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Citizen44 with Mark Arinsberg
by Mark Arinsberg
A native of Southern California now living in Hanoi, Vietnam, Mark brings his unique world view to the virtual air waves while presenting real people and their stories from Vietnam. His podcast is engaging, honest and often inspiring. Mark is also here to explore ways to eliminate the avoidable suffering and discomfort associated with living amongst eight plus billion ill prepared people faced with inescapable death.
Episodes
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C44 / EP#109 / Adrian Wilson / Part 2
In Part 2, Adrian Wilson shares his opinions on photography and technology as well as going from being an unknown to known then back to an unknown guerrilla street artist in New York. He also talks about preserving memories through digital media and how gratitude can free people up to enjoy life...
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C44 / Show#108 / Adrian Wilson / Part 1
A self proclaimed black sheep of the family, Adrain went to great lengths to separate himself from his father and two older brothers who dominated the world of graphic design in Manchester, England. Unfortunately, Adrian was unsuccessful in doing so only to find himself as distant as making...
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C44 / Show#107 / Rich Rees
A fast and fun show with dear friend and former C44 Show Producer, Rich Rees. After a bout with depression and uncertainty around the ending of his over 20 year career in the music business that finally ended with the help of his partner getting a stroke from receiving a Covid vaccine, Rich is…
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C44 / Show#106 / Emily Rodger
Raised in New Brunswick, Canada, Emily Rodger is a former two time World Champion cyclist, Ironman world qualifier, author and public speaker. She is also a lover of fly fishing and baking cookies. Following two major bike accidents where she was struck by a car both times and sustained…
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C44 / Show#105 / Chris Catchpole
My guest is Chris Catchpole, an award winning Executive Creative Director and friend from the UK who I met last year at a very cool speak-easy in Saigon, He's been in Vietnam for almost nine years, found himself a lovely Vietnamese woman to marry and has two adorable little twin children. Chris...
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C44 / Show#104 / My Holland
In my conversation with My Holland, she shares stories about her growing up in the South of France disconnected from her Vietnamese roots and how living and going to school abroad gave her the necessary experience and tools to come back to Vietnam offering invaluable leadership training for...
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C44 / Show#103 / Suzan Beraza
"It's a full court press. Nobody can be comp;acent." https://markarinsberg.substack.com/p/its-a-full-court-press-nobody-can?r=rcklr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web On January 29th 2018, I released Show#1 of the Citizen44 with Mark Arinsberg podcast. My guest was friend and award winning...
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C44 / Show#102 / Maggie Maggie
Maggie Maggie is a thirty-something, urban professional who came from a small mountain town to the big city of Saigon where she has been living her life for the past ten years. Her deeply committed ambition and unwavering passion have paved the way for her to become one of Ho Chi Minh City's...
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C44 / Show#101 / Michael Brosowski
Michael Brosowski is the CEO and Founder of Blue Dragon Children's Foundation in Hanoi, Vietnam where he and his selfless staff are dedicated to helping children and families who suffer in crisis situations the likes of human trafficking that stem from the vulnerability of living in poverty....
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C44 / Show#100 / Zoë Arinsberg
It's the BIG BIRTHDAY SHOW! It's the 100th Show as well as the Birthday Show! So happy to have my awesome daughter Zoë on this epic, milestone show as my special guest. It's hard to believe that twenty one years ago this month, Zoë would arrive in this world six weeks earlier than expected to a...
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C44 / Show#99 / Rich Rees
Dear friend, regular C44 guest and former C44 Show Producer, Rich Rees steps up to the mic and takes over the podcast with his unique brand of irreverent humor and politically incorrect take on the world he's forced to live with. It's always incredibly fun to catch up with Rich and find out…
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C44 / Show#98 / Michael Tatarski
Michael Tatarski is a freelance journalist living in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Inspired and motivated by getting exposed to Vietnam via Anthony Bourdain's show No Reservation, a twenty-three year old Michael would decide to head for Southeast Asia in search of a new adventure. Planning on only...
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C44 / Show#97 / Rob Schlapfer
This is Rob's second appearance on the C44 Show. Almost three years ago to the day, he and Marla Estes joined me in my apartment studio in Ashland Oregon to talk about the work they were doing to Bridge The Divide between the Left and the Right. Now abandoning that futile effort, Rob is...
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C44 / Show#96 / Gareth Craze
Gareth and I met on the way to a professional networking event in District 2 (Saigon) where we both found ourselves at the wrong venue. I offered him a ride to the correct venue and that's where our conversation started. Gareth has his PhD in Behavioral Science which is a long road from his...
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C44 / Show#95 / Molly Brandenburg
I've known Molly B. since 1993 when she joined my talent placement agency, Aardvark located in Southern California hoping to land some freelance writing or illustration opportunities. I don't think I was able to come through for her on that, but we did strike up a great friendship that has lasted...
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C44 / Show#94 / Conner Smith
I met Conner Smith in 2019 at his parent's sweet shop Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory located just below my apartment in downtown Ashland, Oregon. We swiftly hit it off and I found myself spending more time than I could have possibly have imagined visiting Conner at work and sharing stimulating...
