Podcast for a Day presents Hollywood Sunrise. Shane Turner and Briiz Brown, best friends since high school who are obsessed with celebrities and the history of Hollywood! In this podcast we will dive into some interesting topics on the ins and outs of the media industry!
The following episode is part of a series produced by the Electronic Communication course at Tulsa Community College during the 2022 spring semester. To find more episodes, visit tccconnection.com/podcast/ or most streaming platforms. 
 
Recorded during the Spring 2022 semester at TCC.
 

Podcast for a Day - Hollywood Sunrise

Podcast for a Day presents Points of You. Points of You is a one-on-one podcast hosted by Kathy Silva, joined by guest. Today's guest is Isabel, a college student recovering from an eating disorder.
The following episode is part of a series produced by the Electronic Communication course at Tulsa Community College during the 2022 spring semester. To find more episodes, visit tccconnection.com/podcast/ or most streaming platforms. 
 
Recorded during the Spring 2022 semester at TCC.

Podcast for a Day - Points of You

Podcast for a Day presents Now That's Unique. Now That's Unique is a  podcast focused on speaking with unique individuals about the interesting lives in which only they can provide the proper insight. Their insight into a world many people may not know about or may have an interest to learn.
The episode is hosted by Ethan Gray, featuring guest Johnny Kove, an independent wrestler trying to make a name for himself.
The following episode is part of a series produced by the Electronic Communication course at Tulsa Community College during the 2022 spring semester. To find more episodes, visit tccconnection.com/podcast/ or most streaming platforms. 
 
Recorded during the Spring 2022 semester at TCC.

Podcast for a Day - Now That’s Unique

Podcast for a Day presents Community Ties. Community Ties is a one-on-one podcast on the topic of community. The episode is hosted by Cannon Cox, joined by guest, Tyler Burger.
The following episode is part of a series produced by the Electronic Communication course at Tulsa Community College during the 2022 spring semester. To find more episodes, visit tccconnection.com/podcast/ or most streaming platforms. 
 
Recorded during the Spring 2022 semester at TCC.

Podcast for a Day - Community Ties

Podcast for a Day presents Artisans Online. Hosted by Haley Newby, Etsy Seller, Artisans Online is for those who partake in a creative hobby and may consider starting a small online business to sell their products. Joined by guest, Matthew Roberts, Etsy seller who recently opened his own shop, discussions are held on art, Etsy as a selling platform, and the process of starting an online shop.
 
The following episode is part of a series produced by the Electronic Communication course at Tulsa Community College during the 2022 spring semester. To find more episodes, visit tccconnection.com/podcast/ or most streaming platforms. 
 
Recorded on April 27, 2022.

Podcast for a Day - Artisans Online

Connection Conversations: Hospitality with Andrew Leonard
Overview: Host Anna Fuhrmeister interviews Andrew "Andy" Leonard over the affects and changes in the hospitality industry due to COVID-19 the past year and for upcoming travel seasons.
 
Running time: 7:02 minutes
 
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following transcript has been edited for clarity.
 
Anna Fuhrmeister:
Welcome to the TCC Connection. I'm your host, Anna Fuhrmeister. On this episode, I have a special guest, Andy Leonard, who recently graduated from Lynn University with a bachelor's degree in hospitality. On this episode, we will discuss how hospitality has [been] affected by COVID-19 as well as [the] individuals who work in the industry. So, Andy, welcome. Thank you for having me. So, Andy, how did you get involved in hospitality?
 
Andy Leonard:
So, it started when I was a lot younger, I used to watch all the cooking shows House Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, and I watched hotel impossible all those shows, it started getting on the track of hospitality, as well as going to hotels experiencing what they offer to the guests and making them feel comfortable. It's how I got started in the field.
 
Nice. Okay, it's pretty cool. And could you just like describe what the industry like was like prior to 2020?
So, the industry prior to 2020, we have to look back after 9/11, we have to take back how the travel industry and hospitality industry has changed as focus more on security and tightening up personnel and making sure all the guests feel comfortable while traveling. And having them feel like they have a sense of security, or more hotels or heightened security and security guards, putting more protection in line with them, so that they feel comfortable while arriving. And as much as technology has changed as well, we've been able to use Apple Pay chips and credit cards now so people can pay easier and quicker. So, it's been a more effective system over the coming years. 
 
