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The timely and varied topics this week all strike a theme of accountability.  From making sure fluoride again will be in public drinking water, to making sure a homophobic killer is behind bars, and calling out the absurdity of fawning over the president, the Caffeinated Politics podcast provides the perfect tone for the columns this week. 

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A culmination of the topics that made it into my columns on Caffeinated Politics this week. From the sour notes struck by the Watertown School Board against high school students performing a song honoring a LGBTQ+ activist, a January 6th rioter becomes a criminal again, childhood obesity, and a goodbye to CBS News and the beloved Stephen Colbert. 

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Warm recollections from friends and fellow conservationists about the former Secretary of Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources and Executive Director of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation. George Meyer proved to be an essential citizen, as he brought people together to shape conservation policies that produced profoundly positive outcomes for the state.  Here is a professionally packaged podcast for a gem of a man.

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Quick and memorable historical stories with high production values. Bipartisanship comes alive with Harry Truman and Arthur Vandenberg, Thomas Jefferson wants Italian musicians in our military band, and Teddy Roosevelt skinny dips in the Potomac River. Gregory Humphrey makes the past witty and interesting.   

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Eloquently spoken Sabrina Harris shares stories from a lynching in Alabama that forces her family to become part of the Great Migration. In this movement, approximately six million African Americans moved from the rural Southern United States to the urban North, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.  This story strongly echoes the ones from “The Warmth of Other Suns”, the historical study by Isabel Wilkerson. With insight into how some Blacks, at times, feared the means to achieve Civil Rights, Haris speaks of her desire for change as a teenager, and her recollections about the night Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. She speaks about hope for our nation’s future. If there is only one podcast episode you listen to this year, the conversation with Sabrina Harris is the one to hear and learn from.  

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A fire that destroys a large portion of Hancock’s Main Street, the career of Stanley Hamilton, the 33-year tailoring job of Gus Lawandowski who builds a house on S. Lake Street, the tragic death of Frank Sigourney, what is playing at the Hancock Theatre, a Booth family wedding, the trial of Elmer Huckins, local sports scores, how a boy in 1929 wants snow for Christmas, along wirh the comings and goings of village residents makes for a fast paced episode of Doty Land.  The Depression years at Christmastime in Hancock will take listeners back to shopping for gifts with local merchants as former radio broadcaster Gregory Humphrey paints a picture with words. A 38-minute podcast makes it feel as if the latest edition of the Hancock News has been published. 

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The world's longest-running radio show turns 100 years old on November 28, 2025. From memories of Loretta Lynn,  Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, WSM radio announcer Grant Turner, and others, this tribute looks at how classic country music still resonates across the land.  Heartfelt memories galore! Podcaster and former radio broadcaster Gregory Humphrey takes listeners on a journey from his Hancock home to the stages of country music shows.  The fiddles are warming up, now. "Let 'er go boys!" 

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Without doubt, the most unique swearing-in of any of our American presidents occurs in Vermont with the administration of the oath of office to Calvin Coolidge. Former radio broadcaster Gregory Humphrey sets the mood and then layers on the facts. This is how history should sound and feel. 

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The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was not only something to see, but also to hear!  Podcaster and history-lover Gregory Humphrey packages a professionally-produced and quick-paced slice of the past that will leave you asking yourself, "How did I not know that before?"

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An uplifting interview with Robin and Wil Guernsey about the joys of owning and loving six beautiful Icelandic horses.  The journey to starting a stable and the way these horses connect with others in need of smiles and inner healing.  Podcaster Gregory Humphrey produced this professional-sounding episode with the awareness that we need some good feelings and smiles in our daily lives.  The horses are the tonic for our times.