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What Had Happened Was: A podcast for Dayton

Host Amelia Robinson shares the best tales from the Gem City, Land of Funk and Birthplace of Aviation: Dayton, Ohio. The "What Had Happened Was" podcast was a finalist for the National Association of Broadcasters" 2019 Marconi award in the podcast category.

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'RuPaul’s Drag Race' star Nina West on making faces...

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2019/03/29

Nina West is trying to nab $100,000 on the current season of "RuPaul’s Drag Race" on VH1, but the crazy creative Columbus-based drag star and activist has already raised more than $2 million for Ohio charities. West, the stage name of actor Andrew Levitt, tells “What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson why she kept it real on the reality competition show and why she’ll never complain about how she’s been depicted. They dish about why being from the Buckeye State does not require eating corn on

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Fran DeWine, the governor’s BFF

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2019/03/19

“What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson chats with Fran DeWine, the Buckeye State’s first lady. They chat about the boy who knocked on Fran’s door when she was just 12 and eventually stole her heart. They dish about pie, ice cream and how Fran hopes to help Ohio children have better lives.

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BATHTUB KILLER: a dead bride, a bathtub and justice...

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2019/03/06

“What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson sits down with former Dayton Daily News and Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Janice Hisle, the author of the new book “Submerged, Ryan Widmer, his drowned bride and the justice system.” Janice covered nearly every aspect of Ryan Widmer’s three trials on charges he drowned his young wife Sarah in the bathtub of their Warren County home. She tells Amelia how pig brains, a supposed confession and porn played a role in this tragic, real life murder mystery.

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Oscar winner Hannah Beachler out of the vault

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2019/02/26

Wright State graduate Hannah Beachler did all of Dayton proud when she became the first black woman to win the Best Production Design Academy Award for her work creating Wakanda for Marvel's “Black Panther.” And she looked fly doing it. In honor of Hannah’s accomplishment, we opened the vault and pulled out the talk “What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson had with Hannah just before she was inducted in to the Dayton Region Walk of Fame last year. Hannah tells us what it took to make her

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Amaya Sexton, Dayton’s Best Drag Queen, wants to be...

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2019/02/06

Amaya Sexton has Betty White dreams. The JLo-loving, corn country native was vote Best Dayton Drag Queen in Dayton.com’s Best of Dayton Contest. She sat down with “What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson. Amaya talks about the Sextons - her drag family - , chicken wings, channeling Beyoncé and being a trans woman on Facebook. Sexton, Miss Masque 2018, has 10 years in the drag game and plans to be the Betty White of her profession. MORE: https://on.dayton.com/2TyYDc5

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Laura Bischoff on the faults, foibles and facts of...

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2019/01/19

“What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson sits down with award-winning Dayton Daily News journalist Laura Bischoff whose political and statehouse stories have lead to federal investigations and exposed corruption, deceit and even murder. Laura’s reporting on children as young as 14 marrying in Ohio is credited with sparking the recent change in state law. Amelia and Laura discuss some of the most outrageous stories Laura has covered and why she loves her job despite the divisive political

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What Had Happened Was: Best of Dayton 2018 Revealed

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2019/01/07

What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson and Todd Hollst, the host of WHIO’s “The Sunday Edge,” reveal the winners of Dayton.com’s Best of Dayton. Expect some surprise guests and surprised winners. Nearly 100,000 nominations were submitted and more than a half million voters were cast in the annual contest that rewards the people, places, businesses and things that make Dayton such a special place. Categories include best burger, best bar bathroom, best celebrity, best museum, best pizza, best

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What Had Happened Was: Troy Liming

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2018/12/22

The tables are turned on this latest edition of the What Had Happened Was podcast, as TROY LIMING asks the hard-hitting questions, and Amelia Robinson gives the answers.

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What Had Happened Was: Murders in Pike County, Ohio:...

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2018/12/03

When the smoked cleared, the only witnesses left alive were dogs and babies. “What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson sat down with Will Garbe, an investigative reporter for the Dayton Daily News and WHIO-TV, for an unusual episode of the podcast. Will has been reporting on the Pike County murders for two years and recently returned from a hunting trip there with local residents. He and Amelia discuss what is known and what investigators think they know about the case in which eight

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What Had Happened Was: : ‘Anyone can kill’ Dayton...

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2018/11/16

Anyone can kill. That’s one of the lessons Doyle Burke, a retired Dayton homicide detective, said he took from his 30-year career with the city’s police department. Burke, now the Warren County coroner’s chief investigator, sat down with “What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson to talk about some of the cold-blooded murder he and his team helped bring to justice. They are among the most notorious killers this city has even seen: child killer Jolynn Ritchie, the Christmas killers, the

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What Had Happened Was: Heather Salazar imagined dying...

