Noah Jacobs's Can-Do Attitude

Creating and facilitating non-traditional variations on public media themes. Sometimes highlight reel, ideally playground.

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Did you know that I have another podcast that I actually update every week? It’s The Grey Estates Podcast for thegreyestates.com! Every week, blog queen Lauren and I have an informal chat, mostly about chips and corporate sponsorship, with our favorite lady, queer, trans, and gender neutral artists! This week’s episode features my most badass friend, Westword Music Editor Katie Moulton, in a real barnburner! I got to ask a lot of questions I've always had about being a music writer and tell all about how much I used to watch True Life on the job. Listen and subscribe and rate and review and for goodness's sake, tell a friend!

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On May 27th, 2016, I anchored my last regular morning mix on the airwaves that gave me life - Bloomington, Indiana's community radio station, WFHB. This sound collage marks the occasion. Five years worth of people, ideas, and feelings that were important to me all those times behind the microphone.

Music by D SMILEZ, Blue Dot Sessions, In Vitro, Steve Combs, Podington Bear, and Running Point courtesy of the Free Music Archive. Other music samples from Craig Finn, Mitch The Champ, and the Bouncing Souls.

Selected clips via Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, Lucha Underground, The Chris Gethard Show on MNN, interviews with Prince and David Bowie, Nick Mount at the University of Toronto, “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes, Enzo Amore, The Best Show, Hollywood Handbook, Why Oh Why on WFMU, Nights And Weekends, Bray Wyatt, 30 Rock, U-Haul, Cosmic Kids Yoga, Julia WD Harrison and Beautiful/Anonymous, Party Down, Buffalo 66, Fargo, some tourism ads for Minneapolis, Minnesota that I found on YouTube, Andrew Cambron and Allison Stone for Lazerpointersaurus on WFHB, Mike Carmichael at the World's Largest Ball of Paint, The Larry Sanders Show, and House Bar.

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Jason Sims Puts You In Your Place was a series of conversations with creative people about how the places in their lives effect them and their work hosted by Jason Sims and produced by me for the Slice Radio Network.

The show is over and it's hard to find direct links to some of the episodes, so here is my guest host interview with Irish comedian and author Maeve Higgins. Maeve talks about growing up in Cobh, breaking into comedy, and her 2012 book We Have a Good Time, Don't We?

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On March 16, 2016, singer/songwriter Craig Finn joined us at WFHB for a Firehouse Session in advance of his show that evening at the Bluebird. Craig played three tunes and discussed his transformation from punk rock preacher to vulnerable journeyman. Formerly of The Hold Steady, he was on tour supporting his sophomore solo release, Faith In The Future.

SONGS 1. Maggie I’ve Been Searching For Our Son 2. Christine 3. Extras

Hosted by Noah Jacobs Engineered by Jim Lang & Dan Withered Produced by Christine Brackenhoff Executive Producer is Jim Manion

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Lazersaurus is an institution on WFHB, which itself is an institution in Bloomington, Indiana. It’s a music and comedy program hosted by a guy named Dave with weekly guests every Tuesday from 11pm to 1am. After almost two years of perfect attendance, he needed the night off and I was honored to fill in.

On this “cover version” of Lazersaurus, Lazerpointersaurus, I tried to do right by Dave and asked my friends Allison, Michael, and Andrew to join me in the studio for a few hours of music and comedy.

We did our best. I think our best was pretty good.

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Some of you may have heard one or both of these before. In the interest of diversifying the offerings Noah Jacobs has been proven to provide, they are presented together here for the first time. Expect new content soon.

Alex Evans is a Bigfoot expert from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Her segment was adapted from a full length interview produced for Rhino's Youth Radio's Mixed Nuts Podcast in 2011.

Kate Wall is an editor from Delaware. Her segment was produced for an independent project with I Live Sweat in 2012.

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An interview! Mike Carmichael of Alexandria, Ind., is the proprietor of the world's largest ball of paint and a very sweet man. I "sat down" with him on January 17, 2013.

I would like to extend massive thanks Caroline Tompkins for the inspiration.

(We really did sit down.)

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Noah Jacobs's Can-Do Attitude is a new podcast. I am very sorry about that.

In the first installment, I explain the concept of the thing with Jason Sims, known as Jason from Huntsville by Best Show on WFMU fans. He also hosts Jason Sims Puts You In Your Place for Slice Radio and Jason Sims Is Calling You, the latter of which I produce.

Stay sweet, NJ