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Adventurer Eric Weicht paddles the Mississippi from Minnesota to Memphis

Eric Weicht is a former Cook County resident known for adventuring on bodies of water. He chats here with Will Moore about his most recent trip--canoeing down the Mississippi from northern Minnesota to Memphis through the month of November.

The Untold Story of Pride Month with Seal Dwyer

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack wraps up Pride Month by having a poignant discussion with therapist Seal Dwyer about why Pride is important. With a private practice in St. Cloud, Dwyer talks about how she has seen the world change, for both the better and the worse, in relation to the LGBTQ community and the challenges they face. This Untold Story does contain subject matter that some folks may find difficult; however, as will be discussed, there are numerous resources right here in central Minnesota designed to help.

Those resources include:
SCSU’s LGBT Resouce Center
OutFront Minnesota
Pathways 4 Youth
CentraCare’s LGBTQ Medicine
Big Borthers Big Sisters
Rainbow Labs
Centerlink Community of LGBTQ Centers

This program is made possible through support from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

End of June

Welcome back to another episode of Real College podcast. This episode we have a mix of pieces for you as the month of June is winding down. We have a piece about the continuation of the Reddit Protests going on, we have a reminder that school is still going for some with a piece about the importance of sleep. We also have a conclusion to a trilogy of pieces by our reporter Quinn McClurg about urban exploration, and a piece about art at the MIA, and how musicians choose their gear.

Time Stamps:
1:45 – Slim Jim – Quinn McClurg
8:45 – Reddit Api Protests – Andrew Kicmol
15:20 – Sleep – Henry Ulrich
20:35 – Musician’s Gear – Brandon Wetterlin
29:05 – A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words – Matt Sullivan

Dial Tone

The up-and-coming Minneapolis pop punk trio, Dial Tone, discusses how they went from classically trained musicians to punk rockers on this episode of Behind the Scenes.

Christy Costello

Christy Costello returns to Studio K, this time as the front-woman of her own group, and shares about her time as a performer and talent booker in the Twin Cities.


Rochester MN90: The Covered Bridge

Zumbrota wanted to return its covered bridge to the Zumbro River. But it would take more money and many more years than anyone thought.

Rochester MN90: William Costley

An Illinois researcher wanted to track down the son of an indentured servant freed with the help of lawyer Abraham Lincoln in 1941. Could the son be the same William Costley who died at Rochester State Hospital in 1888?

Rochester MN90: The Dinosaur Apocalypse

1980 – Nobel laureate and Rochester High School graduate Luis Alvarez had done money great things in his career. But now he wanted geologists to swallow an unusual theory: that an asteroid was responsible for killing off the dinosaurs.

Rochester MN90: Lady on the Hill

She’s the Stone Lady, the stone cairn that has perched atop Black Hammer hill since the 19th-century. But where did she come from?

Rochester MN90: Middleweights

March 28, 1969 – Pat O’Connor, 18, had only gone pro 10 months ago. Now he was meeting the formidable middleweight Duane Horsman for a record crowd at the Mayo Civic Auditorium.


Rochester MN90: The Yellow Fever Collection

Dr. Philip S. Hench was a Nobel laureate with a research job at Mayo, and a passion for collecting anything having to do with the yellow fever experiments in Cuba.

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