On this week's Toledo City Podcast, Toledo-born Hollywood actor Oliver Cooper (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3967796/) channels character voices and talks through what makes stars stars, which has to do with some combination of talent and manifesting the discipline to put in hard work when no one is telling you to do it. 

Some incarnation of Bill Walton also makes an appearance. 

This episode's music is "Show Me The Way" by Vendredi, Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0

The Varied Voices of Oliver Cooper

Somewhat controversial sitting member of Toledo City Council Nick Komives joins the Toledo City Podcast to talk about his proposed Pay Equity Act that would level the income playing field by, in part, barring employers from inquiring about job candidates' salary histories. Listen as Toledo City Paper Assignment Editor Athena Cocoves parses the distinction between the pay gap and earnings gap and Nick espouses the virtues of municipality home rule.

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This episode's music is "Show Me The Way" by Vendredi, Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0

Fighting for Pay Equity with Nick Komives

The Toledo City Podcast returns for Season 2 with Toledo Lucas County Public Library Acting Director Jason Kucsma! Learn about the Library's Netflix-like entertainment streaming service Hoopla, how Jason applies his past experience as a progressive magazine founder to his current job, and how to win a stay in a rad tree house.

We recorded at the sexy, all-new Mott Branch Library on Dorr Street so please pardon the ambient noise from the air conditioning and kids running around. 

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This episode's music is "Show Me The Way" by Vendredi, Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0

Booking Down with TLC Library Director Jason Kucsma

Tune out the "Breaking News" for boots-on-the-ground commentary from Toledo-area business owners, service providers and government officials braving our current climate of uncertainty. As a new audio series, City Talks provides a brief local take on our situation, as well as advice and ideas for 
how to spend the new downtime foisted on us by circumstance.

We'll keep posting; you just keep listening. Want to be interviewed or know someone who would? Pass us names and contact info at submissions@adamsstreetpublishing.com

City Talks – Phil Barone of Rosie's Italian Grille

This episode Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz muses with TCP co-Publisher Mark Jacobs on the irony of how our forcing ourselves apart may actually bring us closer together.

As a new audio series, City Talks provides a brief local take on our situation, as well as advice and ideas for how to spend the new downtime we'll inevitably have to spend somehow. 

We’ll keep posting; you just keep listening. Want to be interviewed or know someone who would? Pass us names and contact info at submissions@adamsstreetpublishing.com

City Talks - Interview With Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz

In Episode #3, Barry Bagels owner Mark Greenblatt talks restaurant survival mode and how The Three Stooges adds levity during time with the fam. 

As a new audio series, City Talks provides a brief local take on our situation, as well as advice and ideas for how to spend the new downtime we'll inevitably have to spend somehow.

We’ll keep posting; you just keep listening. Want to be interviewed or know someone who would? Pass us names and contact info at submissions@adamsstreetpublishing.com

City Talks - Mark Greenblatt of Barry Bagels

In Episode 4, evolv Aesthetics Dr. Frank Barone talks about avoiding the trap of panic and fear by earning trust with science and facts. 

Tune out the "Breaking News" for boots-on-the-ground commentary from Toledo-area business owners, service providers and government officials braving our current climate of uncertainty. As a new audio series, City Talks provides a brief local take on our situation, as well as advice and ideas for how to spend the new downtime we'll inevitably have to spend somehow.

We'll keep posting; you just keep listening. Want to be interviewed or know someone who would? Pass us names and contact info at editsubmissions@adamsstreetpublishing.com

City Talks – evolv Aesthetics Dr. Frank Barone

In Episode 5, Mancy's Restaurant Group partner Gus Mancy talks about how even after a hundred years in the restaurant business, ours is a unique situation.

Tune out the “Breaking News” for boots-on-the-ground commentary from Toledo-area business owners, service providers and government officials braving our current climate of uncertainty. As a new audio series, City Talks provides a brief local take on our situation, as well as advice and ideas for how to spend the new downtime we’ll inevitably have to spend somehow.

We’ll keep posting; you just keep listening. Want to be interviewed or know someone who would? Pass us names and contact info at editsubmissions@adamsstreetpublishing.com

City Talks – Gus Mancy, Partner Mancys Restaurant Group

In this City Talks latest episode, Toledo Municipal Court Judge Nicole Khoury, the driving force and founding organizer of Acoustics for Autism, acknowledges the Netflix phenomenon of "Tiger King" as the ultimate guilty pleasure. 

