Podcasts by What Had Happened Was: A podcast for Dayton
Host Amelia Robinson shares the best tales from the Gem City, Land of Funk and Birthplace of Aviation: Dayton, Ohio.
The "What Had Happened Was" podcast was a finalist for the National Association of Broadcasters' 2019 Marconi award in the podcast category.
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Special: The Coronavirus Vaccines and What you Need to Know. from 2020-12-17T16:08:12
Are they safe and how do we know? Are they effective? When will you be able to get it? What Had Happened Was host Amelia Robinson asked a panel of local health and vaccine experts reader questions ...
ListenDayton murder&mayhem: a bayonet shootout, a murderous Royal Albert and a 10-year-old Mead fed only water and beef tea from 2020-10-28T14:00:26
The players have changed, but the murder and mystery sounds the same. “What Had Happened Was” podcast host Amelia Robinson chatted with Woodland Cemetery’s Angie Hoschouer about three of the most ...
ListenTony Hall on being surround by death, starving for hunger, nasty politics and apologizing for slavery from 2020-10-12T18:41
It is one thing to talk about a cause. It’s is another to starve yourself for it. For the latest “What Had Happened Was” podcast episode, Dayton native Tony Hall, a former U.S. Congressman and the ...
ListenActress Felicia Chappelle on her famous brother Dave Chappelle, growing up in Yellow Springs and DC, podcasting and coronavirus from 2020-09-15T21:10
When life is your stage you will find a way to perform. Actress Felicia Chappelle chatted with “What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson about her brother Dave Chappelle and what his local co...
ListenDayton police Chief Richard Biehl on not having a ‘why,’ tears that wouldn’t stop, yoga and police community relations from 2020-08-19T21:13:01
Grief does not care if you wear a badge. In the season kickoff of the "What Had Happened Was" podcast, Amelia Robinson chatted with Richard S. Biehl, the chief of Dayton’s police department. Amon...
ListenTear gas and calls for change: reporters on covering George Floyd protest in Dayton from 2020-06-19T18:17
Times they are a-changin’. “What Had Happened Was” podcast host Amelia Robinson sat down virtually with Dayton Daily News reporters Sarah Franks and Cory Frolik. As part of this episode, they dive ...
ListenGeorge Floyd killing sparks 'courageous, often intense conversation about race and police in Dayton from 2020-06-12T19:38
Some conversations must be had even if they are uncomfortable. What Had Happened Was podcast host Amelia Robinson moderated the first of Dayton Daily News Courageous Conversations: Relations Betwee...
ListenRajeev Venkayya, the Dayton-raised doctor who wrote the U.S. strategy against pandemic from 2020-05-11T15:22
A Skyhawk helped develop the national strategy credited with slowing the spread of coronavirus. Dr. Rajeev Venkayya, a 1985 Fairborn High School grad, was the director for biodefense under Presiden...
ListenThe long way back. Laura A. Bischoff explains how Ohio will reopen from coronavirus and how it will not from 2020-04-28T21:37
Laura Bischoff, the Dayton Daily News’ award-winning Statehouse reporter, has been to nearly every press conference given by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, Ohio Health Director Dr. Amy Acton and Lt. Gov. J...
ListenSara White on mother dead to coronavirus: The monster “literally takes all prisoners ... your organs, and your blood, and your faculties, your extremities.” from 2020-04-20T19:08
“The 56-year-old woman” who died of coronavirus in Springfield on April 8 was more than that description expresses. She was Angela Faith White, the woman who loved Sara White and her sisters like ...
ListenThe ‘pest house,’ Grim Reaper and how the ‘Spanish Lady’ brought the Gem City to its knees from 2020-04-10T14:30
You may not recognize the name, but a ‘Spanish Lady” killed more than 50 million people in 1918 and 1919. An estimated 500 to 675 of those people lived in or near the Gem City.Dayton Daily News and...
ListenAmaha Sellassie on the old guard’s last stand, the power of people and the Above Ground Railroad from 2020-04-02T16:55
Don’t believe in the power of people? You will after listening to “What Had Happened Was” podcast host Amelia Robinson’s chat with Dayton social healer, community activist and sociologist Amaha Se...
ListenCalm before an unprecedented storm: ER Doc Randy Marriott answers your coronavirus questions from 2020-03-20T22:08
These are scary and unprecedented times, but knowledge is still power. In this special episode of the “What Had Happened Was” podcast, host Amelia Robinson chats with Dr. Randy Marriott, an ER phy...
