The Joe and Babe Show
Joe Dugandzic, a podcaster for several years, and Babe Caylor, former radio personality and community leader with 1n10, co-host QTalk Arizona’s original show. Featuring lively commentary on news and current events, plus unique interviews that showcase the people in our own community. Babe Caylor joined Joe in April 2011 for the re-launched QTalk Arizona. It was fitting, as Babe was a guest on the very first episode of QTalk Arizona in 2010. Joe has known Babe ever since they met when he was a participant in the 1n10 youth program in 1998. Since then, Joe has also been active in the community, serving on the Board of Directors for Phoenix Pride and also being involved with Aunt Rita’s Foundation. He’s glad to continue ‘giving back’ to the community with QTalk Arizona. In mid-August 2011, The Joe and Babe Show went LIVE! Interact and talk to us in a live ‘call-in’ format at 7:00pm every Wednesday. Of course, if you miss it, you can always listen to the podcast version later.
Joe and Babe #77: Obama endorses marriage equality!
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This week, we start the show with a bit of chat about Obama’s ‘evolved’ stance on marriage equality and what it means for the upcoming election and our future marriage rights. Clayton McKee is kind enough to engineer our show this week and chimes in on the equality topic and many others, including how he’s adjusting to his return to radio on his own show.
Our old friend Cheril Vendetti calls in to talk about her new cookbook that is nearly ready to go to print, we want you to give her $1 on her Kickstarter page so that the cookbook will become a reality! Cheril Vendetti is a lesbian chef, comedian, mom and reality show star.
And among other topics on the show, it’s National Train Day! Joe chimes in on his love of trains, how ‘the day’ got started and what the future of personal transportation might look like!
All that and more on Joe and Babe, heard every week on QTalk Arizona and QTalk America, join us at 1pm MT/PT and interact with the show as we record it!
Joe and Babe #76: Curtt James wins the Lytro and the Supermoon wreaks havoc!
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On this insanely short episode, the Supermoon has reigned down chaos on our studio equipment and even on guest scheduling. We think we’ll do this all over again next weekend! But, we did manage to get a few things done during the show!
Babe is out this week and Joe was flying solo. Joe did the big announcement with Curtt James in the studio as the winner of our Lytro camera giveaway. Congratulations Curtt!! He and a friend came down from Prescott just to get the camera in-person and ‘on-air’ and we were thrilled that they made the trip!
The Supermoon affected our connection systems and thus wiped out any hopes for a broadcast today. After later tearing the studio apart, our engineers got the system working again — but a bit too late!
We hope to bring you the interview with Poppy Champlin on Sunday’s “What The Hell in AZ?” with guest host Travis Edwards. And other than that, Poppy and the Queer Queens of Qomedy will be at Stand Up Live at Cityscape this Wednesday night at 8pm. Get tickets before they sell-out!
Also coming up, don’t miss two special screenings of Bullied To Silence, at the Phoenix Art Museum. 11am and 2pm on Sat May 12th with special intro commentary by Nicole Stanton. And check out our interview with the filmmakers for more information! Get tickets at www.bulliedtosilence.com
Joe and Babe #75: Ronnie Kroell just wants to be himself, plus a scorching Phoenix Pride weekend
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Ronnie Kroell, perhaps best known for his work on Bravo’s Make Me A Supermodel and baring all for Playgirl, is our featured interview for this 75th episode of Joe and Babe — the original show on QTalk Arizona. Ronnie hasn’t let the fame and popularity of late distract him from just being “Ronnie” and doing the great work that he does. Oh, did we mention that’s he a super-sweet guy and totally adorable? Listen to the interview that Joe recorded with him at last weekend’s Splash Bash event and learn more about Ronnie Kroell at his official website.
Ronnie Kroell
We want to thank everyone who came out to meet us at our booth at Phoenix Pride and who saw us in the Parade as we were doing our live broadcast. It was a great ‘coming out party’ for QTalk at the festival and we were able to meet lots of new fans! But, did you think it was a little too hot? Would you have stayed at the festival longer or enjoyed it more if it had been in the 80s instead of the 100s? What if Phoenix Pride was held in March? Is that even possible? What if the festival was held at Chase Field? Or at the convention center? Are we being good stewards of our desert environment by creating air-conditioned outdoor zones in a temporary festival setup, just because the festival has to be held in April? We ask these and more questions, and invite you to chime in as well. Send us an email and let us know what you think. In the next few weeks, we’ll have Brandi Sokolosky from Phoenix Pride to chime-in on this very topic (she wasn’t available due to a Pride wrap-up meeting today).
Remember, you can hear us LIVE every Saturday at 1pm MST/PST right here on your gay talk radio station, QTalk Arizona!
Joe and Babe’s 2012 Phoenix Pride Parade LIVE Color Commentary
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QTalk Arizona 2012 Phoenix Pride Parade Entry and Studio-On-Wheels
Color commentary? Yeah yeah, it’s the podcast version of our LIVE broadcast, but still great fun! We actually were able (with a few gaps) broadcast out to our streaming audio network from right from our ‘Studio-On-Wheels’–another first for QTalk Arizona! Special thanks to listener Bill Barton who volunteered to drive us in his totally sweet Mini Cooper Convertible! And thanks to Seth Anderson for being our official ‘marshall’ for the parade.
Joe and Babe #74: LIVE from Phoenix Pride! (VIDEO)
Without further ado, it’s the abbreviated Joe and Babe Show shot LIVE at the QTalk Arizona booth at Phoenix Pride 2012! (Saturday, April 21st)
