The Focus LBK Show

What’s going On? The Parkway Cherry Point Neighborhood association meets on Dec 19, 2023 at 7pm in the Patterson Library Community Room. Santa Land opens December 9th and runs through the 21st at Makenzie Park. As always, there will be Christmas Light Displays, Photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus, and decorated Christmas trees. Theresa Wilson and the stalwart crew at the Patterson Library are hosting...

How would you like to Meet the Grinch? He’ll be out at Rock Solid Athletics on Saturday November 25th. The City of Lubbock can help with repairing or replacing your existing heating unit, or paying Electric and Gas bills. The SWD crew broaches the subject of Electric Competition in the LBK. Rob is deeply skeptical of ERCOT because it seems like it’s linked to the epic power grid failures that occu...

Kham and Rob welcome Attorney Adam Pirtle and Community Actionist Natalie Miller to the Southwest Digest Podcast. At a recent City Council Meeting, Councilwoman Jennifer Wilson indicated she was adamantly opposed to Amortization because it was communist, and limited the rights of business owners. The SWD crew explores this and other questions with two Lubbockites who have been working to amortizat...

Episode 9 of the Southwest Digest Podcast was recorded in one take, and this is the way we will do the show going forward. We believe there is much more of a conversational feel and flow, and it felt much more entertaining, at least to us. For What’s Going On”, it was rather “pim slickens” but we do discuss the Rise Academy Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day on November 14, 2023. Start time 7:30 am....

On this week's SWD'cast, Robert and Khambrel fly without the guiding hand of our Director, Mr. Nugent. What's Going On?  Did you know about the Free Car Seat Assistance Program at the Parenting Cottage?  Also, Chitterlings are a no go for the Too Dope Duo, but Oxtails are the "Go-to" dish for Thanksgiving.  Speaking of food, don't forget to go pick your veggies at the Roots Booker T. Washington Co...

What’s Going On? Please join us for a prayer rally, Tuesday, October 24th at the 2 p.m. City Council meeting, at the Patterson Memorial Plaza. Sponsored by North and East Lubbock Coalition and the Lubbock Roundtable. East Lubbock Art House on October 28th has a workshop that's going to teach you how to start a nonprofit. It's a great way to help the community and do that thing that's on your heart...

Located on 50th street, an organization called LEARN, Inc . strives to “assist individuals with beginning, furthering, and pursuing their education, and to afford individuals the opportunity to improve their educational, social, and economic future.” Lola Coppage, the Executive Director of LEARN, Inc, recently spoke with The Soutwest Digest Podcast about the ways the organization helps students wh...

In What’s Going On, Rob and Kham talk trademark adlibs by the artists we love, and the importance of singing using your own true voice. In Words From the Elders, Mr. Robert Jenkins, Sr tell us how he met his wife, and what led to him moving to West Texas. In What You Bumpin’?, they dissect “What Goes Up” by Franky Beverley and Maze. Finally, in the Down the Prairie Dog Hole, an in-studio guest rel...

In this week’s Word From the Elders, Mr. T.J. Patterson hits us up on the importance of family and community. His Grandmother had almost 20 children, and his grandfather was German. T.J. was one of four children. His mother “fixed hair, and his father was a laborer. Though his parents were not well-educated, they still taught T.J. everything he needed to know. It even seems like he invented a term...

In episode five of the Southwest Digest Podcast, Rob and Kham embark on their usual discussion of What’s Going On in Lubbock, Texas. There wasn’t a lot to report, but you know this won’t stop them from finding something interesting to “chop it up” about. For the Out and About segment , Rob was surprised by how mild Houston traffic was during a recent weekend excursion. On the other hand, some our...

In this tumble “Down the Prairie Dog Hole”, Rob and Kham talk about a real life haunted house over in East LBK. Both of them had strange experiences in the house, which used to stand over at 1721 East 1st Place. And it was more than just seeing something; they both actually had physical encounters with whatever it was that walked in the shadows there. The hosts also get into Astral Projection , th...

Rob and Kham listen to Mrs. Christine Howard, an Elder in the E-LBK community, as she relates details of a time when Mae Simmons community center and Dunbar Lake didn’t exist. She touches on how the Tornado back in ‘70 helped fully desegregate our city. In fact, she mentions how the racial composition of Parkway was totally different “back in the day”. Rob and Kham, going “Down the Prairie Dog Hol...

This week the Too Dope Duo, Rob and Kham tell you which genre bending musician is on his way to Lubbock to perform. And did you know LBK has it’s own Oktoberfest? Well, if you want some beer and brats, check out The Rotary Club of Metropolitan Lubbock . Moonlight Musicals has something interesting on deck if you want to catch a good movie in the park. For all you music lovers, Lil Keke provides th...

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Join Kham and Rob "Down the Prairie Dog Hole" as they chop it up with Pastor Bill Stubblefield about the ways God speaks to us. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.focuslbk.show

In this episode, Kham and Rob discuss matters of interest to Lubbock. They start off talking about music, slang, and buying tapes from the Tape Man at Hick’s Solar Carwash. What’s Going On? In the What’s Going On section, they tell you how to get a Free Car Seat from the Parenting Cottage. They also talk about all the free legal services provided by Legal Aid of Northwest Texas . There is also a c...

The Temps and Tops are coming to the Helen Devitt Jones Theatre Simba and the crew will be here, too. Come on Down! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.focuslbk.show

What’s good LBK? We are pleased to present the 2nd edition of the Southwest Digest Podcast. Mr. Nugent, Kham and I had fun making it, and we are honing our workflow, and becoming a cohesive team. In other words, we are starting to “get into the groove of how we need to move.” Do you code switch often? We do, sometimes. But seriously, this is a good episode. We were able to up our production game a...

All of the sections may or may not occur on every show; we are still working the bugs out on that one. But, rest assured, we plan to keep the episodes phat. The first EP unfolds like this: Free Sections What's Goin On (local happs, events, etc) * Host Introduction, About the Show/format * Events Calendar - "(If you or your organization have something going on, send details to: tellswdcast@gmail.co...