MavRadio.FM Podcast

Pop culture is never just pop culture. The stories we tell about who's strong, who's worth saving, and what counts as power say a lot about us. You just have to know where to look. Superhero research is one of those places. In this episode, Dr. Adam Tyma flips the script and lets us study him for a change. He takes comics and capes seriously, and he'll tell you exactly why that's real work. Dr. Ty...

Most students don't really know what a graduate teaching assistant is until they have one. Aly Holmberg has been on both sides of that desk. In this episode she walks us through what it means to be a GTA: the prep, the mentorship, the small daily acts of communication that turn a syllabus into a real class. We talk about teaching as a discipline you learn the same way you learn anything else. By p...

Health communication only works when it actually communicates. Too often, the messages people most need to act on are buried under jargon, packaging, or assumptions about who's reading them. Allison Wakin works at the intersection of clarity and care. In this episode she breaks down why accessible health messaging matters more than persuasion, and what gets lost when public health forgets its audi...

The skills you bring from the court to the classroom. Morgann Gardner played basketball for thirteen years. Thirteen years of 5 a.m. workouts, 6 a.m. lifts, two-a-day practices, and the kind of discipline that follows you out of the gym. Now she's a graduate teaching assistant at UNO, teaching Public Speaking Fundamentals to a room full of nervous first-year speakers. Morgann came to UNO from Raci...

Welcome back to Lost In Your 20s with Karima Zhauatar, the podcast for everyone trying to make sense of an in-between decade and the version of themselves they're becoming. In this episode, we dive into the quiet reality of forced maturity. Being "mature" or "responsible" is often seen as a badge of honor, but we rarely talk about what that costs a person on the inside. We explore the gap between...

Welcome back to The Fangirl Archives with Jelly, the podcast where we go deeper into the stories, music, and cinematic universes that fandoms love. In this episode, Jelly dissects the extensive storyline of the BTS Universe, the cinematic world built across BTS's music videos, short films, webtoon comics, mobile games, and "The Notes" book series. With a storyline that goes far beyond pretty pictu...

Welcome back to Elminster Answers, the podcast where the realm's most overworked wizard sounds off on the absurdities of fantasy life, from political to economic and everything in between. In this episode, Elminster speaks on why Wizard College is so expensive. He shares insight on his own education and what it took to make it through, including the absurd magical-item requirements that have left...

Welcome back to 402 Eats with Quise Varoz, the podcast that takes you across Omaha's food scene one honest bite at a time. In this episode, Quise visits one of Omaha's most iconic and historic food destinations, Orsi's Italian Bakery and Pizzeria. Known for its Sicilian-style sheet pizza and over 100 years of tradition, Orsi's carries a reputation that sets very high expectations. Quise takes list...

Welcome back to Pro Thinking with Gizela Kwihangana, the podcast that makes space to think more deeply about clarity, intention, and how we actually live what we believe. In this episode, Gizela explores what happens after clarity. While understanding purpose and truth can feel like a breakthrough, actually living it out is often more difficult than expected. Through personal reflection, this epis...

Welcome back to Missed The Mark with Jacie Ambrose, the podcast that breaks down the marketing moments brands wish they could take back and the ones they'd love to repeat. In this episode, Jacie unpacks two recent sports marketing campaigns that took very different approaches to defining what it means to be an athlete, and saw very different results. First, she breaks down Nike's controversial Bos...

Amy Ellefson teaches in a classroom most people never see. Inside the Omaha Correctional Center, she works with students enrolled in UNO TRAC. That stands for Transforming, Renewing, Achieving, and Connecting. It's a grant-funded program out of UNO's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice that brings college courses to incarcerated students, with a path to continue their education at UNO once...

Wyatt Lehr graduates from UNO this Friday. We're releasing his episode the same week on purpose. Wyatt has spent his time at UNO inside MavRadio, the campus radio station that gives students a real microphone, real airtime, and real stakes. In this episode we talk about what student media teaches that nothing else can, what MavRadio has meant for the people who've come through it, and what it soun...