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C44 / Show#93 / Ellina Watanabe
I've been absent from the airways for a few months, but have returned with Ellina Watanabe to talk about how we can better navigate life by taking a more gentle approach. Being gentle with ourselves and the world around us. Being open to think critically about ourselves and see who we really are…
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C44 / Show#92 / Allison Smith
I've known Allison Smith for twenty years with our beginnings in Ashland, Oregon and in that time our paths have crossed at different times and different places as our lives have unfolded. She has always been a positive force with a powerful voice and messages for us all to consider. Her latest…
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C44 / Show#91 / Nick Depew
Born in Southern California and growing up in Southern Oregon, Nick Depew, while in high school would discover his drive to become a singer, songwriter and guitar player through the shocking death of legendary front man for Nirvana, Kurt Cobain. Influenced by the alternative movement of the mid…
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C44 / Show#90 / John Saboe
It's Halloween 2020 and I'm still here in Saigon, Vietnam where I recently had the pleasure of meeting fellow podcaster and all around good guy from Canada, John Saboe. On C44 Show#90, John shares a bit of his upbringing as well as how he and his incredible voice found their way into the world of...
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C44 / Show#89 / Bishop Mayfield
Bishop Mayfield was born in Harlem, New York right after WWII where he would experience some of the same intolerance and racism still strong in American culture today. Raised by foster parents and leaving home at fifteen, Bishop would take his inspired experiences of sneaking into the Apollo...
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C44 / Show#88 / Marla Estes
Marla Estes is making her second appearance on the C44 Podcast and this time she's flying solo. Since we last heard from Marla, she's been hard at work educating folks through on either side of the political divide in the ways of emotional intelligence and critical thinking. Her focus has been to...
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C44 / Show#87 / Tora Woloshin
Tora Woloshin has spent her life in pursuit of her singing career and the acceptance of her unrelenting personality. Born in California then raised by her mother in Arizona, Tora would find great difficulty in school as her uniqueness shone through and was not well received by her peers. After...
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C44 / Show#86 / Adey Bell
Adey Bell has been an Ashland resident on and off for about twelve years. Raised by a father who believed in the ways of the Christian Scientist church and a mother who stayed more in the realm of intellectualism, both being professional musicians, Adey found herself torn between wanting the ways...
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C44 / Show#85 / Curtis Smith
Curtis Smith knew exactly what he wanted to do with his life after his teacher Phil West led Curtis through a control room full of recording gear. Love at first sight. This took Curtis on a path that would lead him from an internship at American records where he folded press releases and ran...
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C44 / Show#84 / Gary Kout
Long time friend Gary Kout talks about producing projects with the incredibly talented team of Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari on their latest award winning Netfix Original documentary film project, Fire In Paradise about the devastating wildfire that leveled the town of Paradise in Northern...
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C44 / Show#83 / Tanya O'Conner
This is the first show both recorded and aired from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Both Tanya O'Conner and Charlie Hurley have dedicated their lives to the betterment of humankind in a variety of ways including but not limited to education and the healing arts. Through their own self education, hard...
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C44 / Show#82 / Mimi Lindauer
Mimi is the youngest guest on the Citizen44 podcast. She candidly shares some of her earliest childhood memories as well as some of her most intimate life challenges around high school and family. Mimi also talks about how she's made conscious choices around the use of telephone technology in a...
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C44 / Show#81 / Allen Hicks 2.0
This is Allen's second time on the podcast. On this show, Allen shares some valuable insights into what he's discovered over the past seventy one years of being on this planet. It was recently his seventy first birthday and Allen is very candid when talking about how his body is holding up and…
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C44 / Show#80 / Margaret Arinsberg (Tribute)
On November 30th, 2019 my dear, sweet Mother, Margaret (Maggie, Micki) Ruth Arinsberg (Waxman) passed away at the age of eighty from cancer. C44 Show#80 is a Tribute to my Mother who was on the show more than anyone else. I hope you all enjoy this special tribute as much as I enjoyed creating it....
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C44 / Show#79 / Bon Stewart
As a twenty one year veteran police officer with the Ashland Police Department, Bon Stewart has seen his fair share of why we need to start paying close attention to people who are suffering on the streets with mental illness and begin to rehabilitate versus incarceration. A father of two young...
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C44 / Show#78 / Bart Rupert
Growing up in poverty, successful entrepreneur Bart Rupert decided that school was important enough to do as well as he could academically in order to get ahead and never again look in the face of poverty. Using the tools he acquired through creating companies starting at just eleven years old,...
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C44 / Show#77 / Gene Burnett 2.0
Dear friend and beloved Ashland musician, Gene Burnett shares how one can better serve themselves through the necessary practices of balance and applied pressure. Not growing up with a strong male role model, Gene slowly discovered that having no pressure in his life left him fighting against the...
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C44 / Show#76 / Cristiana Cole
Cristiana Cole and I met in 2004 on the Nevada desert at our first Burningman. An indescribable experience shared to say the least. Christiana hails from Mexico City where she learned to love the rich culture and how to be in a big family. Her road to adulthood was paved with challenges ranging...
