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Weds. 04/23 – Joy Lingerfelt and MarySue French from Northwest Women’s Chorale, discussing two upcoming performances.

2^nd Segment –Dr. Kim

3rd Segment - Bacon Bits interview by Amanda Bacon

Make sure you check out the video version of this Bacon Bit!

ED HELMS BIO

Actor, writer, producer, and comedian, Ed Helms is also an Oberlin alum. After graduation, Helms moved to New York City to pursue a comedy career, ultimately becoming a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart before joining the cast of The Office. He also starred in The Hangover trilogy and has launched his own production company with producer Mike Falbo called Pacific Electric Picture Company, where he has produced and starred in The Clapper, Corporate Animals, and The Fake News with Ted Nelms, which won a Writer's Guild award. He currently stars in True Story, a non-scripted comedy he will cohost with Randall Park, and Rutherford Falls, a comedy series he co-created with Sierra Teller Ornelas and Mike Schur. Outside of entertainment, Helms is on the board for Represent Us and sits on the Oberlin College Board of Trustees. A lifelong musician, he plays a mean banjo in his bluegrass band, The Lonesome Trio.

ABOUT HIS PODCAST SNAFU, NOW IN ITS THIRD SEASON

Hosted by Ed Helms, SNAFU is a podcast about history's greatest screw-ups. This is Season 3: Formula 6 - how prohibition's war on alcohol went so far off the rails the government poisoned its own people.

Episodes available here:

Https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-snafu-with-ed-helms-102539700/

ABOUT KRISTIN CASEY AND CASEY DANCER

The follow-up to Kristin Casey's widely acclaimed memoir Rock Monster: My Life with Joe Walsh

Casey Dancer is the true story of a thirty-nine-year-old part-time stripper, full-time real estate agent, and struggling writer navigating the chaos of love and ambition. Fresh from a tumultuous breakup and newly sober, Kristin finds herself struggling to re-enter the dating scene. When she falls for Lalo, a charming but troubled ex-coke dealer, their steamy affair leads to deep emotional conflict, testing her boundaries and stirring memories of past relationships. Through the highs of passion, the lows of financial strain, and the harsh realities of erotic labor, Kristin fights to reclaim her sense of self. Bold, raw, and unapologetically honest, Casey Dancer is a story of resilience, vulnerability, and self-discovery.

"In Casey Dancer, Kristin Casey invites readers into an unfiltered exploration of her journey through the complexities of sex, dating, and intimacy, transcending the superficial allure of romantic entanglements to uncover the raw truths that lie beneath. This candid memoir serves as a fearless examination of the often-unspoken realities of modern relationships, revealing not only the euphoric highs of passionate encounters but also the deep vulnerabilities that arise when one dares to be truly seen by another. With an honesty that is both refreshing and disarming, Kristin confronts her own choices and experiences with genuine curiosity, challenging societal norms and expectations along the way. Throughout the memoir, she thoughtfully references her first book, Rock Monster, which chronicled her whirlwind relationship with rock legend Joe Walsh. These poignant callbacks serve as effective reminders of where she's been and how those experiences have shaped her understanding of love and self. Through her journeys, both physical and emotional, Kristin pushes boundaries in ways that are not only refreshing but also deeply relatable. She invites readers to join her on a path of self-acceptance, exploring the intersections of sexuality, identity, and the relentless passage of time. Casey Dancer dares to ask the difficult questions, embracing the messy, beautiful, and sometimes painful realities of being human. It is a celebration of resilience, a testament to the strength found in vulnerability, and an invitation for readers to embark on their own journeys of self-discovery."

-Chris Epting, memoirist and author of forty-five books including Where One Hears the Rain

ABOUT KRISTEN CASEY

Kristin Casey is a writer and recovered alcoholic and addict. Her first memoir Rock Monster: My Life with Joe Walsh documents their tumultuous six-year relationship and drug-fueled, train-wreck breakup. Her second, Casey Dancer: A Memoir About Dating, Stripping, and a Little Hot Yoga, chronicles her journey overcoming fear of intimacy in early sobriety.

She's survived clinical depression, numerous addictions, the panhandle of Texas, and seventeen years of Catholicism. Her writing has appeared in the Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, The Nervous Breakdown, Please Kill Me, $pread, and elsewhere. She writes about addiction, dependency, sexuality, and relationships. She resides in Austin, Texas, where she's a certified sexuality counselor and retired intimacy coach and IPSA-trained surrogate partner.

ABOUT DEBORAH ARCHER AND DIVIDING LINES

From an eminent legal scholar and the president of the ACLU, an essential account of how transportation infrastructure-from highways and roads to sidewalks and buses-became a means of protecting segregation and inequality after the fall of Jim Crow.

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Dividing Lines, before we can think about rebuilding and repairing, we must consider the role race has played in transportation infrastructure, from the early twentieth century and into the present day.

