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Our guest this week is Rachel Price. Rachel is excited to celebrate our hosts birthday this weekend with the Quad Cities Kayakers paddle from Sunset Marina to Ducky's Lagoon in Andalusia that will end just in time to support one of her favorite non-profits, Rescued, at Ride for Rocco. Add the dunk tank at the Quad Cities Pride Festival to the itinerary and you've got one awesome birthday!

On this weeks Because… we hear part two of the becauses of Adam Peters.Adam has many irons in the fire and is currently the Director of Operations for Clock, Inc, a LGBTQ+ community center non-profit in the Quad Cities. He previously worked on Senate and Presidential campaigns (Franken, Biden, Buttigieg) in California, Iowa, & Pennsylvania. Adam has acted on shows like ABC’s The Goldbergs, FOX’s 9-1-1, and Amazon’s Sneaky Pete. Adam and Alex Hall co-hosted SHOW CHOIR LIVE and occasionally host live stream events for national competitions. In his spare time, Adam enjoys running, playing legos with his nieces Juliet and Emmelyn, and calling Bingo at the Raccoon Motel. Adam is proud of his decade of involvement at Showchoir Camps of America and urges all to join the fun!

Our guest this week is Aubrey Barnes from Roaring Rhetoric. Aubrey shares his excitement over the amazing work being done by students in Quad City Arts Metro Arts Youth Apprenticeship Program at Two Rivers United Methodist Church in Rock Island. Aubrey also shares about his role as a curator of spoken word performances in the Quad Cities. Follow Skylight Luxury Lounge and Village Theatre for more information on upcoming events!

Warren Zanes, author of Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, talks about what led to the creation of this uniquely different work of Springsteen’s, the unlikely story of how the record was recorded and produced, the political and economic landscape of the US in the early 1980s, and much more. The book is about much more than just a record—it’s an important tale of individual perseverance and a star’s impact on American culture.

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