I had the pleasure of sharing the airwaves with Arvid Hokanson, director of audience at KUOW and an original member of the KMIH Radio Club back in 1993! In the interview I got to learn how he and his team research listener behavior and tailor what content goes when in order to keep people listening more often and for longer. Arvid has worked at KUOW for 23 years as a talk show producer and even interim program director and chief content officer. His career in public radio made him an especially relevant and valuable interview to have in the studio. Take a listen.

The inaugural episode of The Teacher's Lounge features the one and only, Jeff Randolph. He was an easy pick for me. As mentioned in the episode's intro, he was my AP Psychology teacher my junior year of high school. What makes Mr. Randolph stick out among his colleagues to me is his authentic dedication and respect for student engagement in his classroom. The ability to take what is asked by a student and make it valuable to the class course as well as very entertaining is what allows his psychology classes to gain great scores on the AP exam each and every year. In our short interview we discussed his interest in broadcast journalism out of high school and how his college education instead provided the roots of a career in teaching.

Thinking of the all time greats of Seattle Mariners broadcasting, your mind probably rings back the name Dave Niehaus. Just a few window panes to the right, a mainstay now carries on Niehaus's legacy in the booth calling Mariners games. A St. Louis kid, Aaron Goldsmith never thought of broadcasting until moments after graduating with a history degree from Principia College in Illinois. But after numerous (and arduous) years making his way up the rungs of the broadcasting ladder, bouncing from an independent baseball teams to minor league teams like the Triple A Pawtucket Red Sox, he'd receive the experience and improvement that put him (and to his surprise) in Seattle in 2013. Coming up on his eleventh season casting play-by-play for the M's, Goldsmith has definitely cemented his spot in Mariners broadcasting.

In our in-person interview, Aaron and I got to chat about his broadcasting journey, why he enjoys local broadcasting compared to national events, the keys to mastering mechanics and "feel" on the air, why he didn't take a lucrative position as lead broadcaster for the St. Louis Cardinals, and much much more.