Mike Lee

3 days ago | kut.org | Mike Lee

“It's like an old radio play, but a little bit more intense,” says Andee Kinzy, the creator of the new fiction podcast Kicking the Bucket. “So we've said radio play, immersive fiction, audio drama... And I knew that this medium created a really new, interesting opportunity that connected to the audience in a way that live theater and film cannot.

1 week ago | kut.org | Mike Lee

On This Is My Thing, we are continuing our mission to talk with people about the things they do just for themselves – not because it’s their job and not because it’s a responsibility, just because they love to do it. The stuff you do because it’s your thing. Our last episode of the show featured a sport that's still pretty new (Underwater Torpedo League), and this week we're going the other way, with a board game that's been played for millennia.

2 weeks ago | kut.org | Mike Lee

“It's a lot of cringe, but in all the best ways,” says Mike Graupmann, the lead story producer for Mortified Austin. The long-running storytelling show features regular folks reading their written works in front of an audience. That seems simple enough, except for the key distinction that all the works being read were written when the authors were children. “Childhood diaries, journals, school assignments, poems, songs, anything that they created when they were kids,” Graupmann explains.

3 weeks ago | kut.org | Mike Lee

On This Is My Thing, we are continuing our mission to talk with people about the things they do just for themselves – not because it’s their job and not because it’s a responsibility, just because they love to do it. The stuff you do because it’s your thing. The latest episode of This Is My Thing is about Underwater Torpedo League, a sport you might not be familiar with just yet. That’s okay. It’s still pretty new, as sports go.

1 month ago | kut.org | Mike Lee

“The Hideout is and always has been more than the physical place,” says Roy Janik, the co-owner and artistic director of the venerable improv theater. “But we have been there for 26 years, so it's a big change.”The change he’s referring to is the Hideout’s upcoming change of location – after more than a quarter of a century at its Congress Avenue locale, a change in their building’s ownership means that the folks of the Hideout will have to find a new venue soon.