Three Song Stories
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Three Song Stories is an exploration of the power music has to connect us to times, places, people, and emotions from our lives. The show brings out the guests’ personalities, and personal histories, by mining the connections music has made during their lifetimes. It’s also a chance to sit back and listen to the eclectic mix of songs the guests have chosen for their ultimate musical memory short list.
2025 WGCU
Three Song Stories is an exploration of the power music has to connect us to times, places, people, and emotions from our lives. The show brings out the guests’ personalities, and personal histories, by mining the connections music has made during their lifetimes. It’s also a chance to sit back and listen to the eclectic mix of songs the guests have chosen for their ultimate musical memory short list.
2025 WGCU
Episode 375 - Teddy Byrne
Episode 374 - Lainey Schooltree
Episode 373 - Joshua Conyers
Episode 372 - Bill Bowen
Episode 371 - Andrew Lipke
Episode 370 - Mickela Mallozzi
Episode 369 - Christina Goh
Episode 368 - Kim Dunham
Episode 367 - Madison Morris
Episode 366 - Scott Turow
Episode 365 - Tom Bayles
Episode 364 - Mary Bichner
Episode 363 - Randy Kambic
Episode 362 - Jeff James
Episode 361 - Renée Benmeleh
Episode 360 - Chris Keys
Episode 359 - Judge Michael Cicconetti
Episode 358 - Shirlette Ammons
Episode 357 - Mark Rodriguez
Episode 356 - Matthew Sabatella
Episode 355 - Dr. Mark Schulman
Episode 354 - Dr. Joe Kiniry
Episode 353 - Jeff Marks
Episode 352 - 3SS LIVE! Marc Collins
Episode 351 - Griogair Labhruidh
Episode 350 - Tracy Waugh
Episode 349 - Eric King
Episode 348 - Paula Poundstone
Episode 347 - Daniel Donlan
Episode 346 - Guest Music Show Vol. 5
Episode 345 - RAZZLE DAZZLE Showcase
Episode 344 - Laura Kiniry
Episode 343 - Lauren Robie
Episode 342 - Jessica Lindsey
Episode 341 - JP Soars
Episode 340 - Casey Kalmenson AKA Little Monarch
Episode 339 - Vivian Howard
Episode 338 - Kelsie Watts
Episode 337 - Jay Allison
Episode 336 - Tara Lynn Rye
Episode 335 - Mitchell Austin
Episode 334 - Courtney McNeil
Episode 333 - Missy Balsam
Episode 332 - Chuck Garfien
Episode 331 - Sean Dunnigan
Episode 330 - CLAY
Episode 329 - Ken Wells
Episode 328 - Dr. Chaerin Kim
Episode 327 - Charlie Pace
Episode 326 - Dave!Ja!Vu!
Episode 325 - April James
Episode 324 - Dr. Fredara Hadley
Episode 323 - Tim McGeary
Emma Rodriguez is a journalism student at FGCU. She’s southwest-Florida born and raised and says her goal is to help keep the spirit of local journalism alive in her hometown.
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Episode 321 - Chion Wolf
Episode 320 - Kirsten Hines
Episode 319 - Jason Crosser
Episode 318 - Stacey Holman
Episode 317 - Gina Sabiston
Episode 316 - Walt Tiburski
Episode 315 - Katie Garcia
Episode 314 - Preston Rumbaugh
Episode 313 - Grace Lougen
Episode 312 - Dawn Belamarich
Bryce Ivie is Events Director for Sugarshack Music Channel - and he hosts their podcast that features conversations with the cool bands they bring to their porch. He’s also the frontman for an Americana Folk Rock band called Sun State Blues.
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Episode 310 - Chef Paul Rogalski
Episode 309 - Dan Navarro
Episode 308 - Alexander Goldstein
Episode 307 - Jazmyn Hunter
Episode 306 - Liz Cochran
Episode 305 - Nick Walters
Episode 304 - Guest Music Roundup vol4
Episode 303 - Eli & Fur
Episode 302 - Samantha Uzbay
Episode 301 - Eddie Kopp
Episode 300 - Rebecca Shaw & Ben Kronengold
Episode 299 - DEVO co-founder Bob Lewis
Episode 298 - JAMES-HAICK (On Location at Scout Comics)
Episode 297 - Kidd Kwest (AKA John McCullers)
Episode 296 - Andrew Armstrong
Brent Crawford is the Managing Director for Busey Bank’s Wealth Management Group Southwest Florida.
