Video Essays & Interview Podcasts
Nov. 13, 2025
Comedian Bryan McCree a Joyful Flintstone
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Is it possible to make Flint laugh? If anyone can, it's Flint native Bryan McCree, a nationally known comedian, actor, and writer. He regularly tours America with shows marked by their insight into American culture…
Nov. 13, 2025
Former Public Safety Chief of Bishop Airport Recalls Flint Terror Attack
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Former Bishop Airport Public Safety Director Chris Miller discusses a 2017 terrorist attack at the Flint, Michigan, airport. He also talks about the changes the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America had on current oper…
Nov. 12, 2025
Keeping Old Documents,Photos and Donating Your Treasures
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In our highly mobile society, figuring out what to do with our old papers, photographs, and keepsakes is challenging. We accumulate boxes of possessions over a lifetime, and when moving, retiring, or upon the death…
Nov. 12, 2025
A Conversation with Genesee Historical Center Archivist Colleen Marquise
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Colleen Marquise, Associate Archivist at the University of Michigan-Flint, Francis Willson-Thompson Library, takes podcast listeners on a virtual tour of the Genesee County (MI) Historical Center archive collection. …
Nov. 12, 2025
The Michigan Murderer: John Norman Collins and the Ypsilanti Terror
He looked like the all-American college student — handsome, athletic, and part of a fraternity in Ann Arbor. But John Norman Collins was hiding a terrifying secret. In the late 1960s, he stalked and murdered young women near the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University. Dubbed The Mic…
Nov. 12, 2025
The Interesting Journey of a Flint Civil War Battlefield Flag
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Flag Day Special. The Flint soldiers had much success as union soldiers in the American Civil War.
There were 90,000 Michigan soldiers deployed in the American civil war.
The Flint 10th Infantry deployed along …
Nov. 12, 2025
Ben Pauli: Democracy and the Flint Water Crisis
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Ben Pauli, a Kettering University Political Science Professor, is a water rights activist. Pauli embedded himself with a group of Flint residents during the Flint Water Crisis. This is the group that brought the ta…
Nov. 12, 2025
"Mr Flint" Charles Stewart Mott an American Capitalist Pt II
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The Life of Mr. Flint, Charles Stewart Mott (https://www.amazon.com/Life-Charles-Stewart-Mott-Philanthropist/dp/0472131729) . Charles Stewart Mott (1875-1973) was an American businessman and philanthropist born in …
Nov. 12, 2025
Troubadour of Crossroads Village Michigan: Neil Woodward
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Troubadour Neil Woodward is an instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and folk historian who helps preserve Michigan musical traditions. He is often heard at historic Crossroads Village, Michigan, near Flint in the s…
Nov. 12, 2025
Semaj Brown, Flint Poet Laureate, Author and Educator
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Flint Poet Laureate Semaj Brown gives a fascinating reading of her environmental injustice poems. Poet Semaj Brown shares stories of working with the child victims of the Flint Water Crisis. Brown is on a mission t…
Nov. 12, 2025
Marquise Gray: MSU Basketball Great & Flint Beecher Coach
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Marquise Gray, the former Michigan State Spartan, is now the head basketball coach at Flint Beecher High School.
Marquise Gray has excelled at every level of his sport, including coaching and professional basketb…
Nov. 12, 2025
Dave Liske: History of the Flint Style Coney Island Restaurant
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Dave Liske discusses his new book "The Flint Coney: A Savory History." Learn about the history of the Flint food culture and love affair with the Flint-style Coney Island hot dog.
In a lively interview with autho…