Phonte Coleman is best known as a founding member of hip-hop group Little Brother, and as one of the co‑hosts of the podcast Questlove Supreme with Questlove. 

In the late 90s, Phonte met Thomas “Big Pooh” Jones and Patrick “9th Wonder” Douthit and they started making music together as the hip-hop collective, Justus League and released their first album The Listening in 2003. They changed their name to Little Brother and signed a record deal with Atlantic Records and released The Minstrel Show in 2005. They left Atlantic not long after and then released Getback in 2007 and Leftback in 2010, but then disbanded. 

Phonte and Big Pooh reunited in 2018 at the Art of Cool Festival and started working on the album May the Lord Watch which came out the following year. There’s a documentary called May the Lord Watch you can find online that tells their story, from founding to breakup to reunion. Their final tour which is underway now.

Phonte is also co-founder of the Grammy-nominated group The Foreign Exchange with Dutch producer Nicolay. They’ve put out six studio albums and several singles. 

SONG 1: “Think (About It)” by Lyn Collins from the 1972 album of the same name. 

https://youtu.be/vCByeJsq65M?si=e6yfkujwMOUfo5iz

SONG 2: “Word Play” by A Tribe Called Quest off their 1996 album Beats, Rhymes and Life.

https://youtu.be/LfWtkay3lEo?si=VnnVZE9s5eCZEx-p

SONG 3: Natalie Cole's “La Costa” released in 1977 on her album Thankful.

https://youtu.be/E1ckb_LDGnA?si=gqZpULJymfyKuCru

Joe Harley makes music under his moniker Hotel Life, which signed to 9 Lives Records in 2023. He began playing guitar in the Fort Myers bar scene in 1993 with a number of bands including Potato Gun and Strip Club Moms. Potato Gun played the official grand opening of FGCU in 1997.

Joe moved to St Pete in 2000 to be in an original rock band there and then moved back to Matlacha in 2002 where he got back into the local bar music scene and became a highly decorated saltwater fly fishing guide until Hurricane Ian disrupted and ended that for him in 2022.

He still lives on Matlacha and writing songs and playing solo acoustic gigs around the region.

SONG 1: "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell...it's the title track to his 1975 album...it was originally written and recorded by Larry Weiss the year before. https://youtu.be/6P7Sx2L0fVU?si=oVtzQW05JVk9cSLd

SONG 2: Cake's version of Gloria Gaynor's 1978 "I Will Survive" off their 1996 album Fashion Nugget. https://youtu.be/3VFOEa8K-6Q?si=4Be9P7PD3z7Gf6aT

SONG 3: "Sundowner" by Kevin Morby from the album of the same name released in 2020. https://youtu.be/OnwdbXwU4YE?si=kgjGe_heUIqTpwa_

Mickela Mallozzi is host and Executive Producer of Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi, a PBS travel series that showcases the diversity of dance from around the world

Mickela is a professional dancer and trained musician who had a dream in 2010 about travelling the world with a camera while dancing in the lives of everyday people. Since dreaming that dream she’s collected four Emmy Awards for the show in six seasons, with Season Seven set to release in May.

Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi airs Saturdays at 3:30 pm on WGCU TV, and also on WGCU Create. Check your local listings.

SONG 1: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) by Whitney Houston from her self-titled album Whitney released in 1987.

https://youtu.be/eH3giaIzONA?si=M2hvtneWRLI4qEPP

SONG 2: Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op 71 – Miniature Overture Conducted by Sir Simon Rattle with the Berliner Philharmoniker orchestra.

https://youtu.be/Us6YGiWbsbw?si=0lhzOJHOzUzDspEX

SONG 3: Nu te fermare - by Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino released in 2012 on the album Pizzica Indiavolata.

https://youtu.be/E-IfNJyxA8w?si=QlEdS9TFlnlQXkJo

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Scott Carter is Co-creator and Executive Producer Love & Respect with Killer Mike on PBS, and was a writer for Politically Incorrect hosted by Bill Maher on Comedy Central, and then writer and producer for Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO for its first 16 seasons.

