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Correct me if I'm Norm
by Radio Free Rhinecliff
“Correct Me if I’m Norm” is a good-natured, Rhinebeck (New York) focused, one-on-one (mostly) free-formish interview-format program, covering all topics from the personal to the universal. It’s hosted by Norm Magnusson, who is an artist and father of three and an active member of his community in the small town of Rhinebeck, NY. Every week, he interviews folks who live and/or work in Rhinebeck about who they are and how they got here and what they’re up to. “I’m very interested in collecting the stories of the people who made this town what it is and those who are continuing to do so”, he explains, adding that he’s deeply appreciative for all the people who come to the Nook @ The Epicurean to talk with him and thanks the Epicurean and RadioFreeRhinecliff.org for making it all possible.Adult themes, childish banter, strong language, and a lot of levity. 60 minutes.Produced by Jennifer Hammoud & Matty Rosenberg @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
Episodes
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From the Himalayas to the Hudson: A Rhinebeck Love Story
From Moscow to Nepal to Rhinebeck, Jennifer Neufeld and Jamyang Lodoe have made a habit of building businesses in unexpected places, collecting a few stories along the way. Jennifer went to post-Soviet Russia for an internship and stayed 14 years. While she was there she started a PR agency with…
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Joe Phelan: 22 Years of Rhinebeck Schools and a Lifetime of Rock and Roll
This week Norm’s guest is Joe Phelan, a dedicated community volunteer and rock and roll keyboardist who spent 22 years as Superintendent of the Rhinebeck Central School District. Joe grew up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, the son of a New York City firefighter and a mother who cared for his two sisters...
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Betty Leigh Saw Elvis (and Lived to Tell Norm About It)
This week Norm’s guest is Betty Leigh: Reiki master, model, writer, meditation guide, actress, painter, and active member of Rhinebeck Rotary. Within minutes she has her hands on Norm’s face reading his energy (verdict: “solid”). She explains how a broken tailbone and an Olympic shot putter…
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Genre Fluid: Paul Kovit Talks Whirligig, Old-Time Radio and His New Music Show on Radio Free Rhinecliff
This week’s guest is a musician, a music lover and a Jack Benny enthusiast. He’s the host of a new show on RadioFreeRhinecliff.org called It All Comes ‘Round Again: Mr. Paul Kovit. Paul was the first student to spend all four years on the air at Vassar’s radio station, and he hasn’t been behind a...
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Painter, Dad and Rhinebeck Artist's Shop Owner Doug Shippee
Norm's guest is a dad, a tennis enthusiast, a prolific painter, and an owner of the wonderful Rhinebeck Artist's Shop stores, Mr. Doug Shippee. Doug tells Norm about driving to New York with $400 and his best friend, sheetrocking a ceiling with no idea which side was up, and working at the...
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Rhinebeck by Design: Camille Warmington & Paul Wilhelms
rom Manhattan, Kansas to Manhattan, NYC, and now Rhinebeck, this week's guests have been pursuing their dreams, one in designing the "scientific workplace" & the other as a designer turned painter: Camille Warmington and Paul Wilhelms. They met in architecture school at K-State and reconnected...
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Artist Nansi Lent on Sigils, Scrolls, and Asemic Writing
Norm sits with artist, curator, and arts administrator: founder of WomensWork.Art, a past board member of the National Association of Women Artists, and an incredibly thoughtful creative soul who works in asemic writing, Nansi Lent. Norm and Nansi talk through what asemic writing actually is...
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Presidential Historian Alexis Coe on George Washington, JFK, and Life in the Hudson Valley
Norm sits down with bestselling presidential historian Alexis Coe, author of You Never Forget Your First, a New York Times history columnist, and Substack writer, for a wide-ranging conversation. Alexis talks about her path from NYPL curator to public historian, her move to the Hudson Valley…
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Carla Melucci Ardito: Stardust, Sorrow, and the Science of Feeling
Norm sits down with Carla Melucci Ardito, a self-taught healer who's spent over 40 years studying trauma, emotion, and the body. They dig into her "dysfunction scale," the difference between real emotion and reactive frustration, how unresolved grief gets passed down through families (and even...