ListenCoronavirus in Ohio. “It might slow me down, but it might kill her," daughter of nursing home patient says. from 2020-03-16T23:42
Put plainly, Jean Johnson doesn’t remember her daughter is her “daughter.” Deb Wiltshire certainly remembers all the love her mom gave her before Alzheimer’s Disease assaulted her mind. As coron...
Listen"This is not a drill." Reporter Laura Bischoff explains dramatic steps Gov. Mike DeWine's just took against coronavirus in Ohio from 2020-03-15T23:35
In this special episode, "Dayton Daily News" statehouse reporter Laura Bischoff explains the unprecedented steps Ohio Governor Mike DeWine just took due to the nation's coronavirus emergency. She...
ListenJana Collier on the big breakup, pop-star dreams and the future of the Dayton Daily News from 2020-03-05T18:53
As the lyrics go, “breaking up is hard to do.” That’s as true with newsrooms as it is with relationships.Thankfully, not all breakups leave you sobbing in the corner with a Teddy bear. “What Had ...
ListenThe ‘kickass’ women who gave Dayton Art Institute its shine from 2020-02-18T18:14
As Executive Director Michael Roediger and Eric Brockman, the museums communications manager, explain, women with baller moves gave birth to the 100-year-old beauty at 456 Belmonte Park N. The men ...
ListenComedian Megan Stalter on landing ‘National Lampoon Radio Hour’ and being booted out of a Dayton improv class from 2020-01-24T15:36
Megan Stalter is not a nurse. This is probably a good thing given she doesn’t like the sight of blood and a series of chiropractor videos gave her wicked nightmares.The proud Daytonian, a Wayne Hig...
Listen“This is my home, these are my people.” Cloudy with a Chance of What Happened with McCall Vrydaghs&Kirstie Zontini from 2020-01-09T15:26
All hell had just broken loose the last time McCall Vrydaghs appeared on the “What Had Happened Was” podcast with Amelia Robinson. This time around, McCall, WHIO’s chief meteorologist, and Kirstie ...
ListenStruggle, survival and strength Part 1: Dayton shares stories from year of terror from 2019-12-12T15:50
Dayton was hit square in the jaw over and over again in 2019, but no matter how hard the blow, the Gem City stood up together. Community members share stories of struggle, survival and strength i...
ListenStruggle, survival and strength Part 2: Dayton shares stories from year of terror from 2019-12-12T15:42
This is second episode of a two part series about Dayton's strength. The Gem City was hit square in the jaw over and over again in 2019, but no matter how hard the blow, the Gem City stood up toge...
ListenThe Dayton garage killings from 2019-11-29T16:07
Trespassing and damaging property are crimes, but the punishment is rarely death. “What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson and Dayton Daily News reporter Cornelius Frolik dive deep into one of...
ListenAn extremely hurtful year: Dion Green on pain, grief and fighting through the Dayton mass shooting and tornadoes from 2019-11-14T14:55
Dion Green knows far too personally how hurtful 2019 has been to Dayton. The Northridge resident’s house was hit hard by the worst of the 15 Memorial Day tornadoes that rocked the Dayton area.Weeks...
ListenThe sharp twists and turns of the Brooke Skylar Richardson court case from 2019-11-09T16:19
The twist and turns of Brooke Skylar Richardson’s trial are explored in this bonus episode of the "What Had Happened Was" podcast. Lauren Pack has covered some of the most talked about court cases ...
ListenDelusion, Delight&Drag: deep dive into Ms. Demure’s mind from 2019-10-31T13:43
Nylons aren’t just nylons. No sir. No ma’am.In the proper hands and when placed over a camera lens, they can transport an audience back to old Hollywood. At least that's what Ms. Demure hopes you t...
ListenOld school murder: the stove top killer, the axe-murdering mom&the woman who shot 'herself' in the head twice from 2019-10-17T13:14
As the old saying goes, everyone has a story. Some of those stories just happen to involve MURDER. Angie Hoschouer of Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum returns to the “What Had Happened Was” podcast ...
ListenDayton's other Dave and his magical truck from 2019-10-03T15:33
He is Dayton’s other Dave (the other one is Chappelle), and you’ve probably seen his truck. “What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson sat down with David Hurwitz, the dude wearing overalls behin...