Scott’s podcast Ye Gods! with Scott Carter launched in February of 2023. On it, he discusses personal faith and ethics with a diverse group of interfaith and non-faith celebrity guests to uncover what we believe and what we don’t. 

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Dr. Jonathan Harrison obtained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Leicester in the UK in 2006 and then migrated to Florida that same year. He has taught as an adjunct instructor since 2012 at FGCU, Florida Southwestern State University, and Hodges University. Jonathan has written extensively about segregation in Fort Myers and contributed to the WGCU documentary With a Made Up Mind, which explores the history of voter suppression in Southwest Florida.

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James Priestner is the frontman of the Canadian band Rare Americans. They’ve released four albums and an EP and their songs, each paired with narrative-driven animated video, have garnered them a Billboard 100 album, a JUNO award for their most listened to track to date, “Brittle Bones Nicky,” more than 500 million streams, and more than 875K YouTube subscribers. 

The band just released the first installment of their most ambitious project to date, “Searching For Strawberries: The Story Of Jongo Bongo.” It’s one-part 33-minute-long fully animated musical feature and one-part good old fashioned album that together create an immersive listening and viewing experience.

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David Oquendo worked in business and retail management more than a decade, and decided decided to turn his passion for film and television in his actual job. Since then, has worked on productions for CMT, PBS, Oxygen, the Travel Channel, and the El Rey Networks, and is now at the helm of WGCU’s video productions for TV and web.

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Bob Kealing is a journalist who spent most of his three decade long career at WESH-TV in Orlando. He’s won four Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow award, and has appeared on Dateline NBC, the Today Show, CBS This Morning, and has appeared as a guest on NPR, CNN, MSNBC, NBC and C-SPAN.

The author of four non-fiction books, Bob’s research led to the establishment of the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, a literary landmark in the National Register of Historic Places, and Gram ‘cosmic cowboy’ Parsons Derry Down, a Florida Heritage site honoring the pioneering country rock musician in his birthplace, Winter Haven.

His latest book is Good Day Sunshine: How the Beatles Rocked Florida

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John Donvan has been host and moderator of Open to Debate (recently changed from Intelligence Squared US) since 2008. John is also an author and four-time Emmy Award winning journalist who during his career reported for ABC, CNN, and PBS, including multi-year postings in Moscow, London, Jerusalem, and Amman, and he spent one term as chief White House correspondent for ABC News. His 2016 book, "In a Different Key: The Story of Autism" was a New York Times bestseller and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist - there is also a PBS documentary of the same name based on it.

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Tim Morrison is a lifelong musician and singer, but he says he still took the safe path and made sure to go to college. A Journalism degree later and a move to New York City led him to a unique career and life that wound up in anti-counterfeiting in the fashion world. 

Deaths in the family lead to a move to Naples in 2005 and a return to music. His self-written/performed/engineered/produced/promoted/laptop album ended up with his song “Weight” featured on All Songs Considered - Second Stage and an interview on Gulf Coast Live - Arts Edition, back before it was Gulf Coast Life. 

Tim ended up working at the Naples Zoo, the Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center, and right here in public media at WGCU.

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Dr. Eric Otto plays guitar for the Immokalee Road Band with his FGCU colleagues Miles Mancini and Mike Kennedy, and since 2019 he has also been the guitarist for the Gulf Coast Big Band, which raises scholarship money to support jazz education in Southwest Florida. For his day job, Eric is Professor of Environmental Humanities, Director of General Education, and Interim Chair of the Department of Integrated Studies at FGCU. 

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Konstantinos Vranishti is a 35-year old student at Florida Gulf Coast University who was born in Albania but spent most of his life in Greece before moving to the United States in 2019.

His family first landed in Maryland, but then moved to Fort Myers during the early days of the pandemic. He started off as a journalism student at FGCU because he worked as a journalist in Greece, but recently changed his major to Communication.

