Episode 82 of Guestbook Podcast. Innkeeper Freddie welcomes film director Thisara Pinto and film producer Leela Dunn of Spektral Ink Films onto Guestbook Podcast to discuss their upcoming documentary covering the 'junction points' connecting the numerous protests across America since the May 2020 brutal murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. This is the first of two Guestbook Podcast interviews with Thisara & Leela. Be sure to check out part 2 (Episode 83) for our follow-up interview with the duo recorded the week of the 2021 Inauguration.

Guest Internets: @spektralinkfilms (IG)

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0082 Thisara Pinto & Leela Dunn (Film Director & Film Producer) - Part 1

Episode 83 of Guestbook Podcast. Recorded the week of Inauguration 2021. Back in Washington, DC for the third time in as many months recording footage/interviews for their upcoming documentary investigating the deep polarizations within present-day America, Thisara Pinto and Leela Dunn--Film Director and Film Producer with Spektral Ink Films--join Innkeeper Freddie on Guestbook Podcast to give an update/follow-up since their previous stay during the 2020 Election. This is the second of two Guestbook Podcast interviews with Thisara & Leela. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out part 1 (Episode 82) where we introduce Thisara & Leela, their respective backgrounds and the   genesis of their upcoming documentary.

Deeyah Khan’s “White Right: Meeting the Enemy” (trailer) - https://youtu.be/KpWUZ3NG_Do

Guest Internets: @spektralinkfilms (IG)

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0083 Thisara Pinto & Leela Dunn (Film Director & Film Producer) - Part 2

Episode 81 of Guestbook Podcast. Celebrating a birthday weekend ‘stay-cation’ at Union Inn, yoga instructor Sade Brown joins Guestbook Podcast to talk many things yoga—her introduction to yoga…to becoming an instructor of yoga, the mental & physical benefits of yoga, even her recent struggles with yoga…and all that surrounds it (pandemic included).

The Internets: W: https://jhmifitness.com/denton-cooley-center/ | IG: @i.am.yogi.sade | Soundcloud: @adeaeema

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0081 Sade Brown (Yoga Instructor)

Episode 80 of Guestbook Podcast. Innkeeper Freddie welcomes e-commerce entrepreneur extraordinaire Luke Allwein (IG: @lukealll) to the podcast during his July 4th weekend stay at Union Inn. As he recounts his story from Hershey, PA to USC to Bali and back to Cali again, Luke breaks down the ‘e-myth’ while educating Freddie on the intricacies behind the lucrative world of dropshipping and the elusive world of Facebook advertising.

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0080 Luke Allwein (E-Commerce Entrepreneur)

Episode 79 of Guestbook Podcast. In this special episode celebrating the Juneteenth holiday, Innkeeper Freddie brings on good friend and fellow-marathoner Fred Miller to recap the 'Inaugural Juneteenth Marathon' they organized and ran with the invaluable assistance of the DC running community. Held the weekend prior (June 13, 2020), this 26.5-mile marathon covered the bounds of all four quadrants of the city of Washington from the 1791 plan for the city, starting at the National Museum of African American History & Culture and ending at Frederick Douglass' House in Anacostia.

...and yes, you read that right. The Juneteenth Marathon IS 26.5-miles--for every month between the Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863) and Juneteenth (June 19, 1865), another 0.01 miles was added to the route. 

Recorded at Union Inn in the heart of Washington, DC, Guestbook Podcast is hosted by world-famous conversationalist and host-extraordinaire Innkeeper Freddie. Join him weekly as he interviews the myriad of guests who visit his home/inn.

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0079 The Inaugural Juneteenth Marathon, 2020 (feat. Fred Miller)

Episode 78 of Guestbook Podcast.  "Best of 2019"

We set off 2020 (and Season 3 of Guestbook Podcast) with our annual collection of highlights from the previous year...

@00:00 – Snippet Montage | Intro
@05:25 – Boot Camp [Joshua Hutcheson, Ep. 69]
@08:40 – LHON [Thomas Knebel, Ep. 43]
@13:45 – Auditioning [Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Ep. 33]
@16:40 – Grand Jury Shenanigans [Stephen Bright,  Ep. 71]
@20:55 – Repetitive Tolerance [Scott Dugdale, Ep. 52]
@24:20 – Malignant Nightmare [Victoria Tejada, Ep. 68]
@27:55 – Africa Peace Walk [Okechukwu Iweala, Ep. 77]
@32:40 – The 7 Questions
@47:30 – Outro

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0078 "Best of 2019" (feat. Christina DeBianchi)

Episode 77 of Guestbook Podcast. In our last episode of 2019, Innkeeper Freddie has the pleasure of welcoming one of the most interesting guests to the pod to date. Okechukwu Iweala is a Nigerian-American whose educational/artistic endeavors in Nigeria befit a man of his creativity and genuinely benevolent spirit. In this episode, “Oke” dives into Nigeria as a whole: its geography/demography, AfroBeat and its musical takeover of recent, ‘on the ground’ tips for travelers, his familial roots and the numerous grass roots organizations in which he is actively involved.

