It’s another A-lister on Craft: Mariah Carey! Listen in for exciting news on her new career in the Rockin’ New Year.

A HUGE thank you to the inestimable Shawn Gould and ayote&olympic hiphop hard by Annon (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

Singer-songwriter Jeff Black has a lot of fan; and some of them are policemen, at least according to his podcast, Black Tuesdays. He’ll be in Columbus on December 3 with Six String Concerts.

Listen in for the path less traveled and what kinds of fan stories make it to his podcast, like the story about how one of his songs got a fan out of a speeding ticket.

I’ve got a lot of people to thank you for this episode:

Interviews with Loreena McKennitt (CAPA), Craig Johnson (Thurber House), Tara DeFrancisco and Rance Rizzuto (Nest Theatre), Origins (The Ohio State University Department of History)

And thank you to folks who lent their voices to describe some of the reasons they are thankful.

Dr. Dale W. Meyerrose: Public Domain

Guest host Maureen Metcalf, CEO of Metcalf & Associates, talks with Dr. Dale W. Meyerrose, Major General(Retired) about leadership and how to lead a group of people who may not have a direct reporting relationship to you. Meyerrose was the first Associate Director of National Intelligence/Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Information Sharing Executive for the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). His job after 9-11 was to consolidate the intelligence agencies and enhance their joint capacity to defend the US.

What you’ve been fearing is finally here: the 2016 Craft Halloween special, with stories from around the globe and your neighborhood.

Join Columbus Unscripted for the Columbus Improv Festival on October 20-24. On the show today, Barbara Allen and Bill Sabo talk to Kelly Buttermore from the podcast From Justin to Kelly about improv, life, and how a really bad show brought Justin and Kelly to a new view on improv.

Bill Shkurti has lived a fascinating dual life at Ohio State University: as an undergraduate from 1964-68, he experienced life as a subject of the administration, but from 1990-2010 he was an important part of the administration. These two sides led him to write his latest book The Ohio State University in the Sixties: The Unraveling of the Old Order, one of the first books from the Ohio State University Press Trillium imprint.

Join us for a discussion of how student life has changed at Ohio State, what caused the university to shut down in May of 1970, and which OSU administrator referred to Columbus Dispatch coverage of OSU events as “manufactured news stories that would make Pravda blush with envy.”

Many authors have explored the Kennedy family, but one little-explored member is Rosemary, the disabled daughter who was kept away from the public eye for most of her life. Kate Clifford Larson remedies this situation with her book, Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter. In it, she describes the medical errors and family desperation that doomed Rosemary to a life of problems and eventual lobotomy. Join us for a discussion of the life of this daughter of Joseph Kennedy, father of Robert and John F. Kennedy.

Kate Clifford Larson will appear with the Thurber House on October 5, 2016.

What’s a dog owner to do? You can live in one of the top 10 best places to live in the United States, Littlefield, and still not have freedom to let your dog off leash at the dog park. And then, events take an ugly turn.

That’s the premise for Suzanne Berne’s book, The Dogs of Littlefield. Join us for a discussion of the book and Berne’s other writings.

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There’s always that one guy you know in high school who has  questionably sane ideas. In my high school, that guy was Jay. He liked to play “The Knockout Game,” the object of which was to be knocked unconscious. He liked to jump off moving car. He loved chaos.

I have a feeling that Robert Evans, my guest this week and author of A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization, was that guy in high school. His book describes not only the history of vice but his personal experiences with it and how he’s introduced his friends to taking various preparations of “vice.” Join us for a discussion of how drunken monkeys may have led the path to society as we know it.