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How we prepare the people who help children is the focus of the conversation with the the UIS Child Protection Training Academy (CPTA). director Betsey Goulet.

UIS professor and member of the Illinois Institute for Public Finance, Beverly Bunch, discusses the need for budgeting and how things are going post-pandemic.

This week we are pleased to bring you an interview with some of the team behind restoring Walt Disney’s birthplace home. Brent Young walks us through his discovery of the home in Chicago from a Zillow listing. We also discuss with Brent and Robert Coker the relationship between Walt and his brother Roy, the restoration efforts that have already gone into the home and the steps being taken to open the doors of the home to the public.To support this wonderful project visit: http://www.thewaltdisneybirthplace.orgFEATURING: Craig McFarland, Brett Rutherford, Vanessa Ferguson

An interview with Latin Jazz Musician Tito Puente Jr. & The Salsa Ambassador Julio Barrenzuela.

Meet me in St. Louis! Craig was given the great opportunity to speak with director/podcaster Kevin Smith. The two speak about Kevin’s experience at comic conventions ahead of his appearance this weekend at FanExpo St. Louis. Kevin and Jay Mewes will have a special show Saturday night after the comic con wraps up for the day. Craig also asks Kevin about his upcoming comic line Secret Stash Press with Dark Horse Comics coming out this fall. It is a really fun conversation in preparation to what will be an excellent weekend!

In the latest episode of ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST, Gus welcomes a good friend of his from high school and an incredibly accomplished veteran of the Broadway Stage: Mr. Michael Gruber.

Howard Berger is an Oscar winner and an Emmy winner for his work in makeup over a forty year career in Hollywood. One of his first projects was "Aliens," and since then has become a fixture in special effects makeup especially in the area of creatures and monsters. Howard won his Academy Award for "The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Craig gets a chance to ask him about his prolific career as well as some inside stories about his work with Quentin Tarantino and Sam Raimi. They also talk about the role of mentorships in Hollywood. Howard gives Craig his thoughts behind serving as one of the makeup and hair stylists to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Hello all you Lasso fans! We are so excited to bring you our conversation with Emmy nominee, Nick Mohammed. This is a conversation where we dive into all things Lasso, including some hints on where Nate might be heading in season three. He also gives us insights into how he played Nate Shelley over the first two seasons of the show. We also discuss Nick's career outside of Ted Lasso, speaking to him about his TV show Intelligence and his new film Maggie Moore with Jon Hamm and Tina Fey. Nick is such a kind and talented person, this was quite the chat. We hope you enjoy!

Today on the pod Jeremy is speaking with writer, director, producer and show-runner Liz Hannah. Liz is an incredibly accomplished person having written the 2017 Steven Spielberg film "The Post" for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. More recently, she was a writer and executive producer on the Hulu series "The Dropout." But our conversation today primarily concerns her work co-creating, writing and executive producing the true crime series "The Girl From Plainville" on Hulu.

Craig had an excellent opportunity to catch up with the showrunners behind the new Disney Channel series "Ultra Violet and Black Scorpion," Leo Chu and Eric Garcia. This team has been creating together for a decade going back to their time developing "Afro Samurai." They open up about their creative process and discuss the writing and creative growth of "Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion." It’s a fun conversation digging a bit deeper into what it takes to bring a show to series.