Brian Patrick Higgins PODCASTER & AUDIO JOURNALIST

My seasonal podcast, titled "Oddcast" aired weekly during the annual men's NCAA Basketball Tournament (March Madness) from 2017-2022 because that's the time of year when I had a large following. But the podcast was only peripherally about sports; honing decades of journalistic and business interviewing skills, I made it my mission on each podcast to uncover the stories the newsmakers didn't share with other audiences.

The Journalists

I'm fortunate to be friends with Pulitzer Prize-winning NYT bestseller Steve Fainaru and trailblazing USC journalism professor Jeff Fellenzer. But they had never met when I gathered them for a 2019 Oddcast that Wired called "a master class in interviewing, humor and storytelling."

A Calf Named Brian Higgins

In 2019, a librarian friend was going through a catalog of middle-grade book titles when she ran across one that she thought would amuse me: A Calf Named Brian Higgins by Kristen Ball. My curisity did the rest. After connecting with the author on Facebook, I invited her to be my podcast guest.

Smoky Grapes, Ghostly Roads

As the national media encamped in Santa Rosa during the 2017 wildfires that ravaged that town, I reported for NPR on the existential threat to nearby Napa and its $6 billion wine industry.

The Dark Side of the Moan

During my' 2015-16 tour to promote my humor memoir, A Good Look Before Dark, I stopped into college radio station where I deejayed decades earlier and discussed the station's humble roots with Eli Hershkovich and Derek Peters. Things turn provocative when the subject of a WDPU sex legend surfaces.

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