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Dayna Harpster is a journalist, writer, and Communications Specialist at WGCU. She started teaching journalism classes at Florida Gulf Coast University last year.

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Christina Goh is a French composer, poet, and vocalist whose multidisciplinary universe includes digital art, poetry and musical creation. She’s the initiator of a vocal technique for accompanying high range percussion and she’s a member of the Board of Directors of the French Association for Percussion. 

Christina has performed her music from Indonesia to Canada, demonstrating her vocal technique with unique configurations. 

Since 2023, the Chanson prize in the historical Jardin de France literary competition bears her name. Christina was cited among the 500 personalities of African descent who have impacted the world by the South African media Tropics Magazine in 2021.  Her seventh album, Andromede, came out in 2024.

SONG 1: Duniya Mein Hum Aaye Hain by Lata Mangeshkar from the original 1957 Mother India motion picture soundtrack. https://youtu.be/HQ03mTy8HR4?si=GDSBcsS_eIHb6mVW

SONG 2: Avant toi (Olympia) by Mama Béa from Edith et Marcel (Bande originale du film) released in 1983. https://youtu.be/OJUkBY21PEo?si=xfgWYMSTfuBWykYC

SONG 3: Pride and Joy by Stevie Ray Vaughan, released in 1983. https://youtu.be/Chk4tCMRBxk?si=CN_5Yx9T7pOR_De7

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Craig Pittman is the author of Oh, Florida! How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country which made the New York Times bestseller list; Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther, which earned him the Rachel Carson Award from the national Sierra Club; and his latest The State You’re In: Florida Men, Florida Women, and Other Wildlife, and he co-hosts the podcast “Welcome to Florida.”

Craig is also a journalist and native Floridian, born and raised in Pensacola, so he is a literal Florida Man. He studied journalism at Troy State University in Alabama, where according to his bio “his muckraking work for the student paper prompted an agitated dean to label him "the most destructive force on campus." 

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Rada Angelova is known for her work in theater in New York City. She started as the actor, writer & producer of her own solo show that was presented at the Midtown International Theater Festival, and then she stepped behind the curtain to represent some of the world’s longest-running musicals including “Chicago” and “Cats” while they were on tour in the U.S. 

Rada is originally from Bulgaria where she says she first found her passion for music. Today she co-writes with songwriters from Nashville, Canada, North Macedonia and others. Her songs “Anonymous In New York” and “Margarita” are among her most popular and can be found under her music artist name “Rada And Subject To Change.” 

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Greg Longenhagen is an accomplished actor, director, producer, teacher, and coach. Greg’s career spans over 30 years in professional theatre, radio, television, and film, and he's a member of the original founding company of Florida Repertory Theatre in downtown Fort Myers, and is in his third decade with the organization, now serving as its Artistic Director. 

Greg has been involved with 64 productions at Florida Rep and has also performed at numerous theaters here in Florida and around the country.

He served as the Resident Director for Pittsburgh’s “Shakespeare in the Schools” while working as an actor in New York City, and he later served as an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Florida Gulf Coast University. 

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Brian Schreck is a music therapist at the Norton Cancer Institute in Louisville, Kentucky and has been professionally serving people with a wide range of illnesses since 2004. He pioneered music therapy services at St. Vincent’s Catholic Hospital Medical Center in Manhattan, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and the Norton Cancer Institute in Louisville. 

Part of Brian's work involves using the sounds of a patient's life to create individualized recordings and projects for patients and their families and loved ones, including using stethoscopes and microphones to capture heartbeats that he weaves into musical compositions.

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Karyn Parsons is probably best known for playing Hilary on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Her character was, and is, truly beloved by fans around the U.S. and beyond. What her fans didn't know until 2005 was that Parsons was also a writer who spent quite a bit of time writing short fiction, and learning about history - particularly inspiring and empowering stories of African American achievement.