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C44 / Show#75 / Austin Vancampen
Austin Vancampen shares how he's taken life by the horns and lived it his outside-the-box way while raising twin boys with non-traditional methods thus developing two very unique and highly successful young men who are experiencing life on levels most never achieve in a life time at only twenty...
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C44 / Show#74 / Dan O'Connor
Hailing from San Francisco, Dan O'Connor received theatrical training which would later provide him with the necessary foundation for success as an improvisational actor, director and teacher. Dan has spent years developing his LA based acting company IMPRO Theatre as a training ground to assist...
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C44 / Show#73 / Daniel Sperry
Daniel Austin Sperry is a classically trained cellist living here in Ashland, Oregon who selflessly plays almost every day (weather permitting) right here in Lithia Park at no cost to patrons and appreciators. He's been providing this incredible gift to our community for the last ten years. Even…
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C44 / Show#72 / RickDerringer
From humble beginnings, the son of a railroad man quickly realizes that he was meant to play guitar. After listening to his uncle play in the family kitchen and his mothers two part harmony instruction in the car on the way to work, Rick would have the necessary foundation to put his own band The...
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C44 / Show#71 / Burleigh Drummond
Burleigh Drummond was the drummer and founding member of the popular 70's rock band Ambrosia. Burleigh is very candid with his stories about being the child of a father in the military, his love for his mother, becoming interested in percussion and landing the dream gig with Ambrosia shortly…
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C44 / Show#70 / Jesse Borrego
Jesse Borrego is a beloved veteran actor and very cool guy who is currently co-starring in Gary Lundgren's latest feature motion picture Phoenix, Oregon (now playing at selected theaters). Jesse talks about his love of working with Gary and Anne Lundgren on Phoenix, Oregon the movie and also…
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C44 / Show#69 / Fabrice Morvan
French born Fab Morvan (former member of Milli Vanilli) continues to carry the torch of love and hope after a disastrous experience that took the life of his friend and music partner Rob Palatus. Fab continues to shine his lightness of being to the world through his music. One of the nicest guys...
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C44 / Show#68 / Danny Canada
Growing up in a small town in Canada, Danny would soon learn that traditional ways of living simply do not apply to him as he quits high school and hits the road with a religious acting troupe that included his now wife spreading the word of Jesus. Danny dives into criminal justice to become a...
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C44 / Show#67 / Sophia Blanton
As an infant, Sophia's parents left her in the loving care of her grandparents in the former Yugoslavia to set up a life for their family in America. She would not meet her mother and father in person for the first time until she was 6 years old. A fascinating woman who is now actively…
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C44 / Show#66 / Dirk Price
Dirk took the road less taken as a cowboy wanting only to play guitar. Through perseverance an amazing education and a willingness to do it on the street, Dirk ends up doing exactly what he wants to do. He even played his guitar for seven days earning him a letter of congratulations from the...
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C44 / Show#65 / Julie Akins
Former roommate, valued friend and Ashland, Oregon City Counselor, Julie Akins shares wonderful stories of empathy and community. Her progressive ideas to improve our quality of life and her genuine concern for those less fortunate is inspiring and a necessary call to action for us all to heed....
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C44 / Show#64 / Dan Elster 2.0
Ashland local and Wildlife Photographer Dan Elster visits the show for a second time and shares some new adventures and let's us know his book Wild Animals in Wild Places will be coming out this summer. I will also be chatting with my parents in, show producer Rich Rees, my sister Rachel Sunday,...
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C44 / Show#63 / Derek DeBoer
A super fun and inspiring conversation with Ashland's own pro race-car driver and dedicated family man Derek DeBoer about achieving his dream of racing cars and all it took to make that happen including but not limited to his wife Brooke asking him what unfulfilled dream could she help him…
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C44 / Show#62 / Dan Shaw
We are surrounded by energies we cannot see, but can deeply feel and affect us in a variety of ways. Dan Shaw has taken on the monumental task of being a fully committed and immersed adventurer in the wide open open and exciting field of Vortex exploration. Dan is on a quest to better understand...
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C44 / Show#61 / Janet Robin
Guitar rocker, Janet Robin joins this Special C44 Presentation on the 4th Night of Hanukkah taking us on a journey from discovering her passion for the guitar to visiting a small town in the Czech Republic and finding some unexpected Jewish roots. Janet tells the story of being taught by a young...
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C44 / Show#60 / Sylvia Massy
We're at Show#60!!! Holy cow!!! A legend in the music recording industry, Sylvia Massy has worked with the biggest names in the business (Prince, Aerosmith, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash) and would probably give Robert Crumb a run for his money in a drawing contest. From recording guitars...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A native of Southern California now living in Hanoi, Vietnam, Mark brings his unique world view to the virtual air waves while presenting real people and their stories from Vietnam. His podcast is engaging, honest and often inspiring. Mark is also here to explore ways to eliminate the avoidable suffering and discomfort associated with living amongst eight plus billion ill prepared people faced with inescapable death.
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Mark Arinsberg
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