That's pretty interesting. Are you still able to work in the hospitality industry during the pandemic?
Yes, I'm still working in the hospitality industry as a guest service agent right now at a hotel in Delaware. Now to the people who are looking to get into the hospitality industry at the moment during this whole pandemic: I say keep reaching out to the hotels, and they're always looking for people to hire, no matter what they're looking for people to work during Christmas break, even though [in] the slow season, they're always looking for people to hire. I think it's a great industry. It's growing. It's one of the brilliant industries in America, it could be used basically anywhere in the world. So, I think it's a great way to build up connections and a great way to build up people meet new people explore how they see the world and how they see the culture of the hotel and get to know the coworkers, get to know your house keepers, get to know your general manager, because those are going to help the foundation of net

Connection Conversations: Hospitality with Andrew Leonard

Connection Conversations: COVID Care Force
Date Recorded: 12/15/2020
Overview: Host Sam Levrault interviews Dr. Paul Fuhrmeister over his experience volunteering with the COVID Care Force and the Navajo Nation.
Running time: 18:12 minutes
 
The following transcript has been edited for clarity.
Sam Levrault
Welcome to the TCC connection. I'm Sam Levrault. I'm the managing editor here at the TCC connection. On this episode, we have special guests, Dr. Paul Fuhrmeister, thank you for joining me today. And on this episode, we'll be talking about your experience as a medical doctor who volunteered on Navajo Nation a couple of times now in New Mexico during the covid 19 pandemic. And so why don't we start up with just kind of brief ideas, a little bit background, about your experiences, doctor and your time there on the Navajo Nation.
 
Dr. Paul Fuhrmeister
All right, I normally do urgent care clinic here. So that's the kind of work I do. As it turned out in the spring, we were seeing very few patients here. So, our workload had was very light, but they were very, very heavy out of New Mexico in the Navajo area. So they were asking for volunteers, this organization, the COVID Care Force put out a call for volunteers. So, I answered that, and went out there for two weeks in May and two weeks in June, out to the Navajo reservation, I used to work out on the Indian Reservation before I moved to Oklahoma. So, I was familiar with that area. They were asking just for doctors and nurses to help out in all different places. They had extra work out there in the reservation, partly because they had a lot of sick people with the COVID.
 
At the same time, some of their staff was getting burnt out or sick and not able to work. So, they had this strange situation where they had a lot of extra work, but then fewer and fewer people to do it. And that's why they needed some volunteers to come and help out. Plus, they had to set up a whole new clinic to do the COVID testing and things like that. In the follow ups, the contact tracing, there was just a lot of extra work. And so, they were very happy to have us come as volunteers.
 
I went there with a team in May and worked at Shiprock Indian Hospital in Shiprock, New Mexico, and worked mostly outdoors doing the COVID testing in the parking lot of sick people for two weeks. Then in June, I went back out I went to Gallup New Mexico and worked at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital, where they were also doing COVID testing in the parking lot. And I did a lot of interviewing of the patients by phone, people who were coming to be tested.
 
So, on the phone, was it just kind of going over the symptom checklist before they get there?
 
 
I asked them what their symptoms were, we asked them if they had been exposed. We asked them if they'd been around anybody that had a positive test, or if they had any deaths in their family or hospitalizations. And then we arranged for the test. And then we also gave them some recom

Connection Conversations - COVID Care Force - Dr. Paul Fuhrmeister

Connection Conversations: A Study Abroad to Japan 
Date Recorded: 10/28/2020 
Overview: Host Anna Fuhrmeister interviews Trent Gleason as he elaborates on his experience as a global student to Japan and what life lessons he brought back. 
Running time: 29:46 minutes
 
Transcript from Interview:
 
Anna Fuhrmeister 0:00
 
Welcome to the TCC Connection. I'm your host, Anna Fuhrmeister. On this episode, I have a special guest, Trent Gleason. So, Trent, welcome to the podcast. Happy to be here. So, on this episode, we will discuss your study abroad trip to Japan along his interest in Japanese culture, talking about his experience along with touching different elements of Japanese culture. So, Trent, what drew you to Japanese culture?
 
