song Stories
Episode 372 - Bill Bowen
Bill Bowen is a singer/songwriter/computer engineer who grew up in Fort Myers but headed off to New York City in the 90s, in part to live the big city life and in part to be able to see Moxy Früvous shows. Bill is also the former roommate and Foosball partner of WGCU’s own Mike Kiniry. SONG 1: "Garden Party" released in 1972 by Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band on the album of the same name. 3:45 https://youtu.be/1JK0Z6IdLF4?si=Ehx5EuV6wmldcnhw SONG 2: "The Drinking Song" by Moxy...
2025-04-21
2h 20
Gulf Coast Life
FGCU ROCK of Ages initiative builds intergenerational bridges through visual storytelling
A group of FGCU students is working on a project focused on addressing the loneliness epidemic amongst our senior citizen and Gen Z populations, while promoting more kindness and compassion through storytelling. The ROCK of Ages initiative seeks to address social isolation amongst older people, and diminished in-person social skills amongst younger people, by pairing students with older people to share stories, on camera, to build bridges between generations and create transformative experiences that hopefully create ripple effects of social change.
2025-04-16
29 min
Gulf Coast Life
Getting to know the world around you with Dr. Jerry Jackson
Dr. Jerry Jackson is known to WGCU listeners as the creator and host of With the Wild Things, heard weekday mornings at 7:19 and weekday afternoons at 5:18. He’s a professor emeritus of Ecological Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University, and a professor emeritus at Mississippi State University. Nick Penniman is a retired newspaper publisher, and he is chair emeritus of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida and a Florida Master Naturalist. He and Dr. Jackson gave a talk together at Florida Gulf Coast University last week as part of the school’s Provost’s Seminar Series titled Getting to Know the World...
2025-04-15
25 min
Gulf Coast Life
The art and evolving role of editorial cartoons with longtime cartoonist Doug MacGregor
Doug MacGregor has been an editorial cartoonist for more than 40 years. He got his professional start at the Norwich Bulletin in eastern Connecticut in 1980. He moved to Florida in 1988 and drew cartoons for the News Press in Fort Myers until 2011. Doug created five cartoons every week, year in and year out, for nearly a quarter century. He has donated a large collection of his original drawings (mostly pertaining to the local environment) to Florida Gulf Coast University’s “Archives & Special Collections” at the school’s Wilson G. Bradshaw Library and students have completed the process of digitizing them and the team at...
2025-04-14
26 min
Gulf Coast Life
'Java the Hutts' robotics team heads to World Championship
A local FTC robotics team called Java the Hutts is heading to Houston next week to compete in the FIRST World Championship. Java the Hutts has been a team for eight years, with students from across Southwest Florida moving through program as some age out. This is the team’s third qualification to Worlds — they brought home the World Champion title once before in 2022. We talk with three of the Java the Hutt team members to learn about their team, the FIRST competitions, and how engaging with robotics is helping them prepare for the world ahead.
2025-04-09
24 min
Gulf Coast Life
Stargazing and nurturing nature at the Calusa Nature Center & Planetarium
Over the decades, the nonprofit Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium has introduced countless people of all ages to the natural world, and the cosmos, through educational programs. Their 105-acre site features a natural history museum with live native and teaching animals, a butterfly garden and raptor aviary, as well as exhibits about the animals, plants, and environment of Southwest Florida. And they host events like music under the stars, paint and sips, night hikes, summer camps, and even an event called Potter in the Park. We sat down in their planetarium on a Saturday morning to shine some light on...
2025-04-09
28 min
Gulf Coast Life
Florida Legislative Session midpoint check-in
At the halfway point of Florida’s 2025 Legislative Session, the state House and Senate are poised, this week to take up their budget proposals. We’ll check in with a panel of political scientists for a look at which legislative proposals are advancing, which are headed for defeat, and what it all means for Floridians going forward.
2025-04-07
29 min
Gulf Coast Life
Encore: Marcia Williams reflects on son's disappearance. He was last seen with a CCSO deputy 20 years ago
Two decades ago two young men disappeared in Naples under mysterious circumstances. Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos were both last seen with the same Collier County Sheriff’s deputy, Steven Calkins. They were both men of color in their 20s. And they were both last seen in Deputy Calkins’ patrol car. Deputy Calkins was fired after his story changed when questioned. He denied wrongdoing. He’s the only person of interest in the cases, but law enforcement never found evidence against him.
2025-04-01
29 min
Gulf Coast Life
The future of space exploration & missions to the Moon
The Apollo 11 lunar module, nicknamed "Eagle," landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Our guest today was part of the team that got it there. Ed Grace was a Principal Engineer at the MIT Instrumentation/Draper Laboratory. They designed the inertial navigation system and computer software used to control the Apollo command and lunar modules. Ed was in a backup mission control room when the Eagle landed.
2025-03-31
29 min
Gulf Coast Life
The challenges of ensuring 'Frontier' AI models are safe & beneficial to humans
Frontier AI Models are the ones that are highly capable and best represent advancements in language processing, reasoning, and multimodal capabilities. They are on the cutting edge of AI development. Many experts warn Frontier Models could potentially pose risks to public safety, and could have dangerous capabilities. The Frontier Model Forum is an industry-supported non-profit focused on addressing these significant risks to public safety and even national security. Its members currently include Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. Its core mandates are to identify best practices and support standards development, and to advance science and independent research in the...
