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  • S2E15 Rhonda Hooper

    S2E15 Rhonda Hooper
    Jun 4 2026
    Few women in This Town have had such a positive impact as Rhonda Hooper. As President and CEO of Jordan Associates, she has guided major advertising campaigns that have celebrated our state and city. We discovered in this interview a common, long-ago project on which we both worked, the anti-litter Don't Lay That Trash on Oklahoma campaign! But before she rose to her current position, she earned her seat at the table through hard work and perseverance. In fact, before MAPS transformed This Town, Rhonda and others created an initiative called Forward Oklahoma that ultimately led to that master plan. This Louisiana tomboy blossomed at Oklahoma State University where she continues to serve in the highest echelons. Her volunteer board work keeps her going to more meetings than there are days of the week.

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    Post-production by Fred O. Bishop
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    56 min
  • S2E14 Daniel Lapham

    S2E14 Daniel Lapham
    May 26 2026
    Daniel Lapham wishes he didn't have his national EMMY Award. He's proud of the work he and the team did to earn it by spending a year in Uvalde, Texas following the horrific school shooting there, but nonetheless, he'd be satisfied with the regional EMMY he won while working at OETA.

    A fifth-generation Oklahoman, his great-grandfather was William Couch, the first mayor of This Town, and Daniel has the receipts to prove it. He's also a former student of mine who found his calling to be a storyteller while attending OKC Community College. In this interview, he tells of his travels around the country working for television networks as a freelancer and about the year he spent documenting the lives of the people of Uvalde.

    Post-production by Fred O. Bishop
    Sponsored by Carpenter Square Theatre
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    46 min
  • S2E13 Lyn Adams

    S2E13 Lyn Adams
    Apr 15 2026
    She created Oklahoma Children's Theatre out of necessity. Having moved to Oklahoma from her native Australia in 1980 to attend OU, Lyn Adams was working at Stage Center where she had created a children's program when the place closed. She moved the program to OKC Community College and formed a nonprofit organization. Later Oklahoma Children's Theatre moved to Fair Park and eventually to Oklahoma City University where it remains today. Lyn retired in 2022 to travel and enjoy grandmotherhood.

    After a wee bit of prompting, she recalls her favorite OCT production that coincidentally was written by your host.

    Post-production by Fred O. Bishop
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    37 min
  • S2E12 Dan Mahoney

    S2E12 Dan Mahoney
    Apr 9 2026
    As the VP of Broadcasting for the OKC Thunder, Dan Mahoney oversees 70 major productions per year. His career took a circuitous route starting as the son of the DJ who introduced rock and roll to Philadelphia. So one might say that he was born into the business. Following a then-girlfriend to This Town in 1984, Dan continued his career in News at KEBC-FM. He returned to TV News at KWTV for several years before going to work in Gov. Keating's new office in February, 1995, just two months before the Murrah Building bombing. Dan coordinated worldwide media coverage of the Healing of the Heartland ceremony. He later followed Frank Keating to D.C. for a while before returning home to work remotely in 2004 way before that became a thing. He branched out and contracted with Brent Gooden to handle PR for clients that included both the New Orleans Hornets during their temporary relocation to This Town and also the Seattle Supersonics after Clay Bennett, et. al. purchased the team. Dan stayed on once that team made the move and has been with them since. Dan also tells of his world travels and his love for vintage stereo systems and drum kits.

    Post-production by Fred O. Bishop
    Sponsored by Carpenter Square Theatre
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    42 min
  • S2E11 Sunny Cearly

    S2E11 Sunny Cearly
    Mar 31 2026
    Her career is Oklahoma City. Starting at the Journal Record, then moving to the OKC Chamber of Commerce and now running Allied Arts, Sunny Cearly promotes This Town. From her small town upbringing in Gresham, Texas (look it up), she learned the value of community service. The rabbit-hole story of how she chose OKC is quite the fascinating sidebar of her education that includes Baylor and the University of North Texas. But it's at Allied Arts OKC where she is making her most biggest impact, and she credits two important women in her life for showing her the way.

    Post-production by Fred O. Bishop
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    39 min
  • S2E10 Court Jeske

    S2E10 Court Jeske
    Mar 25 2026
    Not many people get excited at the thought of stuffing envelopes, but Court Jeske did. As a sophomore, sports-loving business major at OU, Court badgered athletic director Joe C. until he relented. That led to a paid position of stuffing envelopes and much more. Starting his career with the Kansas City Wizards MLS soccer team, Court doubled his pay to stuff envelopes, and again, much more. Moving to Chicago to work for the U.S. Soccer national teams, he kept getting more and more responsibilities. Only one of three Americans accepted into a FIFA-run master's program in Europe, Court entered the international world of sport. Back stateside, he worked in Denver for the USA Rugby organization, then it was on to New York City and Major League Soccer. Recruited by folks in Nashville to start a pro soccer team there, Court is now duplicating his wildly successful plan to reimagine pro soccer in This Town.

    Post-production by Fred O. Bishop
    Sponsored by Carpenter Square Theatre
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    50 min
  • S2E9 Marnie Taylor

    S2E9 Marnie Taylor
    Mar 18 2026
    Marnie Taylor is the President & CEO of the Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits, an organization founded many years ago by a formidable force of nature, Pat Potts. Marnie and I share our deep appreciation for Pat. Mine comes from her support of me in the classes I took at the Center when first starting to renovate the post-war warehouse that became the forever home of Carpenter Square Theatre. Without Pat's support, CST probably wouldn't exist today.

    Marnie's story begins in Fort Bend, Indiana. She learned to swim in Lake Michigan, and switched from cheerleading to swimming in high school. After graduating with a Journalism degree from Notre Dame, she began her career in Chicago working for the Tribune. Her marriage to Clayton took her to exotic places such as Denver, Houston, Aruba, and Oklahoma City. Once settled in This Town, she immersed herself in the community eventually serving on about 30 boards of nonprofits before assuming her current job of helping nonprofit organizations statewide to survive and thrive. Marnie describes how much of her work now centers on advocacy for the nonprofit sector.

    Post-production by Fred O. Bishop
    Sponsored by Carpenter Square Theatre
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    41 min
  • S2E8 Lucas Ross pt 2

    S2E8 Lucas Ross pt 2
    Mar 11 2026
    The conversation with Lucas Ross continues following the Muppets' 50th Anniversary TV special where he provided the banjo music for Kermit the Frog. Lucas tells some stories about that before getting into how he broke into the business including his Donnie character in the Ferguson car spots, being a celebrity, working at KFOR & KAUT, and how that opened the door for him at the world's only banjo museum. And that led to his banjo-playing role in the movie Killers of the Flower Moon. He also shares some stories of the EMMY Award we share for the music and math instructional website AllyDogDepot.com along with his and his family's parts in my family's holiday radio play Who Cares About Christmas. Excerpts of a song and the play are included!

    Post-production by Fred O. Bishop
    Sponsored by Carpenter Square Theatre
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    55 min