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Bay Composer Podcasts
The audio side of DamnInteresting.com: Legitimately intriguing true stories from history, science, and psychology. Audiobook-like narration with sound effects and music.
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2 Close 2 the Sun : art obsessions
Host - Elizabeth Sher. featuring gallery artists from Mercury 20 Gallery and outside curators, experts, influencers, collectors
Artist and filmmaker ElizabethSher hostd a popup podcast from Mercury 20 Gallery in Oakland, CA's arts district an artist run gallery for 17 years with 21 members from the Bay Area. Each podcast will feature a different topic with gallery artists and outside experts, curators and influencers.
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Letters to Italy by Sara Marinelli is an eighth-part series about the impact of Covid-19 on Italian immigrants in the Bay Area. How did Italian expats feel when they received news of their country being the epicenter of the pandemic in the Western world, and how did it affect their distant relationship to home? At the intersection of personal memoir and documentary, each episode features conversations with an Italian expat to hear how the pandemic reshaped their life in the U.S., and how the ...
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A series of in-depth conversations between video game makers on the business and craft of interactive entertainment.
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Stefan Aronsen has been promoting the San Francisco music scene for more than 10 years. He has leveraged everything from photography, blogs, survival guides, and podcasting to his current project Balanced Breakfast. He continues to connect music industry professionals in the Bay Area, as well as around the world. This podcast started as a collection of once lost interviews from Mutiny Radio in SF and has progressed to become what it is now, quick witty interviews with indie musicians.
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Veterans Corner Radio focuses on what those who have served in the military, and their families need to know to maximize the services and benefits due to them. No matter if you are currently serving or got out 50 years ago, this program will give you answers to questions you didn’t even know you should be asking. Among those who have been and will be sharing their knowledge are those from the Department of Defense (DOD), Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Benefits Administration, Natio ...
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Issues and Ideas is a show that features a wide variety of people sharing their thoughts and perspectives about local issues, initiatives and events on the Central Coast. You might hear a policy maker discussing new regulation, an artist sharing their creative process, an entrepreneur exploring sustainable business practices, or an author talking about her latest book.Our regular segments include: "Wine Country" with wine journalist and author Mira Honeycutt; literary conversations on "Bookw ...
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Jamie McPherson from the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay
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28:25United States Marine Corps Veteran Jamie McPherson joins us today in his position as Veteran Ambassador of the nationwide veteran support non-profit organization called the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay headquartered in Tampa, Florida. Learn about the resources they provide, how they remain funded, and how one may obtain employment with them. Our libr…
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A would-be priest's audacious plan to win his money back from the bookmakersBy Damn Interesting
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Chilled red wines, Cal Poly cats, and two poets laureate
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57:14Wine Country's Mira Honeycutt explores the fascinating world of chillable reds. Then Celeste Geary's guests from the Cal Poly Cat Program share unexpected insights about cat adoption and finding a good, furry match. Lastly, we'll revisit a favorite conversation from January 2025 when San Luis Obispo County Poet Laureate Caleb Nichols interviewed Ca…
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Richard V. Gilbert, Sergeant, United States Marine Corp, Retired.
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31:52Today we'll meet Retired United States Marine Corps Sergeant and two-time Operation Iraqi Freedom Combat Veteran Richard V. Gilbert. Sergeant Gilbert participated in Operation Phantom Fury also known as the Second Battle of Fallujah which began on November 13th, 2004. He is included in Retired United States Marine Corps Sergeant Major and Navy Cros…
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Escape From Tarkov and the Creation of Extraction Shooters with Nikita Buyanov
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1:26:09Log in to your account at www.escapefromtarkov.com and redeem the code NIKITAONGMNPODCAST to receive a special gift from Battlestate Games. Trent Kusters chats with Nikita Buyanov, the COO, Founder, and Game Director at Battlestate Games, creators of Escape From Tarkov. Together they discuss his journey in games to the founding of Battlestate Games…
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Chris Wellington, Employment Specialist and Veteran Advocate, The Vocation Depot, Inc.
