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This Week’s Episode (7.7.14): Mike St. Hilaire

This week’s episode features an all-star of reality television. True, he’s not an on-screen talent, but he’s one of the many components that delivers many of your favorite entertainments right to you. Mike St. Hilaire is a freelance audio engineer who has worked on an incredibly broad assortment of reality programs. He started on the…

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America

It’s the 4th of July. My parents and my best friend are coming over today. We’re going to grill, we’re going to drink beer, and then we’re going to watch the parade through the neighborhood. Then, my wife, my best friend and I are going to see fireworks at the baseball game tonight. It’s like…

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Ep. 18: Simon Lomax – Australian Ex-Pat, Recovering Journalist, United States Citizen

It’s 4th of July week! And what could be more American than sharing an immigrant’s journey to the United States? Simon Lomax is an Australian ex-pat, a recovering journalist, and, most importantly, a U.S. Citizen. In this week’s episode, we talk about his career as a journalist in Brisbane, Australia, what brought him to the…

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Bandwagon

The United States plays Belgium today, and I am rooting for the United States. Apparently I am not alone as, according to this (I’m certain) impeccably researched Yahoo news article, the rest of the world is hopping on the US soccer bandwagon as well. This article charmed the pants right off me because it largely…

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This Week’s Episode (6.30.14): Simon Lomax

Happy 4th of July week! In honor of our nation’s birthday, I thought it appropriate to celebrate America somehow. And what would be better or more appropriate than covering the immigrant’s journey to America? The United States is a nation founded on immigration, so on this week’s show, we celebrate that by featuring Simon Lomax,…

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Ep. 17: Kate Schulz – Registered Dietitian and Health Professional

Kate Schulz is a registered dietitian who has worked in health care, for a multitude of individual patients and in the public sector. She brings a wealth of knowledge to the podcast as we talk extensively about how a dietitian works with dialysis patients, as a professional who enhances overall wellness, and as an advocate…

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This Week’s Episode (6.23.14): Kate Schulz

This week’s guest is Kate Schulz, registered dietitian and health professional. Kate shares her work in a multitude of environments including with dialysis patients, in the private sector, and advocating for systemic change. She and Jon also talk about the benefits of Weight Watchers, the “secret” to losing weight and improving your health, the game…

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NYC

If you’re reading this on Friday, I’m on my way to New York. Hey, we’re in New York! I got a gun, let’s go to a Broadway show! Yo, taxi! In the spirit of this trip, here’s a bunch of random funny crap I thought of in advance of leaving that I’m happy to share…

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Ep. 16: Jason Heller – Professional Freelance Journalist

This week’s guest is Jason Heller, who is a professional freelance journalist. Jason is a Senior Writer at the AV Club, a contributor to Pitchfork, a Hugo Award winner for his editing at Clarkesworld, book reviewer for NPR.org, and Denver punk. He joins Jon on this week’s episode, and the two proceed to have the…

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Ultrasound

Quite possibly the only benefit of going through months and months of infertility is that if you’re lucky enough to become pregnant, you get to have lots and lots of ultrasounds. Whereas most people only get one, maybe two, we’ve had, like, five already. For awhile there, it was basically every other week we’d get…

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