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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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What Had Happened Was: The Fosters’ Sherri Saum on...

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2018/06/20

She didn’t wear combat boots and maybe that made all the difference. Amelia Robinson chatted with actress Sherri Saum for the latest episode of What Had Happened Was podcast. The world knows Saum best for her role as Lena Adams Foster on the groundbreaking TV show “The Fosters,” but many in this parts know her best as the daughter of former “Dayton Daily News” copy editor Lois Saum, of Kettering. Amelia and Sherri chat about Sherri’s upbringing in Kettering and how her fashion magazines

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What Had Happened Was: Ro Nita Hawes-Saunders’...

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2018/06/06

One of Ro Nita Hawes-Saunders’ earliest memories is watching her 4-foot 11-inch tall mother rise up set a racist teacher straight. Her youth as the daughter of local civil rights workers included seeing crosses burned in her family’s front yard and being told she wasn’t welcome in her neighborhood and that the KKK was going to get her. Despite that and the challenges she fast afterwards — a ten year battle to get launch her former radio station included — Hawes-Saunders says she remains an

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What Had Happened Was: Tom Archdeacon talks Miami...

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2018/05/22

He’s told thousands of amazing stories. It should come as no surprise Tom Archdeacon has a hell of a story of his own. For the 10th episode of the What Had Happened Was podcast, host Amelia Robinson sat down with Arch, an award-winning Dayton Daily News sports writer and her mentor for exactly one day. Arch told Amelia about his Miami Vice days, how he happened into journalism, his passion for telling untold stories and that time he had a run-in with LeBron’s mom. Brace yourself, this episode

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What Had Happened Was: Cackle vs. Cancer and the rest...

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2018/05/09

Amelia Robinson laughed it out (A LOT) with Kristen Wicker and Dayton Daily News food contributor Alexis Larsen, her co-conspirators in Cackle, a laughing club. The trio has called on the power that is laughter in so many good times and some pretty bad ones. What’s funnier than getting a port put in for cancer treatment? Joking that you are at the hospital to be turned into a straight up Borg from “Star Trek.” What’s funnier than being diagnosed with 70 fibroid tumors? Being teased for not

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What Had Happened Was: Dead in Dayton -- a mayor...

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2018/04/24

You know who can give you life? Dead people. Some of the nation’s most fascinating, previously-living citizens have found final resting places at Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum in Dayton. What Had Happened Was host Amelia Robinson and Angie Hoschouer, the cemetery’s development and marketing manager, pull their stories from the grave in this podcast episode. There is dirty secret of a former Dayton mayor trapped in the city’s most popular whorehouse, a former slave that clapped back at his

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What Had Happened Was: Tusks, Fireball and belly...

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2018/04/11

A beer nerd and a cocktail wizard walk into a bar and leave the whole place shook. That hair-tastic duo, Brock and Landon McKibben, sat down for a chat with our Amelia Robinson for an episode of the What Had Happened Was podcast. The conversation was filled with talk of rock, root vegetables, belly shirts and King Cobra malt liquor. The Crystal Lakes natives are making their mark on Dayton, and have rocked France as members of the band Grand Mammoth. Born two years and four days apart (Brock

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What Had Happened Was: Soft and wet & sweet sticky...

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2018/03/28

A little boy egged by other little boys who didn’t like "his type" grew up to be a man who helped propel the “The Land of Funk” into the national spotlight. Amelia Robinson sat down with John “Turk” Logan for the latest episode of the "What Had Happened Was" podcast. Turk opens up about life with a mother who was an alcoholic and how he became one of the most important DJs in the country. As head of programming at WDAO in the 1970s, Logan got some of the biggest acts of the day — Bootsy Collins,

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What Had Happened Was: Dublin Co-Owner Steve Tieber

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2018/03/14

The hint of copious amounts of Guinness beer in the air can only mean one thing: that St. Patrick and his day of shenanigans are on the way. It also means that the Dublin Pub will soon be hanging its tents with care for the bash expected to draw 10,000 people. The pub in the Dayton’s Oregon District will be throwing its 20th St. Patrick’s Day bash. Amelia Robinson sat down with co-owner Steve Tieber for a magically delicious conversation that led to talk about a dozen or so men in jumpsuits,

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What Had Happened Was Episode 4: Why the Vagina Tree...

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2018/03/07

We knew the Yellow Springs vagina tree was controversial, but grrrrrrrrrl was it ever. Amelia Robinson caught up with the ladies behind one of the most talked about stories of 2017 for the latest edition of the What Had Happened Was podcast. She chatted with the vagina tree’s creators Kate Hamilton, Corrine Bayraktaroglu and Karen Jane Russell, before Bayraktaroglu hightailed it out of the area for a new journey in Arizona. As you may remember, the vagina tree caused all sorts heated debate

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What Had Happened Was Episode 3: Diamond Williams

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2018/02/20

Amelia Robinson sits down with James (Diamond) Williams of the Ohio Players right here in the Land of Funk. More than 40 years after the Players struck it big, their long list of hits — "Skin Tight," "Fire," “Love Rollercoaster” included — still make people move. With Diamond, one of Rolling Stone magazine’s top drummers of all time, at the helm, the Players are working on a new album and last year released the single “Reset.” Diamond does not hold back during his chat with Amelia on the What

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What Had Happened Was Episode 2: A tale of bourbon,...

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2018/02/07

Times flies when you are sling bourbon. Joseph Head knows that better than most. Joe, who co-owns The Century Bar in downtown Dayton with Diane Spitzig, started his journey with the bar two decades ago. Amelia Robinson, host of the new “What Had Happened Was” podcast, sat down with Joe just before his epic bourbon-ey party. Their chat was good to the last drop. Joe talks about how he went from a rough-around-the-edges, long-haired arrogant youth to a so-legit Kentucky Colonel. Get the latest

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Episode 1: Rubi Girls

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2018/01/25

Amelia Robinson, host of the new “What Had Happened Was” podcast, sat down with three members of the uproarious comedy drag troupe. They have sharp tongues and hearts of gold, and have raised more than $1 million for a host of charitable causes over more than 30 years. But it is not always easy being Rubi or drag queening. Rubi Girl members Tommy Rumpke (Taj Mahal), Jonathan McNeal (Ileasa Plymouth), and Brent Johnson (India Summer) tell us what had happened. This episode is brought to you by Cox

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