Latest Amarillotexas Podcast Episodes
Rev. Margie McNeir
Hey Amarillo - October 09, 2023 21:18 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Rev. Margie McNeir, an 83-year-old minister in the United Methodist Church, the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination. McNeir moved to Amarillo after retiring from a ministry career in the Metroplex. Over the past few years, she's had a front-row seat to theological...
Tac Buchanan
Hey Amarillo - October 02, 2023 20:59 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Tac Buchanan, the Amarillo/Lubbock Regional Coordinator for the ministry Bridges to Life. (Trigger warning: This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence.) Buchanan grew up in Amarillo and has lived a life scarred by personal tragedy, including a deadly car accident w...
Melanie Corpstein
Hey Amarillo - September 25, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Melanie Corpstein, an Amarillo native and the founder and president of the Adorable Originals clothing company and Adorable Girls dolls. Based in Arizona over the past three decades, Corpstein designed children's clothing and dolls, selling them wholesale to stores around the...
Jentry Williams
Hey Amarillo - September 18, 2023 21:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Jentry Williams, the owner and founder of Re-Form Physical Therapy Clinic and Wellness Center. Williams is a native of Spearman, and started her clinic in Amarillo after graduating from Texas Tech. Initially she only intended Re-Form to offer physical therapy and Pilates clas...
Brady Ragland
Hey Amarillo - September 11, 2023 20:48 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Brady Ragland, Chief Executive Officer of the Amarillo Tri-State Exposition, Fair & Rodeo. A Lubbock native, Ragland grew up showing livestock in the 4-H program before getting into amateur stock and cattle judging at Texas Tech. The connections he made in those worlds led to...
Nate Green
Hey Amarillo - September 04, 2023 21:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Nate Green, who owns and operates Starlight Canyon Bed & Breakfast with his wife, Liz. This historic property, located south of Amarillo in the Village of Palisades, is a wedding venue and boutique hotel, and Nate and Liz both have hospitality backgrounds. Before coming to th...
George Jackson
Hey Amarillo - August 29, 2023 13:06 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with George Jackson, who has just begun his second year as music director of the Amarillo Symphony, guiding the organization during its 100th anniversary season. He's a resident of London, but travels all over Europe to work with symphony orchestras from Paris to Zurich, which has...
Chad Conner
Hey Amarillo - August 21, 2023 21:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Chad Conner, the executive director of Acts Community. For the past few years, Chad has managed this growing Christian organization, which includes a resource center in San Jacinto and a new downtown community center. Prior to that, this Amarillo native lived in Las Vegas, wh...
Dr. Carolina Perez
Hey Amarillo - August 14, 2023 21:15 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Dr. Carolina Perez, a surgical podiatrist with the Amarillo Veterans Healthcare System. Dr. Perez is a veteran of the United States Air Force, and served for several years as a combat medic—including during wartime operations in Iraq—before attending medical school and comple...
Patrick Swindell
Hey Amarillo - August 07, 2023 21:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Patrick Swindell, one of those guests whose identity isn't easily contained within a single career description. He's a longtime local bankruptcy attorney. He's a prominent jazz musician and the leader of the Esquire Jazz Band. He launched and owned the Esquire Jazz Club on Po...
Dr. Shane Harper
Hey Amarillo - July 31, 2023 22:02 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsDr. Shane Harper is the surgical ICU director for Northwest Texas Healthcare System and a professor in the Surgery Department at Texas Tech Physicians. He’s also the founding editor-in-chief of the West Texas Journal of Medicine, a new publication that distributes original medical and health sci...
Alyssa Heck Lewis
Hey Amarillo - July 25, 2023 01:24 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Alyssa Heck Lewis, owner of Hudson House, a senior living community in Canyon and the recent recipient of the Woman-Owned Business of the Year for the West Texas region of the national U.S. Small Business Administration Awards. Lewis bought Hudson House in 2020, during the pa...
Dr. Norbert Chirase
Hey Amarillo - July 17, 2023 21:28 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Norbert Chirase, PhD, a former scientist and nutritionist with WTAMU and the founder of GTX Organics and GTX Technologies. Based in Amarillo, Chirase is an expert on humic and fulvic acids and holds multiple patents on applications for human health, agriculture and animal nut...
Lindsey Lane
Hey Amarillo - July 10, 2023 22:31 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Lindsey Lane, one of Amarillo's most in-demand country singers and all-around performers. Originally from Lubbock, Lindsey arrived in this area to pursue an education degree from WTAMU, then taught 3rd-grade math for several years before pursuing music full-time. She shares w...
Sherman Bass
Hey Amarillo - July 03, 2023 20:17 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Sherman Bass, the new film commissioner with the Amarillo Film Office and the former general manager of the Amarillo Civic Center. An Amarillo native with a background in acting, Bass worked for the Civic Center across two different stints before a brief retirement last year....
