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6/30/2012
10:00 AM
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June 30, 2012: Tim Birkhead & Hometown Sweethear...
This week in the first hour of Whad'Ya Know?... All the News that Isn't, then special guest, author Tim Birkhead on his book, "Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird."Also, the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
In the second hour, Madison rockers, the Hometown Sweethearts take the stage and there's another Quiz!
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Saturday
6/23/2012
10:00 AM
120623A
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June 23, 2012: David Maraniss
This week on Whad'Ya Know?... All the News that Isn't then special guest, author David Maraniss on his book, "Barack Obama: The Story" followed by the first Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
Then in the second hour, a special remembrance of Jim Packard.
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Saturday
6/16/2012
10:00 AM
120616A
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Ithaca, New York w/Amy Dickinson and Brian Wansi...
A look back at a trip to Ithaca, New York. Michael welcomes special guest, advice columnist Amy Dickinson. Her new book is, "The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them." Then the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
In the second hour, enjoy the music of The Horse Flies. Also, "Mindless Eating," writer Brian Wansink from Cornell Food and Brand Labs, plus mindful eating with David Hirsch from Moosewood Restaurant. Then round two of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
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Saturday
6/9/2012
10:00 AM
120609A
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New York City, NY w/Sarah Jessica Parker
We're live from the NYU Skirball Center for Performing Arts in beautiful New York City! In the first hour, Michael serves up a Big Gulp of Diet All the News that Isn't, Then Sarah Jessica Parker classes up the place and the Whad'Ya Know? Trio keep it sexy in the City... Then the first Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
In the second hour, Loudon Wainwright III steps in and lights up the place with his voice and a guitar. Then television writer, Paul Simms has some great insight into creating and writing a great show and John Thulin, Jeff Hamann, and Clyde Stubblefield play a tune worthy of Broadway... There's another round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz and finally Bryan Petroff and Douglas Quint of Big Gay Ice Cream know the key ingredient to a delicious ice cream shake (and it sounds like "bourbon").
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Saturday
6/2/2012
10:00 AM
120602A
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John Fox, author of "Ball"
This week on Whad'Ya Know?, author John Fox on the history of the ball. And we bounce around a round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
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Saturday
6/2/2012
11:00 AM
120602B
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Thanks for the memos + the quiz
In our second hour of Whad'Ya Know?... Thanks for the memos!... and the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
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Saturday
5/26/2012
10:00 AM
120526A
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Springfield, Missouri w/Fred Pfister
It's a look back to a trip to Springfield, Missouri with special guest Fred Pfister, professional hillbilly. Plus, music from the Whad'Ya Know? Trio, and of course, the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
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Saturday
5/26/2012
11:00 AM
120526B
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Springfield, Missouri: Building a 13th castle
Is the second hour of Whad'Ya Know?, we continue with a look back at a visit to Springfield, Missouri. The Skeletons play "Googoo's Britches" and their biggest hit, "Andy's" (frozen custard). Also, Julie Sonveau talks about building a castle in Lead Hill, Arkansas using 13th Century tools. Michael gives it a whack, too. Plus, the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
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Saturday
5/19/2012
10:00 AM
120519A
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AJ Jacobs and Drop Dead Healthy
A live Whad'Ya Know? Show from Monona Terrace in Madison. Want to live a long, long time? Michael's guest might have the answer in his book, Drop Dead Healthy. Having achieved enlightenment in The Year of Living Biblically and sharpened his mind in The Know-It-All, bestselling author A.J. Jacobs had one feat left in the self-improvement trinity: to make over his body and become the healthiest person in the world.
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Saturday
5/19/2012
11:00 AM
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Cal DeWitt and Brownsville, TN
During the second hour of this live broadcast Michael reads this week's Thanks for the Memos. The Place To Be is inspired to preserve and conserve the earth with Nelson Institute for Environment Studies Professor, Cal DeWitt. Oh, you will want to get out there and become a steward of the earth. Contemplate wetlands as you listen to jazz from John and Jeff, play a challenging round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz plus a visit to our Town of the Week, Brownsville, Tennessee.
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Saturday
5/12/2012
10:00 AM
120512A
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John T. Edge "Truck Food Cookbook"
A live Whad'Ya Know? show from Monona Terrace in Madison. Guest John T. Edge has a new book, "Truck Food Cookbook." Bacon-wrapped hotdogs, doughnuts, crepes, vegetarian and vegan food that is really yummy are all on the menu at carts. LA, New York, Austin and Madison, WI are all great places to eat off a cart or truck.