 
Trent Gleason 0:31
 
It's a very good question. So, while I was studying at Tulsa Community College, I was mainly focusing on English studies, you know, creative writing, literature, composition, the such, but I needed to take an elective class. And as you know, you know, language studies are a commonly chosen elective. And, you know, among the options available, I thought, hey, Japanese seems interesting. You know, I'll admit, there was some nerdy interest there, like, I like video games a lot. And a lot of great games come out of Japan, I had watched some anime and I was like, hey, yeah, but, uh, but between all the options, Japanese seemed like the most fun. And I had a buddy, who was interested in doing it with me. So I was like, hey, this could be a fun little thing, you know, whatever. So I take it and I ended up like, taking it really seriously. And like passing the class with an A, and like, really walking away from that, like semester, in like, Hey, this is like an actual thing that I like, maybe want to do, like, long term. So from there, you know, my interest is continued to develop naturally, whether that be me, you know, watching more anime or even just, like doing more research, and having conversations with my teacher or like seeking out community events, like one thing I did was that the circle cinema hosted like a documentary night, where is like some Tulsa filmmakers had made a like, documentary about Japanese musicians. I can't remember if it was like there in Oklahoma or something. It was some deal. And so I went out of my way to go to that. And like, my Japanese teacher was there like, unexpectedly and there's this whole thing, and I was just like, okay, but anyway, so like, around that time, like, I realized that Hey, no, with me, looking at finishing my associate's degree here in the next year or so at TCC. Anyway, so, uh, yeah, like, I saw a window of opportunity for me to go to Japan, with me, looking at finishing my associate's degree within the next year or so. So I was like, hey, yeah, I'll start saving money. I'll, you know, start doing research about what kind of stuff I don't want to do on there, where I want to go. And all of it is kind of fell into place. And kind of what I was l

Connection Conversations -A Study Abroad to Japan - Trent Gleason

Podcast Director Sam Levrault talks with Rhoda Smietanski about her experiences with American Sign Language (ASL,) the ASLE and Interpreting Programs, and opportunities available to students through Tulsa Community College (TCC) and in our very community.
Connection Conversations is an ongoing series by the TCC Connection, TCC's student newspaper based at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
 
NOTE: The episode was originally recorded in FALL 2019.
Music by The Odyssey, "75 to Ramona" 
 
Episode edited by Sam Levrault 
Check out The TCC Connection online at http://tccconnection.com/
The TCC Connection is a student newspaper based at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Connection Conversations - Rhoda Smietanski - ASL Interpreting

Podcast Director Sam Levrault talks with TCC's Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence, Dr. Kendra Reynolds. Dr. Reynolds is visiting from Northern Ireland and will teach a Composition II course in Spring 2020.
To learn more about the Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence Program, visit https://www.cies.org/program/fulbright-scholar-residence-program. 
You can follow Dr. Reynolds on Facebook, as @KendraReynoldsWriter, and Twitter, at @Dr_K_Reynolds.
Connection Conversations is an ongoing series by the TCC Connection, TCC's student newspaper based at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
 
Episode edited by Sam Levrault 
Check out The TCC Connection online at http://tccconnection.com/
The TCC Connection is a student newspaper based at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Connection Conversations - with Dr. Kendra Reynolds - Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence

Podcast Director Sam Levrault talks with Associate Professor of Italian, Pamela Chew about her experiences abroad, the World Languages Program, specifically the Italian courses and opportunities available to Tulsa Community College.
Connection Conversations is an ongoing series by the TCC Connection, TCC's student newspaper based at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Music by The Odyssey, "75 to Ramona" 
 
Episode edited by Sam Levrault 
Check out The TCC Connection online at http://tccconnection.com/
The TCC Connection is a student newspaper based at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Connection Conversations - Pam Chew - Associate Professor of Italian

Podcast Host Sam Levrault talks with Alexis Onyango, also known as LEX, when she stopped by the TCC Connection office on Sept. 13, 2019. This episode features a full interview, as well as an inside look for and performance of her new original song, "Skin Off My Back" releasing on Sept. 20, 2019 under her new project and alias, LEX. She also shares about her upcoming plans, including her headline show at The Vanguard on September 20.
 