ListenHis only child was killed during the Dayton mass shooting. Now Mike Turner wants everyone to hug. from 2019-09-11T15:55
Few people would blame Mike Turner if his heart were full of rage. His only child - his best friend in the entire world - was gunned down during the Dayton mass shooting.In the days since, Mike has...
Listen'One hell of a summer,' Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley on Dave Chappelle, the mass shooting and the tornadoes from 2019-08-29T15:04
Somehow saying 2019 has been a hell of a year in Dayton is an understatement. There was a water crisis, an FBI investigation and then a Klan rally followed days later by 15 tornadoes.As the city cl...
ListenThe Story behind “American Factory” with oscar-nominated filmmakers Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert from 2019-08-16T15:32
Culture in the Gem City is changing and Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert are documenting it on film. The region’s most acclaimed filmmakers will host the theatrical premiere of their latest work ...
ListenDayton mass shooting, reporters and witnesses on what they saw and what's next from 2019-08-08T14:04
The loud pops and bangs that filled the air in Dayton’s Oregon District early Sunday, Aug. 4 were sadly not made by fireworks. It was the sound of Dayton joining the sisterhood of cities rocke...
ListenBarrel House’s Sara and Gus Stathes beer-tastic adventure with kids, ferrets&Wu Tang from 2019-07-09T13:15
Wu Tang is definitely for the children when your folks own the bar. What Had Happened Was podcast host Amelia Robinson spoke with Barrel House owners Sara and Gus Stathes about ferrets, Tinder, Da...
Listen"Almost civilized to barbaric," Roger 'Dean' Gillispie on 20 years in prison for rapes he did not commit from 2019-06-20T16:29
Few could blame Roger “Dean” Gillispie if he were angry. He was in prison 20 years for raping and kidnapping three women in the Dayton area despite no physical evidence of his guilt.That means Dea...
Listen‘All hell broke loose:' McCall Vrydaghs on tracking 15 Dayton area tornadoes from 2019-06-03T22:42
WHIO Chief Meteorologist McCall Vrydaghs used passion and scientific knowledge to inform Dayton area residents when 15 tornadoes - including a monstrous one - assaulted the community on Memorial D...
ListenGeek King Josher Lumpkin on saving babies, fairies, punk rock&trivia from 2019-05-28T14:31
There’s are few things better than a punk rock geek who loves babies. “What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson talks to Dayton.com geek culture correspondent about the twisty road that lead ...
ListenKaren Korn and Audra Sparks start a weed school from 2019-05-14T15:18
When one door slams, another one opens. Karen Korn found a career in marijuana when she walked through that open door.Karen tells "What Had Happened Was" host Amelia Robinson how being booted out o...
ListenRob Lowe on craving pie, kicking the can and acting in Dayton from 2019-04-26T15:36
You can take the Sodapop out of Dayton, but you can’t take Dayton out of the Sodapop. “What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson talked with actor, director and game show host Rob Lowe about his ...
ListenPodcasting tips, tricks and stories with Juliet Fromholt and Tony Peters LIVE at Dayton Podfest 2019 from 2019-04-24T14:24
Podcasters talking about how to podcast... “What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson talked with Tony Peters of DATV and the Icon Fetch podcast and Juliet Fromholt, the host of WYSO’s Kaleidosc...
Listen'RuPaul’s Drag Race' star Nina West on making faces and taking a stand in a town with no cows from 2019-03-29T14:07
Nina West is trying to nab $100,000 on the current season of "RuPaul’s Drag Race" on VH1, but the crazy creative Columbus-based drag star and activist has already raised more than $2 million for Oh...
ListenFran DeWine, the governor’s BFF from 2019-03-19T15:30
“What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson chats with Fran DeWine, the Buckeye State’s first lady. They chat about the boy who knocked on Fran’s door when she was just 12 and eventually stole he...
ListenBATHTUB KILLER: a dead bride, a bathtub and justice that may not be blind from 2019-03-06T22:33
“What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson sits down with former Dayton Daily News and Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Janice Hisle, the author of the new book “Submerged, Ryan Widmer, his drowned b...
ListenOscar winner Hannah Beachler out of the vault from 2019-02-26T19:35
Wright State graduate Hannah Beachler did all of Dayton proud when she became the first black woman to win the Best Production Design Academy Award for her work creating Wakanda for Marvel's “Black...
