Conversations With Humans

On this episode, we talk with Matt Thiessen of Relient K and Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes. His latest album, Wind Up Bird, is incredible and available on all music platforms. Shawn and Matt discuss music, faith and plaid shirts. 

This week's conversation is with country musician Maria Carrelli! Maria's debut album "Strings on My Guitar" was released in 2019 to rave reviews and we were excited to hear more from her, and even get a live treatment to a new song!  This episodes brought to you by the Cincy Log Blog - learn more at cincylogblog.com! 

We're back! After taking the Summer off, we're back with season 2! And our first episode is with Stand Up Comic Stewart Huff. Stewart is one of a kind in that he's a comic who uses science, history, religion and philosophy to craft hilarious one man shows. He's also just a fascinating guest we were excited to talk to!    This episode is brought to you by the Cincy Log Blog (cincylogblog.com)

This week's episode features Pauletta Hansel. Pauletta is a poet - in fact she was Cincinnati's first ever Poet Laureate. And she's an author of multiple books of poetry.  John Mabery joins for this conversation.  This is the final episode of Season 1. Look out for Season 2 this Fall 2019. 

On this week's conversation, we talk with Aftab Pureval about politics, identity, and sneakers.  This episode is brought to you by Cincy Stories. Find out more at cincystories.org. 

This week, we're joined by French musician and beat maker Sorg and Cincinnati-based MC and all around culture maker, Napoleon Maddox. They're discussing their collaborations, a tour happening now around Ohio and Michigan and the Underworld Jazz Festival, which they're playing a huge role in.  This episode is brought to you by Cincy Stories. Find out more at cincystories.org. 

This week's conversation is with Derrick Braziel. Derrick is a co-founder of MORTAR, an entrepreneurship program focused on uplifting minorities to start businesses and build community throughout Cincinnati. More on Mortar at wearemortar.com. This week's episode is brought to you by Cincy Stories - cincystories.org

This week's guest is Author and Film Critic Josh Larsen. Josh co-hosts the incredible Filmspotting podcast, he is the editor of ThinkChristian.net, and he's the author of the recently released Movies Are Prayers, which you can find wherever books are sold.  This episode is brought to you by Cincy Stories. 

This week's episode features a conversation with Cincinnati based stand up comic Zach Wycuff. We discuss comedy, religion and Zach's anxiety that always leads him to ask questions as a way to get out of answering questions about himself.  This episode is brought to you by the Cincy Log Blog! 

This week's conversations features social justice activist Elizabeth Hopkins of the Jubilee Project from Economics of Compassion  - check them out at econofcompassion.org We discuss how she became awakened to be active in the fight for social justice.  Our show is brought to you by Cincy Stories. Find out more about Cincy Stories work at cincystories.org. 

This episode features a conversation with Lee Watkins, also known as M-AZ'N. He's a Cincinnati based hip hop artist. We talk through some harrowing life experiences as well as listen to a few of his tracks and dissect them. We're joined by John Mabery for the conversation.  This episode is brought to you by Cincy Stories (cincystories.org)

This week's show features a conversation with comedy god Gary Gulman! Gary has been doing comedy for decades, and has recently gotten extra notoriety for his daily twitter tips for comics of all ages and experience.  This episode also features a conversation about comedy and Gary's tips with Cincinnati based comedians Zach Wycuff, Kelly Horan and Lee Kimbrell.  Our apologies for the rough audio on the intro and outro!    

On this episode, Shawn talks with stand up comedians Sean Patton and Caitlin Cook about comedy, storytelling, music and more. You can check out more about Sean at meseanpatton.com or Caitlin at thecaitlincook.com.  Critic John Mabery brings us a review of SamSun Zulu's Nina Simone Tribute (soundcloud.com/samsunzulu) This episode also features music from Candid Bandit (canditbandit.com) This episode is brought to you by Cincy Stories and the Cincy Log Blog.

This episode features musician and songwriter Brianna Kelly. Check out Brianna's music at soften.bandcamp.com and see when and where they're playing on Facebook. You can hear her solo work at briannakellywsr.bandcamp.com  Critic John Mabery gives his thoughts of the 2019 Oscar's Best Picture race.  This episode is brought to you by Cincy Stories. 

On this episode of Conversations with Humans, Shawn interviews Oscar-Nominated documentary filmmaker Bing Liu about his first feature, Minding the Gap (Available on Hulu). Critic John Mabery reviews Minding the Gap.