“Correct Me if I’m Norm” is a good-natured, Rhinebeck (New York) focused, one-on-one (mostly) free-formish interview-format program, covering all topics from the personal to the universal. It’s hosted by Norm Magnusson, who is an artist and father of three and an active member of his community in the small town of Rhinebeck, NY. Every week, he interviews folks who live and/or work in Rhinebeck about who they are and how they got here and what they’re up to. “I’m very interested in collecting the stories of the people who made this town what it is and those who a...
Latest episodes
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From the Himalayas to the Hudson: A Rhinebeck Love Story
From Moscow to Nepal to Rhinebeck, Jennifer Neufeld and Jamyang Lodoe have made a habit of building businesses in unexpected places, collecting a few stories along the way. Jennife…
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Joe Phelan: 22 Years of Rhinebeck Schools and a Lifetime of Rock and Roll
This week Norm’s guest is Joe Phelan, a dedicated community volunteer and rock and roll keyboardist who spent 22 years as Superintendent of the Rhinebeck Central School District. J…
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Betty Leigh Saw Elvis (and Lived to Tell Norm About It)
This week Norm’s guest is Betty Leigh: Reiki master, model, writer, meditation guide, actress, painter, and active member of Rhinebeck Rotary. Within minutes she has her hands on N…
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Genre Fluid: Paul Kovit Talks Whirligig, Old-Time Radio and His New Music Show on Radio Free Rhinecliff
This week’s guest is a musician, a music lover and a Jack Benny enthusiast. He’s the host of a new show on RadioFreeRhinecliff.org called It All Comes ‘Round Again: Mr. Paul Kovit.…
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Painter, Dad and Rhinebeck Artist's Shop Owner Doug Shippee
Norm's guest is a dad, a tennis enthusiast, a prolific painter, and an owner of the wonderful Rhinebeck Artist's Shop stores, Mr. Doug Shippee. Doug tells Norm about driving to New…
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Rhinebeck by Design: Camille Warmington & Paul Wilhelms
rom Manhattan, Kansas to Manhattan, NYC, and now Rhinebeck, this week's guests have been pursuing their dreams, one in designing the "scientific workplace" & the other as a designe…
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Artist Nansi Lent on Sigils, Scrolls, and Asemic Writing
Norm sits with artist, curator, and arts administrator: founder of WomensWork.Art, a past board member of the National Association of Women Artists, and an incredibly thoughtful cr…
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Presidential Historian Alexis Coe on George Washington, JFK, and Life in the Hudson Valley
Norm sits down with bestselling presidential historian Alexis Coe, author of You Never Forget Your First, a New York Times history columnist, and Substack writer, for a wide-rangin…
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Carla Melucci Ardito: Stardust, Sorrow, and the Science of Feeling
Norm sits down with Carla Melucci Ardito, a self-taught healer who's spent over 40 years studying trauma, emotion, and the body. They dig into her "dysfunction scale," the differen…
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Artist Bill Ayton: Ink Drawings, AI Prompts, and a Quarter Century Upstate
Norm sits down with Rhinebeck artist William T. Ayton, known professionally as William T., to talk about his shift from traditional painting and ink drawing to AI-generated art. Ay…
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A Welsh Historian Lands in Rhinebeck: Gerry Protheroe on Aberfan, Oxford, and Trump
Norm sits down with historian Gerry Protheroe — a Welsh-born, NYU-affiliated professor and longtime private school teacher — for a conversation that ranges from his working-class c…
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From Fighter Pilot to Falafel Stand: Roy and Cathy Naor's Unlikely Rhinebeck Story
Norm sits down with Cathy and Roy Naor, the couple behind Rhinebeck's Aba's Falafel, just two months after they sold the business to a cousin. Roy talks about his path from Israeli…
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John Rossi on Door-Knocking, Doxing, and Debbie Hecht's Big Rhinebeck Win
Norm sits down with campaign strategist John Rossi, the operative behind Debbie Hecht's landslide win in the Rhinebeck Town Supervisor Democratic primary. Rossi walks through the m…
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Millstones, Mile Markers, and the Man Who Runs Rhinebeck's Roads
Norm sits down with Bob Wyant, the Town of Rhinebeck's highway superintendent, for a wide-ranging chat. Bob talks through the mechanics of the job: a seven-man crew, a budget he ca…
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Rhinebeck's Father Jeffrey Maurer on the Eucharist, Death, and Growing Up IBM Catholic
Norm welcomes his Rhinebeck neighbor Father Jeffrey Maurer, pastor of Good Shepherd in Rhinebeck and St. Christopher's in Red Hook, for a conversation about faith and vocation. Mau…
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From Brooklyn to Rhinebeck: A Sister Act in Music, Memory, and the Occasional Ghost
Norm welcomes sisters Patty Hill and Susie Hendren for a chat that starts with Yuengling and ends with astrology. The two, raised between Brooklyn and Long Island with Scottish, It…
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The Seed Saver: Sue Sie on Rhinecliff, Dirty Gaia, and Reconnecting People to the Earth
Norm welcomes Sue Sie, a longtime Rhinecliff resident who arrived via an ex-husband, a Bard professor's house, and a lot of determination. She stayed; he did not. That was 1989, an…
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Local Painter, Financial Advisor, and Performance Artist Richard Marr on Investing, Painting, and the Planet
Norm sits down with Richard Marr, a Rhinebeck-based artist and Merrill Lynch financial advisor whose two careers have more in common than you might think. Richard's paintings are s…
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The Doctor Is In: Dr. Greg Tumolo on Pets, People, and Practicing in Your Hometown
Norm is joined by Dr. Greg Tumolo of Rhinebeck Animal Hospital, a born-and-raised Rhinebecker who followed his father into veterinary medicine and never really left, except for 15…
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The Rhinecliff Cinephile Behind NYU's Cinema Studies: Dana Polan
Norm sits with Dana Polan, the Martin Scorsese Professor and Chair of the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at NYU Tisch. The chat ranges across a lifetime of thinking s…