Tune out the "Breaking News" for boots-on-the-ground commentary from Toledo-area business owners, service providers and government officials braving our current climate of uncertainty. As a new audio series, City Talks provides a brief local take on our situation, as well as advice and ideas for how to spend the new downtime we'll inevitably have to spend somehow.

We'll keep posting; you just keep listening. Want to be interviewed or know someone who would? Pass us names and contact info at editsubmissions@adamsstreetpublishing.com

City Talks – Toledo Municipal Court Judge Nicole Khoury

In City Talks #7, District 5's Toledo City Councilperson Sam Melden sheds light on discovering some of the quarantine period's myriad silver linings, including the simple joys of playing afternoon checkers with his seven-year-old kid and leaning into connections with people we don't talk to that often.  

Tune out the "Breaking News" for boots-on-the-ground commentary from Toledo-area business owners, service providers and government officials braving our current climate of uncertainty. As a new audio series, City Talks provides a brief local take on our situation, as well as advice and ideas for how to spend the new downtime we'll inevitably have to spend somehow.

We'll keep posting; you just keep listening. Want to be interviewed or know someone who would? Pass us names and contact info at editsubmissions@adamsstreetpublishing.com

City Talks – Toledo City Councilperson Sam Melden

In City Talks #8  Lucas County Common Please Court Judge Myron Duhart – who's also currently running for Judge Of Ohio's Sixth District Court of Appeals – talks about adapting his campaign to the current climate of physical distance.

Tune out the “Breaking News” for boots-on-the-ground commentary from Toledo-area business owners, service providers and government officials braving our current climate of uncertainty. As a new audio series, City Talks provides a brief local take on our situation, as well as advice and ideas for how to spend the new downtime we’ll inevitably have to spend somehow.

We’ll keep posting; you just keep listening. Want to be interviewed or know someone who would? Pass us names and contact info at editsubmissions@adamsstreetpublishing.com

City Talks - Lucas County Common Pleas Court Judge Myron Duhart

In City Talks #9, The Blarney Irish Pub Owner Ed Becynski discusses moving forward after the business nightmare of canceling his tavern's legendary days-long St. Patrick's Day festivities by hosting curbside pickup Easter dinners blessed by The Historic Church of St. Patrick Monsignor Chris Vasko.

Tune out the “Breaking News” for boots-on-the-ground commentary from Toledo-area business owners, service providers and government officials braving our current climate of uncertainty. As a new audio series, City Talks provides a brief local take on our situation, as well as advice and ideas for how to spend the new downtime we’ll inevitably have to spend somehow.

We’ll keep posting; you just keep listening. Want to be interviewed or know someone who would? Pass us names and contact info at editsubmissions@adamsstreetpublishing.com

City Talks – The Blarney Pub Owner Ed Becynski

In City Talks #10, Walt Churchill, the gregarious owner of Walt Churchill's Markets in Maumee and Perrysburg, weighs the similarities between eating cold soup during quarantine to tepid combat ration meals during the Korean war.  

Tune out the “Breaking News” for boots-on-the-ground commentary from Toledo-area business owners, service providers and government officials braving our current climate of uncertainty. As a new audio series, City Talks provides a brief local take on our situation, as well as advice and ideas for how to spend the new downtime we’ll inevitably have to spend somehow.

Want to be interviewed or know someone who would? Pass us names and contact info at editsubmissions@adamsstreetpublishing.com

City Talks – Walt Churchill, Owner Churchill's Markets

In City Talks #11, Senior Ohio US Senator Sherrod Brown talks local media, what the odds are his name appears as a VP candidate this November and Netflix's "Unorthodox." 

Tune out the “Breaking News” for boots-on-the-ground commentary from Toledo-area business owners, service providers and government officials braving our current climate of uncertainty. As a new audio series, City Talks provides a brief local take on our situation, as well as advice and ideas for how to spend the new downtime we’ll inevitably have to spend somehow.

Want to be interviewed or know someone who would? Pass us names and contact info at editsubmissions@adamsstreetpublishing.com

City Talks #11 - US Senator Sherrod Brown

Varied important conversations with Northwest Ohio's most interesting people. 

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