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Artist Bill Ayton: Ink Drawings, AI Prompts, and a Quarter Century Upstate
Norm sits down with Rhinebeck artist William T. Ayton, known professionally as William T., to talk about his shift from traditional painting and ink drawing to AI-generated art. Ayton walks through how he prompts and edits images using Leonardo AI and defends the medium against critics who…
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A Welsh Historian Lands in Rhinebeck: Gerry Protheroe on Aberfan, Oxford, and Trump
Norm sits down with historian Gerry Protheroe — a Welsh-born, NYU-affiliated professor and longtime private school teacher — for a conversation that ranges from his working-class childhood in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales,to experiencing the impact of the 1966 Aberfan disaster as a child, to his path...
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From Fighter Pilot to Falafel Stand: Roy and Cathy Naor's Unlikely Rhinebeck Story
Norm sits down with Cathy and Roy Naor, the couple behind Rhinebeck's Aba's Falafel, just two months after they sold the business to a cousin. Roy talks about his path from Israeli Air Force fighter pilot training to squadron commander to captain at El Al, and the private jet charter company he…
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John Rossi on Door-Knocking, Doxing, and Debbie Hecht's Big Rhinebeck Win
Norm sits down with campaign strategist John Rossi, the operative behind Debbie Hecht's landslide win in the Rhinebeck Town Supervisor Democratic primary. Rossi walks through the mechanics of a winning local campaign: his "three Ms" of money, messaging, and mobilization, why door-knocking beats...
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Millstones, Mile Markers, and the Man Who Runs Rhinebeck's Roads
Norm sits down with Bob Wyant, the Town of Rhinebeck's highway superintendent, for a wide-ranging chat. Bob talks through the mechanics of the job: a seven-man crew, a budget he can't touch without town board approval, and so much more. He walks through his favorite and least favorite roads in...
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Rhinebeck's Father Jeffrey Maurer on the Eucharist, Death, and Growing Up IBM Catholic
Norm welcomes his Rhinebeck neighbor Father Jeffrey Maurer, pastor of Good Shepherd in Rhinebeck and St. Christopher's in Red Hook, for a conversation about faith and vocation. Maurer traces his German and Irish Catholic roots to 1880s Kingston, his eight years of seminary formation between...
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From Brooklyn to Rhinebeck: A Sister Act in Music, Memory, and the Occasional Ghost
Norm welcomes sisters Patty Hill and Susie Hendren for a chat that starts with Yuengling and ends with astrology. The two, raised between Brooklyn and Long Island with Scottish, Italian, and Irish roots, trace a musical education that runs from seeing The Beatles at Forest Hills Stadium as young...
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The Seed Saver: Sue Sie on Rhinecliff, Dirty Gaia, and Reconnecting People to the Earth
Norm welcomes Sue Sie, a longtime Rhinecliff resident who arrived via an ex-husband, a Bard professor's house, and a lot of determination. She stayed; he did not. That was 1989, and she has been one of the most quietly essential figures in the local environmental landscape ever since. Sue is an...
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Local Painter, Financial Advisor, and Performance Artist Richard Marr on Investing, Painting, and the Planet
Norm sits down with Richard Marr, a Rhinebeck-based artist and Merrill Lynch financial advisor whose two careers have more in common than you might think. Richard's paintings are spare, reverent studies of water and light that grew out of his deep engagement with environmental issues, which also...
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The Doctor Is In: Dr. Greg Tumolo on Pets, People, and Practicing in Your Hometown
Norm is joined by Dr. Greg Tumolo of Rhinebeck Animal Hospital, a born-and-raised Rhinebecker who followed his father into veterinary medicine and never really left, except for 15 years in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he went to vet school, skied as much as possible, and eventually realized he...
