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News, views and information for people who are blind or partially sighted
When you are blind or partially sighted, many people believe your options are limited. However, we believe the possibilities are limitless! Brought to you by Blind Beginnings, the Limitless podcast will inform, entertain, and provide insight and interviews on many diverse topics and with many interesting people. With every episode you will see that the opportunities for people who are blind or partially sighted are truly ... limitless!
The Pulse on AMI-audio
RNIB Connect Radio is the UK radio station for blind and partially sighted people to find out what is happening in the community. You can also contribute and share your stories by emailing radio@rnib.org.uk (mailto:radio@rnib.org.uk) . Get involved and join the conversation. Other great podcast channels from RNIB Connect Radio Conversations (https://audioboom.com/channel/conversations) - Blind and partially sighted people speaking about a wide range of topics. Read On (https://audioboom.com/ ...
If you want to find out what's on TV and what is audio described, check out our daily TV Guide podcast from RNIB Connect Radio. Other great podcast channels from RNIB Connect Radio Connect (https://audioboom.com/channel/weeklyconnect) - Our main channel with news, features and articles on sight loss. Conversations (https://audioboom.com/channel/conversations) - Blind and partially sighted people speaking about a wide range of topics. Read On (https://audioboom.com/channel/readonair) - The Au ...
Tech Talk is a podcast and radio show for blind and partially sighted people who are interested in accessible technology. Find out about the latest products from specialist equipment to off the shelf solutions. Get involved or join the conversation by emailing techtalk@rnib.org.uk Other great podcast channels from RNIB Connect Radio Connect (https://audioboom.com/channel/weeklyconnect) - Our main channel with news, features and articles on sight loss. Conversations (https://audioboom.com/cha ...
Kelly and Company is AMI-audio’s daily live afternoon program. Listen for interviews and discussion about arts, entertainment and lifestyle information directly affecting the blind and partially sighted community. Contributors from across the country share information on everything from parenting and finance to fashion and gaming. Plus, catch live performances from Canadian musicians, comedians and actors.
The National Trust Magazine is our ‘thank you’ to our members for helping us to look after special places. We’ve created this audio version so our blind and partially sighted members, or those who prefer to listen rather than read, can enjoy the magazine too. Look out for new episodes of this podcast in January, May and September.
Double Tap Canada is the show where blind people talk tech! If you’re blind or partially sighted and have an interest in technology, this is the show for you. Everyone is welcome no matter how old you are or how much or how little experience you have with technology. Each week the team will help you better understand how technology can help your everyday life, even if you have little or no sight. Join the conversation and add your voice to the show either by calling in, sending an email or l ...
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
RNIB Connect Radio is the UK radio station sharing stories of people living with sight loss. Listen to blind and partially sighted people talk about a wide range of topics of relevance to them and join the conversation yourself by emailing radio@rnib.org.uk Other great podcast channels from RNIB Connect Radio Connect (https://audioboom.com/channel/weeklyconnect) - Our main channel with news, features and articles on sight loss. Read On (https://audioboom.com/channel/readonair) - The Audioboo ...
A weekly show all about audiobooks recorded at the RNIB Talking Book studios. We talk to your favourite authors and narrators, along with reviews and news about new audiobooks. Presented by Red Szell in Camden and produced by Robert Kirkwood in Glasgow, you'll find a new episode here every Friday at 1pm plus bonus content such as longer uncut interviews and episodes of our occasional extra show, The Book Group. Talking Books is a free service from RNIB giving access to over 30,000 fiction an ...
Rotary Magazine shares inspiring achievements of Rotary, where people unite and take action to create lasting change across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. We’ve created this audio version for people who prefer to listen rather than read, and for our blind and partially sighted members to all enjoy the magazine. Look out for new episodes of this audio magazine in October, December, February, April, June & August. Members of Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland rec ...
The best bits of the Morning Mix, a radio show focusing on the lives of blind and partially sighted people.
Audio highlights from Vision magazine, RNIB's award-winning bi-monthly magazine for RNIB members. The Vision podcast includes news, features, member profiles and letters.
If you are blind or partially sighted and have an interest in sport, whether it be as a participant or as an observer, this podcast is for you! Get involved and join the conversation by emailing radio@rnib.org.uk (mailto:radio@rnib.org.uk) Other great podcast channels from RNIB Connect Radio Connect (https://audioboom.com/channel/weeklyconnect) - Our main channel with news, features and articles on sight loss. Conversations (https://audioboom.com/channel/conversations) - Blind and partially ...