ListenAmaya Sexton, Dayton’s Best Drag Queen, wants to be Betty White from 2019-02-06T21:43
Amaya Sexton has Betty White dreams. The JLo-loving, corn country native was vote Best Dayton Drag Queen in Dayton.com’s Best of Dayton Contest.She sat down with “What Had Happened Was” host Ameli...
ListenLaura Bischoff on the faults, foibles and facts of Ohio politics from 2019-01-19T01:29
“What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson sits down with award-winning Dayton Daily News journalist Laura Bischoff whose political and statehouse stories have lead to federal investigations and ...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Best of Dayton 2018 Revealed from 2019-01-07T18:08
What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson and Todd Hollst, the host of WHIO’s “The Sunday Edge,” reveal the winners of Dayton.com’s Best of Dayton. Expect some surprise guests and surprised winne...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Troy Liming from 2018-12-22T05:29
The tables are turned on this latest edition of the What Had Happened Was podcast, as TROY LIMING asks the hard-hitting questions, and Amelia Robinson gives the answers.
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Murders in Pike County, Ohio: eight massacred from 2018-12-03T15:30
When the smoked cleared, the only witnesses left alive were dogs and babies. “What Had Happened Was” host Amelia Robinson sat down with Will Garbe, an investigative reporter for the Dayton Daily ...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: : ‘Anyone can kill’ Dayton detective Doyle Burke talks Jolynn Ritchie, the microwave baby killer and axe murders in Dayton from 2018-11-16T20:45
Anyone can kill. That’s one of the lessons Doyle Burke, a retired Dayton homicide detective, said he took from his 30-year career with the city’s police department.Burke, now the Warren County co...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Heather Salazar imagined dying in front of her kids from 2018-10-30T21:21
Heather Salazar feared her kids were going to see her die. And she had reason to fear.Just a year before, the young mother and her kids watched breast cancer kill the 24-year-old woman who gave l...
ListenZapp band’s Terry and Lester Troutman can still make you dance from 2018-10-21T19:43
Only one of those band travels with a talkbox. Amelia Robinson sat down with Lester and Terry “Zapp’ Troutman of the Zapp band for the latest episode of “The What Had Happened Was” podcast. The fun...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Why Broadway star Alice Ripley is anything but normal from 2018-10-09T12:12
Moral of the story, when Scott Ripley warns you about something, take it serious. Alice Ripley had a reputation even before she set foot in West Carrollton High School for the very first time.Her...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Rodney Veal of The Art Show is in the room where it happens in more ways than one from 2018-10-01T15:20
You’d be foolish to judge a book by its cover or a man by his ballet shoes. Dayton’s Rodney Veal proves that daily.You might know him as a dancer, an educator or the host of Think TV’s “The Art S...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Bill Castro on squid, horses and how his family has served Dayton the world on a plate for 40 years from 2018-09-12T19:54
You can lead a horse to water, but can you convince it to eat squid. Amelia Robinson talked to Bill Castro for the latest episode of the What Had Happened Was podcast.Bill and his family have bee...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Henrique Couto, the ‘weird’ filmmaker behind the Salvador Dali-ish moustache and bloody movies from 2018-08-30T18:36
The completely sober dude with the Hawaiian shirt and Salvador Dali moustache is proving that you can’t judge a book by its cover through his crazy movies. What Had Happened Was podcast host Amelia...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Bloody Christmas - Dayton’s 1992 Christmas Killings from 2018-08-17T19:23
Deep wounds are hard to heal. Some wounds never completely heal.More than 25 years ago a gang of youth lead by a 16-year girl described as cold-hearted terroristed Dayton in the Dayton around Chr...
