The Spark by CALM
Lauren Gibbs lived an ordinary life until an unexpected opportunity unleashed a whole new dream—becoming an Olympic bobsledder.
Edited this episode of The Spark for Calm, hosted by Steve Goldbloom.
Great Big Story by CNN
What do David Bowie, NWA, and the theme song to Futurama all have in common? They’ve all used the Amen break, a four-bar drum solo that has become the most sampled loop in recorded music. The six second sample originates from the 1969 song “Amen, Brother” by a band called The Winstons. For years, the solo was buried deep in the musical archives, until hip-hop pioneer “Breakbeat Lou” Flores and his partner featured it on their compilation, “Ultimate Breaks and Beats.” Once producers caught wind of the solo, it took off and changed the course of music history.
Dave Yim
Host
Drew Beebe
Executive Producers
Sadie Bass and Megan Marcus
Additional Production
Jonathan O’Beirne, Shelby Boamah, Evan Chung and Jocelyn Contreras
Francisco Monroy
Production Manager
Raj Makhija
Great Big Story by CNN
Back in the days before electricity, a peculiar tradition rose out of southeastern North Carolina. Over vast swaths of farmland, voices would ring out to say good morning, ask for help, or just to share a ditty. The old timers called this tradition “hollerin’.” Part singing and part yelling, it was the text message of the pre-industrial age with a complicated history. But, just as telephones and automobiles were about to make hollerin’ obsolete, a group of North Carolinians put together a one-of-a-kind event that may have saved this folk tradition from dying out forever.
Dave Yim and Evan Chung
Host
Drew Beebe
Executive Producers
Sadie Bass and Megan Marcus
Noah Throop, David Toledo and Joy Jeong
Engineer
Francisco Monroy
Production Manager
Raj Makhija
Great Big Story by CNN
Whether you know him by name or not, you’ve definitely seen James Hong before. From movies like “Blade Runner” and “Chinatown,” TV shows like “The Big Bang Theory” and “Seinfeld,” and animated features like “Kung Fu Panda” and “Mulan,” in his over six decades in Hollywood, Hong has become one of the most credited actors in history. Born in Minnesota to parents from Hong Kong, Hong moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. However, he has had to spend his entire career combating stereotypical depictions of Chinese, Asians and Asian Americans in film and television. Even in his 90s, Hong is showing no signs of slowing down.
Dave Yim and Dominique Turner
Host
Drew Beebe
Executive Producers
Sadie Bass and Megan Marcus
Jocelyn Contreras
Engineer
Francisco Monroy
Production Manager
Raj Makhija
Limetown by Two-Up
Ten years ago, over three hundred men, women and children disappeared from a small town in Tennessee, never to be heard from again. In this podcast, American Public Radio reporter Lia Haddock asks the question once more, “What happened to the people of Limetown?”
Zack Akers, Skip Bronie and Dave Yim
Story by
Zack Akers, Skip Bronkie, Dave Yim, Chris Plante and Stephie Plante
Writer and Director
Zack Akers
Skip Bronkie
Editor
Dave Yim
Original Music by
Martin D Fowler
Music Supervision by
Deb Oh