Everyday America
Remember when you used to be able to pick up “the other line” and listen in on private conversations? Yeah, it’s like that, but without the other line...and it’s totally legit! Everyday America is a podcast where you’ll get to listen in on your friends, neighbors and fellow Americans as they tell the personal stories that mean the most to them. As a producer I’ve spent my career telling stories. From TV pilots to news, from corporate executives to sports figures and celebrities, I have interviewed and told the stories of countless individuals. My name is Gregory King and I'm the host of Everyday America. Join me each week, and hear the personal stories of your neighbors, your friends, and your fellow Americans as you listen in on Everyday America. What's your story? New episodes every Thursday at 10am! Contact me at everydayamericapodcast@gmail.com.
Episodes
26 episodes
026 Nils Lindstrom - Success By Design
I met today’s American a few years back in connection with an animation project for AmEx. Nils put together a great piece and we’ve since gone on to work together numerous times, in fact, he designed the King Media Group logo. <...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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37:08
025 Waterway Interviews - Cole's Point, Virginia
Today we’re going to hear a story from what I call the waterway interviews. A few years ago I went on a documentary expedition in a small boat, from Norfolk to Boston up the Intercoastal waterway. The goal was to search for the Amer...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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15:03
024 John Hopper - Living in the How
Today’s guest reached out to me, (which by the way, I’d love to see more of you do)! As a nation we’re obsessed with New Year’s resolutions. Are we not? We go crazy with them even knowing that we’ll fail. It’s a...
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Season 24
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31:59
023 Follow The Star - A Living Nativity
Merry Christmas from the cast and crew of Everyday America!Today I share the soundtrack of a special living nativity, usually performed live each year for the last 22 years to audiences of thousands. To see the video that's servin...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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13:04
022 Shayla Rivera - Rocket Scientist
Today’s American lives in Texas by way of Puerto Rico.Shayla Rivera is a lady of many talents. She’s a rocket scientist and worked on the shuttle and space station programs with NASA. She’s a comedian, and I met her as ...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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39:15
021 Jon Nakamatsu - Concert Pianist
I met today’s American at a video shoot a few years ago at the quaint Trianon Theater in San Jose California. A beautiful little theater built in 1923.Jon Nakamatsu talks about what it means to follow your heart and to listen to yo...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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53:19
020 Ian Taylor - A Circus Life
His story unfolds like some kind of a movie script: Born prematurely in the backseat of a taxi cab to a drug addicted mother that didn’t know she was pregnant, a heart attack, necrotic intestines, and emergency surgery––and that was his first h...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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31:54
019 Brad Zinn - Preserving The Great Comedians
Brad Zinn is a preservationist. He’s preserving a part of American history that has almost faded away. He's a a comedian, a magician, and an artist that preserves the comedy of yesteryear. His one man play, The Great Comedians...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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42:34
018 Robert Elber Zick - The Rev
Today we’re going to hear another Waterway Interview. While coming up the Chesapeake we had a fuel stop on Kent Island, where we met up with a follower of our expedition that wanted to meet us there and escort us across the bay to A...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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17:03
017 Jason - DJ for the Times
I met today’s American at a live event a few years back. He’s a DJ, a disc jockey, but that term has come to mean more than just a player of records.Jason is a marketing expert, music expert, entertainer, social facilitator, and a ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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39:05
016 Election Day 2020 - President Ronald Reagan
Today I've gone slightly off-format to bring you a short speech made by former President Reagan in August of 1984. If you've never heard it, it's worth a listen. He brings up some important points that bear remembering.
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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19:33
015 Burnie Burns - The Gaffer's Gaffer
I recently reconnected with today's American on Linked In. I worked with Burnie some years back on, among other things, a car commercial, but have been following his career for some time. Burnie is a gaffer... a lighting guy, and he...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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38:34
014 Jill Bikes Across America
Jill Peterson talks about how she got the crazy idea to bike across America, the nearly ten years it took to plan, and the adventure of executing her plan. She wrote a book about the adventure titled, "You Only Die Once." Here's a s...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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41:33
013 Waterway Interviews - Young Jake Beats Cancer
Today we’re going to hear another story from what I call the Waterway Interviews, captured during a documentary expedition in a small boat, from Norfolk to Boston. Each day we’d end up in a new port and each day we’d find someone to...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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16:42
012 Jana Lenon - Finding Family
Jana talks about the loss of her father and the dissolution of her family at a young age. When her mother spirals into alcoholism, the siblings end up in foster care. Here she talks about loss, change, the destruction of a f...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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24:14
011 Michelle Borquez - A Real Go To Girl
Michelle Borquez was born and raised in Santa Monica California. Even as a child she had a desire to help others. As she began her career she learned the skills she would need to realize her goals, and then, she took her desire to h...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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27:06
010 Bill McGowan - Reinvented
Bill McGowan talks career change, creativity, and the state of things.I recently rediscovered today’s guest on LinkedIn. Bill McGowan is a writer, now ad agency guru, and I’ve known Bill easily for 30 years. In 2008 the rec...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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31:25
009 Ron Crites - Nashville Original
Nashville is considered the music capital of the world, where talent can even be found in the local McDonald’s. That’s where I met Ron Crites just over a year ago. He’s a master musician who’s opened for name talent across the South. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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27:22
008 Waterway Interviews - Thuy Flees Vietnam
Today we’re going to hear a story from what I call the waterway interviews, captured during a documentary expedition in a small boat, from Norfolk to Boston. Each day we’d end up in a new port and each day we’d find someone to inter...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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18:47
007 Big C - Truck Stop Rapper
I met Big C at a truck stop on the California Arizona border, where he was selling his CDs by performing and playing his music in the parking lot. It was 11:30 at night and over 100 degrees.His story is one of talent and drive, a d...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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31:34
006 Romona Robinson - Beyond Racial Barriers
Romona Robinson – Beyond Racial BarriersRomona is an award-winning journalist and television news personality in Cleveland. I heard part of her story at an awards banquet I produced and knew I had to share her story. S...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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37:39
005 Billy Lister - Paralympian Extraordinaire
Billy Lister – Paralympian ExtraordinaireI met Billy recently on a documentary shoot, and shot nearly two hours of footage of him before I knew there was something different about this speedster on a bike. Billy Lister has b...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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43:09
004 Nancy Caruso - Called to the Sea
Nancy Caruso – Called to the SeaSince before she saw the ocean at the age of 10 she’d wanted to be a marine biologist. Nancy talks about how she fell in love with the sea and what it takes to remain there as a steward of the...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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32:00