Kathy Lopez
Hey Amarillo - June 26, 2023 21:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Kathy Lopez, the entrepreneur and owner of Little Bee's Playhouse, a child-focused play and party venue in Wolflin Square. Lopez was a WT grad who went on to work in the corporate event world of the Metroplex, traveling internationally as a specialist in hospitality, marketin...
Matt Morgan
Hey Amarillo - June 19, 2023 21:21 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Matt Morgan, the interim director of Outdoor Amarillo and a longtime local volunteer, board member and nonprofit advocate. Morgan walks host Jason Boyett through his diverse career, which includes everything from marketing to human resources, personnel, grant management and m...
Andrew Brandt
Hey Amarillo - June 12, 2023 20:46 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Andrew Brandt, a local novelist and one of the owners of Phone Medic, a smartphone and computer repair business with locations in Amarillo, Canyon and Lubbock. With host Jason Boyett, Brandt shares about these two divergent career paths. In one, he grew a computer repair hobb...
Amelia Balderrama
Hey Amarillo - June 05, 2023 23:27 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Amelia Balderrama, the President and CEO of iDocket, a software company specializing in products for local governments, including statewide case management software used by cities and counties within the Texas judicial system—and potentially beyond. She shares with host Jason...
Mark Zimmerman
Hey Amarillo - May 29, 2023 21:52 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Mark Zimmerman, the former Missions and Campus Development Pastor at Hillside Christian Church and the new Executive Director of Transformation Park. A unique public-private partnership designed to address homelessness in Amarillo, Transformation Park serves as a collaboratio...
Jason Boyett (Reflections on 300 Episodes)
Hey Amarillo - May 22, 2023 21:07 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsIn this special live show recording, host Jason Boyett takes a seat on the other side of the host microphone as he is interviewed by former Amarillo mayor Ginger Nelson at Arts in the Sunset. (Don't miss last week's episode for Jason's in-depth interview of the mayor.) In front of an audience, N...
Ginger Nelson (300th Episode Live Show)
Hey Amarillo - May 15, 2023 20:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with outgoing Amarillo mayor Ginger Nelson, recorded in front of a live audience at Arts in the Sunset. To celebrate the 300th episode of this podcast, Jason Boyett hosted a live show on May 5, 2023, interviewing Nelson—who'd served as the guest for the very first episode of Hey A...
Dr. Maegan Laughlin
Hey Amarillo - May 08, 2023 22:04 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Maegan Laughlin, AuD, a clinical audiologist with Amarillo Hearing Clinic. Laughlin is a Sunray native who returned to the Panhandle after a prestigious clinical residency at the VA Medical Center in Johnson City, Tennessee. In Amarillo, she had the opportunity to take over a...
Rosemary Robinson
Hey Amarillo - May 01, 2023 21:43 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Rosemary Robinson, who is believed to be the longest-tenured employee in the history of the City of Amarillo. Rosemary began working for the City in 1973 in a position with the Amarillo Public Library, before quickly taking on an administrative role with the Amarillo Police D...
Dr. Shannon Herrick
Hey Amarillo - April 24, 2023 22:17 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsShannon Herrick, M.D. is a long-time local pediatrician and the Regional Chair and Associate Professor for the Amarillo Pediatric Administration at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, which has just opened a new pediatrics clinic in southwest Amarillo. In this conversation with host J...
Justin Thompson
Hey Amarillo - April 17, 2023 21:42 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsJustin Thompson is a social worker with a career spanning from full-time instruction at WTAMU to several years on staff at Boys Ranch. He recently was profiled in Brick & Elm Magazine about his vintage golf clubs collection and the founding of the Tiger Flight Golf Club at Hamlet Elementary. Tho...
Cynthia Barela Graham
Hey Amarillo - April 10, 2023 22:15 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Cynthia Barela Graham, a family law attorney and the current chair of the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Graham spent time as a criminal defense lawyer before turning her attention to family law, and currently emphasizes an approach known as "collaborative divorce." She...
Stephanie Brady
Hey Amarillo - April 03, 2023 21:12 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Stephanie Brady, the founder and executive director of Wild West Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. A former vet tech and experienced wildlife rehabber, Brady moved to Amarillo in 2015 only to discover she was the only rehabber in the area with an official permit. Within a year,...
Joe Garcia III
Hey Amarillo - March 27, 2023 21:26 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Joe Garcia III, the Chief Revenue Officer for eCatholic. Garcia lives in Amarillo and works remotely for this global tech company, which gives him the time and ability to serve the local community as "JPEG Joe," a local portrait and sports photographer. He's also the managing...
Zack Wilson
Hey Amarillo - March 20, 2023 21:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Zack Wilson, executive director of High Plains Food Bank. Wilson's first experience with the Food Bank was as a communication intern when he was a WT student. More than two decades later, he's heading up this massive nonprofit, which serves the entire Texas Panhandle and dist...
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