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This Show is All About You
by KKNW | Hubbard Radio
Welcome to This Show is All About You hosted by JDK Wyneken - author, historian, poet, and social commentator with lots to say on lots of things. Join him every week as he explores what it means to be you, by hearing about him and his take on the world around us as found in history, current affairs, literature, media, sports, and whatever else there is to explore. Take what you want from JDK’s unique outlook and good humor, all with a healthy dose of emotional intelligence, personal connection, and strategic irreverence for the Way Things Are Usually Done.
Episodes
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Transitions: Episode 7- Going On Hiatus, Never Goodbye
Episode 128: Transitions: Episode 7- Going On Hiatus, Never Goodbye" In this final episode of This Show Is All About You before an open-ended hiatus, JDK reflects on the roots of the show, its progress over the past few years, what he learned along the way, and what he is doing next. Throughout…
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Transitions, Chapter 6: Standing Our Ground
Episode 127: "Transitions, Chapter 6: Standing Our Ground" JDK takes an episode to discuss the feedback - and occasional blowback - he received after his previous episode discussing the crisis in Israel. Did the responses he received change any of his thinking? What does he think about the…
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Transitions, Chapter 5: The Urgency of Israel and Palestine
Episode 126: "Transitions, Chapter 5: The Urgency of Israel and Palestine" JDK dedicates this episode to providing some historical context for the current crisis in the Middle East, in an effort to highlight all the problematic elements of history, myth, bigotry, and fear-based beliefs that exist...
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Transitions, Chapter Four: From Old to New Seasons
Episode 125: "Transitions, Chapter Four: From Old to New Seasons" In honor of his favorite baseball team's season ending without making the playoffs, JDK discusses how we frame and respond to things ending - these go a long way to helping us better start our new season. How much say do we have in...
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Transitions, Chapter Three: Oh, Canada!
Episode 124: "Transitions, Chapter Three: Oh, Canada!" Just back from his annual sports-week trip with his buddy, Seth, JDK shares about the lessons he learned from the people he met in places like Detroit, Michigan and Toronto, Canada. These got him thinking - why do we choose to be as we are?…
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Transitions, Chapter Two - The Big 5-0
Episode 123: “Transitions, Chapter Two - The Big 5-0” This week, JDK turns 50 and takes a look back at all the reasons why he is grateful fire all he’s learned and experienced so far in life, and why he’s excited for what’s next! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California...
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Transitions, Chapter One
Episode 122: "Transitions, Chapter One" With so many autumn transitions underway or approaching, JDK asks listeners to step back for a minute and examine two things - how they respond to the changes that are constant, and what values they identify as key to holding onto as navigation through...
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Projecting about 'Socialism' - Just Stop It Already
Episode 121: "Projecting about 'Socialism' - Just Stop It Already" Following up on the feedback he received from last week, JDK digs into all the ways in which commentators on all sides of the political spectrum misunderstand the idea of Socialism, and how they erroneously use the term as both a...
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Methinks Doth Projects Too Much
Episode 120: "Methinks Doth Projects Too Much" In a hard hitting episode about history, JDK lays out an energetic defense of why and how the recent indictments of former president Trump are not anywhere close to resembling the judiciary systems in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. Along the way…
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Reframing Wellness - A Conversation with Jill Beck
Episode 119: "Reframing Wellness - A Conversation with Jill Beck" JDK welcomes a special guest to this week's show - Jill Beck, founder and CEO of "Go Long", a Wellness Concierge service. Jill focuses on the "Sandwich Generation" of people (40s / 50s), who often are taking care of kids and…
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Whose Side Are You On, Anyway?"
Episode 118: "Whose Side Are You On, Anyway?" JDK focuses this week on a story about Nancy Cunard, an early-twentieth century European intellectual and writer who challenged her fellow writers to take a stand by openly stating their "side" in the Spanish Civil War (1937-39), which pitted a...
