The Pony Pod

The Pony Pod

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The Pony Pod episodes

  • Taste of Home (Part one): Creating community through campus dining

    In the first episode of Taste of Home, Pei-Ju Chen sits down with SMU Hospitality Group Marketing Manager Shad Murray, Executive Director of SMU Hospitality Mike Esquenazi and Executive Chef Dave Aldape to discuss how campus dining fosters community and delivers a taste of home on the Hilltop.




    23 min
  • Level-Up Lounge: Leveling Up Inside SMU's Guildhall with Gary Brubaker

    In this first episode of the Level-Up Louge, Hannah White sits down with Gary Brubaker, Director of the SMU Guildhall, one of the leading graduate video game development programs in the U.S. Hearing from his own experiences in the industry to the skills students need to break in themselves, Brubaker shares insights from years of experience guiding the next generation of developers one step at a time. Listen to hear what all there is to learn about the gaming industry and just how you could apply to the guildhall.

    21 min
  • From Viral Success to Artistic Vision: The Evolution of Max Zuanich

    On this episode of Ask the Expert, Ella Miller sits down with Max Zuanich, a SMU senior whose creative path took many unexpected turns. Max shares how he gained 230,000 TikTok followers in six months, then left social media to focus on art. He reflects on online fame, studying abroad in Spain, and how his experiences as a swimmer and living with Type 1 diabetes shaped his journey. Now, through his most recent project titled “The Beginning of MadMax,” he’s turning his designs into stickers and placing them all across campus.

    Tune in for Max’s take on creativity, passion, and merging art with marketing.

    20 min
  • Ask the Expert: From Banking to Baking with Andrea Sada

    On this episode of Ask the Expert, Breanna Laureti sits down with Andrea Sada, a local business owner whose life started out with a career in banking and now has turned into her running her own cake business. Listen more to hear Andrea’s story of redirection, creativity and passion towards taking her entrepreneurial spark and running with it.

    18 min
  • The World Cup is Coming to Dallas.... Now What?

    Have you heard the news? The 2026 World Cup is coming to Dallas. But wait, why is it coming to Dallas? How did that happen? What's a bidding process? What does it actually mean to host a World Cup game, and what is the Dallas Sports Commission? In this limited series about the behind the scenes on-going preparations for the games, I ask all of that and more. This week, I'm talking to Monica Paul, the Executive Director of the Dallas Sports Commission, to answer some of the sports questions you never thought to ask.

    20 min

About The Pony Pod

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Welcome to The Daily Campus podcast: the Pony Pod! Tune in for series that deep dive into campus stories of triumph and defeat and others covering politics, local news, and arts. Here, we want to talk about it all. This podcast is made by students for students and we know you'll love it!