Once she set acting aside in the early 2000s, and had her first child, Parsons decided it was time to take her passion for writing and history seriously and so founded a nonprofit called Sweet Blackberry. They would turn her stories about little-known African American figures, ones that she thought would pique the imaginations of young people, into short films and picture-books. The animated films feature narration from voices like Alfre Woodard, Queen Latifah, Chris Rock, and Laurence Fishburne. 

Parsons published her first young adult novel called "How High the Moon" in 2019 and has another one coming out this Summer. “How High the Moon” was inspired by her mother's childhood stories of being a young person growing up in South Carolina during the time of Jim Crow.

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John McKenney is a bassist who has played in bands like “The Tropics”, “The HiTones”, and “The Painted Faces” which was one of Ft. Myers most well known bands. They played all over Florida and opened for a number of big names including Roy Orbinson and Neil Diamond. They were written up in BillBoard magazine and were listed as one of the top Florida garage bands of the 60s.

John is currently playing in a Blues band and rehearsing with a local 80s band in Portland, Oregon, which is where he and his wife have lived since 1979. 

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Jennifer Rowley is a soprano who is acclaimed worldwide for her voice and stage presence, and for her wide variety of roles that have spanned many of opera’s greatest heroines. She has appeared at The Metropolitan Opera in lead roles including in Cyrano de Bergerac, Tosca, Il Trovatore and La Boheme.

Throughout her career she has also performed at Opernhaus Zurich, Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Staatsoper Berlin, Opera National de Paris, the National Theatre Prague, and the Royal Opera House in London.

Jennifer also recently created her own summer festival in Sarasota, called Jennifer Rowley’s Aria Bootcamp. She has been a Artist in Residence at Baldwin Wallace University, Fort Worth Opera, and the International Summer Opera Festival of Morelia, and is sought after for her seminars and masterclasses. 

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Robert Van Winkle is Community Outreach Ambassador for the Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, but is still often recognized as the former Chief Meteorologist for NBC-2 in Fort Myers. He’s also a U.S. Navy Veteran and worked as a meteorologist on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. 

After a 31-year career on television Robert “retired” and moved to Arizona to take care of his Mom when she was diagnosed with cancer. After returning to Southwest Florida, he worked a number of jobs including Real Estate, Substitute Teaching, and even Naturalist on Whale Watching tours in Sitka, Alaska. 

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Kristen Noble is a 17-year-old Senior at Cypress Lake High School.

As a musician, Kristen released her original debut album, “Lyrical Therapy” in October of 2022. It’s on all streaming platforms and as of this recording it has accumulated more than 400,000 streams on Spotify. 

She's also participated in many music ensembles and groups, including "The A Cappella Group," at Cypress with whom she recorded original songs on two albums and won Outstanding Arrangement for her original song "Simple Math." 

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Dan Bern is a singer-songwriter whose songs have appeared in numerous films and TV shows, including original songs for the film “Walk Hard — The Dewey Cox Story”. He's released 30 albums and EPs, and played thousands of shows across North America and Europe over the course of his life.

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Kim Dunham was born in Pennsylvania but grew up in Michigan. She moved to Connecticut after high school and lived there for about six years before moving to Florida in 1999. Kim’s been working at WGCU since 2019 as part of the membership team. 

SONGS AND LINKS

The original opening 20th Century Fox intro into the original theatrical release of Star Wars in 1977. 

https://youtu.be/oJguy6wSYyI?si=SRwB09rUgasvWdrI

Black Celebration by Depeche Mode - it's the title track of their fifth album release in 1986.

https://youtu.be/axs85iB5y1E?si=F6PNbeg2_daFPvCG

I Want to Know What Love Is by Foreigner from their album Agent Provocateur released in 1984.

https://youtu.be/4jA-_g_iSY0?si=JXmiBVLX3o5FsPxQ

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Mike, Richard, Tara, and Jared gather to reminisce about the last two years of guests, songs, and stories in our (usually) annual review! Join us for 9 song stories, a Dungeons and Dragons montage, and an encore of "Rock Talk" - Mike's Rock tumbling podcast".  

