I’m a digital native and a big fan of art and conveyance across different forms. With different experiences—listening to a podcast, watching a video, playing an interactive—we take away different messages.

It’s important to me to reach people in different ways, and so I incorporate multimedia approaches into how I package my ideas. On this page, I include a couple different examples of that.

Showrunning and Set Design for Nonprofit Client

One current project I have is building out a new show for an education and research nonprofit. That involves requisitioning the right equipment, building out the space, and dialing in the content to connect with a specific demographic.

News, Science, and Culture Podcast for XM radio

As producer and producer supervisor at national radio station Sirius XM 143, I produced over 120 radio features of 10-45 minutes each. Over half of my segments were rebroadcast for their quality, and I was awarded two accolades for my work.

Here is a sampling of some of my favorites.

Professional Domino Artist

Guest: Lily Hevesh, Professional Domino Artist

I conducted this interview as a guest host on Sirius XM 143 Top of Mind.

There is something so satisfying about knocking down a line of dominoes. Now imagine setting up thousands of dominos and watching them topple for minutes. Huge domino spectacles are what Lily Hevesh does for a living. She’s the top domino artist on YouTube and has set up dominos for movies, TV, and commercials. 

Mobilizing Kids to Mow Lawns in Service

Guest: Rodney A Smith Jr, Founder, Raising Men Lawn Care Service  

Rodney Smith, Jr didn’t much like mowing lawns growing up – and who can blame him. But now he’s made it part of his life’s mission. Smith just completed a tour of every state in the US, mowing lawns free for people who are elderly, disabled, single mothers and veterans. The goal is to get kids all around the country out serving in their communities, mowing the lawns of people who need a hand. 

Mysterious Microbes on the Ocean Floor

Guest: Karen Lloyd, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, The University of Tennessee . . .

The average depth of the ocean is more than two miles deep. And down that far you’ll find mud that’s hundreds of feet thick. And in that mud, scientists have recently discovered a whole universe of microbes. Somehow, without sunlight, without oxygen, without obvious sources of food, these microscopic life forms manage to exist. If we could crack their secrets, we might have new solutions for improving life up here on land.

Taking Mars’ Vital Signs

Guest: Tom Hoffman, InSight Project Manager, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

For 14 years, robotic rovers have been roaming the surface of the red planet, searching for signs of life and scoping things out for the day when humans will ultimately arrive on Mars. In about a month, NASA will launch another craft with a more in-depth Mars mission. Rather than roll around the surface of the planet, this one will drill down.

Sowing the SEED of Universal Basic Income

Guest: Lori Ospina, Director of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED)

A little later this year, the city of Stockton, California will start handing out monthly checks of $500 - no strings attached – to some of its residents. It’s an attempt to test something that’s never been tried in the United States – guaranteeing a basic income for people to spend as they see fit. Conservatives and liberals have long toyed with the idea, for different reasons. But the devil’s in the details and that’s why all eyes are on Stockton’s experiment called the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration, or SEED.

The Ancient Greek “Computer”

Guest: Alexander Jones, PhD, Director of the New York University Institute for the Study of the . . .

The most sophisticated piece of machinery ever discovered from ancient Greece is a two-thousand-year-old box of bronze gears. It was made centuries before the first geared clocks would be built in Europe. But this ancient Greek device doesn’t keep time in the hourly-sense of the word. It’s more about Time, with a capital T. The Associated Press has called it a “philosopher’s guide to the galaxy” with its spinning gears that show the movement of planets, the moon and the sun. While this device was pulled from a shipwreck more than 100 years ago, it’s only been in the last few years that scientists and historians have begun to crack its secrets, thanks to high-end scanning and imaging technology. What they’ve learned sheds new light on both ancient Greece and the modern world. 

“Playing Mars” in the Utah Desert

Guest: Joseph Dituri, Crew Commander of Crew 192 at the Mars Desert Research Station

NASA hopes to be sending people to Mars by the 2030s. But if you want to know what it might be like to live on the Red Planet today, just take a four-hour drive from Salt Lake City to a spot in the Utah desert near the town of Hanksville. For more than a decade, researchers have been marooning themselves in a tiny habitat in the desert “playing Mars” for weeks at a time. The Mars Desert Research Station is a privately-run facility funded by donors including Elon Musk of SpaceX.

Can Language Change How We Think?

Guest: Lera Boroditsky, PhD, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of . . .

