This post is an audio version of our Zoom session last week featuring veteran broadcasters George A. Clark and Michael Libbie talking about their experience with podcasting. We also had Mary Swander and Bob Leonard on the call, who both have audio shows.
This coming Monday, we are going to try something different. The open-show format was popular when I was a talk show host on WHO-AM radio, so let’s try it in the Zoom Monday Lunch space. Back in the day, I was known to throw out all kinds of topics, including one to this day that can cause guffaws and derision:
If you were an animal, what animal would you be?
The lines would light up - all the little red buttons in a row, bing-bing-bing. I heard from robins, eagles, badgers, dogs, cats, hawks, and mice… The topic was fascinating and revealing.
As a business group facilitator, we often started a meeting with an ‘inclusion exercise’ - meaning it was an opportunity for all 16 people around the table to participate in the conversation, if even for just two minutes. Here are a few examples:
If a movie about your life was to be made, who would you pick to play the role of you?
Who would you choose if you were to hold a dinner party for eight and invite anyone you could - dead or alive? (omit family members)
Think of a place you’ve visited and would like to return to again. Talk about why.
If you had five minutes with the governor, what would you say?
Of course, an open show is just that. You pick the topic. Are you working on a cause you’d like to talk about? An idea? Let’s hear it!
I’ll make the audio available in podcast format as I have here. Folks are probably more apt to listen than watch a video of a Zoom call. Let’s try it. Who’s in? Put this on your calendar.
Monday, February 27, Zoom lunch link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82396654484
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Tomorrow, February 24, is the date. It will start at noon central. Bob Leonard is your host:
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Laura Belin: Iowa Politics with Laura Belin, Windsor Heights
Doug Burns: The Iowa Mercury, Carroll
Dave Busiek: Dave Busiek on Media, Des Moines
Art Cullen: Art Cullen’s Notebook, Storm Lake
Suzanna de Baca Dispatches from the Heartland, Huxley
Debra Engle: A Whole New World, Madison County
Julie Gammack: Julie Gammack’s Iowa Potluck, Des Moines and Okoboji
Joe Geha: Fern and Joe, Ames
Jody Gifford: Benign Inspiration, West Des Moines
Nik Heftman, The Seven Times, Los Angeles and Iowa
Beth Hoffman: In the Dirt, Lovilla
Dana James: New Black Iowa, Des Moines
Pat Kinney: View from Cedar Valley, Waterloo
Fern Kupfer: Fern and Joe, Ames
Robert Leonard: Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture, Bussey
Tar Macias: Hola Iowa, Iowa
Kurt Meyer, Showing Up, St. Ansgar
Kyle Munson, Kyle Munson’s Main Street, Des Moines
Jane Nguyen, The Asian Iowan, West Des Moines
John Naughton: My Life, in Color, Des Moines
Chuck Offenburger: Iowa Boy Chuck Offenburger, Jefferson and Des Moines
Barry Piatt: Piatt on Politics: Behind the Curtains, Washington, D.C.
Macey Spensley, The Midwest Creative, Davenport and Des Moines
Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Buggy Land, Kalona
Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Emerging Voices, Kalona
Cheryl Tevis: Unfinished Business, Boone County
Ed Tibbetts: Along the Mississippi, Davenport
Teresa Zilk: Talking Good, Des Moines
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