Episodes
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Tandy Culpepper Talks With Griefcat's Louisa Hall & Annie Nardolilli About Their New Album & Upcoming Tour
In 2019, that halcyon year before we found ourselves seeking shelter from the storm known as covid, musicians of every stripe were putting the finishing touches on albums and looking forward to hitting the road to promote them. Such was the case for a female singer-songwriting duo that met at a...
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Tandy Culpepper Talks With Singer-songwriter Leo Sawikin About His Upcoming Album & Tour
Singer-songwriter Leo Sawikin, like many other emerging recording artists, is busy making up for lost time. He wrote the material for his first album, Row Me Away, in 2019. The album was released two years later in 2021 — one year into the covid pandemic. Promoting that album in front of a live...
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Tandy Culpepper Talks To Susan Bartz Herrick About Her Gripping Mother-Son Memoir, "Slow Dancing With The Devil"
In 2021 alone, more than 60 thousand of the 80 thousand overdose deaths in the United States were due to opiods. One of those who died was 30-year-old Robert “Luke” Paschal, whose mother, Susan Bartz Herrick, has penned the mother-son memoir, Slow Dancing with the Devil: A Son’s Substance Use...
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Tandy Culpepper Talks To Brian K Pagels of Duo Brian K & The Parkway about Debut Album "Killing the Bear"
Brian K. Pagels is one half (along with partner Stephen Russ) of the musical duo, Brian K. & The Parkway. He and Russ formed the band in 2021. Pagels describes the duo’s music as “coastal heartland rock.” Their first album, Killing the Bear,” was preceded by two singles — Wind the Clock and...
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Tandy Culpepper Interviews Singer-Songwriter John Ondrasik About Antisemetism & His Searing New Anthem"OK"
John Ondrasik, known by his stage name Five for Fighting, rose to fame with the 2002 Grammy-nominated single Superman (It’s Not Easy). The song charted at number 14 on the Hot 100 and reached number 1 on Billboard’s Adult Top 40. Music aficionados considered it an anthem following the attacks on...
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Tandy Talks To Dana Richie & Francesco Lucarelli About Post-Pandemic Documentary "Unlocked"
Covid-19 infections exploded across the globe in 2020. By the end of the year, statistics were staggering. In the United States alone, estimates put the number of infections at 20 million. Of those, some 340 thousand people died. Worldwide, nearly 84 million people had been infected resulting in...
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Tandy Culpepper Talks Earthquakes & Volcanoes with Volcanologist & Geologist Jess Phoenix
Jess Phoenix wears many hats. The history undergrad major took a geology class on a lark and found herself instantly hooked. Soon enough, she earned a master’s degree in geology at California State University, Los Angeles. Her thesis is a mouthful: Lava Flow Morphologies and Structural Features...
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Tandy Culpepper Talks to Filmmaker Vishavjit Singh about His Animated Short Film, "American Sikh"
In the Republic, the philosopher Plato notably penned that “Our need will be the real creator.” A rephrasing of those words survives to this day: Necessity is the mother of invention. And so it is. Just ask filmmaker Vishavjit Singh, a cartoonist, performance artist, and public speaker. Singh is…
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Tandy Culpepper Talks with Actress, Filmmaker, & Playwright Aba Arthur about The Color Purple Musical Film & More
Aba Arthur is an actor, playwright, filmmaker, and author. This multi-hyphenate woman knew what she wanted her future to look like from day one. A cast member of Wakanda Forever, the sequel to Black Panther, she now can be seen in the new musical motion picture, The Color Purple, a revisiting of...
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Tandy Culpepper talks to filmmaker Neer Shelter about short film, "Perspectives"
Tandy Culpepper talks with Australian filmmaker Keer Shelter, the man behind the live action short film, Perspectives. The film has qualified for consideration by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — the folks that bring you the Oscars every year. Perspectives' storyline involves a...
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Tandy Culpepper Talks with Singer-Songwriter John Ondrasik AKA Five For Fighting: Ukraine & Afghanistan & More
You may know him as John Ondrasik. You may know him by his stage name Five for Fighting. No matter. By any name, this acclaimed singer- songwriter is recognized throughout the music industry as one of America’s greatest balladeers. Think Superman and 100 Years. Last year, Ondrasik set out on an...
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Tandy Culpepper Talks Israel-Hamas War with Veteran Journalist and Author Don Dahler
I’d been trying to schedule an interview with veteran broadcast journalist Don Dahler (most recently of CBS News) for weeks. We finally found a good date in October, and looking back, I realize had we conducted the interview in September, I would have missed out on his valuable observations...
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Tandy Culpepper Talks with The Christian Science Monitor's Francine Kiefer
For several months, I had been trying to pin down journalist Francine Kiefer for an interview regarding her award-winning work as West Coast bureau chief for The Christian Science Monitor. My efforts were complicated by unforeseen circumstances not of our making. Kiefer had been asked to assume…
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Tandy Culpepper Talks with Singer-Songwriter Lauren Calve about her Debut Long-form Album, "Shift"
Recently I had the opportunity to interview the D.C. based singer-songwriter Lauren Calve. By her own wry admission, she’s something of a late bloomer. In fact, one of the tracks on her debut long-form album, Shift, bears that very title. The ten track collection was released the first week of...
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Tandy Culpepper Talks with Judy Lev about her Groundbreaking New Memoir, "Our Names Do Not Appear"
Judy Lev (the pen name for Judy Labensohn) is an American-Israeli writer whose new memoir -- Our Names Do Not Appear -- breaks new ground for the genre. One book critic referred to it as a "hybrid memoir." After reading it, I must opine that hybrid is an accurate description for the book. Judy...
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Tandy Culpepper Talks Psychoanalysis with Psychologist and Hypnotherapist Dr. Nancy Irwin
Dr. Nancy Irwin is a Los Angeles-based clinical psychologist and hypnotherapist. A longtime mutual friend thought I’d enjoy interviewing Dr. Irwin, and our friend was right. She came to this profession by way of an interesting journey . Can you imagine a stand up comic who morphs into a shrink?...
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Tandy Culpepper Talks Menopause and Vampires with Pamela Skjsvik, Author of "Forever 51"
Pamela Skjolsvik and I met in 2008 at Goucher College where we both were enrolled in the Creative Nonfiction MFA program. We’ve kept in touch over the years. When Pamela decided to try her hand at fiction, she settled on a topic guaranteed to raise eyebrows. The novel is Forever 51, a dark comedy...
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Tandy Culpepper Talks Painting and Poetry with Chris Arvidson, Author of "The House Inside My Head"
I caught up recently with a woman who, like me, graduated from Goucher College's MFA program in Creative Nonfiction. She and I have been Facebook friends, but we spoke by phone for the first time only in the last month. I came across one of her posts in which she shared that she had just come out...
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Tandy Culpepper Talks with new Grammy Member, Dr. James Michael Stevens
Dr. James Michael Stevens is a professor of music and chair of the music department at Welch College in Gallatin, Tennessee. Stevens is also a composer and a prolific one at that. By his estimation, he has some 8,000 compositions to his credit, mainly for piano but also for organ and choral…
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Reba Merrill Talks with Tandy Culpepper about her Stellar Career as a Journalist in Hollywood
Tandy Culpepper talks with author, lecturer, and broadcast journalist Reba Merrill. This is a woman one Hollywood wag dubbed "The Queen of the Hollywood Press Junket." Merrill came to Los Angeles and sought to build a brand in entertainment journalism at the unheard of age of 47 -- unheard of...
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