 
Follow Alexis!
 
Instagram: @alexisonyango 
Facebook:  @lexionyango
 
Check out her new project, LEX:
Instagram: @thisislex_
 
Watch the interview on our Youtube channel as well as exclusive videos featuring more performances.
 
 
 
Concert Connection is a series by the TCC Connection which focuses on local artists in the Tulsa Community College community with an emphasis on student musicians.
Check out The TCC Connection online at http://tccconnection.com/
The TCC Connection is a student newspaper based at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
 
Produced by Sam Levrault
Edited by Sam Levrault

Concert Connection - Alexis Onyango - LEX

Podcast Host Sam Levrault talks with the Spotless Mind when they stopped by the TCC Connection office on Aug 1, 2019. This episode features a full interview, as well as an inside look for and performance of their original song, "Peachy" off their EP "A Matter of Opinion" (2019).
Formed by members Jake Bosch and Trenton Smothermon in 2015, Spotless Mind have seen a lot of change, in only a short amount of time. But whether it was a change of name, lineup, or the evolution of the songs themselves, Spotless Mind have always strived to give their all in live shows and in their songwriting. They released their debut self-titled EP in 2018 and followed it up with 2019’s “A Matter of Opinion”. This is just the beginning for this small band with big ambitions.
 
Jake Bosch - Vocals, Guitar
Trenton Smothermon - Vocals, Bass
Bryton Hill - Drums
Band's Instagram: @spotless_mind_band
Facebook: @spotlessmindtheband
 
Watch the interview on our Youtube channel as well as exclusive videos featuring more performances.
 
 
 
Concert Connection is a series by the TCC Connection which focuses on local artists in the Tulsa Community College community with an emphasis on student musicians.
Check out The TCC Connection online at http://tccconnection.com/
The TCC Connection is a student newspaper based at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
 
Produced by Sam Levrault
Edited by Sam Levrault

Concert Connection - Spotless Mind

Semester Sneak Peek is a new series that provides a preview of courses available at Tulsa Community College (TCC) this coming fall semester. 
As a series about upcoming classes, these episodes will feature interviews with many of the instructors tasked with teaching them. 
Today's episode features Jeff Smith, Recording Studio Instructor at TCC.
 
Edited by Sam Levrault
Music by The Odyssey, "75 to Ramona"
Transcript by Bethany Solomon
 
TCC CONNECTION PODCAST | SEMESTER SNEEK PEAK | FT. JEFF SMITH
Bethany: Welcome to semester sneak peak, our special summer series that provides a preview of courses available this coming fall semester. I am your host Bethany Solomon, associate editor of the north east campus here at the TCC connection.
Today we have a very special guest, Jeff Smith, he is a TCC adjunct professor, TCC signature symphony violist, and president of song smith records.
Jeff Smith: Hi! Good afternoon, how are ya?
B: Good, how are you?
J: I’m doing great.
B: Can you start off by telling us a little about yourself?
J: Sure. I was born and raised in Tulsa, OK. I started playing violin at 10 years old because my brother and sister played the violin. The summer of my 6th grade year my teacher came to me and said “you know you’re kinda beefy, husky boy, you need to play the viola.
I said, viola? It rhymes with granola, I don’t want to play the viola, I said what am I getting myself into here?
She said ‘Oh, no you’re not going to quit the violin, you’re going to learn how to double.
Double. It rhymes with trouble, she said ‘oh no, you’ll be fine.’
So, I got to take two instruments to school, the violin and the viola. Uh, learned how to play the both of them, not long after that the beetles were popular, and I got a guitar. I started going on in.
B: Very cool, very cool, so how did you find your way into the education as far as like, your music. Did you study in undergrad, music specifically, or did you have a broad range of interests beyond music?
J: Oh, gosh. You look back on pivotal points in your life. One pivotal point in my life was, I guess I was in Jr high, early high school, and I had an electric guitar. Dad had come home with a Wollensak, as a German tape recorded. And it had an auxiliary input on it and I learned at a young age I could take the guitar output and plug it into the auxiliary input, crank it all the way up, play the guitar, turn its sound all the way up and it would sound something like:
[makes loud buzzing noises mimicking guitar sound]
Coolest sound I had every heard…. for about 13 seconds. I blew out the 8’ inch paper cone speakers and a couple of power tubes. Its kind of left a mark on me, like this is a cool sound, I gotta get into this.
I was going to be an aeronautical engineer, all through high school, my dad was a fighter pilot in world war II, he had 96 missions over France. My grandfather had his PHD in mechanical engineering and actually wrote the maintenance Manuel for the B25 Mit

