How do the objects we love define us? What can we learn from the things we treasure? And how can we discover a life story through those objects? Five Things, from 89.3 WFPL and Louisville Public Media, explores those questions and more.+
Latest episodes
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45 min
Musician Clarence Bucaro has a two-person book club... with his mom
Clarence Bucaro is a singer-songwriter and a one-time stay-at-home dad. He's been making albums since 2000, with some twists and turns along the way. He's also in a two-person book…
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24 min
A Life Update from (Pastor) Joe Phelps
This week’s episode is an update from one of our previous guests, Joe Phelps. He was originally on the show in May of 2017, when he spoke about the unexpected loss of his son, his…
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43 min
NYC Doorman Mario Landa Loves Tattoos and Tatooine
I met Mario Landa probably 15 years ago, when he was the doorman in my apartment building in New York City. For five years, I saw him almost every single day. If you’re not familia…
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21 min
A Life Update from Musician Ben Sollee
Musician Ben Sollee, who was first on the show in September 2017, gives us an update on his new daughter, his new day job, and his new side gigs. It's a lot.
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39 min
Writer Minda Honey on relationship advice and the very best rice cooker
Writer Minda Honey has an advice column for Louisville's LEO Weekly, and she's working on a memoir about her dating life. She also really, really loves her rice cooker.
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41 min
Civil rights attorney Dan Canon is still a musician at heart
As an attorney, taking a case to the Supreme Court is about the highest goal one can aspire to -- and then actually winning that case, and helping change the lives of millions of A…
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41 min
Poet Maggie Smith, author of "Good Bones," finds freedom after viral success
It’s not often that a poem goes viral. But it happened in 2016, with “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith. I won’t read it for you now, but it’s short and you can find it online with a qui…
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20 min
Checking in with Emily McCay
Checking in with Emily McCay, who was a guest on this podcast in July of 2017. She was known around Louisville as "The Diaper Fairy," because of her cloth diaper business of the sa…
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37 min
Gilda Wabbit, the opera-singing drag queen from Kentucky
Today’s guest has two personalities, in a way -- in daily life, he’s Samuel Penn, 26 years old, grew up in Frankfort, Kentucky, then moved to New York City. He’s also a drag queen,…
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35 min
Mindy Thomas wants to WOW you with her tiny hands
Our guest is Mindy Thomas, host of "Wow in the World," a podcast for kids about science from NPR, and "Absolutely Mindy" from Sirius XM. Her actual hands aren't particularly tiny b…
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38 min
Playwright Idris Goodwin on Cassius Clay, Alice Waters, and Frankenstein
Idris Goodwin is a playwright and the (new) Artistic Director of StageOne Family Theatre in Louisville. Listen to find out what a breakbeat poet is, how a cookbook is like a play s…
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36 min
Murder By Death's Adam Turla Likes Being At Home
A dog, a houseplant, an old car for driving around town. These are the things valued by a busy touring musician-slash-restauranteur.
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44 min
How to give away your most valued possession, with writer and meditation teacher Susan Piver
I first “met” writer Susan Piver when I read her book, “The Hard Questions: 100 Questions to Ask Before You Say ‘I Do’” which I recommend as an excellent guidebook for talking with…
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39 min
Physicist, psychoanalyst, and Holocaust survivor Izio Rosenman
Izio Rosenman is 83 years old, he was born in Poland, he spent his childhood in the Buchenwald concentration camp, and he has lived in Paris since the camp was liberated. Professio…
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39 sec
Quick update: new episodes coming Sept. 6!
Hey, it's Tara, here with a quick update. I know this feed has been quiet for the past little while, and I'm here to let you know that the next season of Five Things is coming up r…
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42 min
Don't try to shop for "Bullseye" host Jesse Thorn
Jesse Thorn, of NPR's "Bullseye" as well as "Jordan, Jesse, Go!" and "Judge John Hodgman," tells us about the highly idiosyncratic objects that sum up his highly idiosyncratic life…
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35 min
Angela Davis Knits Her Life Together
This week’s guest is Angela Davis, a schoolteacher whose primary teaching tool is knitting needles. And this conversation between us arose from her first item -- I saw her at the t…
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37 min
School librarian Lindsy Serrano isn't judging you
This week, we’ll hear from a woman whose job is to get kids psyched up about reading. And through that job, she met her hero.
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37 min
Writer Leesa Cross-Smith is Quietly Radical
Writer Leesa Cross-Smith is based in Louisville, and she’s just published her first novel, "Whiskey and Ribbons." Find out why she considered it a radical act to tell the story in…
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40 min
Musician Joe Henry makes coffee for everybody
My guest this week is one of my very favorite musicians, Joe Henry. His brother Dave was one of my first guests on this show, and I was thrilled when Joe agreed to take part as wel…