Overdueing It: The Rhode Island Library Podcast

Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we’re reading, watching, and listening to. Everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online.

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Theme song: Fashion Chill by Coma-Media

Dave sits down with Ann Watt, author of WHEN BEING A NURSE WAS FUN: TALES FROM MY LIFE AS A NURSE. Filled with true tales from her life both in and out of the hospital, this memoir will cause you to laugh, and may also make you cry. In this conversation Ann shares some stories from the book and offers advice both to those pursuing medical careers and aspiring authors.

The theme for this episode is A Child Playing by Diamond_Tunes.

Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we’re reading, watching, and listening to. Everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online.

This week’s episode theme is Always Growing and features:

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Theme song: Fashion Chill by Coma-Media

This week Tayla is joined by Teddi Jallow, Executive Director & Co-founder of the Refugee Dream Center and Honorary Chair of 2024 Reading Across Rhode Island (RARI). They discuss the work being done at Refugee Dream Center to welcome people to the United States, as well as this year’s RARI selection, Solito by Javier Zamora. During The Last Chapter they discuss: What is a genre you wish you read more of? 

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Like what you hear? Rate and review Down Time on Apple Podcasts or your podcast player of choice! If you’d like to submit a topic for The Last Chapter you can send your suggestions to [email protected]. Our theme music is Day Trips by Ketsa and our ad music is Happy Ukulele by Scott Holmes. Thanks for listening!

Books

Solito by Javier Zamora

One Love by Cedella Marley and Vanessa Brantley-Newton

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

AV

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

Snowpiercer (2013)

Bob Marley: One Love (2024)

Our Planet (2019-2023)

Other

Refugee Dream Center

Emily chats with Susie Finnerty, a founding member of RI Birthworkers Cooperative about maternal health, Doulas in RI and how the cooperative model has impacted access to better health outcomes for pregnant people.

Learn more about the Doula Reimbursement Act.

Theme music by Oleksii Kaplunskyi from Pixabay.

Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we’re reading, watching, and listening to. Everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online.

Featured in this episode:

Check out something from the segment? Be sure to let us know what you think!

Theme song: Fashion Chill by Coma-Media

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Power to the People! Emily sits down with Fuerza Labroal, White Electric Coffee, and Nuts and Bolts Nursery to talk about Cooperatives as a business model and its social and economic impact on Rhode Island.

This is the first in an ongoing series on the wide variety of cooperatives in Rhode Island.

Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we’re reading, watching, and listening to. Everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online.

Check out something from the segment? Be sure to let us know what you think!

Theme song: Fashion Chill by Coma-Media

Lauren and Dave talk with Carl Byrd and Victor Omoayo from the Codex Prime Podcast. Codex Prime is about all things pop culture, be it films, video games, television, books, and everything else in between.

Carl Byrd is a host of the show as well as the Social Media Chair, he’s a DJ with Fleet DJs, and he’s very involved in the Providence community, including through the Black Nerd Book Club and the Rhode Island Midnight Basketball League. In addition to co-hosting Codex Prime with Carl, Victor Omoayo is also the host of Do The Film Thing, a film appreciation and analysis podcast.

So much pop culture was brought up during this episode! Here are some links to find out more about what we discussed:

Rhody Recommends brings you a short segment on our off weeks where we tell you what we can't stop thinking about, books or otherwise. Everything you hear about in this segment is available at your local library, or freely available online. For today Dave's sharing some books and movies that have made him cry lately.

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