WTSR Interviews

An interview with musician Lisa Heller, where we discussed her new EP and single, working through the pandemic, and how music helped with her anxiety.

An interview with musician Joe P, where we discussed growing up in New Jersey, his biggest inspirations, and his new EP "Emily Can't Sing".

Join Olivia as she talks with Baylie McMahon from The Borgen Project to learn more!

Games have always gathered family and friends for fun team building and a sense of community. Throughout the pandemic, games have especially reunited households and even have taken on unique forms for virtual play. Exploding Kittens, a popular card game series which has grown into an entire company, is on the forefront of collaboration and innovation in studying how people play. Josh Weaver, marketing manager of Exploding Kittens company, joins WTSR to discuss the process of developing their games, releasing their new game, Tacocat spelled backwards, and new trends they've noticed with outreach and entertainment during the pandemic.

Through recent years, and especially during the Coronavirus, online dating has become more popular for young adults, due to its accessibility and innovation to connect in the virtual world. Check in with Meredith Golden, founder of Spoon Meet Spoon and Darma. With a background in psychotherapy, Golden shares misconceptions and strategies about the online dating world and how we can best support ourselves and our friends in the new standard of meeting people.

After selling over 15 million copies, over 30 years, author and psychologist Dr. Gary Chapman has created a platform for discussing love as a choice and the multiple forms of communication and action it takes. Author of “The Five Love Languages,” Dr. Chapman discusses his research, his inspiration and examples of love languages, and notably, how these love languages reflect every type of relationship in life. Visit Chapman's website for more information, more publications, or to take a quiz to discover your love language.

After starting his career in finance, Dr. Travis Parry quickly realized there was not enough support and conversation about normalizing a healthy work-life balance. 

Now, as an author, professor, and spokesperson on work life balance, Dr. Parry joins us in discussion about how students can jumpstart this balance in their prospective careers, the myth of multitasking, and how to build better productivity and trust in our work and lifestyle. You can check out more information on his website at travisparry.com.

The WTSR News Staff (Nancy, Julia, and Zoyla) gathered during winter break for a fun chat over zoom about the 2020 Wrapped on Spotify Series, a statistical overview of listeners’ top songs, artists, and music preferences. We went through our personal lists and listening routines, discussing the role that music particularly played during 2020 and the pandemic.

WCRD Founder Robert Quicke joins WTSR Radio in preparation for The 10th Annual World College Radio Day on October 2, 2020 to talk about his personal experience and passion with college radio as well as the creation and legacy of the organization. Quicke is also general manager of WPSC-FM and a broadcasting professor at William Paterson University. While programming may appear differently for this year’s festivities, radio and student media are still vibrant and present to the modern age of producing art and a fresh perspective.

(Originally aired September 2020)

Featuring a special roundtable discussion with the news staff: news director Nancy Bowne, assistant music director Julia Landi, and staff member Zoyla Pineda. The special focus of this episode will be focused on discovering new music. We carried out three methods (Spotify, articles and charts, word of mouth) of finding new music and will discuss our experience and results.