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2018/10/30

Heather Salazar feared her kids were going to see her die. And she had reason to fear. Just a year before, the young mother and her kids watched breast cancer kill the 24-year-old woman who gave life to the baby girl the family adopted. A year later, the murder had its sights on Heather. Through faith, friendship and community support, Heather pushed through, beating breast cancer and building the Pink Ribbon Girls, one of the areas most well-known breast cancer groups. October is Breast

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Zapp band’s Terry and Lester Troutman can still make...

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2018/10/21

Only one of those band travels with a talkbox. Amelia Robinson sat down with Lester and Terry “Zapp’ Troutman of the Zapp band for the latest episode of “The What Had Happened Was” podcast. The funk and R&B band is set to take the stage Friday, Oct. 26, at the Schuster Performing Arts Center. Doors open at 7 p.m for the show featuring Toledo-born singer Lyfe Jennings. The concert serves as a release party for the new album, “Zapp VII: Roger & Friends.” It is a tribute to the late great Roger

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What Had Happened Was: Why Broadway star Alice Ripley...

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2018/10/09

Moral of the story, when Scott Ripley warns you about something, take it serious. Alice Ripley had a reputation even before she set foot in West Carrollton High School for the very first time. Her proud older brother and stepsister had already warned everyone about the incoming junior. “(They said,) she’s going to get the lead in the musical so everybody get ready. My brother (Scott) told all of his friends and they were just rolling their eyes,” Alice, the high school’ first female pirate

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What Had Happened Was: Rodney Veal of The Art Show is...

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2018/10/01

You’d be foolish to judge a book by its cover or a man by his ballet shoes. Dayton’s Rodney Veal proves that daily. You might know him as a dancer, an educator or the host of Think TV’s “The Art Show.” Rodney is also a cat daddy, a thinker and a community volunteer who is proudly “in the room where it happens” on behalf of a long list of Dayton nonprofits. As “What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson discovered, Rodney is also very, very much Mama Veal. And her learned very young to

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What Had Happened Was: Bill Castro on squid, horses...

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2018/09/12

You can lead a horse to water, but can you convince it to eat squid. Amelia Robinson talked to Bill Castro for the latest episode of the What Had Happened Was podcast. Bill and his family have been serving the world up to Dayton for more than 40 years at their restaurant, El Meson at 903 E. Dixie Dr., West Carrollton. Bill talks about being raised in West Carrollton by the Hispanic Ward and June Cleaver and how his family’s business grew from a pizza joint to one that serves the tastes of

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What Had Happened Was: Henrique Couto, the ‘weird’...

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2018/08/30

The completely sober dude with the Hawaiian shirt and Salvador Dali moustache is proving that you can’t judge a book by its cover through his crazy movies. What Had Happened Was podcast host Amelia Robinson sat down with Dayton-based independent filmmaker Henrique Couto (Henflix.com) for the podcast’s latest episode.

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What Had Happened Was: Bloody Christmas - Dayton’s...

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2018/08/17

Deep wounds are hard to heal. Some wounds never completely heal. More than 25 years ago a gang of youth lead by a 16-year girl described as cold-hearted terroristed Dayton in the Dayton around Christmas. What Had Happened Was podcast host Amelia Robinson sat down with retired Dayton police Sgt. Stephen C. (Gris) Grismer, Judith M. Monseur, an educator, and Dayton Detective Dennis A. Murphy. The trio’s book “The Christmas Killings: 40 Hours to Justice” reveals how police tracked down the

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Black Panther Production Designer and Daytonian...

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2018/08/01

There was a Raider behind the Black Panther, and she is fierce. Amelia Robinson chatted with Hannah Beachler — the production designer who worked with director Ryan Coogler to give Marvel’s “Black Panther” its jaw-dropping look — for the latest episode of the What Had Happened Was podcast.

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What Had Happened Was: Dayton gridiron hero LaVar...

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2018/07/20

While his college football teammates were shaking it up and shutting down bars, Dayton football hero LaVar Glover was sharing a bedroom with the 15-year-old brother he was trying to set on the right path. Glover, now the director of self-sufficiency at Community Action Partnership, talked to Amelia Robinson about his unconventional life for the latest episode of the “What Had Happened Was” podcast.

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What Had Happened Was: Nancy Horlacher on Dayton’s...

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2018/07/05

What’s more Google than Google? A librarian who loves local history. Amelia Robinson and Nancy Horlacher of the Dayton Metro Library talks odd and scary Dayton stories for the latest episode of the What Had Happened Was podcast. Nancy conjured up tales about the Frankenstein Castle, alligators raised in a Dayton wonderland, how water brought down Dayton’s wall city and the creep-tastic Phantom Driver of Englewood dam. She even dives into one of the city’s biggest controversy: how Dayton

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