Best Brian Doney Podcasts (2025)

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5_06 Tim Allender - Empire Religiosity (Part 2 of 2) 38:40

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In this two-part instalment of Passing Notes Oliver Mumford is joined by Professor Tim Allender of the University of Sydney to discuss his award-winning book Empire Religiosity: Convent habits in colonial and postcolonial India. Professor Allender’s research considers how the Loreto Sisters - Roman Catholic female missionaries - operated in colonia…

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5_05 Tim Allender - Empire Religiosity (Part 1 of 2) 31:46

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In this two-part instalment of Passing Notes Oliver Mumford is joined by Professor Tim Allender of the University of Sydney to discuss his award-winning book Empire Religiosity: Convent habits in colonial and postcolonial India. Professor Allender’s research considers how the Loreto Sisters - Roman Catholic female missionaries - operated in colonia…

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5_04 Jonathan Doney - Policies of Instrumentalization in English Religious Education 47:34

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In this episode Oliver Mumford is joined by Dr Jonathan Doney from the University of Exeter to discuss Dr Doney's book: Unearthing Policies of Instrumentalization in English Religious Education Using Statement Archaeology. The book was awarded the 2023 Kevin Brehony Prize by the History of Education. Dr Doney discusses the origins, purpose and meth…

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5_03 Gary McCulloch - Brian Simon and the Struggle for Education 49:43

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Professor Gary McCulloch joins Oliver Mumford to discuss the life and work of Brian Simon, following Professor McCulloch’s recent biography of Brian Simon, authored with Antonio F. Canales and Hsiao-Yuh Ku. The episode explores the life of Brian Simon through his family life and educational experiences, his political engagement and beliefs, campaig…

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5_02 Anne Swift - The National Education Museum 26:08

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In this episode Oliver Mumford speaks with the Chair of Trustees at the National Education Museum, Anne Swift. Anne discusses the ideas behind the Museum's foundation, its development, and future. The significance of a new national museum, dedicated to the history of education in England and Wales is considered along with its current relevance. Not…

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5_01 Rosalind Crone - Illiterate Inmates: Educating Criminals in Nineteenth Century England 56:10

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In this episode Professor Rosalind Crone of the Open University joins Oliver Mumford to discuss her book Illiterate Inmates: Educating Criminals in Nineteenth Century England. The book was awarded the 2023 Anne Bloomfield Prize by the History of Education Society UK, and examines the development, rise, and decline of prison education in England bet…

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4_01 Catherine Lee Legacies of Section 28 53:59

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Professor Catherine Lee of Anglia Ruskin University in conversation with Syeda Ali about her research into Section of the Local Government Act which was passed in the UK in 1988. The law prohibited the 'promotion' of 'homosexuality' by local authorities in state schools and was the first anti gay-propaganda law. Lee reflects on her time as teacher …

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3_02 Johannes Westberg - Bright Nordic Lights, A revitalized interdisciplinary history of education in the massified higher education of the Nordics 20:24

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To accompany the 50th Anniversary special edition of the History of Education Journal, we spoke to some of the contributors. These podcasts focus on two of the themes in the journal: Geographical historiographies of education and Thematic intersections with the history of education. Episode 2- Geography In this episode, Johannes Westberg, Professor…

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3_03 Laura Newman - Bodies of Knowledge: Historians, Health, and Education 32:32

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To accompany the 50th Anniversary special edition of the History of Education Journal, we spoke to some of the contributors. These podcasts focus on two of the themes in the journal: Geographical historiographies of education and Thematic intersections with the history of education. Episode 3 - Intersections: Histories of Medicine and Health In thi…

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3_04 Roland Wittje - Relocating Education in the History of Science and Technology 28:04

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To accompany the 50th Anniversary special edition of the History of Education Journal, we spoke to some of the contributors. These podcasts focus on two of the themes in the journal: Geographical historiographies of education and Thematic intersections with the history of education. Episode 4 - Intersections: Histories of Science and Technology In …

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3_01 Desmond Ikenna Odugu - Education in Africa: A Critical Historiographic Review 51:42

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To accompany the 50th Anniversary special edition of the History of Education Journal, we spoke to some of the contributors. These podcasts focus on two of the themes in the journal: Geographical historiographies of education and Thematic intersections with the history of education. Episode 1 - Geography In this episode, Desmond Ikenna Odugu, Assoc…

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2.12 - Performance Nineteenth Century Jesuit Schools with Michael Zampelli, SJ 40:44

