Latest Wazzu Podcast Episodes
Bonnie Brann
Completely Unearned - January 23, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBonnie Brann has been a Christian minister for decades, and is the mother of my high-school sweetheart Kristin. I decided to diverge from my normal material to talk about things that are a little deeper. Nick Allard joins me for the intro where he gives a front-row account of Ramtha's School of ...
Greg Talbott
Completely Unearned - November 21, 2022 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhen I returned to television in 2013 to take over as Sports Director at NBC Right Now in Kennewick, WA, I hired Greg Talbott to to be my weekend anchor and all around right hand man. We spent about a year running around the Mid-Columbia covering prep sports, minor league hockey and his alma mat...
Jonathan Lowe
Completely Unearned - October 31, 2022 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJonathan Lowe was part of the three horsemen who anchored the weekend news at KNDU from 2004-2006. I worked with him and Shane Edinger (who appeared earlier) and had a blast doing sports as these two pros anchored the weather and news respectively. Jonathan is an Iowa State alum who was inspired...
Jenn Bates
Completely Unearned - April 25, 2022 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJenn Bates graduated from the University of Florida in 2006 with a degree in Telecommunications. She gained TV and radio experience while in college at WUFT-TV and WRUF-FM. Our paths crossed when she was hired to replace me as Weekend Sports Anchor/Reporter at KNDU in Tri-Cities. She graduated f...
Abby Acone
Completely Unearned - January 16, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAbby Acone is a 2012 graduate of the Murrow College at Washington State University and completed a bachelor's in Spanish as well. We start our conversation by our shared love of that language and the Spanish-speaking countries to which we've been and would like to still go. We also talk about he...
Whit Johnson
Completely Unearned - December 14, 2021 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLong before he was an anchor of national news shows for ABC in New York, Whit Johnson and I shared a humble desk in Tri-Cities, WA bringing the Mid-Columbia its news every weekend. We talk about his start in the Palm Springs of Washington (Yakima) and what it was like to be doing news when 'Anch...
Brian MacMillan
Completely Unearned - December 05, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBrian MacMillan is the new morning meteorologist at KCPQ Fox-13 in Seattle. He graduated from the Murrow College after I did, but our paths crossed many times for many reasons at WSU. We talk about his first job in Bend, OR and of course the small-market experience. We also discuss his head star...
Shane Edinger
Completely Unearned - November 28, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsShane Edinger was a valuable asset for a young upstart like me beginning my sports reporting and anchoring career in the middle of 2004. He had eight years of sports journalism under his belt after multiple stints in Montana and finally in Eugene covering the University of Oregon, et al. We shar...
Rick Aaron
Completely Unearned - November 07, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRick Aaron was already an accomplished and award-winning sports producer before he and I worked at KNDU together starting in late 2003. My sports journalism career actually started after Rick took the Sports Director job at our sister station KNDO in Yakima. We talk about his origins in Hattiesb...
Timmy Lewis
Completely Unearned - October 24, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTim Lewis graduated with me and Nick from the Murrow College in 2003. The three amigos arrived in Kennewick, WA about four months later to begin our news careers. Tim is the first fellow sportscaster to appear. We discuss more stories from the early days in the Tri-Cities news market. His second...
Lisa Van Cise
Completely Unearned - October 15, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLisa Mathieson (née Van Case) is a college classmate of mine who finished at the Murrow College in 2003. We discuss the origins of her career at KIMA and the the transition to Seattle that almost exactly mirrored that of co-host Nick Allard. We also share our experiences becoming public servants...
Amanda Hara
Completely Unearned - October 06, 2021 23:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAmanda Hara graduated from the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication with me in 2003. We talk about the local newspaper she started at the age of eight, her early career in Evansville, Indiana, and the gauntlet of being a young reporter. She eventually found her way to the south where she is...
Glenn Johnson
Completely Unearned - September 23, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGlenn Johnson touched the lives of countless broadcast professionals during his 35-year tenure as a professor at Washington State University. He is a dedicated public servant who is in his last term as the mayor of Pullman, WA. We talked about his early career in broadcast news in California, hi...
