Episodes

  • Ep 31: Jack's Top 10-Local Nostalgia Part 2

    Ep 31: Jack's Top 10-Local Nostalgia Part 2
    Sep 14 2023
    Chapter 2 of Jack's look at those local places the thought of which evoke that kind of pure childhood joyful nostalgia. The kind of nostalgia you can still smell and go back to with a few notes of a song. From waterslides to ice cream to pizza to retail, let's all remember some places together. From shopping mall record stores to arcade cigarette smoke to weirdly cheap movie theaters to a mini golf course that would kick you out but you still loved.
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Ep 30: Dr. Tyler White

    Ep 30: Dr. Tyler White
    Sep 7 2023
    Jack talks to the Lincolnite and UNL professor of Political Science and Director of the University's National Security Program about a whole lot of questions many of us laypeople have when it comes to headlines about national security, Russia/Ukraine, China and more.
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    55 mins
  • Ep 29: Jack's Top 10-Local Nostalgia Part 1

    Ep 29: Jack's Top 10-Local Nostalgia Part 1
    Aug 24 2023
    This week we mix in a solo show from Jack as we will be featuring some more variety along with our regular longform interviews during season 3. Among those will be a recurring deep dive countdown show we'll call, appropirately, Jack's Top 10. This week, Jack looks back into his childhood and picks the ten places in Nebraska that evoke that kind of pure childhood joyful nostalgia. The kind of nostalgia you can still smell and go back to with a few notes of a song. From waterslides to ice cream to pizza to retail, let's all remember some places together.
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Ep 28: Jake Bogus (Part 2)

    Ep 28: Jake Bogus (Part 2)
    Aug 17 2023
    The second half of our interview with aspiring actor turned sports radio host turned middfle school teacher Jake Bogus. In part 2 we delve into the REAL life of a teacher in 2023 and it's unique challenges from working with parents to the modern day teenager to being in an industry that's short-staffed all over the country and how we fix that.
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Ep 27: Jake Bogus

    Ep 27: Jake Bogus
    Aug 10 2023
    The Jack Mitchell podcast returns for season 3 with a two part interview with one-time aspiring actor turned sports radio host turned middfle school teacher Jake Bogus. In Part 1 we find out how he went straight from Minden High to decling offers to smoke weed in 'The Valley', his slingshot back to Nebraska, his foray into sports radio working with the likes of Jason Peter, Adrian Fiala and Nick Bahe and why it ended.
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    52 mins
  • Ep 26: Rusty Dawkins

    Ep 26: Rusty Dawkins
    Oct 21 2022
    Jack talks to Channel 8 Meteorologist Rusty Dawkins about his little known career as an electrician, how and why he has left and returned to the TV Market in LIncoln during different times in his life, why snowfall is so much more difficult to predict than other weather, which weather apps he has on his phone and of course, we debate whether the DOME is real!
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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • Ep 25: Johnny Trueblood

    Ep 25: Johnny Trueblood
    Oct 6 2022
    Jack talks to the former Husker Walk On basketball fan favorite and now a part of the Hawaii basketball program about his new gig, how Call of Duty almost derailed his basketball career, taking a year off from Husker basketball, working in a kitchen and why he returned, and Jack and he exchange stories from their mutual experience of a magical week of Husker basketball in March 2019, that went from Johnny not expecting to play in a game again on Sunday to screaming at the Maryland bench after hitting a 3 on national TV on Thursday. Warning a few moments of NSFW language.
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Ep 24: Barbara Zach Lee

    Ep 24: Barbara Zach Lee
    Sep 22 2022
    Jack talks to longtime radio guest, friend and executive director of Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra, Barbara Zach Lee about her journey from math to music, growing up in a strictly religious household and how it's formed her life in fine arts, moving from the United States to Germany and the contrasts, benefits and drawbacks of living in a different country, and her journey in bonding with her friends and family who love football.
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    1 hr and 25 mins