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26:46The Vocation Depot Inc is a Florida-based vendor of the federal organization Vocational Rehabilitation. In this episode we learn from Retired Combat Veteran United States Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Chris Wellington how The Vocation Depot works to assist disabled veterans to transition to an accommodating work center. Our library of shows can b…
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Creating a Modern but Retro Immersive Sim in Skin Deep
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1:44:01Trent Kusters chats with Brendon Chung, Tynan Wales, and Suzanne Will about their immersive first-person shooter, Skin Deep. Together they discuss the inspiration for Skin Deep and how it evolved from it's original design; their desire to create an accessible entry point for the immersive sim genre; their ideas around level design and player guidan…
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Showers for the unhoused, Greek wines in Paso, and a local protest against Chevron for its ties to Israel
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57:36We start this episode with The Nonprofit Story with Dr. Consuelo Meux, where she speaks with Garry Peterson from the nonprofit Shower the People about the impact that showers have on the lives of the homeless community on the Central Coast. Then, for Wine Country, journalist and author Mira Honeycutt talks to James and Manoli Boutzoukas of Boutz Ce…
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Former United States Army Sergeant, Infantryman, and combat veteran, Travis Bickford
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25:03Sergeant Bickford served both on active duty and in the reserves from 1999 through 2006. His time in the Army brought him to Germany as well as to a deployment to Iraq. He returned stateside after Iraq, got out of the Army, attended university and through a series of one-of-a-kind experiences is now the Head of Communications and Programs for The L…
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The Many Roles of Actor Alex Jordan on The Alters
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1:17:36Alexa Ray Corriea chats with actor Alex Jordan who most recently starred in the sci-fi survival game, The Alters. Together they discuss his journey as an actor and his work in video games; the unique opportunity The Alters provided due to it's premise revolving around clones; how he worked with the development team to find a distinct voice for each…
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Ian Gindes, Executive Producer and Patrick Zimmerli, Composer, Letters from the Front
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29:11| Today we Vet-roduce a project in development called "Letters from the Front" in which lines from letters sent home by military members at war to their loved ones are transformed into lyrics set to contemporary classical compositions. We meet "Letters from the Front" Executive Producer Ian Gindes who is also a Major in the Illinois Army National G…
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Creating the Music for Doom: The Dark Ages with Composer Duo, Finishing Move
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2:10:04Austin Wintory chats with Brian Trifon and Brian Lee White from the award winning music composition and sound design team, Finishing Move Inc. Together they discuss their history in music and what led them to games; why they began collaborating on game scores and the advantages that brings; how they tackled a massive franchise with set audience exp…
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Retired US Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Chris Wellington
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23:24For this episode we meet with Retired Combat Veteran United States Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Chris Wellington. Enjoy the show as we learn about what it takes to be a member of the Coast Guard. Also, learn about this unique Coast Guard member's experience as a combat veteran. Our library of shows can be found at www.veteranscornerradio.com Joi…
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How Ray Chase went from Actor to Game Developer with Date Everything
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1:28:46Alexa Ray Corriea chats with actor Ray Chase about his first project as a game developer, Date Everything. Together they discuss his memorable work as the voice behind many of our favorite characters and why he decided to try his hand at development; where the idea to date household objects came from; how they managed to write dialogue for 100+ dat…
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Fr. Ian finds out why Spirulina is the future, poet Dian Sousa talks about why she is lovingly afraid of the sea, and composer and winemaker Brook Monroe demonstrates how he turns wine into music
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58:20For Playing with Food, KCBX's Fr. Ian Delinger travels to southern San Luis Obispo County to talk to algae farmers and find out how one particular algae—Spirulina—is made, and why it is considered a complete health food. Then, KCBX's Meher Ali is in conversation with poet and activist Dian Sousa about poetry, the necessity of work, her immigrant pa…
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Retired US Navy Lieutenant, Bruce Johnson
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27:36For this episode of Veterans Corner Radio we meet with former United States Navy Lieutenant fighter pilot and combat veteran of the Vietnam War, Bruce Johnson. Listen to his quintessential all-American upbringing in Michigan through the 1950s through his high school graduation as Valedictorian. Then he was off for an Ivy League education at Brown U…
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How Moonhood Handcrafted The Midnight Walk with Real Claymation
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2:07:42Trent Kusters chats Klaus Lyngeled and Olov Redmalm from Moonhood, who recently released the handcrafted cozy horror game, The Midnight Walk. Together they discuss their early careers and how they found themselves working together and eventually co-founding their own studio; their previous work on titles such as Fe and Lost and Random and how that …
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Author Kevin Carver on his debut novel, "The Forbidden Parallel," a nonprofit that provides mental health support for those impacted by cancer, and how the Sierra Club's local chapter supported the designation ...