Recorded at Union Inn in the heart of Washington, DC, Guestbook Podcast is hosted by world-famous conversationalist and host-extraordinaire Innkeeper Freddie. Join him weekly as he interviews the myriad of guests who visit his home/inn.

The Internets: E: oiweala@gmail.com | W: okepeacefoundation.org

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0077 Okechukwu Iweala (Educator/Creative)

Episode 76 of Guestbook Podcast. Back for the 4th time, friend of the pod Q. Xavier joins Innkeeper Freddie for their semi-annual 'Blerd Out' session. In this episode, Q gives the listeners a recap on his Spring adventures in Iceland as well as updates on several of his podcasts in production.

The Internets: @qxavier (everywhere ;-)

Shareable Podcast - https://shareable.fm/ (Q. Xavier Eps. 106 & 108)

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0076 Q. Xavier 2.2 ("Strategist")

Episode 75 of Guestbook Podcast. Innkeeper Freddie has the honor of welcoming another friend/CRE mentor to the pod, Ashleigh Simpson, to delve into the inner ambition that drives him and the pivotal life events that demonstrate its repeated manifestation over the course of his illustrious life.

The Internets: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleigh-r-simpson-28b65719 | https://investments.metlife.com/investment-strategies/real-estate/

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0075 Ashleigh Simpson (Real Estate Investor)

Episode 74 of Guestbook Podcast. On tour with the musical "Aladdin" during its summer run at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, trumpeter/author Paul Baron stops by Union Inn to chat with Innkeeper Freddie about the various ways he's flexed his #1 talent--trumpeting. We're talking studio recordings, live performances, musicals, TV shows and TV jingles...with a brief primer on those oh so sweet RESIDUALS ;-). Recorded over the summer ahead of the fall release of his second book "Trumpet Voluntarily, Strategically Designed Warmups To Conquer The Increasing Demands Of Today’s Trumpet Player" (now available), Paul recounts his motivations for putting together the book, as well as those behind the original that started it all--"Trumpet Voluntarily, A Holistic Guide To Maximizing Practice Through Efficiency".

The Internets: W: http://www.paulbaron.net | IG: @paulbaron63

Trumpet Voluntarily, Vol. 1: https://qpress.ca/product/trumpet-voluntarily-holistic-guide-maximizing-practice-efficiency/

Trumpet Voluntarily, Vol. 2: https://qpress.ca/product/trumpet-voluntarily-strategically-designed-warmups-paul-baron/

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0074 Paul Baron (Trumpeter/Author)

Episode 73 of Guestbook Podcast. Recorded on location at the PRX Podcast Garage DC Pop-Up during DC Podfest 2019, Innkeeper Freddie brings Ampire Media owner Bram Weinstein onto Guestbook Podcast to wax poetic about their respective Montgomery County high school alma maters and get his answers to the famous "7 Questions".

The Internets: TW/IG: @realbramw | LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bramweinstein | W: https://www.ampiremedia.com
PRX Podcast Garage DC: https://www.podcastgarage.org/dc/home
DC Podfest: https://www.dcpodfest.com/

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0073 Bram Weinstein (Multi-Media Owner/Producer/Consultant/Broadcaster)

Episode 72 of Guestbook Podcast. Innkeeper Freddie welcomes conservationist (and ultra-outdoorswoman ;-) Sunni Heikes-Knapton onto Guestbook Podcast to share the wonders of the "Northern Plains" region of the US--namely eastern and western Montana (and their stark contrasts in landscapes) and the infamous "Badlands" of the Dakotas. Also, Sunni--who grew up in South Dakota--provides Freddie with a brief primer on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and the issues surrounding the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The Internets: LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunni-heikes-knapton-00454522 | W: https://www.nacdnet.org/

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0072 Sunni Heikes-Knapton (Conservationist)

Episode 71 of Guestbook Podcast. In town as a visiting lecturer at Georgetown Law School for his Fall semester seminar "Race and Poverty in Capital and Other Criminal Cases", Stephen Bright returns as a guest at Union Inn to discuss with Innkeeper Freddie several of the structural injustices that currently plague the US criminal court system.