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Episode 294 - Wendy Oxenhorn
Episode 293 - Jon Brooks
Episode 292 - Robert Margouleff
Episode 291 - J. Robert Houghtaling
Episode 290 - (3SS LIVE!) Terry Tincher
Episode 289 - Jeremey Hunsicker
Episode 288 - Sheena Brook
Episode 287 - Thomas Lockyear
Episode 286 - Megan Borowski
Episode 285 - Michael Owen
Episode 284 - Greg Hennessey
Episode 283 - Jonathan Lawrence
Episode 282 - Mia Borders
Episode 281 - Phil Roy
Episode 280 - Scott Carter
Episode 279 - Dr. Jonathan Harrison
Episode 278 - James Priestner
Episode 277 - David Oquendo
Episode 276 - Bob Kealing
Episode 275 - John Donvan
Episode 274 - Tim Morrison
Episode 273 - Dr. Eric Otto
Episode 272 - Konstantinos Vranishti
Dayna Harpster is a journalist, writer, and Communications Specialist at WGCU. She started teaching journalism classes at Florida Gulf Coast University last year.
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Episode 270 - Craig Pittman
Episode 269 - Rada Angelova
Episode 268 - Greg Longenhagen
Episode 267 - Brian Schreck
Episode 266 - Karyn Parsons
Episode 265 - John McKenny
Episode 264 - Jennifer Rowley
Episode 263 - Robert Van Winkle
Episode 262 - Teen Edition: Kristen Noble
Episode 261 - Dan Bern
Episode 260 - (4 and) 5 Year Review
Episode 259 - Robin Young
Episode 258 - Ryan Wolfgang
Episode 257 - Jeremy Hobson
Episode 256 - John McEuen
Alex Adams is a theatre major at FGCU, with a background in musical theatre which began all the way back when she was 6 years old. She will be playing the role of Horatio in FGCU’s upcoming April production of Hamlet.
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Episode 254 - Laura Ellis
Episode 253 - Evgeniya Radilova
Episode 252 - Kirsten and Corey O’Donnell
We’re looking back at our collection of songs that musician guests have played for us at the end of their episodes. This episode's music guests are:
Dan Philgreen
Danny Black
Jon Michaels
Michael Pinckney
Ehren Gerhard
Mike Kennedy
Mike Patella
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Episode 250 - Amanda Inscore
Episode 249 - Dave Lapham
Episode 248 - Tatum Bates
Episode 247 - Guest Music Roundup vol.2
Episode 246 - Rendy Ramos
Episode 245 - Guest Music Roundup vol.1
Episode 244 - Dr. Ebony Green
Episode 243 - Tritonal
Episode 242 - Mike Braun
Episode 241 - Jon Shain
Episode 240 - Jenny Lapham
Episode 239 - Judd Cribbs
Cadence Bakker is musician and a senior at FGCU studying Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship. She's been writing since she was six years old, and self-taught for piano, guitar, and ukulele.