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59:16For Bookwaves, Brian Reynolds speaks with local author and musician Kevin Carver, about his debut fantasy novel “The Forbidden Parallel“ that he has released alongside an album of the same name. Also, for The Nonprofit Story, Dr. Consuelo Meux talks with Candace Galli, Executive Director of the Cancer Support Community, about the reason why her non…
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World War II Veteran, Retired US Army Corporal, Harry Demenza
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25:50Corporal Demenza grew up in Tampa, Florida. He enlisted in the US Army and went through training to be in the Infantry. A unique pre-service course on drafting however, changed how he would serve. As a result, he found himself in Japan as the war came to a close and became part of the effort to redistribute assets deployed on behalf of the US milit…
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How Two Studios Brought LEGO Horizon Adventures to Life
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1:43:54Trent Kusters chats with Stéphane Varrault from Guerrilla Games and Xu Xiaojun from Studio Gobo about their collaborative work on LEGO® Horizon Adventures. Together they discuss how their two studios worked together on bringing Aloy's adventures to the LEGO® universe; what it takes to appeal to a younger audience; how they designed the game to focu…
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A deep-dive into SLO County's biggest summer music festival: Festival Mozaic
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58:42Every summer in venues throughout San Luis Obispo County, Festival Mozaic presents chamber music, orchestral music, and some non-classical genres such as folk, bluegrass, world music and more. The festival presents free community concerts, ticketed concerts, educational opportunities, and even a children's concert. Listen as Marisa Waddell talks wi…
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World War II Veteran, Captain Lloyd Grable, United States Army, Retired
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26:03In celebration of our nation's 249th birthday, we continue this series of Veterviews with another World War II vet, U.S. Army Captain Lloyd Grable. Captain Grable grew up in San Francisco, California. When World War II broke out, he enlisted in the US Army and was selected early for a commission as an officer. As the war came to a close following t…
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Uncovering the Secrets Behind Bionic Bay with Creator Juhana Myllys
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1:31:13Adam Orth chats with Juhana Myllys, creator of physics based platformer Bionic Bay. Together they discuss how he identifies great ideas and where he finds inspiration; the early designs and concept art that led to the development of Bionic Bay; designing the core gameplay such as the swap mechanic and platforming; and creating a visual language tha…
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On The Air with Her Dark Heaven – Live from SxSW 2025
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21:52Recorded live at the Balanced BreakFEST showcase during SxSW 2025 in Austin, Texas, this special episode features Her Dark Heaven, an indie rock band from New York City. Known for their atmospheric, synth-driven sound and bold aesthetic, Her Dark Heaven discusses their creative process, the journey to performing at SxSW, and how they channel person…
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Reflecting on the 'No Kings' protests in San Luis Obispo County, making sparkling wine with Rava Wines, and the lineup for the upcoming Cuesta College Central Coast Writers' Conference
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56:39Rosie Bultman, News Director at KCSB, UC Santa Barbara's student-run radio station, joins us with a brand new segment called "Standing-in-Courage." She speaks about the No Kings protests with her first guest, Linda Baker, organizer for the protests in San Luis Obispo County. For Wine Country, host Mira Honeycutt talks to Sherrie Holzer, winemaker o…
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World War II Combat Veteran,Private First Class George Tamburello, US Army, Retired
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45:25For this episode of the podcast, we'll meet 101 years young, World War II wounded combat veteran, Private First Class George Tamburello whose exploits have also been captured in his book "George Tamburello - One Soldier's Story" by Darryl James. Let's listen in to this member of our Greatest Generation. Our library of shows can be found at www.vete…
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Creating the Music for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 with Composer Lorien Testard
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1:16:07Austin Wintory chats with Lorien Testard, the composer for Sandfall Interactive's debut hit RPG, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Together they discuss his background in music theory and how he connected with Sandfall; working with singer Alice Duport-Percier to create the vocal pieces; creating a soundtrack with diverse sounds that keeps a unified vis…
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