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The Rhinecliff Cinephile Behind NYU's Cinema Studies: Dana Polan
Norm sits with Dana Polan, the Martin Scorsese Professor and Chair of the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at NYU Tisch. The chat ranges across a lifetime of thinking seriously about American film. Dana grew up in New York and Westchester, did his doctorate in France, and was later...
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Tate and Ola Rubinstein: A Family, A Fair, and 45 Years in the Hudson Valley
Norm sits down with Tate and Ola Rubinstein, the husband-and-wife team behind Quail Hollow Events and the 45th annual Woodstock-New Paltz Art and Crafts Fair, returning to the Ulster County Fairgrounds Memorial Day weekend, Tate grew up at the shows his father Neil and uncle Scott founded in…
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Bard, Boona, and Bob Dylan: An Evening With Terence Boylan
Norm welcomes singer-songwriter Terence Boylan, who lives just down the road in Rhinebeck. Boona shows up with homemade margaritas and a lifetime of stories. He talks about the night he and his buddy stole a 1961 Corvette and drove from Buffalo to Greenwich Village at 15 to find Bob Dylan, and...
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Liza Donnelly on Women, Humor, and The New Yorker
Norm sits down with longtime New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly for a conversation about her more than four decades in cartooning. Liza talks about tracing James Thurber cartoons as a kid in Watergate-era Washington, the two years she spent submitting to The New Yorker before Lee Lorenz bought…
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From Chicago to Brooklyn to Google to a Rhinebeck Front Porch: The Elliott Malkin Story
Norm sits with Elliott Malkin, a parrot lover, artist (Graffiti for Butterflies), writer, podcaster, comb-over aficionado, and father who has taught cool shit at Bard, NYU, and Columbia and done cool shit for Google and so many others. Elliott takes Norm from a Chicago suburb bordering the…
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David Scheer on the ACA, Scuba Diving, and Sibling Diplomacy
Norm chats with David Scheer, a long-time pro in healthcare and employer health plan implementation and management, an analytical mastermind and conversational gem. As a senior consultant at Willis Towers Watson, David spends his days helping enormous employers untangle the financial and…
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Erika and Mark Murphy of Rhinebeck: Helping Kids Take the Wheel and Helping Elders Let Go
his week's guests are husband and wife: one helps youth who are just starting in life and the other helps those who are further along life's path. One is boss of his own company and the other is boss of Rhinebeck Rotary. Norm welcomes Erika and Mark Murphy. Mark is the founder of Grip Tape...
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How Hollywood Gave Andy Tennant to Rhinebeck
Norm chats with filmmaker Andy Tennant, a dancer turned writer turned director who studied under the legendary John Houseman at USC, about moving from Chicago and Los Angeles to Rhinebeck, influenced by his wife, daughter, East Coast kids, and the Los Angeles fires. Tennant discusses raising...
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Lost in Austin, Found in Rhinebeck: A Conversation with Our Own Alex Hannaford
Norm sits down with Alex Hannaford, a London-born, dual U.S.-U.K. citizen journalist who covers America for foreign publications and whose writing has taken him from the death rows of Texas to the pubs of east London. Rhinebeck's own, Hannaford traces his path into journalism through a gap year...
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David Hoffman on the Life You Build When You Keep Reinventing Yourself
On Norm's birthday episode, guest David Hoffman looks back on a life shaped by curiosity and reinvention. He recalls early radio days in high school, studying engineering at Case Western, earning a third-class FCC license in Detroit, and landing at Vassar, where he fell in love with both '60s…
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This week's guest is coming up on her 25 year anniverary at the helm of one of my favorite restaurants, Gigi Trattoria, which she co-founded in 2001. She's a dietician/ entrepreneur an absolute delight: Laura Pensiero.
This week's guest is coming up on her 25 year anniverary at the helm of one of my favorite restaurants, Gigi Trattoria, which she co-founded in 2001. She's a dietician/ entrepreneur an absolute delight: Laura Pensiero. Produced by Norm Magnusson, Jennifer Hammoud, and Matty Rosenberg @...