Semester Sneak Peek - Jeff Smith - Recording Studio Instructor

Semester Sneak Peek is a new series that provides a preview of courses available at Tulsa Community College (TCC) this coming fall semester. 
As a series about upcoming classes, these episodes will feature interviews with many of the instructors tasked with teaching them. 
Today's episode features Dr. Gay Phillips, Associate Professor at TCC.
 
Edited by Sam Levrault
Music by The Odyssey, "75 to Ramona"
Transcript: Bethany Solomon
 
 
Bethany: Welcome to Semester Sneak peak, a new series that highlights instructors that are tasked with teaching fall courses. We thought it would be best to highlight these courses to educate students! 
I am your host, Bethany Solomon, associate editor of the Northeast campus and today we have a special guest, Gay Phillips, who is teaching several interesting courses this upcoming semester. It is a pleasure to have you Ms. Phillips! 
Tell us about yourself. You may start with your childhood or educational experiences. 
Gay Phillips: Thank you!  
I grew up in west Texas, in the oil fields with my father. We traveled a lot. And that peaked my interest, traveling through the nation and getting to know different areas and different people. I was always interested in how we are similar as people, and how we are different. How culture gets created and shared. How we influence cultural changes, and why us humans do what we do. Those combined helped me fall in love with sociology. That is my primary discipline. 
We got to Oklahoma and it felt like we moved to a foreign country and looking back I know that is not the case, but when I was 10 years old that is what it felt like. 
B: [Laughs…] 
G: And we stayed in Oklahoma ever since. 
B: Very nice! I can see how that is the underlying inspiration for sociology and how it relates to even anthropology. Did you go from finding inspiration to sociology into finding interest in anthropology? Was that a later discovery? 
G: While I was studying sociology in my undergrad I had options of taking anthropology courses along with sociology, a lot on native studies and indigenous population. It extends what we study about culture a little bit into the anthropological theme 
B: Interesting! Let’s go to into your experiences prior to TCC as far as being in the workforce.  
G: Sure. After I completed my bachelor’s degree I went to work in social services. I thought I wanted to be a social worker, and discovered I was not adept to doing that. I worried about people too much. After working for five years in social services I made a change. I went into professional development for people who work in social services. Predominately, people who work with homeless youth who have been abused and neglected.  
That was the field I was in. I knew people and knew what the ongoing training needs were, so professional development 20/25 years doing lots of training workshops and all kinds of topics and how to deal with kids that live on the streets.  
How to teach people how to

Semester Sneak Peek - Dr. Gay Phillips - Associate Professor

Local Tulsa bands, The Odyssey and Hoarseman (Hoarseman & The Heard), stop by the TCC Connection office at Tulsa Community College to talk about the local music scene, the challenges of creating an exciting and interesting atmosphere for audiences during stage performances, as well as provide a preview for their upcoming End of Summer Bash at The Vanguard in the Tulsa Arts District on August 9th.
The Odyssey (Cobey Brown & Derek Johnson) are an alternative blues band from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Hoarseman (Quinton Hoagland) is the frontman and founding member of Hoarseman and the Heard, an alternative art rock band based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Check out The TCC Connection online at http://tccconnection.com/

The TCC Connection is a student newspaper based at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Directed & Edited by: Sam Levrault
Sound: Sam Levrault

Special Concert Preview - End of Summer Bash - The Odyssey & Hoarseman

TCC Connection staff members Trent, Sam, and Joe gather to discuss the rising prominence of live service games.
 