"Rigged: Rigged: When Race and Poverty
Determine Outcomes in the Criminal Courts" (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 2016): https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/79750/OSJCL_V14N1_263.pdf

Bio: Stephen B. Bright is Professor of Practice at Georgia State College of Law, as well as the Harvey Karp Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a visiting professor of law at Georgetown.  He spent 35 years at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, first as director for 22 years and then as president and senior counsel through 2016.  He has tried capital cases to juries in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi and argued and won four capital cases before the Supreme Court.  Subjects of his litigation, teaching and writings include capital punishment, legal representation of poor people accused of crimes, racial discrimination, conditions and practices in prisons and jails, and judicial independence.  He received the American Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award in 1998. The Fulton Daily Law Report, a legal newspaper in Georgia, named him “Newsmaker of the Year” in 2003 for his contribution to bringing about creation of a public defender system in Georgia. Before joining the Southern Center, he was a legal services attorney in Appalachia, and a public defender and director of a law school clinical program in Washington, DC.

The Internets: W: https://law.yale.edu/stephen-b-bright

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0071 Stephen Bright (Law Professor)

Episode 70 of Guestbook Podcast. "Yo, it’s Christina. Look out in my podcast on how I got into teaching, avoided the gremlins of living a basic life, & why I love a good chase."

The Internets - IG: @oranges.x | TW: @clde16teaches

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0070 Christina DeBianchi (Educator)

Episode 69 of Guestbook Podcast. At long last, long-time friend of the pod (and wittiest of them all ;-), Joshua Hutcheson graces Guestbook Podcast to recount his years of active duty in the US Army during the aughts. From boot camp (where he got 'smoked'...not like that though ;-), to Ft. Campbell (where he played the 'Sarah Huckabee Sanders' of the base), to his 1st deployment (where he saw his first dead body), to his 2nd deployment (where he became a celebrity magazine columnist), to his 3rd deployment (where he coordinated ‘embeds’ for civilian journalists…especially the French)…listen as he provides an inside look at the War in Iraq.

The Internets: W: https://eighty-fourglyde.blogspot.com | E: hutcheson.joshua@gmail.com | IG: @84_glyde

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0069 Joshua Hutcheson (Writer)

Episode 68 of Guestbook Podcast. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Guestbook Podcast starts the month of October with breast cancer survivor Victoria Tejada. In this episode, she recounts to Innkeeper Freddie (and 'Livi ;-) her experience with breast cancer--from diagnosis to recovery to survival.

For more information or to donate to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, visit: https://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/ 

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0068 Victoria Tejada (Engineer)

Episode 67 of Guestbook Podcast. More a 'Side B' than a 'Part 2' to last week's episode with summertime guest at the Inn 'Livi' Johnson (Episode 66), her husband Niels Johnson joins Guestbook Podcast this week to discuss his childhood years growing up on military bases in Germany & Japan, the seldom known behind-the-scenes intricacies of televised sporting events and...the 'B-side' to the story of how Olivia and he met. #runonsentencesFTW

The Internets: YT: nielsthefish | E: nielsfjohnson@gmail.com

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0067 Niels Johnson (Full-Time Father)

Episode 66 of Guestbook Podcast. A couple weeks into her 8-week stay at Union Inn, Olivia Johnson--a software engineer with the Treasury Department--comes onto Guestbook Podcast to chat with Innkeeper Freddie on how she met and wed her husband Niels as a teen bride, how her love of computers turned high school coding classes into "the fastest hour of the day" and how predicting & pranking form the 'nurture' and 'nature' of her personality (how's that for a run-on sentence ;-).

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0066 Olivia Johnson (Software Engineer)

Episode 64 of "Guestbook Podcast". As a follow up to last week’s episode 63 (which was quite popular btw ;-), we answer the question that has come up repeatedly in the week since: “What is DRC?” DRC, or "District Running Collective" is a free community-based organization that uses running to promote wellness, culture, and community. To provide a bit more background on the 'running crew', this week's episode is a re-air of excerpts from Innkeeper Freddie's interview with DRC co-founder Matt Green for the November 8, 2018 episode of "Freddie in the Field" on Full Service Radio.  Highlights include: DRC's start, how DRC differentiates itself from other running clubs & DRC's philanthropic endeavors throughout the District.

Full Interview - https://freddieinthefield.simplecast.com/episodes/176bbe2b
District Running Collective - W: https://districtrunningcollective.com | IG: @districtrunningcollective

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0064 Matt Green (Co-Founder, District Running Collective) – "Freddie in the Field" ReAir, 11.08.2018

Episode 63 of Guestbook Podcast. Fresh off a 4.3-mile night run to start the month of August 'on the good foot' (see what I did there ;-), Innkeeper Freddie invites future podcast guest Christina (IG: @oranges.x) into the Inn and onto Guestbook Podcast for a short teaser episode to shout out DRC (IG: @districtrunningcollective), the crazies who sign up for 62-mile trail races, and, altogether..."a moment in the life."

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