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Rhinebeck’s own Charles Derbyshire Traces a Life from Theater to Television to Town
Norm sits down with Charles Derbyshire, who shares the story behind pronouncing his surname, his upbringing in Huntington, West Virginia, and reflections on the region’s hardship, opioids, and shifting economy centered on education and healthcare. He talks about Marshall University family ties,...
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Mezcal, Watersheds, and Trust: Bard professor Monique Segarra on Oaxaca, the Catskills, and Community-Led Sustainability
Norm welcomes back Monique Segarra, a Bard Center for Environmental Policy professor just returned from Oaxaca, to share a mezcal from a small-batch palenque as they dig into agave's long growth cycles, industrial production, and what sustainability actually means for Oaxacan producers. Segarra,...
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Dr. Amy Novatt and Marybeth Cale on Menopause, Midlife, and the Whole-Person Approach to Women's Health
Norm welcomes Dr. Amy Novatt, OB-GYN, and Marybeth Cale, a national board certified health and wellness coach, to discuss integrative approaches to midlife health, with a focus on perimenopause and menopause. They explore how coaching complements conventional medicine by addressing whole-person...
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Rhinebeck's own Jaime Ransome on Feminism, Afrofuturism, and Curating ‘Weird Sisters’ in the Hudson Valley
Norm sits down with Rhinebeck's own Jaime Ransome, an educator, former adjunct professor, gallery manager, and one of the most compelling curators working in the Hudson Valley today. They talk family, feminism, and a life in the art world. Jaime explains her middle name (Ernestina), shares…
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From Kindergarten to Candy Store: Ally and John Traver's Rhinebeck Love Story
This Valentine's Day, Norm welcomed the cutest couple in Rhinebeck to "Correct Me If I'm Norm": Ally and John Traver, who've been part of each other's lives since kindergarten. They dated in middle and high school, lost touch for years, then found each other again on Facebook in college. Married...
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An In-Depth Chat with Author Emma Tourtelot on 'No One, You Know'
In this episode of 'Correct Me If I'm Norm,' host Norm sits down with author Emma Tourtelot to discuss her latest book, 'No One, You Know.' They delve into Emma's book tour experiences, the inspiration behind her mother-daughter narrative, her creative process, and the role of grief and...
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A Conversation with Victor Britton: From Engineering to Teaching and Life After Retirement
n this episode of 'Correct Me If I'm Norm,' host Norm sits down with Victor Britton, a retired teacher with a fascinating journey from engineering to teaching physics. They discuss Victor's early career, his transition into education, and life growing up. Victor shares personal stories, including...
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From Math Major to Mainframe Sith: Misty Decker on COBOL, Cocktails, and Keeping the Mainframe Alive
Norm sits down with the one and only Misty Decker - singer, mother of two, tireless booster of Rhinebeck schools, beer aficionado, COBOL evangelist, and mainframe modernization expert known as "Darth Misty the Mainframe Sith." They kick things off with a cocktail recipe from Cooper's Daughter...
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Rhinebeck's Joan Berland on Education, Spirituality, and Creativity
Join Norm in conversation with Joan Berland, a former teacher with over three decades of experience, including at CLS in Rhinebeck. Together with her husband Warren, they discuss Joan's unique teaching methods, her work inspired by the book 'Brain Gym,' and a transformational classroom experience...
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Dave Leonard: Music, Miles, and Community
Norm talks with Dave Leonard, Rhinebeck-based podcast host of 'Hudson Valley Unleashed,' DJ, business owner, dedicated family man, and truly amazing friend who just ran his first NYC Marathon. Dave traces his path from college radio at Denison through creating the 'Unleashed' format and building...
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Debbie Hecht: Weaving Together Pride and Politics in Rhinebeck
Norm chats with Debbie Hecht as she shares her journey into local politics, her recent election to the Rhinebeck Town Board, and her dedication to community activism. A knitter, teacher of knitting, mom and dog mom with a PhD in Classics from Columbia University, Debbie discusses how she…
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Mickey Haggerty and Suzanne Kelly discuss their Green Owl Farm, selling saffron and turmeric at Rhinebeck Farmer's Market while advocating for green burial practices.