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We’re back today with our second of three episodes looking at the performing arts in education. In this episode, we move forward to the nineteenth century to look at theatre in Jesuit schools in the United States. My guest this week, who will walk us through this history, is Michael Zampelli, SJ. Michael is a theatre director and historian at Fordh…

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2.11 - Performance in Early Modern Schools with Amanda Eubanks Winkler 33:10

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For our next few episodes, we’re going to turn to performance and look at how music, theatre and dance have intersected with education in the past. Our stop will be in early modern England, where Dr Amanda Eubanks Winkler will be our guide to performance in the schoolroom. Amanda is a historian of English music in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and t…

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2.10 - Time and Community in Medieval Schools with Sarah Lynch 17:19

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We're excited to share a special guest episode today from our colleagues at HEQ&A, the official podcast of History of Education Quarterly. They have an outstanding archive of episodes, but given the interdisciplinary focus of this season, today I thought we’d share an interview they did with Sarah Lynch, where she discusses her most recent article,…

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2.9 - The history of knowledge with Tamson Pietsch and Joel Barnes (Replay) 29:08

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I'm taking a few weeks off this summer to work on my dissertation, so instead of new episodes we'll be sharing some of our favorite interviews from the archive. We'll also have some guest episodes from other history of education podcasts. In today's episode, Bethany White speaks to Dr. Tamson Pietsch and Dr. Joel Barnes about their work on the conn…

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2.8 - International Education in Australia with Anna Kent 21:18

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Continuing our exploration of international student experiences, this episode we move to the other side of the world and examine the experience of overseas students in Australia. Beginning in 1948, Australia offered a number of different scholarship programmes targeted at students from Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. To guide us through the…

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2.7 - Differential Fees for Overseas Students with Jodi Burkett 31:46

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The half a million international students studying in the UK are heirs to a complex legacy of overseas students studying in Britain. From medieval scholars traveling between Oxford and Paris, medical students traveling to Edinburgh, Indian students coming over in the late 19th century, or Chinese students studying in London today – politics and edu…

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2.6 - Networks of Empire with Brianna Lafoon 18:56

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Today’s conversation picks up on the discussion of American imperial education from our last episode. I speak with Brianna Lafoon, who researches the education networks that formed within and between the mainland United States and its colonial holdings. We discuss how these networks operated, the practices and ideas they spread, and how an imperial…

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2.5 - Empire & Education in the Philippines with Funie Hsu and Malini Johar Schueller 40:26

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In today's episode, I was lucky enough to speak with not one but two researchers! Both Funie Hsu and Malini Johar Schueller look at the role of race and racialisation in shaping education policy during the American occupation of the Philippines. Our discussion focuses on the introduction of compulsory, English-language education, the role that conc…

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2.4 - Holocaust Education in Britain with Daniel Adamson 18:32

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In today’s episode, we continue our series on graduate student research with an interview with Daniel Adamson. We discuss Daniel’s research on how the British response to the Holocaust is represented in schools and museums, as well as how Daniel uses approaches from memory studies to information his research. Daniel Adamson is a PhD student at Durh…

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2.3 - Technology & The Historian with Adam Crymble 35:14

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On today’s episode, we speak with Adam Crymble about his new book, Technology and the Historian, which looks at the history and development of digital history as a discipline in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. Adam’s book focuses on the (longer than you might expect) history of using computers to do historical research and the dif…

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2.2 - Gender & Sexuality in American Public Schools with Rachel Rosenberg 18:18

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As part of our commitment to sharing the work of graduate students and early-career researchers, one episode a month of Passing Notes will highlight the work of one of these scholars working in the history of education. Today’s episode is a conversation with Rachel Rosenberg about her dissertation research, which examines the policy of gender and s…

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2.1 - Distance Education in the Eighteenth Century with Rachel Bynoth 39:08

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For our first episode of the season, we talk with Rachel Bynoth about distance education in the late-eighteenth century and how using the dual lens of gender and emotions can help us better understand educational processes. We focus on Rachel's recent article in History, A Mother Educating her Daughter Remotely through Familial Correspondence: The …

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Season 2: Passing Notes 2:20

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Did you ever got caught passing notes in class? I definitely did. Welcome to Passing Notes - Season 2 of the History of Education Society’s podcast. In this season, we’re going to talk with the people who have kept passing notes. Each episode you’ll hear from historians of education and other scholars whose research intersects with the field in exc…

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05. A Cultural History of Education book series with Gary McCulloch and Heather Ellis 31:58

