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A 5th Monday Sampler Special

Airs at: Mon, 09/30/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Fortunato catches the bus down to the studio for a live show, with special guest, Late-Night KBOO DJ Stean Stewart. Also, a special story about comedian Jerry Lewis. As well as lots of special music.   Read more

James Went to PAX West!

Airs at: Tue, 10/01/2024 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Winner's Bias
James went to PAX West with some friends and did interviews with "everyone [he] could find" (two people). Nate and James discuss his experience at the convention and play interviews with Nick, half of the design team of the card game Roast: A Game of Marsh and Mallow, and T... Read more

Farewell to Portland Story Theater

Airs at: Thu, 09/26/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
Since I started doing radio shows, I’ve featured storytellers. Those who tell their stories on the printed page or on a stage, through pictures or video, or entirely through sound, as we do on the radio. And in all that time, one of the very best has been Portland Story The... Read more

Fall Membership Drive Music Special

Airs at: Mon, 09/16/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns once again to help raise meembership with a music filled two hours. Also featured, an excerpt from tonight's Gremlin Time later this evening at 11pm on KBOO, which will present a chapter from Kliff Nestoroff's History of American Comedy. Featured musical a... Read more

A History of American Comedy:the origins of Las Vegas

Airs at: Mon, 09/16/2024 at 11:00pm - Tue, 09/17/2024 at 12:00am
Produced for Gremlin Time
More excerpts form Kliph Nesteroff's History of American Comedy, The Comedians:: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy. This month we return to Kliff Nestoroff's exstensive history of American comey with a  look at the rise of Las Vegas as a center ... Read more

Talkin' Board Game Design With Brickhouse Games

Airs at: Tue, 09/17/2024 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Winner's Bias
Winner's Bias is very excited to welcome Rick and Mary Hou of Brickhouse Games to discuss board game design, playtesting, running your own Kickstarter, and any other matters of board game production that comes up. They have a beautiful new game called Northwest that is in i... Read more

Scott Nadelson, author of the new novel Trust Me

Airs at: Thu, 09/12/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
On today's episode, the first in our new hourlong timeslot, we welcome Scott Nadelson, author of the new novel Trust Me, from Portland’s Forest Avenue Press. Scott’s books include the novel Between You and Me, the memoir The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress, and six ... Read more

Deeper into September

Airs at: Mon, 09/09/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns with more of KBOO's Shake Up The Neighborhood Fall Membership Drive with a jam packed line up of virtuoso performances . Starting with Django Reinhart, Mary Lou Williams, Lester Young, Sarah Vaughn,,and Johnny Hodges to Paul Desmond, June Christie, Herbie ... Read more

Board Game Meetups

Airs at: Tue, 09/03/2024 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Winner's Bias
Nate and James talk with Alanna, host and founder of the largest board game meetup in the Pacific Northwest, GameCon at House on the Hill, and Jeanette, host of a meetup at CORE. Read more

Sam A. Mowry: a celebration of life (1959-2024)

Airs at: Thu, 08/22/2024 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Jonesy
On today’s show, we celebrate the life of Sam Mowry, who passed away in Portland last month. Sam was an actor, both on stage and behind the mic, a director, and an impresario of radio theater, especially in his role as Artistic Director of the group he founded, Willamette R... Read more