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Saturday
5/12/2012
11:00 AM
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Hotline: Food Trucks I've Known
Fill up your mug, sit back and relax. . . the second hour of this live broadcast is on it's way. Start off with Thanks for the Memos then move into a Hotline Call-In: Food Trucks I've Known. In the audience we meet a retiring judge and play a challenging round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
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Saturday
5/5/2012
10:00 AM
120505A
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Dr. Bernie's Animal Orchestra
A live Whad'Ya Know? show from Monona Terrace in Madison. Guest is Dr. Bernie Krause and his great animal orchestra. It isn't animals playing instruments and it's not some sideshow spectacle. Dr. Krause spent the last four decades recording environmental sounds and advancing the art of electronic music. John and Jeff play "You Say You Can."
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Saturday
5/5/2012
11:00 AM
120505B
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Super Moon with Jim Lattis and Scottsbluff, NE
More laughs, more Michael, more Whad'Ya Know? during the second hour of this live broadcast. The moon is in the seventh house and University of Wisconsin - Madison astronomy expert Jim Lattis is here to explain this whole super-moon phenomenon. There's a Memo about some lab models and then The Whad'Ya Know? Quiz with Art and April. Town of the Week, Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
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Saturday
4/28/2012
10:00 AM
120428A
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Lunatic Express with Carl Hoffman.
An encore broadcast with lots of laughs, lots of Feldman and some lovely spring sunshine. Travel around the world dangerously with author and traveler Carl Hoffman then relax in the safety of the Whad'Ya Know? Duo and the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
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Saturday
4/28/2012
11:00 AM
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Barefoot Bob and Webster Springs, West Virginia
During the second hour of this encore broadcast Michael kicks off his shoes during The Place To Be. The Ohio Statehouse frowns on visitors going barefoot; Barefoot Bob is challenging that notion. Then visit our Town of the Week, Webster Springs, West Virginia.
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Saturday
4/21/2012
10:00 AM
120421A
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Hotline, This Is Your Life
A live Whad'Ya Know? show from Monona Terrace in Madison. A Hotline Call-In episode of Audience This Is Your Life. John and Jeff play some jazz, Michael gets the lowdown on dating dementia in the audience and celebrates a 94th birthday.
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Saturday
4/21/2012
11:00 AM
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Outer space rubber chicken and Kingman, Arizona
More Michael, more laughs, more of everything you love during the second hour of this live show from Madison. Thanks for the Memos covers the pitter mechanic, The Place To Be is flying the stratosphere with a rubber chicken courtesy of Union Bishop High School. Town of the Week, Kingman, Arizona.
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Saturday
4/14/2012
10:00 AM
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Ted Pappas and Britannica
It's Michael Feldman's "Whad'Ya Know?" show, live from Monona Terrace in Madison. Michael's guest is Executive Editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica Theodore (Ted) Pappas. The print edition is going away . . . fewer than 1,000 complete sets remain. During the show . . . TWO complete sets will be awarded as Quiz prizes! At 110 pounds, it's the largest Quiz prize ever.
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4/14/2012
11:00 AM
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Thanks for the Memos and Town of the Week
During the second hour of this live broadcast from Monona Terrace in Madison we'll check the listener mail and enjoy an amusing Thanks for the Memos. It's that prom time of year. Share your prom memories, good and bad, with Michael. The Whad'Ya Know? Duo will jazz things up and we'll play the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
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Saturday
4/7/2012
10:00 AM
120407A
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James Pennebaker, Secret Life of Pronouns
It's an Archive edition of Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? featuring an interview with with the author of "The Secret Life of Pronouns," James Pennebaker. The Whad'Ya Know? Duo take us on a musical trip to Paris, and then it's a competitive round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
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Saturday
4/7/2012
11:00 AM
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Sam Lyons and Ulrike Heberlein
More laughs coming up, after ten. Guest musician Sam Lyons. Sam is 16 years old and is making a musical mark for himself locally. He's moved around from guitar to woodwinds to piano to tuba. His CD is title "Someday" and he's playing later today at the fundraiser for Boys/Girls Clubs.
Guest interview with Ulrike Heberlein, researcher, University of California, San Francisco. Ulrike is modeling human conditions in fruit flies. The interesting stuff, like, sex, drugs, alcohol use by male fruit flies when the males were spurned by the ladies.