Calling all bookworms! RNIB's reading themed podcasts bring you book news and reviews, author interviews, RNIB National Library Service updates and much more. Includes hightlights from Read on magazine. RNIB is a charity supporting blind and partially sighted people in the UK.
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Introducing Health Sciences: Visual Impairment - for iPad/Mac/PC
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Introducing Health Sciences: Visual Impairment - for iPad/Mac/PC
The Open University
Partial or total loss of sight affects millions of people worldwide. Many cases are preventable or curable, but simple interventions are not available in some poorer countries. The 15 video tracks in this album explore the impact of visual impairment and corrective treatments. Derek Child explains how he learned to adapt to losing his sight and the training that helps him stay mobile and independent. Experts from Contamac reveal the science behind lens production. The Good Health Train bring ...
The brainchild of the Baptist Men's Movement it distributes tapes and CDs 10 times a year and carries news from the Baptist Times and BMS World Mission as well as a review of activities from around the regions and activities at the colleges.
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The VIP Pod: The Visually Impaired People Podcast
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The VIP Pod: The Visually Impaired People Podcast
The VIP Pod
Welcome to The VIP Pod where we talk to a range of fascinating guests from all walks of life with one thing in common: being visually impaired. Through this series, we hope to raise awareness of the many different conditions that can affect VI people and the amazing ways people adapt and thrive. The VIP Pod Team is made up of Emma Martins, Michael Wordingham, Warren Wilson and Rupert Mountjoy. Do feel free to get in touch with feedback or future guest suggestions by emailing thevippod@gmail. ...
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RNIB - See Sport Differently
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1163: London Canoeing Club Encouraging Blind And Partially Sighted People To Get On The Water
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The Tower Hamlet's Canoeing Club is encouraging more people with sight loss to take up canoeing. They have dedicated training courses and are also training volunteer guides to open up the leisure activity to more people. RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell spoke to Alex Smith, from the club, and blind canoeist Richard Simpson to learn more about the…
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Kelly and Company
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Unique teaching style for blind and partially sighted piano players
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We meet Mark Miller, a piano teacher who specializes in teaching blind and partially sighted students around the world. We learn more about him and his unique teaching style.By AMI
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RNIB Connect
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1230: Sight Loss Charity Providing Cost Of Living Advice To Blind And Partially Sighted People
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With the cost of living increasing, everything is becoming more expensive, from our gas and electricity, food and even the fuel for our cars. For many it's a difficult time trying to make ends meet but for many blind and partially sighted people, the impact can be greater. Over the next few months, RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell will be speakin…
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The Pulse on AMI-audio
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Bruce Horak, Star Trek: Strange New World's Hemmer
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Legally blind Canadian actor Bruce Horak talks about playing Hemmer, the Starship Enterprise's blind engineer on the new series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Bruce discusses the character and how disability inclusion on the screen translates to social inclusion for People with Disabilities. This is the May 28, 2022 episode…
Waterbeds came and went pretty quickly in the United States, but despite their marketing as sex beds, they were actually invented to deliver a great night's sleep. Learn all about these super 70's beds in this classic episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
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Double Tap Canada
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Travelling Blind, Podcasting & More Keyboards
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It’s another big Double Tap Canada this week, with even more technology talk than usual. It’s a tech show, honest!This week, Steven and Shaun get together to discuss the perils of travelling blind and how assistance apps can help us to navigate around more easily. We also discuss the new Rodecaster Pro mixing console, intended for podcasters and st…
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RNIB Connect
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1249: Charity Chief Exec's Customer Update 28/05/2022
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Each week, RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell sits down with Matt Stringer, CEO of RNIB, to look at some of the big stories coming from the UK sight loss charity. This week Matt talks about supporting blind and partially sighted people with the cost of living crisis, more work on improving access to education for visually impaired pupils, a call fo…
