Conversations with people who do interesting things, and tracing the path back to where they find themselves today.
What do you do when you spend 40 hours on a pinball playfield and the very last coat undoes it all? If you're Ashley Ludwig, you go home, have a good cry on the shower floor, and show up the next day to fix it. In this e…
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What happens when a kid raised by Nashville musicians, bounced between Tennessee, California, and Texas, finally figures out what he was made to do? Greg sits down with Monte Leach, a registered nurse, Navy honor graduat…
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What if the Super Mario Bros. theme, a 45-second loop built on the most rudimentary hardware imaginable, turned out to be a great piece of music all on its own? Greg sits down with Charlie Rosen, a Broadway music directo…
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What happens when a painting pulled from the trash turns into a beloved museum, and the person who agreed to keep the checkbook ends up running it for thirty years? Greg sits down with Louise Reilly Sacco, a lifelong Bos…
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What does it say about someone that they'd want their fantasy waiter to look progressively more shipwrecked as the meal goes on? In this Fantasy Restaurant warm-up, Lara Dale builds a wonderfully specific, slightly chaot…
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Have you ever wondered who makes the sound of a footstep sound sad, or a pomegranate sound like something you'd rather not think about? Foley artist Laura Dale joins the Why Am I Podcast to talk about the invisible art o…
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What can a fantasy meal tell you about a person's whole life story? In this warm-up round with Marissa, three ice cubes are non-negotiable, pasta fagioli is a straight line back to childhood, and strawberry shortcake sho…
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Did you know a dog can smell a diabetic emergency coming twenty minutes before your glucose monitor catches it? Terry Cadle has spent forty years training dogs, from field trial champions to diabetic alert and seizure al…
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What does your dream meal say about where you come from? In this Fantasy Restaurant warm-up, Joe Iconis builds a menu that's part sophistication, part childhood memory, from a Manhattan on the rocks all the way to his gr…
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What if your whole life could be mapped out in a single meal? In this Fantasy Restaurant warm-up, Martin builds a menu entirely out of memory - a dark and stormy from a Decatur bar, saline-injected wings from a long-gone…
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What if a beer on a beachside stool in Maui, watching your own submarine anchored just offshore, became one of the best meals of your life? In this episode of the Fantasy Restaurant warm-up, Brady Drennan orders up a fiv…
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What does it take to feel at home on a stage, even when you can't quite let loose anywhere else? This episode, Greg sits down with actor, coach, and podcaster Marisa Mast to talk about growing up in a theater household, …
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