ListenBlack Panther Production Designer and Daytonian Hannah Bleacher talks about learning from Madonna, pet-sitting and couch surfing to make her dream from 2018-08-01T11:44
There was a Raider behind the Black Panther, and she is fierce. Amelia Robinson chatted with Hannah Beachler — the production designer who worked with director Ryan Coogler to give Marvel’s “Black ...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Dayton gridiron hero LaVar Glover on walking away, playing golf and building bridges after the NFL from 2018-07-20T16:35
While his college football teammates were shaking it up and shutting down bars, Dayton football hero LaVar Glover was sharing a bedroom with the 15-year-old brother he was trying to set on the righ...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Nancy Horlacher on Dayton’s mysterious walled city falls, the Phantom Driver of the Englewood Dam and why is Dayton the Gem City? from 2018-07-05T18:04
What’s more Google than Google? A librarian who loves local history. Amelia Robinson and Nancy Horlacher of the Dayton Metro Library talks odd and scary Dayton stories for the latest episode of ...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: The Fosters’ Sherri Saum on super hot husband, not wearing combat boot and having her magazines confiscated in Kettering from 2018-06-20T15:14
She didn’t wear combat boots and maybe that made all the difference. Amelia Robinson chatted with actress Sherri Saum for the latest episode of What Had Happened Was podcast.The world knows Saum ...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Ro Nita Hawes-Saunders’ childhood of burning crosses in Dayton and adulthood of fighting for herself from 2018-06-06T10:51
One of Ro Nita Hawes-Saunders’ earliest memories is watching her 4-foot 11-inch tall mother rise up set a racist teacher straight.Her youth as the daughter of local civil rights workers included se...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Tom Archdeacon talks Miami vices, four wedding rings&LeBron’s mom from 2018-05-22T19:53
He’s told thousands of amazing stories. It should come as no surprise Tom Archdeacon has a hell of a story of his own. For the 10th episode of the What Had Happened Was podcast, host Amelia Robins...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Cackle vs. Cancer and the rest of the world with Alexis Larson and Kristen Wicker from 2018-05-09T01:05
Amelia Robinson laughed it out (A LOT) with Kristen Wicker and Dayton Daily News food contributor Alexis Larsen, her co-conspirators in Cackle, a laughing club. The trio has called on the power t...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Dead in Dayton -- a mayor trapped in a brothel, a former slave claps back, and a gypsy queen cliffhanger from 2018-04-24T20:24
You know who can give you life? Dead people. Some of the nation’s most fascinating, previously-living citizens have found final resting places at Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum in Dayton.What Ha...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Tusks, Fireball and belly shirts with the magical McKibben Brothers from 2018-04-11T02:05
A beer nerd and a cocktail wizard walk into a bar and leave the whole place shook. That hair-tastic duo, Brock and Landon McKibben, sat down for a chat with our Amelia Robinson for an episode of...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Soft and wet&sweet sticky things with John “Turk” Logan from 2018-03-28T13:34
A little boy egged by other little boys who didn’t like "his type" grew up to be a man who helped propel the “The Land of Funk” into the national spotlight. Amelia Robinson sat down with John “Turk...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was: Dublin Co-Owner Steve Tieber from 2018-03-14T14:20
The hint of copious amounts of Guinness beer in the air can only mean one thing: that St. Patrick and his day of shenanigans are on the way. It also means that the Dublin Pub will soon be hanging i...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was Episode 4: Why the Vagina Tree was way more controversial than we thought. from 2018-03-07T12:44
We knew the Yellow Springs vagina tree was controversial, but grrrrrrrrrl was it ever. Amelia Robinson caught up with the ladies behind one of the most talked about stories of 2017 for the latest...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was Episode 3: Diamond Williams from 2018-02-20T21:54
Amelia Robinson sits down with James (Diamond) Williams of the Ohio Players right here in the Land of Funk. More than 40 years after the Players struck it big, their long list of hits — "Skin Tig...
ListenWhat Had Happened Was Episode 2: A tale of bourbon, beards, and Joe Head from 2018-02-07T12:36
Times flies when you are sling bourbon. Joseph Head knows that better than most. Joe, who co-owns The Century Bar in downtown Dayton with Diane Spitzig, started his journey with the bar two decad...
ListenEpisode 1: Rubi Girls from 2018-01-25T21:37
Amelia Robinson, host of the new “What Had Happened Was” podcast, sat down with three members of the uproarious comedy drag troupe. They have sharp tongues and hearts of gold, and have raised more ...
ListenEpisode 1: Rubi Girls from 2018-01-25T21:37
Amelia Robinson, host of the new “What Had Happened Was” podcast, sat down with three members of the uproarious comedy drag troupe. They have sharp tongues and hearts of gold, and have raised more ...
ListenEpisode 1: Rubi Girls from 2018-01-25T21:37
Amelia Robinson, host of the new “What Had Happened Was” podcast, sat down with three members of the uproarious comedy drag troupe. They have sharp tongues and hearts of gold, and have raised more ...
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