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Friday Nooner: An Old Friend Joins For Holiday Fun In The Nooner’s Series Finale

December 20, 2024 David Schwartz

The Friday Nooner returned this week for one final episode. While more podcast/show content is coming in 2025, the Nooner as you’ve come to know it has now wrapped up […]

Friday Nooner: Christmas Tree Timing And A Visit From Victoria Fritz Of Baby Bumps

December 6, 2024 David Schwartz

The Friday Nooner returned today after a one-week break for Thanksgiving. GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy was joined by co-hosts Melissa Crosby and Kaitlyn Dang and the trio discussed Christmas decoration […]

Friday Nooner: A Bit Of Grepsgiving And A Chat With American Underground’s Tim Scales

November 22, 2024 David Schwartz

Today’s episode of the Friday Nooner was triple-hosted by GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy, Kaitlyn Dang, and––making his Nooner debut, kind of—Cesar Romero. They opened the show with a few words […]

Friday Nooner: Alpacasews CEO Emily Foster’s Budding Plushie Empire (And Love of Clouds)

November 15, 2024 David Schwartz

Today on the Friday Nooner, co-hosting trio Joe Colopy, Melissa Crosby, and Kaitlyn Dang got us started with some conversation about CED’s GRO Demo Day, which took place Thursday evening […]

Friday Nooner: Destination Discussion Abounds As Annie Combs Talks Us Through ECPC Travel

November 8, 2024 David Schwartz

On today’s episode of the Friday Nooner, GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy was back in the hosting chair alongside Melissa Crosby and new co-hosting addition Kaitlyn Dang—both of whom, to be […]

Friday Nooner: Rachel Cash Joins The Show To Tells Us About Elroi (and Barbecue)

November 1, 2024 David Schwartz

On today’s edition of the Friday Nooner, co-hosts Melissa Crosby and Jenn Summe took the reins, with the GrepBeat Godfather out for the day. It being November 1st, Melissa and […]

Friday Nooner: Heather McWhorter Joins Us To Talk About UNCW’s CIE (and Perms)

October 25, 2024 David Schwartz

On today’s edition of the Friday Nooner, GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy and Co-Host Extraordinaire Melissa Crosby started off with a bit of conversation about the goings-on at HQ. Specifically, this […]

Friday Nooner: CED’s Jay Bigelow Joins Us Fresh Off Their 40th Birthday Bash

October 18, 2024 David Schwartz

On today’s Friday Nooner, GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy and his co-host Melissa Crosby (who was good enough to beam in remotely despite being on the tail end of a bout […]

Friday Nooner: Wilmington Entrepreneur David Reeser On All Things OpiAID

October 11, 2024 David Schwartz

On today’s Friday Nooner, GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy and his sidekick Melissa Crosby recapped the GrepBeat and Primordial teams’ Thursday excursion to Wilmington. The teams headed down to The Wine […]

Friday Nooner: Lab Logs’ Daniel Summers Talks Wilmington, Free Diving, and Astrophotography

October 4, 2024 David Schwartz

For today’s episode of the Friday Nooner, GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy and co-hosting maestra Melissa Colopy started off with some talk about storm-ravaged Western North Carolina, and some of the […]