Best WBFO Podcasts (2024)

Niagara County has only a few races with multiple candidates, but voting number expectations are for a high turnout. Jack Kreuzer has today's Scoreboard with sports updates.

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WBFO Brief October 29, 2024 9:29

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President Joe Biden last week became the first president to publicly apologize to Native Americans for the federal government's Indian boarding school system and policies.

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WBFO Brief October 28, 2024 10:52

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Catch up on the news of the day on the WBFO Brief.

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WBFO Brief October 25, 2024 18:21

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Catch up on the news of the day with the WBFO Brief.

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WBFO Brief October 24, 2024 3:38

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WBFO Brief October 23, 2024 14:35

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Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia says an NYCLU analysis of police misconduct records does not accurately reflect current BPD internal investigation practices and outcomes.

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WBFO Brief October 22, 2024 6:05

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A Buffalo lawmaker is renewing calls for community oversight of the Buffalo Police Department.

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WBFO Brief October 21, 2024 12:31

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Catch up on the news of the day on the WBFO Brief.

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WBFO Brief October 18, 2024 14:10

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The New York Civil Liberties Union obtained records of almost one thousand internal police misconduct investigations from the Buffalo Police Department that were previously unavailable to the public.

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WBFO Brief October 17, 2024 8:08

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Filmmaker Mike Camoin, a 1988 graduate of the university, has been working for years to tell that story in the documentary "Brown and White: The Heart of Bona's Basketball."

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WBFO Brief October 16, 2024 14:38

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In one of his last acts as Buffalo Mayor before announcing his resignation earlier today, Byron Brown issued an Executive Order establishing the Office of Gun Violence Prevention in Buffalo.

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WBFO Brief October 15, 2024 9:45

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Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown resigns today.

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WBFO Brief October 11, 2024 17:31

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Buffalo’s comptroller says some city departments are in violation of the city charter because they do not comply with internal audits. One of Canada’s big banks has been hit with a record fine for a banking institution.

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WBFO Brief October 10, 2024 3:59

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Catch up on the news of the day on the WBFO Brief.

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WBFO Brief October 9, 2024 13:55

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Catch up on the news of the day with the WBFO Brief podcast.

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WBFO Brief October 8, 2024 5:41

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New York State says it is attempting to correct its 70-year-old mistake of the original Kensington Expressway project. However, many in the community most affected by the highway feel slighted by the state's proposed plans.

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WBFO Brief October 7, 2024 11:25

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Over the past couple of days, police in Toronto have ramped up their presence ahead of the October seventh anniversary.

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WBFO Brief October 4, 2024 15:20

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Catch up on the news on the WBFO Brief.

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Smokey the Talking Dog 19 12:06

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In which I recount my favorite sounds in “Now Hear This;” my not-so-unique talent for snow removal, in “Shovel Ready;” the importance of a flowing mane in “A Man’s Hair Is His Glory;” and a description of my two other God-given talents, which are for parallel parking and estimating prices on Antiques Roadshow, in “What Makes Me Special.”…

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Smokey the Talking Dog 18 6:11

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In which I recount the pain of losing to my son in “Madden 12, Dad 0,” and discuss my unabashed passion for potato chips, except for those sold in the U.K., in “Hello, Mr. Chips.”

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Smokey the Talking Dog 17 7:33

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In which we learn about my grandmother’s scrapbook from 1929, now falling apart, in “Scrapbooking, 1919”; and explore my father’s metal box of slides from Hawaii in 1957, in “Kodachrome Treasure Box.”

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Smokey the Talking Dog 16 5:28

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A special podcast for those who, like me, believe the holidays can never come too early: “Reindeer on the Roof” and “Happy Holidays from Me and Elvis.”

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Smokey the Talking Dog 15 4:48

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In which we learn about my grandmother’s scrapbook from 1929, now falling apart, in “Scrapbooking, 1919”; and explore my father’s metal box of slides from Hawaii in 1957, in “Kodachrome Treasure Box.”

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Smokey the Talking Dog 14 6:02

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Think the recent Virginia earthquake was interesting? Then listen to Shirley Blankenship describe what it was like to live through the second most powerful earthquake ever recorded, Alaska’s 1964 Good Friday Earthquake, in “The Big One.”

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Smokey the Talking Dog 13 6:47

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Listen to "May 28, 1917," an essay about my uncle, Lt. John V. Curry. He died in the first big U.S. engagement in WWI, the Battle of Cantigny. Then hear about how his mother went to visit his grave in France on a Gold Star Mothers Pilgrimage in 1930, in "Sara Curry Is Grateful."

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Smokey the Talking Dog 12 7:32

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In which I admit to occasionally--okay, frequently--lying to my children, in "Pants on Fire"; and take great pride in my "Three Typewriters."

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Smokey the Talking Dog 11 7:43

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In which I discuss my "Bittersweet Memories" of defoliation; and my concerns about my children's deathly nicknames for me, in "Dad, By Any Other Name."

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Smokey the Talking Dog 10 5:15

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In which I describe "A History of the World in 1 Object," with apologies to the BBC and British Museum; and remember the gustatory joy the neighborhood dogs once experienced on garbage day, in "Al Fresco."

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Smokey the Talking Dog 09 7:58

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In which I describe "My New Mentor, Sir Topham Hatt" of Thomas the Tank Engine fame; and bemoan the nightly "Battle of the Blankets" soon to begin again with the commencement of cooler weather.

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In which I describe the perils of the rope tow, exceeded only by the T-Bar; and examine a 1946 newsletter from Pratt & Lambert Paints in Buffalo, NY, where my grandfather worked for 40 years.

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Smokey the Talking Dog 07 7:42

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In which I try to unload unwanted heirlooms on the rest of the family, including the life-size portrait of Uncle Elias; and describe the time I drove a snowmobile through a barbed wire fence, but not on purpose.

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In which I discuss my wife's longing for A (Bath) Room of Her Own; and my mother's devotion to an unusual children's birthday game called "Bang the Pot" (which is not unusual in Germany). You can also see a film of the latter at youtube.com/jimnolan3

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Smokey the Talking Dog 05 9:41

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Mamma Mia! that's a bad movie. My take on England's most popular flick ever; and a celebration of Buffalo's international champion barbershop quartet from the 1950s, the Buffalo Bills. They starred on Broadway and film in Meredith Willson's The Music Man.

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The last and final podcast of Jim Nolan's humorous Buffalo stories, including the history of the world's coolest barbeque (seen only in Buffalo and atop skyscrapers), an encounter with a grizzly bear and MAD Magazine's Al Jaffee (not in the same venue) and why we should welcome the inevitable arrival of our Canadian overlords.…

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The penultimate episode of this humorous podcast series considers the world's greatest outlawed yard game, the author's unfortunate run-in with Cujo, and why Emilio Pucci, like Windsong perfume, stays on his mind.

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Here revealed once and for all is the secret of math, or my father's version of it; advice to recent high school graduates from the Buffalo Central High Class of 1912; my father's recipe for vulcanized breakfasts; and 1960 Halloween strategies.

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A collection of humorous essays including my parents' experiment with going over Niagara Falls in a 30-foot Chris Craft cabin cruiser; my father's inexplicable outbust that led to a major fast food chain going out of business; a brief introductory explanation of why you would be happier in Buffalo, as was Dr. Samuel Johnson; and how I modeled my mo…

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