Robert Kirkwood takes us to Dumfries House in Ayrshire for the Boswell Book Festival, the world's only festival of biography and memoir. We hear from Keith Brymer Jones, host of the Great Pottery Throwdown and author of Boy in a China Shop, Katherine McInnes tells us about the Snow Widows left behind by Scott's ill-fated South Pole mission, Andrew …
Let's learn a little bit about goalball today! Our Paulina Kuchorew headed over to a local goalball session to meet with Alan Lewis from the Glasgow Goalball Club. Give Glasgow Goalball Club a follow here: Glasgow Goalball | Facebook Fore more information on Goalball in your local area visit: Goalball UK – Transforming people's lives Image shows me…
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RNIB Connect
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1244: Professor Pearse Keane Comes 10th in the Ophthalmologist Magazine Power List 2022
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Each year The Ophthalmologist Magazine publishes their Power List of the top 100 influential Ophthalmologists from around the world and Pearse Keane, Professor of Artificial Medical Intelligence at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, and a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital has come 10 in the Power List 2022 for his work investigatin…
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RNIB Connect
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1244: Vidar Hjarding MBE - The Play That Goes Wrong, Audio Described Theatre Review
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RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey is joined again by Vidar Hjarding MBE, Inclusion and Diversity Consultant for ITV News across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands for the next in his regular Connect Radio audio described theatre reviews. This week Vidar was reviewing Mischief Comedy’s multi award winning international smash hit …
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RNIB Tech Talk
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410: Tech Talk 410: What 3 Words CEO, Smart Energy Choices And The JAWS Sound Splitter Feature
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This week, on Tech Talk, we talk to Chris Sheldrick, the co-founder of location service 'What 3 Words'. Steve Tyler from Leonard Cheshire joins us to talk about the work that the charity does. Plus, Callum tries out the new sound splitter feature in JAWS. You can listen to the show live in the UK every Tuesday at 1pm on Freeview Channel 730, online…
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Callan is the popular British fictional spy, and the window into the darker side of that cold war world. Michael Feir highlights the second volume of Callan stories. How much gardening can we do in the shade? Let’s find out with Gardener Susan Kerney. We get a tease of tonight’s music and theatre performances, celebrating 150 years of W. Ross MacDo…
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Kelly and Company
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Roundtable - Bill Shackleton and Terry Bray
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On our Roundtable, we hear from two familiar W. Ross alumni voices, Bill Shackleton and Terry Bray!By AMI
We speak with former WRMS student, Eddy Morten. He joins us to chat about his time at the school and his involvement with deaf blind services.By AMI
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Kelly and Company
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W. Ross alumnae recount school experiences
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K&Co contributor and W. Ross Macdonald alumna Margrett Weldon interviews former students Jennifer Griffiths and Jasmine Schuchardt about their experiences attending the school.By AMI
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Celebrating 150 Years at the W.Ross MacDonald School
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We get a tease of tonight’s music and theater performances, celebrating 150 years of W. Ross MacDonald, put together by former and current staff and students.By AMI
How much gardening can we do in the shade? Let’s find out with Gardener Susan Kerney.By AMI
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Kelly and Company
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Volume two of popular British spy fiction "Callan"
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Callan is the popular British fictional spy, and the window into the darker side of that cold war world. Michael Feir highlights the second volume of Callan stories.By AMI
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RNIB Connect
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1248: Major Concerns For Education Standards For Visually Impaired Pupils
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The UK sight loss charity RNIB is concerned about the education attainment gap, and standards of support, for children who are blind or partially sighted. The charity is working with government departments to improve education support but things are moving very slowly and there are real concerns that some pupils will be left behind their sighted pe…
Absinthe makes you hallucinate and possibly even have a seizure, right? Nope. It's all a part of the myth of absinthe, which is really just a bitter tasting liquor with a bad reputation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
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RNIB Connect
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1243: Getting a message across through Drag, with VI Drag Queen Venetia Blind.