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This month we were joined by Professor Gary McCulloch and Dr. Heather Ellis to talk about the new book series, A Cultural History of Education, which is out now from Bloomsbury. Spanning thousands of years, from antiquity to present day, this ambitious new series takes a thematic approach to the cultural history of education. It traces themes such …

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04. The history of computer education and the European digital agenda with Carmen Flury and Rosalía Guerrero 38:08

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For this month's episode we were joined by Carmen Flury and Dr. Rosalía Guerrero to talk about their research into computer education in Europe, as part of the project 'Education and the European Digital Agenda: Switzerland, Germany and Sweden after 1970', based at the University of Zurich. We explore how computer education emerged in Sweden and Ea…

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03. Public history, educational history and historical representations of the Holocaust with Nicholas K. Johnson 22:49

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This month we spoke to Nicholas K. Johnson from the Center for German-American Educational History at the University of Münster about a new edited volume, Show, Don't Tell. Education and historical representations on stage and screen in Germany and the USA. Our wide-ranging discussion touches on the definitions and uses of public history; transatla…

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02. The history of knowledge and the history of education with Tamson Pietsch and Joel Barnes 27:55

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To kick off 2021 we're joined by Dr. Tamson Pietsch and Dr. Joel Barnes to talk about their work on the connections--and tensions--between the fields of the history of knowledge and the history of education. We discuss how the focus and methods of the history of knowledge can help us think through how knowledge is produced and legitimated; understa…

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01. Commemorating the 1870 Education Act with Professor Jane Martin 35:53

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To launch the History of Education Society UK's brand new podcast during this year's virtual conference, we spoke to Professor Jane Martin about the 150th anniversary of the 1870 Education Act. We talk about how and why the Act emerged; its connections to early socialist and feminist movements; the impact of the Act on working-class children and gi…

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Episode 41 – Wonder Doug

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After years of writing jokes about kitties and titties, the doom cloud of Columbus comedy recorded his first CD at the Short North Stage. This interview was before his CD recording on April 1st, but Roller Coaster is available for download everywhere, and you can get a sneak peak just before the interview starts. Buy Wonder Doug’s Roller Coaster to…

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Live at the Columbus Podcast Festival Episode 40 – Zach Hannah

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This episode was recorded live at the first Columbus Podcast Festival. Zach Hannah, a local poet, performs two original pieces; the Zen Guide to Masturbation and Karate. Zach then joins Brian in a discussion about poetry writing and performing before closing out the first night of the CPF. The Columbus Podcast festival was successful in raising $1,…

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Episode 39 – Jump into Spring

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Brian interviews Todd Rector and Briden Schueren from BrickBox studios about their Jump into Spring art gallery. The purpose of which is for artists to come out of hibernation and present their first big work of the year. Todd and Briden share their own art gallery experiences discuss how difficult it can be to finish your art for them. Come check …

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Episode 38 – Katlin McFee & Candice Connor

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During the Have You Seen My Mom? tour, Brian and Amber met Katlin and Candice on a Rocketship Comedy show in Indianapolis. After hanging out at the show Brian and Amber came over for a day to podcast that ultimately a forged a new friendship. They discuss the Indianapolis comedy scene, sketch writing, and podcasting. Go see Kaitlin perform at Littl…

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Episode 37 – Casey Ward

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Whether you know Casey from Electro Cult Circus or Oddfellows Oddities, there is no question that he is tapped into the creative scene in Columbus. He has dedicated his career to not only make good music but to make meaningful connections to support the performing artists across Columbus. Casey and Brian discuss their motivations to create and how …

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Episode 36 – Miller and The Hunks

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Brian’s thrilled to talk to Miller and The Hunks about their concept EP Would You Like to Yes? making music for their upcoming recording, and their next steps to breaking out in Columbus, and then the world! Find Miller and The Hunks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Listen to their music here. Miller and The Hunks will be at Lee’s Sports and Sp…

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Live! From Lundberg Industrial Arts Episode 35 – Dean Preston

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Can art exist in hell? Can art help you see past the worst mistake in your life? Is it possible to connect with the greatest rejects of society? In this live episode of the podcast, Brian talks on the phone with Dean Preston, an artist from the Marion Correctional Facility about the creative process inside the walls of hell. I’ll be at the Funny St…

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Episode 34 – Silence Is Death

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Silence is Death exhibition explores the social and political role of creatives to ignite change, empower the people, and challenge hatred in our community. Brian Doney talks to Dede Parker, a photographer, and contributor to the Silence is Death gallery about how photography opens up hearts, the role of nudity in art, and the importance of men to …

