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<p>Graham Griffith, also known as GG, is an open-source program designer and journalism missionary. He is a media strategist and audio producer who launched the award-winning national radio programs On Point and The...
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What I Really Want to Talk About
Hosted by Tim Monroe · society · EN · 29 episodes
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About this Podcast:
Everyone has a passion and a story to tell. Something that lights them up. On this show we talk to fascinating people about the things that really matter to them and to all of us. Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it’s deep, every time… we learn something new. I t’s What I Really Want to Talk About.
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What is What I Really Want to Talk About about?
Everyone has a passion and a story to tell. Something that lights them up. On this show we talk to fascinating people about the things that really matter to them and to all of us. Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it’s deep, every time… we learn something new. I t’s What I Really Want to Talk About.
Who hosts What I Really Want to Talk About?
What I Really Want to Talk About is hosted by Tim Monroe. The show has published 29 episodes to date.
What has What I Really Want to Talk About covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Graham Griffith Really Wants to Talk About Sense-Making and the Future of Journalism" (25 May 2026, 66 minutes), "Graham Griffith Really Wants to Talk About Sense-Making and the Future of Journalism" (25 May 2026, 66 minutes), and "Mike Savage Really Wants to Talk About the FCC and the Future of Public Media" (11 May 2026, 44 minutes).
How often does What I Really Want to Talk About publish?
What I Really Want to Talk About publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 50 minutes across 29 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on What I Really Want to Talk About?
Booking probability for What I Really Want to Talk About is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. What I Really Want to Talk About requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. What I Really Want to Talk About's contact route on record: verified email.
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Tim Monroe hosts What I Really Want to Talk About, a society show with 29 episodes published.
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What I Really Want to Talk About
Graham Griffith Really Wants to Talk About Sense-Making and the Future of Journalism
May 25, 20261h 6mGraham Griffith , also known as GG, is an open-source program designer and journalism missionary. He is a media strategist and audio producer who launched the award-winning national radio programs On Point and The...
May 11, 202644 minS3<p>Mike Savage is the General Manager of WEKU, a public radio service of Eastern Kentucky University. WEKU serves Lexington, and much of Eastern, Northern and Central Kentucky. We dive right into a discussion about the...
May 1, 202652 minS3<p>Tony Crachiolo is the volunteer Director of the Berea Kentucky Food Bank. The organization's goal is that hunger never finds a home in Berea. In ten years the food bank has more than doubled the people they reach and...
Apr 9, 202654 minS3<p>Dr Madeline Rogers is a virtuosic concert pianist and music educator. We have a lively conversation about connecting today's audiences to classical music and about how her musical journey has been marked by her faith...
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Apr 1, 202647 minS3<p>Shaniqua Robinson is the Executive Director of The Association for Teaching Black History in Kentucky. We talk about her work helping teachers center Black History in the curriculum. Shaniqua also talks about...
Mar 25, 202650 minS3<p>Rick is a writer and a native of Estill County, Kentucky. His debut novel, Turkeyfoot (Shotgun Honey Books), focuses on the influx of fentanyl in Appalachia. He lives with his family in Eastern Kentucky where he also...
Mar 18, 202654 minS3<p>Sam Gleaves is a singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, and music instructor from Wytheville, Virginia. He began studying and playing old-time music as a teen. Sam has performed and taught Appalachian music throughout...
Dec 5, 202549 minS2<p>Bruce Fraley is the 5th Mayor of Berea Kentucky. He is serving his second term and plans to run for a third. He is very excited about a program that will create new building sites in this part of the Bluegrass region...
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Jeffrey Sanderson Really Wants to Talk About Abstract Painting and Improvisational Creativity
Nov 12, 202551 minS2<p>Jeffrey Sanderson is a painter based in Chicago where he has been engaged in an intuitive and exploratory home studio practice steadily for over 20 years. Jeff says. “My work depends upon and celebrates the...
Oct 22, 202551 minS2<p>Christina Cornelison is the Director of the Madison County Public Library with branches in Richmond and Berea Kentucky. In a county with fewer than 100,000 residents her libraries welcome more than 300,000 visitors...
Oct 15, 202545 minS2<p>Larry Gratton is a husband and a dad and a math professor. He is also crazy about vintage motorcycles. We talk about his passion for solving the puzzle of restoring old bikes to new glory--especially Hondas from the...
Oct 8, 202555 minS2<p> </p><p>As Happy Chandler once said, “I never met a Kentuckian who wasn’t on his way home.” Tom Martin is native of Morehead, Kentucky and has come home after a long and illustrious career in radio broadcasting that...
Sep 17, 202541 minS2<p>Emily Hilliard is the folklorist at Berea College in Kentucky, and the co-owner of Spinster, a feminist record label. We talk about her lifelong passion for folk music and folkways and how it has evolved. We also...
Sep 4, 202542 minS2<p>Dr Collis Robinson is the Dean of Labor at Berea College. He is the first in his family to go to college and earn a degree. We talk about the positive and powerful influence teachers and schools have had on his life...
Jul 30, 202545 minS1<p>Gary Price is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He is the co-founder and editor of Library Journal’s infoDOCKET. He is a nationally-known leader...
Jul 23, 202552 minS1<p>Dr Emmanuel Joshua Stokes—E.J.—wants to spread Beloved Community everywhere he goes. In this deep, meaningful and joyful conversation we discuss how to build beloved community, how to lift up those who bring light to...
Episode #13
Katie Startzman Really Wants to Talk About Gardening, Public Gardens and the Perennial Movement
Jul 16, 202543 minS1<p>Katie Startzman is the founder and owner of Native Bagel and Night Jar, two very successful eateries in Berea KY. She went from operating a food cart to running an amazing brick and mortar restaurant in spectacular...
Jul 7, 202549 minS1<p> Bill Littlefield is a retired radio host, writer, teacher, and public speaker.</p><p>He has written nine books, seven of which have been published. For 34 years he wrote and voiced commentaries for WBUR in Boston...
Jun 26, 202545 minS1<p>Cam McWhirter is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and the co-author of American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15. He feels strongly that we all need to know more about James Weldon Johnson. Johnson was a civil...
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Mike Savage
author, publisher, journalist, woodworker, maple syrup maker, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
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Tom Martin
Executive-in-Residence at The College of Charleston, Martin Center for Mentorship
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Tony Crachiolo
Berea Kentucky Food Bank
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Shaniqua Robinson
The Association for Teaching Black History in Kentucky
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