All Entries in the "WDAY" Category
Kevin Duchschere from the Star Tribune on Vikings Stadium Kerfuffle (audio)
Kevin Duchschere is an outstanding reporter for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, MN. A native of Fargo, ND, he’s been a longtime contributor to my program on all things Twin Cities and, in particular over the past 18 months, the ongoing saga-turned-victory-turned-kerfuffle of the proposed Vikings stadium. The latest in the stadium soap opera is funding. [...]
Michael Maloof on North Korea (audio)
Michael Maloof is a former Senior Security Policy Analyst at the Department of Defense. I had the opportunity to spend about 15 minutes with him discussing the North Korea situation, how China and Russia play into it, and what kind of response the United States should have if North Korea does launch a strike at [...]
A 6-Year-Old on Cheese, Hockey and Poetry (audio)
Several months ago my now 6-year-old daughter Cadence was methodically going over her birthday gift wish-list. Surely parents know the list I’m speaking about. The one that contains 40 to 50 items in varying size and shape put together without regard for cost. Parents understand the cost as something approaching a downpayment for a new car… per gift. [...]
Dr. Michael Oppenheimer: A Measured Voice of Reason on Climate Change (audio)
Dr. Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. He’s also been a long-time participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. His extensive body of work is as impressive [...]
Marc Levin: Director, HBO’s “Hard Times: Lost on Long Island” (audio)
Marc Levin is an award-winning flimmaker of independent films, episodic television and documentaries. His enormous body of work includes a 20-year relationship with HBO, producing 12 films for their America Undercover series that garnered him Emmy and CableACE awards. For Showtime, he executive produced the verite-styled television series Street Time, directing 10 episodes. His Twilight Los Angeles was an [...]
Laura Roesler: Talent, Class and Grace (audio)
Every now and then, an athlete comes along who makes even the most casual fan of a particular sport stop and take notice of their brilliance. University of Oregon track sensation Laura Roesler is one of those athletes. While attending Fargo South High School (North Dakota), she dominated her sport so thoroughly, it wouldn’t have surprised anyone if [...]
Listener Email: Barry, The God Agenda, and CG (audio)
Every chance we get, we effort to include listeners into our program in ways beyond taking their calls or reading their emails while breaking down a topic or when a guest is on with me. Sometimes we’ll invite a listener to do a movie review. Other times we’ll make one of them our Elite Basketball Mind. [...]
Minot Bishop Ryan Softball: Winners on the Field, Winners in Life (audio)
It happens when you least expect it. The chance meeting, the proverbial door opening up to opportunity… or, a moment of clarity provided at the most unlikely time by an equally unlikely source. Enter, the Bishop Ryan High School (Minot, ND) softball team. On Friday, June 1st, I did my radio program from Scheels. To understand [...]
The Definition of Character: Samantha Meyer (audio)
Every now and again you meet someone, or perhaps you read about them, who makes you take a breath to think about the things you believe are weighing you down in your everyday life. Bills, a nagging cold that takes too long to go away, your children not going to bed at night… you get the [...]
Christine Brennan: A Writer’s Writer (audio)
There are writers. And then there are writers. I’m a writer. Most who sit at a computer, whether they’re a monthly blogger in Kansas or a twice-weekly columnist for a major newspaper in New York City, rarely rise to the level of italics. However, when we’re discussing, say, Mitch Albom or Michael Wilbon – they’re writers. That class of writer is [...]
Jay Wilkinson: Dear Jay, Love Dad (audio)
Bud Wilkinson was one of the most prolific college football coaches of all time. With a record of 145-29-4, three national championships, 14 Big 8 championships and inclusion into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969, he did for Oklahoma football what John Wooden did for UCLA basketball and Bear Bryant did for Alabama football. The [...]
Chris Lower on LVAD’s and Keeping Your Heart Happy (audio)
Chris Lower has been a good friend for a number of years now. A former football player, happily married, three beautiful children and wonderfully successful as the director of marketing, PR and social media for Minneapolis-based Sterling Cross Communications (he’s also co-owner). For as long as I’ve known him he’s been a high-energy, “all systems [...]
Barry Weiss: Road Trip to Fargo (audio)
The only thing better than having Barry Weiss, the breakout star from A&E’s Storage Wars, live on the phone is having him live in studio for The Christopher Gabriel Program. Dinner with Barry on Sunday night, two hours on the program Monday, lunch that afternoon… toss in Tim Beers, Jr. and Tim Urian, producers from Original Productions [...]
Andrew Young on Martin Luther King, Jr. (audio)
Andrew Young was there. In Birmingham, in Selma, in Memphis… he was there. He watched history in the making. Thinking about him over the years, that’s what I’d say when his name would come up in discussion. Shortly before Mr. Young came on my program I told a WDAY colleague, “Andrew Young is a connection to [...]
John Nichols (audio)
John Nichols is one of the most respected voices in Washington when the subject is politics and the media. And in Washington, when isn’t there discussion on politics and the media? Mr. Nichols is the associate editor of The Capital Times (Madison, WI) and is the author of seven books on politics and the media. He writes about [...]
Roxana Saberi (audio)
It’s always a treat when author /journalist, and Fargoan, Roxana Saberi is in town. I had the opportunity to have a lengthy chat with her on the released American hikers, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a lot more. We even managed to squeeze in a little bit about Northwestern football! photo credit: roxanasaberi.com
Beware The CG Stand-In (video)
In the world of talk radio, there are two generally-accepted methods to allow a host a either a day off or a full-blown vacation. One is to do a “Best Of” program. The theory is the audience would prefer a rebroadcast of the host they tune in for rather than listening to a guest host. The [...]
The Shoes… Nothing Else Matters
Since beginning my radio program at WDAY nearly two-and-a-half years ago, we’ve been able to feature a remarkable range of guests and topics. Individuals like Pulitzer Prize winning author and journalist Sheryl WuDunn, New York Times bestselling authors that include Mitch Albom, Roxana Saberi, Kurt Andersen and Mignon Fogarty, Emmy Award winners Paula Poundstone and [...]
Dr. Alveda King (audio)
When I began my tenure at WDAY in Fargo (ND), I made up a master wish-list of who I hoped to have visit the program. One of the names on that list was Dr. Alveda King. Dr. King is the daugther of Rev. A.D. Williams King and the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [...]
A Chat with Otis Williams (audio)
In the two-plus years we’ve been doing The Christopher Gabriel Program on 970 WDAY, we’ve been blessed to have some remarkable guests. Pulitzer Prize, Grammy and Emmy winners, Academy Award nominees, New York Times bestselling authors, major figures from the political world, renowned journalists and bureau chiefs from Europe and the Middle East… it goes [...]
Fargo’s Got Beer… and it’s Home-Grown! (audio)
Microbreweries seem to be the way of the beer world these days. Most larger cities have them, and many smaller ones, too. Here in Fargo, four guys have come together to create the Fargo Beer Company. When you consider all that now exists in Fargo – the plethora of arts offerings, three major universities, great [...]