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Episode 237 - Mike Swindle
Episode 236 - Jason Teeters
Episode 235 - Sheldon Zoldan
Episode - 234 Andy Spaulding (AKA Alyssa Lemay)
Episode 233 - Brendan Rivers
Episode 232 - Teen Edition: Kiara Roman
Episode 231 - Mark Danni
Episode 230 - Camryn Cole
Episode 229 - Jen and Amelia Ford
Episode 228 - Michaela Berres
Episode 227 - Radu Paponiu
Episode 226 - Randall Kenneth Jones
Episode 225 - Janine Zeitlin
Episode 244 - Juliana Morgan Alvarez
Episode 223 - Scott Miller
Episode 222 - Fernando López Flores
Episode 221 - Stephen Cavitt
Episode 220 - Mike Walcher
Episode 219 - Pat Mitchell
Episode 218 - Samantha Romero
Episode 217 - Apollo Fresh
Episode 216 - Sabrina Salovitz
Episode 215 - Dr. Jake von Scherrer
Episode 214 - Katie Fogarty
Episode 213 - Bob Morris
Episode 212 - Patience Cole
Episode 211 - Amy Ginsburg
Episode 210 - Jim Hale
Episode 209 - Miles Mancini
Episode 208 - Jerry Mitchell
Episode 207 - David Brown
Episode 206 - Grant Billings
Episode 205 - Jamie Kuser
Episode 204 - Benjamin Murray
Episode 203 - Jeff Cull
Episode 202 - Mariapia Malerba
Episode 201 - Marie Heisler
Wherein Mike and Meg launch their 1-minute rock tumbling podcast.
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Episode 200 - Meg Favreau
Episode 199 - B. Stille
Episode 198 - Dean Davis
Joseph Hall is a third year Journalism student at FGCU, and is “Joe the sound guy” on the Razzle Dazzle podcast (hosted by our own Jared "the Intern" Gonzalez) as well as the How To Cry Monster podcast.
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Episode 196 - Dr. Wilson Bradshaw
Episode 195 - Kyle McCurry
Episode 194 - Will Prather
Episode 193 - Andryanna Sheppard
Episode 192 - Ryan Boland
Episode 191 - Jack Massing
Episode 190 - Glenn Whitehouse
Episode 189 - Brian Weaver
Episode 188 - Patrick Pereira
Episode 187 - Doug Berman
Episode 186 - Sean Milchan
Episode 185 - Mike Patella
Episode 184 - Christin Collins
Episode 183 - Stacey Chen Cannington
Episode 182 - Mike Cannington
Episode 181 - Cesar Aguilera
Episode 180 - Bryn Goldsmith
Episode 179 - Melinda Isley
Keyshawn Frazier is the current Eagle Radio Station manager and author of the short story “Carlton”. He’s also working on creating content that can also be heard, and watched.
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Katie O’Connor is a Professor of Communication Studies at Florida SouthWestern State College, and a Ph.D. Candidate at Antioch University where she is earning her Doctorate in Leadership and Change. She was recently awarded “Teacher of the Year” through the Florida Communication Association.
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Cath Branwood is a painter, digital and visual artist, photographer and spoken word poet. Her solo art exhibit titled “The Me You Them Exhibit” is on display through July 29th at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center in downtown Fort Myers.
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Justin Paprocki is the student media adviser for Eagle Media and an adjunct instructor at FGCU. He's been in the news business since 1997, previously serving as an editor at Gulfshore Life and Gulfshore Business magazines.
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Episode 174 - Armando Llechu
Episode 173 - Michael and Jordan Von Cannon
Jared Gonzalez is our show intern, and a Journalism major starting his senior year at FGCU. He’s a part of Eagle Radio and has his own podcast on it called Razzle Dazzle.
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Episode 171 - Dongjing Kang
Join Mike, Tara, Declan, Guin, and Jared as they fight their way through Dungeon Master Richard's one-shot encounter: The Dragon Key
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Declan Ireland is a 16 years old sophomore theatre major at Cypress Lake High’s Center for the Arts. He sprung immediately to mind as a possible test subject for our teen pilot episode.
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Jim “Boots” Demarest is a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Fighter Weapons School (the USAF version of “Top Gun”) program and served in Desert Storm as an F-15 fighter pilot. He’s currently a Brigadier General in the Florida Air National Guard.
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Episode 168 - Dr. Brandon Jett
Episode 167 - Jade Dellinger
Episode 166 - Mary Walch
Episode 165 - Ami Desamours
Annabelle Tometich is a journalist and food writer for The News-Press, Naples Daily News and USA TODAY Network. For the last 15 years she hid behind the “Jean Le Boeuf” restaurant critic pseudonym.
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Episode 163 - Gwynetta Gittens
Molly Deckart has worked in the nonprofit arts world for the past 15 years, most recently as the new Executive Director at the Alliance for the Arts in Fort Myers. She also founded the Idaho Horror Film Festival.
