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THNX: A Feelgood Podcast

Jul 27, 2021

Hezekiah "Heck" Watkins, born in Wisconsin and raised in Mississippi, is the youngest Freedom Rider and has been a civil rights activist since the early 1960s. After being arrested at age 13, he began organizing boycotts and registering Black voters in Mississippi; he was arrested over 100 times during those...


Jul 20, 2021

Jeri Yenne, a Wisconsin native, was a licensed attorney for 38 years and served the people of Brazoria County, Texas for 32 years. She has been a City Attorney, Assistant District Attorney, and, most recently, District Attorney, a position she held for 22 years until her retirement. Jeri and her husband Bill, who is...


Jul 13, 2021

Matt Busch manages Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, a position that even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed envy over. Originally from Long Island, he graduated from the University of Albany SUNY, where he majored in Sociology, then worked handling merchandise for God Street Wine. He went on to work with Gov't Mule,...


Jul 6, 2021

Lee Miller is one of the greatest -- if not the greatest -- living bootmakers. Originally from Vermont, he has been wearing cowboy boots his whole life. He graduated from Oklahoma State University, where he learned how to make cowboy boots, in 1972. After working for various bootmakers, he was invited to work...