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Robin Young is host NPR's Here & Now. Robin is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has also reported for NBC, CBS, and ABC television and for several years was substitute host and correspondent for The Today Show.

Robin has received several Emmy Awards for her television work, as well as cable's Ace award, the Religious Public Relations Council's Wilbur Award and the National Conference of Christians and Jews Gold Award. She has also received radio's regional Edward R. Murrow award.

As an independent documentary filmmaker, she produced and directed the opening film for Marion Wright Edelman's White House Conference on Children and followed the rise of then unknown filmmaker John Singleton in the film "Straight From the Hood."

Her documentary "The Los Altos Story," made in association with the Rotary Club of Los Altos, California, won the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and is now the backbone of a worldwide HIV/AIDS awareness initiative.

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Ryan Wolfgang is Assistant Manager of Props at Universal Creative (as in Universal Studios) and has been in the prop and decor field since 2003, first working in the motion picture industry, starting out as an intern and then working his way up to Propmaster on feature films, commercials for international brands and other various video, photography, and TV projects. 

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Jeremy Hobson is an NPR Host, Journalist, and Producer who has worked in public radio for more than 20 years, most recently as host for Here and Now where he was for more than seven years. Prior to that he reported for and then hosted the Marketplace Morning Report.

Jeremy has also reported and hosted for public radio stations in Rhode Island, Cape Cod, and Illinois. And he spent time as a producer for All Things Considered, Day to Day, and Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!

He's also the creator and host of The Middle, a new show focusing on listeners, voters, and the marginalized in the "middle" of the country. 

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John McEuen is a banjo, guitar, mandolin, and fiddle player, and a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. He has made almost 50 albums, that have earned four platinum and five gold records, multiple Grammy Awards and nominations, CMA, and ACM awards. 

John produced Steve Martin’s 2010 album, The Crow, which won a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.

He was inducted in 2017 to the American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame, and his popular Sirius/XM Acoustic Traveller Show is now in its 14th year.

He’s also an author - his bio “The Life I’ve Picked” was published in 2018.

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Alex Adams is a theatre major at FGCU, with a background in musical theatre which began all the way back when she was 6 years old. She will be playing the role of Horatio in FGCU’s upcoming April production of Hamlet.

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Laura Ellis is Director of Podcasts and Special Projects at Louisville Public Media, WFPL. She’s a Peabody Award-winning producer who started her career in public radio as a talk show assistant. She’s managed WFPL’s podcast strategy as Senior Producer and Podcast Editor since 2018.

In her role as Director of Podcasts and Special Projects, Laura manages a podcast incubator designed to amplify important and diverse voices and stories in Louisville.

When she's not making radio, she's on stage or in a sound booth making theater, or singing old-fashioned music. 

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Evgeniya Radilova is an award winning Bulgarian-American actress, filmmaker, model, fire dancer, teacher and more who calls New York City home. She has appeared in a number of prime time TV shows including: "Law & Order: SVU", "Limitless", "Elementary", "Sex&Drugs & Rock&Roll", "Spartacus", and most recently “Blue Bloods.” 

She recently won Best Actress and Audience Award Best Film at the Chelsea Film Festival for her latest project: a feature length film called Lost Cos.

At 18 she was cast in one of the biggest TV shows in Bulgaria called "Masters of the TV", which she co-hosted for three years every night on Bulgarian National TV. She then moved to New York where she graduated with honors from "The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Since then, she has appeared Off-Broadway and is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio. 

Evgeniya has her own production company, called “I Dare Productions” and she also dances with fire and creates shows all over NYC and LA's cabaret stages with her company Evgeniya Entertainment.

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Cory and Kirsten are co-hosts and co-producers of the “Florida Freakshow” podcast, which chronicles the many bizarre news stories that come from the Sunshine State.

Kirsten has been a college speech instructor, debate coach, television sports reporter, and now she's a marketing project lead for Aviv Clinics in The Villages. 