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Episode 33 – Brian Durkin

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Brian Durkin is a Philadelphia-based comic who shares Brian’s love for podcasting, producing, and stand up. The two talk in depth about open mics, writing, and getting your name out there. Brian Durkin is the creator of the Fully Belly Laughs podcast and website. Check out Full Belly Laughs for podcasts and humor articles here! There is also a Full…

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Episode 32 – Dark Love

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February 10th at the Vanderelli room is the 4th year of Dark Love. An art show that examines some of the most devious and dangerous methods we go through to get what we most desire. A.J. Vanderelli and Tona Pearson, curators and paritcipants in the Dark Love show, talk about the impact this show has had on new artists and how difficult it is to put…

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Episode 31 – Carlos Teel

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Carlos Teel is arguably one of the best joke writers in the city, he spends most of the year writing and doesn’t come out until his high standards are met. You’re going to hear all about Carlos’s writing habits as well as hear stories about the Columbus comedy scene from a decade ago. Please come out to Live Comedy and Open Painting on February 16t…

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Episode 30 – The Amazing Cat Show purr 2

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New year, old guest! The groundbreaking Amazing Cat Show returns to raise more money for Colony Cats by selling cat art. Hear about the results from last year’s show and what new, amazing cat related things we can expect this year. Tona Pearson, creator of the show, along with Chuck Willis, and Aaron Music discuss what the show means to the Frankli…

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Episode 29 – Luke Capasso

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Brian begins the interview asking Luke about writing new material since his CD recording. Luke then talks about his experiences starting out as a comedian in London and finding a niche audience with his YouTube channel. The comedians wrap up with how Luke is using hist talents to help the people of Standing Rock. Please buy Luke Capasso’s CD Talkin…

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Episode 28 – Jacob Huffstetler

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Jacob Huffstetler talks about his role on the Sounds of Bustown podcast and learning how to work with others in his band. They discuss the relationship between comedy and music. Jacob also reflects on his own decisions throughout his career as a local musician from high school marching band to Skashank Redemption. Listen to The Sounds Of Bustown Po…

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Episode 27 – My Mom’s Dead

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This special edition of What’s The Deal has guest Gavin Haab, a stranger, who listened to Brian’s debut album My Mom’s Dead. Gavin gives his honest review about the best and worst parts of the album which gives Brian a lot to think about before he starts his month long tour next week. My Mom’s Dead is now available on Amazon, Spotify, and CD Baby! …

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Episode 26 – The Hip Art Collective

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Brian gets a crash course in belly dancing from Athena, Lisa, and Mira founders of the hip art collective. They go over a lot about what belly dancing is traditionally, and how does a dancer go about crafting a new routine. The hip art collective explains it’s mission about welcoming dancers, creating new opportunities, and becoming a united commun…

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Episode 25 – The Nest Theatre

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The Improv scene has been a growing community in Columbus and now it’s about to get a little bigger. Tara DeFrancisco and Rance Rizzutto are both world class improvisers from Chicago that have decided to give Columbus talent a professional home stage. Tara and Rance discuss their beliefs as instructors and improvisors and what it takes to really le…

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Episode 24 – The Buckeye Standup Comedy Club

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Over the last six years Ohio State students have been getting together to tell jokes. They all start out learning with their weekly workshops and open mics, while some have ended up being finalists in the Columbus Funny Bone Competition, open for Dan St. Germain, and even be a part of the Arch City Comedy Festival. Listen to how some of the student…

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Episode 23 – Battle Blakes

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The world needs that guy to make fun, the guy that life just shits on, like George from Seinfeld, Meg from Family Guy, or Sweet Dee from Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Lucas Weese, creator of Battle Blakes, made a game inspired by that guy. Along with producers Nate and Ben, as well as special guest co-host Griffin Browning, Brian interviews Lucas a…

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Episode 22 – Colorful Columbus

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Ever thought about getting together to paint in the park? Painting and drinking at bars? Or even just have a party with tie dye shirts? Maybe not, but you probably want to now. All those ideas are actual events happening in Columbus over the next few weeks hosted by the new community arts organization Colorful Columbus. The mastermind behind the fu…

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Episode 21 – Blatant Finger

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Punk band Blatant Finger has a tight album Full On Empty but where do they go from there? What did they learn from this one to top themselves next time? Brian Doney asks these questions to band members Tom Barrett, Marc Cerana, Cary Aldridge, and Fred Sarginger. The conversation includes talking about their process on working together to create the…