Latest Amarillotexas Podcast Episodes
Ginger Nelson (300th Episode Live Show)
Hey Amarillo - May 15, 2023 20:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 125 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 ★★★★★ - 125 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 ★★★★★ - 125 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 ★★★★★ - 125 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 ★★★★★ - 125 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 ★★★★★ - 125 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 ★★★★★ - 125 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 ★★★★★ - 125 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 ★★★★★ - 125 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...
Mary Jane Johnson
Hey Amarillo - March 13, 2023 21:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Mary Jane Johnson, the general and artistic director for Amarillo Opera. Before taking that role a few years ago, she was one of the world's great dramatic sopranos in the international opera scene. While based in Amarillo, she performed worldwide, from Carnegie Hall and the ...
Adrian Escobar
Hey Amarillo - March 06, 2023 22:08 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Adrian Escobar, the Outdoor Recreation Planner for the Cross Bar Management Area. Escobar is employed by the Bureau of Land Management—a federal agency. The only BLM land in Texas is located just a few miles northwest of Amarillo, and he's working to turn that historic proper...
Angela Knapp Eggers
Hey Amarillo - February 27, 2023 22:13 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Angela Knapp Eggers, the Senior Managing Director of the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health in Amarillo. A former ballerina whose career has spanned both the nonprofit and for-profit spheres, Knapp Eggers worked for cattleman Paul Engler during the big Oprah trial in ...
Matt Griffith
Hey Amarillo - February 20, 2023 22:01 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Matt Griffith, the vice president of Rockrose Development, the company behind the development of Amarillo neighborhoods including The Colonies, Westover Park and Pinnacle. Griffith began designing houses in high school, worked in planning for the City of Amarillo, and has now...
Rachel Flores
Hey Amarillo - February 13, 2023 22:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Rachel Flores, the Executive Director of Amarillo Art Institute. This nonprofit offers art workshops and classes all year long at Sunset Center, where Flores is helping spearhead the renovation of Arts in the Sunset. In this episode, she tells host Jason Boyett about growing ...
Joshua Raef
Hey Amarillo - February 06, 2023 22:06 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Joshua Raef, the owner/operator of Chick-fil-A Georgia Street and Chick-fil-A Westgate Mall. Raef tells host Jason Boyett about growing up in Amarillo Catholic schools, how he got into the restaurant business and how his businesses have weathered challenges—from the pandemic ...
Constable Idella Jackson
Hey Amarillo - January 30, 2023 22:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Idella Jackson, who serves as the Constable Precinct 4 for Potter County. Jackson arrived in Amarillo as a young single mother—and a high school dropout—determined to provide for her children and build a career. She spent more than a decade at the William P. Clements Unit wit...
Kelli Bullard
Hey Amarillo - January 23, 2023 22:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Kelli Bullard, who is temporarily retired after careers in publishing, communications, senior living and the nonprofit world (among other workplaces). Kelli recently authored an article in Brick & Elm Magazine about her journey to recover from multiple brain surgeries to trea...
Kevin Carter
Hey Amarillo - January 16, 2023 22:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Kevin Carter, the President and CEO of the Amarillo Economic Development Corporation. Kevin spent his early career in Plainview before arriving in Amarillo in 2019, and quickly realized he was here to stay. With the AEDC, his job is to sell Amarillo as a destination for prima...
Gwen Hicks
Hey Amarillo - January 09, 2023 22:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Gwen Hicks, the Executive Director of Amarillo Angels, an organization that provides community for children and families in foster care. Hicks founded the organization in 2016 after a long career in education, from teaching elementary school to serving as a junior high counse...
Jared Houze
Hey Amarillo - January 02, 2023 22:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with the Rev. Jared Houze, Rector at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Jared is a 7th-generation Texan who grew up in Dallas but has spent most of his adult life in West Texas. He and his family arrived in Amarillo during the summer of 2020. He shares with host Jason Boyett about his...
Jeff S. Williams
Hey Amarillo - December 26, 2022 22:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with chiropractor and voice actor Jeff S. Williams, who currently juggles two careers: He's the owner of Creek Stone Integrated Medical, which combines chiropractic work with acupuncture, a nurse practitioner, and massage and spa services. But he's also a voiceover artist in high ...
Sister Elizabeth Ann Dockery, DLJC
Hey Amarillo - December 19, 2022 22:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Sister Elizabeth Ann Dockery of the Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ and the convent known as Prayer Town Emmanuel. Located near Boys Ranch, Prayer Town is a Franciscan Charismatic Religious Community. Elizabeth Ann is an Amarillo native, former music educator and a past me...
Remembering Mike Boyett
Hey Amarillo - December 12, 2022 22:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA special episode about the late Mike Boyett, the father of host Jason Boyett. Mike passed away a year ago this week, on December 16, 2021, at age of 73 after a brief journey with brain cancer. He spent most of his career as an Amarillo architect and was part of a close-knit community of friends...
Mary Bralley
Hey Amarillo - December 05, 2022 21:34 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Mary Bralley, the president of Los Barrios de Amarillo and a longtime marketing, public relations and business development professional. Bralley shares with host Jason Boyett about her early days as a single mother living in poverty, as well as the steps she took to receive h...
Andy Marshall
Hey Amarillo - November 28, 2022 22:07 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Andy Marshall, the President and CEO at FirstBank Southwest. Andy isn't originally from this area—he arrived here from Tulsa in 2017—and isn't original to banking, either. His first career was in the military, where he served in security forces for the U.S. Air Force and then...
Crystal Solis
Hey Amarillo - November 21, 2022 22:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Crystal Solis, a hair stylist at Braxton Paul Salon and 22-year veteran of the local hair industry. Solis' first introduction to cosmetology came from vocational classes at Palo Duro High School. More than two decades later, she found herself at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Flori...
Pedro Limas
Hey Amarillo - November 14, 2022 22:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Pedro Limas, the owner of Sound by Design, a home entertainment installation company. Limas started the business in 1998 after earning what he calls a "6-year associate's degree." In this conversation with host Jason Boyett, he shares his story of entrepreneurship and why he'...
John Gamble
Hey Amarillo - November 07, 2022 22:44 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with John Gamble, the senior principal cloud architect at Zillow. An Amarillo native, Gamble has spent the last decade living in Seattle and working in cloud infrastructure management for companies including Amazon, REI and now the Zillow Group. But last year, the reality of remot...
Julie Granger
Hey Amarillo - October 31, 2022 21:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Julie Granger, founder of the Sister-Bear Foundation, a nonprofit serving adults who've suffered spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, strokes and other trauma. In this episode, Granger tells host Jason Boyett about the accident that paralyzed her daughter, Kathryn, and how i...
Evan Guerrero
Hey Amarillo - October 25, 2022 00:28 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsA conversation with Evan Guerrero, the WTAMU student and science educator behind the TikTok account @evanthorizon, which has more than 2.1 million followers. He is finishing up a physics degree, but this Amarillo native has already become a rising star in the astronomy world thanks to his fun, s...
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