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  • 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 min
  • 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 min
  • 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 h et 7 min
  • Wesley Walker's Life is a Song

    Wesley Walker's Life is a Song
    Feb 9 2026
    This week's guest is Wesley Walker, a psychotherapist and host of the mental health and recovery based podcast “Facing the Mirror with Wesley and Gordon” here on Rogue Media Network. Wesley's life soundtrack features Rascal Flatts, Dolly Parton, Michael Jackson, Tom T. Hall and Ariana Grande?!?! Yep. Listen to find out more of Wesley's Life is a Song.Key Moments: Wesley talks about the song "Raymond" by Brett Eldridge and how it helped him deal with his mom's dementia.Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7hFeEO2wCXNSMXPCj5RVBI?si=ed49b0c58aee4670&pt=f53b36a7ebb101f81c27c22d81a03a91 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 29 min
  • Holly Tucker's Life is a Song

    Holly Tucker's Life is a Song
    Feb 2 2026
    We're back! This week's guest is Holly Tucker, a talented country music singer and multi-instrumentalist. Holly will soon take the stage in Waco Civic Theatre's "9 to 5" filling the big...shoes of Dolly Parton in the role of Doralee Rhodes. Holly was a contestant on Season 4 of television series The Voice and is the very definition of someone who's life truly is a song. Listen to see what songs shaped this musician on stage and off.Key Moments: Though Holly is primarily a country singer, the song that hypes her up most is one by Whitney Houston she has covered on a previous album. Which one? Tune in to find out!Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3uIWB8f1Kd6nDoE59dVINv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    53 min
  • Adam Singleton’s Life is a Song

    Adam Singleton’s Life is a Song
    Nov 24 2025
    Adam Singleton is an Emmy award winning newsman, host of the podcast Cross-Examined and a community theatre guru. Adam loves soundtracks, Weird Al, DJ Cummerbund and much more.Key Moments: The song that makes Adam cry made him pull over in his car to cry one day. Listen to find out what song and why it hits him so hard.Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6EnXbo4BAFdbStYgaMu6Ve?si=tofD4Y_jRCyGo04VuR8eEA&pi=exZzUSuaSFWv2&pt=7616e97a52f3ad95cf7f03aaac9d9d65 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    49 min
  • Wendy Rea’s Life is a Song

    Wendy Rea’s Life is a Song
    Nov 17 2025
    Wendy Rea is a vinyl collector, mother, outspoken advocate for many marginalized communities and is this week’s guest. Wendy’s list features a lot of Gen X staples along with 70s classic and more.Key Moments: Wendy’s connection to the Depeche Mode “Enjoy the Silence” is very personal to her. Listen to the episode to find out why.Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/30rvrviHieScDJPOQJqNO1?si=_Uewh76sRKO4RAB2hEeS5Q&pi=dh47N66USc2Ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 1 min
  • Mary Beth Talley's Life is a Song

    Mary Beth Talley's Life is a Song
    Nov 10 2025
    Mary Beth Talleyis a teacher, theatre person, vocalist and published author. Her book, “Not Bad Just Different: Living Life as a mass shooting survivor” is out now. Her list features music from several soundtracks, The Beach Boys, Taylor Swift and Queen.Key Moments: Mary Beth and Melissa have a lot in common when it comes to watching "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" WAY too young and feeling bad for the poor ladies losing their homes and jobs by the mean men.Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Kj8IcspA91qYTdw96WvbQ?si=TU4K5KovQf-tC-47TbjcSg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    59 min