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When Square Scrubbers Don't Work
Episode 117: "When Square Scrubbers Don't Work" This week, JDK asks us to consider why we tend to unify with one another over news-breaking tragedies rather than over the day-in-day-out gifts and commonalities of life. Why do we lose our sense of unity with others so quickly after a tragedy? What...
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A Road Trip About Freedom
JDK relays a story about his recent road trip through rural America, where he found himself in conversations and situations that illuminated a lot about how some define freedom, how others practice it, and how we all understand it for ourselves and for others. In light of the recent Supreme Court...
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A Future Needs a Past
Episode 115: "A Future Needs a Past" On this Juneteenth, JDK explores the story of Opal Lee, an activist who led the charge to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. Her story is one of overcoming racism and violence, and one of patient - if urgent - advocacy and perseverance. In short, it is a...
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One Man in a Great Crusade
Episode 114: "One Man in a Great Crusade" With the anniversary of D-Day this week, JDK tells the unique story of one man - Norwood Thomas - who fought that day and went on to live a remarkably "normal" life, punctuated by a number of memorable moments later in life. It's a very human story from...
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Four of a Kind
Episode 113: "Four of a Kind" For the week preceding Memorial Day, JDK tells the story of four young men who served with distinction as fighter pilots in World War II. Each of them achieved the distinction of "Ace" - meaning they shot down at least five enemy aircraft in combat. While each of…
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Friends For Fifty
Episode 112: "Friends For Fifty" This week, JDK tells the story of three lifelong friends - Matt, Sean, and Jay - whose lives have taken them all in very different directions, yet somehow have nevertheless remained connected across time, space, and life circumstances. It is a story about…
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23 Handwritten Letters, Is All: The Story of Julia and Gavin
How many profound changes in our individual and community lives happen without anyone knowing about them? Or are we so besotted with being noticed that no positive change can go unseen or unpunished by someone? Have we moved away permanently from seeing the positive potential in others -...
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The Power of Potential: A Story About Beth and Ben
Episode 110: "The Power of Potential: A Story About Beth and Ben" JDK provides some exciting updates on the future of the show, then tells a story of someone quite famous that illustrates something we all have in common - working towards whatever we each define as our potential. Illustrating that...
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Parallel Lives to Wartime China and Back
Episode 109: "Parallel Lives to Wartime China and Back" JDK recounts the stories of two men who fought in World War II, who at the time had no idea that their lives ran on parallel tracks that would take them across the Pacific and back as part of one of the most daring missions of the entire…
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My Body of Work, Play, and Everything In Between
Episode 108: "My Body of Work, Play, and Everything In Between" Fresh off an epic spin class over the holiday weekend, JDK reflects back on his athletic experiences in life, focusing on the learning experience of what these provided him in terms of his integrated awareness today. Along the way…
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Every Day Can Be Opening Day
Episode 107: "Every Day Can Be Opening Day" JDK welcomes his longtime friend, Seth Moorman, back to the show to talk about the challenges involved in the "expectations" we mistakenly put on ourselves and others. Using the lens of the new baseball season as a starting point, they discuss and…
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The Four Eric/ks
Episode 106: The Four Eric/ks In what he calls "a story of common threads", JDK focuses on what he learned about himself from four people with one common name - Eric (or with a 'k'), from early childhood through to today. Four different people, four different experiences (and a couple of them...
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The True Legend of 'Goat Butt'
Episode 105: "The True Legend of 'Goat Butt'" JDK relays a deeply personal story about one of the most important experiences in his life, one that - unbeknownst to him at the time - prepared him to face the biggest crises he's ever faced. Yet, it also prepared him to accept so much more good in…
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Painting A Larger Historical Picture
Episode 104: "Painting A Larger Historical Picture" With March being Women's History month, JDK takes a look at the "democratization" of historical narratives over the past half-century, and why these efforts are still necessary and why they need not be seen as threatening to anyone. He also...