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Saturday
3/31/2012
10:00 AM
120331A
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Biloxi Road show with Mahoney and the Mayor.
It's a live Whad'Ya Know? show from Saenger Auditorium in Biloxi, Mississippi. Guests include restauranteur Bobby Mahoney from Mary Mahoney's Restaurant with some gorgeous crab claws and some lump crab meat to just stuff in anything. Bobby stays out of the kitchen and the Chef stays out of his office. Plus, a quick cameo from Mayor A.J. Holloway to present the key to the city.
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3/31/2012
11:00 AM
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Rochelle Harper and Lucy Buffet
Y'all will be enjoying more Gulf-coast hospitality with this live Whad'Ya Know? show from Biloxi, Mississippi. Michael gets a Gulf Coast groove on with the Rochelle Harper Band. Restauranteur Lucy Buffet sits a spell with Michael to talk about shipyard life, restaurants and maybe mentions her famous brother (who isn't Warren).
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Saturday
3/24/2012
10:00 AM
120324A
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Pennebaker and The Secret life of Pronouns
On Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know, it's pledge-week special featuring some of Michael's favorite recent guests . . . like comedienne and crafter-extraordinaire Amy Sedaris, and controversial comedian Gilbert Gottfried. He also does what he does best . . . talk with everyday people. We hear about man-caves, a guy who deep-fries Kool Aid, and some folks who take time out from delivering mail to play the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
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Saturday
3/24/2012
11:00 AM
120324B
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Thanks for the Memos and Kingman, Arizona
More Michael, more fun, is coming up on this Pledge-week special.
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Saturday
3/17/2012
10:00 AM
120317A
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Shankar Vendantam and the Unconscious Mind
A rebroadcast of a vintage Whad'Ya Know? show from 2010 when Michael interviewed Shankar Vedantam, columnist at the Washington Post and author of "The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives." So, us vs. our brains....not much we can do about that unconscious mind. Then Michael hears from the people with a hotline call in about pretty much anything, for example, Kyle is concerned about his lamb bacon business.
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Saturday
3/17/2012
11:00 AM
120317B
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Eureka, California and Place To Be with Gary Sch...
More Whad'Ya Know? mayhem during the second hour of this rebroadcast. Thanks for the Memos covers missing cheese sticks, we visit our Town of the Week, Eureka, California and our Place To Be is with Gary Schneider, car modifier and star of a Super Bowl commercial.
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Saturday
3/10/2012
10:00 AM
120310A
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Julie Klausner and the Quiz
It's a live broadcast of Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? show from Monona Terrace in Madison. Michael interviews comedy writer and author Julie Klausner. Play the Quiz, get your weekly dose of jazz, and visit our Town of the Week.
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Saturday
3/10/2012
11:00 AM
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World Champion Cheese
The laughs abound with a Thanks for the Memos from your Councilman. Then Michael cuts the world-champion cheese with John Umhoefer, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association and Bill Schlinsog, Chief Judge Emeritus, World Championship Cheese Contest. Play the Quiz with a couple of real winners!
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Saturday
3/3/2012
10:00 AM
120303A
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Lawrence M. Krauss and The Quiz
Get set for Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? show live from Monona Terrace in Madison. Guest interview with Lawrence M. Krauss whose book, "A Universe from Nothing," explains why there is something instead of nothing. If you are sending the Universe a birthday card, it's up there around 13 billion years old....and speeding up. The takeway...you are insignificant and the future looks terrible. Catch up on All The News That Isn't, play the quiz, and get to know our friends in the live studio audience.
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Saturday
3/3/2012
11:00 AM
120303B
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Curt Hogg and Sault Ste Marie
Michael shares some listener mail, a mountain lion memo in Thanks for the Memos and chats with Brown Deer, WI high school student Curt Hogg who broke the Ryan Braun tampering story on his blog. Play the Quiz then let's stop at a restaurant in our Town of the Week, Sault Ste Marie, Michigan.
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Saturday
2/25/2012
10:00 AM
120225A
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David Brooks and the Social Animal
A live Whad'Ya Know? show from Monona Terrace in Madison. Michael interviews David Brooks, New York Times op-ed columnist and author of the new book, "The Social Animal." Take those insights into human behavior and apply them to the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz and then some chatter with the live studio audience. Socializing at its best!
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