The Gaming Connection is a TCC Connection Podcast series that centers on the game and entertainment industry.
 
 
Hosted By Trent Gleason
 
Check out The TCC Connection online at http://tccconnection.com/
Episodes edited by Sam Levrault
Recorded on June 20, 2019
The TCC Connection is a student newspaper based at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The Gaming Connection - E3 Rundown

 
Semester Sneak Peak is a new series that provides a preview of courses available at Tulsa Community College (TCC) this coming fall semester. 
As a series about upcoming classes, these episodes will feature interviews with many of the instructors tasked with teaching them. 
Today's episode features Jerry Goodwin, TCC Connection Advisor.
 
Edited by Sam Levrault
Music by The Odyssey, "75 to Ramona"
 
Check out The TCC Connection online at http://tccconnection.com/
The TCC Connection is a student newspaper based at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
 
Transcript by: Bethany Solomon
 
Bethany: Welcome to semester Sneak Peek, a new series that provides a preview of courses that are provided this coming semester. I am your host, Bethany Solomon, associate editor of the Northeast Campus at the TCC connection. 
Since this series is about upcoming courses, we thought it would be best to the interview instructors tasked with teaching them.
Today we have a special guest, our very own faculty advisor, Jerry Goodwin. 
How are you Jerry Goodwin?
 
Jerry Goodwin: I’m doing great Ms. Solomon, how are you?
 
I’m good. Thank you for joining us today.
 
Thank you for the invitation.
 
We’re going to be learning a bit about your background, your history in one of Tulsa’s most historic communities, how you came to be involved in your field, TCC, and the classes and programs you are involved in this coming fall.
Let’s start with your background and earlier years in education that lead up to your professional pursuits and accomplishments. 
 
I started in 2000, teaching as an adjunct at TCC. I had a partner teaching at TCC as an adjunct and recommended I consider applying or at least working at TCC and I did. I served as an adjunct for seven years and then an opportunity presented itself for me to apply for a full-time position.
Others reached out to me and let me know that this full-time position was available to teach in the journalism field. In 2007, I applied to serve as an assistant professor in journalism and mass communications.
If you take into consideration my adjunct years, next year, that would have been two decades. Prior to that I was working for my family’s business, the OK eagle newspaper, and I was with them for 15 years professionally. That was the foundation that lead me to pursuing what turned out to be a career in journalism and communications.
 
Okay. Good, so without that foundation do you believe you would have studied mass communications or journalism at all?
 
Perhaps not, I had aspired to go into law and have been involved with politics, and so it was blessing and what better opportunity to work in a field, and from those experience in the field, then go and teach the next generation of young people what you have learned. It was natural and it’s a blessing and I could not be any more pleased and excited with this trajectory and course I am on.
 
So you enjoy politics and just ran for city council. Can

Semester Sneak Peek - Jerry Goodwin - TCC Connection

Semester Sneak Peek is a new series that provides a preview of courses available at Tulsa Community College (TCC) this coming fall semester. 
As a series about upcoming classes, these episodes will feature interviews with many of the instructors tasked with teaching them. 
Today's episode features Ethan Rolen, Video Services Supervisor.
 
Edited by Sam Levrault
Music by The Odyssey, "75 to Ramona"
 
Check out The TCC Connection online at http://tccconnection.com/
The TCC Connection is a student newspaper based at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Semester Sneak Peek - Ethan Rolan - Video Services Supervisor

Podcast for a Day is a series a part of the TCC Connection. The Series provides an opportunity and platform for fellow TCC students, faculty, as well as community members to host a podcast for a day. 
This episode is hosted by fellow TCC student, Josiah Salas as part of their electronic communication class.
 
Edited by Sam Levrault
Music by The Odyssey, "75 to Ramona"
Check out The TCC Connection online at http://tccconnection.com/
The TCC Connection is a student newspaper based at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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