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One Year Later
Episode 103: "One Year Later" JDK reflects on the one year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine by examining how the war has directly impacted the realities inside three towns outside the combat zone. Within each are stories of heartbreak, difficulty, and hope, and - perhaps - some ideas…
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The Way(s) to Love
Episode 102: "The Way(s) to Love" With Valentine's Day nearing, JDK casts a wide net around the concepts and experiences of love in all its forms, viewed through three distinct stories of love that illustrate a larger truth: that genuine Love of any kind (disconnected from attachment, control…
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Remembering to Be Where My Feet Are
Episode 101: "Remembering to Be Where My Feet Are" JDK weaves together three stories about Remembrance focused around International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Astronaut Remembrance Day, and his own personal history - all of which have important landmark dates this past week. How do we balance...
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How I Count(ed) to One Hundred
Episode 100: "How I Count(ed) to One Hundred" JDK commemorates the hundredth (!) episode of the show by taking listeners down memory lane on how he got started in podcasting and why. The story is one of taking new steps and risks, learning from past mistakes, and learning better how to connect…
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The Day I Met Lester
Episode 99: “The Day I Met Lester” JDK takes this MLK holiday episode to talk about the powerful day he had years ago in Washington, D.C., when a chance meeting with a stranger named Lester became a lifelong bond - and a foundational life lesson - in just a few hours. See Privacy Policy at...
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Time To Mix Things Up A Bit
In the first episode of 2023, JDK rings in the new year with some adjustments to the show format, with a new emphasis on storytelling, various goings-on in his own life, and listener feedback. Check it out for yourself and see how his and other people's stories might just, in some way, be a part…
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The 2022 Human Spirit Episode
Episode 97: "The 2022 Human Spirit Episode" JDK wraps up the show's run through 2022 by taking a unique look back on the biggest stories in the news - both good and bad - and reflecting on what it can all mean for each of us, depending on how we see ourselves and act in the here and now.…
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One Man's Show"
Episode 96: "One Man's Show" JDK begins a multi-episode look back on 2022 by sharing with listeners what his past year has looked and felt like, with a number of updates on things like his writing projects, his efforts to publish his book, and how his day-in-day-out relationships with himself and...
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This World Cup Runneth Over and it's Making A Mess
Episode 95: "This World Cup Runneth Over and it's Making A Mess" JDK takes a close look at the controversies surrounding the ongoing World Cup in Qatar, and uses it as a lens to examine how and why we as sports fans make the choices we do to support events, sports, and leagues that don't often...
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Innies and Outies
Episode 94: “Innies and Outies” Inspired in equal measure by last week’s launch of the Artemis I rocket to the Moon and the approaching Thanksgiving holiday in America, JDK discusses the connections we have between exploring outer space(s) and our inner spaces of spirit, emotion, and intuition....
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Predictions Are Stupid
Episode 93: "Predictions Are Stupid" The midterm elections surprised us all - but why?? It's the question JDK asks us all to consider in this episode as we figure out why the forecasted "red wave" made only a splash. Could it be that our own focus on trying to control outcomes - predictions…
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And That Is An Encouraging Thought
Episode 92: "And That Is An Encouraging Thought" With the midterm elections imminent, JDK builds on his thoughts from last week's episode to discuss how we can each show up for ourselves and others in these uncertain, stressful times. Using a heartfelt favorite book / film series that has a bunch...
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Our Internals > Those Externals
Episode 91: “Our Internals > Those Externals” With the US midterm elections looming and fear and angst on the increase, JDK asks us all to step within and connect with our own feelings and life compass first. Why? And how can that possibly help us? Listen to find out, then pay close attention to...
