ThirtyFour-50 Radio Show
875 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Thirty Four 50 with host Joseph Dobzynski brings intriguing people down to earth and into the radio waves. Featuring national as well as international guests,
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Maureen B Fant-Sauces and Shapes
August 24, 2015 19:12 - 24 minutesMaureen B. Fant, a native of New York, is a writer and translator who came to live in Rome in 1979 believing that her future lay in classical archaeology. She now writes mostly about Italian food. She is the coauthor of Women’s Life in Greece and Rome and Dictionary of Italian Cuisine, among others. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Gourmet, and other periodicals, and she lectures on the food of Rome and ancient Rome.
Author Laura Lee Smith
July 27, 2015 17:01 - 24 minutesLaura Lee Smith’s novel, Heart of Palm, is the story of the small town of Utina, Florida on the brink of change. But first, its oldest and most notorious family, the Bravos, must reckon with new developments and atone for past sins. Laura’s short fictions was selected by guest editor Amy Hempel for inclusion in New Stories from the South. Her work has also appeared in The Florida Review, Natural Bridge, Bayou and other journals. She has taught creative writing at Flagler College.
Professor Jamal Joseph
July 17, 2015 13:45 - 28 minutesJamal Joseph -- From Black Panther and Convict to Professor, Oscar Nominee, and Youth Advocate Eddie Joseph was a fifteen-year-old Bronx honor student when he joined the Black Panthers in 1968. When Joseph went to his first Panther meeting, bursting with militant enthusiasm and expecting to be issued a gun, the leader handed him a stack of books: Mao, Malcolm X, Eldridge Cleaver. At sixteen, by then called Jamal, he was in prison with the legendary Panther 21 and would later serve more year...
Dr. Nicholas Romanov-the Pose Method®
April 01, 2015 13:15 - 24 minutesTwo-time Olympic coach, world-renowned sports scientist, and author of The Running Revolution, Dr. Nicholas Romanov is the developer of the Pose Method®, which has been used by organizations such the United States military, CrossFit and professional sports programs, including the National Triathlon teams of Great Britain, United States, Mexico and Russia. He was born, raised and educated in Russia, but relocated to United States in the early 1990s. In 2002, along with Dr. Tim Noakes et al., ...
Hector Tobar, Author of Deep Down Dark
March 09, 2015 18:33 - 23 minutesHector Tobar, Author of Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of the 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free
Emily Parker Now I Know Who My Comrades
December 31, 2014 14:27 - 22 minutesEmily Parker is the author of "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground" which was published by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux in February, 2014. Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote that the book is "a rigorously researched and reported account that reads like a thriller. It's been a while since I have read a book that is so entertaining, not to mention so encouraging for the culture of liberty." Vargas Llosa's ful...
Amanda Vaill - Hotel Florida Author
December 03, 2014 17:37 - 22 minutesAmanda Vaill, Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War Amanda Vaill is a biographer, journalist, and screenwriter. She the author of Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the bestselling Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy – A Lost Generation Love Story, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in biography. She is a co-author of Seaman Schepps: A Century of New York Jewelry Design, a...
Brad Meltzer from the History Channel.
December 03, 2014 16:41 - 23 minutesBrad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inner Circle, The Book of Fate, and seven other bestselling thrillers including The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel, The Millionaires, The Zero Game, The Book of Lies, and his newest, The Fifth Assassin. In addition to his fiction, Brad is one of the only authors to ever have books on the bestseller list for Non-Fiction (History Decoded), Advice (Heroes for My Son and Heroes for My Daughter), Children’s Books (I Am A...
Steven Pressman - 50 Children
November 17, 2014 18:23 - 23 minutesSteven Pressman, 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany The astonishing true story of how one American couple transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939—the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States.
Denis Kitchen author Al Capp
November 11, 2014 18:51 - 25 minutesDenis Kitchen, Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary In 1969, cartoonist, writer, and alternative publishing pioneer, Denis Kitchen founded Kitchen Sink Press, an innovative house that, until it folded in 1999, published early and new graphic works by some of the most recognized artists in the underground “comix” vanguard. Kitchen founded and for eighteen years chaired the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting first amendment rights in the comics industry...
Brad Melzer from the History Channel.
May 22, 2014 20:32 - 20 minutesBrad Meltzer the host of Brad Meltzer’s Decoded on the History Channel. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inner Circle, The Book of Fate, and seven other bestselling thrillers including The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel, The Millionaires, The Zero Game, The Book of Lies,and his newest, The Fifth Assassin. In addition to his fiction, Brad is one of the only authors to ever have books on the bestseller list for Non-Fiction (History Decoded), Advice (Heroes for ...
White House Chef John Moeller
May 22, 2014 20:30 - 27 minutesChef John Moeller is a member of an elite corps of chefs, those who have served in the White House preparing très soigné cuisine for Presidents, First Families, and their guests, including visiting Heads of State. Chef to three First Families, including President George H.W. Bush, President William Jefferson Clinton, and President George W. Bush, Chef Moeller joined the White House kitchen in 1992 as sous chef to Pierre Chambrin and later Walter Scheib, eventually acting as White House Chef i...
Laura Bell on ThirtyFour 50
May 14, 2014 16:44 - 24 minutesLaura Bell is the author of the acclaimed Claiming Ground: A Memoir published by the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group at Random House. The memoir tells about her adventures in rural Wyoming. As noted in Publishers Weekly “Bell's extraordinary ability to impart a true sense of place on each page reveals a stark and stunning landscape populated with a playbill of peculiar personalities attracted to a life of solitude and hard physical work, and her life within this remarkable world.” Bell’s w...