Join Norm for a conversation with Mickey Haggerty and Suzanne Kelly, fixtures at the Rhinebeck Farmer's Market where they sell saffron, turmeric, and other crops raised on their Green Owl Farm. They discuss how Mickey, a retired trust and estates attorney and the farm's official "farm hand,"...
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Sam Simon on Technocracy, Privacy, and Avant-Garde Art: From Mark Zuckerberg to Charlotte Moorman
Norm welcomes Sam Simon, host of the new podcast "Technocracy for Dummies" and a Bard art history major specializing in experimental humanities. Sam explains the evolution of technocracy from its origins as a vision of scientific governance to today's reality of tech billionaires wielding...
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From the Mississippi Delta to Rhinebeck: Adele Abide's Design Journey
Norm is joined by Rhinebeck's own Adele Abide. Raised in the Mississippi Delta as a Lebanese-American, Adele shares her journey of culture shock upon arriving at the Rhode Island School of Design to study fashion. She reflects on creating her own line of dresses, transitioning to become creative...
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Louisiana Roots, Hudson Valley Life: A Conversation with Sheri Sceroler
Norm sits down with Sheri Sceroler, a dynamic presence in the Hudson Valley who brings Louisiana charm to upstate New York. For 26 years, Sheri has made the region home, zipping around town on her bike or in her vintage MG convertible complete with racing number, playing competitive tennis, and...
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Lara Gillett on Leadership, Motorcycles, and Life in the Hudson Valley
Norm welcomes Lara Gillett, whose remarkable journey took her from Westville, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa to the Hudson Valley by way of UC Irvine, Wharton, Wall Street, and corporate America. Now a leadership and empowerment coach, Lara shares her stories from including her background in…
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Halloween Origins and the Salem Witch Trials with Professsor Karen Sullivan
Norm welcomes back Karen Sullivan, the Irma Brandeis Professor of Romance Literature and Culture at Bard College, to explore the history and traditions of Halloween. They discuss its pagan origins in Ireland, the lore of fairy folk, and the essential Celtic holidays. Professor Sullivan shares...
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Michele Linnen Brings the World Back to Rhinebeck
Norm talks with Michele Linnen, who left Rhinebeck in the 1960s and went on to live in D.C., the U.K., France, Germany, and Honduras. She's worked for the Peace Corps, for two U.S. senators, and as a child therapist. Michele shares her remarkable journey, from finding inspiration in Gertrude...
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Artistic Badass: Peter McCarty's Journey
Norm welcomes author, illustrator, teacher, and all-around artistic badass, Peter McCarty. He's written and/or illustrated dozens of books and won all the awards. They discuss his latest graphic novel and magnum opus, 'The Five Wolves.' They explore Peter's creative journey from children's…
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Kati Garcia-Renart Choreographing Culture, History, and Resilience
Norm welcomes dancer and choreographer Kati Garcia-Renart for an conversation about flamenco, family heritage, and the transformative power of dance. Kati opens up about her formative years training in Spain, her work as a dance instructor at Simons Rock, and the rich historical legacy that…
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“Correct Me if I’m Norm” is a good-natured, Rhinebeck (New York) focused, one-on-one (mostly) free-formish interview-format program, covering all topics from the personal to the universal. It’s hosted by Norm Magnusson, who is an artist and father of three and an active member of his community in the small town of Rhinebeck, NY. Every week, he interviews folks who live and/or work in Rhinebeck about who they are and how they got here and what they’re up to. “I’m very interested in collecting the stories of the people who made this town what it is and those who are continuing to do so”, he explains, adding that he’s deeply appreciative for all the people who come to the Nook @ The Epicurean to talk with him and thanks the Epicurean and RadioFreeRhinecliff.org for making it all possible.Adult themes, childish banter, strong language, and a lot of levity. 60 minutes.Produced by Jennifer Hammoud & Matty Rosenberg @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
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