2025-03-26
31 min
Gulf Coast Life
ACLU of Florida Executive Director, Bacardi Jackson
Bacardi Jackson took over the role of Executive Director of the ACLU of Florida in May of 2024. Prior to joining the 60-year-old organization, Jackson was deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Democracy: Education and Youth” advocacy and litigation team, where she led efforts to stop the school-to-prison pipeline and to ensure equitable access to mental health services and high-quality public education in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi. We talk about the work the ACLU of Florida is focusing on now, as the executives, both here in Florida and at the federal level, are exerting their execut...
2025-03-24
30 min
Gulf Coast Life
Agribusiness in Southwest Florida: The Next 25 Years
Southwest Florida is a great place to produce food and other ag products — but only if growers are able to remain profitable. In order to assess what local growers and producers think about the future of Southwest Florida’s agriculture industry, Florida Gulf Coast University’s Center for Agribusiness recently wrapped up a large study titled “Agribusiness in Southwest Florida: The Next 25 years.” A team of researchers conducted in-depth interviews with representatives from 30 local farm operations and compiled what they found in the new report. We talk with the study’s three co-authors to get an overview of what came out of those...
2025-03-19
35 min
Gulf Coast Life
What is the 'Global South' and the U.S. disengagement from the international community
Since President Trump returned to the White House in January his administration has undertaken a number of actions that seem to signify a retreat from international support and cooperation, and reflect a broader shift toward prioritizing domestic interests over international collaboration, fundamentally altering the United States' traditional role in global affairs. Our guest's work focuses on issues that intersect with what’s been unfolding on a number of levels. Dr. Andrew Rosenberg is an Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Methodology at University of Florida. His 2022 book “Undesirable Immigrants: Why Racism Persists in International Migration” focuses on the politics of int...
2025-03-17
25 min
Gulf Coast Life
Political scientist explores how minority parties in Congress are able to wield political power
We talk with a political scientist who has been collaborating on a project to explore how minority parties are able to accomplish their goals. Dr. Andrew Ballard is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Florida State University. His forthcoming book distills research that he, and his co-author have been doing that looks at U.S. Congressional power dynamics in history to see just how minority parties approach getting their goals into legislation, or in some cases obstruct the majority party’s efforts.
2025-03-12
29 min
Gulf Coast Life
Author of “The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea” reflects on recent name change & the Gulf's history and future
2025-03-10
29 min
Graymalkin Lane the podcast
Giant-Size X-Men 1: Second Genesis Script Reading! Plus a tribute to Len Wein with Mike Carlin and Terry Kavanagh!
It's an All-New, All-Different Graymalkin Lane, and we open with a massive script reading of the single most famous X-Men comic of all time! New logo, new song, new format!With Chad Anderson as your narrator, Seth Martel as Cyclops, Alicia Wilder as Marvel Girl, Scott Free as Iceman, Andre Mason as Angel, Justin Wilder as Professor X, Justin Kosmic as Havok, Isabel Dieppa as Lorna Dane, Arturo Rojas as Wolverine, Harum Scarum as Storm, Kevin Kiniry as Nightcrawler, Phillip Sevy as Colossus, Justin Park as Sunfire, Sean Beveridge as Banshee, Scotty White as Thunderbird, and Taylor...
2025-01-06
1h 51
Three Song Stories
Episode 354 - Dr. Joe Kiniry
Dr. Joe Kiniry (Mike's big brother) - is a Principal Scientist at a Portland, Oregon-based technology company called Galois. He’s also the Principled CEO and Chief Scientist of a Galois spin-out company called Free & Fair that works on high-assurance election technologies and services. Prior to joining Galois in 2014, Joe was a Full Professor at the Technical University of Denmark where he headed up the Software Engineering section. He also held a guest appointment at the IT University of Copenhagen, and has held permanent positions at four universities in Denmark, Ireland, and The Netherlands. Joe holds five ad...
2024-12-16
1h 38
Lyrics To Go
121 - Can't Stand Losing You
For the penultimate episode of Policepril, we get ultra-incel with the emotionally manipulative Can't Stand Losing You. And this time.... we brought a friend! Mike Kiniry joins us to take a deep hard look at this one. A pop hit about making someone feel bad for breaking up with you by killing yourself? Sure... why not?Special Guest: Mike Kiniry.
2023-04-17
1h 07
The Razzle Dazzle Show
Episode 82: Delta Series Ep 8 - Razzle Dazzle/3 Song Stories Crossover
Join us on this very special episode featuring the hosts of 3 Song Stories, Mike Kiniry and Richard Chin Quee!! On this episode we compare and contrast the generational differences of how we consume our media! Hosts: Jared Gonzalez, Patrick Pereira. Guest Stars: Mike Kiniry, Richard Chin Quee. Editor: Joseph Hall. Graphics Editor: Giselle Caruso. Digital Media Editor: Patience Cole. Producer: Jared Gonzalez.
2021-08-30
2h 06
Travel Tales with Mike Siegel
Laura Kiniry
Want to be a travel writer, or ever wonder how someone becomes one? Laura Kiniry tells her story about traveling the world and getting paid for it.
2014-08-05
50 min
BigMx Radio
Regina Post Race Interviews
For those who didn't make it out to the Regina national last weekend these are some thoughts on a the weekend of mud! Mike Alessi, Vince,Friese, Teddy Maier, Austin Politelli's Mechanic Hoody, Adam Pfeiffer, Bobby Kiniry, Kaven Benoit, Shawn Maffenbeire, Kyle Swanson and Ryan Millar!! Check this out!!
2014-06-30
00 min