1. Nick Allard
Completely Unearned - September 04, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNick Allard and I discuss getting our starts in television as recent and very broke college graduates. We then discuss the arc of his career as he moved from small market Tri-Cities, WA to Seattle, then Portland, then back to Seattle where he is currently the morning meteorologist and weather an...
Nick Allard
Completely Unearned - September 04, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNick Allard and I discuss getting our starts in television as recent and very broke college graduates. We then discuss the arc of his career as he moved from small market Tri-Cities, WA to Seattle, then Portland, then back to Seattle where he is currently the morning meteorologist and weather an...
Daily Update: Friday 2/26/21
WSU At This Moment - February 26, 2021 11:00 - 2 minutesYour daily briefing for Friday 2/26/21 @ Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Weather Sports & All Other News
Daily Update: Thursday 2/25/21
WSU At This Moment - February 25, 2021 12:00 - 2 minutesYour daily briefing for Thursday 2/25/21 @ Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Weather Sports & All Other News Episode is Live Published: Feb. 24, 2021 @ 3AM Edit Unpublish Add Chapter Markers Listeners can tap through & see what’s coming up. Create a Visual Soundbite Best way to sh...
Daily Update: Wednesday 2/24/21
WSU At This Moment - February 24, 2021 11:00 - 2 minutesYour daily briefing for Wednesday 2/24/21 @ Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Weather Sports & All Other News
Daily Update: Tuesday 2/23/21
WSU At This Moment - February 23, 2021 13:00 - 2 minutesYour daily briefing for Tuesday 2/23/21 @ Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Weather Sports & All Other News
Daily Update: Monday 2/22/21
WSU At This Moment - February 22, 2021 10:00 - 1 minuteYour daily briefing for Monday 2/22/21 @ Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Weather Sports & All Other News
Daily Update: Saturday 2/20/21
WSU At This Moment - February 20, 2021 11:00 - 1 minuteYour daily briefing for Saturday 2/21/21 @ Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Weather Sports & All Other News
Daily Update: Friday 2/19/21
WSU At This Moment - February 19, 2021 12:00 - 2 minutesYour daily briefing for Friday 2/19/21 @ Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Weather Sports & All Other News
Daily Update: Thursday 2/18/21
WSU At This Moment - February 18, 2021 15:00 - 1 minuteYour daily briefing for Thursday 2/18/21 @ Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Weather Sports & All Other News
Daily Update: Wednesday 2/17/21
WSU At This Moment - February 17, 2021 13:00 - 2 minutesYour daily briefing for Wednesday 2/17/21 @ Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Weather Sports & All Other News
Daily Update: Tuesday 2/16/21
WSU At This Moment - February 16, 2021 09:00 - 2 minutesYour daily briefing for Tuesday 2/16/21 @ Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Weather Sports & All Other News
Daily Update: Sunday 2/14/21
WSU At This Moment - February 14, 2021 15:00 - 2 minutesYour daily briefing for Sunday 2/14/21 @ Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Weather Sports & All Other News
Daily Update: Saturday 2/13/21
WSU At This Moment - February 13, 2021 16:00 - 2 minutesYour daily briefing for Saturday 2/13/21 @ Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Weather Sports & All Other News
Daily Update: Friday 2/12/2021
WSU At This Moment - February 12, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutesWeather Sports and Other News For Friday Feb. 12, 2021
Daily Update: Thursday 2/11/21
WSU At This Moment - February 11, 2021 20:00 - 2 minutesYour daily briefing for Thursday 2/11/21 @ Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Weather Sports & All Other News
Cougar Football Saturdaycast - Episode 56: Night w/ Cougar Football
Cougar Football Saturdaycast - March 05, 2020 17:41 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWe're back with one of our typically sporadic installments to recap the Night with Cougar Football, helping Rolovich find the bathroom and try to convince AJ Cooper to be a guest on the Saturdaycast. And we dive into Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It's what we do.