Cory has been a marketing professional and journalist The News-Press and Naples Daily News. He also launched the Southwest Florida Storytellers Project. These days he leads the marketing team for Owen-Ames-Kimball Company.

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We’re looking back at our collection of songs that musician guests have played for us at the end of their episodes. This episode's music guests are:

Dan Philgreen
Danny Black
Jon Michaels
Michael Pinckney
Ehren Gerhard
Mike Kennedy
Mike Patella

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Madison Morris is a singer-songwriter who focuses on bringing his storytelling nature to light over top of an Americana sound - playing more than 200 live performances throughout the year as a full-time musician.

He co-wrote "We're All Still Here" with his wife in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian after they were displaced from their home and lost so much. It was included on the official ballot for Grammy consideration in 2023.

The newest single, “Hard Rain”, came out in July of 2024 and was also recognized with a Grammy consideration in 2024.

Madison also officially launched his band, called Madison Morris & the Stringfellows.

SONG 1: “Seminole Wind” by John Anderson from his 1992 album of the same name. 3:57 - https://youtu.be/UmWexj90OU4?si=nZluDeCKRcfIF5kd

SONG 2: “24 Frames” by Jason Isbell by his, IMHO, singular album Something More Than Free released in 2015. 3:13 - https://youtu.be/-JLlPssDF5A?si=QBL6gqDhXNCF2rTP

SONG 3: Jimi Hendrix's “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” from his 1968 album, Electric Ladyland. 5:13 - https://youtu.be/L7UMubmfbH0?si=9KXMJZuioFzfLpgt

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Amanda Inscore is an award-winning photojournalist who has been at The News-Press in Fort Myers since 2003. She was born in North Carolina and graduated from the University of North Carolina’s journalism school. Amanda's also a gymnast, a yogi, and a breast cancer survivor, and she enjoys traveling, hiking and chocolate.

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Dave Lapham became a professional guitar tech from 2003-2017, Touring the world with bands like QOTSA an MCR, and musicians Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains, Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, Peter Murphy of Bauhaus, Billy Idol and on and on…

Dave grew up in Dearborn, Michigan surrounded by rock and punk music of the 70’s and through the 90’s, setting the tone for the rest of his life.  As a kid he was into guitars, muscle cars, girls, BMX and skateboarding. 

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Tatum Bates is a sophomore Theatre major at Florida Gulf Coast University. She's acted in plays, musicals, and films produced all over Florida, and she also shows off her work in special effects movie makeup, on her TikTok. She's also the newest cohost on the Razzle Dazzle podcast.

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We’re dipping back into our collection of songs that our musician guests have played for us at the end of their episodes. It’s one of our very favorite things about this show. This episode's music guests are:

David Mayfield

Sergio Munoz

Max Hatt and Edda Glass

Billy Kemp

David Hintz

Cody Smith

Spencer "Duke Stamina" Elles

Katie Lyon

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Rendy Ramos is a videographer, editor, and avid cinephile. He has worked on shoots including ESPN, music festivals on cruises, nationally broadcast dog shows, wedding films, and music videos. 

Rendy moved back to Southwest Florida in 2013 and was a Production Director for Waterman Broadcasting, the local NBC/ABC affiliate before shifting to Photojournalism and joining us here at WGCU developing content and stories.

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Whenever we have musicians on the show we ask them to play a song for us as that week’s parting tune. Over the years we’ve compiled quite a collection of songs, so today we’re putting some of them together for Volume 1. of our Music Guest Roundup.

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Dr. Ebony Green has been a teacher, principal, district leader and is now nationally recognized champion for Equity at the Institute for Student Achievement, where she supports school districts nationally to ensure equitable outcomes for all students.

Ebony has taught as an adjunct professor at Mercy College, Pace University, and is currently serving at Bank Street College in New York City, and Fordham University where she teaches a course that examines the Impact of Prejudice. 