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How can drag get a message across to educate the public about visual impairment? Ellie's been chatting to on VI drag performer who's on a mission to entertain and educate. To follow Venetia please search for @v_blind_ on you social media Image shows: Venetia with bright pink hair, a large flower ring and statement earrings. Blue eyeshadow and lips …
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RNIB Connect
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1242: Scented Garden Event Supporting Sight Loss Charity
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A scented botanical garden in Dorset is offering a sweet deal for visitors with sight loss as they partner up with sight loss charity RNIB. This coming Tuesday, 31st of May they will hold a special fundraising day including guided tours, workshops and the launch of a special exhibition. Our Paulina Kuchorew spoke with Julia Bridger, director at Key…
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RNIB - See Sport Differently
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1241: England Women's Blind Football Team Hold First Training Camp
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This June sees the first ever Women's Blind Football 'European Championships' in Italy. Hywel Davies spoke to the newly formed England Women's side ahead of the competition. For more information on how to watch the Women's Team in action when they take on Germany, visit www.ibsasport.org To find out how you can get involved in blind football, visit…
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Can a hug help you when you're stressed? It might work better for some but not all. Jeff Ryman has the details in his health headlines. Margrett Weldon brings us In The Know about the types of assistance available in Emergency, and Non-Emergency situations. A local Edmonton start up has developed an app to help with navigating construction barriers…
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Kelly and Company
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Local Edmonton start-up to help with navigating construction barriers
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A local Edmonton start up has developed an app to help with navigating construction barriers. Jim Krysko brings us up to speed.By AMI
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Assistance available in Emergency, and Non-Emergency situations
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Margrett Weldon brings us In The Know about the types of assistance available in Emergency, and Non-Emergency situations.By AMI
Can a hug help you when you're stressed? It might work better for some but not all. Jeff Ryman has the details in his health headlines.By AMI
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RNIB Conversations
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1212: A View on Access - Hampstead Theatre Accessibility, The Breach, My Fair Lady, Grease & More!
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Let's take a look at some accessible theatre productions with your latest A view on access. This week Tim checks out accessibility of Hampstead Theatre as well as takes a look at some exciting upcoming productions that will be available with audio description in June. For more information about Hampstead Theatre visit: Hampstead Theatre | London AV…
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Stuff You Should Know
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Short Stuff: Do people move in predictable directions?
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Depending on where you are in the world, you either have an instinct to go left or right when entering a place. Learn all about this today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
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RNIB - See Sport Differently
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1241: Melanie Barrat set to be the first blind woman to swim the channel!
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Paralympic champion Melanie Barratt is hoping to become the first blind woman to cross the English Channel solo. She won't be taking to the high seas until 2024 but there is a lot of training, and a few lakes and locks to conquer along the way. Ellie caught up with Melanie to find out about the training, the inspiration and her new initiative which…
Charlotte Jones, RNIB's National Involvement Coordinator shares the latest opportunities for blind and partially sighted people to get involved in. Opportunities highlighted this week included: Would you like to help improve the lives of blind and partially sighted people? RNIB is conducting research to better understand the experiences of people l…
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There’s a new strategy for people with cat allergies to manage their symptoms. We get the details with Dr. Danielle Jongkind. Nutritionist Julia Karantjas highlights seasonal allergies and what we can do to help with the symptoms. As May marks Vision Health Month, it’s important to note that nearly 1 in 6 Canadians are living with one of the four m…
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Kelly and Company
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What are the arguments for and against having the monarchy in Canada?
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What are the arguments for and against having the monarchy in Canada? Let’s discuss with Danielle McLaughlin on Know Your Rights.By AMI
On our Parenting chat, Lucia Bellafante features gardening as an intentional learning experience.By AMI
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Kelly and Company
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Community Report - Kim Kilpatrick - Ottawa
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Ottawa Community Reporter Kim Kilpatrick highlights this year’s Braille Literacy Canada symposium.By AMI
As May marks Vision Health Month, it’s important to note that nearly 1 in 6 Canadians are living with one of the four major eye diseases. What can we do to prevent this? We chat with Dr. Vivian Hill to learn more.By AMI
Nutritionist Julia Karantjas highlights seasonal allergies and what we can do to help with the symptoms.By AMI
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New strategy for people with cat allergies to manage their symptoms
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There’s a new strategy for people with cat allergies to manage their symptoms. We get the details with Dr. Danielle Jongkind.By AMI
For some people with visual impairments, when wanting to travel abroad there are many considerations to take into account. Namely, booking assistance at airports and travel requirements for your guide dog, if you have one. Since Brexit, there have been changes to regulations of taking Guide Dogs abroad. Before, owners had to acquire a pet passport …
You’ve got questions and we have answers! We’ve been compiling some questions that our listeners have been submitting, so it’s time once again for another edition of our favorite episode series - Ask A Blind Beginning Youth! In this 4th volume, Shawn welcomes co-hosts Keisha, Kolby, and Nika to answer listener questions about a variety of topics ar…
Josh and Chuck wade into dangerous waters with the debate over just how destructive cats are for local ecosystems (turns out it’s pretty bad) and some ideas on what to do about that (you may not want to know). Tune in and tense up! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