As Archer demonstrates, the success of the Civil Rights movement and the fall of Jim Crow in the 1960s did not mean the end of segregation. The status quo would not be so easily dismantled. With state-sanctioned racism no longer legal, officials across the country-not just in the South-turned to transportation infrastructure to keep Americans divided. A wealthy white neighborhood could no longer be "protected" by racial covenants and segregated shops, but a multilane road, with no pedestrian crossings, could be built along its border to make it difficult for people from a lower-income community to visit. Highways could not be routed through Black neighborhoods based on the race of their residents, but those neighborhoods' lower property values-a legacy of racial exclusion-could justify their destruction. A new suburb could not be for "whites only," but planners could refuse to extend sidewalks from Black communities into white ones.

Drawing on a wealth of sources, including interviews with people who now live in the shadow of highways and other major infrastructure projects, Archer presents a sweeping, national account-from Atlanta and Houston to Indianapolis and New York City-of our persistent divisions. With immense authority, she examines the limits of current Civil Rights laws, which can be used against overtly racist officials but are less effective in addressing deeper, more enduring, structural challenges. But Archer remains hopeful, and in the final count describes what a just system would look like and how we can achieve it.

ABOUT DEBORAH ARCHER

Deborah N. Archer is president of the ACLU, where she serves as chair of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee. She is a tenured professor and associate dean at New York University School of Law and the faculty director of the Community Equity Initiative at NYU Law. She lives in New York with her husband and two children.

Todd, Brown and Amanda talk the importance of journalism and also the MAJOR importance of Administrative Professionals!  Thanks Doreen...the glue the holds THIS office together.

Tues. 04/22 – Sam Grello, Executive Director of the Port Angeles Waterfront District, discussing the upcoming West by Northwest Mural Festival, where 5 murals will be painted in front of the public and then installed downtown over the Summer months.

2^nd Segment – Local Real Estate agent, Mae Graves, with her monthly Clallam County real estate segment.

Todd, Marc and Steph talk about Earth Day, and also about the loss of a friend.  We will miss you so much Rudy Maxion.

Mon. 04/21 – Ian Mackay, Executive Director of Ian’s Ride, with Author, Karen Polinsky, discussing the new book, Ian’s Ride: A Long-Distance Journey to Joy, chronicling Ian’s story of being an avid bicyclist and nature lover (before a bicycle crash in 2008 left him paralyzed from the neck down) to his role as accessibility advocate.

2^nd Segment – Stephanie Doenges and Owl Chrysalis Medicine from Bread & Gravy, discussing their upcoming show “A History of Time: Through Music”, at Field Arts & Events Hall.

Oh my goodness...Poppy could not be any cuter if she fried...I mean tried.  What a joyous time talking with the Queen of the Spuds, Ms. Poppy O'Toole.

You asked, and she delivered-this is Poppy Cooks' all-potato cookbook. Whether you like them fried, baked, mashed, or roasted, TikTok's High Priestess of the Potato gives you the ultimate potato book.

The spud-the humblest of ingredients-can be made into more than just mashed potatoes (but if it is mash, make it the best mashed potatoes ever), and in this book Poppy O'Toole celebrates the range and variety from just this one mighty ingredient. In these pages, Poppy gives you all the tools you need to achieve the perfect potatoes every time-whether it's a trusted roasted potato, a melt-in-the-mouth fondant, moreish fries and wedges or the perfect bake. Poppy includes all the most-loved potato dishes alongside mouth-watering international classics (think latkes, dauphinoise and patatas bravas), and even some old-school favorites (hello, potato smiles), not to mention a whole chapter dedicated to her sensational 15-hour potatoes.

Across 101 recipes, Poppy shares her top tips and tricks for cooking with different methods and flavours to give you THE book you need to raise your spud game and cook like the Potato Queen herself.

ABOUT POPPY O'TOOLE

Michelin-trained internet sensation Poppy O'Toole created her social media profile, Poppy Cooks, after losing her kitchen job during the pandemic. Known for creating easy-to-follow recipe tutorials, Poppy currently has over 4M followers on TikTok.

Following almost a decade in professional kitchens, Poppy launched her debut cookbook The Food You Need in 2021, which received praise from the likes of Nigella Lawson, Rukmini Iyer and the Daily Mail - who called her the "millennials answer to Delia Smith". In January 2022, Poppy was announced as a judge on the new series of Young MasterChef. She was also a judge on E4's Celebrity Cooking School, alongside Giorgio Locatelli.

ON SOCIAL MEDIA:

TikTok - 4.4M - https://www.tiktok.com/@poppycooks?lang=en 

IG - 1.1M - https://www.instagram.com/poppy_cooks/?hl=en 

FB - 118K - https://www.facebook.com/cookspoppy/ 

Todd and Amanda talk about the legacy that is, Wink Martindale.