What I Really Want to Talk About

Amy Burkhardt is a successful higher ed fundraiser and the host of her own radio show focused on women artists. Since the age of five when her father brought home a mysterious red cloak that just might have belonged to Prince, she has been smitten. We talk about his boundary crossing music, his lyrics that made it ok to be different, and his status as a cultural icon. Amy also does a deep dive int...

Dave Marran is a sportswriter and has been a member of the Chicago White Sox scoreboard operations team for decades. We talk about the pursuit of the perfect scoreboard stat, and the evolution of the fan experience at ballparks and stadiums. We also discover Dave is telling the history of the White Sox--and of baseball itself--one fascinating factoid at a time. Dave and I are lifelong friends and...

Aaron Beale, is a husband, a dad, a craftsman of fine furniture and the Vice President of Student Craft at Berea College, but what he really wants to talk about is watches. We discuss his love for beautiful and functional timepieces and the origins of this passion. We delve into deeper questions about the intersection of form, function and aesthetics, and even muse about the role of time keeping i...

Dr. Jacob Dickerson is a husband , a dad and the Chair of the Communication Department at Berea College. He has a Ph. D in Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media. His current research examines the idea of “memory ecology” which is made up of the collection of many remembrances of a particular event. But what he really wants to talk about is MonsterVision , the late night movie marathon series—h...