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Just Another Day? Yes, and No Way
Episode 91: “Just Another Day? Yes, and No Way” JDK talks about all the remarkable events - some well known, others not-so-much, really - that have happened on this date in history. It’s a fun way to learn more about the past, yes, but also about ourselves when we look at the history of ANY day…
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Success’ is Really Like a Good Beef Stew
Episode 90: “‘Success’ is Really Like a Good Beef Stew” Fresh off the disheartening season-ending defeat of his beloved hometown baseball team, JDK brings in his friend and co-host of the “Breaking Up With Our BS” podcast, Tawny Sanabria, to talk about how we envision, define, and pursue…
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Tony Soprano Was Wrong, And That Doesn't Have to be a Problem
Episode 89: "Tony Soprano Was Wrong, And That Doesn't Have to be a Problem" On this year's Indigenous People's Day and Columbus Day, JDK examines the historical roots of each and challenges us all to take a good look and why and how we infuse holidays with meaning in the first place. Perhaps we...
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Dipping Into the Mailbag
Episode 88: "Dipping Into the Mailbag" JDK addresses recent questions he's received from listeners all over the world (yes, the world!) about everything from the war in Ukraine to the upcoming midterm elections to the recent excitement surrounding his favorite baseball team (hint: the Drought is...
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Hey Dudes - Let's Get Comfortable with Discomfort
Spurred by some recent experiences and realizations about himself, along with some big global developments in regards to women's rights, JDK dedicates this episode to addressing other men directly about how and why they view women the way they do - however that might be. Asking tough questions...
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Meet the Originals
Episode 86: “Meet the Originals” In honor of Girls in Aviation Day (September 24th), JDK welcomes esteemed historian Sarah Byrn Rickman to the show to discuss the WAFS - Women’s Auxiliary Ferry Squadron. These were first female pilots employed by the US Army during WWII to ferry new combat…
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The Give and Take of Transitions
Episode 85: "The Give and Take of Transitions" Upon requests from listeners, JDK takes an episode to discuss two major transitions in the world this past week - the sudden, successful Ukrainian offensive against Russian invasion forces in Eastern Ukraine, and the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.…
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Talk About the Passion”
Episode 84: “Talk About the Passion” JDK welcomes back Julia Cannell, Executive Director of Airway Science for Kids, to the show to talk about passion — whatever that might be, in whatever areas of life give us meaning. Whether it’s in helping kids discover their passion and potential, or adults...
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We Are Like Baseball, And That’s A Good Thing, I Swear
?Episode 83: “We Are Like Baseball, And That’s A Good Thing, I Swear” JDK basks in the summer sunshine this week to talk about his favorite game and why it teaches him so much about what makes life so great - and so real. Baseball and life have so much in common, even in their rough parts. If it...
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Calvin and Hobbes Warned Us
JDK goes solo this week to discuss the ramifications of last week's FBI search for and removal of classified documents - including top secret documents about nuclear weapons - from former president Trump's home in Mar-A-Lago, Florida. In particular, JDK looks at what the anti-law enforcement...
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"Yes, I Can Help Ukraine" - Part II
Episode 81: "Yes, I Can Help Ukraine" - Part II JDK welcomes Tanya Zayka back to the show for a continued conversation about her work with the Ukrainian Association of Washington State to provide relief to displaced refugees inside Ukraine. Listen to firsthand accounts of amazing stories of how…
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"Yes, I Can Help Ukraine" - Part I
Episode 80: "Yes, I Can Help Ukraine" - Part I JDK welcomes a special guest to the show, Tanya Zayka of the Ukrainian Association of Washington State, for a heartfelt and powerful discussion about the extensive relief efforts that are still underway to help the people of Ukraine as they continue…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to This Show is All About You hosted by JDK Wyneken - author, historian, poet, and social commentator with lots to say on lots of things. Join him every week as he explores what it means to be you, by hearing about him and his take on the world around us as found in history, current affairs, literature, media, sports, and whatever else there is to explore. Take what you want from JDK’s unique outlook and good humor, all with a healthy dose of emotional intelligence, personal connection, and strategic irreverence for the Way Things Are Usually Done.
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KKNW | Hubbard Radio
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