Welcome to This Show is All About You hosted by JDK Wyneken - author, historian, poet, and social commentator with lots to say on lots of things. Join him every week as he explores what it means to be you, by hearing about him and his take on the world around us as found in history, current affairs, literature, media, sports, and whatever else there is to explore. Take what you want from JDK’s unique outlook and good humor, all with a healthy dose of emotional intelligence, personal connection, and strategic irreverence for the Way Things Are Usually Done.
Latest episodes
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Transitions: Episode 7- Going On Hiatus, Never Goodbye
Episode 128: Transitions: Episode 7- Going On Hiatus, Never Goodbye" In this final episode of This Show Is All About You before an open-ended hiatus, JDK reflects on the roots of t…
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Transitions, Chapter 6: Standing Our Ground
Episode 127: "Transitions, Chapter 6: Standing Our Ground" JDK takes an episode to discuss the feedback - and occasional blowback - he received after his previous episode discussin…
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Transitions, Chapter 5: The Urgency of Israel and Palestine
Episode 126: "Transitions, Chapter 5: The Urgency of Israel and Palestine" JDK dedicates this episode to providing some historical context for the current crisis in the Middle East…
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Transitions, Chapter Four: From Old to New Seasons
Episode 125: "Transitions, Chapter Four: From Old to New Seasons" In honor of his favorite baseball team's season ending without making the playoffs, JDK discusses how we frame and…
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Transitions, Chapter Three: Oh, Canada!
Episode 124: "Transitions, Chapter Three: Oh, Canada!" Just back from his annual sports-week trip with his buddy, Seth, JDK shares about the lessons he learned from the people he m…
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Transitions, Chapter Two - The Big 5-0
Episode 123: “Transitions, Chapter Two - The Big 5-0” This week, JDK turns 50 and takes a look back at all the reasons why he is grateful fire all he’s learned and experienced so f…
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Transitions, Chapter One
Episode 122: "Transitions, Chapter One" With so many autumn transitions underway or approaching, JDK asks listeners to step back for a minute and examine two things - how they resp…
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Projecting about 'Socialism' - Just Stop It Already
Episode 121: "Projecting about 'Socialism' - Just Stop It Already" Following up on the feedback he received from last week, JDK digs into all the ways in which commentators on all…
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Methinks Doth Projects Too Much
Episode 120: "Methinks Doth Projects Too Much" In a hard hitting episode about history, JDK lays out an energetic defense of why and how the recent indictments of former president…
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Reframing Wellness - A Conversation with Jill Beck
Episode 119: "Reframing Wellness - A Conversation with Jill Beck" JDK welcomes a special guest to this week's show - Jill Beck, founder and CEO of "Go Long", a Wellness Concierge s…
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Whose Side Are You On, Anyway?"
Episode 118: "Whose Side Are You On, Anyway?" JDK focuses this week on a story about Nancy Cunard, an early-twentieth century European intellectual and writer who challenged her fe…
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When Square Scrubbers Don't Work
Episode 117: "When Square Scrubbers Don't Work" This week, JDK asks us to consider why we tend to unify with one another over news-breaking tragedies rather than over the day-in-da…
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A Road Trip About Freedom
JDK relays a story about his recent road trip through rural America, where he found himself in conversations and situations that illuminated a lot about how some define freedom, ho…
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A Future Needs a Past
Episode 115: "A Future Needs a Past" On this Juneteenth, JDK explores the story of Opal Lee, an activist who led the charge to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. Her story is one o…
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One Man in a Great Crusade
Episode 114: "One Man in a Great Crusade" With the anniversary of D-Day this week, JDK tells the unique story of one man - Norwood Thomas - who fought that day and went on to live…
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Four of a Kind
Episode 113: "Four of a Kind"For the week preceding Memorial Day, JDK tells the story of four young men who served with distinction as fighter pilots in World War II. Each of them…
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Friends For Fifty
Episode 112: "Friends For Fifty" This week, JDK tells the story of three lifelong friends - Matt, Sean, and Jay - whose lives have taken them all in very different directions, yet…
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23 Handwritten Letters, Is All: The Story of Julia and Gavin
How many profound changes in our individual and community lives happen without anyone knowing about them? Or are we so besotted with being noticed that no positive change can go un…
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The Power of Potential: A Story About Beth and Ben
Episode 110: "The Power of Potential: A Story About Beth and Ben"JDK provides some exciting updates on the future of the show, then tells a story of someone quite famous that illus…
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Parallel Lives to Wartime China and Back
Episode 109: "Parallel Lives to Wartime China and Back" JDK recounts the stories of two men who fought in World War II, who at the time had no idea that their lives ran on parallel…