In French, there are two forms of the pronoun “you.” There’s “vous,” that’s more formal for when you’re talking to strangers or superiors. And there’s the informal “tu,” for friends and family. But how close do you need to be before making the switch to using “tu” with people? Is it presumptuous to suddenly start using “tu” one day? When a French speaker makes that switch from "vous" to "tu," does it change the way the people in the relationship think about each other? 

The Hijab in the United States

Guest: Loren Marks, PhD, Professor of Family Life, Brigham Young University

The traditional Muslim headscarf, called the hijab, is often misunderstood, which is why New York resident Nazma Khan started World Hijab Day five years ago. From that sprung the 30-day Hijab Challenge during the month of Ramadan – which just concluded. Women of different faiths from all over the world wore the hijab in a show of solidarity. Part of the American Families of Faith survey project here at BYU has included interviews with devout American Muslim women about why they wear the hijab.

The Rise of Mainstream esports 

Guest: AJ Dimick, Director of esports, University of Utah.

This year’s Superbowl attracted more than 100 million TV viewers, but the League of Legends Midseason Invitational drew over 300 million. League of Legends is a video game where virtual teams battle each other with swords and sorcery, and it's one of the most popular esports. And don’t laugh at that term, because it’s such a big deal ESPN now has a special streaming service dedicated to it. 

The Lonesome Underworld of Saturation Divers

Guest: Shannon Hovey, IMCA Saturation Diver, DMT, Ranger Offshore Inc.

Nearly a third of the oil currently being pumped out of the earth comes from wells drilled into the ocean floor. When the machinery hundreds of feet underwater needs repairing or removing, there are actual people, if you can believe it, who go down there and do the work. But they’re so deep underwater that they can’t just pop down for the day and go home at night. They have to live in pressurized chambers for weeks at a time – like astronauts in a space station, all so you can I can have gas to power our cars. These folks are called “aquanauts.”

Clan Buchanan Finds a Clan Chief at Last

Guest: David J. Byrne, President, Clan Buchanan Society International

The Clan Buchanan – one of Scotland’s most storied clans – has been without a recognized leader for more than 300 years. Only someone with proven descent from a chief can claim the title – and until now, no one’s been able to do so. But a Scottish millionaire landowner named Mike Buchanan always believed he was descended from clan leadership. Now, thanks to some serious genealogical work, he’s proven his claim and been officially appointed chief of The Clan Buchanan.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Guest: Merve Emre, Author, “The Personality Brokers”

The most famous personality test in the world – the one that inspired all those crazy quizzes we take on social media – has a really surprising backstory. It was not developed by psychologists. The creators of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator were a mother-daughter team with no formal scientific training of any sort. But somehow their multiple choice test for sorting people into categories with four-letter codes like INTP or ESFJ has become the tool for companies, colleges, counselors - and even government agencies. The Myers-Briggs test has become a huge moneymaker – despite loads of criticism from the scientific community that it’s not really an accurate gauge of personality.

How HP Lovecraft Has Shaped Pop Culture

Guest: Carl Sederholm, Professor of Comparative Arts and Letters, BYU

When you binged Stranger Things on Netflix, you probably didn’t know that much of it was inspired by an obscure 1930s pulp fiction writer named H.P. Lovecraft. The writer was not at all successful during his life, but he’s since become an icon of all that’s weird and creepy. Stephen King has called HP Lovecraft the “twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”

Auctioneering

Guest: Jeff Stokes, Instructor, Western College of Auctioneering

Why do livestock auctioneers talk so fast –and are they really saying anything in between those numbers? We’ve got the man to explain how bid calling works. Jeff Stokes is a world champion auctioneer and co-founder of Stokes Auction Group. He’s also a sought-after instructor at the Western College of Auctioneering. Yes, you can go to college to be an auctioneer!

The Secret Co-Creator of Batman

Guest: Marc Tyler Nobleman, Author, “Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman”

From the comic books to the campy TV cartoon to steady stream of blockbuster films, everybody knows Batman. And most know he’s the secret crime-fighting identity of billionaire orphan Bruce Wayne. Superfans also know the name Bob Kane, who got rich and famous as the creator of Batman. The sole creator, he insisted. But he wasn’t. There was another guy, named Bill Finger, who deserves just as much credit for Batman. Author Marc Nobleman has spent years trying to get justice for that guy. He wrote a book called, “Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman.” 

For a full list of radio segments I produced, please use the button below to access a PDF. (Unfortunately, due to BYUradio’s lack of permalinks, the links in the PDF are all broken.)