Bess Auer

On this episode of To a Certain Degree, Bess Auer discusses how she went from being a teacher to a full-time blogger to a book author. That’s not completely accurate of course, she’s still a teacher and a blogger. It’s all storytelling, and Bess is great at spinning good stories and drawing people in. We also go into detail on April the Giraffe, growing up in central Florida, and building communities.

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Brendan Byrne

On this episode of To a Certain Degree, Brendan Byrne from WMFE comes aboard to talk all things space, his podcast, and his path to public radio broadcasting.

Along with that, he ACES the pop quiz, chooses the best of the worst Bad Business Idea™, and generally is a great guest. Almost too great…

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Tony Brent

On this episode of To a Certain Degree, Tony Brent! An accomplished entertainer, he’s been part of Orlando’s tourism scene for nearly 20 years. A Renaissance man, he’s an author, magician, comedian, and much, much more.

Future TRAPPIST-1 exploration, his experiences that led to an anti-bullying stage show, and Bad Business Ideas™ gets mashed up!

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Haley Bischof

On this episode of To a Certain Degree, Haley Bischof is in the studio talking about publishing, what the Dutch are doing to help distracted walkers, and nostalgic musical moments.

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Lindsey Thompson of Lemonhearted

On this episode of To a Certain Degree, Lindsey Thompson brings the sweet and the sour to the studio for a wide range of topics including how she has managed to build up lemonhearted.com, crying at Hamilton, and discovering Bjork in high school.

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Ron Piccolo

On this episode of To a Certain Degree, Ron Piccolo comes back to one of his alma maters to discuss his work with local nonprofits, the academic writing process, and improv.

Along with that, Black Sabbath makes an appearance, a solution for renting art from friends becomes clear, and we discuss travel as part of the college experience.

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Jen Vargas

On this episode of To a Certain Degree, Jen Vargas bursts out of your chest and into your heart. Wait, that doesn’t work at all. But there are a lot of movie references, creative blocks, and musical ponzi schemes.

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Darci Ricciardi

On this episode of To a Certain Degree, Darci Ricciardi both teaches and learns. She explains a little bit about choreography and a lot about minimalism (ironic). What does she learn? A lot about where rejected Skittles go. Maybe too much about them.

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Marc with a C

On this episode of To a Certain Degree, Marc with a C is a gentleman and a scholar in sharing some of his time and a lot of knowledge about the recording arts, his music, and the joys of vinyl.

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Amanda Roche

On this episode of To a Certain Degree, Amanda Roche tells us about the herding of cats. In this case, very enthusiastic cats that love Orlando. Through her role at the Orlando Economic Development Commission, Amanda is tasked with finding central Florida’s social media cheerleaders – dubbed Obassadors – to help showcase what’s happening in the City Beautiful.

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