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114. Alex Jochim and Zach Schmieder on 10 Years of BFF and What to Expect at Petfest
You may or may not know that this show began as a series of live conversations in Benson, before transitioning into a podcast that was recorded at Petshop for almost a year. Petshop is the headquarters for BFF, also known as Benson First Friday, which is
113. Matthew Wurstner on Nebraska's Tax Climate and Why You Should Care
Matthew Wurstner returns to discuss everyone’s favorite subject: taxes. Earlier this year, the Nebraska State Legislature passed what Governor Ricketts called the biggest tax relief measures in Nebraska history. Taxes come up a lot here in assessing quali
112. OPS School Board Candidate Bri Full on Ensuring a Stable, Successful Future for Omaha Education
Bri Full is a candidate for the Omaha Public School Board to represent Subdistrict 2. Full is an active community organizer and policy advisor at the Nebraska State Legislature. On today's show, Full discusses what she believes OPS should do following a m
111. Joe Pera Talks with Tom
Joe Pera is an comedian, actor, and the creator of the beloved Adult Swim show Joe Pera Talks with You, which just aired its third and final season and is available for streaming on HBO Max. Adult Swim is known for mature, crude programming, so Joe Pera i
110. Filmmaker Dan Mirvish on ‘18 ½’ and the Legacy of Watergate
Dan Mirvish is an award winning filmmaker and co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival. His films include Omaha The Movie, Open House, Between Us, and Bernard and Huey. His new film is 18 ½, a Watergate thriller and dark comedy starring Willa Fitzgerald
109. Eileen Wirth on 'The Women Who Built Omaha' and the Stability of Progress
Eileen Wirth is professor emeritus of journalism at Creighton University and the author of several books including From Society to Front Page: Nebraska Women in Journalism and A History Lover’s Guide to Omaha. Her latest book is The Women Who Built Omaha:
108. Erik Larson on Processing the Present Through History and His New Ghost Story 'No One Goes Alone'
Erik Larson is the author of bestselling historical nonfiction like The Devil in the White City, The Splendid and the Vile, and In the Garden of Beasts. Today he discusses how he uses history to process his anxieties about the present and what made him tu
107. Actor/Writer Katie Otten on Her Series 'Inner Worlds' and the Appeal of Personas
Katie Otten is an actor and writer who has worked with just about every local filmmaker and has just launched her first web series called Inner Worlds, which follows a series of friends who engage in a tabletop roleplaying game of the same name. Otten cre
106. Ross Benes Assesses the Strength of the Nebraska Republican Party in 2022 in the Wake of Infighting, Indictments, and Scandals
Ross Benes wrote the 2021 book Rural Rebellion: How Nebraska Became a Republican Stronghold in which he diagnoses “a gradual shift in the types of candidates we elect to our state legislature and the US Congress." He argues that "[t]he accumulative change
105. Randy Nogg on 'Reefer Madness 2' and Bringing Hollywood to the Heartland
Randy Nogg currently runs the talent agency Actors Etc. Limited and its entertainment division Theater-To-Go. He previously lived in LA where he produced the film Reefer Madness 2, which is now available on Amazon Video, before returning to Omaha to bring