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DJs Chad Cisneros and David Reed are the halves of the Austin Texas-based music duo Tritonal. As they have released five studio albums, including their latest Coalesce earlier this year.

Chad and David host the show Tritonia on Sirius XM Electric Area, they were #65 on DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs of 2012, and one of MTV Clubland's "10 Artists to Watch in 2013"

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Mike Braun is managing editor at WGCU working with our reporters to dig deeper and add context to stories affecting Southwest Florida. In his career in print media, he's been a general assignment reporter, copy editor, Sunday edition editor, designer, and chief of the design desk.

In 1985 he convinced the editors that he could fill a page weekly with news about hunting, fishing and conservation topics, and did just that as de facto outdoor editor for the next 20 years in addition to his regular duties. 

Mike then moved to southwest Florida and joined The News-Press in 2005 as a front page designer and then moved back to reporting in 2011.

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Jon Shain is a veteran singer-songwriter who combines improvised piedmont blues with bluegrass, swing, and ragtime, and is the 2019 winner of the International Blues Challenge in the solo/duo category. His most recent solo disc, Gettin’ Handy with the Blues: A Tribute to the Legacy of WC Handy, was released in 2018.

In 1989 he founded the Chapel Hill-based folk-rock group, Flyin’ Mice and their spin-off group, WAKE. They released four CDs and played up and down the East Coast until the late 90s.

He then went solo, and has since released ten albums of his own folk-blues compositions.

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Scott Turow is a writer and attorney. He is the author of fourteen works of fiction, including Presumed Innocent, and most recently, Presumed Guilty, which hit the shelves in January of this year. All of his novels have been New York Times bestsellers. His works have been the basis for film and television projects…last year Apple TV+ released an eight-part limited series based on Presumed Innocent, starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

From 1978 until 1986, Mr. Turow worked as Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois prosecuting several high-profile public corruption cases. He has also served on a number of public bodies, including the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment, which proposed reforms to Illinois’ death penalty system, and he was the first Chair of Illinois’ Executive Ethics Commission, created in 2004 to regulate executive branch employees in Illinois. 

SONG 1: “We Shall Overcome”...this is a 1962 live recording that’s been remastered…and re-released on the album Every Morning at Half Past Four in 2020. https://youtu.be/KUbkld3Rq2A?si=Xvtm-4JB5lhXLuGF

SONG 2: Kermit the Frog singing "Rainbow Connection" - in the 1979 film The Muppet Movie. https://youtu.be/YRPBUeVOimU?si=Uz2a2ICgc1zf_c7a

SONG 3: "Runaway" by Del Shannon released in 1961 on his debut album Runaway with Del Shannon. https://youtu.be/0S13mP_pfEc?si=YPul_1R6i_CpLfZL

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Jenny Lapham is a mental health advocate and sociology fangirl who leverages her personal and professional expertise to change how we talk about mental wellness. Jenny has led an unconventional life full of chaos, magic and education. Her idea of a good time is obsessing over romance novels, crafting, and missing the 90s. 

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Judd Cribbs was a writer, reporter and editor for 25 years before becoming a teacher.  He's worked as a digital teletext news writer and editor at WKRC-TV in Cincinnati from 1985 to 1993. After a brief time as a freelance reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer, he was an on-air television news reporter for WFTX-TV and WLWT-TV, also in Cincinnati, until 1998. Cribbs won a regional Emmy award in 1994 at WLWT. 

He moved to Florida in 1998 to work as a feature reporter for WINK-TV, becoming the managing editor there in 2008. He taught TV Production at Cape Coral High School in 2011-2012 before starting at FGCU in 2012, where he is currently an assistant professor in the Journalism Program.

We sat down with Judd on September 9th…19 days before Hurricane Ian made landfall about 35 miles from our studio in south Fort Myers.

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Cadence Bakker is musician and a senior at FGCU studying Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship. She's been writing since she was six years old, and self-taught for piano, guitar, and ukulele. 

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