BTW w/ Amir K

Shootin the shit w/ my roommate Nic. First show post WMUC. Follow on IG and Twitter @thebestshowonair @bestshowonair

Episode 21 (I think) from 11/09/21. Anousheh Ansari is an engineer, entrepreneur, and current CEO of the X Prize Foundation. Creator of the 2004 Ansari X Prize, in 2007 Anousheh became the first self-funded Woman and Iranian-American to visit the International Space Station. Talking Space, AI, speaking at the Oscar's, Society on Mars & more.

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From 11/02/21. Teddy Beats is a local DJ from Baltimore. We met while Teddy played at Firefly Music Festival in Delaware. Talking making music, touring, playing Firefly and phallic shaped waffles. Follow @TeddyBeatsMusic.

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From 10/26/21. Dr. Phillip Swagel is an Economist and current Director of the Congressional Budget Office. As Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 2006 to 2009, he played an important role in the Troubled Asset Relief Program that was part of the U.S. government's response to the financial crisis of 2007–08. He is currently on leave as a Professor in International Economics at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, a non-resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, senior fellow at the Milken Institute, and co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative. He has also worked at the Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, and the White House Council of Economic Advisors.

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Episode 18 and Season Finale from 05/13/21. Andrea Sullivan and Julie Hirsch are two Mechanical Engineering Juniors at UMD. Talking the major, Women in STEM, High School Math & More!!

Episode 17 from 05/06/21. Ethan Jaffee is a Comp Sci Sophomore with a minor in Spanish, and he's involved in BitCamp and Hackathon. Talking BitCamp, the Megaladon, the WMUC Studio, and much more!!

Episode 16 from 04/01/21. Brian Kelly is the Director of the Architecture program at UMD. He lead the team that completed a new campus plan for his alma mater, Notre Dame, in 2002, and has collaborated on campus plans for the University of Virginia, University of Chicago, University of Georgia, Emory University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as his home campus, University of Maryland. Talking the National Mall, UMD's Campus, Route 1, Rome & MORE!

Episode 15 from 03/25/21. Mat Steininger is a Senior Comp Sci Major at UMD and creator of MDVaxAlerts, a service which helps Marylanders find vaccine appointments. We talk his website, MD vaccinations, Computer Science, blockchain, and chicken wings. You can find his website at MDVax.info and follow their account on Twitter @MDVaxAlerts to get notifications about new vaccine appointments!

Episode 14 from 03/11/21. Luke Amato is the lead singer of The Missing Peace, a garage band from Washington DC. Talking rock music, their new EP, and Luke's new radio show. Stream their new EP "garage" now on all major streaming platforms.

Episode 13 from 02/25/21. Ashwani Jain (UMD '12) is a former UMD Alum and Candidate for Maryland Governor in 2022! This week we sat down over zoom to talk about what Maryland needs and to get to know our possible future Governor!