Fun 2 Know Podcast

Bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma is in the interview chair this episode. Not to discount the hard work that makes it possible, but for the music lover, Tacuma's career seems like a dream. After a couple years woodshedding on the electric bass as a North Philly teen, his talent is spotted and he is whisked away to the major leagues of jazz, first with organist Charles Earland, who had a sizable hit with...

Greg (WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY?) Proops' weekly podcast THE SMARTEST MAN IN THE WORLD delivers comedy and political wit by the bushel as he records the show from stages around the globe. Greg Proops also has a monthly spin-off podcast, The Greg Proops Film Club where he hosts and discusses classic films. Discussion of film and classic Hollywood takes up a big part of this week's program but we also...

Greg Proops has been a showbiz fixture for over the last 25 years, as a popular stand up, and as the guy with the glasses from the long-running "Whose Line is it Anyway." He's been the voice of "Bob the Builder," the announcer in the "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" pod race scene, as well as being seen in a myriad of other appearances. Proops' own podcast "The Smartest Man in the World" was cited...

Al Young's credentials are voluminous. He was appointed poet laureate of California in 2005, by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger no less, Al Young has been honored with Fellowships from Guggenheim, Fulbright, and the National Endowment for the Arts, he's won the American Book Award twice, he's written for Rolling Stone, and authored many volumes of essays, poems and five novels, including SITTING PR...

Ep. 7: KENN KWEDER Pt. 2 The second and final part of our conversation with Kenn Kweder. Kenn survives beyond the record industry's cold reach to deliver a series of riveting indie releases straight from the heart of Kweder. A true troubadour, Kweder plays a near 300 gigs a year that gives him perch to observe the endless mating ritual of the young. Kweder shares all he has observed in this raucou...

Songwriter and Rock Star Kenn Kweder sits down to tell his epic story. First climbing to local Philly fame in the late 70s with his band the Secret Kids, a great batch of songs and the charisma of their frontman led Kweder and the band to be branded, “This Next Big Thing” from out of Philly. Whether it was a record company recession or Kweder's reputation for drunken recklessness that foiled this...

Longtime FRESH AIR producer Amy Salit joins F2K for a Conversation. A lifelong music lover with roots in community radio, Amy is starting her 30th year a producer on the National Public Radio interview institution. We talk to Amy about growing up a young Jewish Beatles fan in Lubbock Texas, her radio beginnings at WCUW in Worcester, Mass., Amy's thoughts on the changing spirit of Austin's SXSW fes...

Sculptor and visual artist Al Farrow's hosts F2K in his San Rafael studio for the second and final part of a discussion of his life and work. In this second half Al talks about the rising political content in his work that sometimes hampered him commercially and finally his breakthrough in his sixties with an ambitious series of religious reliquaries made of bullets, gun parts and bones.

Sculptor and visual artist Al Farrow's hosts F2K in his San Rafael studio for part one of a two part discussion of his life and work. Farrow's journey has taken him from working class roots in Brooklyn to San Francisco in the summer of 1967 to Marin Country, where he scuffled to create art that contains messages of beauty, struggle and politics. The artist's series of religious reliquaries compose...

Henry Plotnick, an minimalist electronic musician who has just unleashed his second release BLUE FOURTEEN at the age of thirteen, joins F2K in conversation. Sitting at his keyboard on his bedroom floor, Mr. Plotnick discusses his musical education, his love of jazz, and the sad state of Bar Mitzvah playlists. The show wraps up with a live performance with Henry at the keys.

Episode 01: Bucky Sinister In this debut episode we have an interview with poet/writer/comedian Bucky Sinister. Mr. Sinister discusses the 90s San Francisco poetry scene where he hosted infamous weekly reading at the dive bar The Chameleon, his Arkansas upbringing, his transition to sobriety and stand-up comedy and making a safe place for women to say "shut up" to men.