Nura Maznavi on ThirtyFour 50
May 14, 2014 16:38 - 23 minutesNura Maznavi, along with Ayesha Mattu, gathered stories for their book, 'Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women,' which was released on Valentine's Day to critical and popular acclaim. I asked her if the response was a surprise. "We've been amazed and thrilled," said Nura, "by the overwhelmingly positive reception to the book. We knew that the stories would touch our readers, but I don't think we expected the response that it's received across the board -- from Musl...
Michael Bronski on ThirtyFour-50
April 18, 2014 17:20 - 25 minutesMichael Bronski is an American academic and writer, best known for his 2011 book A Queer History of the United States. A professor at Dartmouth College, he currently teaches in the women's and gender studies department, and also teaches courses in LGBT history and Jewish studies at both Dartmouth and Harvard University. A Queer History of the United States won both a Lambda Literary Award and a Stonewall Book Award in 2012. He also previously won two Lambda Literary Awards as an editor of ant...
Jung Chang on ThirtyFour-50
April 18, 2014 17:16 - 27 minutesJung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a red guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor', a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by York University, where she obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1982 - the first person from the People's Republic of...
Joshua Safran on ThirtyFour-50
April 18, 2014 17:13 - 25 minutesJOSHUA SAFRAN is an author, attorney, speaker, and occasional rabbi, and was featured in the award-winning documentary CRIME AFTER CRIME, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and had its television debut as part of The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)’s Documentary Film Club. He is a nationally recognized champion for women’s rights and a zealous advocate for survivors of domestic violence and the wrongfully imprisoned. For his work, he has received national media coverage and numer...
James W. Hall on ThirtyFour-50
April 18, 2014 17:10 - 23 minutesJames W. Hall is the author of 18 novels. Thirteen of which, like his most recent Going Dark, (December, 2013), feature a hardcore loner named Thorn, who makes a meager living tying bonefish flies. Thorn, and his private eye pal, Sugarman, have teamed up in a dozen books to thwart animal smugglers, cruise ship hijackers, rogue medical experimenters, and other assorted villains. For a man who simply wants to be left alone to contemplate the island light and sweet sea breezes of Key Largo, Thor...
Jennifer Baumgardner onThirtyFour-50
April 18, 2014 17:06 - 25 minutesJennifer Baumgardner is a writer, activist, filmmaker, and lecturer whose work explores abortion, sex, bisexuality, rape, single parenthood, and women’s power. She is the Executive Director/Publisher at The Feminist Baumgardner grew up in Fargo, North Dakota and attended Lawrence University in Appleton,Wisconsin, graduating in 1992. While at Lawrence University she helped organize “Guerrilla Theater,” a feminist group on campus, and started an alternative newspaper called The Otherthat focuse...
Bill Ayers on ThirtyFour-50
April 18, 2014 17:03 - 25 minutesWilliam Charles "Bill" Ayers retired professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a former Chicago community organizer and voice for urban educational reform A former leader in the counterculture movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Known for his 1960s radical activism as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction. In 1969 he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group in response to U.S. involv...
Rick Kilby on ThirtyFour-50
April 18, 2014 16:59 - 26 minutesRick Kilby Although historians have long debunked the myth of the conquistador’s search for the Fountain of Youth,Finding the Fountain of Youth: Ponce de Leon and Florida's Magical Waters (University Press of Florida; $14.95) shows how myth became inextricably tied to the image of the Sunshine State. Featuring reproductions of eye-catching postcards, vintage advertisements, vibrant photos, and other “Ponceabilia,” the book reveals how Florida itself has been transformed into a veritable Fount...
Elizabeth Winder on ThirtyFour-50
April 18, 2014 16:48 - 23 minutesPain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder is a compelling look at a young Sylvia Plath and the life-changing month that would lay the groundwork for her seminal novel, The Bell Jar. In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle’s annual College Issue. She lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended the ballet, went to a Yankee game, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She was supposed to be having the time of her life. But what would follo...
Jeff Klinkenberg on ThirtyFour-50
April 18, 2014 16:42 - 27 minutesJeff Klinkenberg, who writes about Florida culture for the St. Petersburg Times, is the author of the book collection of essays, Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators, published by University Press of Florida. Previous anthologies, Seasons of Real Florida and Dispatches from the Land of Flowers, have been best sellers. Born in 1949, Klinkenberg grew up in Miami and began exploring the Florida Keys and the Everglades as a small boy. He started working at The Miami News when he was 16 and became a...
Lynn Waddell on ThirtyFour-50
April 18, 2014 16:38 - 23 minutesLynn Waddell has had a diverse writing career. Based in the Tampa Bay area, she’s covered major Florida news stories for national publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Newsweek, Daily Beast.com and NPR.com. She has appeared on MSNBC and the Oxygen Network’s true crime series “Snapped,” and been a guest on radio talk shows throughout the United States. Her first book Fringe Florida: Travels among Mud Boggers, Furries, Ufologists, Nudists, and Other Lovers of Unconve...
Bill DeYoung on ThirtyFour-50
April 18, 2014 16:34 - 24 minutesNoted Journalist and Florida native Bill DeYoung discusses and signs his book SKYWAY: THE TRUE STORY OF TAMPA'S SIGNATURE BRIDGE AND THE MAN WHO BROUGHT IT DOWN