Episode 9 of Comm in Ten features UNO alum Megan Reider and her path to becoming program director at Sweet 98. She shares how an unexpected internship led her into radio and how setbacks in school and in her career shaped her along the way. This episode is about persistence, growth, and staying open to opportunity while building a career in media. Watch on YouTube, listen wherever you get your pod...

Episode 8 of Commentate explores the state of journalism through a conversation with Professor Andrew Stem of the School of Communication. He reflects on his path from student media to professional reporting and teaching, then shares a candid look at the challenges facing news today, from shrinking newsrooms to changing business models. The episode also highlights why journalism still matters, whe...

In this episode of Lost in Era 20 , we explore the quiet reality of emotional masking and the distance between how people appear and how they actually feel. On the surface, many of us seem fine - laughing, socializing, showing up for life - while internally carrying experiences and emotions that remain unseen by those around us. This episode reflects on how common it is to hide inner struggles, no...

Welcome back to Missed The Mark with Jacie Ambrose, the podcast that breaks down the marketing moments brands wish they could take back and the ones they'd love to repeat. In this episode, Jacie unpacks two very different influencer partnership stories that reveal everything about what it means to truly know your audience. First, she dives into e.l.f. Cosmetics' August 2025 campaign featuring come...

Elminster makes the claim that the EI is bad for society as a whole. EI is some of you may know about is Elemental Intelligence. Elementals are manmade constructs that are slowly getting smarter as the magic is getting more advanced. Elminster bounces from topics about the organizations leading the charge such as the Champions of Grand Phantasmal Trickery, or as some refer to it, ChampGPT. He addr...

Jelly comes back with the BTS Comeback. ARIRANG is a hit, and the promotions have been catered directly for ARMY. As the year of 2026 begins, the secet promotions start to filter through personal post cards, mysterious countdowns, walls of roses, and "what is your love song?" plastered on every media platform. With exactly 77 days running on the countdown, ARMY are in detective mode to investigate...

In this episode of Pro Thinking , Gizela reflects on the pressure of trying to become a version of oneself that never seems to hold. As standards, expectations, and perspectives constantly change, this can create instability in how individuals see themselves and where they feel they are going. The conversation centers on a deeper question: what truth is directing one's life? Through personal refle...

In Episode 2 of 402 Eats, host Quise Varoz travels to Benson in Omaha to try one of the city's most talked-about and highly rated food spots — O.T.B (Off The Bone) Turkey Legs. Known for its bold, creative, and sometimes unexpected flavors like Oreo wings, hot honey, and lemon pepper buffalo turkey legs, this restaurant has been gaining major attention online with a near-perfect rating. In this ep...

In this episode, host Karima Zhauatar shares her personal story of choosing a major while feeling the weight of family expectations, cultural pressure and the fear of making the wrong decision. She explains what that pressure looks like in Kazakhstan, how it shaped her choices and why the experience is more similar to the U.S. than people might think. This episode is for anyone who has felt stuck...

Dr. Sharon Storch shares how communication shapes professional growth, leadership, and the boundaries we build to protect what matters. In this episode, we talk about the moments that shaped her path from business and K 12 education to higher education, and how those experiences influence the way she teaches and mentors. Sharon is an associate professor at UNO and an active leader with the Associa...

The Fangirl Archives is a light hearted podcast for people who love music and the culture that grows around the things we care about most. In Episode 1, I share how my fangirl era started with bootleg anime on YouTube, a random ad and the moment I discovered BTS. From there, I talk about the songs that pulled me in, what it felt like learning the members' names and why that is basically the point...

Elminster makes the claim that the emperor of the United Provinces is a lich. Liches in fantasy are powerful undead mages obsessed with collecting power by any means necessary. Elminster offers his reasoning and a few insight checks on how the emperor could be slowly turning into a lich before our very eyes. This episode uses political satire and fantasy metaphors to make modern politics feel a li...

In a culture that constantly rewards achievement and external validation, when do we pause to ask deeper questions about identity and purpose? In the first episode of Pro-Thinking, host Gizela Kwihangana reflects on the pressure to prove worth through success. Growing up with an immigrant mother shaped by war and hardship fueled a drive to make life meaningful, but that pursuit led to a turning po...