Episodes

  • Liz Berry’s Life is a Song

    Liz Berry’s Life is a Song
    Apr 13 2026
    If Life is a Song, this week’s guest Liz Berry believes that music is life, as a matter of fact, that’s her creed. She is the writer of the amazing music blog Black Lodge Music and her life features music from U2, Queen, The Flaming Lips and Texas musician Salim Nourallah.Key Moments: As a child, Liz was really into the Pole Position cartoon. She had a ritual of singing and dancing to the theme song in a specific dress and once, she even grabbed the dress wet out of the washer and put it on because she couldn’t sing and dance and watch the show without the dress.Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2n4MGr2DgMcAejjHe4GflZ?si=Rti1U2SqS8ixhyHVnTd1yw&pi=WfNpboqORj6vo&pt=906ba3dd6e1aec58fdb373ce937aef16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • Adam Redmer’s Life is a Song

    Adam Redmer’s Life is a Song
    Apr 6 2026
    Adam Redmer is technical director for Baylor Theatre and stays busy with theatre and athletic events on campus. He's a fan of Fiona Apple, REM, The Pixies and more.Key Moments: Great moments in this episode involve children. Little Adam was known to dance to Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” and Adam’s children would ask for “the Apple song” which meant Fiona Apple.Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/738wvnxTQSLHrpbSD6JvCE?si=ptV5TNEhSUGXm-ceUfogXg&pt=c2ddbdaa424f1e573c2ad1ddb158b0d7&pi=WCsi5zMTQI2ex Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    47 mins
  • Nicholas Ullenberg’s Life is a Song

    Nicholas Ullenberg’s Life is a Song
    Mar 30 2026
    Nicholas Ullenberg is an accountant onstage and off, as well as a proud Wisconsin native. Nicholas' list of songs includes everything from Frank Sinatra to Wham to Kiss and Nickleback. Key Moments: One of Nicholas' parlor tricks began at an early age where he learned all the words to "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel in elementary school and can still rattle off the events at a drop of a hat today.Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x72J9iJ3qlb6E56sq3cIe?si=3e10229064054ea0&pt=00c6bdea9b6126a9eb8503f48b2b6be9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • Justin Derington’s Life is a Song

    Justin Derington’s Life is a Song
    Mar 23 2026
    This week’s guest Justin Derington is the host of the Ahh for Real podcast right here on the Rogue Media Network, along with working as a coach and with Student Life at Vanguard College Prep here in Waco. Justin’s list features A LOT of great 90s Hip Hop artists along with honoring the King of Country, George Strait.Key Moments: Justin and Melissa’s musical opinions align especially concerning the legendary group Outkast as the two rap together some of their favorite songs showing that “the South’s got something to say.”Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2hZLRxLQ3ydEWiFhweAbTD?si=jGCVArOSSdSGGSepVQQ9Mw&pi=txKmqD8iThaan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    55 mins
  • Meredith Croyle’s Life is a Song

    Meredith Croyle’s Life is a Song
    Mar 9 2026
    Meredith Croyle is a real estate agent, women’s rights advocate and this week’s guest on Life is a Song! Meredith’s list features some of our host’s favorite songs including Uptown Girl by Billy Joel, Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana and The Chair by George Strait.Key Moments: These Gen X ladies gush about the movie and soundtrack for the 1994 film “Reality Bites” and how absolutely perfect it is.Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4KiG4YauEQieyRaBLZ5mmB?si=enZ8DbjkRDaDuaxtBscOLQ&pi=dq3L0HKYRD2hU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr
  • Ashley Bean Thornton’s Life is a Song

    Ashley Bean Thornton’s Life is a Song
    Mar 2 2026
    Ashley Bean Thornton is this week’s guest and a candidate for Texas House District 56. This innovator and leader is known for her amazing laugh, love of a Whataburger breakfast and her signature red Converse. What songs shape her life? Tune in to find out.Key Moments: Her brief time living in Austin in the 1980s was when Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen were making their start in the music industry. Their music has shaped her memories of that time of her life.Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4cgeBj66kbNE00ix0CVrDD?si=9jmOvx7sTOGzA01Q9r7pTQ&pi=q5opPnYCRzqfi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    42 mins
  • Liner Notes: Karaoke and Sing-Aloud Songs

    Liner Notes: Karaoke and Sing-Aloud Songs
    Feb 23 2026
    In this Liner Notes, we look into the guest question: What’s your go-to karaoke song or a song you like to sing aloud? Melissa gives her thoughts on this question as well as her answers in both categories.Key Moments: The songs Melissa likes to sing aloud are not chart-topping songs by well-known artists, but deeps cuts from the 1990s and 2000s.Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7mTiudNf00lxhp909AtkT0?si=FF6v9XqGRdqFswfYjl5OMw&pi=juQrcRimQMixh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    59 mins
  • Patrick Wright’s Life is a Song

    Patrick Wright’s Life is a Song
    Feb 16 2026
    Patrick Wright is a professional opera singer and stage performer, as well as a talented writer of his own stage works. Don’t let his background fool you as besides his love of opera, he’s into musical theatre, Queen and System of a Down. Check out Patrick’s Life is a Song now!Key Moments: Patrick’s love of musical theatre began early as he asked to listen to “The Music Man” as a kid. A number of musicals make Patrick’s list that shows his love of the the genre.Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7sYBUc8qxEOXp90bom6kpZ?si=Sp8Pp_HDRD-J6KT3XLe3Nw&pi=fej4qzWsRrCS2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 7 mins