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Episode 161 - Hugh Starnes
Rose Eady Govan is currently Music Director at Friendship Baptist Church in Fort Myers, and had a 35-year career as a public school music teacher. She came up in episode 151 with Jarrett Eady.
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Mike Kennedy is an instructor Florida Gulf Coast University and he plays bass, guitar, and sings with The Immokalee Road Band in Naples.
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Ehren Gerhard is Gallery Director at the Alliance for the Arts and an Adjunct Professor of Art at FGCU, and has exhibited his work nationally and internationally.
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Episode 157 - Adam Molloy
It's the show's anniversary again, and Mike, Richard, and Tara sit down in the studio to talk about how the year went, what we learned, and which songs from our guests are now part of our own musical histories.
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Episode 155 - Roger Stolle (3SS on the Road)
Dr. Clay Motley studies the culture of the American South, particularly its music, literature, and religion. Clay is Dean of the Honors College at FGCU, and he’s currently writing a book on the music history of Clarksdale, Mississippi.
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Episode 153 - Maria Collier
Episode 152 - Michael Pinckney
Episode 151 - Jarrett Eady
Episode 150 - Torrie Heathcoat
Episode 149 - Jon Michaels
Episode 148 - Mark Massaro
Episode 147 - Cap. Rob Modys
Episode 146 - Danny Black
Episode 145 - Shavon Chester
Episode 144 - Kinfay Moroti
Episode 143 - Dr. Jim Llorens
Episode 142 - Desiree DeMolina
Episode 141 - Dillon Dailidonis
Episode 140 - Deciymber Jade
Andy Johnson lived on and ran a survey business from Sanibel Island from 2005 until 2017, when he sold it and now he works in Ft. Myers. He is also a djembe player, and contributed to the Gulf Coast Life theme song.
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Episode 138 - Les Stroud
Episode 137 - Dan Philgreen
Episode 136 - Dustin Hapli
Episode 135 - Katie Lyon
Episode 134 - Robert Bidney
Episode 133 - Jesi Cason
Episode 132 - Alexandra Figares
Episode 131 - Ronin EarthClan
Episode 130 - Chef Brooke Wagenheim
Episode 129 - Spencer Elles
Episode 128 - Bruno Halpern
Episode 127 - Cody Smith
Episode 126 - David Hintz
BONUS - C.J. McFarlane Extended Version
Episode 125 - C.J. McFarlane
Episode 124 - Sara Comito
Episode 123 - Lindsey Granados
Episode 122 - John Davis
Episode 121 - Woody Hanson
Episode 120 - Glenn Miller
Episode 119 - Doug Molloy
Episode 400 - Charles Monroe-Kane
November 3, 20251hr 24min
Charles Monroe-Kane is a Peabody award-winning radio producer who spent 24 years as a senior producer and interviewer for the national public radio show To the Best of Our Knowledge which WGCU aired on Saturday mornings until about a month ago when it ended at least in part due to recent funding cuts across the public radio world.
His 2024 audio documentary, “The Spirit of Jim Thorpe,” was awarded first place by the Indigenous Journalists Association and in 2025 he produced the “Climate Narratives” audio documentary series in Greenland.
Charles’s 2016 book "Lithium Jesus: A Memoir of Mania" recounts many of his you could say far-out life stories: including being a teenage faith healer, world traveler, smuggler, liberation theologian, ladder-maker, squatter, halibut hanger, grifter, environmental warrior, and circus manager—all the while wrestling with schizophrenia and self-medication.
SONG 1: "Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)" by Tom Waits from his 1975 album Nighthawks at the Diner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlPN2vtn-0s
SONG 2: “Trucker Speed” by Fred Eaglesmith – it was released in 2012 on the album 6Volts. Live – The Fred Eaglesmith Travelling Steam Show on Sept. 30, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFr0CzZti2M
SONG 3: Massive Attack’s “Protection” ft. Tracey Thorn from the album of the same name released in 1994. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epgo8ixX6Wo