Life is a Song

By Rogue Media Network

In this podcast, get to know someone by the music that has shaped their life.

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Life is a Song episodes:

March 02, 2026 Ashley Bean Thornton’s Life is a Song
Ashley Bean Thornton is this week’s guest and a candidate for Texas House District 56. This innovator and leader is known for her amazing laugh, love of a Whataburger breakfast and her signature red Converse. What songs shape her life? Tune in to find out.
Key Moments: Her brief time living in Austin in the 1980s was when Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen were making their start in the music industry. Their music has shaped her memories of that time of her life.
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4cgeBj66kbNE00ix0CVrDD?si=9jmOvx7sTOGzA01Q9r7pTQ&pi=q5opPnYCRzqfi

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41min
February 23, 2026 Liner Notes: Karaoke and Sing-Aloud Songs
In this Liner Notes, we look into the guest question: What’s your go-to karaoke song or a song you like to sing aloud? Melissa gives her thoughts on this question as well as her answers in both categories.
Key Moments: The songs Melissa likes to sing aloud are not chart-topping songs by well-known artists, but deeps cuts from the 1990s and 2000s.
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7mTiudNf00lxhp909AtkT0?si=FF6v9XqGRdqFswfYjl5OMw&pi=juQrcRimQMixh

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57min
February 16, 2026 Patrick Wright’s Life is a Song
Patrick Wright is a professional opera singer and stage performer, as well as a talented writer of his own stage works. Don’t let his background fool you as besides his love of opera, he’s into musical theatre, Queen and System of a Down. Check out Patrick’s Life is a Song now!
Key Moments: Patrick’s love of musical theatre began early as he asked to listen to “The Music Man” as a kid. A number of musicals make Patrick’s list that shows his love of the the genre.
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7sYBUc8qxEOXp90bom6kpZ?si=Sp8Pp_HDRD-J6KT3XLe3Nw&pi=fej4qzWsRrCS2

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1h 4min
February 09, 2026 Wesley Walker's Life is a Song
This week's guest is Wesley Walker, a psychotherapist and host of the mental health and recovery based podcast “Facing the Mirror with Wesley and Gordon” here on Rogue Media Network. Wesley's life soundtrack features Rascal Flatts, Dolly Parton, Michael Jackson, Tom T. Hall and Ariana Grande?!?! Yep. Listen to find out more of Wesley's Life is a Song.
Key Moments: Wesley talks about the song "Raymond" by Brett Eldridge and how it helped him deal with his mom's dementia.
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7hFeEO2wCXNSMXPCj5RVBI?si=ed49b0c58aee4670&pt=f53b36a7ebb101f81c27c22d81a03a91

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1h 26min
February 02, 2026 Holly Tucker's Life is a Song
We're back! This week's guest is Holly Tucker, a talented country music singer and multi-instrumentalist. Holly will soon take the stage in Waco Civic Theatre's "9 to 5" filling the big...shoes of Dolly Parton in the role of Doralee Rhodes. Holly was a contestant on Season 4 of television series The Voice and is the very definition of someone who's life truly is a song. Listen to see what songs shaped this musician on stage and off.
Key Moments: Though Holly is primarily a country singer, the song that hypes her up most is one by Whitney Houston she has covered on a previous album. Which one? Tune in to find out!
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3uIWB8f1Kd6nDoE59dVINv

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50min
November 24, 2025 Adam Singleton’s Life is a Song
Adam Singleton is an Emmy award winning newsman, host of the podcast Cross-Examined and a community theatre guru. Adam loves soundtracks, Weird Al, DJ Cummerbund and much more.
Key Moments: The song that makes Adam cry made him pull over in his car to cry one day. Listen to find out what song and why it hits him so hard.
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6EnXbo4BAFdbStYgaMu6Ve?si=tofD4Y_jRCyGo04VuR8eEA&pi=exZzUSuaSFWv2&pt=7616e97a52f3ad95cf7f03aaac9d9d65

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49min
November 17, 2025 Wendy Rea’s Life is a Song
Wendy Rea is a vinyl collector, mother, outspoken advocate for many marginalized communities and is this week’s guest. Wendy’s list features a lot of Gen X staples along with 70s classic and more.
Key Moments: Wendy’s connection to the Depeche Mode “Enjoy the Silence” is very personal to her. Listen to the episode to find out why.
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/30rvrviHieScDJPOQJqNO1?si=_Uewh76sRKO4RAB2hEeS5Q&pi=dh47N66USc2Ad

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57min
November 10, 2025 Mary Beth Talley's Life is a Song
Mary Beth Talleyis a teacher, theatre person, vocalist and published author. Her book, “Not Bad Just Different: Living Life as a mass shooting survivor” is out now. Her list features music from several soundtracks, The Beach Boys, Taylor Swift and Queen.
Key Moments: Mary Beth and Melissa have a lot in common when it comes to watching "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" WAY too young and feeling bad for the poor ladies losing their homes and jobs by the mean men.
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Kj8IcspA91qYTdw96WvbQ?si=TU4K5KovQf-tC-47TbjcSg

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56min
November 03, 2025 Chris Gibson's Life is a Song
Chris Gibson is this week's guest and this local minister, counselor and jill-of-all-trades is one of our most talkative guests with one of the longest Spotify playlists to date on Life is a Song! Listen to find out why the Jock James Album is one of the best albums ever made and Bruno Mars should go to therapy based on his song "Grenade."
Key Moments: Chris talks about seeing Weird Al in concert years ago and when he sang the song "One More Minute" and sang the line, "I'd rather spend eternity eating shards of broken glass/Than spend one more minute with you," he personally gave her the boxers he was wearing on stage.
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1KWXgIxeTWO5u7OdTMUFGu?si=692c9f8459094985&pt=264b54716f4ccf052cad385cd64170b0

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1h 1min
October 27, 2025 Crystal Waldron's Life is a Song
Crystal Waldron is a librarian and free speech and equal rights advocate. She has a crush and love of Billy Idol, who appears on her list along with Jackson Browne, Tegan and Sara and Bruce Springsteen.
Key Moments: These women in their 40s discuss how Miley Cyrus's "We Used to Be Young" hit them in their feels the first time they heard it.
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0wJxt14QwqgYYomLKday4l?si=823860bd5d664ef3&pt=59944bb1e2a71a6182a7eaa647e5827c

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58min

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How many episodes does Life is a Song have?

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